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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, Again, when Satan is thus tied up, we shall, together with this Mercy,1 receive such a plentiful pouring forth of the Holy Ghost, that though there will remain in us still the remainders of our Corruptions; yet by the plentiful indwellings of the holy Ghost, and the Joy and Peace and heavenly sweetness thereof, these things shall lie like lean, withered, blasted things: the reason of that power and that strength that our Lusts have to this day in our hearts, it is because we are so lean and thin and weak in the things of God: strong Grace makes Corruptions weak, and strikes them through, laying them at the point of death, always gasping for life: thus it was with Moses, he had such Grace in his Soul, and such Communion with God, that though he had yet a Body of Sin within him, it was a rare thing for him to see his wretchedness; that is, to see it pirt, lively, and powerful in him: indeed God saith, That upon the Land of his 2People shall come up Briars and Thorns; yea, upon all the Houses of Joy in the joyous ⟨p. 136⟩City, because the Palaces shall be forsaken, the multitude of the City shall be left, the Forts and Towers shall be for Dens for ever, a Joy of wild Asses, a Pasture of Flocks; until the Spirit be poured on us 3from on high, and the Wilderness be a fruitful Field, &c. And then the Lord shall defend the Inhabitants of Jerusalem, and he that is feeble among them at that day shall 4be as David, and the House of David shall be as God, even as the Angel of the Lord before him: The Inhabitants shall not say, 5I am sick; the People that dwell therein, shall be forgiven their Iniquity.
Secondly, Again, when Satan is thus tied up, we shall, together with this Mercy,1 receive such a plentiful pouring forth of the Holy Ghost, that though there will remain in us still the remainders of our Corruptions; yet by the plentiful indwellings of the holy Ghost, and the Joy and Peace and heavenly sweetness thereof, these things shall lie like lean, withered, blasted things: the reason of that power and that strength that our Lusts have to this day in our hearts, it is because we are so lean and thin and weak in the things of God: strong Grace makes Corruptions weak, and strikes them thorow, laying them at the point of death, always gasping for life: thus it was with Moses, he had such Grace in his Soul, and such Communion with God, that though he had yet a Body of Sin within him, it was a rare thing for him to see his wretchedness; that is, to see it pirt, lively, and powerful in him: indeed God saith, That upon the Land of his