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A27007 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. Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. 1691 (1691) Wing B1371; ESTC R39871 18,652 24

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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 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 Arg. 4. You know we deny not that Christ's Throne is distinguished from his Fathers You cite the Text Rev. 3. 21. He overcame and is set down and expounded it He knew he should sit but was not yet set down not indeed in the Throne of Triumph and of Glory till he overcame You say It cannot be a Throne he hath yet what when it is said He is set down on it But Saints must sit with him you say And may not he sit down before them Must he stay till every Saint be with him You say again It cannot be the Throne of Eternity because the Son is subject and hath not a distinct Throne c. Ans If you mean by the Throne of Eternity a Kingdom from Eternity There could be no such thing unless there were Eternal Subjects If you mean only To Eternity the Son will have a distinct but not a separate Throne tho' not distinct Subjects For he shall subordinately have all power in Heaven and Earth P. 18. Arg. 5. Mat. 20. 20. You say This is not the Kingdom of the Eternal Word Ans Then it can be no Kingdom of Christ You say There is no sitting on the right hand or left Ans Nor no Subjects from Eternity unless the VVorld be eternal But to Eternity there is You say He that sits on the left hand must sit next the Father Ans This is your way of arguing by Allegories You are not an Anthropomorphite You know that by God's right hand is but to be next him in Power subordinate And may not others be next to Christ Arg. 6. You say is from innumerable Scriptures Mat. 19. 27. is before spoken to who doubteth but the Throne of his Glory was future Mat. 25. 31. confuteth you You say It 's not to be till all be gathered before hi● to Judgment Ans Therefore not a Thousand years before those alive be gathered before him to Judgment Christ speaketh of coming to Judge all not some to everlasting life or punishment but nothing of a Thousand years Pag. 19. 2 Tim. 4. 1. VVe doubt not of his Judgment or Kingdom But what word is here for a middle Kingdom Luke 19. 11. Christ went to receive a Kingdom and did he receive none till his return at the Resurrection what can be plainer against you He ascended to be presently possest of a greater Possession of Power All Power in Heaven and Earth was given him before his Return You say This is not the State of the Kingdom where God shall be All in All. Ans These are but your own words often answered and confuted From Mat. 16. 26 27. One would think that it should be a good Argument that Christ shall have one Kingdom that was first obscured by flesh's weakness after come in visible Power to Judgment and pass into Glory because some then alive should see the pledge and appearance of it But you hence gather that because men shall see the appearance of his heavenly Glorious Reign therefore he shall have none of that Reign in the Kingdom of Grace or Endless Glory but in a third and middle Kingdom such Collections expound your self more than the Text. 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 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 Pag. 21. You grosly pervert Psal 110. 1. God saith not Sit thou without Reigning at my right hand till I all at once or at the last make thine Enemies thy footstool He saith not Sit without Reigning and Reign only at thy last coming But sit next me in Ruling dignity while I am making thine Enemies thy footstool which at last shall be perfected What word saith as you I intend thee a Great and distinct Kingdom of one days length the date of its beginning shall not be at thy Ascension c Did not God make the Pagan Empire his footstool and subdue Sin and Satan till the day of Judgment It is enough that all will be then finished and the Kingdom of Glory begun He sits and doth not Reign is your fiction against full Scripture Heb. 2. 5. We see them not put under him can mean but We see not that subjection perfected But we do see them put under him in a great degree The Lord reigneth Let the people rejoice The Kingdoms of the World are made the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ before the day of Judgment If we see not all things put under him do we see nothing so put When Judgment puts all things under him what need a Thousand years do it The pag. 22d is but the repetition of what is oft answered P. 23. It 's a great disparagement to your Cause to lay your chief stress on this Text As if it were not fulfilled by Christ many 100 or 1000 years treading down Sin Satan and Empire of Enemies and triumphing over them at his Glorious appearing and Reigning for ever for that Conquest in Glory unless he be a Thousand years more between in Coquering them As to 2 Pet. 3. 7. I askt you before whether you feel no reluctancy in so gross an abuse of that Text that speaketh of 1000 delay being before Christ's coming as if it spake of 1000 years after Pardon the Question The Cause requireth it P. 34. You have but one Text in all the Bible that speaks of 1000 years to give you the least shew of Countenance and that in Prophetick