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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.
Thus it was in the figure when the City Jerusalem was builded after the Captivity (as ours shall be at, and after the overthrow and downfall of Antichrist) for then it is said that the People, to hear the Law were gathered together in the Street, 1even in the Water-Street; there they heard the sense given, and there they were convinced of their wickedness: also there they received the knowledge of God's goodness to them, and there they received power to eat the fat and drink the sweet, to eat and drink and be merry, and to cast away sadness and fear, ⟨p. 185⟩Nehem. chap. 8. This by way of allegory is called the way for the wayfaring men, even the way of holiness, over which the unclean shall not in any wise pass: The way in which they learn to know God and themselves, and the way of newness of life, in which every one walks that entereth in by the Gates of New Jerusalem. And it is most suitable to the matter that went before, To understand the Street to be the way of God, the way of Holiness and Newness of life: because as it is natural for the Stranger, so soon as ever he is entered the Gates of a City, to have his feet in the Streets of the City; so it is natural for the sinner, so soon as ever he is entered into the Church by Christ, to have his feet treading2 in the way and paths of Holiness. Wherefore it is usual in the holy Scripture to call the transformation of the sinner3 from Satan to God, a holy way, and also to admonish him that is so transformed4 to walk in that way, saying, Walk in the Faith, Love, Spirit, and newness of Life, 5and walk in the Truth, Ways, Statutes and 6Judgments of God.
Thus it was in the figure when the City Jerusalem was builded after the Captivity (as ours shall be at, and after the overthrow and downfal of Antichrist) for then it is said that the People, to hear the Law were gathered together in the Street,