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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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But if it be only the Jews, that are miraculously Converted, it must be a Miracle that must cause the malignant Princes and People, Heathens, Mahometans, Greeks, Papists and Carnal Protestants, either to become Subjects to these poor Jews where they dwell, or to help or permit their Transportation to Jerusalem, and then to be subject to them there: If this must be their Fate, why do we not acquaint our selves with those few cursed Enemies of Christ, ⟨p. 65⟩that live in London, in Wapping, or elsewhere near us, and honour them, and beg their favour against the time of their Reign. Oliver Cromwell appointed a Solemn dispute before him, whether the Jews (for Money) should have a Toleration, and when that good Man Dr. Tho. Goodwin, and some other godly Independents had spoken much for it, Matthew Newcomen (that holy Man) so opened the wickedness of turning loose a Cursed Generation to tempt a Nation to Infidelity, that is already too much inclined thereto, as turned the Scales, and put an end to that deliberation.
§14. IX. Either the feigned Conversion of these Jews will be before the burning of the World, or after: But neither before nor after: Therefore not at all.
1. If it be Before, either it will be the Thousand years Reign, or some part of the Thousand years Reign, or before it all.
1. If it be Before, either it will be the Thousand years Reign, or some part of the Thousand years Reign, or beffore it all.