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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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§ 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?
2. And Navigations, Travelling, and Merchandise, and Embassies, have acquainted Men with so much of the Earth, as tells us that they are not known in any known part of the World: And were they Existent they could not be unknown.
2. And Navigations, Travelling, and Merchandize, and Embassies, have acquainted Men with so much of the Earth, as tells us that they are not known in any known part of the World: And were they Existent they could not be unknown.
Benjamin's Itinerary that feigneth a discovery of them, proveth it self fabulous, and is so accounted commonly by sober learned Men. And dreaming that they are in America is no proof.