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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.
The Mother of Harlots had some knowledge of the Beauty and Glory of this Stone, and knew that it had a very taking ⟨p. 181⟩and drawing Glory in it; and therefore she gets it for some time to adorn her self withal, She was decked with Gold 1and precious Stones, and Pearls, and was therefore called the well-favoured Harlot, 2by which means she hath drawn into her lewdness the Kings and Kingdoms of the world; who have in such sort been entangled with her Beauty, and with her Fornication, that they have been adulterated from God and their own Salvation: For indeed, she used this Pearl but for to get them to drink of her Fornication, that they might drink, and spue, and fall and never rise more. But now when he saith, the Gates are Pearl, it is as if he had said, This Woman is stripped of her beauty and delicate ornaments, the† Pearl is taken from her, and is set in his right place, even to be for the Gates of Jerusalem. Wherefore it is to be expected, that many should be taken with the way of entrance into this beloved City, in the day that she shall be set up, and appear in her heavenly4 beauty. The glory of that City must needs be great, whose Wall is Jasper, and Gates are Pearl.
The Mother of Harlots had some knowledge of the Beauty and Glory of this Stone, and knew that it had a very taking ⟨p. 181⟩and drawing Glory in it; and therefore she gets it for some time to adorn her self withal, She was decked with Gold 1and precious Stones, and Pearls, and was therefore called the well-favoured Harlot, 2by which means she hath drawn into her lewdness the Kings and Kingdoms of the world; who have in such sort been entangled with her Beauty, and with her Fornication, that they have been adulterated from God and their own Salvation: For indeed, she used this Pearl but for to get them to drink of her Fornication, that they might drink, and spue, and fall and never rise more. But now when he saith, the Gates are Pearl, it is as if he had said, This Woman is stript of her beauty and delicate ornaments, the