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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.
Having thus told us how, and with1 what he was qualified, he next makes relation of what he saw, which was, that great City, the holy Jerusalem.
- 1Jerusalem considered in general.
Jerusalem in the Language of the Scripture is to be acknowledged for the Church and Spouse of the Lord Jesus; and is to be considered either generally, or more particularly: Now as she is to be taken generally, so she is to be understood as being †the whole Family in Heaven and Earth; and as she is thus looked upon, so she is not considered with respect to this or that state and condition of the Church here in the world, but simply, as she is the Church: therefore it is said, when at any time any are converted from Satan to God, That they are come to ⟨p. 12⟩Mount Zion, the City of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem; to an innumerable Company of Angels; to the general Assembly and Church of the first-born that are written in Heaven; to God the Judge of all, and to the Spirits of Just men made perfect; to Jesus, and to the Blood of sprinkling, Heb. 12. 22, 23, 24.
Jerusalem in the Language of the Scripture is to be acknowledged for the Church and Spouse of the Lord Jesus; and is to be considered either generally, or more particularly: Now as she is to be taken generally, so she is to be understood as being †the whole Family in Heaven and Earth; and as she is thus looked upon, so she is not considered with respect to this or that state and condition of the Church here in the world, but simply, as she is the Church: therefore it is said, when at any time any are converted from Satan to God, That they are come to