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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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Chap. IX. Of the New Earth.
§ 25. Concerning the New Earth we must content our selves with what God hath revealed, and not search into the unrevealed things.
§ 25. COncerning the New Earth we must content our selves with what God hath revealed, and not search into the unrevealed things.
1. It is revealed that it will be the Restitution of all things; that in it shall dwell Righteousness; that the whole Creation groaneth to be delivered from the Bondage of Corruption into the Glorious Liberty of the Sons of God; that it will be a Paradise State; that Christ shall Reign over it; that no Glorified Saints shall lose any of their part in Heaven by it; that there will be no death, nor misery: Therefore there will be no Gog and Magog, and numberless Armies of the wicked: For there entereth nothing that is defiled: It will be a State of Communion with Heaven. Angels and Men will have familiar Converse: Christ shall be joyfully known among them as their Saviour and King: Neither Christ nor the Saints will lay by the Humane Nature or Body, but their Bodies will be so far refined as shall be suitable to the condition of the New refined World: This much is certain.
But these things following are uncertain. 1. How much of the Old Earth God will use in the constitution of the New. Whether only the Surface of the Earth shall be Burnt, and the Things and Works thereon, or also the Interior parts dissolved into a Chaos: As it is uncertain to us whether the Chaos at the present Earths Creation, was the Relics of a former World: We are not certain whether there was any former World; Though to conjecturing Reason it seems improbable that God who delighteth in his Works, and will continue a World to Eternity, should from all Eternity have nothing but Himself, till Six days ago (Six Thousand years.) But this will infer Aristotle's Eternity of the Universe (except mutations of alterable compositions) that the World is an Eternal Effect of an Eternal Cause; and Gassendus his Indefiniteness (he meaneth Infiniteness) of the World, and the old