The saints everlasting rest

Thus take thy heart into the land of promise; show in the pleasant hills and fruitful valleys; show it the clusters of grapes which thou hast gathered, and by those convince it that it is a blessed land, flowing with better than milk and honey: enter the gates of the holy city, walk through the streets of the New Jerusalem, walk about Si•n, go round about her, tell the towers thereof, mark well her bulwarks, consider her palaces, that thou mayst tell it to thy soul: The foundation is garnished with precious stones; the twelve gates are twelve pearls; the street of the city is pure gold, as it were transparent glass; there is no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the ample of it. It hath no need of sun or moon to shine in it, for the glory of God doth lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof, and the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it. This is thy rest, O my soul, and this must be the place of thy everlasting habitation: Let all the sons of Zion then rejoice, and the daughters of Jerusalem be glad; for great is the Lord, and greatly is he praised in the city of our God: beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth is mount Zion; God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

Thus take thy heart into the land of promise; shew in the pleasant hills and fruitful vallies; shew it the clusters of grapes which thou hast gathered, and by those convince it that it is a blessed land, flowing with better than milk and honey: enter the gates of the holy city, walk through the streets of the New Jerusalem, walk about Si•n, go round about her, tell the towers thereof, mark well her bulwarks, consider her palaces, that thou mayst tell it to thy soul: The foundation is garnished with precious stones; the twelve gates are twelve pearls; the street of the city is pure gold, as it were transparent glass; there is no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the •mple of it. It hath no need of sun or moon to shine in it, for the glory of God doth lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof, and the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it. This is thy rest, O my soul, and this must be the place of thy everlasting habitation: Let all the sons of Sion then rejoice, and the daughters of Jerusalem be glad; for great is the Lord, and greatly is he praised in the city of our God: beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth is mount Sion; God is known in her palaces for a refuge.