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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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Yea your self assert, that we are Righteous by Gods Essential Righteousness, and that as our only Justification and ⟨p. 18⟩Holiness: And yet doth not Christ tread down his Enemies? Hath he trod down in you, no Pride, no Lust, no Error, no Injustice? Doth he not tread down greater Enemies than Turkish Swords, or Papal Inquisitions in every Soul that he converteth? When we fight not against flesh and blood, but against Principalities and Powers, and spiritual wickedness in high places? And when we are but killed, and counted as Sheep to the slaughter, in all this we are more than Conquerors, and need not fear them that kill the body.
Yea your self assert, that we are Righteous by Gods Essential Righteousness, and that as our only Justification and ⟨p. 18⟩Holiness: And yet doth not Christ tread down his Enemies? Hath he trod down in you, no Pride, no Lust, no Errour, no Injustice? Doth he not tread down greater Enemies than Turkish Swords, or Papal Inquisitions in every Soul that he converteth? When we fight not against flesh and blood, but against Principalities and Powers, and spiritual wickedness in high places? And when we are but killed, and counted as Sheep to the slaughter, in all this we are more than Conquerours, and need not fear them that kill the body.
§ 14. Rev. 5. 12, 13. The numberless Host of Heaven cry, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, to receive power and riches, and wisdom and strength, and honour and glory, and blessing, (and is not that a Kingdom? and is it not till the Resurrection?) And every creature which is in Heaven, and on the Earth, and under the Earth, and such as are in the Sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power be to him that sitteth on the Throne, and to the Lamb for ever and ever.] This is before the Resurrection.