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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.
By Leaves here, we may understand the blessed and precious Promises, Consolations and Encouragements that by virtue of Christ's undertaking for us, we have every where growing upon the new Covenant; which Promises and Encouragements they are, and will be, most freely handed to the wounded conscience that will be tossed upon the restless waves of doubt and unbelief, as was the Olive-leaf by the Dove brought home to Noah, when he was tossed upon the1 waves of that outrageous Flood that then did drown the world.
By Leaves here, we may understand the blessed and precious Promises, Consolations and Encouragments that by vertue of Christ's undertaking for us, we have every where growing upon the new Covenant; which Promises and Encouragments they are, and will be, most freely handed to the wounded conscience that will be tossed upon the restless waves of doubt and unbelief, as was the Olive-leaf by the Dove brought home to Noah, when he was tossed upon the1 waves of that outragious Flood that then did drown the world.
- 1Gen. 11.
But again, by this word, the Leaves, You may conceive, that still he hath his eye to the Paradise in which at first God placed Adam and his Companion, for 'twas to Leaves they fled for covering, after they had transgressed against their1 Maker. Now then, in his saying the Leaves are for healing, it is as if he had said, the Paradise that will be towards the latter end of the world, will far outstrip the Paradise that first was planted in the beginning thereof; for as the Tree of Life, which is the Christ and Saviour, shall stand where did the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil, which is the Old Covenant, and Law of Works: So the Leaves of this Tree shall be for healing, and for covering the nakedness of poor transgressors; though the Leaves that Adam found in the first Paradise, do what he could, did leave him naked.