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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.
Having thus showed us her Wall, he1 now comes to her Gates; it had Gates, it had twelve Gates: By Gates in this place, we are to understand the way of Entrance; Gates, you know, are for coming in, and for going out; and do in this place signify two things:
Having thus shewed us her Wall, he1 now comes to her Gates; it had Gates, it had twelve Gates: By Gates in this place, we are to understand the way of Entrance; Gates, you know, are for coming in, and for going out; and do in this place signifie two things:
- 1The Gates of the City. Jer. 17. 19, 20.
First, An Entrance into communion1 with the God and Saviour of this City.
- 1What the Gates signify.What the Gates sig nifie.
Secondly, Entrance into communion ⟨p. 67⟩with the Inhabitants and Privileges of this City; in both which the Gates do signify Christ: for as no man can come to the knowledge and enjoyment of the God, and glorious Saviour, but by and through the Lord Christ; so no man can come into true and spiritual communion with these Inhabitants, but by him also: I AM THE WAY, saith he, the Truth, and the Life; and no man comes to the Father but BY ME: and again, I am the DOOR, BY ME if any man ENTER, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture,