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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.
Again, By measuring the City, he would have us to understand, that all her Limits and Bounds were now apparent, that all things, even the Church and all the World, was made to see their own Compass: for as God in the days when Temple-Worship (only) was on foot, would not lose a Form or Ordinance of all the Forms and Ordinances of his Temple; so when City-work comes up, he will not lose an Inch of the Limits, and Bounds, and Compass of his City, she shall be full as large, and of as great a compass every way, as ⟨p. 107⟩is determined of her: as he saith by the Prophet, All the Land, saith he, shall be turned †into a Plain; that is, there shall be a smooth Face upon the whole Earth, all Snugs, and Hubs, and Hills, and Holes shall now be took away, even from Gebato Rimmon, South of Jerusalem: and it (the City) shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamins Gate, unto the place of the first Gate, unto the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananiel, unto the Kings Wine-Presses. The four places here mentioned in this verse, they do seem to be the four Corners of the City of old; at which places the City bounds were set; and in which very Circle the Prophet tells us, but with Gospel Language, she shall be settled again, Zech. 14. 10.
Again, By measuring the City, he would have us to understand, that all her Limits and Bounds were now apparent, that all things, even the Church and all the World, was made to see their own Compass: for as God in the dayes when Temple-Worship (only) was on foot, would not lose a Form or Ordinance of all the Forms and Ordinances of his Temple; so when City-work comes up, he will not lose an Inch of the Limits, and Bounds, and Compass of his City, she shall be full as large, and of as great a compass every way, as ⟨p. 107⟩is determined of her: as he saith by the Prophet, All the Land, saith he, shall be turned †into a Plain; that is, there shall be a smooth Face upon the whole Earth, all Snugs, and Hubs, and Hills, and Holes shall now be took away, even from Gebato Rimmon, South of Jerusalem: and it (the City) shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamins Gate, unto the place of the first Gate, unto the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananiel, unto the Kings Wine-Presses. The four places here mentioned in this verse, they do seem to be the four Corners of the City of old; at which places the City bounds were set; and in which very Circle the Prophet tells us, but with Gospel Language, she shall be setled again,