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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.
Now the Book of Life in this place ⟨p. 243⟩must not be so strictly taken as if it included those only that were elect of God to eternal Life, but must be understood of that Book wherein is recorded the Rules and Bounds of visible Church-Communion; and so all those that through the Gifts and Operations of special or common Grace, do fall within the compass of those Rules and Bounds. Thus it was in the Type, at the return out of Captivity, none were to be admitted entrance into the Church, but those that could show their Privileges by Genealogy, and the Records of the1 Church; and to others it was said, That they had neither Portion, nor Lot, nor Memorial in Jerusalem.
Now the Book of Life in this place ⟨p. 243⟩must not be so strictly taken as if it included those onely that were elect of God to eternal Life, but must be understood of that Book wherein is recorded the Rules and Bounds of visible Church-Communion; and so all those that thorow the Gifts and Operations of special or common Grace, do fall within the compass of those Rules and Bounds. Thus it was in the Type, at the return out of Captivity, none were to be admitted entrance into the Church, but those that could shew their Priviledges by Genealogy, and the Records of the1 Church; and to others it was said, That they had neither Portion, nor Lot, nor Memorial in Jerusalem.