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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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This Kingdom is to him as the Eternal Word, and the Son of Man in one person of a Redeemer.
And because you confessed to me, that if you err, the misunderstanding of The Delivering up the Kingdom to the Father, that God may be All in All] is your [Greek or Hebrew], I will first prove that you grossly err in this your foundation.
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§ 4. 2. You say oft, that Christs Kingdom begins at the Millennium, as if he had none before: And you distinguish not the several Gradations of his Kingdom, as from the Conception and Embryo to its maturity: As it began in the Promise to Adam, and renewed to Noah, and proceeded to the Covenant of Peculiarity, made to Abraham and his Seed, settled in a Common-wealth by Moses, renewed to David: And as it came from Heaven ⟨p. 12⟩[…] ⟨p. 13⟩[…] ⟨p. 14⟩in the Person of the Incarnate Messiah, showing his Kingly Power by his Miracles and Doctrines, and in his Transfiguration, and acknowledged by Hosanna's, and owned to the death before the Roman Judge. Nor his entrance on the more open exercise of it, by his Resurrection, Ascension, and sending down his Paraclete the Holy Spirit, and by it in his commissioned Apostles and Witnesses, convincing and converting the World. You take little notice of his going forth conquering on the White Horse, as King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and calling all the Fowls of the Air to eat the flesh of Kings and Captains, and his utter subversion of Pagan Babylon, taking to himself his great Power and Reigning, when Heaven and Earth triumphed, with joy, that the Kingdoms of the World were made the Kingdoms of the Lord, and of his Christ, and Christ set up Christian Princes as his Officers representing him to Rule as in his name (as his Ministers do in Preaching in his name.)