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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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§ 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⟩Christ is All, and in All, of whom the whole Family in Heaven and Earth is named, and will have all to grow up to one perfect man, Eph. 2. & 3. & 4. Col. 3. Will Christ now turn against his own uniting Design and Kingdom, and set up Moses again and his Policy?
§ 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 Catholick 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⟩Christ is All, and in All, of whom the whole Family in Heaven and Earth is named, and will have all to grow up to one perfect man, Eph. 2. & 3. & 4. Col. 3. Will Christ now turn against his own uniting Design and Kingdom, and set up Moses again and his Policy?
§ 7. Obj. But we do not hold that he shall set up Moses Ceremonial Law, or Worship.