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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Chapter 1: The Kingdom of Christ, as described by the S. Scriptures.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
XIV. Yet did he so over-power the Spirits of the Pagan Persecutors, that of Forty Emperors, there were at most but ten that persecuted them; so that in this Captivity and Wilderness state by their liberty their numbers so increased that they became a considerable party in their Dominions and Armies.
XV. Of all these Persecutors,1 the Cruellest were Nero, Domitian, Maximinus and Decius, but far above all, the last, who were seven together (Diocletian, Max. Herculius, Max. Galerius, Max. Daya, Severus, Licinius, Maxentius, (and Constantius not wholly innocent) The cruelty of their Tormentors, and the great numbers Tormented and Martyred, is frightful even to read: By all which Christ showed his Heavenly Power, in the terrible punishment of all their Persecutors: First in the dreadful destruction of the cursed part of the Jews; who were by Vespasian and Titus so destroyed that 110000 of them were killed, and about 700000 Captivated: And their State, City and Temple overthrown, and saith Origen and Chrysostom, it is certain that they shall never (that is, the Infidels) return to that Land.
XV. Of all these Persecutors,1 the Cruellest were Nero, Domitian, Maximinus and Decius, but far above all, the last, who were seven together (Dioclesian, Max. Herculius, Max. Galerius, Max. Daya, Severus, Licinius, Maxentius, (and Constantius not wholly innocent) The cruelty of their Tormentors, and the great numbers Tormented and Martyred, is frightful even to read: By all which Christ shewed his Heavenly Power, in the terrible punishment of all their Persecutors: First in the dreadful destruction of the cursed part of the Jews; who were by Vespasian and Titus so destroyed that 110000 of them were killed, and about 700000 Captivated: And their State, City and Temple overthrown, and saith Origen and Chrysostom, it is certain that they shall never (that is, the Infidels) return to that Land.
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