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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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Principle VIII. Answered.
§ 1. How frivolous is your arguing from the name of a Monarchy: God is ever the absolute Monarch: But if you mean a Humane Visible Monarchy, and suppose he must so visibly Rule the Earth, you do but beg the question. A Monarch of all the World, none ever was, and therefore four such never were. But if by a Monarchy you meant, the greatest Visible Empire on Earth, so the Fifth Monarchy was set up by Constantinople, which differs far more from the Pagan Roman Monarchy, than that did from the Grecian or Assyrian: And it was Christs Visible Monarchy Reigning by his Vice-Roys, the Kingdoms being now said to be his Kingdoms. This was the true Visible Fifth Monarchy: And the Turks are the Sixth Monarchy, the renewed Reign of the captivated Dragon, let loose after a Thousand years.
§ 2. But your fiction that the Scripture assigns a Thousand years to Christs Reign after the Resurrection is worse than frivolous; a mere forgery; I answered it before. If Peter quiet mens over-hasty expectation of Christs coming, by telling them that a Thousand years time is as nothing to the Eternal Infinite God; shall a man pretend skill in Prophecy, and tell us, that he meaneth that Christs Reign after the Resurrection is measured and meant by this Thousand years, and is as nothing to the Eternal God.
§ 2. But your fiction that the Scripture assigns a Thousand years to Christs Reign after the Resurrection is worse than frivolous; a meer forgery; I answered it before. If Peter quiet mens over-hasty expectation of Christs coming, by telling them that a Thousand years time is as nothing to the Eternal Infinite God; shall a man pretend skill in Prophecy, and tell us, that he meaneth that Christs Reign after the Resurrection is measured and meant by this Thousand years, and is as nothing to the Eternal God.