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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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Answ. Nor if you are Christians, should you say, that he will turn again the one United Body into two, and by restoring the carnal Peculiarity, to set up again the Wall of Separation?
§ 8. Obj. But if English, French, Spaniards, &c. may be still distinct, why may not Jews and Gentiles?
Ans. Because One is but accidentally and mutably, from the difference of Countries and Habitation, and of Language, and Trading, and Government, which Christ came not to unite: But the other is on pretence of a Religious Trust on a Divine Gift of Peculiarity, setting them up above the rest of the Church, which Christ came to take down, and tendeth to Church Divisions.
Ans. Because One is but accidentally and mutably, from the difference of Countreys and Habitation, and of Language, and Trading, and Government, which Christ came not to unite: But the other is on pretence of a Religious Trust on a Divine Gift of Peculiarity, setting them up above the rest of the Church, which Christ came to take down, and tendeth to Church Divisions.