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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, As by the Fruit of this Tree being yielded at certain seasons, We may gather that there are certain seasons in which the Word in an especial manner shall be blessed and made successful to the salvation of many souls: So again, in that he saith, This Fruit is yielded every month, it signifieth that in the days of the building of the City, the New-Jerusalem, these Seasons will be very thick and quick. Lift up thine eyes, saith God to this City, all these gather themselves together, to come unto thee; thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters from the ends of the Earth. All the Flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee (so that thou wandering by, shalt say) Who are these that fly as a cloud, and ⟨p. 278⟩as Doves to the windows. For I will make thy Mountain a way, and my high ways shall 1be exalted. Behold these shall come from far, and lo these from the North and the West, and those from the Land of Sinim.
Secondly, As by the Fruit of this Tree being yeelded at certain seasons, We may gather that there are certain seasons in which the Word in an especial manner shall be blessed and made successful to the salvation of many souls: So again, in that he saith, This Fruit is yeelded every month, it signifieth that in the days of the building of the City, the New-Jerusalem, these Seasons will be very thick and quick. Lift up thine eyes, saith God to this City, all these gather themselves together, to come unto thee; thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters from the ends of the Earth. All the Flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee (so that thou wandering by, shalt say) Who are these that flie as a cloud, and ⟨p. 278⟩as Doves to the windows. For I will make thy Mountain a way, and my high ways shall 1be exalted. Behold these shall come from far, and lo these from the North and the West, and those from the Land of Sinim.