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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.
Secondly, As by these twelve, we are to understand the Truth and Purity of the Doctrine of the Twelve; so again by this word twelve, we are to understand the sufficiency of that Doctrine and Ministry to bring in the twelve Tribes to the Privileges of this City: Mark, for the twelve Tribes there are twelve Gates, for every Tribe a Gate; and at the twelve Gates, twelve Angels, at every Gate an Angel: O Judah, saith God, I have set 1an Harvest for thee, when he shall turn again the Captivity of his People; and so for2 the rest of the Tribes: Before Ephraim, and Benjamin, and Manasseh, he will stir up his strength to save them: I will hiss for ⟨p. 75⟩them, saith God, and gather them, for I have redeemed them; and they shall increase as they have increased: and I will sow them among the Nations, and they shall remember me in far Countries, and they shall live with their Children, and shall return; and I will bring them again also out of the Land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria, and I will bring them into the Land of Gilead and Lebanon, and place shall not be found for them, Zech. 10. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
Secondly, As by these twelve, we are to understand the Truth and Purity of the Doctrine of the Twelve; so again by this word twelve, we are to understand the sufficiency of that Doctrine and Ministry to bring in the twelve Tribes to the Priviledges of this City: Mark, for the twelve Tribes there are twelve Gates, for every Tribe a Gate; and at the twelve Gates, twelve Angels, at every Gate an Angel: O Judah, saith God, I have set 1an Harvest for thee, when he shall turn again the Captivity of his People; and so for2 the rest of the Tribes: Before Ephraim, and Benjamin, and Manasseh, he will stir up his strength to save them: I will hiss for ⟨p. 75⟩