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The holy city, or, The new-Jerusalem wherein its goodly light walls, gates, angels, and…The holy citie, or, The new-Jerusalem wherein its goodly light walls, gates, angels, and…
The holy city, or, The new-Jerusalem wherein its goodly light walls, gates, angels, and the manner of their standing, are expounded : also, her length and breadth, together with the golden measuring-reed, explained, and the glory of all unfolded : as also, the numerousness of its inhabitants, and what the tree and water of life are, by which they are sustained / by John Bunyan ...The holy citie, or, The new-Jerusalem wherein its goodly light walls, gates, angels, and the manner of their standing, are expounded : also, her length and breadth, together with the golden measuring-reed, explained, and the glory of all unfolded : as also, the numerousness of its inhabitants, and what the tree and water of life are, by which they are sustained / by John Bunyan ...
London: printed for Francis Smith, 1669
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First therefore at her returning, she shall not only have his Grace upon her, but the very Glory of his Grace shall be seen upon her; the glory of Pardoning Grace shall now shine in her own Soul; and Grace in the glory of it shall appear in all her doings: now shall both our inward and outward man be most famously adorned and beautified with Salvation; the golden Pipes that are on the Head of the golden 1Candlestick shall at this day convey with all freeness the golden Oil thereout, into our golden Hearts and Lamps: Our Win• shall be mixed with Gall no longer, we shall now drink the pure blood of the Grape the glory of pardoning and forgiving Mercy shall so show it self at this day in this City, and shall so visibly abide the• ⟨p. 35⟩in the Eyes of all Spectators, that all shall be inflamed with it: For Zions sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalems sake I will not rest, until the Righteousness thereo• go forth as brightness, and the Salvation thereof as a Lamp that burneth: and the Gentiles shall see thy Righteousness, and all Kings thy Glory; and thou shalt be called by a new Name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name, Isa. 62. 1, 2. and again, The Lord shall make bare his holy Name in the eyes of all the Nations, and all the ends of the Earth shall see the Salvation of God, Isa. 52. 9, 10. Psal. 98. 2. At that day the Prophet tells us that there shall be HOLINESS upon the very Horses Bridles; and that the Pots in the Lords House shall be like the Bowls before the Altar; and every Pot in Jerusalem shall be Holiness unto the Lord, Zech. 14. 20, 21. The meaning of all these places is, That in the day that the Lord doth turn his Church and People into the frame and fashion of a City, and when he shall build them up to answer the first state of the Church, there will such Grace and plenty of Mercy be extended unto her, begetting such Faith and Holiness and Grace in her Soul, and all her Actions,