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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.
But to trace out the business in the Type, and so to come to its answer in the Anti-Type: I find that a little distance from Jerusalem there was a place called Tophet, which place was counted1 profane, unholy, or defiled; I find also that this unclean unholy place, was a figure2 of Hell it self: Now mark, I find by the Scripture, that against this Tophet, this unholy and profane place, was the broad Wall of the City for the defence of3 the Sanctuary, erected, and reared up: He measured, saith the Prophet, by the four sides, and it had a Wall round about, five hundred Reeds long, and five hundred Reeds broad, TO MAKE A SEPARATION BETWEEN THE SANCTUARY AND THE PROFANE PLACE, Ezek. 42. 20. Which Wall could not be that Wall which compassed the City, because it was but five hundred Reeds long: for take the measure ⟨p. 129⟩of this Wall in its largest measure, and it is (if you count a Reed for that which we count a Pole) but twelve Furlongs, which compass will scarce go round many Market-Towns; especially, if together with this, you consider the breadth of the Wall, whose breadth is as large as its length; wherefore now there is not room enough for a City so big as a Cottage to stand in the midst thereof: I speak this, to show you that the Wall in this place is not the Wall that goeth round about the City, but the Wall that is placed just between the Sanctuary and Tophet, or Hell it self: Now though Ezekiel and John do differ touching their count about the thickness of this Wall, it is not so much to signify the Walls are not one and the same, as to show us that the one, to wit, Ezekiel's Wall, was to encompass a worldly Sanctuary, but John's to encompass a spiritual and heavenly; wherefore Ezekiel's must be of so many Reeds long to go round about the material Sanctuary, as a Type; but John comes more to the spirit of the matter, and showeth us what the Sanctuary, Wall, and the like, should mean: for by Sanctuary we are to understand (even in ⟨p. 130⟩the Old Testament) a place of Safety and