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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.
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.3 Scripture giveth us no confinement of it to a Thousand years, but the contrary.
- 12 Pet. 3. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
- 2Rom. 8. 19, 20, 21.
- 3Fully proved after, Mat. 25.
XX. Christs Glorious Appearance and Judgment, will be both the triumphant concluding parts of the Kingdom of Redemption, and Grace, which he will deliver up when his Recovering work is done: And the beginning of the Kingdom of Glory: In which, as his Reward, he will for ever in Humane Nature be glorified, as the Mediator of Fruition, as he was of Acquisition; and that in the Heavens. His coming in the Air is not there to Reign a Thousand years, but presently to Judge the World, as in Matth. 25