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A reply to Mr. Tho. Beverley's answer to my reasons against his doctrine of…
A reply to Mr. Tho. Beverley's answer to my reasons against his doctrine of the thousand years middle kingdom, and of the conversion of the Jews by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1691
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Postscript.
§ 1. I Understand that on further thoughts, some men that are further from me, than Mr. Beverly, are like by his Book, to be much confirmed against Christianity. Their Judgment of Christ is much like the Turks, That there is One God, and Jesus is one of his three great Legislator-Prophets, and to be called his Son, because of his miraculous Generation: But that as Incarnate and the Son of Man he hath but a Temporal Kingdom, and that Humanity shall at the end of the Thousand years be put off, and with the Kingdom delivered up to the Father, shall cease; and that God's being All in All implieth this cessation.
Because Mr. Beverley taketh himself not accountable for other mens Errors, and seemeth himself to renounce all such, I will speak to them my self, (and to him on the by,) first, desiring him to have so much charity to such men, as to undeceive them by explaining these few particulars of his.
Because Mr. Beverley taketh himself not accountable for other mens Errours, and seemeth himself to renounce all such, I will speak to them my self, (and to him on the by,) first, desiring him to have so much charity to such men, as to undeceive them by explaining these few particulars of his.
§ 2. 1. To tell them what he meaneth by his distinction of Christ's Nature and Kingdom as Man in our Nature, and his Nature and Kingdom as the Son of Man, which he thinks ends with the Millennium. To tell them what he meaneth by Christ's Humane Nature before the Incarnation. If it be the Natura Mentalis in genere, is it not as much an Angelical Nature as a Humane? And he was not Jesus Christ the Anointed Saviour from Eternity, nor before he was here Incarnate of Mary. If his Body and Humane Soul then received, die or cease, then Jesus Christ dieth or ceaseth, though the Mental Nature Humane or Angelical cease not: Leave us not to the equivocal of a continued [Humane or our Nature] while you distinguish [Christ Man] from [Christ the Son of Man] But tell us whether it be only a Spiritual Mentality, superangelical, or the Soul and Body of a Man at his Incarnation. If it be the Anima Mundi, is it not the Common Nature of all things?