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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.
Now there shall be an oneness of Judgment and Understanding in the Hearts of all Saints; they shall be now1 no more two, but one in the Lords hand: Alas, the Saints are yet but as an Army routed, and are apt sometimes through fear, and sometimes through forgetfulness, to mistake the word of their Captain General, the Son of God, and are ⟨p. 50⟩also too too prone to shoot and kill eve• their very right-hand man; but at th• day all such doing shall be laid aside, for the knowledge of the glory of the Lord shall cover the Earth, as the Waters cover the 2Sea; which Knowledge shall then strike through the Heart and Liver of all swerving and unsound Opinions in Christs matters; for then shall every one of the Christians call upon the Name of the Lord, and that with one pure Lip, or Language, to serve him with one consent. 'Tis3 Darkness, and not Light, that keepeth Gods People from knowing one another both in their Faith and Language; and 'tis Darkness that makes them stand at so great a distance both in Judgement and Affections, as in these and other days they have done: But then, saith God, I will plant in the Wilderness (that is, in the Church that is now bewildered the Cedar, the Shittah Tree, the Myrtle Tree, and the Oil Tree; I will set in the Desert the Fir-Tree, the Pine, and the Box-Tree together; that they may see and know consider and understand together, that the Hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it: and again, The glory of Lebanon shall com• ⟨p. 51⟩unto thee, the Fir-Tree and the Pine-Tree, and the Box-Tree together, to beautify the House of my Glory, and to make the place of my Feet glorious, Isa. 41. 19, 20. & 60. 13.