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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.
In that he saith, Twelve Gates, he alludeth1 to the City Jerusalem that was of old, which had just so many; and are on purpose put into the number of Twelve, •o answer to the whole number of the Elect of God, which are comprehended within the number of the Twelve Tribes, whether they are natural Jews or Gentiles; for as all the Godly Jews are the Seed of Abraham after the Flesh, though •ot Godly because they are the Children ⟨p. 68⟩of the Flesh of Abraham; so all the Godly Gentiles are the Children of Abraham after the Spirit, though not by that means made the Children of the Flesh of Abraham: they both meet then in the Spirit and Faith of the Gospel, as2 God saith to the Jews, When the Stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep 3the Passover (that is, become godly, and4 receive the Faith of Christ) let all his Males be circumcised, and then let them come near, and keep it, &c. For they that are of Faith, are the Children of faithful Abraham, who is called, The very Father of us all. Thus you see all the godly come under the Title of the Children of Abraham, and of the Jews; and so under the denomination also of being Persons5 belonging to the Tribes, the twelve Tribes, who answer to those twelve Gates▪ Wherefore the Psalmist minding this speaketh indefinitely of all the Godly under the name of The Tribes of Israel saying, Our Feet shall stand within the Gates, O Jerusalem: Jerusalem is builded a City that is compact together, which the Tribes go up, the Tribes of the Lord unto the Testimony of Israel, to give tha•• to the Name of the Lord; Psal. 122. 2, 3, •