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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

tempt us Q. 3. Will their punishment all the Thousand years be so easie as to allow them to cover the Earth sight against the Saints and will it no more convince them Q. 4. What became of their Bodies in the Conflagration Q. 5. And of the Bodies of all the living wicked Q. 6. And of their Souls that lived then in wickedness Q. 7. Seeing you take Philadelphia to be the New Earth in its purity before its fall can you believe that in that World there is but a little strength and that there is a Synagogue of Satan called Jews that must come and worship before their feet And that Philadelphia after the fire is yet to be kept from an hour of temptation that shall come on all the World to try them that dwell on the Earth Q 8. Doth the New Paradise World hear Behold I come quickly hold fast c after Christ is come Q. 9. Seeing Laodicea is also with you the New Earth and Paradise State is that indeed a Changed State and World of Righteousness in which the New Jerusalem is neither hot nor cold and to be spewed out and is wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked and knoweth it not but saith I want nothing and is yet counselled to buy and cover her shame c. Is that World no better than so Q. 10. Doth God reward all men according to their works if the Best Saints found alive are for a thousand years in no better a World and the Worst Saints that were dead since Abel till Christ's coming are in a spiritual higher Body and Region all that Thousand years Is this God's Word Q. 11. Did any of the Asian Churches or any Christians for 1300 years at least or 1500 believe that the five first Epistles were written to men of this World and the two last to the men of the World to come after the Earth and Bibles are burnt Q. 12. Consider whether you that so zealously cry down the Papal Antichrist and Babylon do not ignorantly maintain the Papal State which you call Antichristian What is the Essence of Papacy but the claim of an Universal Power over the Church in the Pope or his Counsel he being the Head And do not you maintain that the Seven Churches are Seven States of the Church Universal And almost all Expositors agree that by the Angel is meant the Bishop at least as Biza saith the Proestos with his Elders And have even the Two Churches of the World to come such an Universal Government Sure then it is of Divine Institution that such there be And who claimeth it but the Pope and Councils This is the Effect of over-doing Zeal For my part if I believed that by God's Institution the Church Catholick must have one Universal Humane Angel or Government Monarchical or Aristocratical or mixt I would presently be a Papist Sir If any words in this Paper are displeasing to you for their freedom be assured it is to your Words and Cause and not for want of Love and great Esteem of your Person who as you are by Birth above me the Son of a Godly Knight so from my heart I believe that you are a far better man than my self And though I think you over-confident of your Apprehensions I love you the better while I think How strong a Faith hath that good man of God's Word in general who is so confident in every hard particular I beg your prayers for me who look from day to day when sight resolveth me of all these Controversies Postscript § 1. I Understand that on further thoughts some men that are further from me than Mr. Beverly are like by his Book to be much confirmed against Christianity Their Judgment of Christ is much like the Turks That there is One God and Jesus is one of his three great Legislator-Prophets and to be called his Son because of his miraculous Generation But that as Incarnate and the Son of Man he hath but a Temporal Kingdom and that Humanity shall at the end of the Thousand years be put off and with the Kingdom delivered up to the Father shall cease and that God's being All in All implieth this cessation Because Mr. Beverley taketh himself not accountable for other mens Errours and seemeth himself to renounce all such I will speak to them my self and to him on the by first desiring him to have so much charity to such men as to undeceive them by explaining these few particulars of his § 2. 1. To tell them what he meaneth by his distinction of Christ's Nature and Kingdom as Man in our Nature and his Nature and Kingdom as the Son of Man which he thinks ends with the Millennium To tell them what he meaneth by Christ's Humane Nature before the Incarnation If it be the Natura Mentalis in genere is it not as much an Angelical Nature as a Humane And he was not Jesus Christ the Anointed Saviour from Eternity nor before he was here Incarnate of Mary If his Body and Humane Soul then received die or cease then Jesus Christ dieth or ceaseth though the Mental Nature Humane or Angelical cease not Leave us not to the equivocal of a continued Humane or our Nature while you distinguish Christ Man from Christ the Son of Man But tell us whether it be only a Spiritual Mentality superangelical or the Soul and Body of a Man at his Incarnation If it be the Anima Mundi is it not the Common Nature of all things 2. To tell them yet what he meaneth by the Kingdom of Eternity as distinct from the Thousand years Kingdom seeing he denieth that there were any Subjects or Creatures from Eternity what is that Kingdom that hath no Subjects nor Government If he mean only To Eternity of that anon 3. To tell us also how it can be that Christ should continue in our Nature and yet be no Object of our Souls but only a Conveying Medium § 3. Now I desire both him and these others that misuse him to consider as followeth I. Is there any Scripture that saith that Christ had two Humane Natures II. Cessation is no less than Death or Transmutation into some other Nature If Christ's Incarnate Humanity Die how is he called Immortal Eternal and said to bring Life and Immortality to light his Kingdom to have no end as the slain Lamb to be dead and alive for evermore to have the power or Keys of Life and Death and Hell c. If it be Transmutation it is either of his Humane Specifick Form And then into what other Form Nature or Being is he changed It is but the perfecting of the Humane Form which he had by turning corruptible flesh and blood into a spiritual glorious body And this was done before at his Ascension And this we deny not to be eternal as to come If this be your swallowing up III. If we shall have the same Humane Nature in specie spiritualized and glorified after the

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