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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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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?
§ 6. III. And the desire of such a Jewish Conversion, State and Kingdom, or Church, as should continue them in a Jewish Line and Peculiarity, distinct from the Catholic mixed Church, is a wickedness, and contrary to the very nature of Christianity, and the Kingdom and Design of Christ: For Christ came to take down the Partition Wall, Middle Wall, and make of two one new man, even both one, (no longer two:) Here is neither Greek nor Jew, Circumcision nor Uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, Bond or Free, but ⟨p. 63⟩