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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.
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: ⟨p. 187⟩There is but ONE God, ONE Lord Jesus, 3ONE Spirit, ONE Faith, ONE Baptism, 4even as we are also called in ONE hope of our Calling: Now therefore when Saints5 have the rubbish of Antichristian darkness6 and trumpery removed; then they shall have, as they also had of old, but one Heart, one Soul, one Judgment, one Mind, and shall with one heart and mouth glorify God. The which also shall be prayed for of all the Saints, even of all that have received the pure language, before these things come to pass. They shall call upon the Name of the Lord with ONE Lip, to serve him with ONE Consent, Zeph. 3. 9. Oh! the heavenly, spiritual harmony that will be in the City of God in those days, †when the Trumpeters and Singers shall be as One, to make One Sound, then the House shall be filled with a Cloud.