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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.
And the Leaves, &c.
There is yet another Mystery lieth in these words.
He doth not say, And the Fruits thereof are for the healing of the Nations, but the Leaves; by which he would have us to understand, that all the benefits, and privileges that we do here receive from Christ, they are as inferior to the Glory we shall have from him when we come to Heaven, as inferior, I say, as the Leaves are to the Fruit. Again, The comfort and sweetness that at any time we receive from the Lord, it is not before, but after a Promise is suitably applied, even as the Fruit of the Tree with which the body is comforted, is not before, but after the Leaves have put forth themselves. Wherefore Christ might well ⟨p. 282⟩say to Nathaniel (and that after he had received some refreshment from a Leaf)1 Thou shalt see greater things than these; and Paul, That yet a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory is laid up for 2all Believers: for indeed, indeed, the Glory that God hath prepared for us against the day of God, it doth, and will more outstrip the most high Enjoyment of the highest Saint in New-Jerusalem (notwithstanding their Enjoyment will be so eminent) than doth the sweetest Fruit outstrip the Leaf that hangeth on that Tree: And the Leaves of the Tree were for the healing of the Nations.
He doth not say, And the Fruits thereof are for the healing of the Nations, but the Leaves; by which he would have us to understand, that all the benefits, and priviledges that we do here receive from Christ, they are as inferior to the Glory we shall have from him when we come to Heaven, as inferior, I say, as the Leaves are to the Fruit. Again, The comfort and sweetness that at any time we receive from the Lord, it is not before, but after a Promise is suitably applied, even as the Fruit of the Tree with which the body is comforted, is not before, but after the Leavs have put forth themselves. Wherefore Christ might well