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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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4. How great a Protection had the Jews under Constantine, and following Emperors, above what they had even after their Restoration from Captivity, from Zerubbabel and the Maccabees to the end of their Policy.
4. How great a Protection had the Jews under Constantine, and following Emperours, above what they had even after their Restoration from Captivity, from Zorobabel and the Maccabees to the end of their Policy.
5. What could they now desire for their return more than they then had? What greater liberty, or encouragement, or help? An excess of Honour was put on their Country, and on all that would come into the Christian Church.
5. What could they now desire for their return more than they then had? What greater liberty, or encouragement, or help? An excess of Honour was put on their Countrey, and on all that would come into the Christian Church.
6. What better Plantation of Religion can be expected in Judea, than was when the Emperors built them Temples, and devout people travelled thither, and dwelt there, and bought them Bibles, and built them Religious Houses, and set over them Pastors, and Bishops, and A. Bishops, and a Patriarch, ⟨p. 61⟩one of the five in the Empire? And their National Church honourably united to the Catholic? What outward honour can they expect more? All Protestants note it as the wicked Superstition of the Popes, that they were so set on the honouring of Jerusalem and Judea, called The Holy Land, that they forced Emperors, and Kings (of France and England, &c.) at vast charges to go fight for it, to the loss of 100000 men.