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A35248	The surprizing miracles of nature and art in two parts : containing I. The miracles of nature, or the strange signs and prodigious aspects and appearances in the heavens, the earth, and the waters for many hundred years past ... II. The miracles of art, describing the most magnificent buildings and other curious inventions in all ages ... : beautified with divers sculptures of many curiosities therein / by R.B., author of the Hist. of the wars of England, Remarks of London, Wonderful prodigies, Admirable curiosities in England, and Extraordinary adventures of several famous men.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1683 (1683)	Wing C7349; ESTC R11001	165,303	248

life and though to avoid their darts he sometime dived yet he still held his left hand above water and in it divers books some say his Commentaries which he carryed safe to his Ships and incouraging his men got the Victory It is said That Egypt hath only two doors the one by Land which is the strong Town of Pelusium or Damiata the other by Water which is this Pharos Heylins Cosmography lib. 3. IX Having related The seven Wonders of the World I shall now proceed to some other famous Structures and among them we read of none more magnificent than the Temple of Solomon but that being at large described in the Holy Scriptures in the Books of the Kings and Chronicles I shall therefore rather give a description of the City and Temple of Jerusalem as they were when destroyed by the Romans aforementioned Jerusalem was compassed with a Treble VVall on every side save only that part which was inclosed with inaccessible Vallys for on that side it needed only one VVall It was built upon two Hills one opposite to the other separated by a Valley which was wonderfully replenished with Houses One of these Hills whereon stood the upper part of the City was far higher and steeper than the other which K. David compassing with a VVall called The City of David On the other Hill called Acra stood the lower part of the City opposite whereunto was another Hill lower than that which at first was divided from it by a large Valley but when the Asmonians reigned they filled up this Valley and cut down the top of Acra that it might not hide the Temple VVithin one of the Valleys was Siloam a Fountain sending forth abundance of clear sweet water The outmost VVall by reason of the Valley about it and the Rock whereon it stood was impregnable being strongly built by David Solomon and other Kings A fourth VVall was begun by Agrippa In humane Reason had this VVall been finished the City could never have been taken for the Stones were 20 Cubi●s long and 10 Cubits broad so that it could neither have been easily undermined nor battered with Engines but he built this VVall only 10 Cubits high and then gave it over fearing lest Claudius Caesar should think he designed to rebel Yet afterward the Jews raised this VVall twenty Cubits high made a battlement two Cubits high and the Tower three Cubits in all 24 Cubits high Besides upon the Wall were three Towers twenty Cubits broad and 20 Cubits high built foursquare very strongly within these Towers were rooms to dwell in and Cisterns to receive rain water The third VVall had ninety of these Towers and between every Tower were two hundred Cubits space the second VVall had 14 Towers and the old VVall had 60 the compass of the whole City being 33 Furlongs Between the North and West part of the City upon the outmost Wall stood the Tower Psephina which was raised 70 Cubits high so that in a clear day one might from thence discover Arabia and the utmost Confines of Judea even to the Sea Just opposite to this was the Tower Hippicon built by Herod upon the old Wall which for bigness beauty and strength surpassed all others in the World It had four Corners each of which was 25 Cubits broad as many long and 30 Cubits high and in no place hollow On the top was a Well to receive Rain Water 20 Cubits deep on the top of all were Houses 25 Cubits high divided into many Rooms Above them were battlements two Cubits and Turrets three Cubits high so that in all it was 85 Cubits high Herod likewise built a second Tower in bredth length and height 40 Cubits in form of a square Pillar all solid and not hollow within and above this a Porch 10 Cubits high adorned with Turrers and Pinacles Over the midst of this Porch he built another Tower distinguished into very handsome rooms and sumptuous Baths beautified on the top with Turrets and Pinacles so that the whole height was near 90 Cubits Lastly he built a third Tower which he called by his Queens name Mariamne 20 Cubits in height and breadth all of solid stone not hollow having more stately and magnificent Lodgings in it than any of the former it was in all 5 Cubits high These Towers though they were very high yet by reason of their situation they seemed much higher for the old Wall whereon they were built stood upon a Rock which was 30 Cubits high whereby their height was much increased neither were they built of ordinary stone but all of white Marble each Stone being 20 Cubits long 10 broad and 5 Cubits thick which were so curiously joyned together that they seemed to be all but one stone Within the City was the Kings Palace surpassing all in the World for largeness and curious Workmanship It was invironed with a Wall 30 Cubits high adorned with goodly Towers round about Beautified with Houses for an hundred of the Nobility The Variety of the Marble wherewith it was built was admirable all sorts being therein used though never so scarce to be found In every room were many Vessels of Gold and Silver and several Porches round about adorned with most curious Pillars There were in it very many pleasant Walks adorned with all manner of Trees and Gardens beset with Fountains which spouted up water on high and Cisterns beautified with divers brazen Statues from which ran out water continually The Temple was built upon a Rocky Mountain the Plain on the top whereof was at first scarce big enough for the Temple and Court the Hill being very steep but the people every day bringing Earth thither they at last made it plain and large enough and with wonderful Curiosity and Labour inclosed the Hill with a Treble Wall which was not effected in many Ages with the cost of all the Holy Treasure offered to God from all parts of the World The Foundations of the Temple were layd three hundred Cubits deep and in many places more The stones thereof were 40 Cubits the Porches were double supported by many stately Pillars 25 Cubits high all of one piece of white Marble the tops of them were of Cedar so exactly wrought as astonished the Beholders These Porches were 30 Cubits broad and the compass of all was six Furlongs The Courts were curiously wrought and paved with all sorts of stones The way to the inward Temple was all inclosed with stones wrought like Lattice work which were 3 Cubits high of Curious Workmanship To this there was an ascent by 14 steps and above it was foursquare and inclosed with a Wall by it self 40 Cubits high on the outside and all covered with stairs to ascend up to it and within it was 25 Cubits high At the top of the 14 stairs within the Wall was a level compassed with a Wall of 300 Cubits which had Gates in it and between the Gates were Porches opposite to each other reaching from the Wall to

of its depth the Overseers of the work being desirous to find the bottom tyed a long Rope to one of the Labourers and let him down into it being come to the bottom there was water therein up to his Ankles and searching every part of that hollow place he found it to be foursquare as far as he could conjecture by feeling then returning toward the Mouth of it he happened upon a little Pillar not much higher than the water and laying his hand on it found a book thereon wrapt up in a piece of thin clean Linnen which taking up he gave notice by shaking the rope to be drawn forth which done he shewed them the book which struck them with admiration because it seemed very fresh and untoucht though found in so dark and obscure an hole The Book being unfolded and opened surprized not only the Jews but the Graecians for they found in the entrance thereof these words written in Capital Letters IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD AND THE WORD WAS GOD And to speak truly saith the Historian that Scripture did plainly and manifestly contain the whole Gospel which the Divine Tongue of the Virgin Disciple St. John had declared This together with the other Miracles which at that time were proclaimed from Heaven did demonstrate that not any word of our Lord should fall to the ground which had foretold the utter desolation both of the Temple and City of Jerusalem Eusebius Eccles Hist lib 3. Thus severely were the Judgments of Heaven executed upon the Jews which did not yet end here but continued to their posterity For in 434. The Jews in the Isle of Creet were deluded by the Devil affirming himself to be Moses who led the Israelites through the Red Sea and perswaded those poor Creatures That he was sent from God to lead them through the Sea to their own Countrey the holy Land This these poor Creatures soon believed and disposing of all their Goods to others according to his perswasion they followed this seducer who had spent a whole year in going from one City to another he then led them with their Wives and Children to the top of a steep Rock that hung over the Sea when they were come hither this Mock Mises commanded them to wrap their heads in their upper Garments and so to throw themselves from the Rock into the Sea assuring them of a safe Passage they readily obeyed him and in that manner a great many of them perished in the Waves and more would have followed had it not pleased God that some Christian Fishermen were there at that instant who took up many of them as they were flooting upon the waters and ready to perish These afterward returning to the rest of the Jews told them how they had been cheated and deceived and how narrowly they had escaped whereupon they being upon good reason all very much inraged sought far and near for this seducer to put him to death but when he could not possibly be found any where they thereupon fully concluded That it was the Devil himself the old man slayer who had appeared to them in humane shape and divers of the Jews being moved by this Calamity became Christians Eusebius Hist In the Reign of Trajan the Jews rebelled in Egypt and Cyrene where they slew many Greeks and Romans and did eat their flesh and girded themselves with their Guts imbrued themselves with their blood and cloathed themselves with their skins Many they sawed in sunder from the Crowns downward others they cast to wild Beasts so that they destroyed Two Hundred Thousand of them and likewise Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand by the same abhorred Cruelty in Egypt and Cyprus whereupon Trajan sent an Army against them under Martius Turbo who destroyed many Thousands of them and fearing lest the Jews in Mesopotamia should break out into the like outrages he commanded Lucius Quietus utterly to destroy and root them out of that Countrey which he performed so effectually that the Emperor to recompence his service made him President of Judea Dion Hist Adrian the Emperour rebuilt the City of Jerusalem though not in the same place for he changed the scituation thereof somewhat Westward and called the name thereof Aelia according to his own name To despight the Christians he built a Temple over our Saviours Grave with the Images of Jupiter and Venus another at Bethlem to Adonis the Gallant of Venus and to inrage the Jews who abominate Swinesflesh he set up the Picture of a Swine over the Gates of the City who storming at the prophanation of their Land broke out into open Rebellion but were subdued by Julius Severus the Emperors Lieutenant an experienced Captain who by reason of their multitudes would not try it out in a set Battel but proceeding more warily and taking his opportunity he by degrees took 50 of their fortifyed Castles rased nine hundred and fourscore of their best Towns and slew five hundred and eighty thousand of their men besides an innumerable multitude who perished by Famine Sickness and Fire so that almost all Judea was left destitute With them likewise was slain one Benchoahab their Counterfeit M●ssias for so he termed himself that is The Son of a Star usurping that Prophecy out of Jacob a star shall arise Though he proved but a fading Comet whose blazing portended the ruine of that Nation The Captives by order from Adrian were transported into Spain and the Holy Land was laid wast which parted with her people and fruitfulness both together Indeed Pilgrims here and there find Parcels of rich ground in Palestine which God may seem to have left that men may tast the former sweetness of the Land before it was scourged for the Peoples sins and that they may guess the goodness of the cloth by the fineness of the shreds But it is barren for the generality the streams of Milk wherewith it once flowed are now drawn dry and the whole face of the Land looketh sad not so much for want of dressing as because the Almighty God hath frowned on it Adrian aforementioned banished Five Hundred Thousand Jews into Spain whence they were again banished by Ferdinando and Isabella in 1492 at which time there were driven out of Spain One Hundred and Twenty Thousand Families From thence they passed into Tuseany and the Popes Dominions but were again banished by Pope Paul 4. and Pius 5. But it would be endless to shew what miseries they have endured in all Nations ever since their Predecessors committed that great and grievous sin of Crucifying the Lord of life and Glory and thus much of the Jews as we find them mentioned by Josephus Eusebius Mr. Clark and other Ancient and Modern Authors I shall now proceed in the series of the History of Comets and other Prodigies according to the Order of time which this digression hath somewhat diverted VII In the 70 year after the Birth of our Saviour th●●● was a great