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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

when he cometh with his Angels and the Trumpet soundeth But those found alive on Earth cannot be excluded from the number of the Elect that are at or under the four Winds Therefore they shall then be gathered to him § 11. X. The living shall be caught up when Death the last Enemy is subdued But that will be at Christs Triumphant Coming and the Resurrection For after that there will be no more death as an Enemy If you would deny this as aforesaid because in the New Earth the Blessed are Mortal in possibility of Nature I answer that Paradise possibility were it true is none of the Curse for Sin and therefore not the Enemy to be subdued § 12. XI The Saints shall be caught up when the day and work of Judgment Cometh But that will be at Christs Coming and the Resurrection As he himself and many a plain Text of Scripture tell us too much to cite And whereas you feign a Judgment day of a Thousand years taking Judgment for Government Christ otherwise expoundeth himself and tells how the Judgment will proceed by Exploration and Sentence Mat. 25. c. And Government in general containeth Legislation Judgment and Execution You tell us not a word what Legislation will be in the Air the Thousand years And for Judgment in special will Christ be a Thousand years in Exploration and Sentence Will the wicked so long be untryed and uncondemned or the Faithful so long unjustified or by Sentence judged to Salvation Doth not Christ Mat. 25. contradict this VViil their case be so long undecided If you mean that Execution will be that Thousand years can you prove that the Damned shall suffer no longer Nor the Blessed any longer reign with Christ O make not a New Gospel Heaven and Hell § 13. XII The Saints will be taken up when the Kingdom is delivered up to the Father and God is All In All But that will be at Christ Triumphant Coming and Judgment at the Resurrection For it signifieth no more but that Sin and Curse shall all be cast out and all that rebelled against God be Conquered and all Christs Recovering work performed and God again Rule Man as Innocent according to the Law of his perfect Nature This will be then finished You say that those on Earth shall be in a Paradise State and those in the Air will not be worse And then Christs Coming in Triumph delivereth up the Kingdom to the Father that his and Christs Kingdom of Glory and Fruition may succeed § 14. XIII When Paul was opening to them the Mystery of Christs Kingdom if he had talkt thus of being caught up in a moment of time at the last Trump to meet the Lord and never told them a word of a Thousand years between the Trumpet and being caught up it must be because he knew it not or was not willing that we should know it But neither of these could be true in a matter of so great moment when it was that Coming of Christ that he was satisfying them about And I will learn from you nothing that Paul knew not § 15. XIV I have proved before how copiously Christ openeth the nature of his own Kingdom in many Parables and how he maketh his Enemies his Footstool Conquering Satan Sin and Enemies and how the Revelation openeth his Conquest of the Roman Empire And he shall destroy the Man of Sin with the Breath of his Mouth and the Brightness of his Coming Therefore he hath not left this to be done the Thousand years after his Coming § 16. XV. Peter tells us that the day of the Lord will come as a Thief in the night in which the Heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the Elements melt with fervent heat But a Thousand years is not such a sudden surprize Nor will Heaven and Earth be a Thousand years burning § 17. XVI The Earth and the Works therein shall be burnt up and all these things be dissolved 2 Pet. 3. 10 11 12. Therefore the Bodies of those then alive would be burnt and dissolved were they not first taken up To say as you do that God would keep them in the Fire unburnt as he did the three Dan. 3. is to make and obtrude on us a Gospel of your own § 18. XVII You think Gog and Magog shall live after the Conflagration who shall cover the Earth And shall all their Bodies too be unburnt in the Fire that dissolveth all these things on Earth Is this any Word of God § 19. XVIII You that think Men live each one the whole Thousand years and generate so abundantly as to recompense with a much more for the few that were saved under the first Adam can by no reasonable imagination find room on Earth for the numberless Off-spring of a Thousand years to dwell all at once here And the numberless followers of Gog and Magog also to dwell with them They must not be so unrighteous as to dispossess the wicked of their dwellings And for one year after all is burnt up they may be in want § 20. XIX It is incredible that your description of Earth for the Thousand years can leave Gog and Magog in their Hostility unconvinced For to see Men live a Thousand years in the sight of Christ and all the Saints in the Air one would think should convince them Or if Men are changed before at the common Age of Men to see so many Millions caught up to Heaven without Death or Burial sure would make them afraid of fighting against such § 21. XX. There is not one word of God that confineth Christs Kingdom to a Thousand years and what are you that you should presume to do it It hath continued much above a Thousand years already If you alledge 2 Pet. 3. One day with the Lord is as a Thousand years and a Thousand as one day which speaketh only against doubting because of the delay of Christs Coming as if this told us how long he should reign when he is Come this would but confirm us that your Doctrine is meerly of your self The Thousand years in Rev. 20. is the same with that of the Womans being in the Wilderness and the Dragons being bound which is plainly on this side the Conflagration And indeed is presently after the fall of Pagan Rome For that Pagan Rome was not Babylon or that it is not faln I will not believe though you should swear it or cast the Glove in Challenge to dispute it § 22. XXI Gog and Magog and all their Hosts are to be in the end of the Thousand years But they are to be before the Conflagration and Coming of Christ Therefore the Conflagration and Coming of Christ is to be after the Thousand years In the New Earth will dwell Righteousness that is only Righteousness and in a Paradise state But that is inconsistent with a numberless power of malignant Enemies that shall compass the Holy City § 23. XXII You make a strange

are like the Angels And you say on Earth they shall be getting Children abundantly a Thousand years if you take that for no note of imperfection it seems Christ did Principle V. Answered § 1. What could you have said more strongly against your self Death is subdued or swallowed up in Victory when the Redeemed die no more None of them die after Christs first day of Judgment at his appearing Are they dying all the Thousand years I cannot imagine what reasonable answer you can give to this Text and Argument If you say that there are Devils and wicked Men to be put to death all the Thousand years can you prove that they were the Redeemed that Christ came to deliver from death or yet that some of them are damned in the beginning and some not till the end of the Thousand years Or if their death shall endure no longer than the Thousand years If you say that the Saints on Earth have Natures Mortal though they shall not die I answer you have written that they are in the Kingdom of Glory and equal in Love and Grace and perfect as those above And if death be not subdued when Men are secured from it by Christ and the possession of promised Immortality it s a doubt whether it be overcome at all For none are above a posse mori but God because the Being of all Creatures dependeth meerly on his will The suspension of his support would end all Created Being In which sense it is that Arnobius cont Gentes asserteth the Souls Mortality If Christ must be the Conqueror of Death when will he Conquer if not when Men die no more Is it after he hath given up his Power and Kingdom Principle VI. Answered § 1. This is but your further owning your own full Confutation Principle VII Answered § 1. This poor shift is answered above Do you not say Those alive are in the same Glorious Kingdom and that none are perfect till all are perfect And have those in the Air any more assurance that they shall not die than Gods Love and Will and Promise and their Union in Christ 2. But why is not at least the Heavenly or Airy Kingdom given up at first 3. Was not death Conquered to the Person of Christ after his Resurrection though he was at his Ascension to be taken up And is not death Conquered to those on Earth that have the foresaid security to ascend and never to die This shifting is meer violence to the Text. 4. But I will prove that the Apostle tells us that the Catching up will be presently And your words of Christ first and then those that sleep in him have no more strength than this Inference If Paul telling us of the difference in Order of time between Christs Resurrection and the End of the World be signified by that word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 after then we may suppose that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth no sudden change of the living at the Coming of Christ Ans I deny the Consequence The matter of fact tells us of a sixteen hundred years distance in one and the Text proveth a suddenness in the other The distance between Christs Rising and his Coming to Judgment are so notoriously revealed that Paul need not say It will not be the same moment But here if you believe not your self instead of Gods Word the contrary is so plain as confuteth all your devised frame § 2. I. Supposing that I need not confute to you the two false readings reproved by Jerom Augustine c. 1 Cor. 15. 51. saith We shall all be changed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what could be spoken plainer At the Change joyned with the Resurrection it will be in a moment in the twinkling of an Eye and which is unanswerable at the last Trumpet That the said Trumpets sound is at Christs Coming is evident Matth. 24. 30 31. They shall see the Son of Man Coming in the Clouds of Heaven with Power and great Glory And he shall send his Angels with a great sound of a Trumpet and they shall gather together his Elect from the four winds from one end of Heaven to the other And 1 Thes 4. 16. The Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and with the Trump of God c. If you will feign two Trumps one at the beginning and the other at the end of the Thousand years you will do it by so gross an addition and contradiction of Gods Word as that I hope few will believe you Nor yet if you feign that the Trumpet will not sound till the end of the Thousand years For the Trumpet soundeth at the same time that Christ Cometh with his Angels and that the dead are raised and the Elect gathered At this sound will be the change in a moment § 3. II. The Text saith expresly that we shall be caught up together with them And that none may feign it to speak but of a simultas of Company and not of Time the words are placed so as to confute it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we shall with them be caught up Not a Thousand years after them § 4. III. The Verb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rapiemur suddenly caught up as by force seemeth purposely put to signifie the simultaneous speed § 5. IV. The end of this Rapture is not at a Thousand years end to go dwell in the Air or with the Lord but to meet the Lord in the Air which is supposed to be at his Coming 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The whole context 1 Thes 4. and 1 Cor. 15. implyeth this meeting him to be at his Coming § 6. V. It is said to be to meet him in the Air. But no Bible but yours doth say that Christ shall dwell a Thousand years in the Air. And you your self say that at the end of the Thousand years he shall give up his Airy Humane Kingdom And when he hath removed his dwelling the Inhabitants of the Earthly Paradise will come too late § 7. VI. It is said that when we meet him we shall for ever be with the Lord That is The same Lord that we meet which is Christ God and Man and in the State and Kingdom where we meet him and not only come to him at a Thousand years end when he hath changed his Humanity Kingdom and Place § 8. VII Ver. 15. The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we are left as reserved to the Coming of the Lord plainly imply that we are kept for that time to meet him at his Coming and not only a Thousand years after § 9. VIII 1 Cor. 15. 52. Again expresly joineth the sound of the Trumpet the Resurrection and our Change together For the Trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed that is when the Trumpet soundeth and the dead are raised § 10. IX Matth 24. Christ tells us that He will gather his Elect from the four Winds