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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.
Fourthly, And why it should look like transparent Glass?
For the First, A Street ordinarily is the place of common concourse, and the place of continual open salutation, and taking acquaintance one of another; and as touching this Street, we are also to understand it of the open and common place, or way of Gods Worship in which Saints salute each other, and acquaint ⟨p. 184⟩themselves together; also here the World are converted, Saints built up and edified, &c. Wisdom crieth without, she uttereth 1her voice in the Streets, saith Solomon, she crieth in the chief places of concourse, in the opening of the Gates: in the City she uttereth her words; that is, in the public2 and righteous Ordinances of the Lord Jesus, which he hath ordained in his Church, for men to travel and trade in, for the good and wholesome merchandise3 of Heaven, as the men of this world do for the things thereof, in the Streets and Open places of their Cities and places of privilege.
For the First, A Street ordinarily is the place of common concourse, and the place of continual open salutation, and taking acquaintance one of another; and as touching this Street, we are also to understand it of the open and common place, or way of Gods Worship in which Saints salute each other, and acquaint ⟨p. 184⟩themselves together; also here the World are converted, Saints built up and edified, &c. Wisdom cryeth without, she uttereth 1her voice in the Streets, saith Solomon, she cryeth in the chief places of concourse, in the opening of the Gates: in the City she uttereth her words; that is, in the publick