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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.
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† Flax, which Line John calls a Golden Reed: Ezekiel tells us that the River came out of, or from under the* Threshold of the House; but John saith it came out of the Throne of God, and of the Lamb: Ezekiel tells us that on either side of this River grew All Trees 7for food; John calls these ALL Trees, but ONE Tree, and tells us that it stood on both sides of this River: The like might also be showed you in many other particulars, as here you see they differ as touching the terms of the Light and Brightness that appears upon this City at her rebuilding, which the holy Ghost represents to John under the Light and Glory of the Jasper and Crystal Stone: for indeed, the end of Ezekiel's Vision was to show us, That as when the Glory of God departed from the City, it signified that he would take away from them the Light of his Word, and their clearness of Worship; suffering them to mourn for the loss of the one, and to grope for the want of the other: so at his return again, he would give them both their former Light of Truth, and also the clearness of Spirit to understand it;