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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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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.
8. The promise of restoring the broken Branches is, If they continue not in unbelief, v. 23.
9. Yet here is a Prophecy that the Jews shall be eminently replanted, v. 24. and not for ever left in general unbelief.
10. It was but blindness in part that happened to those some, till the fullness of the Gentiles came in: Which must either mean, till the Empire of the Roman World fell into the Christians hands: Or else till all the Gentiles were converted that ever shall be: This last cannot be the meaning, for then it would not be till the end of the World; therefore it must be the former, which is long fulfilled, v. 25.
10. It was but blindness in part that happened to those some, till the fulness of the Gentiles came in: Which must either mean, till the Empire of the Roman World fell into the Christians hands: Or else till all the Gentiles were converted that ever shall be: This last cannot be the meaning, for then it would not be till the end of the World; therefore it must be the former, which is long fulfilled, v. 25.