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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

We are not certain whether there was any former World Though to conjecturing Reason it seems improbable that God who delighteth in his Works and will continue a VVorld to Eternity should from all Eternity have nothing but Himself till Six days ago Six Thousand years But this will infer Aristotle's Eternity of the Universe except mutations of alterable compositions that the VVorld is an Eternal Effect of an Eternal Cause and Gassendus his Indefiniteness he meaneth Infiniteness of the VVorld and the old Opinion that God and the VVorld are but One as Soul and Body By which they resolve the Grand difficulties that God is not Pars Entitatis which were to be Imperfect and so no God the Entity of the World and God being more than of either alone if the VVorld have any real Entity 2. It is uncertain how God will people this New Earth Some think as he did this Earth by Adam and Eve Some think by a Creation of many at once Some think by a Transplantation from some other Orb Some think as Dr. H. More that except a few rare Saints or Martyrs all go hence but into an Aerial Vehicle and may thence without loss be made Inhabitants of the New Earth And some think that those that are found alive shall live in the Fire and after and some that they shall be caught up from the Fire and Judg'd and sent hither again 3. It is uncertain whether there shall be any Generation on the New Earth Mr. Beverley saith They shall multiply so as to compensate with a much more for the Jewness of the saved under the first Adam and each shall live the Thousand years But Christ saith that the Children of the Resurrection neither Marry nor are given in Marriage but are like the Angels and die no more The doubt is then whether he call only those in Heaven and not those on the New Earth the Children of the Resurrection 4. It is uncertain whether there shall be any stated visible presence of Christ here or that only he shall appear as in Heaven as the Sun doth by its Light or only sometimes be seen as he was after his Resurrection And so of the Angels 5. It●s uncertain whether the New Earth shall have any End or Change or shall be Everlasting It 's certain that the Thousand years Rev. 20. are before it in this Life but of its Duration God hath said nothing to us 6. It 's uncertain how much of the Old Heaven shall be Burnt Though it's likely it will be only so much as was Cursed for Sin 7. It 's uncertain whether there will be any removal to a higher VVorld and each Person live his Thousand years and then as Henoch and Elias be translated and so on to following Generations or each Person continue here for ever 8. It 's uncertain whether Devils shall be permitted here to be Tempters or all Temptations be cast out § 26. It will be no disparagement to Christ to Rule the Restored Earth as well as Heaven Nor to Saints or Angels to be Governours under him VVere the Sun Intellectual it would be no grief to it to be a Benefactor by its Influence to Earth For it is no dishonour to God Himself to Communicate all to the Creature that it hath There may be here such Subjects as God promised Apostles and Saints that they shall Judge If by Faith in Christ God dwell in us by Love and we in Him and we have in us that Kingdom of Grace we shall have our Part in the future Kingdom though we understand not many difficulties about it For Christ is the Author of Eternal Salvation to all them that obey him Decemb. 10. 1690. A Catalogue of Books Printed for and Sold by Tho. Parkburst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers Chapel CAtholick Theology Folio The Saints Everlasting Rest or a Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in their Enjoyment of God in Glory 4to The English Nonconformity as under King Charles II. and King James II. Truly Stated and Argued 4to The Life of Faith in every State 4to Alderman 〈◊〉 Funeral Sermon 4to A Key for Catholicks to open the Juglings of the Jesuits The first part of answering all their common Sophisms The second against the Soveraignty and necessity of General Councils 4to Naked Popery Answering Mr. Hutchinson 4to Which is the True Church A full Answer to his Reply proving that the General Councils and the Popes Primacy were but in one Empire 4to The History of Bishops and their Councils abridged and of the Popes 4to A full Treatise of Episcopacy shewing what Episcopacy we own and what is in the English Diocesan frame for which we dare not swear never to endeavour any alteration of it in our places 4to A Search for the English Schismatick comparing the Canoneers and Nonconformists 4to An Answer to Mr. Dodwell and Dr. Sherlock consisting an Vniversal-Humane Church Soveraignty Aristocratical and Monarchical as Church-Tyranny and Popery and defending Dr. Iz. Barrows excellent Treatise 4to Catholick Communion defended against both Extremes Moral Prognostications what shall befal the Church till their Concord c. Full and easie satisfaction which is the True Religion Transubstantiation shamed 8vo All 〈◊〉 by Mr. R. Baxter A Hundred Select Sermons on several Texts of Fifty on the Old Testament and Fifty on the New Folio The True Prophecies and Prognostications of Michael Nostrodamus Physician to Henry the Second Francis the Second and Charles the Ninth Kings of France and one of the Best Astronomers that ever were Folio Sixty one Sermons Preached mostly on publick occasions whereof five formerly Printed by Adam Littleton D. D. Rector of Chelsea in Middlesex Folio A Discourse of the Saving Grace of God by the late Reverend and Learned David Clarkson Minister of the Gospel 8vo The Vision of the Wheels seen by the Prophet Ezekiel Opened and Applied Partly at the Merchants Lecture in Broadstreet and partly at Stepney on January 31. 1689 being the Day of Solemn Thanksgiving to God for the great Deliverance of this Kingdom from Popery and Slavery by his then Highness the most Illustrious Prince of Orange Whom God raised up to be the glorious Instrument thereof By Matth. Mead Pastor of a Church of Christ at Stepney 8vo FINIS Gen. 1. 26 27. 9. 6. 1 Cor. 11. 7. Col. 3. 10. Gen. 3. 13 14 15 16. Eccles 7. 29. Hos 13. 9. Exod. 34. 7. Psal 86. 5. Mat. 28. 19. Deut. 29. 29. Joh. 3. 5 6 7. This is written with relation to the Writings of Mr. Sterry Dr. More Mr. ● Turner Mr. Beverley c. which I would not be too peremptory in my opposing Rom. 11. 33. Jo● 5. 9. 40 41. 42. 〈…〉 of the World Exod. 34. 6 7 8. Gen. 3. 15. Prov. 1. 3. 8. Rom. 2. 4 7. Heb. 11. 26. Gen. 9. Gen. 22. 15. 26. 5 24. Rom. 4. 3 9. Gal. 3. 8 24. Heb. 11. 8 17. Jam. 2. 23. Moses the Prophets and Christ Mat. 5. attest all this Mat. 3. 15. 5. 17. Gal. 4. 4 5. Heb. 4. 15. 9. 14. 1 Pet. 1. 19. Phil. 2. 7 8 9 10. Mat. 28. 19. John 17. 3 4. John 5. 22 23 26 27. Luke 19. 34. Jo. 18. 37. Rev. 17. 14. Jo. 1. 49. Col. 1. 13. Mat. 12. 28. 21. 43. Mar. 1. 15. Luke 7. 28. 9. 27. 10. 9. 11. 20. 13. 18 19 c. 17. 20 21. 21. 31. 22. 16 18. Rom. 14. 17 18. Rev. 12. 10. Mat. 10. 7. Mat. 28. 19. Mark 16. 16 17. Mat. 23. 37. Rom. 11. 20 23 24 25 26. Rev. 11. 15. Rev. 11. 17. 19. 6. Acts 1. 25. Mar. 28. 20. John 14. 16 26. 15. 26. 16. 17. Acts 2. 37 38. 21. 20. Rev. 7. Luke 14. Rom. 8. 29. Rom. 8. 17. 1 Thes 2. 5. 2 Thes 1. 6. 11. 2 Tim. 2. 12. 3. 12. Rev. 2. 10. The Roman History is the full proof of this The Revelation and the Roman History compared prove this and expound each other Read Eusibius Eccl. Hist L. 8. Rev. 14 15 16 17 18 19. And the Prophets that proclaim it a great deliverance to the Israelites to have their Mountains again Inhabited and their Cities Built Mr. Potter and many Protestant expositors 〈◊〉 Rev. 20. 21 22. to speak of the Church on Earth Rev. 20. 5 6 7 9. 2 Pet. 3. 7 8 9 10 11. Rom. 8. 19 20 21. Fully proved after Mat. 25. Rev. 14. ●

your Thousand years The very nature of the glory of the Glorified Body of Christ is to live as Branches in him the Vine Our Life is hid with Christ in God And if his Kingdom be given up all our life and security is also given up The same cause must continue that began the Reward of Believers in whom Christ will be admired more than a Thousand years and the punishment of Unbelievers The Kingdom of Glory therefore continueth when the Restoring Kingdom hath done its work § 30. 11. The Devil hath reigned by Gods penal permission over this sinful World as to the far greatest part about 6000 years within 314 And shall Christ reign but one thousand Prove it before you affirm it § 31. 12. How frivolous is your reason from Gods being All in All What do you think those words do mean It 's neither any Addition to God nor any Exclusion of Christ But Gods Governing Mankind as fully recovered according to the Law of his perfect Nature and without any more Medicinal recovering Grace and his filling them with the Grace and Joy of his inhabiting Complacence 1. It cannot mean that God in Essence is nearer the Creature than before For in him we Live and Move and Be. He is All in All now as the God of Nature 2. It cannot mean that God will be more the Cause of Grace or Glory for Christs ceasing to be a Cause For God is no less a Cause when he useth second Causes than if he used none 3. It can no more be an Exclusion of Christ from being a Cause of our heavenly Communion with God than an Exclusion of all second Causes from their Office And if all second Causes be excluded and there be no Cause but God there will be no Being but God and this is but to reduce the World into God or Nothing which you must not feign unproved § 32. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being plural cannot mean that God will End all things and so be Nothing in any thing but Himself All things in All signifieth the Existence of those All things And shall not Christ and his Kingdom then Exist Not in its Paradise or Heavenly State § 33. Can it possibly mean any more than Of Him and Through Him and To Him are All Things And so they are now Rom. 11. 36. Or that he is Above All and through All and in us All And so he is now Eph. 4. 6. And that he worketh All in All And so he doth still 1 Cor. 12. 6. And that he filleth All in All And so he doth still Eph. 1. 23. Even Christ is said to Be All in All Col. 3. 11. And shall he cease to be so He is appointed Heir of All things he upholdeth All things by the Word of his Power For whom are All things and by whom are All things Heb. 1. 1 3. 2. 10. And why must he be deposed By him are all things 1 Cor. 8. 6. God gathereth All things in One in Christ Eph. 1. 10. Who filleth All things Eph. 4. 10. till we come to the Unity of the Faith and of the Knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect Man to the measure of the Stature of the fulness of Christ ver 13. We are growing toward this before the Resurrection And if then we attain it must it endure but a Thousand years The perfection of the Church of Christ is not like that of Fleshly Bodies that when they are at the top of Age go downwards again Nor Apples and Pears that when they are mellow soon rot § 34. Obj. But Christ must then be subject to the Father Ans And was he not always subject to him in his Humanity He tells us oft that he doth not his own will but the will of him that sent him The Father worketh and he worketh He were not the true Christ if as Man he were not subject to God But Paul saith not that Then he begins to be subject to the Father But that he shall still be so When his War is over and he hath done his work as General or Conquering Redeemer he shall be still as Man a Subject to God and Glorified as the Reward of his Redemption and be the Glorified Head and King of his Glorified redeemed Kingdom § 35. I suppose you will say that Christ and his Saints shall not die nor be deposed but have such a Glory in which God shall be All in All. Ans Very good who denyeth that God is or will be All in All But the doubt is whether Christ shall be ever the less Christ or King Or the Church ever the less his Kingdom at the End of a Thousand years I forget not your distinction of Christ as Man and as the Son of Man You confess that Christ shall be Man for ever but not as the Son of Man That is as Dr. More and you and John Turner say He is an Eternal Man or Life and hath say you and Dr. M. an Eternal Body Flesh and Blood from whence you plead for Transubstantiation Ans You could scarce speak to a Man that hath been more tempted to follow you in such intimations as embolden Reason to be too presumptuous and I confess that the insinuated Opinions of Peter Sterry Dr. More and J. Turner and you do strongly flatter emboldened Reason But I take it but for a Temptation while Scripture is against it as well as the judgment of the Universal Church When Paul tells us that Flesh and Blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God I must in Charity suppose that by Flesh and Blood Eternal Dr. More and others mean not properly but Catachristically the Natura Mentalis or the Intellectual Nature which they suppose to be the same in Christ Angels and Men. It is not improbable that the highest of Creatures is in order of Nature a prior effect of the Divine production before the lower Whether this shall be called an Emanation or a Creation you are not agreed Nor whether this prime Created Nature be Vniversal Life and Vniversal Matter and so be the Soul and Body of the World considered as before modal Mutations or whether it be only some nobler sort of Spirit and Matter that is made before the more ignoble and perhaps maketh the rest But it is concluded that Christ is the Life or Spirit and second Person in the Trinity and the Holy Ghost the Matter and so the third Person And that Christ the Soul and the Holy Ghost the Matter are one which some call A Creature and some call God and some both Peter Sterry's is the plainest way that the Divine Nature first produceth and uniteth it self to the Universal Intellectual Nature which is Christ the first Creature including the Holy Ghost And that this first Intellectual Nature uniteth it self at the Incarnation to the Humane Nature And so that Christ hath three Natures 1. Divine 2. Superangelical Created 3. Humane But still it is unresolved whether the prime Created