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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.
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 the2 Molten Sea in the Temple; and Christ ⟨p. 172⟩doth bear up the Twelve before his Father, as the high Priests did carry the twelve Stones on their Brest-plate of Judgment, when they went to make an Atonement for the Sins of the People3 into the Holiest.
Fifthly, In that this Jasper is said to1 be one of the Foundations, and that too the first and undermost; He sheweth 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 the2 Molten Sea in the Temple; and Christ ⟨p. 172⟩doth bear up the Twelve before his Father, as the high Priests did carry the twelve Stones on their Brest-plate of Judgment, when they went to make an Atonement for the Sins of the People3 into the Holiest.
- 1The fifth account.
- 21 Kin. 7. 25.
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