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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.
Again, In that it is said that this Tree of Life is on either side of the River; it argueth that they who come at any time at this River for water to quench their thirst, and to make them live, they must come to it by the Tree of Life, which is Christ. In more easy terms, read it thus; There is none can partake of the Grace1 of God but by the man Christ Jesus, which is this Tree of Life; for this Tree,2 this Christ, doth stand on either side of the River, to signify that all Grace to us comes through his bloody Wounds,3 Death and Victory. I am the Way, saith Christ, the Truth and the Life, no man cometh to the Father but by me.
Again, In that it is said that this Tree of Life is on either side of the River; it argueth that they who come at any time at this River for water to quench their thirst, and to make them live, they must come to it by the Tree of Life, which is Christ. In more easie terms, read it thus; There is none can partake of the Grace1 of God but by the man Christ Jesus, which is this Tree of Life; for this Tree,2 this Christ, doth stand on either side of the River, to signifie that all Grace to us comes thorow his bloody Wounds,3 Death and Victory. I am the Way, saith Christ, the Truth and the Life, no man cometh to the Father but by me.