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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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§ 15. Rev. 12. 7. If Michael be not Christ, he is Christs Servant. And there was War in Heaven, and Michael and his Angels fought against the Dragon, and the Dragon fought and his Angels, and prevailed not; neither was there place found any more in Heaven. And the great Dragon was cast out, that old Serpent called, the Devil and Satan, who deceiveth the whole World: He was cast out into the Earth, and his Angels were cast out with him. And I heard a voice saying in Heaven, Now is come salvation and strength, and the Kingdom of our God, and the Power of his Christ, for the accuser of our Brethren is cast down, who accused them before our God day and night: And they overcame him by the Blood of the Lamb, and by the Word of their Testimony, and they loved not their lives unto the Death: Therefore rejoice ye Heavens, and ye that dwell in them: Woe to the Inhabitants of the Earth and of the Sea; For the Devil is come down to you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.]
He may make his own Faith, that will affirm, that this describeth no Kingdom of Christ, or no Conquest of his Enemies; or that all this is after the Resurrection, or yet to come, and none of it yet fulfilled.
§ 16. Rev. 14. 7, 8. Fear God, and give Glory to him, for the hour of his Judgment is come.—Babylon is fallen, is fallen,] This is a Judgment and a treading down Enemies before the final Judgment: And so is the Reaping and the Wine-press mentioned, ver. 13. to the end.
§ 16. Rev. 14. 7, 8. Fear God, and give Glory to him, for the hour of his Judgment is come.—Babylon is faln, is faln,] This is a Judgment and a treading down Enemies before the final Judgment: And so is the Reaping and the Wine-press mentioned, ver. 13. to the end.