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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 Foundations of the Wall were garnished with all manner of precious stones.
In these words, there is yet two things considerable:
First, That all who go to the adorning of these Foundations, they must be precious Stones, not a common stone shall here be owned: And indeed what should Pebbles do among the Pearls and the1 Diamonds of New-Jerusalem; or the stones of blackness and emptiness, among the Saints of Light! I tell you, that those which God doth reckon the adorning stones, ⟨p. 167⟩they are all, and every one, precious stones; they must be all lively, glistering, 2and curious stones, though stones of divers 3colours. Antichrist counts any thing sufficient enough to garnish her Apostles with, even the empty stones of confusion, the4 sinners that have no more grace in their souls than there is sap in a post that hath been this twenty years without either sap or water: But God will not count such for the beauty of his Word, nor for the garnishing and beautifying of the Doctrine of the Twelve: they are garnished with PRECIOUS STONES.
First, That all who go to the adorning of these Foundations, they must be precious Stones, not a common stone shall here be owned: And indeed what should Pebbles do among the Pearls and the