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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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§ 11. But the contrary is fully evident by the Effects. 1. What new Laws he will make in the Air, you must prove: But we can prove that he made Laws for Government on Earth: 2. Else the World hath had no King or Government of God: 3. Nor no authorized Prince or Pastor. 4. All Saints can say that he giveth Rewards on Earth to Believers. 5. And he is the Protector of his Church. 6. He here is known by the Judgments which he executeth, and maketh his Enemies his footstool, though their final Fall be at the last. Did he not in that Kingly glory described by John, execute all those Plagues on Pagan Rome, and its Beast, which are gradually described in the Seals, the Trumpets and the Vials till it fell? If you say that all this is meant of Papal Rome, sure I am, it was done first on Pagan Rome: And you that tell us how shortly Turk and Pope shall fall, sure take it to be before the Resurrection! And doth not Christ then make his Enemies his footstool by his Kingly Power?
12. What it is for Christ to subdue his Enemies, must be known by his Office and Undertaking, which is to overcome Satan, and to save his People from their sins. And did he not conquer Satan as a Tempter, and triumph even on the Cross? And doth he not conquer the Dominion of sin in all his Members? Is he not mortifying them in us day by day? And is not this treading down his Enemies? And is he not taking off the Curse, the fruit of sin? These are Christs Enemies, because they are ours; even the diseases which he came to cure?
§ 13. Is it not unreconcilable self-contradiction, for you to extol the Doctrine of Dr. Crisp, who saith, That we are so fully saved by Christ, even before Conversion, that we have no sin, it being none of ours, but his; nor can any sin hurt us (much less other mens) nor any penalty befall us, nor any place left for any duty to do us the least good; and yet that Christ our Saviour, subdueth not his Enemies before the Resurrection?