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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. 27. And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie, but they which are written in the Lambs Book of Life.
I am not yet convinced that the highest Church-state that ever was, or ever will be in this World, could possibly be so all of them the Elect of God, but that there would get in among them some that had not saving Grace; the same also I believe touching the state of this Jerusalem: But yet this I do believe again, that the right and Gospel-Pattern is, That none be admitted into Church-Communion, ⟨p. 240⟩but such who are visible Saints 1by Calling; the substance of which these words import, There shall not enter into it any thing that [defileth] or that [worketh] abomination, or that [maketh a lye;] which words do principally strike at a People that appear to be loose, wicked, or ungodly; of which sort indeed, not one shall here at any time, no not in any wise, be admitted Entrance: for now shall all the Forms, and all the Ordinances, and all the forms of the Goings out of2 the Church of God, and the Comings in to it, be so exactly opened to these People, and they so punctual and distinct in3 the observation of them, that it will not be possible that a Canaanite should be here for ever again found any more: This is the Law of the House, upon the top of the Mountains, the whole limit thereof shall be holy; behold, this is the Law of the House.