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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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You deny Christ, if you deny him to be King: Will you not obey him as King, till the Trumpet sound, and he come to the final Judgment?
§ 8. But where is the present Kingdom of Christ, more gloriously described than in the Prophecies which you call your self the Humble Reader of? and especially in the Apocalypse (if it be not you only that understand it?) It would swell this writing to name all the Texts that expressly assert it. Isa. 9. 6, 7. To us a Child is born, to us a Son is given, and the Government shall be upon his Shoulder, and his Name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace; of the increase of his Government and Peace there shall be no End; upon the Throne of David, and upon his Kingdom, to order it, and to stablish it with Judgment and with Justice, from henceforth even for ever. Is this only at the Millennium.
§ 8. But where is the present Kingdom of Christ, more gloriously described than in the Prophecies which you call your self the Humble Reader of? and especially in the Apocalypse (if it be not you only that understand it?) It would swell this writing to name all the Texts that expresly assert it. Isa. 9. 6, 7. To us a Child is born, to us a Son is given, and the Government shall be upon his Shoulder, and his Name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace; of the increase of his Government and Peace there shall be no End; upon the Throne of David, and upon his Kingdom, to order it, and to stablish it with Judgment and with Justice, from henceforth even for ever. Is this only at the Millennium.
He is a Prince and a Saviour to give repentance and remission of sin. God hath made him Lord and Christ,