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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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§ 8. 8. James directeth his Epistle to the Twelve Tribes, that are scattered abroad: And it is evident that he writeth to them as Christians.
§ 8. 8. James directeth his Epistle to the Twelve Tribes, that are scatter'd abroad: And it is evident that he writeth to them as Christians.
§ 9. 9. The seventh Chapter of the Revelations expressly nameth the Twelve Tribes, of which One Hundred and Forty four Thousand were Sealed, Twelve Thousand of each Tribe (meaning a great number) that were to be preserved from the Destruction that was to be executed on their Enemies. The boldness of those Expositors who give us their own Revelation instead of Christs, is palpable: who tell us that by these One Hundred and Forty four Thousand is meant all the Reformed that are saved from the destruction to be executed on the Papists? What words can we desire God to use more plain, that Men may not pervert? 1. God speaketh of Jews, and they say he meaneth Gentiles. 2. God nameth the Tribes, and they exclude them. 3. They are called [The First Fruits] of the Church:1 And they say, It meaneth the last. 4. The numberless Gentile Christians that with them partook of the preservation, are by way of distinction mentioned in the next words: Yet these Commentators say, That the Gentiles are meant by the Twelve Tribes. 5. The Prophecy is put in the beginning before the Trumpets or Vials, even before all the Judgments that were to come on Infidel Jews and Romans; yet do they bring it down towards the end of the World, or after the Fall of Pagan Rome.
§ 9. 9. The seventh Chapter of the Revelations expresly nameth the Twelve Tribes, of which One Hundred and Forty four Thousand were Sealed, Twelve Thousand of each Tribe (meaning a great number) that were to be preserved from the Destruction that was to be executed on their Enemies. The boldness of those Expositors who give us their own Revelation instead of Christs, is palpable: who tell us that by these One Hundred and Forty four Thousand is meant all the Reformed that are saved from the destruction to be executed on the Papists? What words can we desire God to use more plain, that Men may not pervert? 1. God speaketh of Jews, and they say he meaneth Gentiles. 2. God nameth the Tribes, and they exclude them. 3. They are called [The First Fruits] of the Church: