The Christian's charter showing the privileges of a believerThe Christian's charter shewing the priviledges of a believer

4. Amplitude, The inheritance is sufficiently spacious for all the Saints. The garner wide enough to receive all those infinite grains ⟨p. 129⟩of wheat that shall be laid in it: and he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the City, &c. The City lieth four-square, and the length is as large as the breadth, and he measured the City with the reed twelve thousand furlongs^*. Or, as I find it in some Greek Copies, [Greek or Hebrew]. Twelve times twelve thousand furlongs. Here is a finite put for an infinite; impossible it is that any Arithmetician should number; or Rhetorician express these furlongs. It is a phrase only that darkly shadows out the amplitude and largeness of this celestial City, though there be innumerable company of Saints and Angels in heaven, yet there is infinitely enough room to receive them, In my fathers house are many Mansions^*. Some are of opinion that every believer shall have a particular Mansion in glory. Every Saint shall have his Kingdom, saith Jansenius. ⟨p. 130⟩We know our Saviour told his Apostles that they should sit upon twelve thrones^*. Certainly the Saints shall not be straitened for room. The continent of glory is wide enough for the most vast sublime spirits to expatiate in.

4. Amplitude, The inheritance is sufficiently spacious for all the Saints. The garner wide enough to receive all those infinite graines ⟨p. 129⟩of wheat that shall be laid in it: and he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the City, &c. The City lieth foure-square, and the length is as large as the breadth, and he measured the City with the reed twelve thousand furlongs^*. Or, as I finde it in some Greek Copies, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Twelve times twelve thousand furlongs. Here is a finite put for an infinite; impossible it is that any Arithmetician should number; or Rhetorician expresse these furlongs. It is a phrase only that darkly shadows out the amplitude and largenesse of this celestial City, though there be innumerable company of Saints and Angels in heaven, yet there is infinitely enough roome to receive them, In my fathers house are many Mansions