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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.
First, An implicit declaration, whither it goes. And,
Secondly, A discovery of its gradual extension to those to whom it goes.
Secondly, A discovery of its gradual extention to those to whom it goes.
First, Touching to whom or whither it goes; it is let out both to the Jews and Gentiles indifferently; and so it never yet was, since the Foundations of the Jewish Church; for in the time of the old Testament it did run to the Jews in special, and in the times of the New-Testament ⟨p. 257⟩hitherto, unto us the Gentiles in special▪ • but now it shall in this manner be extended to sinners no longer; not now to the Jews without the Gentiles, nor again, to them without the Jews, but equally, and alike to both, and on them both it shall work alike effectually: It shall be at that day, saith the Prophet, that Living Waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of 1them towards the former Sea, and half of them towards the hinder Sea. By Living Waters here, you are to understand the same with this in the Text; by the former Sea, the People of the Jews, for they were Gods former People; and by hinder Sea, the People of the Gentiles, for they are the younger Son: And because the whole World consisteth of these two People, therefore Ezekiel in his Vision •uts them both together, calling them •he Fish of one great Sea, to which this Water of Life shall run, and upon whose Fish it shall have alike operation, even o heal them, and make them live without respect either to this or that party.