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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. But if they say it will be After the burning of the World, that is before disproved: For the Thousand years are past before that Conflagration. Gog and Magog, and the numberless Enemies will not survive the Burning, nor live in the New Earth, wherein dwelleth Righteousness.
3. And if they say that it will be but some part of the Thousand years, or a short time before the Conflagration. 1. The Thousand years will not be divided, part before the Burning, and part in the next World. 2. And so short a Reign of the Jews, as shall end before the Thousand years, and Burning, will not answer the glorious preparation of so many Millions of Miracles, nor the Doctrine of their so speedy Apostasy after, as to prepare for the Incendium.
3. And if they say that it will be but some part of the Thousand years, or a short time before the Conflagration. 1. The Thousand years will not be divided, part before the Burning, and part in the next World. 2. And so short a Reign of the Jews, as shall end before the Thousand years, and Burning, will not answer the glorious preparation of so many Millions of Miracles, nor the Doctrine of their so speedy Apostasie after, as to prepare for the Incendium.
§15. X. The Miracles must be so many and great, that must go to the feigned Conversion and Exaltation of these Jews, that it will be a great and heinous crime to impose them on God by presumptuous Fiction, if the Truth of them be not proved; 1. As to the number of Converts. 2. Their present unfitness. 3. Their scattered distance. 4. Their Servitude in all Nations. 5. The feigned way of their Conversion. 6. The state of their feigned Exaltation. All these must be so full of Miracles, that will a thousand-fold exceed all the Miracles that ever Christ did on Earth, or his Apostles after him. And God keepeth so constant a tenor in his Established Order of working by means and subordinate Causes, as that we must have good proof before we say that he will do all this. Tell us not what God can do, when our Question is, what he will do. God can enlighten the World without the Sun, or make all the frame of Heaven and Earth to change their course: God can convert Turk and Pope, and all the Heathens in the World, and all the bloody Princes and Soldiers, to morrow. But do not therefore say that He will do it. When the Devil tempted Christ to show his power by a Miracle, he saith, It is written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.