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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.
Secondly, Now then to show you what ⟨p. 23⟩are to understand by this, that she is said to DESCEND out of Heaven; for indeed to speak properly, Jerusalem is always in the Scriptures set in the highest ground, and men are said to descend, when they1 go down from her, but to ascend, or go up, when they are going thitherwards: but yet though this be true, there must also be something significant in this word descending; wherefore when he saith, he saw this City to DESCEND out of Heaven, he would have us understand,
Secondly, Now then to shew you what ⟨p. 23⟩are to understand by this, that she is said to DESCEND out of Heaven; for indeed to speak properly, Jerusalem is always in the Scriptures set in the highest ground, and men are said to descend, when they1 go down from her, but to ascend, or go up, when they are going thitherwards: but yet though this be true, there must also be something significant in this word descending; wherefore when he saith, he saw this City to DESCEND out of Heaven, he would have us understand,
1. That though the Church under Antichrist be never so low, yet out of her Loins shall they come that yet shall be a