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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.
THE EPISTLE To Four Sorts of READERS.
I. To the Godly Reader.
Friend,
Though the Men of this World, at the sight of this Book, will not only deride, but laugh in conceit, to consider that one so low, contemptible, and inconsiderable, as I, should busy ⟨image 3⟩my self in such sort, as to meddle with the exposition of so hard and knotty a Scripture, as here they find the subject matter of this little Book; yet do thou remember that God hath chosen the foolish things of this World to confound the wise, and things that 1are not, to bring to nought things that are: Consider also, that even of old it hath been his pleasure to hide these things from the wise and prudent, and to reveal them unto Babes.
THough the Men of this World, at the sight of this Book, will not onely deride, but laugh in conceit, to consider that one so low, contemptible, and inconsiderable, as I, should busie ⟨image 3⟩