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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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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.
§ 3. 3. It is evident that All the Twelve Tribes were in the Dominion of Cyrus, when he sent the Jews to repair the Temple and City: The Two Tribes at Babylon where he made Darius King, and the Ten in his Hereditary Dominions and his Conquests, as Mr. Calvet in his Naphthali hath showed; and as will appear by the Topography of the places named in Scripture, to which they were carried, Learnedly opened by Mr. Lee, abating his conceit of Tartary. And it is evident that Cyrus meant not to confine the grant of his free return to the Two Tribes: But those that were not willing to return he did not compel: And most had possession by that time of wider and fatter Habitations.