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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.
First, In that the Foundations are all and every one of them Precious Stones, it signifieth that all the Doctrines of the New Jerusalem, will be only the precious Doctrine of the twelve Apostles; not common stuff, not raked out of the dunghills and muck-heaps of this world, and from among the toys of Antichrist, but spiritual, heavenly and glorious. He that hath his Word shall then speak it faithfully, For what is the chaff to the Wheat, saith the Lord? Jer. 23. 32.
First, In that the Foundations are all and every one of them Precious Stones, it signifieth that all the Doctrines of the New Jerusalem, will be only the precious Doctrine of the twelve Apostles; not common stuff, not raked out of the dunghils and muck-heaps of this world, and from among the toyes of Antichrist, but spiritual, heavenly and glorious. He that hath his Word shall then speak it faithfully, For what is the chaff to the Wheat, saith the Lord? Jer. 23. 32.
Secondly in that they are called after the names of Precious Stones, it signifieth also, that at that day none shall be used or put into the Ministry but those that have received spiritual and heavenly ⟨p. 176⟩Gifts from above. 'Tis not every babbling fellow, not those that look for their abilities from the rudiments of the world, that then shall be of any value or account: He must be a costly Stone, a stone about which the Lord Jesus hath bestowed the cost of his heavenly Abilities, even he whom the Lord Jesus shall appear unto for that very purpose, to make him a Minister: He shall be a Minister, and none else at that day. The other shall be ashamed every one of his vision; yea, and shall in those days be so contemptible, that their Father and their Mother shall reprove them, and count them liars;1 yea, and shall be ready to run them through, while they are prophesying in their rough garments to deceive.