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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.
And as there shall at this day be none admitted here, but such as are in truth visible Saints; so none must here continue but they that continue such: If any of those stones that are put in for building into the House of God, shall afterwards have the Plague found on them; then ⟨p. 241⟩the Priest shall command that such stones be 1taken away, and cast into the unclean place that is without the City. And observe it, that Congregation on Earth that admits only of such Persons as are visible Saints2 by calling and Profession, (though possibly some of them, as in the case of Judas and Demas, may be known to God to be non-elect, yet) that Church is holy round about the limits thereof: Provided also, that if at any time after that the Plague appears, they orderly proceed to deal with them, (as here things will be done to a tittle, and a hairs breadth.) Now the reason why the Church may be said to have some within her that are none Elect, and yet be counted holy still, it is, because the Church is to judge of Persons by their Words and Lives; they know not the Heart absolutely: and therefore if in Word and Life a man be as he ought, he is to be accounted a visible Saint, and orderly ought to be received of the Church as such: So that I say, as I said before, these words of bar•ing out Sinners out of the Church, they are not to be understood as if they intended that those should be debarred visible Communion, that in Word and Life ⟨p. 242⟩appeared visible Saints, that are so judged by the Rules of Christs Testament; but that such should be from it shut out, that appeared visible Sinners: Those that are Defilers, Workers of abomination, and Makers of Lies, none of these shall enter.
And as there shall at this day be none admitted here, but such as are in truth visible Saints; so none must here continue but they that continue such: If any of those stones that are put in for building into the House of God, shall afterwards have the Plague found on them; then ⟨p. 241⟩