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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.
First, That the walking and ways of Holiness of the Saints shall be more in the Power and Spirit of the Word than all along in the reign of Antichrist they have been. For transparent Glass, it is the most clear and excellent Glass, and goeth as far beyond other sorts of Glass, as he that walks in the Spirit and Power of the Commandment, goes beyond him that only walks in the Letter and outward Word thereof. Alas, the Churches of Christ at their first assembling, will be like the coming together of Ezekiels bones, clothed much with flesh and sinews, but greatly void of spirit and life, Ezek. 37. 7, 8. Wherefore the Spirit, Power, Holiness and Majesty that now will appear in the Church, it will greatly transcend and go beyond the Spirit, Power and Holiness that hath accompanied her in former days: Then shall the Sun be ashamed, and the Moon confounded, when the Lord shall reign in Mount Zion, &c. Then shall the Sun be ashamed, 1that is, then shall that little light and understanding of the Word that hath been ⟨p. 192⟩in the Church in the days when a third part of the glory of the Gospel was hid by the smoke of the Pit, be as it were2 laid aside, and be useless; every Saint shall be under the light of a Sun that shines seven-fold brighter, even as the light of seven days. We see it is so in some measure at this day; What Light, and with what clearness do the Saints in this day see the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God, beyond what the holy and goodly Martyrs and Saints did in the days that were before us, Hus, Bilny, Ridley, Hooper, Cranmer, with their Brethren, if they were now in the world, would cry out & say, Our light and knowledge of the Word of the Testament of Christ, was much inferior to the Light that at this day is broken forth, and that will yet daily, in despite of Men and Devils, display its Rays and Beams amongst the sons of men! When the Children of Israel were to depart the Land of Egypt, the Lord made known himself to them, otherwise than ever he made known himself †either to Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob their fathers.