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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.
Secondly, I take the twelve thousand furlongs to signify Portions, rather than Worship or Worshippers; because, as to the nature of it, it most exactly agrees with the Portions that are measured out to this City by the Angel before Ezekiel, which is a measuring forth so much Land for the Portion of the Prince, so much for the Portion of the Priest, and so much1 for the Portion of the twelve Tribes: Yea, the very phrase, twelve thousand 2furlongs, also implieth such a compass of Ground, by which we find the holy Land3 hath been measured.
Secondly, I take the twelve thousand furlongs to signifie Portions, rather than Worship or Worshippers; because, as to the nature of it, it most exactly agrees with the Portions that are measured out to this City by the Angel before Ezekiel, which is a measuring forth so much Land for the Portion of the Prince, so much for the Portion of the Priest, and so much1 for the Portion of the twelve Tribes: Yea, the very phrase, twelve thousand 2furlongs, also implieth such a compass of Ground, by which we find the holy Land3 hath been measured.
- 1Ezek. 45, 46, 47.
- 2Luk. 24. 13.
- 3Joh. 11. 18