cost that he much exceeded Alexander and made it a fair and goodly City At this day it is called Ilium But in the place of old Troy there is little to be seen only a small Town as Strabo saith It is distant from Ierusalem 760 miles North-westward Of Bythinia THIS Country is opposite to Constantinople scituated in Asia minor distant from Ierusalem North-westward and so called of Bythinus the Son of Iupiter and Thrax It was sometime called Pontus Bebrycia and Mygdonia as Stephanus saith In this Country the Apostle Paul could not preach the Gospel of Christ when he went into Macedonia and Graecia because he was hindred by the Spirit Act. 16. The principal Cities thereof were Calcidon Heraclea Nicea Nicodemia Apamea Flaviopolis Libissa where Hannibal lieth buried and Prusa now called Brysa where in times past the Enperours of Turky kept their Courts and were buried The Mother and Metropolis of all these Cities was Nicea or rather Nicaea being distant from Ierusalem 720 miles towards the North-west at the first called Antigonia of Antigonus the Son of Philip King of Asia who built it after the death of Alexander the Great But Lysimacus called it Nicaea after his Wifes name and at this day it is called Nissa The compass thereof is two miles being four square scituated as Strabo saith lib. 12. in a fair and pleasant place lying close by the Pool of Ascania and hath in it four Gates standing in a direct line all which Gates might easily have been seen from a certain Stone which stood in the middle of the Market-place In this City the most Christian Emperour Constantine the Great celebrated a Councel Anno Dom. 325. at which time there were present 320 Bishops who condemned the Arrian Heresie and instituted the Nicene Creed But after that viz. Anno Dom. 326. the Arrians endeavouring to hold a second Councel in this City to confirm their Opinions and to dissolve that which went before the Lord hindred them with an Earth-quake by which almost half the City was thrown down Not long after there happened another Earth-quake which utterly destroyed it Notwithstanding it was rebuilt again and in it a second Councel held wherein the Nicene Creed was condemned There were many Cities of this name that before spoken of another in Thrace a third in France not far from the River Varus a fourth as Stephans saith is amongst the Lorrenses in Graecia a fifth in Illeria a sixth in India a seventh in Corsica and the eighth in Leuctris of Boetia Of Mysia THIS is a Country of Asia the less bordering upon Hellespont and Troada being divided into two parts that is the greater and the less That part that bordereth upon Troada is distant from Ierusalem 800 miles North-westward but that which is called Mysia the less and bordering upon Lydia is 1028 miles from Ierusalem North-westward In this Country stood Pergam to which Iohn wrote his Revelation Scepsis where one Neleus kept the Books of Aristotle till Apollonius time also Antandrus Adramitium Tranoiapolis and Aâ—ollonia which stood close by the River Thyndaeus The Inhabitants were Men of a base condition and contemned of the World insomuch as they became a Proverb as often as a Man would denote a thing of no estimation they would say Viâ—imum esse myliorum that is It is worse than the Mysians as it appeareth in Cicero's oration for Flaccus Yet notwithstanding Paul and Iohn the Evangelist preached the Doctrine and Light of the Gospel to this poor and despised People so that the Mysians which were a contemptable and abominable Nation before all the World were not so before God for they were converted at the preaching of Iohn and Paul From whence he saith Not many Wise according to the flesh not many mighty not many noble but God hath chosen the foolish things of this World that they might confute and overthrow the Wise c. 1. Cor. 1. Intimes past they were a great People though of small estimation for they had under their jurisdiction Lydia Caria Pergamus Thyatira Sardis Philadelphia and Laodicea to many of which Iohn wrote his Revelation Also as Herodotus saith lib. 7. the Mysians and Teucrians before the Trojan War past into Europe and there won and held Thracia Macedonia and all the Land of the Adriatick Sea c. Of Troas THIS City Troas where Paul raised Eutichus which signifies Happy or Fortunate from death to life Act. 10. stood upon the Sea of Hellespont in Asia the less 720 miles from Ierusalem North-westward Antigonus King of Asia called it Troas because it was in the Country where Troy was But after the death of Alexander he called it after his own name Antigonia and the better to honour it kept his Court there But Lysimachus King of Thrace having got this City into his Jurisdiction bestowed great cost upon it and set up many fair and goodly Buildings then called it after Alexander's name Alexandria and so it began to be called Alexandria Troas Plin. lib. 5. Strabo lib. 13. Ier. de locis Hebraicis Now it was called Alexandria Troas to put a difference between it and divers other Cities of that name for there was an Alexandria in Aegypt another in India and many others elsewhere but only this in the Country where Troy stood It was scituated in a high and spacious Mountain about a mile and a half from the Shore of Propontus towards the East between which and Troas is twenty eight miles It is a thing worthy Observation to consider by what divers names the Sea that lies between Europe and Asia the less is called for between Constantinople and Calcidonia close by the Euxine Sea it is called Thrascius Bosphorus in which place it is not above half a mile broad here Xerxes when he invaded Graecia built up a Bridge for his Army to pass over There is also another streight and narrow place in this Sea which is called by the name of Cimmeriu Bosphorius These two Bosphori are so called as some Authors hold because a Bull when he loweth may be heard from the one side to the other but Pliny seemeth to derive the name from Io that fair Maid which Iupiter turned into a Cow who swam over this Sea and of her was called Bosphorus lib. 6. cap. 1. It is also called Proâ—ontus because it lieth just before the Euxine Sea and Hellespont from Helle the Daughter of Athamantis King of Thebes who was drowned therein then running thence it falleth into a Gulph of the Mediterranean Ocean and there it is called the Aegean Sea of Aegeus King of Athens who drowned himself therein for the supposed loss of his Son Theseus In this Sea were scituate the Isles of Pathmos Mytelene Samothrace Chius Lesbus and many other Isles as you may read in the Travels of St. Paul Of Samothracia or Samothrace SAmothracia is an Isle of the Aegean Sea scituated between Troades and Thracia eight hundred and eighty miles from Ierusalem towards the North-west
the East there were three Porches or Courts open without Roofs which were made all of polish'd Stone with fair marble Pillars beautified with all kind of Colours in which Porches men praised and served God The first was called the upper Porch where none but the Priest might enter when he offered and served God which Porch stood next unto the high Quire The second was called Solomon's Hall or Porch there the People used to pray and in that Court our Saviour Christ preached Ioh. 10. The third Porch King Herod built adding that thereto for the Heathen People which also came unto Ierusalem to pray These three Porches went four square round about the Temple as the Temple it self was and between these Porches there were also spaces left supported with pillars of Marble and close above the head for men to walk under when it rained which were all made of Cedar and Cypress-wood and of marble stone beautified with Gold But towards the East right over against the high Quire of the Temple there the Porches were broadest and greatest Here gentle Reader you may note that as often as in the Description of the Temple I speak of certain Ells you must not understand such Ells as we use here in our Country but only of the Geometrical Ells or Elbows which are called Cubits being the length of one foot and a half or six hands in breadth and two such Ells or Cubits do contain three foot which make a yard of our measure The first Temple which King Solomon built had but two Porches as also the second Temple which Zâ—râ—babel and Iosâ—uah or Iesu the Son of Iozedeck made after the Captivity in Babylon but that was twenty cubits lower and inclosed about with two Porches also But King Herod Ascalonita the great King of the Jews Son of 〈◊〉 Idumâ—â—â— sixteen years before the Birth of Christ pulled down that Temple and built a new Temple up from the ground which was like to Solomâ—n's Temple but that it had three Porches for Herod built the third Porch to the intent that the Heathen People might pray therein as a Sanctuary for Pilgrims and Strangers as Iosephus writeth Anâ—iq 〈…〉 21. ca. 14. de Bello Iuâ—deo lib. 6. ca. 6. Item Egisiâ—pus lib. 1. cap. 35 36. But some do think which is more likely that the said Herod did but repair and add Buildings to the second Temple And where Iosephus lib. 2 contra Appionem writeth of four Porches whereas principally there were but three it is to be understood that Solomoâ— Porch was made with a Wall in the middle thereof wherein on the Northside the Jewish Women that were unspotted and undefiled used to pray and on the other side being South the Jewish Women who also according to the Law were unspotted prayed as Iosephus saith lib. 6. cap. 6. de Bello Iudaeo A particular description of the three several Porches or Courts belonging to the Temple IN the upper Porch which stood right over against the high Quire in the Temple there was an Altar of Brass proportioned four square consisting of 20 Cubits in length and 20 Cubits in breadth extending to ten Cubits in height beautified with golden horns whereon they used to offer burnt Sacrifices of Oxen Sheep Turtle Doves Calves and other things Also in times past there stood the great molten Sea made by King Solomon and the two brazen Pillars which were made with Knobs Pomegranates and Lillies very costly and most artificially done and ten Kettles upon Treâ—â—â— but those Kettles and Pillars with Knobs and Pomgranates and the great molten Sea made by King Solomon were carried away by Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon and broken in pieces after which Captivity they were never seen more in the Temple for there were no more made But the Altar of â—rass with the great horns whereon they offered Oxen Sheep and Doves was made again and stood there as I said before by which there stood divers Tables whereon they killed their Offerings In this Court also there was a goodly Fountain with the Water whereof they used to wash the Blood of the Beasts out of the Temple For there were certain holes and gutters between the marble Stones whereby the Water ran under the Earth and through the Earth was conveyed in a Pipe into the Lake Kidron In this Court Zacharias the Son of Barachias was killed between the Temple and the Altar Mat. 23. And Zacharias the High Priest the Son of Ioiadah was stoned to death 2 Chron. 24. It was compassed about with a great Wall made of marble stone of divers colours wherein there were divers doors to go out and in decked with lofty Towers and pleasant Walks made of Cedar-wood resembling our ancient Cloisters But principally toward the East it had a great Gate of 70 Ells or Cubits high and 25 broad all covered over with gold as Iosephus writeth standing always open without any dores to shut that every man might look into it when the Priest served God If any man offered any thing he brought it to the Priest before the Gate but might not go in himself Iereâ—y cha 26. and 36. calleth it the New Gate Here also was the Chappel of Gemaria the Son of Saphan in which Chappel Bâ—ruâ—h read the book of the Prophet Ieremy to the People Ier. 36. And when the Sun was in Capricorn it shone right in at that Gate and through the high Quire of the Temple to the Holy of Holies as Iosephus writeth Of the second or middle Court called Solomon's Porch THis Court was something lower than the other for from it to the uâ—permost they went by certain steps and in Iohn 10. is called Sâ—lomon's Porch which as Iosephus writeth was parted in the middle with a Wall wherein on the North side the Jewish Women that were clean and undefiled used to pray and on the South the Men according to the Law But no unclean person or Stranger or Heathen might enter therein for on the East side thereof before the steps whereon men ascended into the said Porch there stood a Portal curiously made of marble stone and between it stood Pillars of Marble whereon was ingraven in Hebrew Greek Latine and Idumaean Tongues this Sentence Oâ—nis aliemnigena accideâ—s ad habitaculum Domini moriatur That is If any Stranger go into the House of God he shall surely die And Herod also caused to be hanged over the Eastern Gate by which they came into this Court a golden Sword with this Inscription Peregrinus si fuerit ingressus moriatur that is If a Stranger be so bold to enter let him die So as no Stranger or Heathen might go into Solomon's Porch under danger of his Life Here Simeon took the Child Jesus in his Arms and said Lord let now thy Servant depart in Peace according to thy Word for mine eyes have seen thy Salvation c. At the same time also the Prophetess Annâ— the Daughter of Phanuel of the Tribe of Ashur
when time serveth it shall be declared After the Death of Melchisedech unto whom Abraham paid the Tythes of all his Goods the Iebusites dwelt in the City of Ierusalem and had the dominion of it and all the Land thereabouts in their Subjection called the City Iebus after their Name which Name was held a long time as we read in Iosh. 10. Iud. 10. and 2 Sam. 1. But at last Ioab King David's General of his Army won it and drave the Jebusites out of it and called it Ierusalem that is A Sight or Vision of Peace It hath also other Names in the holy Scripture for in Esay 29. it is called Ariel that is God's â—yon and Mount Libanus The Prophet Ezechiel 23. calleth it Ahaliba my fixed Pavillion or Tent that is a City wherein God had placed his own Habitation The Circuit and Bigness of the City Jerusalem THE City of Ierusalem was four-square and in circumference three and thirty Furlongs as Iosephus writeth which three and thirty Furlongs make somewhat more than a Dutch mile Some write that it was four miles Compass about yet these were not Dutch miles but Walloon or Italian miles for four such Italian miles are a Dutch mile Of Mount Sion the higher City MOunt Sion stood Northwards in the City Ierusalem and was much higher than all the other Hills that were therein therefore it was called Sion that is a watch Tower because from thence one might see the Holy Land and all the Countries thereabout upon this Hill the upper City was built which in the Scripture is called the City of David because David won it from the Iebusites and beautified it with many goodly Houses and fair and costly buildings but especially with his house of Cedar-wood which he termed the Castle of Sion which stood Westwards at the corner of the Hill looking into Bethlehem Southwards In that house David dwelt and therein committed Adultery with Berseba the Wife of Vriah the Hittite whose House also with the place of divers Privy Councellors and Officers stood upon the Hill not far from the King's Palace as Iosephus writeth Beneath King David's House upon Mount Sion within a Rock there was to be seen the Sepulchre or Vault wherein King David Solomon his Son and other succeeding Kings of Iuda were entombed and buried Upon Mount Sion also towards the East King Herod had a Garden of Pleasure not far from the Fountain called Silo Nehemiah 3. and there also stood the Tower of Silo whereof Luke in the 13 chapter maketh mention Iosephus in the Wars of the Jews his first Book and sixteenth Chapter saith That King Herod under whom Christ Jesus was born had two fair and strong Houses or Towers which he set and made in the upper part of the City Ierusalem upon Mount Sion which were in a manner comparable with the Temple for Beautifulness which he called after the Name of his Friends the one Caesarea for Caesar the Emperor's sake and the other Agrippa acording to the name of the noble Roman Marcus Agrippa that marryed the Daughter of Augustus Caesar. This may suffice to declare the Scituation of the upper City which stood upon mount Sion and contained in Circuit fifteen Furlongs which is about half a mile This uppermost City in the sacred Scripture is called the City of David it was also called Millo that is Fullness or Plenty for in it there was no Want but Abundance of all things Of the Steps which descended down from the City of David unto the lower City MOunt Sion whereon the upper City of Ierusalem did stand was such a high hard Hill and so steep that no man could climb or ascend unto it by any way or means but only one that is by steps for in the middle thereof there was a great pair of stairs made which descended from David's City unto the lower City into the Valley or Dale of Gates called Thyroreion which stairs were 780 Foot high as Iohannes Heydonius writeth and beneath in the Valley of Thyroreion over against the Valley of Cedron at the foot of the stairs stood a Gate which was called the Gate of Sion and they which went up to Mount Sion must pass through that Gate and so up those Stairs but it is thought nevertheless that in some other part of the Hill there was some winding or other oblique way made by which Horses and Chariots by little and little might ascend Allegorical or Spiritual Significations of Mount Sion SIon in Hebrew signifieth a sure hold or goodly Aspect for that from the top thereof a man might have seen all the Land lying thereabouts and was a type of the highest Heavens or Habitation of Almighty God from whence he beholdeth all things upon Earth from which Throne and Heavenly Habitation he descended into this lower Ierusalem and became our Redeemer and Saviour that so we being purged by his Blood from all our Sins and Imperfections he might bring us into that heavenly Ierusalem which is eternall Glory Of Mount Moriah on which the Temple stood MOunt Moriah stood Eastward within Ierusalem which was a most hard stoney Hill from whence towards the rising of the Sun men by stairs might easily descend but round about on the other three sides it was steep and unapprochable like a Stone wall yet it was not so high as Mount Sion howbeit it was exceeding high extending and reaching 600 Foot in height and on the top thereof was a very fair Plain like unto that of Mount Sion whereon in times past Abraham built an Altar and would have offered his Son Isaac for a Sacrifice Gen. 22. At which time when Abraham obeyed the Commandment of God intending to have offered his Son Isaac upon the Hill and thereon had made an Altar then the said Hill lay without the City but long time after about the space of 850 Years when King David had conquered Ierusalem and driven thence the Iebusites to enlarge the City he compassed in Mount Moriah and Mount Acrâ— with a Wall upon which there stood many goodly Buildings And amongst other things worthy Observation upon this Mount stood the Barn or Threshing floor of Arafâ—a the Iebusite wherein King David built an Altar offered burnt Offerings and besought the Lord that the Angel of God whose hand was stretched over Ierusalem holding a bloody Sword and had smitten the City with the Pestilence might cease from punishing the same and the Plague ceased On the same place where the Barn of Arafâ—a the Jebusite stood King Solomon also did build the Temple 1 Paral. 23. 24. Ioseph Antiq. Jud. lib. 23. 24. An Allegorical or Spiritual Interpretation of Mount Moriah MOriah is as much as to say the Lord's Mirrh and signifieth our Lord Jesus Christ which is the true Mirrh and sweet smelling Sacrifice unto God a stedfast Rock an immoveable Foundation whereon God's Church and the Members thereof are built Esay 28. Matth. 16. Vpon this Rock will I build my
made a notable Prophesie of the Child Jesus to all the People of Israel Luk. 2. and after Jesus was baptized in this place he taught wrought Miracles and did many worthy and memorable Actions The Apostles also commonly met together in this Court and here the Holy Ghost descended upon them Here stood the Treasury which Heliodorus thought to have robbed but was prevented by the Angel of God 2 Mac. 3. This was the same Treasury wherein the poor Widow cast the two Mites whom Christ commended for the same as appears Mark 12. Upon which St. Ambrose saith Deny not to cast two Mites into this Treasury that is Faith and Grace since by them thou shalt be made capable of a ceâ—estial Kingdom neither flatter thy self with thy Riches because thou canst give more than the Poor for God respects not how much but with what Devotion thou givest thy Reward Amb. li. de Viduo Epist. li. 9. Ep. 76. And here Christ absolved the Adulteress that was accused to him being sorry for her offence saying I came not to condemn but to save Sinners that repent Upon which St. Chrysostom saith Although thou art a Publican yet thou mayst be made an Evangelist though a Persecuter of the Church yet an Apostle though a Thief yet of the City of Paradise though a Magician yet thou may'st worship God for there is no Sin so dangerous but Repentance may obtain Pardon Not far from this Treasury there stood certain Galleries curiously adorned with marble Pillars the root whereof was plated with Silver and Gold and was close above the Head that when it rained men might walk under them dry and indeed did much resemble our ancient Monasteries The dores of these Walks were covered over with Gold and Silver so also was that high Gate whereby men went Eastward into Solomon's Porch and was fifty Cubits high and the dores forty as Iosephus writeth Of the third Court or Porch wherein the Heathens used to pray commonly called the Hall of the Gentiles or outward Court THis Court was not built by the Kings of Israel but by Herod when the rest of the Temple was re-edified some sixteen years before the Birth of Christ and about six and forty before he began to preach Iohn 4. It was so spatious and sumptuously built that it amazed the Beholders containing an hundred Cubits in breath and seven hundred and twenty Cubits in length lying Eastward towards the Brook Kidron the Pavement was of Marble of divers colours like the other Courts the Walls with the marble Pillars were five and twenty Cubits high and the Walks about it very curiously made were thirty Cubits broad This was called Vestabulum Gentium where the Heathens as well as the Jews might enter and pray Out of this place Christ drave the Buyers and Sellers overthrew the Tables of the Money-Changers and the seats of those that sold Doves Io. 2. Mat. 21. And it stood something lower than Solomon's Porch All these three Courts were inclosed within high Walls and Walks resembling our Cloisters where round about the Temple at every corner of which stood very high Towers whereon when the Sabbath day came one of the Priests over night went and sounded a Trumpet to signifie that the next day was the Sabbath for then there were no Bells The Wall of this uttermost Court as Iosephus writeth was in height reckoning from the bottom to the Valley of Kidron four hundred Cubits and adorned with goodly Towers upon the Pinnacles of which were built Summer houses and fair Walks from whence we might see into the Temple and clean over the Town These were called the Pinnacles of the Temple and were so high that when one looked down from them into the Valley their eyes dazled in such manner that they could not see as Iosephus writeth li. Antiq. 15. ca 14. Upon one of these Pinnacles the Devil carried our Saviour Christ saying If thou be the Son of God cast thy self down c. Mat. 14. And Iames the son of Alphaeus by the Commandment of Annas the High Priest was from thence thrown into the Valley of Cedron and falling upon a Fullers instrument died Ios. Ant. 20. ca. 8. c. The Gate towards the East was thirty cubits high and had dores opening two wayes 15 cubits broad as Ios. writeth made of pure brass that shone like pure gold and silver artificially made and cunningly embossed insomuch as it was called the beautiful Gate of the Temple as Peter and Iohn was going into the Temple by this Gate they healed a man that had been born lame from his Mothers Womb Acts. 3. When a man went Eastward the Gates were one higher than another The first Gate or the Gate of the Heathens Court was thirty Cubits high The second that entred into Solomon's Porch was fifty cubits the third which went into the highest and last Court was seventy cubits and the great high Gate of the Temple was ninety Cubits high so that every Gate of the Temple was twenty Cubits one higher than another And in in these Gates there were benches made for men to sit on There were many other Gates and dores on both sides some 60 some 20 Cubits broad all almost made of pure Gold and of such weightiness that as Iosephus writeth in his second book to Appius two hundred men could scarce open and shut them Egiâ—ppus writeth That Vespasian coming before the Temple to assault it commanded his Souldiers to burn one of the golden Gates which then was shut that so he might overcome the same and with a strong hand carry away a most glorious Victory for it was wonderfully fortified both by Nature and Art it had deep Ditches lofty Towers like unto Castles of defence and moreover compassed about with Bulwarks and strong Walls insomuch that it was not possible to be won but with extream difficulty and great labour When the Gate was fired the gold that ran from it was in great abundance and by this means the Conquest was made easie This shall suffice to have spoken of the Buildings of the Temple The Allegorical or Spiritual meaning of the Temâ—le THE terrestial Temple built by Solomon was pattly a figure of our Saviour Christ and partly of his Church For when the Son of God suffered the Temple of his holy Body to be destroyed and was risen again from the dead Iohn 2. then he raised up to us the Christian Church which is the true Spiritual House and Temple wherein God dwelleth 1 Cor. 6. The Mystery of the white Marble CHrist is the right white Marble Stone which is without spot And there is no deceit found in his Mouth Esay 53. Iohn 8. This Stone the Builders refused but God chose it out as a most pretious and made it the head of the corner that we like living stones might be built upon it Esay 21. 8. 1 Pet. 2. The Mystery of the Gold THE Gold and pretious Stones in the Temple signified the Deity of
Dâ—r signifies He hath made sure It is distant from Ierusalem forty four miles toward the North. In S. Ierom's time this was but a small Village Of Bethsan THIS was a City in the Tribe of Mâ—nasses between Bethâ—lia and the Sea of Gâ—lilee some forty four miles from Ierusalem towards the North Ioâ— 17. It taketh the name from a Church-yard or a place of Rest for Bâ—th signifieth a House and Iaschan he hath slept Here Saul killed himself and the Philiâ—â—ines cut off his Head and set it upon the Wall of this City Afterward about St. Ierom's time Ptolomy called this Scythoâ—oliâ— You may read in the Second Book of the Macchabees how it was the Town of the Sâ—â—thians for the Scythians which dwelt some 800 miles from Ierusalem towards the North came with a great Army into the Holy Land and by force won this City and dwelt there of whom it was called the Scythian Town Iosâ—ph in lib. 2. de Bell. Iud. cap. 18. remembreth a strange Accident that hapned near this Town for the Iews besieging it there were of their own Nation that dwelt within the City who that they might make a private Gain took wages of the Scythians to oppose their Brethren and Country-men by which means the Scythians got the better But after a while the Scythians considering that the number of the Iews was great and fearing some sudden Insurrection or Innovation gave them warning to depart and leave the Town they though with great Grief as being prest with a two-fold necessity their own Wants and the hatred of their Kindred did so relying merely upon the Courtesie of Strangers But about some two days after in the night time the Inhabitants of Scythopolis breaking out of the City unawares fell upon them and in recompence of their Kindness put to the Sword some thirteen thousand many slain unawares some as they were eating and most in their Sleep After they had committed this Massacre they compassed about the Wood where they were took away all their Substance and suffered not a Man to depart alive Wherefore one Simon the Son of a certain ancient and noble Citizen called Saul perceiving their present Misery and that there was no hope to escape imminent Dâ—ath and utter Ruine in a cruel and desperate manner breaks out into these Words O miserable Wretch that I am that against my own Conscience have lift up these Impious Hands against my Country committing daily Massacres to pleasure them who at this day lay violent hands upon all we have die therefore thou that art thus prophane and with thine own hands make an end of thy wretched Life since thou dost not deserve to die honourably in the face of the Enemy but wretchedly in a corner and for thine own offence So soon as he had ended these words he turned him about with a fierce countenance and falling upon his Father Mother Wife and Children put them all to the Sword after burnt his Goods and to make an end of the Tragedy ran himself upon his own Weapon These things happened but a little before Vespasian came into the Land of Iudaea At this day this City Scythoâ—olis is called after the ancient name Bethsan The typical representation of Saul SAVL if it be properly taken doth sometime signifie a Grave or Sepulchre and sometimes Hell being derived from Scheuol which may be taken for both As therefore Saul persecuted innocent David with an inveterate malice even unto the death so the Sons of Sathan evil and wicked men persecute Christ and his Members with an immoveable malice sparing neither Prophets nor Apostles neither such as are Religious no nor Christ himself but with cruel torments put them to lingring deaths till they be utterly extirpate as they think and then wanting objects to satisfie their Savage minds they follow their own devillish councels till with Saul they come to desperate ends Schâ—ul or Saul if it be taken in the better part signâ—fieth He hath desired or called The Philistines Travels from their Camp to Michmas THE Philistines incamped themselves at Michmas upon Mount Ephraim some ten miles from Ierusalem Northward and out of the Philistines Camp there issued three Armies to spoil the Countrey The one marched towards Ophra and went from Michmas to Salem twenty eight miles From thence they went to Ophra four miles The second went from Michmas to Bethoron eight miles The third went from Michmas to the Valley of Zeboim eight miles So all the Travels of the Philistines were fifty eight miles Of Zeboim THis Valley is not far from Ierusalem in the Tribe of Benjamin Nehem 11. The Travels of Jonathan Saul's Son JONATHAN went from Gibeah to Kirjath-jearim which was two miles where he drave the Philistines out of their Camp 1 Sam. 13. From thence he went back again two miles From thence he went to Michmas which is eight miles and there by the help of his Armor-bearer he gave the Philistines a great overthrow 1. Sam. 14. From thence he followed the Enemy to Ajalon which is twelve miles there his Father would have put him to death because he had tasted a little Honey 1. Sam. 14. From Ajalon Saul and his Son Ionathan returned to Gibeah his own City which was two miles From Gibeah he went with his Father to Socho and Asekah which was eight miles where after David had slain Goliah for that singular Virtue and Heroical Spirit which Ionathan saw in him he loved him as he did his own Soul and preferred him before his own Life and Honour 1 Sam. 18. From thence he went with his Father to Gibeah some eight miles where Women with great mirth and joy met him saying Saul hath slain his thousand and David his ten thousand for which cause Saul out of meer envy for then he did not know that he had been anointed by Samuel would have slain him and his Son Ionathan also for excusing him 1 Sam. 18 19. From Gibeah Ionathan went into the Desart of Ziph some 22 miles to comfort David there they swore a solemn Oath of mutual friendship to continue as long as they lived 1 Sam. 23. From thence Ionathan returned which was 22 miles 1 Sam. 23. At last he went to the Wars with his Father to Mount Gilboah forty miles there he his Father his Brothers Abinadab and Melchisuah were slain So all the Travels of Ionathan were 126 miles The Travels of Abiathar Abimelech's Son WHEN Doeg the Idumaean at the command of Saul had slain the Priests of the Lord this Abiathar the Son of Abimelech the High Priest fled to the Wood Hareth not far from Kegilah some twenty miles and came and told David of all that had happened 1 Sam. 22 23. Of Kegilah THis was a City in the Tribe of Iudah four miles Hebron towards the East and twenty from Ierusalem toward the South-west From which Town David drove away the Philistines that had besieged it 1 Sam. 23. You may read of it Iosh. 23. Nehem. 3. In St.
perfect Phoenix This bird doth lively represent our Saviour Christ who only and alone is the true Messiah and through whom we must expect everlasting life who in the fulness of time offered himself a Sacrifice upon the Cross sustaining the punishment of Sin at the time of his Passion putting on a purple Robe being all be sprinkled with his own bloud Ioh. 19. And as the Phoenix is burnt in her own Nest so likewise was he consumed in the fire of Gods wrath according to that in Psal. 22. My heart is become like melting wax in the midst of my body And as the Phoenix of it self begetteth another of the same kind so Christ by the power of his Deity raised up his Body from the dust of the Earth and ascended up into Heaven a glorious Body to sit at the right hand of his Father in that everlasting Kingdom of Glory Thus gentle Reader I thought fit to describe unto you these two Towns that when you shall read of them in the holy Scripture the one being in Aethiopia towards the South the other in Arabia-Foelix and called Seba you might discern the one from the other of both which there is mention in the 72 Psalm The Kings of the Seas and of the Isles shall bring presents the Kings of Saba and Seba shall give Gifts The Travels of King Pharaoh out of Aegypt when he overcame the Town of Gazer 1 Reg. 9. IN the sixteenth year of King David Anno mundi 2906 and before Christ 1602 Chabreus King of Aegypt began to reign and reigned fifty six years Diod. lib. 2. cap. 2. Herodotus calleth this man Chephrines in his second book and Eusebius Nepher Cherres He went from Memphis the chief City of Aegypt with a great Army 268 miles even unto the Tribe of Ephraim and there took Gazer a City of the Levites and burned it with fire I Reg. 8. Ios. 21. After he came to Ierusalem twenty eight miles And this City which he had thus destroyed he gave to his Daughter the Wife of Solomon 1 Reg. 9. From thence he returned to Memphis in Aegypt 244 miles So all the Travels of King Pharaoh were 244 miles Of Memphis MEmphis is a great City in Aegypt where commonly the Kings of that Countrey keep their Courts and lyeth from Ierusalem 244 miles Soâ—â—h-west-ward This City was built a little before the Flood but repaired and enlarged by a King called Ogdoo who in love of his Daughter after her Name called it Memphis You may read of it in the ninth of Hosea called there by the name of Moph for thus he saith The people of Israel are gone out of the land of Ephraim because of their Idolatry into Aegypt but Aegypt shall gather them up and Moph that is Memphis shall bury them Moph or Mapheth in this place signifieth a prodigious Wonder but the rest of the Prophets call it Noph for the fertility and pleasantness of the Country as you may read Esay 19. The Princes of Zoan are become foolish and the Princes of Noph or of Memphis are deceived See also Ierom 2. 44. 46. Ezech. 30. in which places you may find it called after this name Zoan is the City Tanis where Moses wrought all his Miracles But Noph or Moph is this Memphis a beautiful Town large and spacious scituated in the strongest and profitablest place in Aegypt divided into two parts by the River Nilus so that any kind of commodities or merchandize might with ease be brought thither by Water for which cause the Kings of that Country for the most part kept their abiding there Strabo saith lib. 17. that upon the East part of this City there standeth a Tower or Castle called Babylon built by certain Babylonians who leaving their own Country by the permission of the Kings of Aegypt dwelt there in after times there was placed a Garrison in it one of the three which were for the defence of Aegypt and by Ptolomy was called Babylon through both which viz. Memphis and Babylon Nilus passed the one standing upon the East side the other upon the West Zoan or Tanis stood about some four miles from this Town and was a fair and spacious City also scituated towards the South upon the East side of Nilus to which the Kings of that Country often resorted and Heliopolis another fair City stood some six miles off that towards the North-East All these four Towns were so wonderfully inhabited by reason of their pleasant and profitable scituation that in process of time they became all one City and in this Age is called Alcaire containing in Circuit sixty miles so that it seemeth to Spectators to be like a Country replenished with nothing but fair Houses goodly Churches and strong Towers exceeding all the rest of the Cities of Aegypt as well for the beautifulness of the place as the extent and largeness of it It is reported that in the year of our Lord 1476 there was such an extreme Pestilence in it that there dyed 20000 a day from whence may be gathered how infinitely it is peopled Near to this Town stood the Pyramides which are held to be one of the Wonders of the World as Strabo saith lib. 17. the height of one of them was 625 foot and square on each side 883 foot it was twenty years a building a hundred thousand Workmen employed about it whence it may be easily gathered how hard and difficult it was in those times to get Stone it being for the most part brought from Arabia and at what an excessive charge they were that set them up Of Gazar This City is described in the Travels of Solomon The Travels of Hadad King of Idumaea WHen David conquered Idumaea Hadad the King of that Country with some few of his Courtiers being then but young fled from Midian to Paran the Metropolitan City of Arabia Petraea which was 84 miles 1 Reg. 11. But because he thought himself scarce safe in that place he fled thence to Cheopes that impious and Tyrannical King of Aegypt that built the greatest of the three Pyramides at Memphis He hating King David gave him kind entertainment assigned him a part of the Kingdom of Aegypt to dwell in and after married him with his Sister Taâ—hpenes by whom he had a Son called Genubath who was brought up in Pharaohs or King Chopes Court where he continued all the Life of David being twenty seven years 120 miles David being dead he returned into his own Kingdom of Idumaea which was 200 miles From thence he went back to Damascus which was 240 miles where he was created King of the Syrians by Reson and other fugitives which had conspired against Solomon by which means he grievously troubled that Kingdom and became an utter Enemy to the Israelites all the Life of Solomon And of him is the original and stock of the Kings of Syria So all the Travels of Hadad were 644 miles Of Midian and Paran you may read before in the one dwelt Iethro Moses
to lie which was 16 miles here he restored her Son to Life 2 Reg. 4. From thence he went to Gilgal which is distant from Sunem thirty six miles towards the South here he fed 100 men with twenty Barley loaves 2 Reg. 4. From Gilgal he went to Samaria which is accounted twenty miles to this place Naaman the Syrian came to him to be healed of his Leprosie 2 Reg. 5. From Samaria he went to Iordan which was eight miles Here he made a Hatchet of Iron that fell into the Water to swim 2 Reg. 6. From Iordan he went to Dothan where the Children of Iacob sold their Brother Ioseph to the Midianites which was eight miles here the Angels of the Lord compassed him and his Servant about lest they should have been taken by the Army of the Syrians and God struck the Syrians with Blindness 2 Reg. 6. From thence he led the Army of the Syrians being thus made blind to Samaria being twelve miles and delivered them to the King of Israel upon condition that he should give them Meat and Drink to refresh themselves and suffer them to depart in Peace which he did 2 Reg. 6. From Samaria he went to Sunem which was sixteen miles here he advised the Woman where he used to lye to travel thence to some other Place because of the Famine that should follow and continue for seven years 2 Reg. 8. From Sunem he went Damascus being 132 miles there he told Hazael that he should succeed his Master Benhadad in the Government of the Syrians 2 Reg. 8. From Damascus he returned to Samaria which was 132 miles where soon after he fell sick and died his body was buried near to Samaria where the Lord a long time after his Death shewed a wonderful Miracle for a dead man being thrown into his Sepulchre was restored again to life by touching of his Bones 2 Reg. 13. This man governed the Church of God amongst the Children of Israel sixty years after the death of Elias So all the Travels of Elisha were 730 miles Concerning the Towns and places mentioned in his Travels you may read before The Typical Signification of Elisha ELisha or Elischa signifieth the Salvation of God being derived of El that is God and Iaschag he hath saved from hence Jesus a Saviour because this Prophet was a notable Type of our Saviour Jesus Christ for as Elisha was anointed Priest by the Prophet Eliah so Christ was the anointed Priest of the Father and as Elisha did many works of Mercy and Miracles to make evident Gods Power and Providence so our Saviour Christ went from place to place shewing mercy to the blind lame and impotent upon them working wonderful Miracles that thereby his doctrine might be made evident to the World and all such as trust in him be made capable of eternal happiness The Travels of the Shunamite whose Son Elisha had raised from Death to Life FRom Sunem she went to Mount Carmel and besought Elisha to come and raise her Son from Death to Life which was sixteen miles 2 Reg. 4. From thence she and Elisha returned back again to Sunem which was sixteen miles and there he delivered her Son unto her alive 2 Reg. 4. From Sunem having buried her Husband she travelled into the Land of the Philistines because of the Famine that was to come suddenly after being fifty six miles 2 Reg. 8. From the Land of the Philistines she returned to Samaria which was forty miles 2 Reg. 8. From Samaria she returned to Sunem which was sixteen miles So all her Travels were 144 miles Of the Prophet Isaiah or Jesaia JEsaia or Ieschaia is all one in signification with Elisha that is a Saviour He was the Son of Amos which signifieth strength and by consequence Ozia King of Iudah was his Cousin-German as may appear by this Genealogy following Iosas ofIuda Amasiah King of Iuda Ozias King of Iuda Iotham King of Iuda Ahas King of Iuda Ezekias King of Iuda Manasses King of Iuda who caused Isaiah to be slain Amos Isaias Father Isaias had two Daughters Sear Iasub that is the rest remaining and was a sign of the rest of the Posterity of Iuda that should remain and dwell there Isa. 7. Mahez Schatal that is a sudden Destruction for this second Daughter of Isay did denote the immediate Desolation of the Kingdoms of Syria and Samaria From whence it plainly appeareth that the Prophet Esaias was of the stock of David and lineage of Christ for which cause in the fifth Chapter of his Prophecy he calleth him his beloved He began to teach publickly in the year of the World 3167 and before Christ 800. and governed the Church eighty years and more until the time of Manasses who caused him to be cut in pieces with a Saw In Anno Mundi 3190. before Christ 778. Isay saw the Lord sitting upon a high Throne in great Majesty the lower part whereof filled the Temple and the Seraphins compassed him round about Esa. 6. Cherubins are glorious and bright shining Angels of a fiery nature for Saraph signifieth He hath turned to Fire His Doctrine was twofold that is partly concerning the Law partly the Gospel as may appear by his Prophesie in the first forty Chapters whereof the Doctrine of the Law is set â—orth with sharp Reprehensions for Sin in the first four of which are grievous Accusations of Sinners for breach of the first Commandment the other for the most part prophecy of horrible Punishments Mutations and Change of Government but principally of the Iews Babylonians Assyrians Syrians and Aegyptians From the â—ortieth to the end of the Book is contained the Doctrine of the Gospel and of the Kingdom of our Saviour Jesus Christ which he hath set forth with such excellent Eloquence Figures and Amplifications that he may be compared with the best Orator that ever wrote The Travels of the Prophet Jeremias 〈◊〉 or â—eremiah signifieth The exalted of the Lord he was born in the Tribe of Benjamin in a City of the Priests called Anathoth and from thence came to Ierusalem being two miles and continued there for forty years teaching and prophecying From Ierusalem he was sent to Euphrates where in the cliff of a Rock he hid his Girdle Ier. 13. being 400 miles From the River Euphrates he returned back again to Ierusalem 400 miles A little after the Lord sent him back again to Euphrates 400 miles to fetch his Girdle and lâ—e it was putrefied From thence he returned back again the second time to Ierusalem 400 miles From Ierusalem he was led captive bound in Chains with other Prisoners to Ramath a City in Mount Ephraim being eight miles there Nabuzaradan the chief Captain caused him to be set at Liberty From Ramath he went to Mispah which is eight miles where he continued a while with Gediliah Prince of the Iews which man had the chief command of certain Cities of Iudaea under Nabuchadnezzar But in the seventh Year of the Captivity of the
people of Israel Ishmael that was of the Stock and Progeny of David hoping to obtain the Government of Iuda made War upon Gediliah and put him to Death wherefore Ieremy went from thence with Iohn the Son of Kareach Prince of the Iews to Bethlem Euphrata eight miles Ier. 41. Now when he had stayed a while in a Village near Bethlem called Geruth Chimeham where sometime Chimeham the Son of Barzillaâ— lived 2 Sam. 19. he prophesied saying If you stay in this Land you shall do well neither shall any Evil happen unto you but if you depart hence into Aegypt they shall devour you with Famine and with the Sword Jer. 42. But Iohn and the rest of the Princes would give no credit to the words of Ieremy but went into Aegypt and compelled the Prophet to go along with them so they went from Bethlehem to Tachpanes which was 172 miles Here the second time Ieremy prophesied unto them saying Behold Nebuchadnezzar shall come hither and wast and destroy all the Country of Aegypt beat down the Images of Bethsemes or Heliopolis and carry away the Aegyptians into perpetual Captivity Jer. 43. But the People of Israel being moved to Anger because of his Words stoned him to death So the Travels of the Prophet Ieremiah were 1786 miles Concerning the Towns and Places mentioned in the Travels of this Prophet you may read of them before except Geruth-Chimeham which stood close by Bethlehem It taketh the name from a Stranger or Traveller being derived of Gor which signifieth He hath travelled and Tachpanes which was a City of Egypt some 180 miles from Ierusalem where the Prophet Ieremy was stoned to death it is oftentimes called the name of Taphniis The Travels of Urijah the Prophet URIAS or Vriah signifies Illuminated or inlightned of the Lord. He was born at Kirjath-jearim a mile from Ierusalem towards the West from thence he came to Ierusalem and there prophesied of the Destruction of the City After when King Ioachim went about to take away his Life he fled thence into Egypt 160 miles But the King sent Messengers into Egypt and fetch'd Vrijah back again to Ierusalem and hundred and sixty miles and there cut off his head and caused his Body to be thrown into the Sepulchre of a poor despised man that it might not be known that he had been a Prophet of the Lord. So all his Travels were 321 miles Of Hananias the false Prophet HAnanias or Chanania signifieth the Grace of God This false Prophet was a Gibeonite and came from Gibeon to Ierusalem which was four miles where he took the woodden yoaks from the neck of Ieremiah the Prophet but Ieremiah caused Iron Yoaks to be made in their places and told Hananias that for his falshood that year he should surely dye as after he did Of the Prophet Ezekiel EZekiel or Iechezkel signifies the Strength or Fortitude of God He was carried captive with 3000 others of the Nobility of the Iews from Ierusalem to Babylon which was 680 miles the same year that Nebuchadnezzar put King Ioachim to death Within five years after a little before Easter the Book of the Law was found 2 Chron. 3. He began to prophesie in Babylon Anno Mundi 3356 before Christ 612 at which time he saw his first Visions near to the River Chebar Of the River Chebar THE River Chebar was near Babylon in Chaldaea upon the borders of Mesopotamia falling into Euphrates and was often times called Aborras according to the opinion of many learned men Strabo in the sevententh Book of his Geography saith that there is another River between Tygris and Euphrates called Basilius Aborras passeth along by the City of Athemusia and is a very fair stream from whence it is called Chebar which signifies a swift and spacious River Near to this River the Prophet Ezekiel saw the Glory and Majesty of our Lord Jesus Christ in a bright shining Cloud In this place also dwelt many Iews to whom he prophecied and foretold the Destruction of Ierusalem by Nebuchadnezzar and the captivity of Zedekiah The Travels of the Prophet Daniel DAniel signifies the Judge of God In the reign of Ioachim King of Iudâ—h he was carried away captive from Ierusalem to Babylon by Nabuchadonozor which was 680 miles and there with his fellows learned the Arts and Language of the Chaldeans for three years He was then but young about some nineteen or twenty years of age and lived in Exile ninety one years until the third year of Cyrus Emperour of the Persians about which time he saw his last Vision and a little after died when he was about 110 years of age as may be gathered by the Circumstances of Histories and Times From Babylon he went to Susan in Persia Anno Mundi 3418 and before Christ 540 being then ninety four years of age which was 252 miles where near to the Flood Eulaeus he had a Vision of a Ram and a Goat which set forth the state of the second Monarchy which was that of the Graecians In this Vision Gabriel the Arch-Angel appeared to Daniel Dan. 8. This was in the third year of King Balthasar From Susan Daniel returned to Babylon which was 252 miles here he interpreted to Balthasar the meaning of these words Mene Mene Tekel Euphar sin Dan. 5. From Babylon he went to the River Tygris or Hidekel which was thirty six miles here in the third year of Cyrus King of Persia he saw his last Vision which is described in the tenth eleventh and twelfth Chapters of his Prophecy From Tygris he returned to his own house at Babylon which was thirty six miles Sometimes also in his three last years of his life he used to goe to Egbatan the Metropolitan City of the Medes which was accounted 464 miles from Babylon towards the North-East Here Daniel built a fair and and artificial Temple so strongly that it remained unperished and retained the ancient beauty many Ages to the great admiration of all the Spectators In it the Kings of the Medes Persians and Parthians were for the most part honourably buried the Government whereof was committed to a Priest of the Iews as Iosephus saith lib. Antiq. 10. cap. 4. From Egbatan he returned back again to Babylon which was 464 miles and there died Anno Mundi 3445 and before Christ 533. So all the Travels of the Prophet Daniel were 2184 miles Of the Places to which he travelled Of Susan SVsa or Susan is so called from a sweet smelling Flower but chiefly a Rose or a Lilly because it is scituated in a fair and pleasant place It was a goodly City lying on both sides the River Eulaeus some 200 furlongs that is twenty five miles English about as Polycletus saith And of this City all the Country round about is called Susana bordering towards the North upon Assyria towards the West upon Babylon towards the South upon the Gulph of Persia and joyneth upon the East part of Persia towards the East There are but two Cities
extendeth from Damascus to Jordan after his name was called Vz that is the Land of Counsel for so Vz signifieth There were two Towns in this Country where Job is said to have dwelt that is Astaroth Carnaim and Batzra Astaroth Carnaim was distant from Jerusalem fifty two miles towards the North-East the Inhabitants of which Town worshipped the Goddess Venus and called her by the name of Astaroth of which you may read before St. Jerom saith That the Sepulchre of Job was to be seen in his time in that Town and later Writers testifie as much â—ore their times This Town at this day is called Carnea Batzra is mentioned in the thirty sixth of Genesis it signifieth a Grape gathering In this Town it was thought that Iob was born it lay beyond Iordan in the Tribe of Reuben twenty miles from Ierusalem towards the North-East All this Country in those times was subject to the King of the Edomites or Idumaeans but after it was joyned to the Land of the Moabites they having conquered the Kings of Edom you may read more of it in the sixth of Isay also Ios. 20. where is shewed that it was one of the six Cities of Refuge appointed by Ioshuah Here Iob for the most part continued and held this Town in great honour and reputation He lived about the time of Baela the first King of the Edomites and according to the opinion of St. Ierom Augustine Ambrose Philo and Luther was for his excellent Vertue and singular Piety chosen King of that Country which he greatly inlarged making all the Countries and neighbouring Princes near adjoyning tributary unto him wherefore as Ierom saith in locus Hebraicis having obtained so large an Empire he removed his Seat from Batzra to Astaroth-Carnaim which was a strong and well-defenced City where in those times as Moses witnesseth Gen. 14. there inhabited mighty men and noble Heroes that so by their Vertue he might with the greater facility suppress and conquer other Provinces There are many think him to be of the Stock of Abraham and of the Family of Esau because he is mentioned in the 36 of Genesis where it is said That when Baela died Iobab the Son of Zerah of Bozra or Betzrah reigned in his stead And St. Ierom in his Preface upon the Book of Iob sheweth that he was but five degrees removed from Abraham for Abraham had Ishmael Basmath who was the Wife of Esau Mother of Reguel Grand-mother to Serah and great Grand-mother to Iob. So that by the Mothers side Iob descended from Ishmael and by the Fathers side from Esau. Isaac Esau Reguel Serah Iob or Iobab King of Idumaea Gen. 36. Notwithstanding there are some that are of opinion that he descended from Abraham's Brother and was of the Family of Nahor's Son which opinion also St. Ierom mentioneth in his Hebraâ—cal Qâ—estions But most of the Antient Fathers hold this nothing so probable Luther upon the thirty sixth Chapter of Genesis saith That he was King long time before Moses caâ—ried the Children of Israel out of Egypt For Iuda and Aser the Sons of Iacob had Children before they went into the Land of Egypt Gen. 46. therefore it is not impossible for Reguel the Son of â—sau to have Children also since he was married long before his Brother Iacob From hence then it may be gathered that Iob was King of Idumaea bâ—fore Iacob and his Sons went into the Land of Egypt for although the fourteen Sons of â—sau governed the Land of Edom like so many Princes of which number Reguel the Grand-father of Iob was one because they held it as their Inheritance yet to avoid Sedition and Distractions which oftentimes happen where there is not a certain Head and principal Commander therefore they elected Bela the Son of Beor to be their King after whose death they chose Iob because he was a holy man of God and in his Actions just and upright who without doubt reigned amongst the Edomites a long time for he lived after his Afflictions which God imposed upon him to try him 140 Years Plato saith he married Dina the Daughter of Iacob but St. Ierom That he married the Daughter of an Arabian by whom he had Enon Both these may be true for his first Wife being dead he might marry an Arabian After the death of Iob the Gyants and Heroes in Asteroth-Carnaim fell again from the Idumaeans for when Moses brought the Children of Israel out of the Desart of Arabia-Petraea and that they had conquered the Land beyond Iordan the City Astaroth-Carnaim had a King called Og who governed all the Kingdom of Basan This Gyant was of a mighty Stature he had a Bed of Iron nine Cubits long and four broad Deut. 3. Of Eliphaz ELiphaz the Themanite was the Brother of Iob's Grand-father This Eliphaz had a Son called Theman who built a City and after his own Name called it Theman where Eliphaz his Father dwelt with him From whence it hapned that he was called Eliphaz the Themanite Iob. 2. It was distant from Ierusalem forty miles towards the South and therefore it was called a City of the South you may read of Eliphaz in Ier. cap. 25. He had a Concubine called Thimnah because of her Beauty and comely Proportion by her he had Amaleck of whom came the Amalekites between whom and the Children of Israel were cruel Wars Exad 17. The Travels of Eliphaz the Themanite FROM Themen he went to Astaroth-Carnaim where Iob dwelt which is accounted ninety two miles to comfort his Friend Iob Iob 2. From Astaroth-Carnaim he returned back to his own house which was ninety two miles So the Travels of Eliphaz were 184 miles Of Bildad Job's Friend BEyond Iordan and the Sea of Galilee not far from Astaroth-Carnaim there is at this day found a Town called Suah where as it is thought Bildad the Friend of Iob dwelt Near to this Town as Sebastian Francus observes in his Cosmography there was yearly in the Summer Season a great Mart kept in certain Tents and Tabernacles erected for that purpose of divers colours Bildad signifies an antient Friend and Suah taketh the name from Desolation being derived of Scho He hath made desolate Of Zophar the Friend of Job ZOPHAR dwelt in the City of Naema Iosh. 15. but how far it stood from Ierusalem is uncertain Zophar of Zaphar signifieth swift Naema signifies Pleasant and delectable of Naem courteous and comfortable Of Job's Daughters THE Lord gave unto Iob after his Affliction and that he had tryed his faithfulness three Daughters so fair that there were none fairer to be found in all the Land The name of the first was Iemmima that is as fair as the day of Iom which signifies a Day The second Kazia that is such a one as giveth a pleasant savour like unto Gum Cassia The third because of the excellency of her Countenance was called Kaeren Hapuch that is casting forth rayes or beams Iob 42. APOCRYPHA The Book of JUDITH Of Egbatana
Journies long and troublesom sometimes in Prosperity sometimes in Adversity again sometimes afflicted with troublesom Cogitations sometimes with extream Anger seldom in Peace and then also his Actions savouring of Violence and Filthiness From whence it appeareth That the Wicked with more Sorrows Troubles and Vexations gain eternal Damnation that the Just tho they suffer many grievous Afflictions obtain everlasting Salvation For amongst all the Patriarchs good Kings and Prophets there is not found any that had so many long and tedious Journies as this Antiochus who continually oppressed his Mind and Conscience with unprofitable Vanities and wicked Thoughts and at length had a miserable and terrible end Of the Cities and Places mentioned in his Travels Of Antiochia ANtiochia where Antiochus Epiphanes kept his Court was anciently called Chaemath or Riblah It was scituated in Syria 180 miles from Ierusalem towards the North near to the Cities Seleucia Laodicea and Apamea which four Cities as Strabo saith in the sixteenth Book of his Geography were built by Seleucus Nicanor first King of Syria This man was a mighty Prince and obtained the Name of Nicanor which signifieth Victory because he prospered in his Wars and conquered his Adversaries For when within 13 years after the Death of Alexander the Great he had got the Kingdom of Syria he became so great in the 31 year of his Reign that he obtained the Empire of all the East and beside as Strabo saith re-edified and built up these four Cities calling one of them Antiochia after the name of his Father another Laodicea after the name of his Mother a third after his own name Seleucia and the last Apamea after the name of his Wife These four Cities because they were all built by one man and at one time were called Sisters But Antiochia was much fairer than the other and in those times was a greater City than any other called after that name yea it was equal to Alexandria in Egypt for glory and excellency of Building It was divided into four parts and those parts separated with four Walls The first which was anciently called Hemath a violent Anger of Chamathai the Son of Canaan was after Riblath from the multitude of the Inhabitants and the third time by Seleucus after his Father's name called Antiochia In this part Seleucus to dignifie the City kept his Court it being compassed about with Goodly Walls In the second part the Citizens of Syria inhabited In the third Seleuchus Callimichus afterward King of the Syrians kept his Court and greatly beautified it But in the fourth where afterward many Christians inhabited Antigonus Epiphanes continued and did greatly adorn it and set it forth with goodly buildings and sumptuous Houses Close by the City there stood a pleasant Wood watered with many clear Fountains and delightful Springs to which there resorted a great multitude of Fowls of divers sorts which sung very pleasantly among the Trees to the great content and delectation of the Citizens In the midst of this Wood stood the Temple of Apollo and Diana goodly things and very curiously built It was called the Wood of Daphne because it was full of Laurel Trees From this Wood all the Country thereabout is called Epidaphne Not far off standeth the River Orontes which beginneth in Coelosyria and passeth under the earth till it comes near to Apamea where it riseth and watereth all Antiochia So passing thence it runneth some sixteen miles and so falls into the Mediterranean Sea Here Paul preached and kept a Synod Euseb. lib. 7. cap. 24 25. There was another Synod kept here by the Arrians Trip. lib. 4. 9. Stephanus reckons up many other Cities of this name as Antiochia 〈◊〉 in Galatia where Paul preached Act. 3. and is distant from this 384 miles Antiochia in Mesopotamia which is also called Mygdonia and 〈◊〉 in which Apollophanes the Stoick and Pharnuchus that wrote the Persian History are said to be born Antiochia between Syria and Arabia built by Semiramis Antiochia in Cilicia scituated near to the River Pyramus Antiochia in Pieria also called by the Syrians Arados There is also a City called Antiochia near Mount Taurus in the Country of Comagena Antiochia scituated upon the Lake of Callichan Antiochia in Scythia There was another in Caria called also Pithapolis Antiochia Marigiana built by Antiochius Soter And many Authors call Tharsus in Cilicia by the name of Antiochia Antiochia signifies an Adversary Of Rome ROME stands 1528 miles from Ierusalem Westward Of this City you may read more in the Travels of the Apostle Paul Tyrus Ioppa Memphis Peluso Mallo and Alexandria are before described Of Tharsus TArsus or Tharsus signifieth a Hyacinth stone so called as some think of Tharsis the Son of Iavan the Son of Iapâ—et the Son of Noah Gen. 10. It was distant from Ierusalem 304 miles Northward Of Persepolis PErsepolis was the Metropolitan City of Persia distant from Ierusalem 1240 miles Eastward So called of Perseus that mighty King of the Persians who re-edified it and gave it that name which is as much as to say the City of the Persians which also of him were so called The Astronomers because he was greatly affected to such as were skilful in that Art attributed his name and his Wives name to two Constellations in the Heavens of which Ovid's Fable is contributed of Pegasus and Andromache This City of Persepolis was so fair that it exceeded all the Cities of the East both for Stateliness and Beauty and so continued from Perseus time until Alexander the Great had conquered Darius at which time this great Emperour having got into his hand the whole Empire of the Persians came to Persepolis in the year before Christ 329 and there celebrated a great feast in triumph of his Victories to which there resorted a great many Women not such as were of the better sort but them that followed the Camp and lived dissolutely amongst whom was that notable Curtesan Thais who perceiving the King inclined to Mirth and full with Wine began to flatter him in his Cups and among other things to commend and dignifie his Noble Exploits withal giving him to understand how acceptable it would be to the Grecians to see the Royal Palace of the Persians fired which had so often afflicted Grecia No sooner had she uttered these words but another seconded her and then a third After the whole assembly cried out Shall we revenge the Injury of the Grecians and burn the City With that they all rose in great fury the King himself being crowned beginning first to fire the Palace wherein was great abundance of Cedar from whence it happened that suddenly the fire spread it self a great way which when the Army that lay without the Walls perceived with all speed came to the City to stay the burning of it for which purpose many brought Water with them But when they beheld the King himself busie in this Tragedy laying aside their Water they also in hope of Booty and to
Syria which was the fifth year of the Principality of Ionathan Bacchides returned again with his Army into Iudaea and besieged Ionathan and Simon in Bethbesan otherwise called Bethgalam some three miles distant from Iordan Here Ionathan leaving his Brother Simon in the City stole out by a Postern and went to all the Villages near adjoyning from whence he gathered an Army of Chosen men and set upon Bacchides Simon also broke out of the City and set upon him so that they greatly oppressed him and burned his Tents 1 Mac. 1. Wherefore when Bacchides understood that Ionathan and Simon had fortified that City and that the Iews were ready to defend it he concluded a Peace with Ionathan the Captives of either part were re-delivered and the Iews lived in Peace a good while after 1 Mac. 9. From Bethbesan Ionathan went to Michmas being six miles here he dwelt for a while and judged the People of Israel cherishing the good and rooting out the Evil from amongst them 1 Mac. 1. From Michmas he went to Ierusalem which was ten miles Hither Alexander King of Syria and Son of Antiochus Epiphanes sent him a Purple Robe and a Golden Crown and ordained him High-Priest of the Iews Wherefore Ionathan on the day of the Feast of the Tabernacles which was in the year before Christ 150 took upon him the Office to be high Priest 1 Mac. 10. The next year after which was the tenth of Ionathan's Rule after the death of Demetrius King of Syria who was slain in the Wars against Alexander there appeared a Comet of an Extraordinary greatness which was of such an exceeding brightness that it took away the darkness of the Night and the Writers of those times affirm it to equal the Sun in greatness After this Prodigy the Romans began the third Punick War against the Carthaginians Vide Camerar lib. 2. de ostent Ionathan in the eleventh year of his Reign went from Ierusalem to Ptolemais being seventy six miles to the Marriage of Alexander King of Syria and Cleopatra the Daughter of Ptolomeus Philometor King of Aegypt where he was entertained very honourably 1 Mac. 10. From thence he returned to Ierusalem which was seventy six miles 1 Mac. 10. From Ierusalem he went to Ioppa and won the Town which was twenty miles From Ioppa he went to Asdod which was twelve miles there he burnt the Temple of Dagon and all that were in it From thence he went with his Army to Ascalon being twelve miles this Town willingly yielded unto him From Ascalon he returned to Ierusalem which was 38 miles 1 Mac. 10. In the fifteenth year of his Government he went to Ioâ—pa being twenty miles to meet Ptolomeus Philometor King of Aegypt and stayed there all that night 1 Mac. 11. The next day he went with the King of Aegypt to the River of Eleutherius which was 200 miles From thence he returned back again to Ierusalem which was 200 miles Here he besieged the Tower of Acropolis because there were many wicked men got into it In the sixteenth year of his Government he went from Ierusalem to Ptolomais to Demetrius Nicanor King of Syria which was 76 miles From Ptolomais he returned back to Ierusalem which was 76 miles From Ierusalem in the seventeenth year of his Government he went beyond the River Euphrates which was accounted four hundred miles and there gathered an Army in Aid of Antiochus the younger the Son of Alexander and went against Demetrius Nicanor King of Syria From thence he returned to Ierusalem which was 400 miles From Ierusalem he went with his Army to Ascalon which was thirty miles From thence he came to Gaza which was eighteen miles this Town he besieged and after a sharp Battel won it From Gaza he went to Damascus in Syria which was about 200 miles From thence he returned to the Lake of Genesereth which was 104 miles Here he opposed the Army of Demetrius Nicanor King of Syria From thence before day he removed his Camp to Chazor which was thirty two miles where when part of his Army was put to flight by a Stratagem he tore his Garments put dust upon his head and prayed earnestly unto the Lord for aid and assistance so having recovered his strength and former courage he returned with those few that he had left him to the War where he put the Army of King Demetrius to flight and slew 3000 of his men with the Sword His Enemies being thus dispersed he pursued them to thier Tents near Cades in Galilee being six miles From thence he returned to Ierusalem with a glorious victory which was about some ninety two miles Here he made a League with the Romans and Spartans 1 Mac. 11. 12. From Ierusalem he went with his Army into the Country of Hemath that is Syria to the River Eleutherius being 200 miles here he put his Enemies to flight after they had burnt and consumed their Tents From thence he went to Nabathia in Arabia being 120 miles Here he conquered the Arabians and Zabadians and spoiled their Land From thence he went through all that Country and wasted it till he came within eight miles of Damascus From thence he returned home to Ierusalem which was 160 miles In the eighteenth and last year of his Reign he caused the Walls of Ierusalem to be built and began to fortifie many places in Iudaea 1 Mac. 12. Also the same year which was the 160 year of the Government of the Graecians in Syria the second Book of Macchabees was written as appeareth cap. 1. After from Ierusalem he went to Bethsan to meet Tryphon being forty four miles here being deceived by the fair speeches of Tryphon he discharged his Army all but 3000. From thence he took these 3000 with him and went with Tryphon to Ptolomais which was thirty two miles into which Town he was no sooner entered but Tryphon caused the Citizens to shut the Gates where all his men were slain From Ptolomais Tryphon brought Ionathan the High-Priest to Addus upon the Borders of Iudaea which was sixty eight miles from whence he sent to Simon the Brother of Ionathan whom he kept Captive in a Castle near adjoyning promising to release his Brother if he would send his two Sons to be Hostages and let him have a hundred Talents of Silver that is 60000 Crowns So Simon sent his two Sons together with the Money to Tryphon but Tryphon took them and the Mony and led them captive with Ionathan their Father from Addâ—s to Addor a Town in Idumaea which was forty eight miles From thence he carried them to Baschaman in the Country of the Gileadites which was ninety six miles where in the Winter Season in the year before Christ 141 this cruel and perfidious Tyrant put Ionathan and his Sons to death From Baschamah of the Gileadites Simon removed the Bodies of Ionathan and his Sons to Modin being sixty miles where he buried them 1 Mac. 13. So all his Travels were 3007 miles The description of
the Children are free yet nevertheless c. From whence may be gathered that he was no Stranger but an Inhabitant in Capernaum It had upon the North side of it the three Tribes Neâ—thalim Asser and Zabulon upon the South Benjamin Iuda Dan and Simeon upon the West Issachar Epharaim and the half Tribe of Manasses and upon the East Reuben Gad and the other half Tribe of Manasses so that our Saviour Christ dwelt in the midst of the twelve Tribes of Israel Furthermore it was a goodly Market Town and had as well relation to Tyrus and Sidon two Towns of the Gentiles within forty four miles of it as to Ierusalem from whence may be verified that saying of Esa. ca. 8 9. The Land of Zebulon and Naphtalim near the way of the Sea beyond Jordan and Galilee of the Gentiles a People which sit in Darkness and in the shadow of Death saw a great Light This Town is therefore justly called the City of Comfort and Consolation since our Saviour Christ dwelt there who with his Doctrine and preaching refreshed and comforted all such as were afflicted with the Burthen of their Sins But the great men that were Inhabitants of this City had more respect to their private profit than to the Doctrine and Miracles that Christ wrought among them from whence it came to pass that they did as it were neglect and contemn that Good which God had offered to them which made our Saviour say And thou Capernaum which seemest to be exalted up unto Heaven shall be cast down into Hell for if the Miracles had been done in Sodom and Gomorrah which have been done in thee they had continued until this day Verily verily I say unto you it shall be easier for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of Iudgment than for thee Mat. 11. For there was no such benefit offered to any City neither such Honours and Dignities as were to Capernaum our Saviour himself dwelling there Wherefore for their Ingratitude and Impiety the City hath divers times been wasted and destroyed as well by the Romans as other Nations so that at this day this Glorious City is become so Desolate that there is scarce eight Houses standing and they also like small Sheds Of Sichar IN antient time this Town was called Sichem of which you may read more both in the Travels of Iacob and Abimelech After it came to be called Sichar according to the opinion of Luther upon Genesis because the Inhabitants of that Country were given to Pleasure and Voluptuousness the greatest part of their Delight being in drinking and quaffing so Sichar being derived of Schachar signifieth to be Drunk or inordinately to swallow sweet and pleasant Wine of which there was plenty in that Town made of the Juice of Apples the Fruit of Palm-Trees and Honey which may very well resemble Hipocras or Metheglin as some Authors have it And although by the Incursions of the Romans it was utterly wasted and left Desolate yet in succeeding times it was re-built and called Nicapolis that is a New Town It is scituated very pleasantly and aboundeth with all manner of Delights but it is unfortified neither can it by any means be fortified neither have the Inhabitants any help if they be oppressed by the Enemy but to fly for it is scituated in the middle of a Valley between two high Mountains so that a man may fling a stone from the top of one of them into the City About two Bows shot without the South Gate of this Town is to be seen the Fountain or Well of Iacob upon the Brim of which our Saviour Christ sate when he was weary as we may read in the fourth of Iohn This Well standeth just in the way as Pilgrims travel to Ierusalem Upon the right hand above this Well there standeth a Mountain of an exceeding height divided into two tops the one of them being called Gerizim the other Hebal In Mount Gerizim the Patriarch Ioshuah built an Altar and the People standing upon Mount Hebal he caused the whole Book of Deuteronomy to be read over with the Blessings and Cursings so that all the People might hear them for thus we read in Ios. 8. The one half of the People stood close by Mount Gerizim and the other by Mount Hebal c. Deut. chap. 27. These two great Mountains began upon the right side of the City Sichar and extended themselves in length to the City of Iericho Upon the left side of this Well is to be seen the Ruins of a great Town which is thought to be the old Sichem and by the Reliques that remain there it may be judged to have been a very goodly City For there are yet to be seen certain broken Pillars of Marble as also large and spacious Buildings which in times past without Question have been very goodly things and standeth wonderful pleasantly the Soil round about it being very pleasant and fruitful only there is want of Water This Town lieth some two Bows shot from Sichar and the Inhabitants of that place judge this Sichar to be Thebez where Abimelech died Iudg. 9. Not far from Iacob's Well is to be seen that piece of Ground which Iacob gave to Ioseph more than the rest of his Brethren Gen. 48. It is a long Valley very fruitful and pleasant where there lies butied in a certain fair Garden the Bones of Iacob and Ioseph which were brought out of Aegypt Iosh. 24. the Reliques of which Sepulchre are yet to be seen Mount Garizim or Gerizim is so called from the cutting down of Trees for Garaz signifies to cut down Upon this Mountain is to be seen even to this day the place where the Temple stood that was built by Sanballath dedicated to Iupiter Olympius in contempt of the Temple of Ierusalem The Chief Priest of this Temple was one Manasses a Fugitive of the stock of Levi. This Manasses was Brother to Iaddus Chief Priest of Ierusalem of whom you may read Nehem. 13. But some 200 years after the first Foundation Iohn Hircanus High-Priest of Ierusalem utterly destroyed it to the Ground The Travels of our Saviour Christ in the second year of his Ministry which was the two and thirtieth year of his age IN the Month of Ianuary Christ went from Cana in Galilee to Nazareth which was eight miles Here upon the Sabbath-day he went into the Synagogue and began to teach insomuch as the Inhabitants were astonished at his Doctrine but the Citizens being ingrateful he went to Capernaum a City which I have chosen to dwell in before all others Luke 4. Mat. 4. being twelve miles or thereabouts In the Month of February he compassed about all Galilee preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God healing the Sick and those that were diseased amongst the People Mat. 4. In this Visitation our Saviour went to Caesarea Philippi which was distant from Capernaum forty eight miles toward the North. Here Matthew was called as he was at the receipt of Custome
that they also issuing out of the Capitol made such a Slaughter that they forced Brennus and his Army to retire and to restore all the Pillage that he had got and also forsake the Country This Misfortune they bore patiently considering their former Prosperity and in hope of better Success â—ailed thence into Grecia where after they had attempted many noble Exploits and failing in some they determined a Voyage for Delphos because there was great store of Treasure and the Inhabitants as they supposed weak to oppose their Army In this Expedition they used much Pillage and robbing upon the Seas and through many dangers came at length to this Isle landed their Men won the City fired a great part of it and put many of the Inhabitants to the Sword with this Victory most of his Army which were more Religious than the rest would have willingly left the Country but Brennus who before-times had been used to Sacriledge and those that were as covetous as himself thought it Baseness through an Opinion of Holiness to leave so great a Booty behind them as was contained in the Temple of Aâ—ollo for that place of all the Temples of the World in those times was notorious for Riches and Treasure the many and great Gratuities and Offerings of most Princes which were both magnificent and rich being hoarded up in the secret Caves of this Oracle wherefore they attempted the Assault but with bad Success for the Devil raised such a Tempest with Thundring Lightning and other strange and uncouth Accidents that Brennus in this Distemperature of the Air was slain many of his Ships were set on fire and the greatest part of his Army lost being either spoiled with Lightning slain by the Inhabitants or dispersed with Fear such Event had this sacrilegious Attempt Those that remained after they had gathered themselves into a Body went thence into Asia the less and planted themselves in this Country where the Inhabitants in process of time called them Gallâ—-Graecians adding their original name to that of the Country wherein they lived and after for beauties sake they were called Galatians See Liv. lib. 5. Diodorus Siculus lib. 6. saith That the Inhabitants of Galatia were so called of this People in the time that Gideon judged Israel and that Cyrus was Emperour of Persia both may be true considering the mutability and change of States in those times Some think they were first called Galatians by Attalus King of Pergamus who gave them a great overthrow close by the River Halym because they originally were of Gallia and continued sometime in Graecia and after came into Asia so he joyning these two names into one called them Gallo-Gracian or Gallatians This History is diversly reported by divers Authors but all conclude that they rested and inhabited in Asia where their Posterity continued to this day In times past it was a very Warlike and Generous Nation and in their Expedition performed many noble Exploits attaining to Eminence only by their Sword for which cause many Princes near them were beholding unto them for their Aid but withal cruel and barbarous insomuch as they oftentimes eat their Captives or offered them to their Gods and thus they continued for the space of 300 years till Paul coming into that Country preached the Gospel amongst them and converted them from this Barbarism to the Christian Faith he sent an Epistle to this People from Rome being 1200 miles They in those times held all Paphlagonia a part of Phrygia Cappadocia and of all the neighbouring Countries thereabouts which after their names was called Gallo-Graecia or Galatia such a mighty Nation was this grown in a short time at first being a People shut out of their own Country for want of a place to inhabit in as you may read more at large in the fifth Book of Livie whose Authority I have princippally followed herein Of Phrygia PHryga is as much as to say a dry and sandy Country scituated in Asia the less between Galatia and Mysia 600 miles from Ierusalem North-westward It is divided into two parts the greater and the less in the greater Phrygia stood Smyrna in the less Dardania so called of Dardanus who first built it in which Town there reigned many wealthy and mighty Princes as Ericthoinâ— Tros of whom it was called Troy Ilus of whom it was called Ilion Laomedon who was the Father of Priamus the last King thereof for in his time it was destroyed by the Grecians Of which Desolation I will not speak because it is commonly known It lay wast so long although it had been a fair and goodly City the like not in the World that the place where it stood was become like a plain Field only here and there some heaps of old Ruines to shew that there had been a City in that place And as Virgil said Iam seges est ubi Troja fuit Corn now grows where Troy stood A long time after there were a certain People that called themselves Trojans who rebuilt it but not in the same place and in it erected a goodly Temple in honour of the Goddess Pallas to the which Temple Alexander the Great after he had conquered Darius King of Persia close by the River Granicus which took begâ—nning in a Mountain not far from Troy went and with singular Gladness and great Solemnity offered many rich and goodly Presents enlarged the Town and greatly adorned But after he had ended the Persian War and conquered almost all the known World he sent very kind and loving Letters to these new Trojans promising not only to inlarge the Town and indow it with many Priviledges and Revenues but also to build up a fair and sumptuous Temple there as Strabo lib. 15. saith all which was done for the love he bore to Homers Iliads Wherefore look what Alexander had promised Lysimacus one of his chief Princes and King of Thrace after his death performed for he returned to Troy enlarged the City beautified it with goodly Buildings set up a stately Temple and then compass'd it about with strong Walls After this sort it continued a long time untill Fimbria a Questor of the Romans when he had slain Vallerius Flaccus the Consul with whom he was sent against Mithridates King of Pontus besieged it and within ten days space won it making his Vaunts that he conquered that City in ten days which Agamemnon could scarce do in ten years to which one of the Inhabitants of the City answered that then Troy had a Hector but now it had none But for this he cruelly wasted the City This destruction happened in the 84 year before Christ thus it lay desolate till Caesar's time who caused it again to be re-edified and beautified with many fair and goodly Buildings because the Romans and especially those noble Families of the Iulii and Caesars do derive their Progeny from the Trojans for which cause Augustus used such diligence in the rebuilding of this City and bestowed such infinite
Mitylene is scituated in the Aegean Sea 624 miles from Ierusalem toward the North-west In times past called Lesbus which obtained the whole Jurisdiction and Government of Troada It is in compass 136 miles and containeth in length from the North to the South 56 miles In it is found much matter for the making and calking of Ships there was many goodly Cities in it as Mitylene and Pyrrha which stood upon the West part of it also the Metropolitan called Lesbos Eressus the Haven of Antissa and Mithymna Of Lesbos in times past this whole Isle was called Lesbus until the City of Mitylene grew famous being so called of Mitylene the Daughter of Macharus as Diodorus saith lib. 4. and after that Cities name called Mitylene There were many other goodly Cities which stood in this Isle but they were either consumed by Earth-quakes or drowned by the Sea The Land thereof was very pleasant and fruitful bringing forth grapes whereof there was a very excellent and clear Wine made which they of Constantinople principally liked there is also found great store of Cypress Pines and plenty of Figs come thence Their Horses are very strong but of a low Stature it is very mountainy and pestred with wild Beasts There were many famous men that lived and were born in this Country as Pittachus one of the seven Wise Men of Greece Aliaeus the Poet and Alcimenides his Brother Diophanes the Orator and Theophanes who wrote the Acts of Pompey the Great as it appeareth in Tullies Oration for Archia Theophrastus also that notable Philosopher who at first was called Tyrtamanus then Euphrastus that is a good Orator and lastly Theophrastus that is a divine Orator this man was an excellent Peripatetick and Scholar to Aristotle whom he succeeded in his School and had 2000 Scholars Vitruvius the Architect maketh mention of Mitylen in his first Book saying that it was a very magnificent City and rarely builded but very badly scituated for when the South Wind did blow the Inhabitants grew sick when the West they coughed and when the North Wind did blow they were made well Notwithstanding the Apostle Paul and his Companions came to this City as it appeareth Act. 20. At this day it is under the Jurisdiction of the Turks and is called by the Name of Midilly Of Chius THIS is an Isle scituated in the Aegean Sea distant from Ierusalem 600 miles towards the North-west being 112 miles in Compass the principal City thereof is called Chios taking the Name as some say from the Mastick Tree which sweateth out a certain Gum of the Syrians called Chian and by us Mastick this Mastick is the best in those parts of the World Ephorus calleth it by the ancient Name Aetalia but Cleobulus Chia either because of the Nymph called Chion or else because of the whiteness of the Soil there are others that call it Patyusia and there are some who derive the name of Chius from the Temple of Apollo that standeth in it called Chion There stands in it a fair and goodly Mountain called Pellenaeum from whence the Inhabitants dig very excellent marble Also in times past the best Malmsey came thence but in these days it is brought from Crete Of Satâ—us THIS is an Isle and City scituated in the Aegean Sea upon a high or lofty piece of Ground so that from thence the Inhabitants may see into all the Countries near adjoyning lying upon the Coast of Ephesus and Ionia 560 miles from Ierusalem toward the North-west it was in compass eighty eight miles very fertile and pleasant much exceeding Chius although it brought forth no Wine In times past it was called Artemisia Parthenea and Stephane taking those names from a Crown or Wreath of sweet smelling Flowers of which there were great plenty in this Isle the Poets feign that Iunâ— was both born and brought up in it and Varro saith That there was a fair and stately Temple dedicated unto her where solemn Service and the Rites of Marriage were yearly celebrated Pythagoras the Philosopher was born here and one of the Sybels which prophecied of the comming of Christ lived hâ—re St. Paul also came into this Isle and converted many as appeareth Act. 20. There is another Isle called Samus scituated upon the Coast of Epirus not far from the Gulph of Ambracius called also Cephalenia not far from the Promontory of Actium where Augustus overcame Antonius in Honour of which Victory he built up a City and called it Nicapolis c. Of Trogyllium THIS is a Promontory and Town not far from Ephesus scituated in Asia-minor at the foot of the Mountain Mycales four miles and somewhat more from Samus where Paul stayed Act. 20. It is distant from Ierusalem 460 miles toward the North-West There are which say that St. Paul stayed at a certain Isle joyning close to this Promontory called after that by the name of Trogyllium See Strabo lib. 14. Of Myletus THIS was a famous City scituated upon the Borders of Ionia and Caesaria close by the Shore of the Aegean Sea 104 miles from Ierusalem towards the North-west The Poets feign that Miletus who was the first builder of this City was the Son of Apollo and called it after his own name Miletus but Strabo lib 12. thinketh that it was rather built by Sarpedon the Son of Iupiter and Brother to Radamanthus and Minos and by him was called Myletus from another City of the same name which stood in Crete The Wool that cometh from this Town is wonderful soft and singular good for many purposes but it was principally used to make Cloath of which they died into an excellent Purple and transported into many places There were a great many famous men that either lived or were born in this Town as Thales Milesius one of the seven Wise-Men of Graece Anaximander who was his Scholar Anaximenes and Hecataeus the Historian also Eschenes the Orator not he that contended with Demosthenes who taking too much Liberty against Pompey was banished Timotheus the Musician and Pittacus the Philosopher besides many others But of all these Thales Milesius was held in greatest Estimation because he was thought to be the first that taught natural Philosophy and the Mathematicks amongst the Grecians He was the first also that foretold of the Eclipse of the Sun about such time as the Battel was fought between Cyaxares Father of Astyages King of the Medes and Hallyattes Father of Croesus King of the Lidians which was about the 44 Olympiad There came unto him a certain Man who asked him what was the hardest thing in the World he answered Seipsum nosce To know himself Another came to him and ask'd him how he might do to live justly he answered Si quae in alis reprehendimus ipse non faciamus That we do not those things which we reprehend in others He died about the 58 Olympiad Meletus at this day is called Melasa Of Cous. THIS is one of the Cyclad Islands lying in the Aegean Sea