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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.
They shall walk in the light of it] That is, in the Light that is in it while it is in its purity in this world, and in the Glory ⟨p. 220⟩of it when it is in its perfection and immortality in another. Whence note by the way, that in the midst of all this Glory, or while the glorious light of the Gospel shall thus shine in the world, yet even then there will be some also that will not see and rejoice in the Glory hereof: But as for those, whoever they are, they are excluded from a share in the blessed and goodly Privileges of this City: The Nations of them that are [SAVED] shall walk in the light of it.
They shall walk in the light of it] That is, in the Light that is in it while it is in its purity in this world, and in the Glory ⟨p. 220⟩of it when it is in its perfection and immortality in another. Whence note by the way, that in the midst of all this Glory, or while the glorious light of the Gospel shall thus shine in the world, yet even then there will be some also that will not see and rejoyce in the Glory hereof: But as for those, whoever they are, they are excluded from a share in the blessed and goodly Priviledges of this City: The Nations of them that are [SAVED] shall walk in the light of it.
And the Kings of the Earth do bring their Glory and Honour to it.
By these words are great things held forth. He told us before that the Nations of them that are saved shall walk in the light of it; and here he tells us, that even1 their Kings also, the Kings of the Earth do bring their Honour and Glory to it. The people of the Nations they are but like to single-pence and half-pence, but their Kings like Gold Angels and Twenty-shilling-pieces. Wherefore when he saith, that the Kings of the Earth do bring their Glory and Honour unto it; It argueth, that the Gospel and the Grace of