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Jerusalems glory breaking forth into the world being a Scripture-discovery of the New-Testament Church…
Jerusalems glory breaking forth into the world being a Scripture-discovery of the New-Testament Church in the latter days, immediately before the Second Coming of Christ.Jerusalems glory breaking forth into the world being a Scripture-discovery of the New-Testament Church in the latter dayes, immediately before the Second Coming of Christ.
London: printed by J.A., 1684
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☞ And there will be a time of greater discerning than now there is, and therefore you find it in the 21. of Revel. where St. John doth Prophesy of the New Jerusalem, at the last verse. And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abominations, or maketh a lie: But they which are written in the Lambs Book of Life. In no wise, no, no, there's two negatives there, though we in our English Tongue make two Negatives to be an Affirmative, yet the Holy Ghost doth not; there shall not, not, no, in no wise shall there enter any unclean thing into it.
☞ And there will be a time of greater discerning than now there is, and therefore you find it in the 21. of Revel. where St. John doth Prophesie of the New Jerusalem, at the last verse. And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abominations, or maketh a lie: But they which are written in the Lambs Book of Life. In no wise, no, no, there's two negatives there, though we in our English Tongue make two Negatives to be an Affirmative, yet the Holy Ghost doth not; there shall not, not, no, in no wise shall there enter any unclean thing into it.
Now it is apparent by divers things in this Chapter, that this must be meant, not of the Glory that there shall be in the highest Heavens, but of some Glory of the Church here: For it is said in the 24. verse, That the Nations of them ⟨p. 56⟩which are saved shall walk in the light of it, and the Kings of the Earth do bring their Glory and honour into it. Now the Kings of the Earth do not bring their Glory and Honour to the highest Heavens; there's no difference between a King, and the poorest and meanest; they must there be stripped of all their Robes, and the Kings of the Earth shall bring no more Glory to that, than meaner men. Therefore it must be understood of an Estate here, where the Kings of the Earth do bring their Glory to it.
Now it is apparent by divers things in this Chapter, that this must be meant, not of the Glory that there shall be in the highest Heavens, but of some Glory of the Church here: For it is said in the 24. verse, That the Nations of them