A reply to Mr. Tho. Beverley's answer to my reasons against his doctrine of…

III. If we shall have the same Humane Nature [in specie spiritualized and glorified after the Thousand years that we had before, so shall Christ; for he will make our Vile Bodies like to his Glorious Body. But many Promises assure us of such a continuance: Else we shall be no Men, but Nothing, or some thing of another species. And Christ calleth us Brethren and Coheirs.

IV. If Christ will be the Head of the Glorified Church after the Thousand years, then certainly there will be a Unity of Humane Nature, and an everlasting Communion both as with a Cause Efficient, Objective and Final. And it cannot be true which you say (and the Infidels will take hold of) that Christ as Man in our Nature will not be an Object (even of Fruition. For we shall still be Individual Members of a Political Body: And shall we have a Head, and King, and not Know ⟨p. 17⟩him, and not Love him, and not Praise or Honour him? Shall the Saints praises of the Lamb, that Redeemed them, cease then for ever? Shall we all then cease to be Kings and Priests, and to sit with him on his Throne, and to sing the song of the Lamb, and to see him as he is, and face to face, and to behold his Glory given him as Man? Is he in all this no Object? And how oft doth Scripture make him the Final Object under the finis ultimatè ultimus, as he is to be glorified? Shall an Intelligent Head and Members live together, and neither know, nor love, nor rejoice in each other?

V. Shall the whole Heavenly City, Society and Chore, be dissolved for ever? If so, do not the Mahometans hope for a better felicity than such, who think Mahomet will for longer time than a Thousand years give them their desires, and that his Kingdom shall not end by being spewed out finally in everlasting disgrace?