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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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then keep his Paradise Saints Qu. 12. Or if the New Earth fall away did not the holy City consist most of Hypocrites and is that the Glory of it We are now in surer keeping than Adam and the faln Angels were None shall take us out of Christ's hands Qu. 13. Doth not this leave us to fear that those in the New Heaven also may fall away as the Angels did Qu. 14. For will there not after the Seventy five years preparation be as good people found on Earth as those that died before Why then think you that those alive shall be set so far below the rest as to have but an earthly generating life when the rest are in Heaven And Christ saith The last shall be first and the first last Qu. 15. Why say you that the Laodicean Apostasie is no greater a wonder than Adams and the Angels Is the New World in no better a state Then the New Jerusalem may become Devils Qu. 16. You say Christ being to put an end to a Church-state on Earth may suffer so just an occasion for spewing out of his mouth But do you honour or dishonour the Glorious Kingdom to feign it to have such an end That lasting but one day a Thousand years it should end in being spewed out for ever Qu. 17. What Word of God have you for your Opinion that there shall never more be an Earth or a Church on Earth And that God who is delighted in his wondrous works will have none of these Worlds from eternity to eternity but only for seven days seven Thousand years Qu. 18. Peter tells us of the burning of the Earth but not of the ending of it How come you to know so much more than he ever intimated or seemed to know Qu. 19. To say that Heaven and Earth have so unhappy an end doth it not tempt men to Manicheising to think that an ill God made this world Qu. 20. Did not something within you reluctate when you cited 2 Pet. 3. for the Thousand years duration of the Kingdom As if you argued Peter tells the unbelievers Delay of Christ's coming should not make you think that he will not come For a Thousand years delay is with God but as a year Ergo his Kingdom will be but a Thousand years Is this to expound Prophecy Qu. 21. Is it more faulty in a Plato Zeno or other Pagans to conjecture at Transmigrations of Souls revolutions of Worlds or with Aristotle to think the World was an eternal Effect of an eternal Cause Or for a Christian to say Thus saith the Lord and pawn God's Word for his erroneous conjectures Your Arguments are too long and loose for any Mood and Figure or Reason Arg. I. King of Kings is a Title fit for a great Kingdom c. What then Ergo it proveth a Middle Kingdom between that of Recovering Grace and Resurrection Glory I deny the consequence no Kingdom is fitter for those Titles than that of Grace and final Glory This is not proving It 's false that Christ hath not yet been an Universal Monarch Pag. 15. Your 2d Argument as the rest is but a repeating of your own formally confuted Opinions without any reply to the Confutation as if you had nothing to do but assert again what you think 1 Cor. 15. 24. Is your proof Then cometh the end And is the Thousand years the end and not the Glorious Kingdom of fruition Judgment will end by Triumph the Kingdom of Acquisition But the eternal Kingdom will be the last 2. Your denial of a Distinct Glory of Christ's Humanity before and after the Thousand years is certainly untrue If the Divine and Humane Nature be distinct the Glory of each must needs be distinct tho' not divided VVhy obtrude you gross things unproved 3. Your intimation that God doth then begin to be All in All and Christ to be Subject in some special sense hath no proof from the Text nor if proved is it any thing for your purpose 1. The Text speaks of no such beginning But that though Christ hath done his Conquering work yet still God shall be All in All things as he was 2. Yet we grant that it speaks of Christ's ending his Kingdom of Conquest and Acquisition and the Deity now Governing Man as restored not needing any more recovery I oft tell you as the King's Son made General to reduce Rebels giveth up his Generalship when he hath reduced them but hath after the promised honour and reward but as a Subject still not a Captain Pag. 16. You say that our Exposition chargeth on the Apostle Impropriety of speech but you do but say so and we deny it Is it not proper speech to say that a General giveth up his Office and yet remaineth an honoured rewarded Subject Ruler Indeed had it been as you feign it said to become subject it would have seemed to signifie that he then began to be subject But that 's your addition yet you before confest that he was subject before 2. I told you Distinguishing is not Separating And I told you wherein the difference consisteth which you confute not 3. To your 2d Reason I find no such Scripture as you talk of that mentioneth any middle Kingdom but a Triumphant Judgment perfecting the Kingdom of Grace and beginning that of Endless Glory The admirable agreement which you mention seemeth to me to be but an agreement of your conceit Your 3d Argument from Luk. 22. 29 30. saith nothing of a third Kingdom All that is there said seemeth to me fulfilled without a third Pag. 17. Is not that you plead for of the Humane Nature as united to the Eternal Word How can it else be any Kingdom of Christ But both that of Grace and Glory are such but not without the Relation of Mediatorship By Constituted I suppose you mean not essential to the nature or person without respect to the Office as the product of God's VVill And such is the Everlasting Kingdom It is the Reign of the Man Jesus united to the Godhead as Mediator of Acquisition first and then of Fruition and this over creatures I fear it is dangerously untrue therefore that you say That the Kingdom of the Humane Nature is united to the Eternal Word and communicating with it is an Essential and not a Constitutive Kingdom 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