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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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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.
7. And Ch. 21. The New Heaven and New Earth cometh after this Thousand years, and the destruction of the Enemies; and the New Jerusalem coming down from God: And there are yet Kings of the Earth that are to bring their Glory into it: And there are Nations to be healed with the Leaves of the Tree of Life; which made Mr. Potter and many others conclude, that it is the glory of the Church on Earth, that the 21, and 22 Chapters describe: Though it is most probable that it is but as a representation of the heavenly Glory: But the Thousand years is plainly ended before the Resurrection.