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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 hate her, they shall make her desolate, and naked; they shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire, Rev. 17. 16. Now, Madam, what sayest thou! the Kings must come to Jerusalem. Jezebel, thy Chamber-companions will shortly, notwithstanding thy painted face, cast thee down headlong out at the windows. Yea, they shall tread thee in1 pieces by the feet of their prancing-Horses, and with the wheels of their jumping Chariots. They shall shut up all bowels of compassion towards thee, and shall roar upon thee like the Sea, and upon thy fat ones like the waves thereof. Yea, when they begin, they will also make an end, and will leave thee so harborless and comfortless, that now there will be found for thee no gladness at all,2 no not so much as one Piper to play thee one Fig. The delicates that thy soul lusted after, thou shalt find them no more at all. Babylon the glory of Kingdoms, and the beauty of the Chaldees excellency, shall be as ⟨p. 225⟩when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation; neither shall the Arabian pitch Tent there, nor Shepherds make their folds there, but wild Beasts of the Desert shall lie there, and their houses shall be full of doleful Creatures. And the †Satyrs shall dance there, and the wild Beasts of the Islands shall cry in their desolate places, and Dragons in their pleasant Palaces; and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged, Isa. 13. 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. Thus wilt thou come down wonderfully. For in thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and4 widow: in thee men carry tales to shed blood: in thee they eat upon the Mountains, and in thee they commit lewdness. God hath smitten his hands at thy dishonest gain, and all the blood which hath been in the midst of thee; God will be