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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.
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 ⟨p. 201⟩spiritual Babylon: again, As that City did after she was builded, continue, and retain her Temple-Worship, until the Personal appearing of Christ the first time; so New Jerusalem shall retain and hold her outward New-Testament-Worship till He comes in Person the second time: After all which, as the second Temple was swallowed up of a more heavenly and spiritual Dispensation, by the Personal Presence of Christ; so shall also the New Jerusalem Temple-Worship be swallowed up by the glory of the appearing of the Person of Christ the second time; as Paul saith, for he speaks in the Person of Christ, Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to Doctrine, &c.