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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 IX. Answered.
§ 1. The Recovering Victorious Gracious Kingdom, is ended in the glorious triumph of his Appearing and Judgment, and his glorious Kingdom of Fruition then beginneth: That all his Kingdom then beginneth, is a falsehood largely confuted by Christs own mouth. And as false is it that the Kingdom of Recovery or Grace, is not given up till a Thousand years after the Resurrection. That this is before the Kingdom of Eternity, is false in any proper sense. If you mean a Kingdom from Eternity without beginning, you should prove that ever there was such: Your bare naming it so is no proof. If there were no men from Eternity, then there was no Kingdom of men. If you mean that which shall endure to Eternity, so will Christs glorious Kingdom as Man over Men. For many and many Scriptures tell us, it hath no end, and is everlasting: And he that accuseth others of Semi-Sadduceism of the Apostasy, should consider, whether denying the Kingdom of Christ and his Saints in glorified Humanity, as soon as a Thousand years (as one day) are ended, be not liker Sadduceism and Apostasy, than our believing the everlastingness of it.
§ 1. The Recovering Victorious Gracious Kingdom, is ended in the glorions triumph of his Appearing and Judgment, and his glorious Kingdom of Fruition then beginneth: That all his Kingdom then beginneth, is a falshood largely confuted by Christs own mouth. And as false is it that the Kingdom of Recovery or Grace, is not given up till a Thousand years after the Resurrection. That this is before the Kingdom of Eternity, is false in any proper sense. If you mean a Kingdom from Eternity without beginning, you should prove that ever there was such: Your bare naming it so is no proof. If there were no men from Eternity, then there was no Kingdom of men. If you mean that which shall endure to Eternity, so will Christs glorious Kingdom as Man over Men. For many and many Scriptures tell us, it hath no end, and is everlasting: And he that accuseth others of Semi-Sadduceism of the Apostasie, should consider, whether denying the Kingdom of Christ and his Saints in glorified Humanity, as soon as a Thousand years (as one day) are ended, be not liker Sadduceism and Apostasie, than our believing the everlastingness of it.