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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.
Thus having showed you the garnishing and beautifying of the twelve Foundations, he now comes to discover the Foundations themselves, with reference to their order of placing and lying.
Thus having shewed you the garnishing and beautifying of the twelve Foundations, he now comes to discover the Foundations themselves, with reference to their order of placing and lying.
Touching which order, he saith the first and bottom Foundation is a Jasper.
I have hitherto said that this Jasper in1 both the two afore-mentioned places, both as to the Light of this City, and also of the Wall, it was Jesus Christ; Christ illuminating, and Christ defending: But here the Jasper is said to be one of the twelve Foundations, even one of those Foundations in which are writ the Names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb, which one would think did put this Jasper now into another state, even to be a representation of one of the twelve Apostles, and not of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ himself: To which I shall ⟨p. 169⟩yet say, That the Jasper here in the order of the Foundations, is to be understood of Christ, as well as in the other two places in this Discourse; I say it is yet to be understood of representing the Lord Jesus, though it also doth bear the name of one of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb: And in this very thing there is an infolding Mystery wrapped up, and enclosed.
I have hitherto said that this Jasper in1