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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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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.
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, 1though under more plausible names and pretences, and exceeded them in Cruelty. And Mahomet the Eastern Antichrist, compassed and conquered Constantinople the holy City; and Christs revenge on Gog and Magog, the Turk and Tartarian (with the rest of the Infidel World) are yet to come, and therefore dark.
XVIII. The Dragon being bound up a Thousand years from the Churches deliverance (from Constantines Edict to the Ottoman Empire) the Church after grew corrupted: And Papal Rome imitated Pagan Rome, 1though under more plausible names and pretences, and exceeded them in Cruelty. And Mahomet the Eastern Antichrist, compassed and conquered Constantinople the holy City; and Christs revenge on Gog and Magog, the Turk and Tartarian (with the rest of the Infidel World) are yet to come, and therefore dark.
XIX. At the end of this World,1 which shall be burnt with fire, God will make a New Heaven and Earth; in ⟨p. 8⟩which shall dwell righteousness without sin. And all things shall be restored,2 and the Creature delivered from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God. How God will people this New Earth, he hath not told us; whether by Creation, as by Adam, or by Transmigration: Nor yet how long it shall continue, unless for ever as part of the endless Kingdom.