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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26934	The glorious kingdom of Christ, described and clearly vindicated against the bold asserters of a future calling and reign of the Jews, and 1000 years before the conflagration and the asserters of the 1000 years kingdom after the conflagration : opening the promise of the new heaven and earth and the everlastingness of Christ's kingdom against their debasing it, who confine it to 1000 years ... : answering Mr. Tho. Beverley ... in his twelve principles and catechisms, &c. / by Richard Baxter ...	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1691 (1691)	Wing B1277; ESTC R5007	59,573	95

long Christ will be Judging us And some That it is only the Beginning and the End of the Thousand years that the Judgment will take up and the rest will be in other Government Some think that Execution on Men and Devils will be but that Thousand years which some decry Some think that the first Resurrection is from an Aereal Vehicle or Body into an Ethereal and others that it is from earthly dust to a heavenly body by transmutation of Elements And others that it is to be a Paradise body like Adams before he sinned Other differences seem almost reconciled to some by the bare name of a Thousand years Reign XXVI It is a far more glorious Christian Monarchy which Christ by Constantine set up than most of the Millenaries give any probability of 1. It was a Deliverance from the cruellest Persecution 2. And from the Dragons most potent Empire 3. A Deliverance of all Christians as well as of Jews 4. Without confinement to the narrow Land of Israel 5. A setting up of a National-Provincial Church in Judea 6. With the great Charges of promoting it by New Churches Monasteries Bibles Bishops What could he do more The knowledge of what hath been done long ago would have prevented many mens expectation of the same XXVII If it prove that their Millennial Doctrine and the Calling of the Jews prove a meer mistake it will not be so small as should suspend our detection of it Because it is an adding to Gods Word and fathering on him many untruths and so a taking of his name in vain and a corrupting of his Worship while we preach write and pray for that which we ought not further than we must pray for the Conversion of all sorts of men and a turning of mens Zeal to promote untruths and corrupt mens minds XXVIII We find it so easie to possess men with a fervent Zeal for the Millenary Opinion and so hard to make them zealous in holy Love to God and Man and in a heavenly conversation as may make us suspicious that both sorts of Zeal have not the same original I am not willing to name some tremendous Instances of men nearly known to me hereabout XXIX Our worthy Brother that hath more Learnedly opened that Cause than any else that ever I read by moderation hath brought the difference into so narrow a compass in his Diatriba de signo filii hominis that except 1. The Calling of the Jews 2. And the Extending of the Day of Judgment to a Thousand years and that the general Resurrection and Judgment of the wicked shall begin after the Thousand years are expired there remaineth to great and weighty disagreement of such with the Judgment of the Churches XXX Seeing we ascribe to Christs Kingdom so much more than they that we oppose why should they be thought to extol his Kingdom more than we 1. Is not Eternity longer than a Thousand years 2. And Heaven a more glorious state than the Air 3. And a New Earth inhabited only by the righteous better than one that is Laodicean or that hath such Enemies of Saints as Gog and Magog 4. And this New Earth either everlasting or of undetermined time better than one but of a Thousand years duration which is but with the Lord as One day and about a sixth part as durable as this corrupted World that is under sin and curse Is this Doctrine or the other more honourable to Christ and more comfortable to Believers and more evident in the Word of God Chap. II. An unwilling Answer to Mr. Tho. Beverleys Twelve Principles and his Catechism of the Millennium necessitated by his many provocations of many Ministers and me by name and his Challenge of all the Doctors and Pastors of the Church and his Censure of the Denyers of that Millenary Reign as SEMISADDUCES OF THE APOSTASIE § 1. Reverend and truly beloved Brother I Take it for no wonder that great and many disagreements in matters of Religion are among us while in Professions of less Mystery Law Policy Physicks Medicine c. there are so many that so many men so many minds hath so long been a Proverb And in such tolerable cases as much endanger not Church and Souls few men are more for mutual forbearance and charitable construction than I am Therefore the Millennial Opinion I have never been a censorious opposer of while men kept up Peace and Charity with it But the case lately is altered and is made a matter of necessary Zeal as part of the Creed and the Lords Prayer if not essential to the Gospel and Christianity And very many of the Antinomian and Separating Opinion that least understand it lay much of their Religion on it And the just honour of many Conformists of the most peaceable Principles otherwise promoteth it such as Mr. Jos Mede Dr. H. More Dr. Cressoner your self Mr. M. Author of the Midnight Cry Mr. R. M. the Publisher most pious men both and many others And we must not now be suffered to be silent but must answer your provocations or be grosly guilty of the evil that will follow your success § 2. The Millenary Opinion was indeed early received by some followers of Papias But the universal opposition of the Christian Church that hath exploded it ever since tells us that it was a singular Opinion And is he a humble man that now calleth the Christian Church for sixteen hundred years and all those Learned and Holy Divines of England and other Reformed Churches that differ from your conceit by the name of SEMI-SADDVCES OF THE APOSTASIE Bear with my freedom Is it humility that so loudly challengeth all the Pastors and Doctors of the Churches to answer you Have you answered all them or so much as one Cluverus alone or James Calvert whom you promised me to answer Was it humility that cast a Glove for an Answer to two or three trifling Fallacies about the Pagan Babylon when I had given you an Answer to them long before and you modestly sent it back without a Confutation I have had long by me as a Learner some humble Queries to you and no Bookseller will Print them because they say men look on you as diseased with prophesying Self conceit and will not read a Confutation Your Leader Dr. More saith That the Papists not answering my Books against them is because they despise them as unworthy of an answer May not your case be much the same Men have greater matters to mind than to trouble themselves with you and me or answering our Challenges § 3. But I come to your Chain of Principles And 1. It 's a half and fallacious description of Christs Kingdom to say it is his As the Son of Man There be millions of Sons of Men that have no such Kingdom It is his Kingdom as God-man the Redeemer and Recovering Mediator This Kingdom is to him as the Eternal Word and the Son of Man in one person of a Redeemer And because you