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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.
Vers. 11. Having the Glory of God:
These last words do put the whole matter out of doubt, and do most clearly show unto us, that the descending of this City is the perfect return of the Church out of Captivity: The Church, when she began at first to go into Captivity, her Glory began to depart from her; and ⟨p. 30⟩now she is returning again, she receiveth therewith her former Glory, having the Glory of God. Thus it was in the Type, when Jerusalem went into Captivity under the King of Babylon (which was a figure of the Captivity of our New-Testament-Church under Antichrist) it is said that then the glory of God departed from them, and went by degrees, first out of the Temple to the Threshold of the House, and from thence with the Cherubims of Glory, for that time quite away from the City, Ezek. 10. 4, 18. & 11. 22, 23, &c.
These last words do put the whole matter out of doubt, and do most clearly shew unto us, that the descending of this City is the perfect return of the Church out of Captivity: The Church, when she began at first to go into Captivity, her Glory began to depart from her; and ⟨p. 30⟩now she is returning again, she receiveth therewith her former Glory, having the Glory of God. Thus it was in the Type, when Jerusalem went into Captivity under the King of Babylon (which was a figure of the Captivity of our New-Testament-Church under Antichrist) it is said that then the glory of God departed from them, and went by degrees, first out of the Temple to the Threshold of the House, and from thence with the Cherubims of Glory, for that time quite away from the City, Ezek. 10. 4, 18