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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 7: Chap, VII. Whether there be any Jerusalem Monarchy of Jews, or any further Conversion o…
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3. It was but some of the Branches that were broken off, v. 17.
4. As the casting away of them was the converting and reconciling of the Pagan World; so their receiving was as a Resurrection of life from the dead, v. 15.
5. The Converted Gentiles were but grafted in among them, and partakers with them, (and not without them) of the fatness of the Olive, v. 17.
6. Not the Root, but the some Branches that were broken off, was that we might be grafted in, v. 19. It was chiefly the Priests, and Rulers, and the self-cursed Rabble that followed them, and yet some Priests and Pharisees were converted.
7. If they continue not in Gods Goodness, the Gentiles also shall be broken off, v. 22. So much of conditionality is in the Promise: And yet there is more Scripture to expect that the Gentiles shall not be broken off, than that there shall be any more National Conversion of the Jews.