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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.
That is, he measured the Church in her Constitution and Fellowship. Now, when God is said to measure, he is said to measure sometimes in Judgment, and sometimes in Mercy; sometimes to throw down, and sometimes to build up and establish: Sometimes, I say, he is said to measure in Judgment, with intention to throw down and destroy: Thus he measured the City before she went into Captivity, and the ten Tribes ⟨p. 106⟩before they were carried away beyond Babylon, 1because they lay cross to his Word,2 and had perverted that which was right, &c. but when he is said to measure the City in this place, it is that she might be builded and set up: wherefore, as I said, the Line or Golden Reed that is now stretched forth to measure this City, it is to the end, that all things may be in right Form and Order, fitly joined, and knit together, by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working of the measure of every part, making increase of the Body, to the edifying of it self in love, Ephes. 4. 16. Col. 2. 19.
That is, he measured the Church in her Constitution and Fellowship. Now, when God is said to measure, he is said to measure sometimes in Judgment, and sometimes in Mercy; sometimes to throw down, and sometimes to build up and establish: Sometimes, I say, he is said to measure in Judgment, with intention to throw down and destroy: Thus he measured the City before she went into Captivity, and the ten Tribes ⟨p. 106⟩before they were carried away beyond Babylon, 1because they lay cross to his Word,2 and had perverted that which was right, &c. but when he is said to measure the City in this place, it is that she might be builded and set up: wherefore, as I said, the Line or Golden Reed that is now stretched forth to measure this City, it is to the end, that all things may be in right Form and Order, fitly joyned, and knit together, by that which every joynt supplyeth, according to the effectual working of the measure of every part, making increase of the Body, to the edifying of it self in love,