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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.
Where the presence of the Lord doth so appear upon a People, that those that are Spectators perceive and understand1 it, it must needs work on those Spectators one of these two things; either first a trembling and astonishment, and quailing ⟨p. 39⟩of Heart, as it doth among the implacable2 Enemies; or else a buckling and bending of Heart, and submission to his People and Ways; as saith the Prophet, The Sons of them that afflicted thee shall come bending to thee, all they that despised thee shall fall down at the soles of thy feet; they shall call thee, The City of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel: as Moses said to the Children of Israel, The Lord shall put the fear of you, and the dread of you upon all the Land that you shall tread upon, as he said unto you. Isa. 60. 14. Deut. 11. 25.
At this day the footsteps of the Lord will be so apparent and visible in all his actions and dispensations in and towards his People, this holy City, that all shall see, as I have said, how gracious, loving, kind and good the Lord is now towards his own Children: Such glory, I say, will be over them, and upon them, that they all will shine before the World; and such tender Bowels in GOD towards them, that no sooner can an Adversary peep, or lift up his Head against his Servants, but his hand will be in the Neck of them: so that in short time he will have brought his Church into that safety, and