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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.
Vers. 25. And the Gates of it shall not be shut at all by day, for there shall be no night there.
This is the effect of what you read before; namely, of the coming in of the Kings and Great ones of the Earth to this Jerusalem: For when the Whore is made desolate, and naked, and burned with fire, and when the Kings also that loved her, and that maintained her, are come in, and have closed with the Glory and Beauty of this City, then what need is there to shut the Gates? Alas, all the injuries that the Kings and Great Ones of the Earth have done to the Church and Spouse of Christ in these days of the New Testament, it hath been through the Instigation and Witchcraft of this Mistress of Iniquity. The Horseman hath lift up both the bright Sword, and the glittering 1Spear, against the Saints of God, by reason of the multitudes of the Whoredoms of ⟨p. 229⟩the well-favoured Harlot, the Mistress of Witchcrafts, who selleth Nations through her Whoredoms, and families through her Witchcrafts. Wherefore, I say, this Gentlewoman being laid in her grave, and all her fat ones gone down to the sides of the pit; these Kings will change their mind, and fall in love with the true and chaste Matron, and with Christ her Lord: Now2 when this is thus, this City must needs be safely inhabited as towns without walls, and as a place, near to which there is neither3 Thief nor ravenous Beast.
This is the effect of what you read before; namely, of the coming in of the Kings and Great ones of the Earth to this Jerusalem: For when the Whore is made desolate, and naked, and burned with fire, and when the Kings also that loved her, and that maintained her, are come in, and have closed with the Glory and Beauty of this City, then what need is there to shut the Gates? Alas, all the injuries that the Kings and Great Ones of the Earth have done to the Church and Spouse of Christ in these days of the New Testament, it hath been through the Instigation and Witchcraft of this Mistris of Iniquity. The Horseman hath lift up both the bright Sword, and the glittering