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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
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Fourthly, In that he saith the Names1 of the Twelve are in the Foundations, and yet that Christ should be one of the twelve himself; It showeth to us the Union that is between Christ and his holy People: Mark, In the twelve Foundations are placed all, even all manner of precious Stones: again, In the Twelve is placed the Jasper, Christ; by which we may see the nearness that is between Christ and his whole Body: I in them, and thou in me, saith Christ, that they may be made perfect in one, John 17. 23. 1 Cor. 12. 12. Christ and his Saints make but one Temple, one Man; being but one Flesh, one Nature, &c.
Fourthly, In that he saith the Names1 of the Twelve are in the Foundations, and yet that Christ should be one of the twelve himself; It sheweth to us the Union that is between Christ and his holy People: Mark, In the twelve Foundations are placed all, even all manner of precious Stones: again, In the Twelve is placed the Jasper, Christ; by which we may see the nearness that is between Christ and his whole Body: I in them, and thou in me, saith Christ, that they may be made perfect in one, John 17. 23. 1 Cor. 12. 12. Christ and his Saints make but one Temple, one Man; being but one Flesh, one Nature, &c.
- 1The 4th account.
Fifthly, In that this Jasper is said to1 be one of the Foundations, and that too the first and undermost; He showeth farther, that Christ is the Foundation of them before God, that are the Foundation of him before men: The Twelve do bear up Christ before the World, as the twelve brazen Oxen did hold up the