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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.
As soon as Christ ascended to Heaven, he was possest of the Kingdom of Power, seen in the Mount, and not only at the Millennium.
P. 20. Arg. 6. You fetch your most conclusive Argument from the one single note by which the Spirit of God hath fixed the beginning of this Kingdom, that is, The subduing of Enemies] where your fantasy maketh two degrees. 1. The making of Christ's Enemies his footstool. And 2. Putting them Low under his feet. As if his footstool were not low and under his feet. Can you prove that Scripture meaneth this as two States, and that at 1000 years distance? Yes, you say the second is to bring them to the state of no motion or action: And yet are they haters of God, and have they a self-tormenting Conscience, and when loosed are Gog and Magog; and assault the holy City; and yet have no motion or action? I suppose that in your next you will say you meant well, and not that they were made dead blocks or annihilated; but you should speak as you think, or say that you think as you speak. It will comfort the wicked to hope that they shall have only the punishment of Loss as dead insensible carcasses. You have many passages of this sound.
P. 20. Arg. 6. You fetch your most conclusive Argument from the one single note by which the Spirit of God hath fixed the beginning of this Kingdom, that is, The subduing of Enemies] where your fantasie maketh two degrees. 1. The making of Christ's Enemies his footstool. And 2. Putting them Low under his feet. As if his footstool were not low and under his feet. Can you prove that Scripture meaneth this as two States, and that at 1000 years distance? Yes, you say the second is to bring them to the state of no motion or action: And yet are they haters of God, and have they a self-tormenting Conscience, and when loosed are Gog and Magog; and assault the holy City; and yet have no motion or action? I suppose that in your next you will say you meant well, and not that they were made dead blocks or annihilated; but you should speak as you think, or say that you think as you speak. It will comfort the wicked to hope that they shall have only the punishment of Loss as dead insensible carkasses. You have many passages of this sound.