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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 again, The building here spoken of, is a building of this Wall after the destruction of Antichrist, and so long after Christ was sent, and made these things in his own Person, to his beloved and blessed1 Church: Wherefore the building of this Wall that is here spoken of, it must be understood of the recovering again the purity of those Doctrines in which the Lord Jesus with all his Benefits is found and made ours, for our everlasting Defence and Safety: For we find that the King of Babylon, who was a Type of our ⟨p. 141⟩Antichrist, when he came up against Jerusalem, the Type of our Primitive Church, he brake down their City, destroyed their Walls, rifled their Houses, and killed their Children; whose steps, I say, our Antichrist follows to a hair, in treading down the Primitive Church, corrupting her Doctrines (which are her Safeguard2 and Wall) also robbing and spoiling the Houses of God, and killing his Children with a thousand Calamities; turning all the heavenly Frame and Order of Church-Government into an heap of Rubbish, and a confused Dunghill.
But again, The building here spoken of, is a building of this Wall after the destruction of Antichrist, and so long after Christ was sent, and made these things in his own Person, to his beloved and blessed1 Church: Wherefore the building of this Wall that is here spoken of, it must be understood of the recovering again the purity of those Doctrines in which the Lord Jesus with all his Benefits is found and made ours, for our everlasting Defence and Safety: For we find that the King of Babylon, who was a Type of our ⟨p. 141⟩Antichrist, when he came up against Jerusalem, the Type of our Primitive Church, he brake down their City, destroyed their Walls, rifled their Houses, and killed their Children; whose steps, I say, our Antichrist follows to a hair, in treading down the Primitive Church, corrupting her Doctrines (which are her Safeguard2