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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.
All this showeth that Christ all this while Reigned, and left it not wholly to the Resurrection, to make his Enemies his footstool.
All this sheweth that Christ all this while Reigned, and left it not wholly to the Resurrection, to make his Enemies his footstool.
XVII. It is not unlikely that this delivered,1 exalted state of the Church (though after corrupted by Temptation to Pride) was the New Jerusalem in the Embryo, of which Constantinople was the Capital Seat, as the Porch or Infancy of the heavenly City of God, and that one as the Infant Heir, and the other as the Possessor of the Inheritance, is described in Rev. 20. 21. 22. But of this more fully elsewhere.
XVII. It is not unlikely that this delivered,1 exalted state of the Church (though after corrupted by Temptation to Pride) was the New Jerusalem in the Embrio, of which Constantinople was the Capital Seat, as the Porch or Infancy of the heavenly City of God, and that one as the Infant Heir, and the other as the Possessor of the Inheritance, is described in Rev. 20. 21. 22. But of this more fully elsewhere.
- 1Mr. Potter, and many Protestant expositors […] Rev. 20. 21, 22. to speak of the Church on Earth.Mr. Potter, and many Protestant expositors 〈…〉 Rev. 20. 21, 22. to speak of the Church on Earth.
XVIII. The Dragon being bound up a Thousand years from the Churches deliverance (from Constantine's Edict to the Ottoman Empire) the Church after grew corrupted: And Papal Rome imitated Pagan Rome,