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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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XXIII. They that assign this Thousand years on this side the Conflagration and Resurrection, for the setting up a Fifth Monarchy of the Converted Jews at Jerusalem, are the grossest feigners of all the rest. Well did Jerome say, That the Millenaries fetch their Error from the Jews, and would set up Judaism by it. (He that dwelt so long at Bethlehem knew the Jews Opinions.) For (to pass by what else is after to be said) Their very Fiction is a contradiction. Were our Jews converted, they would in less than a Hundred years be no longer a Jewish Nation: For their state of peculiarity with the Mosaical Policy is abolished by Christ, and must never be restored: And they must and would marry with Gentile Christians, and fall into the Catholic Church as Rivers into the Sea, and lose the name of Jews: So did their converted Predecessors.
XXIII. They that assign this Thousand years on this side the Conflagration and Resurrection, for the setting up a Fifth Monarchy of the Converted Jews at Jerusalem, are the grossest feigners of all the rest. Well did Jerom say, That the Millenaries fetch their Errour from the Jews, and would set up Judaism by it. (He that dwelt so long at Bethlehem knew the Jews Opinions.) For (to pass by what else is after to be said) Their very Fiction is a contradiction. Were our Jews converted, they would in less than a Hundred years be no longer a Jewish Nation: For their state of peculiarity with the Mosaical Policy is abolished by Christ, and must never be restored: And they must and would marry with Gentile Christians, and fall into the Catholick Church as Rivers into the Sea, and lose the name of Jews: So did their converted Predecessors.
XXIV. And seeing it is not like that our now Infidel Jews are one to a hundred of the Posterity of the first believing Jews that have been propagated these sixteen hundred years, why should a glorious Monarchy be set up of this self-cursed Remnant, excluding all the first-fruits, both the sealed, Rev. 7. and all since? But if the Posterity of all those old holy Jews were now sought for, to be sent to Jerusalem, not one man of them would be found and known; (of which more after.)