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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 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 ⟨p. 72⟩Opinion that God and the World are but One, as Soul and Body: By which they resolve the Grand difficulties that God is not Pars Entitatis, which were to be Imperfect and so no God, the Entity of the World and God being more than of either alone, if the World have any real Entity.
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 Interiour parts dissolved into a Chaos: As it is uncertain to us whether the Chaos at the present Earths Creation, was the Relicks 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 VVorld 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 VVorld is an Eternal Effect of an Eternal Cause; and Gassendus his Indefiniteness (he meaneth Infiniteness) of the VVorld, and the old ⟨p. 72⟩Opinion that God and the VVorld are but One, as Soul and Body: By which they resolve the Grand difficulties that God is not Pars Entitatis, which were to be Imperfect and so no God, the Entity of the World and God being more than of either alone, if the VVorld have any real Entity.