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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.
Is this Elucidation, or an informing way of an Instructor?
But you say, The Rain-bow is a symbol of it. This is obscure Information, I like not your name of [it's Glory distinct and distant from the Sun.] The Glory of Christ's Humanity is distinct, but not distant from the Deity; and it is as near before and after, and as glorious as you can justly imagine it to be in the Thousand years.
Pag. 12. A Kingdom confined to a Thousand years you affirm indeed, but without a word of proof. 2. You add seventy five years and some time after the Thousand, I would you had deigned to tell us what you mean by its [Succession] and what by its [Investiture] whether the Succession be before or after the Conflagration, and any part of the Kingdom: Or if only a preparation what that Church-state of preparation is?
Pag. 13. Gog and Magog you say, [Are Satan and all the wicked, that had been Raised to lie at the footstool of Christ from ⟨p. 6⟩the very beginning of the Thousand years] being loosed, Take to make a bold attempt on the holy City to draw it to defection.] Is this Christ's Gospel or yours?