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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.
Essential to what? Is the Humane Nature, and a World of Creatures essential to God? It is essential to it self; that is, it is what it is. But can you prove that the Humane Nature was, or shall ever be united to the Deity, without its Relation of Mediator? It is Christ's will, that those given him be with him, and see his Glory: And that sight is of the Mediator of Fruition; and did he limit that sight to a Thousand years?
To your 2d. 1. You have not proved that the Apostles yet sit not on Thrones of Judgment: They are equal with Angels.
2. If yet they do not, may it not be at Judgment, and in the Kingdom of Glory?
3. The Title of [His Kingdom, and eating and drinking] are as fully answered without the middle Kingdom as with it; unless you can prove that those Apostles with Christ, shall dwell, and eat ⟨p. 10⟩and drink a Thousand years on Earth, in their spiritual bodies, or have a middle sort of bodies for that middle Kingdom; and had they not better before, and must they lay those by for worse?