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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 have had long by me, as a Learner, some humble Queries to you, and no Bookseller will Print them, because they say men look on you as diseased with prophesying Self conceit, and will not read a Confutation.
Your Leader Dr. More saith, That the Papists not answering my Books against them, is, because they despise them, as unworthy of an answer. May not your case be much the same? Men have greater matters to mind, than to trouble themselves with you and me, or answering our Challenges.
§ 3. But I come to your Chain of Principles: And 1. It's a half and fallacious description of Christs Kingdom, to say it is his As the Son of Man. There be millions of Sons of Men that have no such Kingdom. It is his Kingdom as God-man, the Redeemer and Recovering Mediator.
This Kingdom is to him as the Eternal Word, and the Son of Man in one person of a Redeemer.