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…

These words then, teach us two things worthy of our Christian Consideration.

These words then, teach us two things worthy of our Christian Consideraration.

First, That God hath given to every man a certain and visible mark to aim at for his Salvation, or to build his Soul upon, namely, The Doctrine of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb: for in that he saith their Names are in the Foundations, it is better for us (all things considered) then if he had said, In them was the Name of God himself; that is, it is more easy to see (this way) through the mist of our Carnality what the Mystery of his Will should be, which is, that we receive Christ according to their Doctrine, Words, Writings, Epistles, Letters, &c. their Names, I say, being there,¹ God counts it as the Broad Seal of Heaven, which giveth Authority to all that Doctrine whereunto by themselves they are prefixed and subscribed; not where they are writ by others, but by themselves ⟨p. 94⟩I say, as the Token of every Epistle, and of² their Doctrine for Truth; the which³ Paul insinuates, when he saith, that his ⁴hand is the Token of every Epistle: as he⁵ saith again, Am not I an Apostle? And⁶ again, Behold, I Paul have written unto ⁷you; I Paul, I an Apostle, I a wise Master-Builder, I who am in my Doctrine one of the Foundations of the Wall of Salvation, I have written unto you. And, as I said before, there is a reason it should be thus; for as he who was the Foundation of the Jewish Church, even Moses, received the Pattern of all his Order from the Mouth of the Angel in Mount Sinai, so the twelve received their Doctrine of Faith and Manners, the Doctrine of the New Testament, from the Mouth of the Son of God himself, as from the Mouth of the Angel of the everlasting Covenant, on the Mountain of Zion,