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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.
He that entereth not by these Gates1 into the City, he cannot walk in newness ⟨p. 186⟩of life; but he that hath entered in by2 them, he cannot but walk in newness of life. The next thing then that a man passeth into, when he is entered in to the New Jerusalem, is to walk in the STREET thereof, the way of Holiness, even the way in which men learn to fear God, and to believe in, and love the Lord Jesus, &c.
Secondly, Now this Street or way of1 Holiness, it is on purpose called, not many, but one, to show us the perfection of Light, Grace, Faith and spiritual Comfort that the Inhabitants of this City2 shall then enjoy. Daniel also calleth it ONE Street, to signify the same thing: Wherefore from hence I gather that then all Saints shall walk (as before I have made appear) even in one Street, in one Way, and in one Light. It is Antichrist that hath brought in all those Crossings, By-Laws, and odd Nooks that to this day many an honest heart doth greatly lose it self in; but at this day they shall be otherwise minded, that is, made all to savour one thing, and to walk one way, not biting and devouring each other as now. And indeed, there is all reason it should be thus, for the Street it self is but one: