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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, 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 ⟨p. 197⟩the coming in of the Man of Sin, Rev. 11. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. compared with Rev. 15. 8. which Temple he here utterly shutteth out, saying, I saw no Temple therein; in the room of which he setteth the presence of the Lord Jesus, and God his Father, making them to stand and be in the room of Temple and Gospel-Worship, in that manner as it is used while we here live in the Flesh: For the Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb, are the Temple of it. 'Tis true, the Lord God Almighty,1 and the Lamb, are the Temple of this Church in her lowest condition, therefore much more when she is brought into the condition that she is in at her rebuilding; but yet, neither in her low estate, nor yet in her highest, is it proper to say, that so long as she is in this World, God will be a Temple to her, in opposition to her Temple and Gospel-Worship, in outward and New-Testament-Administrations: Wherefore when he saith, He saw no Temple therein, and that from this reason, Because the Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb, are the Temple of it; he must needs aim at a state to which the Church cannot attain until her Lord comes: For