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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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1. A Converted Jew joineth himself to the Catholic Church, and knoweth that this is his advancement, above the old separate state of Peculiarity, and knoweth that Moses Law and Policy is ended; and that if he turn to that Law, he falls from Grace, and if he be (Jewishly) Circumcised, Christ shall profit him nothing: Therefore he is no more a Jew in Religion.
1. A Converted Jew joyneth himself to the Catholick Church, and knoweth that this is his advancement, above the old separate state of Peculiarity, and knoweth that Moses Law and Policy is ended; and that if he turn to that Law, he falls from Grace, and if he be (Jewishly) Circumcised, Christ shall profit him nothing: Therefore he is no more a Jew in Religion.
2. And being a Catholic Christian, he will marry with Gentile Catholics, and not confine Marriage to those of his own Nation, to keep up the separation. And so within a short time there would be no Natural Jews. For instance; If A marry B, a Gentile Christian, their Children will be but half Jews: If their Children marry Gentile Christians, their Children will be but a quarter Jews: And if those marry Gentile Christians, their Children will be but an eighth part of Jewish Race; that is, no Jews at all: Thus it is fallen out with the Progeny of all their converted Ancestors. I have since I was twenty four years Old, lived in the house with the Mother of the Grandmother of the Grandfather of some now living. And if I have seen between 24 and 76 so many Generations, in how short a time would Converted Jews be no Jews?
2. And being a Catholick Christian, he will marry with Gentile Catholicks, and not confine Marriage to those of his own Nation, to keep up the separation. And so within a short time there would be no Natural Jews. For instance; If A marry B, a Gentile Christian, their Children will be but half Jews: If their Children marry Gentile Christians, their Children will be but a quarter Jews: And if those marry Gentile Christians, their Children will be but an eighth part of Jewish Race; that is, no Jews at all: Thus it is faln out with the Progeny of all their converted Ancestors. I have since I was twenty four years Old, lived in the house with the Mother of the Grandmother of the Grandfather of some now living. And if I have seen between 24 and 76 so many Generations, in how short a time would Converted Jews be no Jews?