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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 this Tree of Life being in the midst of this City, it signifieth that the Inhabitants of it shall be sweetly shadowed, refreshed and defended with its coolness, and also sweetly nourished and comforted with its dainties: And hence it is that the Scriptures do hold him forth in his benefits to his Church, under ⟨p. 267⟩these very notions: As the Apple-tree is among the Trees of the Wood, so is my Beloved 1among the Sons. I sate down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. Indeed the shadow of this Tree of Life, as always it is refreshing to the tempted and weary, so now it will be far more: They that dwell 2under his shadow, shall return; they shall revive as the Corn, and grow as the Vine, and the scent thereof shall be as the Wine of Lebanon. Mark, 1. His shadow will make us return, that is, to our first Love; to the days of our youth, to our young, fresh, tender, and flourishing Faith, Love and Self-denial, that we received in the days of our Espousals. 2. As it will make us return to these, so it will make us revive in these; they shall return, and revive; they shall revive as the Corn; as the Corn doth when in the heat of Summer after long scorching, it it covered with cool Clouds, and watered with the bottles of Heaven. 3. As is shall make them return and revive, so it shall make them grow; they shall grow as the Vine, that is, speedily, fruitfully, and spreadingly. 4. This is not all, but the smell of Saints in those days ⟨p. 268⟩shall be excellent, They shall revive as the Corn, they shall grow as the Vine, and shall send forth their scent as the Wine of Lebanon. This Tree is a Perfuming-Tree, and makes them also that abide under the shadow thereof, to smell as sweet-smelling Myrrh; it makes them smell as the Wine of thy Grace, O Lord, and as the fragrant Ointments of Heaven. When the Spouse did but touch where her Lord had touched afore her, it made her hands drop with Myrrh, and her fingers with sweet-smelling Myrrh. O they will be green, savoury, reviving, flourishing, growing Christians, that shall walk the street of New-Jerusalem! I am, saith he, a green Fir-Tree, from me