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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.
Chapter 1: The Kingdom of Christ, as described by the S. Scriptures.
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.
III. Whether this Eternal Word,1 did first unite it self to the Prime Being of the Creation?2 And whether that Prime Being was the Universal Soul of the World,3 or there were any such Universal Soul,4 save God that is more than a Soul,5 or it be not universal, but yet of the highest Created Species,6 and had any causality in the creation or production of the rest of the World? and whether it (and the World, as Aristotle thought) was (except revolutions and alterations) an eternal Effect of an eternal first Cause, and many such cases about the Original of Souls, are questions that God having not clearly decided by Natural or Scripture Light, I cannot peremptorily decide, but am lost in difficulties when I attempt it.
- 1Deut. 29. 29.
- 2Joh. 3. 5 6, 7.
- 3This is written with relation to the Writings of Mr. Sterry, Dr. More. Mr. •. Turner, Mr. Beverley, &c. which I would not be too peremptory in my opposing.
- 4Rom. 11. 33.
- 5Jo• 5. 9. & 40 & 41. & 42.
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