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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In all the Conquests made by the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Egyptians, the Saracens, the Turks, the Tartarians by Tamerlane, there hath no such thing been done, as the transplanting of the most of the common Inhabitants.
Indeed the beggarly Goths, and Vandals, Ostrogoths and Hemli, &c. came with their Wives and Children sometimes, resolving to possess or die: But what was a hundred thousand of such to all Italy when they possest it; or to all Spain, or all France, or Afric, in comparison of the Inhabitants whom they subdued and mastered?
Indeed the beggarly Goths, and Vandals, Ostrogaths and Hemli, &c. came with their Wives and Children sometimes, resolving to possess or die: But what was a hundred thousand of such to all Italy when they possest it; or to all Spain, or all France, or Africk, in comparison of the Inhabitants whom they subdued and mastered?
In England how few were the Romans, yea or the Saxons, or the Danes, or the Normans, in comparison of the Britons that were brought in subjection unto them? It was but the Great men, and Rich, and Military, and some fearful people that fled from their Armies, that fled into Wales. As Mr. Tho. Jones in his Hearts Sovereignty hath truly proved, the main Body of this Nation called English, is of the British Blood (it's like many hundred to one) though the Language followed the ruling part.
In England how few were the Romans, yea or the Saxons, or the Danes, or the Normans, in comparison of the Britains that were brought in subjection unto them? It was but the Great men, and Rich, and Military, and some fearful people that fled from their Armies, that fled into Wales. As Mr. Tho. Jones in his Hearts Soveraignty hath truly proved, the main Body of this Nation called English, is of the Brittish Bllod (it's like many hundred to one) though the Language followed the ruling part.