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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.
Answ. Is the Question de Nomine, or de Re? If de Nomine only, take your liberty to call it One, or Two, or Three: If de Re, are not these real differences? 1. Between the Genus or Species Superior, and the Species Inferior or Specialissima: For in ⟨p. 19⟩each sense is the word [the Kingdom of God, Christ's Heaven] oft taken in Scripture.
2. Between the Governing of men as an Army, a School, a Hospital, the Governing them as mere Subjects (healed, taught, subdued.) 1. The state of the Subjects is not the same 2. The Relation of the Ruler is not the same (a Captain, a Physician, and a Viceroy.) 3. The finis Relationis is not the same. 4. All the persons are not the same (for Conquest destroyeth some Rebels.) 5. The Laws are not the same. 6. The Execution is not the same.
2. Between the Governing of men as an Army, a School, a Hospital, the Governing them as meer Subjects (healed, taught, subdued.) 1. The state of the Subjects is not the same 2. The Relation of the Ruler is not the same (a Captain, a Physician, and a Viceroy.) 3. The finis Relationis is not the same. 4. All the persons are not the same (for Conquest destroyeth some Rebels.) 5. The Laws are not the same. 6. The Execution is not the same.
What is it then that you would have? Is it that Christ as a Creature shall cease? Or that he shall have no power under the Deity? Who shall have it then? Doth not Scripture set him above Angels? Are they not his Ministers? What Creature shall be over Christ? To say, There shall be no Kingdom, is to say, There shall be no God. To say, There shall be no Government under God as second Causes, is to say, There shall be no World.