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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.
But again, As Jerusalem is thus generally1 to be understood, so also she is to be considered more particularly: 1. Either as she relates to her first and purest state; or, 2. As she relates to her declined and captivated state; or, 3. With reference to her being recovered again from her apostatized and captivated condition: Thus it was with Jerusalem in the Letter; which threefold state of this City shall be most exactly answered by our Gospel-Jerusalem, by out New-Testament-Church. Her first state was in the days of Christ and his Apostles, and answered to Jerusalem in the days of Solomon; her second state is in the days of Antichrist, and answereth to the carrying away of the Jews from their City into Babylon; and her third state is this in the Text, and answereth to their return from Captivity, and rebuilding their City ⟨p. 13⟩and Walls again: All which will be fully manifest in this Discourse following.
- 1Jerusalem is to be considered more particularly.
Besides, That this holy City that here you read of, is the Church, the Gospel-Church, returning out of her long and Antichristian Captivity; consider,
First, She is here called a City, the very name that our Primitive †Church went under; which name she loseth all the while of her Apostatizing and Captivity under Antichrist: for observe, I say, all the while she is under the scourge of the Dragon, Beast, and the Woman in Scarlet, &c. she goeth under the name of