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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.
First, The Twelve must be them1 Twelve that were with the Lord Jesus from the Baptism of John, until the day in which our Lord was taken up, Act. 1. 22.
- 1How you are to understand the word Twelve.
Secondly, These Twelve are not neither to be considered simply, as twelve Christians, or twelve Disciples; but as their Witness of the Lord Jesus (they being with him from first to last) was a Twelve-fold Witness of him in all his things; a twelve-fold seeing with their Eyes, a twelve-fold hearing with their Ears, a twelve-fold handling also with their Hands, and feeling of the Son of God: As one of them said, That which was from the beginning, which we have seen with our Eyes, and our Hands have handled of the Word of Life; that which we have seen and heard, declare we unto you, that ye might have fellowship with us, &c. 1 John 1. 1, 2, 3. Now this being thus, it ⟨p. 97⟩followeth that the Doctrine of the other Apostles, as of Paul and Barnabas, was still but the Doctrine of the Twelve; their Doctrine, I say, and no other: Wherefore as Ephraim and Manasseh were dissolved into the twelve Tribes, so these two, with all other the Apostles of Christ, are dissolved into the Number of the Twelve, because their Doctrine is only the Doctrine of the twelve; for they centre in their Doctrine; their length and breadth, and depth and height being the Doctrine of the Twelve. So then the names of the Twelve being found in the Foundations of this Wall, it argueth that that Doctrine is only true, that is the Doctrine of the twelve Eye-Witnesses of the Lord Jesus: And again, That at the day of Antichrists fall, this Doctrine shall be in its former purity, and bear the sway, and for ever hold up the Wall of safety, for the Inhabitants of New Jerusalem: And indeed this Doctrine, That the Doctrine of the Twelve is that upon which Eternal Safety is built and stands, is so true, that it must not be varied from, upon pain of Eternal Damnation: Here centred Luke the Evangelist, here centred