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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.
Alas! This Wall is yet unbuilt, the Offices of the Lord Jesus do not yet shine in that purity, nor so stand in their proper places, as they shall do at the coming in of New Jerusalem: the Wall lies yet but as an heap of Rubbish; the Offices of the Lord Christ are to this day by many Preachers confounded, and removed 1to and fro, even like loose and rolling stones; these Offices also are by others 2attributed to Antichrist, and his Children of Iniquity; but at this day the Nations shall know themselves to be but men, and the Doctrines of Christ shall be set again in their own places: Now shall every going into this City, and every going out thereof, stand where 3it ought; and now shall every Tower and Fortress on this Wall be placed as in the days of old; which Towers and Fortresses are the glorious Names and Attributes of the Father and Christ: for the Name of the Lord is a strong Tower, the Righteous flee into it, and are safe: and again, Thou hast been a shelter to me, and ⟨p. 143⟩a strong Tower from the Enemy: Wherefore now, I say, shall the Name of God, as Lord of all, and Father of his Church, with the Names of the Son, as Head, Saviour, and King of kings, be as the Bulwarks4 to this City, to which shall be added all the Promises, Consolations, Encouragements, &c. in the blessed Book of God, out of which this City continually shall suck the Milk and Nourishment of the unsearchable Grace of God to them; to all which shall be added many new pieces of Timber in the Wall (for so 5it was in the Type at the rebuilding of the City) by which new pieces, I gather, that the special Providence of God, and his Protection, shall be at this day so fastened in this Wall for the complete delivering of this City both from Hell and Earth, that she shall stand in full force, safety, and peace, even till the Heavens and the Earth shall be no more. Now when this Wall is thus set up, even every Truth and Office of Christ, in is own true natural force, about this City; and when God in his special and most endeared affections shall engage himself even everlastingly to keep this City safe from all storms and tempests, and trouble and