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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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1. The New Opinion is, that Christ shall do it by appearing in the Air as he did to Saul. O take heed what you impose on Christ! That appearance of Christ was seen but by a very few in one place: And the words heard by none but Saul himself. Shall Christ in the Air be seen at once in Persia, Greece, Rome, Portugal, and all Nations where there be Jews? (And yet these good men are against the Lutheran Ubiquitarians!)
1. The New Opinion is, that Christ shall do it by appearing in the Air as he did to Saul. O take heed what you impose on Christ! That appearance of Christ was seen but by a very few in one place: And the words heard by none but Saul himself. Shall Christ in the Air be seen at once in Persia, Greece, Rome, Portugal, and all Nations where there be Jews? (And yet these good men are against the Lutheran Vbiquitarians!)
And shall Christ Preach to them in the Air, and his voice be heard throughout the World, a thousand times further than the Thunder?
And how will they know that it is Christ? when on Earth they would not know him; but imputed his Miracles to Beelzebub?