digged and doe nothing unworthy of that honourable parentage whence you are derived Far be it from your Honour to be listed among those noble men of whom it may be said in a sad sense that they are very highly descended as being come down many degrees from the worth and virtues of their noble Progenitors To conclude then with Theophilus with whom I began It is observable of him that though styled most excellent by Saint Luke in his Gospell yet in the Book of the Acts which was written many years after he calls him onely Theophilus without any honourable addition What Had Saint Luke in process of time less civility or Theophilus with more age less Nobility Surely neither but Saint Luke may be presumed purposely to wave his titles out of compliance to the temper of Theophilus who in his reduced age grew weary of worldly pompe more pleased to have the truth of honour fixed within him then hear the titles thereof fastned upon him according to the Analogie of the Apostles preâ—ept Let him that hath honour be as if he had it not Thus the longer your Lordship shall live the less you will delight in outward state and daily discover the vanity thereof especially in your old age your soul will grow sensible that nothing can satisfie it which is less then Grace or Glory or God himself To whose protection you are committed by the daily prayer of him who is Your Honours most humble servant THO. FULLER Waltham Abbey Iuly 16. 1650. Here followeth the Map of Mount Libanus THE DESCRIPTION OF MOVNT LIBANVS and the adjacent Countreys The fourth Book CHAP. I. § 1. SO much for the Iewel Palestine it self Now for the Case thereof namely the neighbouring Countreys which surrounded it Onely herein the Simile holds not because Cases serve as to compass so to preserve and defend the Jewell whereas these bordering nations were sworn enemies to oppose and destroy the land and people of Palestine The most quiet neighbour Iudea had was the Midland sea on the west side thereof which though sometimes as the Psalmist observes it would rage horribly yet generally it was more peaceable and serviceable then the Pagans which bounded them on all other quarters as namely 1 In Syria on the north Giblites Arvadites Aramites c. 2 In Arabia on the east and south-east Ammonites Moabites Ismaelites Midianites 3 In Egypt and the wilderness of the south Edomites Amalekites Egyptians c. So that the Iews to finde faithfull friends must not look about them but above them even to heaven whence all their safety was derived § 2. For the present we are to describe mount Libanus or Lebanon with the parts of Syria confining thereunto A mountain which some will have so named from Frankincense 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek whereof great plenty groweth there Yet seeing it is usuall for Parents to give names to their children not children to their Parents more probable it is that Frankincense is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from this mountain breeding store thereof then that the mountain should be named Libanus from Frankincense growing therein § 3. But whilst humane writers are best pleased with this Greek extraction of Libanus more conformable to Scripture is the Hebrew Etymology thereof from Whiteness because the faithfull snow forsakes not the top of this mountain no not when persecuted by the Sun in the dog-days but remains there all the year long A pleasant sight at the same time to have Winter on the top and Sommer at the bottome of one and the same mountain Excellent the use of this snow in these hot climats the Prophet mentioning it as most welcome and precious Will a man leave the snow in Lebanon wherewith the Tyrians and neighbouring nations used to allay and mixe their wines so making the Torrid and Frozen Zone to meet in the Temperate more healthfull for their Constitutions § 4. Lebanon was a place so pleasant that an Epicure therein might feed all his senses to a surfeit 1 Sight The â—pouse saith of Christ His countenance is as Lebanon where most delightfull is the prospect with high hills humble dales sweet rivers shady groves No wonder then if Ptolemy placeth Paradise a City hereabouts where what Poets can fancy Nature hath performed 2 Smell Such the fragrancy of flowers Gummes and Spices thereon perfuming the aire round about His smell is as the smell of Lebanon 3 Hearing For besides the melody wrabled forth by the sweet Choristers of the wood pleasant it was to listen to the complaints which the Rivers murmuring made against the Rocks for wronging them in obstructing their channels whose complaints therein were so far from finding pity in mens hearts that they onely lulled their heads the sooner and faster asâ—eep 4 Taste Touch. Such the most delicious fruits and liquors this mountain affords Vinum C.O.S. The sent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon Galen also reporteth that yearly in mount Libanus husbandmen used to sing God raineth hony at which time they spread hides on the ground and from the boughs of trees shook into them the hony dropt from heaven called therefore mel roscidum aereum filling pots and pitchers with the same No wonder then that Moses made it his earnest request to take this place in his way to heaven I pray thee let me goe over and see the good land which is beyond Iordan that goodly mountain and Lebanon As if his soul more conveniently might take his rise from the top thereof to eternall blisse and be the better provided to entertain endless happiness when first he had sipt some drops of the same in delightfull Lebanon the temporall type thereof § 5. It will perchance be objected against the fertility of this place that the Prophet foretelleth Is it not yet a very little while and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitfull field Where its future conversion into fruitfulness seemingly implies the present barrenness thereof But here we must distinguish betwixt field and forest fruitfulness The former is composed of the concurrence of art and industry with nature the latter onely takes what nature tenders without any toile to improve the same wherein Libanus already did exceed But now the Prophet foretells besides this wild and native an elaborate and artificiall fertility likely to befall this mountain namely in the speedy and universall alteration of things in Israel when champian fields for fear should be forsaken and husbandmen for their security retire with their tillage to mount Lebanon Thus much for this fair and fruitfull place full of goodly trees wild and tame beasts in abundance and yet when measured by an infinite majesty Lebanon is not sufficient for him to burn nor all the beasts thereof of sufficient for a burnt offering § 6. Having largely praised this place enough to set all the neighbouring Princes at variance about the propriety thereof it is now high time
Lector scias faetum hunc nostrum in ipso partu prie dolore nimio sumptum putà immodicum expiraturuÌ„ fuisse si MaecenaluÌ„ aliquot inanus benevolae comÌ„ode conatibus nostris non obstetricas-sent A Pisgah-sight of PALESTINE and The CONFINES thereof with the HISTORIE of the old and new TESTAMENT acted thereon By Thomas Fuller B. D. Gen. 43. 11. Take of ye. best fruits in the land in your vessels and carry downe the man a present a little balm and a little honey spices and Myrrhe nuts and Almonds Ierem. 8. 7. Yea the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times and the turtle and the Crane and the Swallow observe the time of their coming but my people know not the iudgment of the Lord. Votum Authoris Terrestres Solymas mihi quiscrÃpsisse de disti Coelestes tandem dâ—s habitare Devs Printed by M. F for Williams at the Crowne inâ— St Paules Churchyard A PISGAH-SIGHT OF PALESTINE AND THE CONFINES THEREOF WITH The History of the Old and New TESTAMENT acted thereon BY THOMAS FVLLER B. D. GEN. 43. 11. Take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels and carry down the man a present a little balm and a little honey spices and Myrrhe nuts and Almonds JER 8. 7. Yea the Stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times and the Turtle and the Crane and the Swallow observe the time of their coming but my people know not the judgment of the Lord. LONDON Printed by I. F. for Iohn Williams at the signe of the Crown in Pauls Church-yard MDCL To the Right Honourable ESME STUART Earl of March and Darneley Lord Leighton c. Son and Heir to the Illustrious JAMES Duke of Richmond and Lennox MY LORD COnsulting with my self about a Patron for this Book I concluded to make choice of such a Person as should be both of most noble extraction and of spotless innocency So that in this captious Age none should presume to charge him with the least offence in thought word or deed For justly fearing too many faults might be found in the book it self I desired to make some amends by dedicating it to One free from all exception Your Honour is the first in our Nobility whom I finde qualified according to my desire descended from the best Houses in England Scotland and France And as it happeneth in a Constellation that the Lustre thereof amounting from many Stars together darkeneth the light of those particulars which produced it So in your Honours Pedegree the collective splendour obscureth the distinct brightness of those severall families whence the same resulteth Now that your Honour cannot be taxed with any actuall offence your tender Moneths not as yet compleating a Year do sufficiently evidence Whose innocence is the most entire Relique of our Primitive integrity and most perfect pattern of our future felicity Yea some admiring what motives to mirth Infants meet with in their silent and solitary smiles have resolved how truely I know not that then they converse with Angels as indeed such cannot amongst mortals finde any fitter Companions One or more of these three main Ends are aimed at by Authors in all ingenuous dedications Hope to receive protection Desire to derive instruction and Zeal to express affection For the first though you cannot by your Power yet you may by your Innocence be an excellent Patron to protect our ensuing Work In these civill wars some have saved themselves from the sword with no other shield then bearing a Babe in their armes which rebated their enemies fury into compassion So when some shall be ready to wound our Book with their censuring Darts they will be mollified into mercy finding your innocent Name prefixed in the Front thereof As for deriving instruction I confess your Honour as yet incapable thereof But seeing Infants clothes are providently made with the biggest to which they will grow up in process of time why may not books the clothes of the minde be proportioned above their present capacity in hope they will seasonably shoot up to the understanding thereof And untill such time as your Lordships judgment can reap profit from our Descriptions herein may your eyes but take pleasure in the Maps which here are presented unto you But the last not least consideration in my choice of your Honour is my ambition to tender my humble service thereunto The rather because ESME your auspicious Name promiseth in my apprehension some good success now at the third return as long since at the first imposing thereof on your Ancestour For Esme Lord Aulbigney a place of great priviledges in the Province of Berry first by the King of France bestowed on and still possessed by your Family in reward of their signal service to that Crown about two hundred years since proved the happy reviver of your family almost extinguished for want of a Heir and by his virtuous demeanour added much honour thereunto The same Name now returns on your Lordship who found your Fathers house in point of posterity in as low a Condition Indeed your Grandfather left a numerous off-spring whom I may fitly compare to the many strings of some musicall Instrument But amongst his male-issue for the rest I pass by as silent strings sending no sounds to posterity but losing their own Surnames in their matches One was soon fretted in pieces with sickness Three more cut off in these wars One absent beyond the Seas and not easily to be tuned to a married estate and the other single string remaining His Grace your Father left altogether issueless untill your Lordships welcome Nativity But O! what melody can Heavens hand make on a Monochord which since hath sent your Lordship on a good message I hope to the Honest house of LENNOX But I grow tedious in a long Letter to a little Lord and therefore turn my Pen into Prayers that Christ would be pleased to take you up into his Armes whose embraces are the best swadling-clothes as to streighten so to strengthen you in the growth of Grace to lay his hands upon you and bless you that you may grow in stature and favour with God and with Man The daily desire of YOUR LORDSHIPS humble Oratour Tho. Fuller Waltham Abbey Iuly 7. 1650. To the READER WHen Iacob had served Laban full seven years for his daughter Rachel and now promised himself the possession of what he had long looked and much laboured for his hopes were frustrated by the substituting of Leah in the room of her sister And although it may be pleaded that Leah was not well qualified and highly meriting in her self yet still Leah was not Rachel and Iacob remained both deceived and injured thereby Many have long patiently waited that I should now according to my promise set forth an Ecclesiasticall History who now may justly complain that their expectation is abused finding a Changeling in the place thereof a Book of a far different Nature tendered in stead thereof
to Aben Ezra who allots to the banner of Reuben a man or male child others a mandrake others put mandrakes in his hand relating to Leahs words at his birth calling him Reuben that is See a Son causing her to forget her pain for joy that a man child was borne into the world § 31. The proper place for the standard of this Tribe was to be the first of the three Tribes which pitched on the south of the Tabernacle Thus though Reuben lost the Primacy of power over all he still kept the precedency of place before one quarter of his brethren Whence parents may be taught that though on just ground they disinherit yet not so wholly to dishearten their eldest sons but still suffer some remembrances of a birthright ever to remain unto them FINIS Here the Map of Gad is to be inserted The third Book THE TRIBE OF GAD § 1. GAd eldest Son of Iacob by Zilpah so increased in Egypt that forty five thousand six hundred and fifty males of twenty years old and upward of this Tribe were numbred at Mount Sinai all which falling in the wilderness for their tempting of God with this disobedience a new generation of forty thousand and five hundred entred the Land of Canaan This Tribe affordeth very martiall men For such of them as repaired to David in Ziglag are described Men of war fit for the battell that could handle shield and buckler whose faces were like to the faces of Lyons and were as swift as the Roes upon the mountaines Yet I meet not with any publick Magistrate extracted from Gad though the Genealogists rank Iehu with four of his Posterity successive Kings of Israel amongst the Gadites but on no other ground then because at the first time he is found mentioned in Scripture he was imployed a Commander at the siege of Ramoth Gilead a City in this Tribe It seems that as the English-law makes a charitable provision for children left by their parents that the Parish wherein they are first taken up must maintain them so Genealogists the better to methodize the pedegrees of the Iews in Scripture reduce Persons of unknown Parentage to those respective Tribes in whose grounds they first light on the mention of them But let Iehu pass for a Gadite the rather because so puisant a Prince will prove a credit rather then a charge to that Tribe to which he is related § 2. The land of this Tribe was of a double nature For what lay north of the river Iabbok was anciently the possession of Og King of Basan But what lay south of the river had its property more intricate and incumbred with often exchange of her owners and on the right understanding thereof depends no less then the asserting of the innocence of the Israelites the confuting of the cavill of the Ammonites and the reconciling of a seeming contradiction in Scripture Take it thus briefly 1t. It was the Land of certain Giants called Zamzummims 2ly It was possessed by the Ammonites who destroied those Giants and this Countrey was accounted a moity or one half of their dominion 3ly It was subdued by Sihon King of the Amorites who cast out the Ammonites when also he destroied the Moabites such as were south of Iabbok and dwelt in their stead Lastly after the overthrow of Sihon Moses gave it to the Tribe of Gad for their inheritance Thus God by ringing the Changes of successive Lords in this Land made musick to his own glory Behold we here what the Psalmist saith Thou hast brought a Vine out of Egypt thou preparest room before it the method and manner of which preparation is most remarkable First God in his providence foresaw that the Countrey of the Canaanites was without other addition too narrow to receive the numerous people of Israel Secondly God in his goodness resolved out of love to righteous Lot that his posterity should not totally lose their possession nor would he suffer the Israelites their kinsmen to deprive them of any parcell thereof giving them a flat command to the contrary Lastly God in his justice permitted Sihon King of the Amorites should win part of the Countrey from Moab and Ammon and suddenly sends the Israelites to conquer the conquerour and now lawfully to inherit what the other had wrongfully taken away And thus he prepared room for his Vine § 3. By this time we plainly perceive that in the Ammonites demand to Iephtha there was some truth blinded with more falshood that the countenance of the former might pass the latter unsuspected Israel took away saith the King my Land when they came out of Egypt from Arnon even unto Iabbok and unto Iordan now therefore restore these Lands again peaceably True it was that this Land was once theirs and so it is plainly called Ioshua 13. 25. but most false that ever the Israelites took Inch of ground from them save onely mediately and at the second hand taking it from Sihon who took it from the Ammonites We report the rest to Iephtha's answer who first with a fair ambassie and then with a famous victory confuted the Ammonites antiquated title to this territory pleading that the Israelites had three hundred years peaceably possessed the same Now if upon a strict account some years fall short of that sum the matter is not much because souldiers love to fill their mouths with a round number and too hundred fifty and odde with a good sword may well be counted three hundred years currant though not compleate § 4. The Tribe of Gad had the kingdome of Ammon on the east the half Tribe of Manasseh on the north Reuben on the south and the river Iordan on the west The length thereof from Aroer to Iordan may be computed thirty five miles and the breadth thereof from Mahanaim to Dibon falls out a little less A Tribe inferiour to none for fair rivers fruitfull Pastures shady woods superiour to most for populous Cities and memorable actions atchieved therein As for Balme or Balsame it was a peculiar commodity of this Countrey Thus the Prophet betwixt grief anger and pity demands Is there no balme in Gilead and again Goe up into Gilead and take balm O virgin In describing this Countrey we will follow the streams of Arnon Iabbok and Iordan which with some little help lent us besides will afford us the conveniency to behold all remarkable mounts in this Countrey § 5. In the eastern part of this Tribe the rivers of Arnon and Iabbok though running contrary ways arise not far asunder according to the exact observation of Iosephus who saith that the land of Sihon King of the Amorites lay in nature and fashion like an Island betwixt the three rivers of Iordan Arnon and Iabbok so near are the fountains of the latter together The heads of their springs are found in a mountainous and rocky soil affording great plenty of Iackalls
to the value of eight thousand talents Indeed Eleazar keeper of the holy treasures gave or rather payed to Crassus a wedge of gold weighing three hundred pounds to ransome the rest from his rapine But the golden wedge did but widen the covet ousness of Crassus and like a break-fast did inable him to encounter a dinner with a greater appetite so that notwithstanding his oath to the contrary he added sacriledge to his perjury But seeing theeves give whatever they take not away we have rather cause to comend his bounty that the golden table candlesticks and other ornaments escaped his fingers except they were either hid from him by the carefull providence of others or left by him out of his own politick covetousnes like nest-egs to encourage others again to lay up more wealth in the same place And no doubt he hoped though now he had mowed down the Temples treasure to the bare roots shortly when grown up again to return to the after-share thereof but all in vain for marching with his Army into Parthia there his money perished with him losing the principle of his stoln wealth and paying his own life for interest Thus those who on a sudden grow rather foggy then fat by feeding on sacrilegious morsels do pinâ— away by degrees and die at last of incurable consumptions § 3. Here we cannot but take notice how profoundly shallow the Scribes and Pharisees were in that their superstitious Criticisme and leaden distinction how he that swore by the Temple was left at liberty whilest he that swore by the gold of the Temple was bound up and concluded in conscience to the performance of his oath Whereas our Saviour demonstrateth that the Temple was greater then the gold as the sanctifier thereof Besides in common sense he should seem faster tyed whose faith by oath was staked down to the Temple as to a fixt firme stable structure then he whose truth was tyed onely to the gold thereof a more fading flitting moveable matter as appears by Crassus and others carying so much of it away with him into forein countreys But indeed as our Saviour teacheth the main obliging power of those oaths consisted in the presence of God before whom they were made who alone is immoveable and immutable whereas in process of time the Temple it self as well as the gold thereof came to destruction § 4. For Vespasian and Titus his son Roman Emperours Anno Dom. 72. razed the Temple and utterly confounded all the Utensils thereof Indeed they were first carried in triumph to Rome but what afterward became of them is altogether unknown It is no sin to conceive that their property was altered and they either converted to coin or turned to plate for the use of the Emperour or his favorites Sure none are known to remain in specie at this day and one may wonder that no impudent Relickmonger hath produced a golden feather of a Cherubims wing or a knop flower bowle or almond of the seven-branched candle-stick having pretended since Christs time to improbabilities of as high a nature Strange that no Pope hath gotten a piece of Aarons Mitre or breast-plate to grace his wardrobe or a parcell of the manuscript-commandements written by Gods finger to adorn his Vatican But divine providence hath utterly razed all foundation for superstition to build upon in the totall abolition of these holy ornaments And if those reasonable Witnesses of Gods truth were by his permission overcome and killed by the Beast when they had finished their testimony no wonder if these sensless and inanimate types having served their generation the truth being come were finally extinguished Nor have I ought else to observe of those holy Utensils save that all were made of pure gold and yet the Apostle is bold to tearm them and all other legall ceremonies beggerly elements so debasing them in comparison of Christ the authour of grace and giver of eternall life Finis Libri Tertii To the Right Honourable FRANCIS LORD RVSSELL Son to the Right Honourable WILLIAM EARL OF BEDFORD MY LORD PErusing this passage in the beginning of Saint Lukes Gospell To write unto thee in order most excellent Theophilus that thou mightest know the certainty of those things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wherein thou hast been catechised or instructed it furnished me with some observables very conducible to my present purpose 1 Though God alone be good yet man in some sense may be most excellent 2 Even in that age wherein they had all things common Nobility remained severall as appropriated to some principall persons 3 No diminution to the dignity of a Noble man to be catâ—chised 〈…〉 in the Principles of Religion 4 Dedicating of Books of Noble persons is an ancient practise 〈…〉 Scripture precedents 5 〈…〉 not patronage for his book the Word of God being the sword of the 〈…〉 to defend it but intended the instruction of Theophilus therein The 〈…〉 the texâ— encourgâ—d me â—â—ing to put forth a Treatise to publick view to make choice of an honourable Patron and hope I have found a Theophilus in your Lordship whom I see to be young know to be Noble and beleeve to â—e religâ—ous The composure therefore of this ensuing boâ—â— the issue by Gods â—blessing of 〈◊〉 own industry this alone I humbly 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 Honour to protect the same As for the matter thereof being wholly Scripture I heartily dedicate your Honour thereto to be instructed therewith And now my Lord may I request you to tâ—ke a serious survey of your own extraction to be unto you a forcible motive unto vertue To instance onely in your deceased Ancestors as cut of the reach of flattery John your Atavus by his wisedome and valour the fortunate Generall against the Rebels in the West founded under God the Nobility of your family Francis your Abavus whose Hall seemed a Court Closet a Chappell and Gate-house an Hospitall shined as a light with his piety in those darker days William your Proavus to whom agreed the character of Sergius Paulus A prudent man and Deputy of the Countrey and that an Island too though not Cyprus yet Ireland of whose abilities Queen Elizabeth was well assured when choosing him Pilot of that leaking Land then toffed with the violent tempest of Rebellion Francis your 〈◊〉 whose death I would epithete Untimely not onely for the behoof of his own family but benefit of the whole nation did not the same authority which reproved Saint Peter for calling that common which he had cleansed forbid me to term any thing untimely which his Providence hath appointed Now my Lord upon a review of this your pedegree I will not be so Pedantick to minde you of a Grammar-instance to make it true construction in your Honours practise Magnorum haudquaquam indignus avorum but in Scripture-phrase I request you to Look to the rock whence you are hewn and the hole of the pit whence you are
all her life after And no wonder if Bride and Bridgroom were both very gallant when all their invited guests are highly concerned to be comely otherwise if wanting a wedding garment they are accounted to â—ffâ—ont all the company and the welcome occasion of their meeting together § 6. Next day we behold our Bride a formall wife and amongst all her clothes we take especiall notice of the vaile on her head in token of the subjection she gave to and protection she took from her husband Vaile in Hebrew called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 radid derived from radad to bear rule and authority shewing now she had power on her head being under the command of an husband Her vaile was partable from the rest of her clothes witness the complaint of the Spouse that The watchmen shame on them for their pains and the keepers of the walls took away her vaile from her This vaile as all the other garments of the wife were provided her all her life time on her husbands charge God taking peculiar order that in case her husband should take another wife yet amongst other provisions his first wives raiment should not be diminished though formerly she had been but a servant unto him But wofull the condition of those seven women who as the Prophet foretells in a dearth of men desiring nothing with an husband but an husband would be contented yea willing and desirous to weaie their own apparell that is to clothe themselves at their own charges so be it they might have but one man for their husband to perform conjugall duties unto them § 7. Now as the ordinary Iewish wives wore clothes proportionable to their husbands estates so the honourable women amongst them Queens especially wore broidered garments which were of two sorts 1 Wrought with needle work brought from Babylon of which kinde for the Art though not the sex thereof I â—onâ—eive was that Babylonish garment which tempted â—he hands of Achan to sacriledge 2 Woven exactly in imitation of the former and this properly called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plurimis liciis texta composed of various coloured threads like branched work first found out at Alexandria in Egypt whereof the Poet Haec tibi Memphitis tellus dat munera victa est Pectine Niliaco jam Babylonis acus Affirming that in his age the Egyptian shuttle had got the victory of the Babylonish needle Understand him for the quickness speciousness cheapness and novelty of the work not the state riches and curiosity thereof seeing the wrought garments from Babylon were like costly Manuscripts the woven stuffes from Egypt like Printed books done with less charge and greater expedition § 8. But besides embroidered clothes we finde the Queen of Iudea once arraied in gold of Ophir as if her garment were cut out of the same piece with her Scepter and Crown and made of massie plate If so such bravery was rather to be pitied then envied as all outward greatness is a penance rather then an ornament except the hands of her Train-bearers did lighten the burden thereof However it rather appeareth as afterward it followeth of wrought gold either onely studded or bossed therewith or consisting of golden threads wrought thereinto Thus such gallantry was fashionable amongst the Iews long before any thereof was used in the western parts or Rome it self Where Tarquinius Priscus is by Pliny affirmed the first who triumphed aureâ tunicâ In a golden coat And many hundred years after the same Author reports for a matter of greater rarity that he with his own eyes beheld Agrippina the wife of Claudius wearing Paludamentum auro textili or Chlamydem auratam as Tacitus phraseth it a Mantle of cloth of gold as the first which began that fashion in Rome though customary with the Iewish Queens a thousand years before § 9. But if our foresaid wife though a Queen chanceth to bury her husband and so become a widow presently on she puts her widows-garments and anoints not her self with oyle but weares mourning apparell or else it would be accounted a great breach of modesty in her some competent time though the exact limitation thereof be not specified in Scripture These Widows-garments of what mean and homely matter soever they were made had this peculiar priviledge that they might not be taken to pawn or pledge God the Father of the fatherless and the Iudge of the widows being so carefull that no injury should be offered unto them SECT VII Of the riot and luxury of the Iewish women before the Captivity § 1. SO much for the attire of sober and civill Maidens the garments of grave and modest Matrons Another generation succeeds whose husbands might be the Sons of Abraham by their extraction but these their wives were none of the daughters of Sarah by their conditions Indeed a little before the captivity of Babylon luxury is the forerunner of misery the Iewish women were arrived at the greatest height of pride like those of whom Moses foretold The tender and delicate woman among you who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness Oh pride the earth which is Gods footstool is not good enough to be hers Though the same one day will be bold to tread on her face who thought her foot too good to tread on it § 2. The Prophet Isaiah taketh especiall notice of a world of trinkets which in his days concurred to dress them 1 Tinkling ornaments 2 Caules 3 Round tires like the moon 4 Chaines 5 Bracelets 6 Mufflers 7 Bonnets 8 Ornaments about the leg 9 Head-bands 10 Tablets 11 Ear-rings 12 Rings 13 Nose-jewels 14 Changeable suites 15 Mantles 16 Wimples 17 Crisping-pins 18 Glasses 19 Fine-linen 20 Hoods 21 Vailes But now as once the Eunuch said concerning a more mysterious passage in this Prophet How can I understand without an interpreter So here without the same help who can attain to the meaning thereof § 3. In the first place we may conceive many of these ornaments were onely temporary as used by the Fashionists of that age which afterwards disused both name and thing came to be abolished Which frequently comes to pass in all kinde of apparell whose very names by degrees grow old wax thread-bare turne to rents to rags to nothing For instance it would pose a good Antiquary to describe the exact fashion of Herlots Paltocks Gits Haketons Tabards Court-pies Chevesailes and Gipsers barbarous names which may seem to carry a Spell or Conjuration in the mention of them Yet all these were kindes of garments commonly used in England some four hundred years agoe Yea pride playing in all ages upon conceited opinions of decency hath infinitely varied the fashion of all apparell customes of our Ancestours appearing as antick to us as our fashions perchance will seem incredible to posterity Who would
unto the other end thereof yet mountains are too firmly fastned to be transplanted from their naturall location Philol. You doe commit what you condemn in Adrichomius taxing him for fashioning the streets of Ierusalem after his own fancy assuming the same liberty to your self in conjecturall ranging them without warrant from Gods word Aleth Reason dictates what we have done herein For Gates being made for entrance probably the streets from them stretched forth-right as we have deâ—igned them Those Insulae or Quadrants of buildings are nothing else but the necessary product of the decussation and thwarting of such direct streets where they cross one another It is impossible that in describing Ierusalem we should doe what Saul in another case desired of the Ziphites See therefore and take notice of all the lurking places and come yee again with the certainty onely such generalls in likelyhood may be presumed and the rest is left to every mans free conception Philol. You have forgotten the Porta fictilis or Potters-gate which Villalpandus solemnly sets up on the east of the City building on a place alleadged out of the Prophet Ieremy Aleth His Porta fictilis is rather fictitia and so brittle a gate that it is broken with perusing the text by him cited for the proof thereof Thus saith the Lord goe and get a potters earthen bottle and take of the ancients of the people and of the ancients of the Priests and goe forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom which is by the entry of the east gate and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee See here whatever may be in the vulgar Latine no sherd of a Potters-gate though we confess a Potters field nigh the City but thence it cannot be collected that there was also a gate of that name no more then if followes because of Smithfield there must be Smith-gate in London Philol. You affirm that we meet with no gate at all in Sion flatly contrary to the words of David The Lord loveth the gates of Sion more then all the dwellings of Icoab Aleth I say again that because of the precipice of the place Sion had no out-gates but had those which led into Ierusalem which might be meant by the Psalmist But to speake plainly Gates of Sion are not there to be taken literally being put for the assemblies of the people at Gods publick worship especially whilest the Ark was in Davids time fixed in Zion CHAP. XVIII Objections against the Courts of Solomons Temple answered Philol. IN your description of the Courts of Solomons Temple I finde onely four gates to the cardinall windes but neither Parbar nor Asuppim Gate though both of them eminently mentioned in the Bible Aleth I must confess my self utterly unsatisfied in the position of these places whether or no they were in the first two Courts as built by Solomon or added in after ages when the new or third Court was added to Solomons foundation which latter I am most inclined to beleeve For perusing the date of the first book of Chronicles I finde it written long after the Iews return from the captivity of Babylon as appears by reckoning up the grand-children of Zorobabel and therefore I suspend the describing of them till further information Philol. At the entrance of the House of the Lord you make horses but omit the Chariots of the Sun both equally mentioned in Scripture and destroyed by Iosiah Besides you make them artificiall statues which no doubt were naturall horses sent out with riders every morning in a superstitious frolick to give a welcome or visit to the dawning-day and to salute the Sun in the first arising thereof Aleth Chariots must be supposed there though not expressed for lack of room Sure they were no reall horses which the idolatrous Kings of Israel had given to the Sun For except thereby be meant a successive breed or race such horses must be extremely old at this reformation after the eighteenth year of Iosiaâ— probably set up by Ahaz sixty years since Besides it is improbable that living horses were kept so close to the Temple and that noisome stables should be so near Gods house generally set at some distance from mens dwellings However I had rather subscribe then ingage in a controversie not worth the contending for Philol. You mention onely one Table of shew-bread whereas David made preparation for the Tables thereof And lest so plain a place of Scripture should be avoided by the frequent figure of Enallage Solomon is expresly said to have made ten Tables and placed them in the Temple and it is added not long after whereon the shew-bread was set Aleth I am confident there was but one principall Table for the presentation of shew-bread whereon by Gods appointment the twelve Cakes were set in two rowes according to the number of the twelve Tribes of Israel Now if there were ten Tables provided for that purpose the twelve Cakes could not be equally set upon them without a fraction I conceive therefore the other nine onely as side-cupboards or Livery tables ministeriall to that principall one as whereupon the shew-bread elect was set before the consecration thereof and whereon the old shew-bread removed for some time might be placed when new was substituted in the room thereof Philol. To proceed to the Altar I approve your answer taken from the Celestiall fire thereupon as satisfactory in relation to the Tabernacle and Solomons Temple that so many sacrifices were so suddenly consumed without any noisomeness But the difficulty still remains as touching the second Temple where by generall confession in default of heavenly the Priests were fain to make use of common and ordinary fire Aleth Although I beleeve not in full latitude what the Iewish Rabbins doe affirme That the Pillar of smoak which ascended from the sacrifice curled onely upwards in direct wreaths to heaven without any scattering or shedding if self abroad yet for the main we may be confident it was no whit offensive to the Priests or people thereabouts This we impute to the providence of God passing an Act of indemnity that none should be impaired either in health or wealth by the performance of any service according to his appointment And as the land of the Iews was secured from forein invasion during the appearing of all the males thrice a year at Ierusalem so the same goodness of God ordered that his people should sustain no damage or detriment either in their purses or persons whilest busied in his worship the main reason that no infection did arise no smoak nor ill savor sented from the fat offall and excrements of so many sacrifices offered in so short a time and small a compass Philol. You say something for the avoiding of noisomeness but nothing in answer that that common fire should so quickly devour so many sacrifices though I confess the offerings
John 18. 36. Policy in transplanting conquered people a 2 Kin. 17. 23. Their threefold captivity b 1 Chr. 5. 16. c 2 King 15. 19. d 2 King 15. 29 e 2 King 27. 6. f Josh. 19. 34. Since seemingly utterly lost 2 Eâ—dâ— 13. 40. g See Bâ—llâ—rminâ—s ArgurmeÌ„ts against it h 2 Esdr. 13. 45. i Deut. 32. 26. Supposed by some in America k See the book of my worthy fâ—iend M Tho. Thâ—â—owgood on Iews in America l Manasseh Ben Israel in his book called Spes Israelis Our private opinion o Gen. 45. 26. P Psal. 126. 2. q Gen. 18. 12. r Gen. 17. 17. The Iews fancy of a temporall kingdome a M. Fincâ— in his Book of the calling of the Iews published by Will. Gouge D. D. Anno 1621. for which he was imprisoned Scripture produced for the opinion b 1 King 20 33. The Iews their Golden Apâ— c See 〈◊〉 his common places de Extrâ—mo Iudicio pag. 258. Arguments to the contrary d Amos â— 2. c Zâ—ch 11. 6. f Hosea 9. 15. g 〈…〉 4. 20. h Jer. 19. 1â— Jewish reasons confuted i Seder Olam Talmud k In Kâ—li Iachan cited by Geâ—ard de Extremo Iudicio pag. 259. An eminent instance The Iews their land will come to them l Rom. 11. 8. The question stated a Lib. 1. Severall Scriptures to prove it b 2 King 3. 21. The staple place for the calling of the Iews Objection to the conâ—rary d Gâ—l 3. 7. e Gâ—l 6. 16. f Rom. 2. 29. Answered g 2 Sam. 15. 20. The opinion â—avoured by Fathers School men and modern Divines h In their severall Comments on Rom. 11. 25. i Lib. 2. Quaest. Evangel Quaest 13. k See Gerardi Loc. Com. p. 262. Countenâ—nced by their long continuing an unmixt â—â—â—tlon l M. Mede m Dâ—ut 14. 2. And some Iews converted in all ages n In the preface of his book in Biblioth 〈◊〉 o His Epistle is at the end of Bâ—â—torâ—s Syn. Iud. p Rabbi Sâ—m Marochianus de adâ—entu Messiâ— cap. 6. q Act. 2â— 28. r Amos 2 6. Time of their conversion s Rom. 11. 25. Cruelty conjoyned with confidence Different Dates thereof t Psal. 19. 2. Civill distance in society Cruell usage in point of â—state a D. Heylin in Micro in Palest pag. 570. I think out of St. Edwin Sandys h Mat. 19. 22. c Comd. Brit. in Middlesex pag. 428. * Stowes Survay pag. 435. Offence at Image-worship d Especially on the Burden of Dumâ—â—â— Isa. 21. 11. e Set forth by Daniel Bombâ—â—gius Discords amongst Christians Internall obstacle blindnes f Act. 22. 23. Obstacles easily banished by an Infinite power g 2 Chr. 29. 36. Motives for our prayer for the Iews conversion a Cant. 8. 8 9. Motive from the Iews joy for us b Act. 11. 18. Clearing of the Scâ—iptures Objection against praying for the â— Iews conversion c Rom. 14 23. d James 1. 6. Answer e Mat. 26. 39. f Mar. 8. 2. g 1 Sam. 16. 1. h Psal. 145. 17. A Prayer i Hosea 3. 4. k Psâ—l 6. 6. 3. l Revel 6. 10. m Psal. 79. 5. n Psal. 30. 5. o Rom. 1. 3. p Mat. 27. 25. q Rom. 3. 2. Luk. 2. 32. s John 10. 16. a Prov. 31. 14. b Luke 12. 55. c Isa. 18. 4. d Psal. 147. 1â— e 1 Sam. 17. 42. 2 Sam. 13. 1. 2 Sam. 14. 27. 1 King 1. 4. f See our first Book chap. 15. English resemblances a Stony Stratford Buckingham Shâ—re b Thorny-Aâ—by Cambâ—â—dg sh. c 〈…〉 d Troublefield or 〈◊〉 in Noâ—mandy e From such colour Rutland Red born in 〈…〉 in Surry c. * Redman Haâ—shâ—â— f 〈…〉 g Okcham in Rutland Okeley Northamp h 〈…〉 a Highworth Wil. sh. Higham Northamptonshire b Vppingham Rutland sh. a Ramsâ—y Huntington shire b Wells in Sommerset shire c Aust-pasage Glost. shire d Pic-nest Waltham Abbey Essex e Lambeth Surrâ—y * Fish house in the Isle of Weight f Figâ—â—ce Court in the Temple g Godstow in Oxfordshire h Deeping Linc. sh. i Breadstreet Lond. k 〈◊〉 Wilt. sh. l Sunning in Ba ksh and Sunbury Middlesex m Applc shaw Hamp sh. n Maidweâ— Northamp a Ro. kley in Yoâ—ksh * Shine in Surrey b Castleton in Yorksh. c Wepham Sussex d Harpham Harpley Norfolk e Honiton Devonsh * FighildoÌ„ Wiltsh a Golden-grove in carmar sh b Helpston Northamp shire c Kineton Warwic sh. d The Calf in the Isle of Man e Oakehampton Devon Oakchingham Barkshire f Ramton Camb. sh. a Hilton Castle B. of Durham b Merch County in Scotland c Walden Essex d Oxney Kent e Totterridge Midle sex f Rollewright Oxford sh. g Dogdikâ—seâ—â—y Liâ—colshire h Whelpston Yorkshire a Grace-Dieu Lecest. shire b Goatham Nott sh. c Foxton in Camb sh. d Horsâ—ley Daâ—by sh. e Milkstreet London f Sunburn Hamâ—â—sh a Driâ—ield in Yoâ—kshire b Snailwell Cambâ— sh. Lizaâ—dspoint in Cornwall a Drisâ—oke Rutland b Wrangle 〈◊〉 c Reston Lincolâ—shire d 〈◊〉 Worcestersh e Wootton NorthaÌ„psh Woodborrough Nottinghamsh a Sundon 〈◊〉 b Godston Sâ—â—â—ey c Holy IstaÌ„d in Noâ—thuÌ„berland d The Pavement in York e Hornchurch Essex f Blackwal Middlesex Saddington Lecestosh g Easâ—on Northampt. shire * Holy head in Anglâ—sey h Blackwater Hamsh i 〈◊〉 Strâ—etley k Hardwick 〈◊〉 shire l Wallington Surry m Whiteby Yorkshire n Walkhaâ—stead Surry Walkhampton Devon o Lion-key London * Fairfield Glocâ—stersh a Nutwell Devon Nuthall Notting sh. b Bitteâ—ing Norâ—olk c Stanford in the Cave NorthaÌ„psh d Watecrton Walâ—sham Yorkshiâ—e e Bridlington Yorksh. Askeham Yorkshire a a Watchingwy Isle of Weight b Belvoire Lincolnsh c Maidston Kent d Brightsâ—ow Somersetsh e Beauliâ—â— Hamsh f Ditton Camb. sh. Botlesham Cambr. sh. g Greatbreach Kent a Greatton Noâ—thampâ—shire b Vpton Vpham Hamsh Vpburn Busking sh. Vphall Hartâ—â—sâ— Hie-gate Midlesex c Broadlands Hamshire d Broadway Somerset sh. e Highley Devonsh e Rockingham Northamp sh. f Thornâ—augh Northamp sh. a Hungcrâ—ord Barksh b Foxholes Darbysh Foxton B. of Durham c Brierley Heâ—â—fordsh d Gatelâ—y Norfolk Yatton somersâ—tsh e Coâ—iston in Lancast sh. f Grays Oxford sh. g Boughton NorthaÌ„psh h Broadchalk Wilâ—sh i The Vine Hamsh k Boothby in Lincolâ—sh a Newland Essex b Appleford Barksh c 〈◊〉 d Laâ—born Baâ—ksh e Beaufield Kent f Midlâ—ton Oxfordsh g Rochel in France h Bedâ—oâ—d i Melton Lâ—câ—stersh k Sl adwell nigh London a Wooltoâ— Doâ—seâ—sh b Huntington c Budleigh castle Devon Budwoâ—th Châ—shire d Littleton Staffordsh Little port Camb sh. e Burton Lazers Lecestersh a 1 Sam. 27. 9.