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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.
Seventhly, In that the Foundations1 are twelve, and Christ the undermost of them; It signifieth that all that are converted by the Twelve, as they shall be for the garnishing of the Twelve, so also both the Twelve, with all that they are garnished with, shall be for garnishing of Christ; we shall stick like Pearls in the Crowns of the twelve Apostles, and they again with all their Glory shall stick in the Crown of Christ. And hence it is that you find the four and twenty Elders, which four and twenty do (as I conceive) hold forth the Twelve both in the first and second Jerusalem; I say, hence it is that you find them take their Crowns from off their Heads, and cast them down before the Throne of God,2 and of the Lamb, crying, Blessing, and Honour, and Glory, and Power be unto Him 3that sits upon the Throne, and to the Lamb, for ever and ever.
Seventhly, In that the Foundations1 are twelve, and Christ the undermost of them; It signifieth that all that are converted by the Twelve, as they shall be for the garnishing of the Twelve, so also both the Twelve, with all that they are garnished with, shall be for garnishing of Christ; we shall stick like Pearls in the Crowns of the twelve Apostles, and they again with all their Glory shall stick in the Crown of Christ. And hence it is that you finde the four and twenty Elders, which four and twenty do (as I conceive) hold forth the Twelve both in the first and second Jerusalem; I say, hence it is that you finde them take their Crowns from off their Heads, and cast them down before the Throne of God,2 and of the Lamb, crying, Blessing, and Honour, and Glory, and Power be unto Him 3that sits upon the Throne, and to the Lamb, for ever and ever.
- 1The 7th account.