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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.
First, Where there is no Devil to1 tempt, though the Saints will yet be imperfect, and come short of a glorified state; yet they by his absence will be delivered from many dreadful vexing and burning hellish Darts, that will otherwise ⟨p. 134⟩confound and afflict the Soul like Arrows, whose heads are poisoned: Christians have a great deal of ease, when God doth (even at this day) with-hold the Devil for a season, (though yet they have their own lusts) over they have when the Devil and their own Lusts are suffered to meet and work together: yea, the Lord Jesus himself, who had no sin, yet in the Temptation was fearfully handled and afflicted with the Devil; though all the while, I say, he kept him at staves end, and did not suffer him in the least to annoy his Person; and therefore 'tis said that when he was in the Wilderness 2in the conflict, the Angels came to minister to him: at the time of his Agony3 also, in which Agony doubtless Satan4 had a very great hand to afflict him, you see his complaint, how that he was sore5 amazed, and exceeding sorrowful, even unto death, being so laden with heaviness and sorrow, that he was scarce able to stand or wag under the burden of it. Satan even from himself, besides the workings of our own Lusts, doth do us wonderful injury, and hits our Souls with many a fiery Dart, that we think comes either from our selves, or from Heaven, ⟨p. 135⟩and God himself; but now by this Wall, this broad Wall, this sorrow will be cut off.
First, Where there is no Devil to1 tempt, though the Saints will yet be imperfect, and come short of a glorified state; yet they by his absence will be delivered from many dreadful vexing and burning hellish Darts, that will otherwise