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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.
Thus you see it was in the Destruction and Restoration of the Jews Jerusalem, by which God doth plainly show us how things will be in our Gospel-Church; she was to decline and lose her glory, she was to be trampled (as she was a City)1 for a long time under the feet of the unconverted and wicked World: Again, She was after this to be builded, and to be put into her former Glory; at which time she was to have her Glory, her former Glory, even the Glory of God returned to her again; He showed me, saith John, ⟨p. 32⟩that great City the holy Jerusalem, descending out of Heaven from God, having […] Glory of God: As he saith by the Prophet, I am Returned to Jerusalem with Mercies, and my House shall be built in it: and again, I am Returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, Zech. 1. 16. & 8. 3.
Thus you see it was in the Destruction and Restoration of the Jews Jerusalem, by which God doth plainly shew us how things will be in our Gospel-Church; she was to decline and lose her glory, she was to be trampled (as she was a City)1 for a long time under the feet of the unconverted and wicked World: Again, She was after this to be builded, and to be put into her former Glory; at which time she was to have her Glory, her former Glory, even the Glory of God returned to her again; He shewed me, saith John, ⟨p. 32⟩that great City the holy Jerusalem, descending out of Heaven from God, having 〈…〉 Glory of God: As he saith by the Prophet, I am Returned to Jerusalem with Mercies, and my House shall be built in it: and again, I am Returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, Zech. 1. 16. & 8. 3.