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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

he begins to reign His Kingdom and the Resurrection of his Saints begin together § 10. I confess this Doctrine well agreeth with Doctor More 's Life of Tryal in the Air and Mr. Mede's Conclusion that our Salvation is not ascertained to us till the Resurrection Indeed it maketh all our Preaching and Religion in this life of little moment in comparison of that which is after both Death and Resurrection For if Christ Reign not till then he maketh no Laws till then He bindeth us to no obedience to him till then He punisheth no sin till then He setteth up no Magistrates till then to be Governing Officers in his Kingdom He executeth no Discipline in the Churches as King O how have Independents and Presbyterians been deceived then who have lamented the neglect or suppression of Christs Kingly Government in the Church It is then under his Thousand years Government that men must obey to secure their Salvation § 11. But the contrary is fully evident by the Effects 1. What new Laws he will make in the Air you must prove But we can prove that he made Laws for Government on Earth 2. Else the World hath had no King or Government of God 3. Nor no authorized Prince or Pastor 4. All Saints can say that he giveth Rewards on Earth to Believers 5. And he is the Protector of his Church 6. He here is known by the Judgments which he executeth and maketh his Enemies his footstool though their final Fall be at the last Did he not in that Kingly glory described by John execute all those Plagues on Pagan Rome and its Beast which are gradually described in the Seals the Trumpets and the Vials till it fell If you say that all this is meant of Papal Rome sure I am it was done first on Pagan Rome And you that tell us how shortly Turk and Pope shall fall sure take it to be before the Resurrection And doth not Christ then make his Enemies his footstool by his Kingly Power 12. What it is for Christ to subdue his Enemies must be known by his Office and Undertaking which is to overcome Satan and to save his People from their sins And did he not conquer Satan as a Tempter and triumph even on the Cross And doth he not conquer the Dominion of sin in all his Members Is he not mortifying them in us day by day And is not this treading down his Enemies And is he not taking off the Curse the fruit of sin These are Christs Enemies because they are ours even the diseases which he came to cure § 13. Is it not unreconcileable self-contradiction for you to extol the Doctrine of Dr. Crisp who saith That we are so fully saved by Christ even before Conversion that we have no sin it being none of ours but his nor can any sin hurt us much less other mens nor any penalty befal us nor any place left for any duty to do us the least good and yet that Christ our Saviour subdueth not his Enemies before the Resurrection Yea your self assert that we are Righteous by Gods Essential Righteousness and that as our only Justification and Holiness And yet doth not Christ tread down his Enemies Hath he trod down in you no Pride no Lust no Errour no Injustice Doth he not tread down greater Enemies than Turkish Swords or Papal Inquisitions in every Soul that he converteth When we fight not against flesh and blood but against Principalities and Powers and spiritual wickedness in high places And when we are but killed and counted as Sheep to the slaughter in all this we are more than Conquerours and need not fear them that kill the body § 14. Rev. 5. 12 13. The numberless Host of Heaven cry Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing and is not that a Kingdom and is it not till the Resurrection And every creature which is in Heaven and on the Earth and under the Earth and such as are in the Sea and all that are in them heard I saying Blessing and honour and glory and power be to him that sitteth on the Throne and to the Lamb for ever and ever This is before the Resurrection § 15. Rev. 12. 7. If Michael be not Christ he is Christs Servant And there was War in Heaven and Michael and his Angels fought against the Dragon and the Dragon fought and his Angels and prevailed not neither was there place found any more in Heaven And the great Dragon was cast out that old Serpent called the Devil and Satan who deceiveth the whole World He was cast out into the Earth and his Angels were cast out with him And I heard a voice saying in Heaven Now is come salvation and strength and the Kingdom of our God and the Power of his Christ for the accuser of our Brethren is cast down who accused them before our God day and night And they overcame him by the Blood of the Lamb and by the Word of their Testimony and they loved not their lives unto the Death Therefore rejoice ye Heavens and ye that dwell in them Woe to the Inhabitants of the Earth and of the Sea For the Devil is come down to you having great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short time He may make his own Faith that will affirm that this describeth no Kingdom of Christ or no Conquest of his Enemies or that all this is after the Resurrection or yet to come and none of it yet fulfilled § 16. Rev. 14. 7 8. Fear God and give Glory to him for the hour of his Judgment is come Babylon is faln is faln This is a Judgment and a treading down Enemies before the final Judgment And so is the Reaping and the Wine-press mentioned ver 13. to the end § 17. Were all the seven Vials poured out after the Resurrection c. 16. Or were there no treading down of the Enemies of King Jesus Ch. 17. 12 14. The Beast and his ten Kings make war with the Lamb and the Lamb shall overcome them for he is Lord of Lords and King of Kings and they that are with him are called and chosen and faithful This is a Conquest before the Resurrection Ch. 18. Is yet more full herein about all the Fall and Plagues of Babylon Over whom Heaven and Earth are called to rejoyce And it was certainly before the Resurrection that the Kingdoms of the World are said to become the Kingdoms of Christ And the three last Chapters describing the Glory of the delivered Church on Earth as representing the heavenly Glory is yet the fullest proof of all § 18. By all this it is evident that you call that Christs Kingdom as begun which is but his Kingdom in triumph and maturity as if a man were no man till he is at full Age. But it is your not distinguishing the Kingdom of Mediatorial Redemption recovery and acquisition from the Kingdom

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