Commentary
The Thousand Years Kingdom of Christ, in its Full Scripture-State
Thomas Beverley
Thomas Beverley’s answer (London, 1691) to Richard Baxter’s new treatise against the thousand years’ kingdom of Christ. He holds that the 1260 days of the apostasy expire “at 97” and names his 1689 treatise on the Kingdom of Christ entering its succession in 97.
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Edition and location
T. Beverley, The Thousand Years Kingdom of Christ, In its Full Scripture-State: Answering Mr. Baxter’s New Treatise (London, Printed in the Year MDCXCI [1691]). Title page (leaf n0), pp. 2, 3, 5 and 8 (leaves n3, n4, n6, n9), from “the Apostasie of Antichrist” to “Entring its Succession in 97. Page 8.” (Internet Archive bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-thousand-years-kingd_beverley-thomas_1691; a second scan of the same setting, with the imprint cut off, is bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-thousand-years-kingd_beverley-thomas_1690). “Christivn” on p. 5 is kept as printed. Long s (ſ) rendered s; ligatures expanded; roman and italic type not distinguished; line-end hyphenation joined; spacing normalized (one space after punctuation, paragraph breaks as blank lines); running heads, catchwords, signatures and marginal notes omitted; spelling, capitalization and punctuation otherwise as printed; omissions inside the selection marked […]. Transcribed from the Internet Archive page images and checked against the item’s OCR text layer.
Title page; pp. 2, 3, 5, 8