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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, Because they are the last words •f the description of her Glory, (that is, lose and the words ensuing, which is •t one and the same continued speech) •d it is easy to conclude that John in •is description of this City, doth from •st to last, even from the first appearing ⟨p. 196⟩of her as she cometh out of Babylon, till she be perfect in Glory, give us the relation of it: first, I say, showing us her descending, then her building, and afterward the Glory of that building; at the end of which also he showeth to us with what Glory he will crown this Glory, even by swallowing of her up with a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory.
First, Because they are the last words •f the description of her Glory, (that is, •ese and the words ensuing, which is •t one and the same continued speech) •d it is easie to conclude that John in •is description of this City, doth from •st to last, even from the first appearing ⟨p. 196⟩of her as she cometh out of Babylon, till she be perfect in Glory, give us the relation of it: first, I say, shewing us her descending, then her building, and afterward the Glory of that building; at the end of which also he sheweth to us with what Glory he will crown this Glory, even by swallowing of her up with a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory.
Secondly, Because in these words he doth absolutely cut off all and every why[…] of her outward and external Glory; tha is, as to outward Ordinances, and Temple-Worship, which yet was to be most famous for a long time in this new and goodly City; which he verifies in the eleventh Chapter of this Prophecie (which Chapter is a summary collecting of the Church in her Fall and Rise under Antichrist, which Church there in he Rise, is this City here in her Glory in th[…] World) he tells us there, I say, that whe the Kingdoms of this World were become th Kingdoms of the Lord, and of his Chris[…] that THEN THE TEMPLE OF GOD WAS OPENED IN HEAVEN; tha is, Temple-Worship under the Gosp[…] recovered into its former and Primitive state and Purity, in which it was before