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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.
And in them the Names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.
And in them their Names:] This makes it manifest that by the Foundations of this Wall, we are to understand the Doctrine of the twelve Apostles of the Lord Christ, for their Names are to it, or found engraved in the Foundations. Thus it was with the Doctrine which was the Foundation of the Jewish Church: the first Pattern being delivered by the man Moses; his Name was always so entailed to that Doctrine, that at last it became common, and that by Divine Allowance, to call that Doctrine by the name of Moses himself: There is one that accuseth you, saith Christ, even Moses in whom you trust: and again, For Moses of old hath in every City them that preach him. John 5. 45. Act. 15. 21. The same liberty of speech doth the Holy Ghost here use in speaking of the Foundations of this Wall, which is the Doctrine of the Twelve. And in that he calleth the Doctrine by the Name of Foundations, and leaveth it only with telling us the Names of the twelve Apostles are engraven ⟨p. 90⟩in it; he expects that men should be wise that read him, and that they should be skilful in the Word of Righteousness, if they come up clearly to the understanding of him.
And in them their Names:] This makes it manifest that by the Foundations of this Wall, we are to understand the Doctrine of the twelve Apostles of the Lord Christ, for their Names are to it, or found ingraved in the Foundations. Thus it was with the Doctrine which was the Foundation of the Jewish Church: the first Pattern being delivered by the man Moses; his Name was always so entailed to that Doctrine, that at last it became common, and that by Divine Allowance, to call that Doctrine by the name of Moses himself: There is one that accuseth you, saith Christ, even Moses in whom you trust: and again, For Moses of old hath in every City them that preach him.