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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 4: That the Ten Tribes of Israel, will never be found and called, if they never were so he…
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§ 1. Those that are for a Jewish Monarchy, or their general Conversion, commonly hold that the Ten Tribes carried away by Salmanasser, are lost, and never yet restored. Whether this be true, we shall see anon. But if it were true, it would follow, that they never will be found and called, and consequently that they will be no part of the Converted Jews.
§ 1. THose that are for a Jewish Monarchy, or their general Conversion, commonly hold that the Ten Tribes carried away by Salmanasser, are lost, and never yet restored. Whether this be true, we shall see anon. But if it were true, it would follow, that they never will be found and called, and consequently that they will be no part of the Converted Jews.
§ 2. The proof is evident: Because the Accident supposeth a Subject: That which is not, hath no Accident. There are no such Ten Tribes unknown and uncalled existent in the World. None will say that any such are known: And that's enough to prove them unknown, and if unknown, not in being.
For 1. If the Infidel part of the Two Tribes be as many as such think, how much more numerous must all the Posterity of the Ten Tribes be?