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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.
For the first, They are called twelve, 1to signify two things: 1. The Truth of their Doctrine: and 2. The sufficiency of their Doctrine and Ministry for the converting of the twelve Tribes to the Faith of Christ, and Privileges of this City.
For the first, They are called twelve, 1to signifie two things: 1. The Truth of their Doctrine: and 2. The sufficiency of their Doctrine and Ministry for the converting of the twelve Tribes to the Faith of Christ, and Priviledges of this City.
- 1Why the Angels are said to be Twelve.
First, For the Truth of their Doctrine: ⟨p. 73⟩For by twelve here, he would have us to understand that he hath his Eye upon the twelve Apostles, or upon the Doctrine of the twelve, the Apostolical Doctrine: as if he should say, This City, the New Jerusalem, shall be every way accomplish[…] with Beauty and Glory; she shall […] a Wall for her security, and twelve •ates to answer the twelve Tribes; yea, and also at these Gates the twelve Apostles, in their own pure, primitive, and unspotted Doctrine. The Romish Beasts have corrupted this1 Doctrine by treading it down with their Feet, and have muddied this Water with their own dirt and filthiness; but at this day, this shall be recovered from under the Feet of these Beasts, and cleansed also from their di•t, an[…] again in the same Glory, S[…] and Purity, as in the Primitive ••mes. It is said, that when Israel was passed out of Egypt, beyond the Sea, they presently came to Elim, where were twelve Wells of Water,