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A75905 A description and explanation of 268. places in Jerusalem and in the suburbs thereof, as it flourished in the time of Jesus Christ Answerable to each of the 268. figures that are in its large, and most exact description in the map; shewing the several places of the acts and sufferings of Jesus Christ, and his holy Apostles. As also of the Kings, prophets, &c. Very useful for the more clear and fuller opening of very many places in the prophets (as also in Josephus, and other histories) especially in the Gospels, and the Acts of the Apostles. Translated by T.T. Reviewed, and in many places rectified according to the Holy Scriptures, and some things further cleared: with additions of many scripture proofs: by H. Jessey. Imprimatur Joseph Caryl. Adrichem, Christiaan van, 1533-1585.; Jessey, Henry, 1603-1663.; T. T. 1653 (1653) Wing A600aA; ESTC R229469 81,732 114

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211. Mat. 23. 24. 25. Mar. 13. chap. Luke 21. chap. In this place of Mount Olivet a few dayes before that beforesaid right over against the Temple neer to a certaine water Christ sate with his Disciples making a long Sermon concerning the destruction of Jerusalem the afflictions of the godly to come the comming of false Prophets the signes of the end of the world and concerning the manner of the last judgement In the which place there was afterward builded a Temple which is now desolate 212. Mat. 21.1 Mat. 11.1 Luke 19 29. Ioh. 12.15 This Way a little before that Christ came to Jerusalem sitting upon the Asses colt waited on with a great company of men some going before and other some following after them whereunto also a great number which came out of the City joyned themselves Matth. 21.9 Ps 118.25 26 So that he seemed to be received of all men with so great favour that many spred their cloaths in the way some cutting down the bows of Palms Olives and other Trees to honour him therewithall strowed them in the way And the voyces of such as rejoyced were heard in every place as he went resounding with these cries * that is Save now Hosanna in the highest blessed is he that commeth in the name of the Lord. With this pomp and triumph the true King and humble Triumpher entred in at the golden Gate and rode about the Temple and the greatest part of the City With this new spectacle the whole City was moved saying Who is this The multitude which followed him answered This is Jesus the Prophet of Nazareth a City of Galilee Then the cry of those that rejoyced and were glad increased more and more and men and women young and old yea which is wonderfull the very Infants which came from all parts cryed out together Hosanna to the Sonne of David Blessed be the King of Israel which commeth a King in the name of the Lord. Blessed be the Kingdome that commeth in the name of him that is Lord of our Father David Peace in Heaven and glory in the highest Hosanna in the highest With these joyfull voyces and cryes they proclaiming their Messias followed him even into the Temple Where this new King happily beginning his Kingdome presently healed the blinde and the lame In the mean time the wicked and envious Pharises the chiefe Priests and Scribes do fret and fume who seeing the great marvels which hee did and the children crying in the Temple Hosanna to the Son of David said among themselves Do yee not see how we profit nothing Behold the whole world goeth after him Whereupon they begin with Jesus himselfe saying Master dost thou bear what these say Rebuke thy Disciples To whom hee shewing that this was long before prophesied of by the Prophet answereth Why should they not Have ye not read Psal 8.2 Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklings thou hast ordained praise I say unto you if these hold their peace the stones shall presently cry The places on the South part of the City 213. HAbbacuc Apoc. D●n 14. For true Daniel hath only 12. chap. Breid 14 Iul. Salig tom 10. cap. 2. Here as Apocrypha saith but not a word of it is in the holy Scripture the Angel of Lord taketh up the Prophet Habbacuc by the hair of the head as he was carrying to the Reapers in the field their dinner and carried him with the same meat into Babylon to feed Daniel being shut up in the Lions den Who being fed he brought Habbacuc hither againe Thus far from Apocrypha 214. Aceldema or Haceldemach that is to say the Field of bloud It was a Potters field Zach. 11.13 Mat. 27.8.6 Act. 1.19 Niceph. 8. Hist Ec. 13. Broc it in 6. Breid 14. Iul. scituate at the South part of Mount Sion having behinde it a hill of the same name This field by the counsell of the Jews was bought with the thirty peeces of silver for which Judas sold Christ that it might serve to bury strangers in the middle part whereof the Emperesse Helen caused to be inclosed with a foure square wall in length seventy and two foot and in breadth fifty And the same to be covered over with a roof having seven loop holes Silig Tom. 6. cap. 5 tom 10. cap. 1. Pas d● 197. by which the dead bodies of Christians might be let down The vertue of this earth is reported fabulously to bee wonderfull and almost incredible to wit that it bringeth and consumeth into dust the bodies of the dead men within the space of foure and twenty houres leaving nothing but the bones 215. The Fullers Field which lay all along at the South end of the City 2 King 18.17 Isa 7.3 36 2 even from the Valley of Siloe Eastward unto mount Gihon towards the West and between the wall of the City and the water In this Field the Fullers did scoure their cloathes in the Brook next adjoyning and did set them on Tainters and so dry them 216. The Den Hier. Tom. 1. in catal script Ec. 1 Cor. 15.7 or Cave of James the lesse wherein he is said by Relick-mungers to have hid himselfe by the space of three dayes having vowed not to eat bread untill Christ was risen again The Lord appeared to him apart after his Resurrection But not for this cause For none of the Apostles then beleeved that he would rise the third day nor would they beleeve it when others told them he was risen 217. The Cave of Peter the Apostle Breid 18. Jul. wherein after he had denied the Lord thrice he repented him and mourned with many tears Relick-mungers can shew a Cave and say Peter and the Apostles were in it to get money But not a word of it in any of the foure Evangelists or other Scriptures no nor that he nor James nor Jeremy were in any Cave at all See Number 222. 118. The Tents of the Assyrians 2 King 18.17.35 19.12.35 2 Chron. 32. August tom 18. ad fratres in ere serm 25. of whom for a revenge of their blasphemy the most strong to the number of one hundred fourscore and five thousand in the very first night of the besieging Jerusalem were slaine by the Angel of Lord and as Augustine not the Scripture reporteth their bodies were brought into dust that they might not infect the aire their garments armour and weapons notwithstanding remaining whole and sound that the people of Jerusalem might have the spoyle 219. The house of Elias Breid 4. Iul. 1 Kin. 17.1.9 18.20 21.1 wherein it is said by Papist Breidenbach that the Prophet Elias sometime dwel where afterward also a Church was builded But the holy Scriptures shew that he was a Prophet to them of Israel and dwelt near Gilead Zidon Samaria or Carmel farre from Jerusalem which was in Judea 220. The Mountaine Eroge Josua 15.8 18 12.16 2
when the Romans by the judgement and will of God against all hope of man and without blood-shed had taken the seditious within the City being stricken with a sudden fear and roaming here and there from the wall and hiding themselves in their sinkes being dispersed in all corners and streets with their naked swords slew all that they met with all having no regard of persons or sex and set fire on the houses burning them Actor 13. Ioseph 7. Bel. 16. and all those that were fled into them and destroying many houses whereinto they entred for pillage sake where finding whole families dead whom the famine had consumed they so abhorred the sight thereof that they returned back again empty running thorough with their swords all that they met and so filling the streets with dead bodies that the whole City flowed with blood in such abundance that as Josephus witnesseth many things burning were quenched with the plentiful blood of the slaine But night coming on the slaughter began to cease but the burning increased The next day following Titus being entred into the City wondred at the fortifications of the City and at the Rocks of the Towers which the Tyrants through folly had willingly forsaken To be briefe when he had seen their substantial altitude and invincible force we have fought saith he by the manifest helpe of God and it was God which drave out the Jews from these holds For what hands of men or what engines of war might have prevailed against these Many such words spake hee to his friends This mountaine though it were excluded out of the City yet afterward it was builded again and inhabited But now being in the Suburbs most ruinous it lyeth waste The places of Mount Sion III. THe Castle of Sion being ancient and strong was set on the very top of Mount Sion round like a Crowne and was a sure defence and beauty both of the City and Temple and was as the capital or chiefe place of so great a City 2 King 19.31 2 Sam. 5 6 7. vers 11. Herein the Jebusites dwelt at the first whom David casting out by force enjoyed the Castle and receiving from Hiram King of Tyrus stones wood and Artificers builded out of the same a strong Pallace for himselfe and a house of Cedar 1 Kin. 5.1.10 1 Chron. 11.3.7 with a Kingly Throne In the which Castle afterward David himselfe and other Kings of Juda inhabited ●●s 6. Bel. 6. and used the same for the Kings seat And for this cause it was continually kept with a strait guard of souldiers And in processe of time it was called the Kings Castle and the house of David the seat and Throne of David also the Court and Kings house Arista●● l. de 72. interpr 1 Mach. 1. 1 Mach. 13 14. chap. In this Castle the most cruell of all Tyrants Antiochus King of Syria which in Greek was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epiphanes that is to say Renowned but more truly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epimanes that is Mad he deserved to be called placed a Garrison of Gentiles whereby in the time of the Machabees hee afflicted the Jews very much a long time The which when Simon Machabaus had inforced to yeeld through famine and had cleansed the Castle from the pollution of Idols they entred there-into with palms in their hands with Cymbals with Psalterions with hymnes and songs and he placed therein men of the Jewes to defend the City and Country Yet now there is nothing to be seen but the ruines thereof IV. The Kings Prison with a lofty Tower which overlooked the Kings house Nehem. 3.25 Jer. 33.1 ch 39.14.15 Into this prison Jeremy was cast because he prophesied that the City should be taken and at the last was delivered out of the same by Nebuchadnezzar when the City was taken V. Caesars and Agrippas Hall Jos 15. Antiq. 11. 1 Bel. 16 6. Bel. 6. was the Kings house which Herod the Ascalonite builded for himselfe in the uppermost City for he builded in his Pallace two great and fair houses of polished marble and fine gold whereunto the Temple it selfe was not comparable and calling them after the names of Caesar Augustus and of Agrippa his son in law his friends he named the one Caesars and the other Agrippas VI. The upper Chamber of Sion as some writ● was scituate about the middest of Mount Sion Mat. 26.18 Mark 14.14 Luk. 22.11 Ioh. 13 1. being large paved and very faire wherein Christ in his last supper did eat the Paschal Lamb with his Disciples Luke 24. Ioh. 20. washed their feet and instituted the Sacrament of his most blessed body and blood In the same say some on the day of his Resurrection when he was entred the doors being shut standing in the middest of his Disciples he shewed unto them the wounds of his side of his hands and feet and did eat before them after that breathing upon them he gave them the Holy Ghost and therewithall power to remit Ioh. 20. and retain the sinnes of all manner of persons That the eighth day after this here he offered unto Thomas the Apostle the prints and scars of the spear and nails to see and feel Act. 1.2 Hier. tom 1. Ep. 27. ad E●stoc vir tom 3. Epist 1. ad Paulin Niceph. l. 2. hist Eccl. cap. 3. Act. 6.5 Here as some conjecture after the Lords ascension Matthias was by lot chosen into the Apostleship of Judas the Traytor And that here on the day of Pentecost the Holy Ghost came down in a great sound and in the form of fiery tongues lighted upon one hundred and twenty believers and at the first Sermon of Peter three thousand Jewes were converted and baptized In this place as some guesse James the Lords b●other firnamed Just was by the Apostles desired to preside with the Church in Jerusalem and Stephen with six more were ordained Deacons Act. 15. And that here the Apostles entred into the first consultation or councel and set downe the Rules of Christian peace for the good of Jews and Gentiles VII The Cypress Trees of Mount Sion which were very excellent Eccles 24.13 whereof the Book called Ecclesiasticus maketh mention VIII The House of Annas the chief Priest the Father-in-law of Caiaphas wherein Christ was examined of Annas Ioh. 18.13.24 concerning his Disciples and his Doctrine at what time he answered That he had taught openly before all men for the which he received a blow on the cheek by a servant IX The House of the Worthies Nehem. 3. wherein as some say the strong men and valiant Peers of King David dwelt where also as in a wrestling place the chief Wrestlers and Champions for exercise sake used to try masteries X. The House of the Virgin Mary wherein after the death of her Son she dwelt with John the Apostle Niceph. 2. hist Eccles 3. 21 as Nicephorus saith XI The
distant from Mount Calvary one hundred and eight foot and from Moun Sion about a mile which Joseph of Arimathea a noble Senator had hewne out in the Rocke for himselfe in the Garden neere unto Mount Calvary In the which Sepulchre hee together with Nicodemus and the Virgin Mary with other godly women buried the body of Jesus being with the consent of Pilate taken from the Crosse and then trimmed with Mirrh and Aloes and wrapt in a fine linnen cloath Sal. Tom. 7. c. 3. 6. was put honourably into the same the head laid toward the West faith Bredan and rolling a stone of exceeding weight to the mouth of the Monument hee went his way Mat. 27.64 Mar. 16 46. But in the meane time the Chiefe Priests and Pharisiees going about to hinder the Resurrection of Christ Pasc d. ●25 taking unto them a strong guard of Souldiers watched the Sepulchre and sealed the stone which shut up the mouth of the Sepulchre lest the keepers and watchmen being corrupted with money should deal deceitfully But this diligence of the Jewes by which they went about to hold Christ in the grave from rising againe increased the Miracle and confirmed the faith of the Resurrection And there hee first of all appeared to Mary Magdalen at the Monument as shee was weeping Mar. 16. Joh. 20.14.16 in the likenesse of a Gardener or as John saith rather shee turned her selfe backe and saw him and hee asking Whom seekest thou She supposing him to bee the Gardener said Sir If thou hast borne him hence tell mee 238 A Wood neer unto the City Jos Bel. Jud. li 6.6 c. 14. as is to bee gathered by Josephus in his Booke and fourteenth fixt Chapter of the Jewes Warre 239. The Brooke or River Gihon at the South-west corner of the City 2 Cron. 32.30 Neh. 2. Broc intin 6. which King Achas had begun to bring from the lower Fountaine Gihon into the upper Fountaine the which King Hezekias at the last finished 240. The Valley of dead Carcasses Jer. 31.40 Lyra ibid. which lay between Mount Calvary and the walls of Jerusalem so called because the dead Carcasses bones and ashes of such as were put to death or burnt on mount Calvary were cast thereinto Divers vaine Traditions of men herein opposing the plaine Divine Scriptures were not judged worthy the Translation 241. The Valley of the Fountaine Gihon 2 Chro. 33.14 Jo. 6. Bel. 13. 15. Ant. 18. whereof mention is made in the book of the Chronicles and in Josephus 242. The Valley Raphaim 2 Sam. 5.18.22 23.13 1 Chro. 11.15 14.9 Isa 17.5 that is to say of Gyants It is a Valley on the West side of the City very large and great which beginneth at the North part and extendeth unto the South bringing forth most plentifully in time past excellent Wheat Wine Oyle and all other fruits In this Valley David by the helpe of God twice overcame the Philistines which sought to invade him with a great Army 243. The Wayes to Bethlehem Act 8. Broc itin 6. Emaus to Gaza and to Joppa which Solomon made with flint and stone even as he did other wayes which lead to Jerusalem both to make the passage more easie and also to shew forth the magnificence of his Kingdome in this point 244. The way to Siloe and to Gabaon whereof Brocardus in his sixt book of his Travell maketh mention 245. Here Christ fell again Pas d. 10. according to the Tradition of the Fathers of old 246. Here Jesus turning himselfe about to the women that mourned and wept Luke 23. Bried 14. Iul. Salig To. 8. c. 7. said Yee daughters of Jerusalem weep not for me but weep for your selves and for your children because the day shall come c. 247. Here Christ fell downe the third time under his Crosse Breid 13. Jul. as the Fathers of old time have affirmed Pas d. 181. 2.2 248. Here Christ was stript out of his garments whose body being all to be torne with whips could not but be very sore Psal 22.18 69.21 Isa 13.4 5. Mar. 27.26.28 35. Mar. 15.23 Breid 12 Jul. Pas d. 213. whereunto his bloody garments cleaving gave new occasion of paine when they were violently pulled off And standing there naked all the while that the Crosse was a preparing in the cold and wind he sate downe at the length upon a stone where he drank wine mixed with gall and mirrh 249. Here Christ being laid on his back on the Crosse and stretched out upon the same Psal 22.1.17 Zach. 12 10. Joh. 20.37 Salig Tom. 7. cap. 4. Pas d. 21.4 his hands and feet was nayled thereunto with Iron nailes and his tender members were with such force strayned and racked upon the Crosse that the very arteries and sinewes were loosened and all his bones might be told 250. This is the most notable memorable place of the whole world Mat. 27.35 Mar. 15.25 Luke 23.33 Joh. 19.18 Lev. 23 5.6 Num. 28.16 17 Exod. 12.18 even the clift of the Rocke of Mount Calvary wherein the Crosse bearing the body of Christ was fastned about high noon of the feast day of Passeover being the day after the Passeover Upon the top of which Crosse a white table was fastened expressing the cause of his death written with Pilates own hand or by his appointment in these words of Hebrew Greeke and Latine JESUS OF NAZARETH KING OF THE JEWES Further it is written by some that the Jews did in such manner erect and set Christ upon his Crosse that his back parts might be towards Jerusalem and his face towards the West For they deemed him unworthy to have his face toward the holy City But we must thinke that this was not done altogether by fortune or without a mystery but rather by the singular dispensation of God Jer. 18.17 Beda in Luke cap. 23. Breid 12. Iul. His miseries seem to be no false Prophets of our felicity by this means and by this deed fore-warning them of that which the Prophet Jeremy had Prophesied should come to passe saying I will scatter them with an East wind before the Enemy I will shew them the backe and not the face Salig Tom. 7. car 5. in the day of their destruction For as St. Ierome saith seeing they are dispersed throughout the whole world and do call upon God ●ight and day in the synagogues of Sathan God sheweth unto them his back and not his face that they may know that he is alwayes going from them Hier●n in Jer. cap. 18. Psal 5.9 Isa 10.27 and not coming towards them And that even in the day of their destruction that is to say during all the time after the passion of our Saviour unto the very end of the world that when the fulnesse of the Gentiles is come in the remnant of the people of Israel may bee converted at the last Ro. 9. 11.25
and be saved And I verily conjecture that by this their cruelty they were foretellers of our felicity For in that they did set the most sweet and amiable face of our Saviour toward the West it seemeth unto me to note no other thing but the very same which the Kingly Prophet long before him had told should come to passe Psal 66.7 saying His eyes behold the Nations or Gentiles For he having the eyes of his mercy opened and fixed upon us from the time of his passion will not cease to looke upon us with a favourable countenance even unto the end of the world Therefore Christ being on this manner hanged on the Crosse three houres from the sixth to the ninth houre that is from noon three hours naked bloody wounded crowned with thorns did hang between two theeves in most grievous torments partaker with them of the paine and punishment as if he had been a companion with them in their wickednesse The which thing the Prophet Isaias fore-shewed should come to passe Isa 53. saying He was reputed among the wicked Whom in the meane time the Jews the high Priests together with the Scribes and Elders of the people passing by yea the common souldiers also and the thiefe that was crucified with him instead of consolation which belongeth to all that are afflicted in most reproachfull manner scorned him shaking their heads and saying Thou which destroyest the Temple of God Mat. 27.39 to 46. and buildest the same again in three dayes save thy selfe if thou beest the Sonne of God come down from the Crosse He saved others himselfe he cannot save If he be Christ the King of Israel let him come down now from the Crosse and we will beleeve him He trusted in God let him deliver him now if he will have him for he said I am the Son of God Jesus most patiently suffering all these things more bitter then the Crosse was so far from revenging them that he prayed for them that mocked him saying Father forgive them for they know not what they do And to the other of the Theeves requiring mercy he promised Paradise saying Verily I say unto thee This day thou shalt be with me in Paradise Joh. 19.26 27. And then beholding his well-beloved mother and the Disciple also whom he loved and commending a Virgin to a Virgin said unto his mother Behold thy Son And then he said to his Disciple Behold thy Mother who from that houre forward took her for his own While these things thus proceeded the Sun abashed at those passions which the Creator of all the world suffered on the Crosse as it were mourning hid his face Joh. 11.9 and was darkned from the sixth houre that is the mid day at what time it shineth in greatest glory untill the ninth houre That is untill the midst of the afternoon Then Jesus complaining that he is forsaken of his Father Psal 22.1 cryed out with a strong voyce saying My God My God why hast thou forsaken me This done to the end all things that were spoken of by the Prophets might be fulfilled he said I thirst Streightway one running as though he would doe him some good Psal 69. when he had taken a Sponge and filled it with Vinegar he put it upon a reed and gave him to drinke Jesus wonderfully thirsted for the salvation of men but the Jews offered him nothing but gal and vinegar And so soon as Jesus had tasted the vinegar he said Heb. 5.8 It is finished giving thereby to understand that the Sacrifice was truly ended according to the will of his Father And once againe crying out with a loud voice and with shedding of tears Psal 31. hee saith Father into thy hands I commend my Spirit and so bowing downe his head a man of florishing age he yeelded up his spirit and breath the ninth houre of the fifteenth day of the first mouth being the five and twentieth day of March and in the three and thirtieth year of his age in the year from his Incarnation the thirty and foure or rather two and thirty and a half By this Sacrifice the most high and everlasting Priest Heb. 4.14 inflamed with most singular and unspeakable love offered himselfe a Sacrifice and a Peace-offering to God his Father Heb. 2.14 15. Col. 2.15 Eph. 2.15 and by his death destroyed death overcame Sathan brake asunder Hell gates restored life and opened unto all beleevers the everlasting Kingdome of Heaven For this cause some say the Fathers of old time ingraved in silver these words of the Psalme in Greek and set it in the circumference of the hole which was made on the top of Mount Calvary wherein the Crosse of Christ was fastened but now they are ingraven in Copper thus Pas d. 223. 224. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to say Here God our King before worlds wrought salvation in the middest of the earth The which one and onely bloody Sacrifice most truly and lawfully made Heb 10.1.2.12 cap. 9.26 he would not by and by so soon as he was dead be taken from the Crosse but even as when he was alive so when hee was dead by the space of three houres he hung as a spectacle to all men And as he spared no one member from torment so his will was to shed all his blood even to the very last drop of his most precious heart Zach. 13.1 Isa 12.1 2 3. Zach 12.10.12 and to open the Fountaine for the washing away of our sinnes the which we may use to our endlefle comfort Therefore one of the Souldiers perceiving and opening his side and heart presently there issued forth blood and water as from a most lively spring to the sanctifying and salvation of his Church In the meane season all things gave testimony to their Lord Mat. 27.52.53 and makers death The vaile of the Temple rent asunder in two parts the earth was shaken and quaked the graves opened the dead bodies of men arose againe and the stony Rocks to the shame and reproach of the Jews for the hardnesse of their hearts clave a sunder and burst in peeces 251. Here the blessed Virgin Mary Ioh. 19. Luke 2.31 Breid 12. Jul. salig To. 7.0.5 Pas d. 225. accompained with John with Mary Magdalen and with other women stood with a firme minde and constant faith where according to the Prophesie of Simeon The sword of sorrow pierced her soule 252. Here the Souldiers which crucified Christ parted his garments among them Joh. 19. Psal 22. Breid 12. Iul. Sal. 7. cap. 3. and cast lots for his seamlesse coat who should have it that the saying of the Prophet might be fulfilled They parted my garments among them and for my vesture they did cast lots 253. Here the dead Corps of Christ being taken downe from the Crosse Breid 12. Based 225. was delivered to the blessed Virgin Mary to be buried saith Bredan Matthew