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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
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This being thus, it cleareth to you what I said but now, to wit, That the Gates are called twelve, to answer the twelve Tribes, for their Names are written thereon: This must therefore without all doubt be a very great encouragement to this despised People; I say great encouragement, that notwithstanding all their Rebellion, Blasphemy, and contempt of ⟨p. 78⟩the glorious Gospel, their Names should yet be found recorded and engraved upon the very Gates of New Jerusalem. Thus then shall the Jews be comforted in the latter days; and truly they will have but need hereof; for doubtless at their return, when they are throughly sensible of the Murder they have committed, not only upon the Bodies of the Prophets and Apostles, but of the Son of God himself: I say this must needs, tother with the remembrance of the rest of their villainous actions, exceedingly afflict and distress their bleeding Souls: for the Children of Israel shall come, they and the Children of Judah together, going and weeping; they shall go and seek the Lord their God, and shall ask the way to Zion, with their Faces thitherward, Jer. 50. 4, 5. Mark, going and weeping; there will not be a step that these poor People will take in the day of their returning, but will be watered with the Tears of Repentance and Contrition, under the consideration of the wickedness that in the days of their Rebellion, they have committed against the Lord of Glory: as he saith also by another Prophet, I will pour upon the House of David, and upon the Inhabitants ⟨p. 79⟩of Jerusalem, the Spirit of Grace and Supplication, and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as a Man mourns for his only Son; and they shall be in bitterness for him, as him that is in bitterness for his first-born: at that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the Valley of Megiddon, and the Land shall mourn, Zech. 12. 10, 11, 12.
This being thus, it cleareth to you what I said but now, to wit, That the Gates are called twelve, to answer the twelve Tribes, for their Names are written thereon: This must therefore without all doubt be a very great incouragement to this despised People; I say great incouragement, that notwithstanding all their Rebellion, Blasphemy, and contempt of