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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.
I find in the Vision of the Prophet Ezekiel, that the Angel that there is said to measure the City, which was a Type of our Jerusalem, he appeared with a line 1of Flax in his hand, to measure the pattern withal; which very phrase doth show us that his was but the Type, and an Old-Testament-business: but John ⟨p. 103⟩hath his in a New-Testament-stile, and that in the most excellent manner of Language, to signify that his City, or the City that he hath the Vision of, is to be the end of all Types and Shadows, and the very perfection of them all: Wherefore he tells us also, that the Line or2 Reed by which this City is builded, and squared, it is not now a Line of Flax, but a Reed of Gold, a Golden Reed; to signify not a Word of the Law and Letter that had to do with Shadows, but the New Testament, and ministration of the Spirit, which hath to do with Substance, and the heavenly things themselves, Heb. 9. 23.
I find in the Vision of the Prophet Ezekiel, that the Angel that there is said to measure the City, which was a Type of our Jerusalem, he appeared with a line 1of Flax in his hand, to measure the pattern withal; which very phrase doth shew us that his was but the Type, and an Old-Testament-business: but John ⟨p. 103⟩hath his in a New-Testament-stile, and that in the most excellent manner of Language, to signifie that his City, or the City that he hath the Vision of, is to be the end of all Types and Shadows, and the very perfection of them all: Wherefore he tells us also, that the Line or2 Reed by which this City is builded, and squared, it is not now a Line of Flax, but a Reed of Gold, a Golden Reed; to signifie not a Word of the Law and Letter that had to do with Shadows, but the New Testament, and ministration of the Spirit, which hath to do with Substance, and the heavenly things themselves,