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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.
This is rendered as the reason, why at this day both the light of Sun and Moon are needless; it is, because the Glory of God did lighten it, and because the Lamb is the light thereof. Now the Glory of God must be understood in this place, not of that Glory that doth attend the Church in this world, for that Glory doth attend the Church upon the account of her Purity of Worship, of Temple-Worship, and doth either abide on her, or withdraw it self, according to her exact observing the Rule, or declining from it, as I have showed you in the *beginning of this discourse. But the Glory that here you read of, it is a Glory that supplieth this City without those Ordinances, yea, therefore, those Ordinances (as the Temple and the light of the Sun and Moon) do cease because of the Glory of this Glory that now is come into this City: The City had no need of the Sun, neither of the Moon to shine in it ⟨p. 211⟩(mark) for the Glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the Light thereof.
This is rendered as the reason, why at this day both the light of Sun and Moon are needless; it is, because the Glory of God did lighten it, and because the Lamb is the light thereof. Now the Glory of God must be understood in this place, not of that Glory that doth attend the Church in this world, for that Glory doth attend the Church upon the account of her Purity of Worship, of Temple-Worship, and doth either abide on her, or withdraw it self, according to her exact observing the Rule, or declining from it, as I have shewed you in the *beginning of this discourse. But the Glory that here you read of, it is a Glory that supplieth this City without those Ordinances, yea, therefore, those Ordinances (as the Temple and the light of the Sun and Moon) do cease because of the Glory of this Glory that now is come into this City: The City had no need of the Sun, neither of the Moon to shine in it ⟨p. 211⟩(mark) for the Glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the Light thereof.
- *See the Exposition of the 11 vers.