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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, &c.
Mark, And he carried me [away] &c. As a man must have much of the Spirit that sees much of God, and his goodly matters; so he must be also carried AWAY with it; he must by it be taken off from things carnal and earthly, and taken up into the glory of things that are spiritual and heavenly: the Spirit loveth to do what it doth in private; that man to whom God intendeth to reveal great things, he takes him aside from the lumber and cumber of this World, and carrieth him away in the solace and contemplation of the things of another World; And when they were alone, he expounded ⟨p. 9⟩1all things to his Disciples; mark, And when they were ALONE; according to that of the Prophet, Whom shall he teach Wisdom, and whom shall he make to understand Doctrine? they that are WEANED from the Milk, and DRAWN from the Breasts, Isa. 28. 9. Whence observe also, He is the man that is like to know most of God, that is oftenest in †private with him: He that obeyeth, when God saith, Come up hither, he shall see the Bride, the Lambs Wife: For a man through desire having SEPARATED himself, seeketh and intermedleth with all Wisdom, Prov. 18. 1.
Mark, And he carried me [away] &c. As a man must have much of the Spirit that sees much of God, and his goodly matters; so he must be also carried AWAY with it; he must by it be taken off from things carnal and earthly, and taken up into the glory of things that are spiritual and heavenly: the Spirit loveth to do what it doth in private; that man to whom God intendeth to reveal great things, he takes him aside from the lumber and cumber of this World, and carrieth him away in the solace and contemplation of the things of another World; And when they were alone, he expounded