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…

Having thus told us of her Glory, even of the Glory of God, how it at this day will rest upon this City; he now comes to touch a second thing, to wit, her Light, and that in which she descends, and by which, as with the Light of the Sun, she seeth before her, and behind ⟨p. 41⟩her, and on every side: This therefore is another Branch of her Beauty; She in her descending hath the Glory of God, and also the Light of a Stone most precious.

Ezekiel tells us, That in the Vision that he saw when he came to destroy the City, (which Vision was the very same that he saw again at the restoring of it) he saith, I say, that in this Vision among many other wonders, he saw a Fire infolding ¹it self, and Brightness about it; and that the Fire also was bright, and that out ²of it went forth Lightning; that the likeness of the Firmament upon the living Creatures, was the colour of the terrible³ Crystal; that the Throne also, upon which was placed the likeness of a Man, was like, or as the appearance of a Sapphire-Stone:⁴ all which words, with the nature of their Light and Colour, the holy Ghost doth in the Vision of John comprise, and placeth within the Colour of the Jasper, and the Crystal-stone. And indeed, though the Vision of John and Ezekiel, touching the end of the matter be but one and the same, yet they do very much vary and differ in terms and manner of Language: Ezekiel tells us, That the man that he saw come to measure ⟨p. 42⟩the City and Temple, had in his hand a Line of^†