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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.
Wherefore, I say, this Glory that now he speaks of, it is the Glory that shall possess this City at the end of her Glory in this world; wherefore, as saith the holy Ghost by Isaiah the Prophet, from this day forward, The Sun shall be no more thy light by day, neither for brightness shall the Moon give light unto thee; but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting Light, and thy God thy Glory, Isa. 60. 19.
For the Glory of God did lighten it, &c.
Thus it was at the finishing of the Tabernacle in the Wilderness, and of the Temple at Jerusalem; both which were figures in their finishing, of the finishing of the state of the Church in this world: and it is said of them, that in the day when they in all things were accomplished, according to the fashion that was revealed before concerning their Order and accomplishment, that then the Glory of God [so] appeared upon them, that 1neither Moses nor Aaron was able to enter in, or to stand therein, because of the Cloud, and of the Glory of the Lord that at that ⟨p. 212⟩time filled the House. Thus you see this City descends in one measure of Glory, and is consummate in another measure of Glory. The Glory of the Lord was upon the Mount Sinai while the pattern of the Tabernacle was giving: but it rested on the Tabernacle when the work thereof was finished; to signify, I say, that the Glory of God will rest in his Ordinances and in his Church by them, so long as Ordinances are in use: but when they are needless, then it will rest in the Church without them, and that more gloriously than ever it therein did rest by them.