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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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So no Man can tell by your phrase of [swallowing up in God] and that Christ was from Eternity, and shall be to Eternity, the Word and Man embodied, whether you mean that he was an Individual Man distinct from any others, or the Universal Soul of the World embodied in Matter: And by your talk of our being One in God, as we were before the World began, none can tell whether you mean that we were Existent, or only in Potentia Creatoris? And if Existent whether we were God or parts of God, or individual Souls made from Eternity for future Bodies, and kept till those Bodies were made: And whether kept in Revolution from Body to Body? Or how? And whether we shall have a future Revolution.
So no Man can tell by your phrase of [swallowing up in God] and that Christ was from Eternity, and shall be to Eternity, the Word and Man imbodied, whether you mean that he was an Individual Man distinct from any others, or the Universal Soul of the World imbodied in Matter: And by your talk of our being One in God, as we were before the World began, none can tell whether you mean that we were Existent, or only in Potentia Creatoris? And if Existent whether we were God or parts of God, or individual Souls made from Eternity for future Bodies, and kept till those Bodies were made: And whether kept in Revolution from Body to Body? Or how? And whether we shall have a future Revolution.
So your Doctrine of the Hell of the Devils and the Damned, can tell no Man whether you think that after the Thousand years they shall not be as dead, under mere privation, since you say, Catech. p. 5. and 22. It is a state of deprivation of Glory, and casting into the Lake of Fire, signifieth, final and utter ⟨p. 45⟩cessation of all action; And that they shall not appear but be unseen, &c. And if they have no Action, they have no sinful Action, no Self-accusation, no Intellection, no Malice nor Revenge, nor Hatred of God and Goodness.
So your Doctrine of the Hell of the Devils and the Damned, can tell no Man whether you think that after the Thousand years they shall not be as dead, under meer privation, since you say, Catech. p. 5. and 22. It is a state of deprivation of Glory, and casting into the Lake of Fire, signifieth, final and utter