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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.
The Crystal is a Stone so clear and spotless, that even her greatest Adversaries in the midst of all their rage, are not able, justly, to charge her with the least mote or spot imaginable: wherefore when he saith, that this City in her descending is even like the Jasper for light, and like the Crystal for clearness; he would have us further learn, that at the day of the descending of this Jerusalem, she shall be every way so accomplished with innocency, sincerity, and clearness in all her Actions, that none shall have from her, or her ways, any just occasion given unto them to slight, contemn, or oppose her. For
First, as she descends, she meddleth not with any mans matters but her own; She comes all along by the Kings high-way: ⟨p. 55⟩that is, alone by the Rules that her Lord hath prescribed for her in his Testament. The Governors of this World need not at all to fear a disturbance from her, or a diminishing of ought they have: She will not meddle with their Fields, nor Vineyards, neither will she drink of the water of their Wells: only let her go by the Kings high-way, and she will not turn to the right 1hand or to the left, until she hath passed all their borders. It is a false report then2 that the Governors of the Nations have received against the City, this New Jerusalem, if they believe, that according to the Tale that is told them, she is and hath been of old a Rebellious City, and destructive to Kings, and a Diminisher of their Revenues. I say, these things are lying words, and forged even in the heart of Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and 3the rest of their Companions: For verily this City, in her descending, is clear from such things, even as clear as Crystal. She is not for meddling with any thing that is theirs, from a Thread, even to a Shoo-latchet. Her Glory is spiritual and heavenly, and she is satisfied with what is her own. 'Tis true, the Kings and Nations of this world shall (one