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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.
But now in those days, though there1 was for the defence of the City those two Walls, yet they stood a little distance each from other, and had a ditch between them; which was to signify, that though then they had the Wall of Salvation about them, with reference to their eternal state, yet the Wall of Gods Providence and special Protection was not yet so nearly joined thereto, but that they might for their foolishness have that 2broken down, and they suffered to fall into the ditch that was between them both; and so he saith by the Prophet, I will tell you what I will do to my Vineyard, (that is, to this City, for the wickedness thereof) I will take away the hedge thereof, and it ⟨p. 63⟩shall be eaten up; and will break down the Wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down, Isa. 5. 5, 6, 7. Which Hedge and Wall could not be that of Eternal Salvation, for that stood sure, though they should be3 scattered among the Nations, as Wheat is sifted in a Sieve; it must therefore be the Wall of her special Preservation in her outward Peace and Happiness, which Wall was often in those days broken down, and they made havoc of, of all that dwelt about them.
But now in those days, though there1 was for the defence of the City those two Walls, yet they stood a little distance each from other, and had a ditch between them; which was to signifie, that though then they had the Wall of Salvation about them, with reference to their eternal state, yet the Wall of Gods Providence and special Protection was not yet so nearly joyned thereto, but that they might for their foolishness have that 2broken down, and they suffered to fall into the ditch that was between them both; and so he saith by the Prophet, I will tell you what I will do to my Vineyard, (that is, to this City, for the wickedness thereof) I will take away the hedge thereof, and it