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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.
This explaineth the matter yet more fully and distinctly; for as to the things that I made mention of before, though they were to be made four-square, and that their Perfection lay exactly in that form; yet these Squares did not lie in1 their height and depth, but in their length 2and breadth, just as you read here of the3 Square of this City. As to instance: The Altars, though they were five Cubits long, and five Cubits broad, yet but three high; so the Bases, they were a Cubit and an half broad, and a Cubit and an half long, yet but half a Cubit high; the Tables also on which they slew the Sacrifices, they were a Cubit and a half long, and a Cubit and a half broad, yet but one Cubit high. Which things being thus, you see the reason of his saying the length is as large as the breadth.
This explaineth the matter yet more fully and distinctly; for as to the things that I made mention of before, though they were to be made four-square, and that their Perfection lay exactly in that form; yet these Squares did not lie in1 their height and depth, but in their length 2and breadth, just as you read here of the3 Square of this City. As to instance: The Altars, though they were five Cubits long, and five Cubits broad, yet but three high; so the Bases, they were a Cubit and an half broad, and a Cubit and an half long, yet but half a Cubit high; the Tables also on which they slew the Sacrifices, they were a Cubit and a half long, and a Cubit and a half broad, yet but one Cubit high. VVhich things being thus, you see the reason of his saying the length is as large as the breadth.