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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 XII. Answered.
§ 1. The Fifth Monarchy is Christs whole Kingdom, 1. As he preparatorily Governed by the Word, Miracles and Spirit. 2. As he visibly Set up and Ruled by the Christian Emperors and Kings. 3. As he at last entereth on the Kingdom of Glory and Fruition. Your Fiction of another is but your own word.
§ 1. The Fifth Monarchy is Christs whole Kingdom, 1. As he preparatorily Governed by the Word, Miracles and Spirit. 2. As he visibly Set up and Ruled by the Christian Emperours and Kings. 3. As he at last entereth on the Kingdom of Glory and Fruition. Your Fiction of another is but your own word.
And now I have done what in the Entrance and Conclusion you provokingly Challenge all Persons believing the Scriptures to do, and show that while you say you Boast in the Word of God, and not in your self, it is by giving us your ⟨p. 44⟩own word, not only for Gods Word, but against it. The Lord heal and forgive our weakness, and the ignorance of our ignorance.
And now I have done what in the Enterance and Conclusion you provokingly Challenge all Persons believing the Scriptures to do, and shew that while you say you Boast in the Word of God, and not in your self, it is by giving us your