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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
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Again, That this outward Gospel-Worship should be laid aside while the Church is in this World, before her Lord doth come to be enjoyed by her, as touching his Personal Presence; it looks too like Ranting Opinions, and contradiction to Scripture, for me to believe: 1 Cor. 11. 26. for when He comes, but not till then, shall these things be laid aside.
Besides, That which yet confirms me more fully in this Opinion, is, Because herein this New Jerusalem doth most exactly answer the City and Temple, which was builded after the Captivity; which City and Temple being once built, it stood till Christ our Lord did visit them in his own Personal coming the first time; as the Prophets also said it should: The Lord whom ye seek, saith one, shall suddenly come to his Temple; even the Messenger of the Covenant, whom ye delight in, behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of Hosts: And again, I will shake all Nations, and the Desire of all Nations shall come; and I will fill this House with ⟨p. 200⟩glory, saith the Lord of Host: Wherefore the glory of this latter House shall be greater than that of the former, saith the Lord of Hosts: And I will give Peace in this place, saith the Lord of Hosts, Mal. 3. 1. Hag. 2. 6, 7, 8, 9.
Now observe, That from the time of the building of the second Temple, to the coming of Christ, the Worship of the Temple-Order was to be by all most devoutly and continually observed: but when the Lord Jesus was come, and had established his own more honourable and New-Testament-Dispensation, then all the former Temple-Worship fell to the ground, and became (with all the Instruments of Worship that thereunto belonged) null and void; yea, and it was a derogation to his Gospel to offer to uphold that former way of Worship, after he had by his own Personal Presence and Spirit, brought in that other Dispensation. All which, I say, will be answered by our second and New-Testament New Jerusalem: For as the old Jerusalem was builded after the Jews were come out of literal Babylon, so is our New Jerusalem builded after our coming out of the Antichristian Oppression of