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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.
Secondly, It showeth also that at the building of this Jerusalem, these Seasons will be very thick and quick; she yielded her Fruit every month.
Secondly, It sheweth also that at the building of this Jerusalem, these Seasons will be very thick and quick; she yeelded her Fruit every month.
Thirdly, It showeth us, also, the abundance of provision that this holy City shall then enjoy from the Tree of Life, even all manner of Fruit, every Month.
Thirdly, It sheweth us, also, the abundance of provision that this holy City shall then enjoy from the Tree of Life, even all manner of Fruit, every Month.
1. For the first, That the Gospel hath and will be especially effectual at certain Seasons for the saving of the sons of men: it is showed us by the descending of the Angel into the Pool of Bethesda to trouble the water, which as it was at certain seasons, so he that in those seasons first stepped in, he only was made whole o• 1whatsoever disease he had. It is showed us also in that Parable of the Lord's hiring men to work in his Vineyard; which time of hiring, though it lasteth in general from the first hour to the eleventh yet so, as that there were vacant seasons between hiring-times, and hiring-times2 quit through the whole day; he went out at the first, third, sixth, ninth, and eleventh hour, and not at every hour to hir• Labourers. For as God hath appointed out before hand the number of his Elect