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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.
And the City had no need of the Sun, neither of the Moon to shine in it.
This word Moon also, as well as that1 of the Sun, is to be taken divers ways in the Scriptures of Truth; sometimes for the natural one, sometimes for the World and Persecutors, &c. but Moon here, is to be taken for the Church of God, with reference to her Life, Conversation, Duties, and exemplary Behaviour, in which she is conversant on this side Glory; according to that of the Song, Who 2is this that looketh forth as the Morning, fair as the Sun, clear as the Moon, and terrible as an Army with Banners? When he saith then, that at this day there shall be here no need of the shining light of the Moon, he means that this City at this day in the state she is in when she hath the Person of the Lamb in her, then she shall have no need of the growth of Christianity, for they shall be all perfect; nor no need of Mortification, for there shall be no Sin: they shall not need now, as in time past, to exhort and encourage one another to stick fast to the Promise,3 for they shall be swallowed up of Life ⟨p. 208⟩and open Vision: Here shall be no need either of Prayer, of Repentance, of Faith, or of good Works, as afore: And the City had no need of the Sun, neither of the Moon to shine in it.