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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 lastly and more especially, The Church is called here a City, chiefly to show us that now she shall be undermost no longer: Babylon reigned, and so shall Jerusalem at this day; And thou, O Tower of the Flock, the strong hold of the Daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first Dominion, the Kingdom shall come to the Daughter of Jerusalem, Mic. 4. 8. Now shall she, when she is built and complete, have a complete Conquest and Victory over all her Enemies; she shall reign over them; the Law shall go forth of her that rules them, and the Governors of all the World at that day shall be Jerusalem-Men: And the Captivity of this Host of the Children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem which is in Sepharad, shall possess the Cities of the South: And Saviours shall come out of Mount Zion to judge the Mount of Esau, and the Kingdom shall be the Lords, Ob. 20, 21. For the Law shall go forth of Zion, and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem: And •e shall judge among many People, and rebuke strong Nations afar off, and they shall beat their Swords into Ploughshares, and their ⟨p. 20⟩Spears into Pruning-Hooks: Nation shall not lift up a Sword against Nation, neither shall they learn War any more, Mic. 4. 1, 2, 3. There brake he the Ships of Tarshish with an East wind: As we have heard, so have we seen in the City of the Lord of Hosts, in the City of our God; God will establish it for ever, Psal. 48. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. For observe it, Christ hath not only obtained the Kingdom of Heaven for those that are his, when this World is ended, but hath also, as a Reward for his Sufferings, the whole World given into his hand; wherefore as all the Kings and Princes and Powers of this World have had their time to reign, and have Glory in this World in the Face of all; so Christ will have his time at this day to show who is the only Potentate and Lord of Lords, 1 Tim. 6. 15. At which day, he will not only set up his Kingdom in the midst of their Kingdoms, as he doth now, but will set it up even upon the top of their Kingdoms; at which day there will not be a Nation in the World, but must bend to Jerusalem, or perish: