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A30152	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 ...	Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.	1669 (1669)	Wing B5536; ESTC R36063	132,664	312

one her Lamp even as the Wise themselves 3. Such Virgins as were every one of them gone forth from the pollutions of this evil-world 4. And so such as continued visible Saints even till the Bridegroom came for then 't is said in the margent they cryed Our Lamps are going out These I say be those gifted people that will have place in the Church and so place in the Book of Life here mentioned which yet will though they continue hid from the Church be discovered in the day of the Lord to be such as had only a gift but not grace and shall for their secret sins be cut off and cast away notwithstanding they were visible Saints all their dayes To conclude then If the Scripture saith that none that defileth or that worketh abomination or maketh a lie shall enter into this holy City which yet is but the Church on Earth with what face can Defilers think and say they shall possess a part among the Church which is in Heaven Again If many that have received gifts from God and that may be serviceable in his House shall yet be put out of doors at the coming of the Lord What will they do that have been and yet continue both giftless and graceless as visibly as the light that shineth and that instead of being the Ploughmen and Vine-dressers of the Church prove Thieves Robbers Persecutors and the like yea if many that are within the bounds of that Book of Life that hath the Records and Rules of a rightly constituted visible Church may yet perish what will become of them that never were so much as written therein must they not perish rather And whosoever were not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire Chap. 22. ver 1. And he shewed me a pure River of Water of Life clear as Crystal proceeding out of the Throne of God and of the Lamb. HAving thus shewed us this City her Fashion Glory Inhabitants and the like he now comes to shew us her Provision and Maintenance wherewith she is kept in safety life peace and comfort c. And he shewed me a pure River of Water of Life This Water of Life is nothing else but the manifold Grace of God in Christ let forth to the Inhabitants of this Jerusalem wherewith she is watered and replenished as the Earth with rain from Heaven for the good of those that drink thereof For both the word Water and that of Life they are but metaphorical sayings under which is held forth some better and more excellent thing And indeed it is frequent with God in Scripture to speak of his Grace and Mercy under the notion of Waters of a Fountain a Sea and the like Zech. 13. 1 2. Mica 7. 18 19. Now it is called Water First Because no soul can be cleansed or effectually washed from its guilt and filth but by the Grace of God I washed thee with water yea I throughly washed away thy blood from thee and thou becamest mine Ezek. 16. 8 9. Secondly It is called Water because it also quencheth the spiritual thrist of them that by Faith do drink thereof I will give saith Christ to him that is athirst of the Fountain of the Water of Life freely And again He that drinketh of the Water that I shall give him shall never thirst Rev. 2. 16. John 4. 14. Further As it is called Water so it is called the Water OF LIFE and that upon a diverse account First Because it is that which recovereth the soul that drinketh thereof from the Death of Sin and the Curse of God to a principle of Life and heavenly Blessing And it shall come to pass that everyone that liveth that moveth whithersoever the waters shall come shall live Ezek. 47. 9. Secondly It is called the Water of Life because that from it comes all those heavenly and spiritual quicknings and revivings that like Aqua-vitae do fetch again and chear up the soul that was sinking and giving up the Ghost in this world There is a River the streams whereof make glad the City of God Psal. 46. 4. Thirdly It is called the Water of Life because it healeth the soul of all its spiritual infirmities and diseases wherewith by the reason of the remainders of sin the creature is most sadly anoyed and infected And there shall be a great multitude of Fish of men he means Mat. 4. 19. because the waters shall come thither for they the Fish shall be healed and every thing shall live whither the Waters come Ezek. 47. 9. Fourthly and lastly It is called the Water of Life because that whosoever doth effectually drink thereof shall die no more but the Water that Christ shall give him shal be in him a Well of water springing up in him to eternal life wherefore he calleth it in another place the Living Water because the quality and nature of it is to beget to encrease to maintain and preserve life John 4. 10 14. And he shewed me a pure River of Water of Life clear as Crystal c. Mark It is Water Water of Life pure Water of Life and clear as Crystal These words pure and clear and that as Crystal they are aded upon a double account First To shew you that it is Grace alone that saveth the sinner And secondly To shew you 〈…〉 this day the Doctrine of this Grace will be by it self alone without the commixture of that dirt and trash that for a long time even to this day hath been thrown into it First It sheweth us that it is Grace alone that saveth the sinner pure Grace Grace that admits of nothing of ours to be in the least a helper in the matter of our happiness we are justified freely by his Grace through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ. As he saith by the Prophet I will pour CLEAN water upon you and you shall be clean and from all your Idols will I cleanse you Not for your sakes do I this saith the Lord. Be ye ashamed and confounded for all your own evil ways O House of Israel Ezek. 36. 25 26 27 32 33. It is clean water indeed it is clear in the nature of it clear in the gift of it and clear in the working of it It washeth freely throughly and perfectly from all your Idols will I cleanse you Rev. 21. 6. Ezek. 16. 9. Ezek. 36. 25 26. Secondly This word pure and clear as Crystal It also sheweth us that at the day of New Jerusalem the Doctrine of Grace shall be cleansed from all those dirty and muddy inventions that Sin Satan and the Wisdom of this world hath thrown into this River and into its goodly Crystal Streams I say at this day they shall not come near it neither shall the rubish they have already cast into it any more be there for ever I will destroy all the Beasts thereof the beastly men he means from beside the great waters neither shall the foot

grates too near the ground for me to believe or rejoyce in Alas I find that those souls that have not now the tenth part of the Spirit and Life of heavenly things that shall then be poured forth I say I find that these are trampling on the World and disdain the thoughts of being taken with its Glory Wherefore much less will it be esteemed in that day when the Glory and Goodness of God shall in that manner break forth Again Can it be imagined that the cheif of the Glory that the Gentiles should bring to the Jews after a sixteen hundred years warming in the bosome of Christ I say is it imaginable that the great Crop of all they have reaped should consist in a little outward trumpery or if it should would it be a suitable medicine in the least to present to the eyes of a broken and wounded People as the Jews will be at that day or if the Glory that the Gentiles at that day shall suck from the Jews were such as this would it at all be as life from the dead to them in a Gospel sence The Church of the Gentiles shall be a wall to the Jews at their return but such a wall as will cheifly consist in spiritual and heavenly safeguard in outward because of that I am a Wall saith she and my breasts are Towers on which the Jews will build upon her a Palace of Silver But must this Wall I say consist cheifly in outward Glory in the Glory of earthly things or must this Silver-Palace be of that nature either no verily but when God hath builded the City Jerusalem and put his Church into such a state that upon all her Glory shall be a defence of Heaven then shall the Jews by their coming into this City build by their experience a Palace for spiritual and heavenly pleasure to solace and comfort their brethren withal In a word then by Glory and Honour in this place we are cheifly to understand the spiritual and heavenly things of this City which in the times of the reign of Antichrist have lain some among the potsheards of the Earth some again under the stayrs some under this abuse and some under that all which shall be brought by the souls that shal be converted forthwith to this City the Church where will be the Treasury of God into which every one at that day shall throw in of their abundance but as for the glory of the world the Saints shall be above it it shall be with them as Silver and Wood was in the days of Solomon even as little worth as the stones in the street in their account Vers. 27. And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth neither whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh a lie but they which are written in the Lambs Book of Life I am not yet convinced that the highest Church-state that ever was or ever will be in this World could possibly be so all of them the Elect of God but that there would get in among them some that had not saving Grace the same also I believe touching the state of this Jerusalem But yet this I do believe again that the right and Gospel-Pattern is That none be admitted into Church-Communion but such who are visible Saints by Calling the substance of which these words import There shall not enter into it any thing that defileth or that worketh abomination or that maketh a lye which words do principally strike at a People that appear to be loose wicked or ungodly of which sort indeed not one shall here at any time no not in any wise be admitted Entrance for now shall all the Forms and all the Ordinances and all the forms of the Goings out of the Church of God and the Comings in to it be so exactly opened to these People and they so punctual and distinct in the observation of them that it will not be possible that a Canaanite should be here for ever again found any more This is the Law of the House upon the top of the Mountains the whole limit thereof shall be holy behold this is the Law of the House And as there shall at this day be none admitted here but such as are in truth visible Saints so none must here continue but they that continue such If any of those stones that are put in for building into the House of God shall afterwards have the Plague found on them then the Priest shall command that such stones be taken away and cast into the unclean place that is without the City And observe it that Congregation on Earth that admits onely of such Persons as are visible Saints by calling and Profession though possibly some of them as in the case of Judas and Demas may be known to God to be non-elect yet that Church is holy round about the limits thereof Provided also that if at any time after that the Plague appears they orderly proceed to deal with them as here things will be done to a tittle and a hairs breadth Now the reason why the Church may be said to have some within her that are none Elect and yet be counted holy still it is because the Church is to judge of Persons by their Words and Lives they know not the Heart absolutely and therefore if in Word and Life a man be as he ought he is to be accounted a visible Saint and orderly ought to be received of the Church as such So that I say as I said before these words of bar●ing out Sinners out of the Church they are not to be understood as if they intended that those should be debarred visible Communion that in Word and Life appeared visible Saints that are so judged by the Rules of Christs Testament but that such should be from it shut out that appeared visible Sinners Those that are Defilers Workers of abomination and Makers of Lies none of these shall enter But those that are written in the Lambs Book of Life These words explain the matter Those and those onely shall enter here that are found written in the Lambs Book of Life Now by Book of Life we are to understand two things in the Scriptures of Truth First Either the Book of Gods eternal Grace and Mercy thorow Christ in which all the Elect are recorded for ever Or Secondly That Book of Life in which the Lord Jesus hath all recorded that are visible Saints by calling for for both these there is a Book of Life For the first of these I judge these Scriptures do suit Luk. 10. 20. 2 Tim. 2. 19. Phil. 4. 3. and for the second these with that in the Text Exod. 32. 32 33. Rev. 22. 19. Now the Book of Life in this place must not be so strictly taken as if it included those onely that were elect of God to eternal Life but must be understood of that Book wherein is recorded the Rules and

Bounds of visible Church-Communion and so all those that thorow the Gifts and Operations of special or common Grace do fall within the compass of those Rules and Bounds Thus it was in the Type at the return out of Captivity none were to be admitted entrance into the Church but those that could shew their Priviledges by Genealogy and the Records of the Church and to others it was said That they had neither Portion nor Lot nor Memorial in Jerusalem Now that by Book of Life in this place we are to understand that Book that hath in it the Bounds and Liberties of this City and so every one that falleth within the compass of these Bounds and Priviledges visibly Consider First They that are visible matter for visible Church-Communion they shall be found within this City and yet there shall not enter any but those that are written in the Lambs Book of Life Secondly Now visible Church-Communion doth not absolutely call for onely invisible Saints neither can it for if the Church was to joyn with none but those whom they knew to be the very Elect of God as all invisible Saints are then she must joyn with none at all for it is not possible that any Church should be so infallible to judge in that manner of the Elect as to discern them always and altogether from the non-Elect which cannot be an invisible Saint Thirdly By Book of Life therefore in this place we are to understand I say that Book that hath written in it every visible Saint whether they be Elect or not and so such a Book that is capable of receiving in a man at one time and of blotting of him out again as occasion doth require at another which thing is onely applicable to that Book that binds and looses on the account of a mans being a visible Saint or a visible Apostate which thing is onely applicable to the visible Rules of receiving or shutting out of visible Church-Communion which Rules being the Rules of Christs New-Testament it is proper to call it the Book of Life and is about the matter of going in or going out of this very City so called If any man shall take away from the words of the Book of this Prophecy God shall take away his part out of the Book of Life and out of the Holy City and from the things that are written in this Book O how happy is he who is not onely a visible but also an invisible Saint He he shall not be blotted out of the Book of Gods eternal Grace and Mercy when others are liable to lose a share not onely in Heaven but to be for ever blotted out of the Book that approveth of visible Believers also Fourthly But again to explain the matter yet more In the visible Church there is not onely Sons but Servants that is not onely those that are truly Elect but such as have received a Gift for the perfecting the Church under Christ in his Service here in this World Now I say the Servant for the time present hath his place in the Church as well as the Son though not the place of a Son but of a Servant even a place of Service as of Preaching Prophesying administring the Ordinances that are given to the Church and the like all which a man that hath not Grace may do and that by the appointment of Christ thus was Judas Demas Hymeneus Phyletus and others who sometimes were the Servants of Christ in the Church and did minister for him to them yet themselves notwithstanding such as were all that time strangers and aliens to the life and power and saving operations of the justifying and preserving Grace of the Gospel as he saith also by the Prophet Isaiah Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks and the sons of aliens shall be your Plough men and your Vine-dressers For verily Christ will give to those that have not his saving-grace yet great knowledge and understanding in the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God and will also make them for profit and advantage in his Church to feed their flocks to plow up the fallow ground of their hearts and to dress their tender Vines Yet I say they themselves shall not be everlastingly saved for they want his saving-grace As Christ saith The servant abideth not in the house for ever but the Son abideth for ever As he saith again in another Prophet If the Prince give a gift to any of his sons the inheritance thereof shall be his sons it shall be their possession by inheritance but if he give a gift of inheritance to one of his servants then it shall be his to the year of Liberty after it shall return to the Prince but his inheritance shall be his sons for them Some indeed have grace aswel as gifts now they that are such the profit of their gifts shall be rewarded by vertue of their grace but as for them that have only a gift when the work of a gift is done then they cease to be any longer of use in the Church and therefore are forthwith shut out of the same but the Son abideth for ever Thus you see that as visible Church-communion doth not absolutely call for the Elect only but admits and that by the Book of Rules all that are visible and open Saints by calling so also the Lord Jesus himself doth and will use some in his Church as his Officers and Servants that yet in a a strict sence are neither his Sons nor Members Who yet are within the bounds of that Book of Life that here he speaks of as is evident because with Christ's allowance they are admitted into commnnion with his Church and by him also furnished with Gifts and Abilities to profit and edifie withal Now observe such a one is admitted though but a Servant yet not by the Church because but such a one The Church receiveth no man upon the account of gifts alone but upon the account of the appearance of Grace as of Gospel-Repentance of the Confession of Faith and of a Conversation suitable to the same All which a man that is not elect may have the notion of yea the power though not the saving Power 5. Further this which I have said about the visible Church-Communion and so consequently about the Book of Life it must needs be a Gospel-Truth yea a thing for Truth in this New-Jerusalem because besides what hath been said there will be found in this City even at the coming of the Lord Jesus which coming of his will not be for some time after the building and setting of it up I say there will be then sound among them foolish Virgins and such who have not the saving-grace of God in their souls But yet 1. these very souls shall be counted by the Church yea by Christ himself for Virgins that is such as had not defiled their Profession 2. And will be such Virgins as have and hold every

all Lastly I do find in most such a Spirit of Whoredom and Idolatry concerning the Learning of this World and Wisdom of the Flesh and GOD'S Glory so much stained and diminished thereby that had I all their aid and assistance at command I durst not make use of ought thereof and that for fear lest that Grace and those Gifts that the LORD hath given me should be at●ributed to their Wits rather then ●he Light of the Word and Spirit of GOD Wherefore I will not take of them from a thread to a shoo-latchet lest they should say We have made Abraham rich Gen. 14. 23. Sir What you find suiting with Scriptures take though it should not suit with Authors but that which you find against the Scriptures slight though it should be confirmed by Multitudes of them Yea further Where you find the Scriptures and your Authors jump yet believe it for the sake of Scriptures Authority I honour the Godly as Christians but I prefe● the BIBLE before them and having that still with me I count my self far better furnished than if I ha● without it all the Libraries of the two Universities Besides I am fo● drinking Water out of my own C●stern what GOD makes mine by the evidence of his Word and Spirit that I dare make bold with Wherefore seeing though I am without their Learned Lines yet well furnished with the Words of GOD I mean the BIBLE I have contented my self with what I there have found And having set it before your Eyes I pray read and take Sir what you like best And that wch you like not leave for the rest III. To the Captious Reader MY third word is to the Captious and wrangling Reader Friend However thou camest by this Book I will assure thee thou wast least in my thoughts when I writ it I tell thee I intended this Book as little for thee as the Goldsmith intendeth his Jewels and Rings for the Snowt of a Sow Wherefore put on Reason and lay aside thy Frenzie Be sober or lay by the Book Mat. 7. 6. IV. To the Mother of Harlots c. MY fourth word is to the Lady of Kingdoms the Well-favoured Harlot the Mistris of Witchcrafts and the Abominations of the Earth Mistris I suppose I have nothing here that will either please your wanton Eye or go down with your voluptuous Palate here is Bread indeed as also Milk and Meat but here is neither paint to adorn thy wrinkled face nor Crutch to uphold or undershore thy shaking tottering staggering Kingdom of ROME but rather a certain presage of thy sudden and fearful final downfall and of the Exaltation of that holy Matron whose Chastity thou dost abhor because by it she reproveth and condemneth thy leud and stubborn Life Wherefore Lady smell thou may'st of this but taste thou wilt not I know that both thy wanton Eye with all thy mincing Brats that are intoxicated with thy Cup and inchanted with thy Fornications vvill at the sight of so homely and plain a Dish as this cry Foh snuff put the Branch to the Nose and say Contemptible But Wisdom is justified of all her Children The Virgin Daughter of Zion hath despised thee and laughed thee to scorn Jerusalem hath shaken her Head at thee yea her GOD hath smitten his Hands at thy dishonest Gain and Freaks Rejoyce ye with Jerusalem and be glad for her all ye that love her rejoyce for Joy with her all ye that mourn for her that ye may suck and be satisfied with 〈◊〉 Brests of her Consolations that ye may milk out and be delighted with the abundance of her Glory JOHN BUNYAN Reader By reason of the Authors distance from the Press some Faults have escaped notwithstanding the Printers care which thou art desired to correct thus ERRATA Page 7. line 10 11. for deserve read discern Pag. 78. lin 12. for tother read together Pag. 186. lin 22. for by Laws read by-Lanes Pag. 217. lin 2. for contiaually r. continually P. 234. l 22. for Sanctuar y the r. Sanctuary the. P. 270. l. 12. for he read the. P. 271. l. 2. for iver read River P. 277. l. 28. for wandering by read wonderingly The Holy City Or The New Jerusalem Revelations XXI Vers. 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain and shewed me that great City the holy Jerusalem descending out of Heaven from God Vers. 11 Having the glory of God and her Light was like unto a Stone most precious even like a Jasper Stone clear as Chrystal Vers. 12 And had a Wall great and high and had twelve Gates and at the Gates twelve Angels and names written thereon which are the names of the twelve Tribes of the Children of Israel Vers. 13 On the East three Gates on the North three Gates on the South three Gates and on the West three Gates Vers. 14 And the Wall of the City had twelve Foundations and in them the names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb. Vers. 15 And he that talked with me had a Golden Reed to measure the City and the Gates thereof and the Wall thereof Vers. 16 And the City lieth foursquare and the length is as large as the breadth and he measured the City with the Reed twelve thousand furlongs the length and the breadth and the heighth of it are equal Vers. 17 And he measured the Wall thereof an hundred and forty and four Cubits according to the measure of a man that is of the Angel Vers. 18 And the building of the Wall of it was of Jasper and the City was of pure Gold like unto clear Glass Vers. 19 And the Foundations of the Wall of the City were garnished with all manner of precious Stones The first Foundation was Jasper the second Saphire the third a Chalcedony the fourth an Emerald Vers. 20 The fifth Sardonyx the sixth Sardius the seventh Chrysolite the eighth Beryl the ninth a Topaz the tenth a Chrysoprasus the eleventh a Jacinct the twelfth an Amethyst Vers. 21 And the twelve Gates were twelve Pearls every several Gate was of one Pearl and the street of the City was pure Gold as it were transparent Glass Vers. 22 And I saw no Temple therein for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the Temple of it Vers. 23 And the City had no need of the Sun neither of the Moon to shine in it for the Glory of God did lighten it and the Lamb is the Light thereof Vers. 24 And the Nations of them 〈◊〉 are saved shall walk in the Light of it and the Kings of the Earth do bring their Glory and Honour unto it Vers. 25 And the Gates of it shall not be shut at all by day for there shall be no night there Vers. 26 And they shall bring the Glory and Honour of the Nations into it Vers. 27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth neither whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh a lie

Christ for shelter Now I say in that John tells us this Wall is an hundred forty four Cubits and waves the manner of the measure of Ezekiel it is to shew us that this Wall is for the safety of the hundred forty four thousand that have taken sanctuary in Christ that is all the holy and truly gracious Souls that are with him on the Mount Zion having his Fathers Name written in their Foreheads both Numbers I say being twelve times twelve implying a sufficient safety for all that are sincerely and truly gratious And now to bring down the matter to our Jerusalem-state for though it be true in all Ages that there is between those that have taken sanctuary in Christ and the bottomless pit an invincible and mighty Wall of Grace and heavenly Power and of the Merits of Christ to save to the utmost all and every one that are thus fled to him for safety yet there is some thing in it more then this for those that come into the days and state of the New Jerusalem For I say this Wall being it that makes a separation between the Sanctuary and the prophane place in general and yet being spoken of as a thing extraordinary and accompanying the state of this new City onely it implieth that at this day the Saints shall have that shelter by this Wall from all the force of Hell and the damned Spirits that now from Tophet afflict them that they never had before and therefore you find at the begining of the thousand Years which as I conceive is the time of the building of this City a mighty Angel is said to come down from Heaven to lay hold of the Dragon that old Serpent called the Devil and Satan and to bind him a thousand Years which done he casts him into the bottomless pit and there shuts him up to the end he should deceive the Nations no more the effect of which will be not onely a delivering of the Saints from outward persecution but also from being any more assailed with either wicked and erronious Doctrine or fierce and fiery darts from the Prince of Darkness which now many of them are so much anoyed and afflicted with now the Church will be free from those hellish suggestions to blaspheme to despair and the like that her Members do yet most dreadfully and sadly meet with for observe this old Tempter is said to be tied up or to be cast into the bottomless Pit first as he is a Dragon under which name he goeth in this Book in his persecuting the Church Rev. 12. Secondly he is said to be shut up as he goeth under the name of a Serpent under which name he went when he fomented his devillish and damning seducing Doctrine to our first Parents the which the Spirit expresly seems to relate unto and therefore calls him that OLD Serpent that OLD Serpent that deceived us at the first Gen. 3. 1 2 3 4 5. Thirdly he is said to be shut up also as he goeth under the name of the Devil and Satan under which Name he goeth commonly in the New-Testament when he provoketh and stirreth up our lusts and when he labours to drive us into all manner of unbelief distrust despair and so consequently into murmurings and blasphemy against God Mat. 4. 1 5 8. Luk. 4. 2 3 5 6. Act. 5. 1 2 3. Ephes. 6. 11. 2 Cor. 2 7 11. Wherefore I say that at the day that this Wall is set up in all its glory and when it performs every part and piece of its office to the full then shall Satan be bruised under our Feet indeed and then shall Jerusalem be called The joyous City and her People A Joy for her former Sorrows shall be past and forgot If thou still objectest But I have yet an evil heart and therefore if I be not rid of that at that day should I live till then why though there should be no Devil to afflict me I shall feel and meet with sorrow and trouble enough I answer thee First I dare not say that at this day thou shalt be in every sence without thy evil heart in the midst of all this glory tempted Soul Yet I say thus much to thee First Where there is no Devil to tempt though the Saints will yet be imperfect and come short of a glorified state yet they by his absence will be delivered from many dreadful vexing and burning hellish Darts that will otherwise confound and afflict the Soul like Arrows whose heads are poisoned Christians have a great deal of ease when God doth even at this day with-hold the Devil for a season though yet they have their own lusts over they have when the Devil and their own Lusts are suffered to meet and work together yea the Lord Jesus himself who had no sin yet in the Temptation was fearfully handled and afflicted with the Devil though all the while I say he kept him at staves end and did not suffer him in the least to anoy his Person and therefore 't is said that when he was in the Wilderness in the conflict the Angels came to minister to him at the time of his Agony also in which Agony doubtless Satan had a very great hand to afflict him you see his complaint how that he was sore amazed and exceeding sorrowful even unto death being so laden with heaviness and sorrow that he was scarce able to stand or wag under the burden of it Satan even from himself besides the workings of our own Lusts doth do us wonderful injury and hits our Souls with many a fiery Dart that we think comes either from our selves or from Heaven and God himself but now by this Wall this broad Wall this sorrow will be cut off Secondly Again when Satan is thus tied up we shall together with this Mercy receive such a plentiful pouring forth of the Holy Ghost that though there will remain in us still the remainders of our Corruptions yet by the plentiful indwellings of the holy Ghost and the Joy and Peace and heavenly sweetness thereof these things shall lie like lean withered blasted things the reason of that power and that strength that our Lusts have to this day in our hearts it is because we are so lean and thin and weak in the things of God strong Grace makes Corruptions weak and strikes them thorow laying them at the point of death always gasping for life thus it was with Moses he had such Grace in his Soul and such Communion with God that though he had yet a Body of Sin within him it was a rare thing for him to see his wretchedness that is to see it pirt lively and powerful in him indeed God saith That upon the Land of his People shall come up Bryars and Thorns yea upon all the Houses of Joy in the joyous City because the Palaces shall be forsaken the multitude of the