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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.
First, To show us how great and numerous a People will then be in the Church; the Church may be a Woman, a ⟨p. 17⟩Temple, a Spouse, when she is but few, but an handful, but two or three; but to be a City, and that in her glory, it bespeaks great store of Members, Inhabitants, and Citizens; especially when she goeth under the name of a GREAT City, as here she does: He showed me that GREAT City.
First, To shew us how great and numerous a People will then be in the Church; the Church may be a Woman, a ⟨p. 17⟩Temple, a Spouse, when she is but few, but an handful, but two or three; but to be a City, and that in her glory, it bespeaks great store of Members, Inhabitants, and Citizens; especially when she goeth under the name of a GREAT City, as here she does: He shewed me that GREAT City.
Secondly, She goeth rather under the name of a City, than Temple or Spouse; to show us also how plentifully the Nations and Kingdoms of men shall at that day traffic with her, and in her, for her goodly Merchandise of Grace and Life: to show us, I say, what wonderful custom the Church of God at this day shall have among all sorts of People, for her Heavenly Treasures. It is said of Tyre 1and Babylon, That their Merchandise went into all the World, and men from all quarters under Heaven came to trade and to deal with them for their Wares: why thus it will be in the latter day with the Church of God, the Nations shall come from far; from Tarshish, Pull, Lud, Tubal, Javan, and the Isles afar off; They shall come, saith God, out of all Nations upon Horses and Mules, and upon swift Beasts, to my holy Mountain Jerusalem: ⟨p. 18⟩And it shall come to pass, that from one new Moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord,