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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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 passing to that World where we shall see face to face Feb. 20. 1691. LONDON Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers Chapel 1690 1. AD pag. 1. You say very well against catching at words and surmising strange Opinions But if an excellent Divine will speak strange and dangerous words the Reader must have an Antidote and it is time enough to forgive the Writer when he confesseth the Errour of his words He that speaketh ill and meaneth well should keep his meaning to himself till he can and will intelligibly express it To your pag 2. He were malignant that would not acknowledge your Candour And it is an encouragement to us that differ from you that you believe our part in that Kingdom which it is not given us yet to see And as you profess your patient bearing of Contradictions we should love each other the more for our likeness Though I am noted to have too sharp a reproving style I do profess that I can bear more than I use yea that I love Reproof and my Reprovers To your pag. 3. And your confidence of your right Interpretation of Prophecies and of the blessed 1697 year I say but 1. As Jeremiah to the Prophets of his time Amen My wishes accompany you further than my belief but not to the unhappy end of your New Earth 2. And I know how natural it is for every man to be over-confident of his conceptions and his way to be right in his own Eyes To your pag. 4. The description of your Conformity and recesses from it is very modest and discreet I named you not among Conformists as an Accuser but as excusing the Nonconformists to whom your Millenary Opinion is by unrighteous men imputed whiles it is Conformists that are its strongest Pillars But if it be not the Sacred Office that you disclaim but the bare name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are not those Officers Christ's more special 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 though the Laity also are his common Lot You love not I hope Controversies about meer names and words But if you do let Acts 1. 17. silence you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet Judas was not chosen by Lot as Matthias was Tho' I know not what you mean by setting up that in Kingdom counterfeit nor how men should understand that by Semi-Sadduces of the Apostacy you meant no body but an Abstract Thing yet I understand and accept your Retractation Page 5. Your bold avouching speaketh your confidence but is no help to convince another that a Kingdom of One day 1000 years ascribed to Christ doth honour him more than an Endless Kingdom of Glory after two thousand or six thousand years Kingdom of Grace 2. I thank you for disclaiming the Doctrines which your words did favour And intreat you that are so accurate in Prophecy hereafter to be more accurate in your words and to speak as you think and as you would have others think that understand words according to common usage Pag. 6. Of your commendations of Dr. Crispe's Book I think soill that I have written a proper Answer to you about it but stop the publishing of it because I find you so ready to retract But I confess your commending to the World a Book so contrary to Christianity it self doth much abate my reverence to your confidence in Prophecy If such as Dr. Crispe and you have no safer and sounder words to Preach Justification and Grace by than to tell men how bad it is to think that sin can possibly do them any hurt or duty or any thing they can do Faith Hope Love Obedience do them any good and to tell them that Christ is the greatest hater of God Murderer Adulterer c. in the World and that not only the punishment and guilt of punishment but the very sins themselves of all the Elect are Christ's own sins and that if men commit Murder Adultery Perjury Treason it is none of their sin but Christ's for it cannot be Christ's and theirs too they are for all the acts no Murderers no Adulterers no Traitors no Haters of God c. I say if this be your excellent Preaching of Christ and his Kingdom I shall not admire your Doctrine of the Kingdom nor wonder if more of this Doctor 's Disciples be like that one that would come drunk and kneel to prayer in in his Family and cry Lord all our righteousness is not worth two-pence no Lord it is not worth a half-penny And I hope hereafter you will speak more intelligibly of our Justification only by God's Essential Righteousness To pag. 7 8. The Kingdom of Grace which you confess in not another but the same that extendeth to the endless Kingdom of Glory by degrees destroying Sin and Curse and putting down Enemies and by the Triumphant appearing of Christ at the Resurrection finishing the Reign of Deliverance Conquest and Acquisition and entring on the Reign of his Reward and glorious Fruition There being in Scripture no mention that I can find of any Thousand years between these two I come to your four professed Differences I. That there is besides all the Kingly State of Christ wherein we are agreed a distinct Kingdom of Jesus Christ as the great Son of Man to the highest Noon tide Glory of which God hath assigned a Thousand years And when it hath utterly subdued all Enemies it is to be delivered up to God and the Father and the Son to be subject in that very sense Ans I have recited all your words that I may be sure that I leave not out the specifick difference But what it is I am never the wiser nor know by these words I had the unhappiness from my Youth to be inclined to strict definition and distinction and accurate Logical Explications and to abhor confused Harangues and therefore the now despised Schoolmen were my pleasant study next to the Bible and practical Divinity But now I have lived to see that kind of study and disputing derided which is far easier than learned and to hear Disputes about Terms unexplained and the Question debated in the beginning and scarce stated in the end Which of these words specifie the middle Kingdom from the former and the latter Or must it be none of the particulars but all connext 1. Is it the word distinct That 's but to beg the Question which is whether there be any middle distinct Kingdom And it tells us not what it is A distinction in the exercise of administration between the beginning and resignation we are agreed of 2. Is the difference in the word The Great Son of Man Is he not the Great Son of Man before and after 3. Is it in the highest Noontide Glory Will it be greater than the Glory after the Thousand years 4. Is it