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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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Chap. VIII. Reasons for the Negative humbly offered to Trial.
Chap. VIII. Reasons for the Negative humbly offered to Tryal.
§ 1. I. That which is done already according to Promise, we must not take for undone, or expect to be done again. But the Calling of the Jews is done already according to Promise: Ergo, &c.
§ 1. I. THat which is done already according to Promise, we must not take for undone, or expect to be done again. But the Calling of the Jews is done already according to Promise: Ergo, &c.
I hinted this oft before; I will not shun repetition where the cause requireth it.
1. It is granted that the Catholic Church is called The New Jerusalem, so far as it is short of the other World: But the Catholic Church, and therein the Jewish Nation, was more gloriously set up by the Christian Empire, than the Millenaries, can reasonably expect or plead for: 1. What are a few Rabble Jews, such as are among us, to the great, rich, victorious Roman Empire, the greatest that ever was on Earth, which turned Christian in the Regent part, and shortly in the commonest Profession? What an Empire would the Jews of England, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, &c. make?