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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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He that well considereth Prophetical Language, will think that Articles of Faith should be founded on plainer words. When we read in Ezekiel, that Egypt shall have no Inhabitant for forty years, that Tyre shall be no more inhabited, that Babylon, and the Land of Babylon shall be no more inhabited, and abundance the like, we shall the better understand the Apocalypse, whose very words are much taken out of the Prophets.
He that well considereth Prophetical Language, will think that Articles of Faith should be founded on plainer words. When we read in Ezekiel, that Egypt shall have no Inhabitant for forty years, that Tyrus shall be no more inhabited, that Babylon, and the Land of Babylon shall be no more inhabited, and abundance the like, we shall the better understand the Apocalypse, whose very words are much taken out of the Prophets.
5. The Devil and the false Prophet are cast into the Lake of fire after the destruction of Gog and Magog, and after the Thousand years: But sure they are cast into the Lake at the Resurrection: For if they stay uncondemned a Thousand years after that, I know not what Christs coming to Judgment signifieth: Sure it is not the date of their Execution; for they are to be tormented for ever and ever: And must they be unsentenced a Thousand years?
6. And the Resurrection is described as coming after all this: The Earth and Sea giving up their dead, and the dead judged out of the Books, &c.