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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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§ 6. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, are now in the Kingdom of God, and others shall sit down there with them. God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. Lazarus was in Abraham's bosom: Moses and Elijah appeared with Christ on the Mount of Glory: And Enoch was translated. Christ is not in Heaven alone without any company but Angels: And if Moses and Elijah be there, more are there, to make the superior part of his Kingdom. He hath there a nobler Reign now, than is exercised in this dark, distracted World, that is drowned in wickedness, and torn by mutual Enmity and Malice. It would not else have been better for Paul to be dissolved and to be with Christ. Those that follow him, shall be where he is, Joh. 12. 26. We live, because he liveth, as branches in him the Vine.
§ 6. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, are now in the Kingdom of God, and others shall sit down there with them. God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. Lazarus was in Abraham's bosom: Moses and Elias appeared with Christ on the Mount of Glory: And Enoch was translated. Christ is not in Heaven alone without any company but Angels: And if Moses and Elias be there, more are there, to make the superiour part of his Kingdom. He hath there a nobler Reign now, than is exercised in this dark, distracted World, that is drowned in wickedness, and torn by mutual Enmity and Malice. It would not else have been better for Paul to be dissolved and to be with Christ. Those that follow him, shall be where he is, Joh. 12. 26. We live, because he liveth, as branches in him the Vine.
§ 7. Either this World is Governed now by God, or not: If not, he is not a God to it; or Kings are more to it than God: If yea, it is by Christ that he governeth it. Are there any Divine Laws, or not? If there be, they are Christs Laws, and the Execution is Christs Execution of them. And sure the exercise of Legislation, Judgment, Protection, Rewards and Punishments, are the exercise of Kingly Government.