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¹ And I sawe a newe heauen & a new earth: for the first heauen & the first earth were vanisshed awaye, & there was no more sea.² And I Iohn sawe the holy citie newe Hierusalem come downe from God out of heauen, prepared as a bride garnisshed for her husbande.³ And I hearde a great voyce out of heauen, saying: Beholde, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he wyll dwell with them, and they shalbe his people, and God hym selfe shalbe with them, and be their God.⁴ And God shall wype away all teares from their eyes: and there shalbe no more death, neither sorowe, neither crying, neither shall there be any more payne, for the former thynges are gone.⁵ And he that sate vpon the throne, said: Beholde, I make all thynges newe. And he sayde vnto me, write: for these wordes are faythfull and true.⁶ And he sayde vnto me, it is done, I am Alpha and Omega, the begynnyng and the ende: I wyll geue to hym that is a thirst of the well of the water of lyfe freely.⁷ He that ouercommeth, shall inherite all thynges, and I wyl be his God, and he shalbe my sonne.⁸ But the fearefull and vnbeleuing, and the abhominable, and murtherers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, & all lyers, shall haue their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brymstone: which is the seconde death.

⁹ And there came vnto me one of the seuen angels whiche had the seuen vyals full of the seuen last plagues, and talked with me, saying: Come hyther, I wyll shewe thee the bryde, the lambes wyfe.¹⁰ And he caryed me away in the spirite to a great and an hye mountayne, and he shewed me the great citie holy Hierusalem, descendyng out of heauen fro God,¹¹ Hauing the glorie of God: and her shining was lyke vnto a stone most precious, euen lyke a Iasper, cleare as Cristall.¹² And had walles great and hye, & had xij. gates, and at the gates .xij. angels, & names written, which are the names of the .xij. tribes of Israel.¹³ On the east syde three gates, and on the north syde three gates, and towards the south three gates, and fro the west three gates.¹⁴ And the wall of the citie had .xij. foundations, and in them the .xij. names of the lambes .xij. Apostles.¹⁵ And he that talked with me had a golden reede to measure the citie withall, and the gates thereof, and the wall therof.¹⁶ And the citie was buylt foure square, & the length was as large as ye breadth: and he measured the citie with the reede twelue thousande furlonges, and the length, and the breadth, and the heyght of it were equall.¹⁷ And he measured the wall thereof an hundreth and fourtie and foure cubites, by the measure of man, that is of the angell.¹⁸ And the buylding of the wall of it was of Iasper, and the citie was pure golde lyke vnto cleare glasse.¹⁹ And the foundations of the wall of the citie were garnisshed with all maner of precious stones. The first foundation was Iasper, the seconde Saphire, the third a Chalcedonie, the fourth an Emeralde,²⁰ The fifth Sardonix, ye sixth Sardius, the seuenth Chrysolite, the eygth Beryl, the ninth a Topas, the tenth a Chrysoprasus, the eleueth a Iacinct, ye twelfth an Amatist.²¹ The .xij. gates were .xij pearles, euery gate was of one pearle. and the streate of the citie was pure golde, as through shynyng glasse.²² And I sawe no temple therin: For the Lorde God almightie and the Lambe, are the temple of it.²³ And the citie hath no neede of the sunne, neither of the moone to lighten it: For the glorie of God dyd lighten it, and the Lambe is the lyght of it.²⁴ And the people which are saued, shall walke in the lyght of it: and the kynges of the earth shall bryng their glorie and honor vnto it.²⁵ And the gates of it are not shut by day, for there shalbe no nyght.²⁶ And they shall bring the glory and honor of the gentiles vnto it.²⁷ And there shall enter into it none vncleane thyng, neither whatsoeuer worketh abhomination, or maketh lyes: but they only which are written in the lambes booke of lyfe.