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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.
Having the Glory of God:
There is the Grace of God, and the Glory of that Grace; there is the Power of God, and the Glory of that Power; and there is the Majesty of God, and the Glory of that Majesty, Ephes. 1. 6. 2 Thess. 2. 9. Isa. 2. 19.
'Tis true, God doth not leave his People in some sense, even in the worst of times, and in their most forlorn condition;1 as he showeth by his being with them in their sad state in Egypt and Babylon, 2and other of their states of calamity: as he saith, Though I cast them far off among the Heathen, and although I have scattered them among the Countries; yet will I be to them a little Sanctuary in the Countries where they shall come, Ezek. 11 16. God is with his Church even i• ⟨p. 33⟩her greatest adversity, both to limit, bound, measure and appoint out to her3 her quantity and quality, her beginning4 and duration of distress and temptation: but yet I say the Glory of God, in the notion of Ezekiel and John (when they speak of the Restoration of this City) that is not always upon his People, though always they are beloved, and counted for his peculiar Treasure. She may then have his Grace, but not at the same time the glory of his Grace; his Power, but not the glory of his Power; she may also have his Majesty, when not the glory thereof: God may be with his Church, even then when the Glory is departed from Israel.