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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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How could he make us Kings and Priests to God, if he were not King himself? even a Priest after the order of Melchizedek, and a Prophet raised up like Moses that was King in Jeshurun. But enough of this to real Christians.
How could he make us Kings and Priests to God, if he were not King himself? even a Priest after the order of Melchizedeck, and a Prophet raised up like Moses that was King in Jeshurun. But enough of this to real Christians.
§. 9. But what is all this to you? Do you deny it? 1. If you do not, it is not Christs Kingdom, but the Consummation of his Kingdom, and his Glorious appearing in it that is to begin at Judgment after the Conflagration. 2. But it is your words and not your thoughts that are published in Print, and if you have written contrary to your Heart, recant it, and pity them that you deceived. In your Catechism of the Millennium you say, pag 5. Q. When doth Christs Kingdom begin? Ans. It begins at the Coming and Appearance of Christ, and at the Resurrection of his Saints at his Coming and Appearance.] And page 6. The Apostle without any other mention of his Kingdom saith, He must reign till he hath put all his Enemies under his feet. Now when did this reign begin but at his Coming? Or where did the Apostle give any intimation of his reigning but at his Coming? And when he comes and descends, and no longer sits at the Right Hand of God, then God first maketh his Enemies his Footstool: Not when he sits, but when he comes: And then he begins to reign.—His Kingdom and the Resurrection of his Saints begin together.]
§ 10. I confess this Doctrine well agreeth with Doctor More's Life of Trial in the Air, and Mr. Mede's Conclusion that our Salvation is not ascertained to us till the Resurrection: Indeed it maketh all our Preaching, and Religion in this life of little moment, in comparison of that which is after both Death and Resurrection: For if Christ Reign not till then, he maketh no Laws till then; He bindeth us to no obedience to him till then; He punisheth no sin till then; He setteth up no Magistrates till then, to be Governing Officers in his Kingdom: He executeth no Discipline in the Churches as King O how have Independents and Presbyterians been deceived then, who have lamented the neglect or suppression of Christs Kingly Government in