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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
To pag. 7, 8. The Kingdom of Grace, which you confess in not another, but the same that extendeth to the endless Kingdom of Glory, by degrees destroying Sin and Curse, and putting down Enemies, and by the Triumphant appearing of Christ at the Resurrection finishing the Reign of Deliverance, Conquest and Acquisition, and entering on the Reign of his Reward and glorious Fruition: There being in Scripture no mention that I can find of any Thousand years between these two.
To pag. 7, 8. The Kingdom of Grace, which you confess in not another, but the same that extendeth to the endless Kingdom of Glory, by degrees destroying Sin and Curse, and putting down Enemies, and by the Triumphant appearing of Christ at the Resurrection finishing the Reign of Deliverance, Conquest and Acquisition, and entring on the Reign of his Reward and glorious Fruition: There being in Scripture no mention that I can find of any Thousand years between these two.
I come to your four professed Differences.
I. That there is, besides all the Kingly State of Christ wherein we are agreed, a distinct Kingdom of Jesus Christ as the great Son of Man, to the highest Noon tide Glory of which God hath assigned a Thousand years: And when it hath utterly subdued all Enemies, it is to be delivered up to God, and the Father, and the Son, to be subject in that very sense.