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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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But if the Body and City continue, so will the Head and King. And will Christ's Incarnate Humanity spiritualized be for ever useless? Will he live for nothing? Heaven and Angels will not be useless: God shall shine in them, and we shall see that light. Shall it be our joy to sit with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and to enter into the Joy of our Lord, and this all cease, and the Deity only be an Object after a Thousand years? O short everlastingness!
VI. Open your Eyes, and see your Contradiction, that think Christ's Kingdom (as the Son of Man) shall for ever cease, and yet that Christ shall be subject to the Father. Shall he be subject as God, or as Man? Not as God, for God is not subject to himself: If as the Son of Man, then that Manhood continueth in being: And doubtless in a Glorious Objective and Effective Being.
VII. But speaking to men inclined to believe that Christ shall be no Christ after the Thousand years, I will deal with them according to their Principles; and argue from Natural Order, and from Economical or Instituted.
VII. But speaking to men inclined to believe that Christ shall be no Christ after the Thousand years, I will deal with them according to their Principles; and argue from Natural Order, and from Oeconomical or Instituted.