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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.
According to the measure of a Man] The Man Christ Jesus: For the measure of this City, or the Golden Reed with which this City is thus measured, it is His†, his Word and Law of the New-Testament:2 All Judgment is committed into the hand of the Son; and God hath given him authority to execute Judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
—According to the measure of a Man, that is, of the Angel.
This Angel is one of the Seven that1 had the seven last Plagues to execute upon the Man of Sin, and yet he saith, the measure is according to the measure of a man; the meaning is, That the City, the New Jerusalem, is to be builded according to the Word of Christ; but yet by his Word as it is in the hand of his Angels, that is, his Messengers and Servants; of which Servants, the chief will be those that are his Instruments •o pour forth the seven Vials full of […] ven last Plagues upon the Antich[…]n Harlot: For they, with their Plagues, will both destroy what standeth in implacable opposition, and will subject the rest, and bring them into a correspondency with the Word and Will of God (as I have showed) Whence note, That they of his Servants that God shall use to pour forth his last and most dreadful Plagues upon the Whore, they are they that God will use to show us the Pattern of this holy City: Or thus, They that can tell how to plague the Whore, they