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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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§ 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.
§ 5. 5. These became the Mother-Church, and the Law went out of Zion, and so all Nations were blest in Abrahams 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.
§ 6. 6. The Epistle to the Hebr••• was written to all the Hebrew Christians, and not to Two Tribes only; and implieth the great success of the Gospel on them.