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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.
Lastly, One thing more of this goodly ⟨p. 174⟩1Jasper, and then to the rest; which thing is this, That Jasper that here you find to be the first in the twelve Foundations, even that Jasper you find to be last of all among the Stones in the *Brest-Plate of Judgment: from whence you may note, 1. That Christ as he is to be the †Author or first of our Faith, so also he is to be the Finisher or last of our Faith. 2. That as he is to be the *Captain and Leader of his People, so he is to be the Rear-ward and Bringer-up of his People, he is to go before them to lead them the way; and to come behind them to bring them all up. 3. Again, forasmuch as he is said to be last before he is first; that is, last in Exodus, and after that, first in the Revelations; it may be to show us, that Christ was first to be least, lowest and last, and then to be Greatest, Highest, and First. He first humbled himself to the death, even to the shameful death of the Cross; and then was by God his Father exalted and placed above every name: As he also5 himself doth witness, saying, Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to have entered into his Glory? Luke 24, 26.
Lastly, One thing more of this goodly ⟨p. 174⟩1Jasper, and then to the rest; which thing is this, That Jasper that here you find to be the first in the twelve Foundations, even that Jasper you find to be last of all among the Stones in the *Brest-Plate of Judgment: from whence you may note, 1. That Christ as he is to be the