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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.
And all the People of the Earth shall see that thou art called by the Name of the Lord, and they shall be afraid of thee, Deut. 28. 10.
Secondly, As the Glory of the Grace of God will at his day be wonderful manifest in and over his City; so also at that day will be seen the Glory of his Power: O my People, saith God, that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian; he shall smite thee with a Rod, and shall lift up his Staff against thee after the manner of Egypt (that is, shall persecute and afflict thee, as Pharaoh served thy Friends of old) but be not afraid: for yet a little while and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction: and the Lord of Host shall stir up a scourge for him, according to the slaughter of Midian at the Rock Oreb: and as his Rod was upon the 1Sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner ⟨p. 37⟩of Egypt: the sum is, God will at the day of his rebuilding the New Jerusalem so visibly make bare his Arm, and be so exalted before all by his Power towards his People, that no People shall dare to oppose (or stand, if they do make the least attempt to hinder) the stability of this City, Isa. 10. 24, 25, 26, 27. I will surely (gather or) assemble, O Jacob, all of thee, saith God: I will surely gather the Remnant of Israel—as the Sheep of Bozrah, as the flocks in the midst of the fold; they shall make a noise by reason of the multitude 2of men: The breaker up is come up before them, they have broken up (the Antichristian siege that hath been laid against them) they are gone through the gate, they are gone out of it, and their King shall pass before them, and the Lord in the head of them: Like as a Lion and a young Lion roaring on the prey, when a multitude of Shepherds are called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their Voice, nor abase