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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 he carried me away in the Spirit, &c.
Thus it was with the Saints of old, when God had either special Work for them to do, or great things for them to see: Ezekiel, when he had the vision of this City in the old Law, in the Captivity at Babylon, he must be first fore-fitted with a competent measure of the Spirit, Ezek. 40. 2. John also, when he had the whole matter of this Prophecy revealed ⟨p. 8⟩unto him, he must be in the Spirit; I was (saith he) in the Spirit on the Lords day, and heard behind me a great Voice, as of a Trumpet, talking with me, &c. Rev. 1. 10, 11. Whence note again, That when God calls a man to this or1 that Work for him, he first fits him with a suitable Spirit: Ezekiel saith, when God bid him stand upon his Feet, That the Spirit entered into him, and set him upon his Feet, Ezek. 2. 1, 2.
Thus it was with the Saints of old, when God had either special Work for them to do, or great things for them to see: Ezekiel, when he had the vision of this City in the old Law, in the Captivity at Babylon, he must be first fore-fitted with a competent measure of the Spirit, Ezek. 40. 2. John also, when he had the whole matter of this Prophecie revealed ⟨p. 8⟩unto him, he must be in the Spirit; I was (saith he) in the Spirit on the Lords day, and heard behinde me a great Voice, as of a Trumpet, talking with me, &c. Rev. 1. 10, 11