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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.
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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. he describeth it: And to confine his Kingdom in Humane Nature, and ours with him to a Thousand years, and confine it to the Air, and the survivors on Earth, is a fiction full of contradictions, dishonourable to Christ and his Kingdom, uncomfortable to his Church.
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. he describeth it: And to confine his Kingdom in Humane Nature, and ours with him to a Thousand years, and confine it to the Air, and the survivers on Earth, is a fiction full of contradictions, dishonourable to Christ and his Kingdom, uncomfortable to his Church.
XXI. There is but one Thousand years mentioned in Scripture, from whence they can fetch the least show for their limitation; and that is only in Rev. 20. But it is most evident that the Thousand years there mentioned was to be before the Conflagration, and New Earth, and the Resurrection: For it was to be before Satan was loosed, and before Gog and Magog, and their numberless Armies assaulted the Holy City; and before the fire from God came on them. And the Paradise restored State of the New Earth, in which dwelleth Righteousness, is not consistent with so much wickedness of the Inhabitants, and Satan's Power over the Nations: Nor with a Laodicean Lukewarmness, and danger of being spued out. They therefore that well expect a Thousand years Reign before the Resurrection, have no pretence to expect another Millennium after.