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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.
I tell you that the operation of the Word and Spirit of God (without depending upon that Idol so much adored) is sufficient of it self to search out all things, even the deep things of God, 1 Cor. 2. 10.
The occasion of my first meddling with this matter, was as followeth:
The occasion of my first medling with this matter, was as followeth:
Upon a certain First day, I being together with my Brethren, in our Prison-Chamber, they expected ⟨image 3⟩that, according to our Custom, something should be spoken out of the Word, for our mutual Edification; but at that time I felt my self (it being my turn to speak) so empty, spiritless, and barren, that I thought I should not have been able to speak among them so much as five words of Truth, with Life and Evidence: but at last, it so fell out, that providentially I cast mine Eye upon the eleventh Verse of the one and twentieth Chapter of this Prophecy; upon which, when I had considered a while, methought I perceived something of that JASPER in whose Light you there find this HOLY CITY is said to come or descend; wherefore having got in my Eye some dim glimmerings thereof, and finding also in my heart a desire to see further thereinto; I with a few groans did arry my Meditations to the Lord ⟨image 4⟩JESUS for a Blessing, which he […] forthwith grant according to his Grace; and helping me to set before my Brethren, we did all eat, and were well refreshed; and behold also that while I was in the distributing of it, it so increased in my hand, that of the Fragments that we left, after we had well dined, I gathered up this Basket-full. Methought the more I cast mine Eye upon the whole Discourse, the more I saw lie in it: Wherefore setting my self to a more narrow search, through frequent Prayer to God, (what first with doing, and then with undoing, and after that with doing again) I thus did finish it.