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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.
Having thus spoken to the Water, what it is, as also to whom it extends it self, and how it proceeds: He now comes to show us from whence and from whom it doth come. It proceeds, saith he, from the Throne of God and of the Lamb, Out of the Throne of God; this Throne of God, 1it is in another place called the Mercy-Seat, and Throne of Grace, from which, as always, so now in a special manner he will issue forth of himself in the glory of the Gospel of the Grace of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, to the Inhabitants of this City. When he saith therefore, that it doth proceed out of the Throne of God, it is as if he had said, I saw, that ⟨p. 261⟩from the yearning bowels of the great God did flow continually the Living Streams of the everlasting Fountains of Grace, and that not only to, but in the midst of this City, wherewith her Inhabitants are continually watered and their Pastures kept always green and flourishing.2 Ho every one that thirsteth, Come ye to the Waters.
Having thus spoken to the Water, what it is, as also to whom it extends it self, and how it proceeds: He now comes to shew us from whence and from whom it doth come. It proceeds, saith he, from the Throne of God and of the Lamb, Out of the Throne of God; this Throne of God, 1it is in another place called the Mercy-Seat, and Throne of Grace, from which, as always, so now in a special manner he will issue forth of himself in the glory of the Gospel of the Grace of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, to the Inhabitants of this City. When he saith therefore, that it doth proceed out of the Throne of God, it is as if he had said, I saw, that ⟨p. 261⟩from the yearning bowels of the great God did flow continually the Living Streams of the everlasting Fountains of Grace, and that not only to, but in the midst of this City, wherewith her Inhabitants are continually watered and their Pastures kept always green and flourishing.2