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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.
Thus having showed his frame, and inward disposition of Spirit; he now comes to tell us also of the Place or Stage on which he was set; to the end that now being fitted by illumination, he might not be hindered of his Vision by ought that might intercept: He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high Mountain. Thus did God of old also; for when he showed to Moses the Patterns of the1 ⟨p. 10⟩heavenly things, he must ascend into the Mount Sinai; he must into the Mount also, when he hath the view of the holy 2Land, and of that goodly Mountain Lebanon: Whence we may learn, That the things of God are far from man as he is natural; and also that there are very great things between us and the sight of them; none can see them but such as are carried away in the Spirit, and set on high.
Thus having shewed his frame, and inward disposition of Spirit; he now comes to tell us also of the Place or Stage on which he was set; to the end that now being fitted by illumination, he might not be hindered of his Vision by ought that might intercept: He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high Mountain. Thus did God of old also; for when he shewed to Moses the Patterns of the1 ⟨p. 10⟩heavenly things, he must ascend into the Mount Sinai; he must into the Mount also, when he hath the view of the holy 2Land, and of that goodly Mountain Lebanon: Whence we may learn, That the things of God are far from man as he is natural; and also that there are very great things between us and the sight of them; none can see them but such as are carried away in the Spirit, and set on high.
- 1Exod. 19. 3.
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