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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.
And the City was pure Gold.
Having thus given us a discovery of1 the glory of the Wall, he now comes to show us the glory of the City that is within the Wall: The City (faith he) is Gold, it is pure Gold: This was figured out by2 the Golden Candlesticks belonging to the Tabernacle and Temple among the Jews, which Candlesticks did then present unto us the worth and use of the Church of CHRIST; The seven Candlesticks are the seven Churches, says the3 Lord Christ himself. Now the City here ⟨p. 152⟩spoken of, is the Church in her highe• ▪ and greatest glory: Its state was also figured out by the Temple it self, whose Beams, Posts, Walls, Doors, and the like, were most famously covered over with Gold, 2 Chron. 3. 5, 6, 7. It was also (though but leanly) represented to us by the golden state of old Jerusalem in the days of Solomon the King, in which state Gold was so plentiful in the midst thereof, that Silver was nothing counted of among the Citizens there, in those days, but was as common as the Stones in the Street of the City, 2 Chron. 9. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 27.
Having thus given us a discovery of1 the glory of the Wall, he now comes to shew us the glory of the City that is within the Wall: The City (faith he) is Gold, it is pure Gold: This was figured out by