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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 6: What Conversion the Twelve Tribes have already had?
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§ 2. 2. He appointed (not two, but) Twelve Apostles, and 70 Disciples, as suited to the Twelve Tribes and their Sanhedrin, to show what Form of Government he assigned them, and for whom, and he sent his Apostles to the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
§ 2. 2. He appointed (not two, but) Twelve Apostles, and 70 Disciples, as suited to the Twelve Tribes and their Sanedrim, to shew what Form of Government he assigned them, and for whom, and he sent his Apostles to the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
§ 3. 3. The chief success of their Preaching was on the Samaritans and others of the Ten Tribes; and such of them as came up to the Feasts.
§ 4. 4. There were three thousand at once converted of the Jews; after made five thousand; and soon after many Myriads of Jews believed (at least many thousands.)
§ 5. 5. These became the Mother-Church, and the Law went out of Zion, and so all Nations were blest in Abraham's Seed, and Christ became a Light to the Gentiles, and the Glory of his People Israel: The scattered Jews of the Twelve Tribes through much of the Empire, were the Stamina or Rudiments of the Gentile Churches: The Apostles first Preached in their Synagogues, and the converted Gentiles were added to their Converts.