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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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Chapter 3: Of the other Sect of the Millenaries that place the Thousand years Reign before the Con…
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§ 3. But they agree not, 1. Of the state of the Church with Christ above all this time. 2. Nor whether there be one or two New Jerusalems (one above, and one below.) 3. Nor whether Christ shall Reign on Earth visibly in his Humane Nature, or only by a holy Magistracy and Ministry? 4. Nor whether all or most of the Jews shall go dwell at the Old Jerusalem, or Judea, or stay in the several Countries where they live? 5. Nor how far the Princes and Nations among whom they live shall be converted with them? 6. Nor by what means the Jews shall be converted? 7. Nor how long it will be in doing? 8. Nor how the Princes under whom they live will dismiss or use them? 9. Nor how they shall after all become a Laodicea, and fuel fit for the Conflagration? 10. Nor whether that fire that burneth the Earth and Heaven, and that which burneth Gog and Magog, make one or two ⟨p. 47⟩Conflagrations? 11. Nor how far Christs Kingdom ceaseth at the end of the Thousand years?
§ 4. As to both Sects, I know no more that I have further to do for their full confutation, but I. To give a better Paraphrase of the Revelation than their feigned suppositions contain: And that I have done in a Book not yet Printed.
II. To prove that the Ten Tribes were but part of them carried away by Salmanasser, and that they were in Cyrus Dominions, and had leave as well as the Two Tribes to return if they were willing: And that Galilee and other parts of Israel as much owned Christ as the Two Tribes, at least: And the Twelve Tribes made up the Converts that were the Rudiments of the Christian Churches: And that it was to the Twelve that James, Peter, and Paul to the Hebrews wrote: And it was the Twelve that the 144000 Rev. 7. were sealed out of, so expressly distinguished from the innumerable Gentile Christians, as may confute the Expositors, that make them to signify the Gentile Ministry.