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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.
I find by the search of the Scriptures, that there is divers sorts of Gold in the World; there is the Gold of the Land of Havillah, the Gold of Parvaim, the Gold of Ophir, the Gold of Sheba, and the Gold of Uphaz, Gen. 2. 11. 2 Chron. 3. 6. Job 22. 24. Psal. 72. 15. Jer. 10. 9. Now seeing he saith the City is Gold, yet not distinguishing what Gold, or which, we may suppose in this place he means Gold of all these sorts: and indeed it is most ⟨p. 153⟩agreeable to this Text, thus to judge: for the Church at this day shall be made up of the twelve Tribes that are scattered abroad, and of the Gentile Nations both far and near; who as they now lie, are, for ought I can learn, at as great a distance, and as remote from one another (not only in knowledge and affections) but touching the places of their abode, as are the Golden Mines, out of which the Gold that I spake of before, is digged and fetched: Thus shall Gold, the Golden Saints of God, at this day be gathered out of the several Golden Mines of the World, and be brought to King Solomon the Son of David, our Lord Jesus, to Jerusalem, with which he will build him a Golden shining City, the Joy of all the World.
I find by the search of the Scriptures, that there is divers sorts of Gold in the World; there is the Gold of the Land of Havillah, the Gold of Parvaim, the Gold of Ophir, the Gold of Sheba, and the Gold of Uphaz, Gen. 2. 11. 2 Chron. 3. 6. Job 22. 24. Psal. 72. 15. Jer. 10. 9