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The glorious kingdom of Christ, described and clearly vindicated against the bold asserters of…
The glorious kingdom of Christ, described and clearly vindicated against the bold asserters of a future calling and reign of the Jews, and 1000 years before the conflagration and the asserters of the 1000 years kingdom after the conflagration : opening the promise of the new heaven and earth and the everlastingness of Christ's kingdom against their debasing it, who confine it to 1000 years ... : answering Mr. Tho. Beverley ... in his twelve principles and catechisms, &c. / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by T. Snowden for Thomas Parkhurst, 1691
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§ 27. XXVI. You groundlessly dishonour the Kingdom of Christ by confining it to a Thousand years, which God hath promised shall have no End.
§ 27. XXVI. You groundlesly dishonour the Kingdom of Christ by confining it to a Thousand years, which God hath promised shall have no End.
§ 28. XXVII. You dishonour Christ and his Kingdom by bringing him from his Fathers Right Hand in Heaven, and placing him and his Saints a Thousand years in the Air, where you say wicked Spirits now dwell, and where Dr. H. ⟨p. 39⟩More saith, Good and Bad dwell in an Aerial Vehicle till they are advanced to an Ethereal: Yea where you say Devils and Damned Men now dwell with Christ; And where Christ must exercise the greatest self-denial in leaving that lower Station.
§ 28. XXVII. You dishonour Christ and his Kingdom by bringing him from his Fathers Right Hand in Heaven, and placing him and his Saints a Thousand years in the Air, where you say wicked Spirits now dwell, and where Dr. H. ⟨p. 39⟩More saith, Good and Bad dwell in an Aerial Vehicle till they are advanced to an Etherial: Yea where you say Devils and Damned Men now dwell with Christ; And where Christ must exercise the greatest self-denial in leaving that lower Station.
§ 29. XXVIII. You make Christs Kingdom to be a humbling loss to the Saints above, while you take them down into the Air for a Thousand years, from the Heavenly state where you say they were in God, where Christ is at his Right Hand, as they shall be at last; or else you will make that Everlasting Union their loss.