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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.
Now having passed the relation of the1 Wall, Gates, and Foundations, he comes to the Measuring-Line, to see how all things lie and agree with that.
- 1A Golden Reed.
Under the Law, I find that all things pertaining to the Worship of God were to be by Number, Rule and Measure, even to the very Tacks and Loops of the Curtains ⟨p. 101⟩of the Tabernacle: Now the Rule or Line by which all things were then squared, it was the Laws, Statutes and Ordinances which was given to Moses by the Lord in the Mount Sinai; for thither he went to receive his Orders: and according to the Pattern there showed him, so he committed all things, by writing, to them that were to be employed in the workmanship of the holy things pertaining to the rise and completing of the Tabernacle, and all its Instruments. Exod. 10. 11. & 24. 1. & 25. 40. Deut. 30. 10. & 31. 24, 25, 26.
Under the Law, I find that all things pertaining to the Worship of God were to be by Number, Rule and Measure, even to the very Tacks and Loops of the Curtains ⟨p. 101⟩of the Tabernacle: Now the Rule or Line by which all things were then squared, it was the Laws, Statutes and Ordinances which was given to Moses by the Lord in the Mount Sinai; for thither he went to receive his Orders: and according to the Pattern there shewed him, so he committed all things, by writing, to them that were to be imployed in the workmanship of the holy things pertaining to the rise and compleating of the Tabernacle, and all its Instruments.