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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 2: An unwilling Answer to Mr. Tho. Beverleys Twelve Principles, and his Catechism of the M…
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I Take it for no wonder that great and many disagreements in matters of Religion are among us, while in Professions of less Mystery (Law, Policy, Physics, Medicine, &c.) there are so many; that [so many men, so many minds] hath so long been a Proverb: And in such tolerable cases as much endanger not Church and Souls, few men are more for mutual forbearance and charitable construction than I am: Therefore the Millennial Opinion I have never been a censorious opposer of, while men kept up Peace and Charity with it.
I Take it for no wonder that great and many disagreements in matters of Religion are among us, while in Professions of less Mystery (Law, Policy, Physicks, Medicine, &c.) there are so many; that [so many men, so many minds] hath so long been a Proverb: And in such tolerable cases as much endanger not Church and Souls, few men are more for mutual forbearance and charitable construction than I am: Therefore the Millennial Opinion I have never been a censorious opposer of, while men kept up Peace and Charity with it.
But the case lately is altered, and is made a matter of necessary Zeal, as part of the Creed and the Lords Prayer, if not essential to the Gospel and Christianity: And very many of the Antinomian, and Separating Opinion, that least understand it, lay much of their Religion on it: And the just honour of many Conformists, of the most peaceable Principles otherwise promoteth it; such as Mr. Jos. Mede. Dr. H. More, Dr. Cressoner, your self, Mr. M. Author of the Midnight Cry, Mr.R. M. the Publisher (most pious men both) and many others. And we must not now be suffered to be silent, but must answer your provocations, or be grossly guilty of the evil that will follow your success.
But the case lately is altered, and is made a matter of necessary Zeal, as part of the Creed and the Lords Prayer, if not essential to the Gospel and Christianity: And very many of the Antinomian, and Separating Opinion, that least understand it, lay much of their Religion on it: And the just honour of many Conformists, of the most peaceable Principles otherwise promoteth it; such as Mr. Jos. Mede. Dr. H. More, Dr. Cressoner, your self, Mr. M. Author of the Midnight Cry, Mr.R. M. the Publisher (most pious men both) and many others. And we must not now be suffered to be silent, but must answer your provocations, or be grosly guilty of the evil that will follow your success.