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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 Curse in this place we are chiefly to understand, not the taking away of the Curse, the eternal Curse which separates between God and the soul for ever; for so the Curse in this sense hath always been taken away, by virtue of the terms, the general terms of the New-Covenant, and that in common for every Saint in all ages: But by Curse here, we are1 to understand that, or those Curses, that do, and have frequently befallen the Church for her Sin and Apostasy; as2 namely, the giving up his People to their own darkness and ignorance; his suffering3 them to swerve from his true Worship and Ordinances; his giving them up into the hand of those that hate them, to become among them a hissing, a taunt, ⟨p. 284⟩a reproach, and a by-word, as it is at this day: his taking away from them the means, to wit, the outward Word of the Gospel, and suffering them to be even at the point to famish for the want thereof. These and other things are the Curses that he here saith shall be no more among his People; for indeed they shall not, because the Gospel-Pattern shall never be removed more; nor their Light to see, nor their Love to practise, never be4 diminished more; Their defence, also, shall be the munition of Rocks; bread shall be given them, and their waters shall be sure: As here, you find the Tree & River of the Water of Life are fixed now in the midst of this City. Wherefore now the Church (as I have all-along showed you) shall have her Sun at the height; her Light as the light of seven days, and shall go no more down for ever: Also she shall never be pulled down; She shall be a Tabernacle that shall never be pulled down, neither shall one of the cords thereof be loosed, or one of her stakes again removed. There shall be no more Curse.
By Curse in this place we are cheifly to understand, not the taking away of the Curse, the eternal Curse which separates between God and the soul for ever; for so the Curse in this sence hath always been taken away, by vertue of the terms, the general terms of the New-Covenant, and that in common for every Saint in all ages: But by Curse here, we are