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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.
Again, The Gates by their thus looking1 every way, do signify to us, That from what Quarter or Part of the World ⟨p. 83⟩soever men come for Life, for those men there are the Gates of Life, even right before their doors: Come they from the East, why thither look the Gates; and so if they come from North, or West, or South: No Man needs at all to go about, to come at Life, and Peace, and Rest: Let him come directly from Sin to Grace, from Satan to Jesus Christ, and from this World to New Jerusalem. The twelve Brazen Oxen that Solomon made to bear2 the molten Sea, they stood just as these Gates stand, and signify, as I said before, that the Doctrine of the twelve Apostles should be carried into all the World, to convert (as in the Primitive Times, so now at the building of New Jerusalem) and to bring in Gods Sheep to the Fold of his Church: Now I say, as the Word is carried every way, so the Gates, the open Gates, look also into all corners after them, to signify that loving Reception that shall be given to every Soul that from any corner of the whole World shall unfeignedly close in with Grace, through the Lord Jesus Christ. Thus therefore Men shall come from the East, and from the West, from the North, and from the South, and sit down in the ⟨p. 84⟩Kingdom of God, Luk. 13. 29. Psal. 107. 1, 2, 3.
Again, The Gates by their thus looking1 every way, do signifie to us, That from what Quarter or Part of the World ⟨p. 83⟩soever men come for Life, for those men there are the Gates of Life, even right before their doors: Come they from the East, why thither look the Gates; and so if they come from North, or West, or South: No Man needs at all to go about, to come at Life, and Peace, and Rest: Let him come directly from Sin to Grace, from Satan to Jesus Christ, and from this World to New Jerusalem. The twelve Brazen Oxen that Solomon made to bear