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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.
Having thus showed us the glory of this City, Wall, and Foundations, he now comes to show us the glory of the Gates, and of the Street of the City.
Having thus shewed us the glory of this City, Wall, and Foundations, he now comes to shew us the glory of the Gates, and of the Street of the City.
And the twelve Gates are twelve Pearls.—
The Gates, I told you before, they1 signify Christ, both as he is the way to communion with the God of this City, and with the Inhabitants thereof, that so ⟨p. 179⟩they may have a share in the Privileges of the same. I told you also then, that though he tells us exactly of the measure both of City and Wall, yet he tells us nothing of the measure of these twelve Gates, and goings in thereat; and the reason is, because, Christ as he is the way to Grace, He is beyond all measure, both as to fullness and freeness, Ephes. 3. 8. And now again he puts us to the same plunge with the unsearchable riches of the Lord Christ; for who can count the worth of a Pearl as big as the Gates of a City? as indeed, when Christ himself doth speak of the Parable of the Pearl in the Field, he only telleth us that there is such a one, but never valueth the worth thereof, only he saith, a Pearl of great price, and so leaveth it, Mat. 13. 35, 36. Now when he saith that the Gates are Pearls, he thereby insinuates several things. As