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A05059	A briefe description of Hierusalem and of the suburbs therof, as it florished in the time of Christ Whereto is annexed a short commentarie concerning those places which were made famous by the Passion of Christ, and by the actes of holye men, confirmed by certeine principall histories of antiquity. Verie profitable for Christians to read, for the understanding of the Sacred Scriptures and Iosephus his Historie. Hereunto also is appertaining a liuely and beawtifull mappe of Hierusalem, with arithmeticall directions, correspondent to the numbers of this booke. Translated out of Latin into English by Thomas Tymme minister.; Jerusalem sicut Christi tempore flourit. English	Adrichem, Christiaan van, 1533-1585.; Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.	1595 (1595)	STC 152; ESTC S100442	70,773	138

by the meditations of these afflictions of our sauiour faith is illumined hope strengthened charitie inflamed and all vertue increased Wherefore saint Augustine a light of the Church no lesse truly then godly prouoking vs by very forceable woordes therevnto saith thus Behould the woundes of him that hangeth the bloud of him that dieth the price of the redemer the scarres of him that ryseth His heade boweth to kisse thee his hart is opened to loue thee his armes stretched abroad to imbrace thee his whole bodie set forth to redeeme thee Consider what and how greate ●hese thinges be waigh them in the ballance of your heartes that hee may be wholy fastened in your hartes who for vs was wholy fastened on the crosse Thus far Augustine So that it is not enough to meditate of these thinges once but it is profitable to thinke vpon them often yea the oftener the more they auaile and profite In the wholesome contemplation of whose passion although we profite much yet we shall neuer attaine to the perfite knowledge thereof but there will remaine still somewhat that we may seeke for the full knowledge wherof is reserued to our heauenly countrey In the meane tyme let vs contemplate in these thinges day and night in these things let vs recreate and busie our selues In these let vs watch in these let vs sleep yea to die in the meditation of these things is most Christian and auaileable to euerlasting saluation Places of holy Scripture to the praise of IERVSALEM Lamenta II. Is this the citty of perfit bewty the ioye of the whole earth Ezech. V. This is IERVSALEM I haue set it in the middest of the nations countries y t are round about her II. Cron. VII I haue chosen this place for my selfe to be a house of sacrifice Isaias II. Micheas IIII. The Lawe shall go foorth of Sion and the woorde of the Lord from IERVSALEM Apocalips XXI I sawe the holy Citiie new IERVSALEM come downe from God out of Heauen prepared as a bride trimmed for her husband Tobit XIII O IERVSALEM the holy Cittie many nations shall come from far to the name of the Lord God with giftes in their hands euen gyftes to y e King of heauen all generations shal praise thee and giue signes of ioye Cursed are all they which hate thee but blessed are they for euer which loue thee Reioyce and be glad for the children of the iust for they shall be gathered and shall blesse the lord for the iust Blessed are they which loue thee for they shall reioyce in thy peace Blessed are they which haue bene sorrowfull for all thy scourges For they shall reioyce for thee when they shal see all thy glorie and shall reioyce for euer Let my soule blesse God y e great King For IERVSALEM shall be built vp with Saphires Emeraudes and thy walls with pretious stoanes and thy towers thy bulwarkes with pure gould And the streetes of IERVSALFM shalbe paued with Berall and Carbuncle and stoanes of Ophir And all her streets shall say Halleluiah and they shall praise him saying blessed bee God which hath extolled it for euer Thomas Newton to the louing Reader THat stately place that princely bowre that seate of mightie King That floure of Beniamin his tribe whose fame through world did ring Ennobled with such royall stiles and titles of renowne And ouer worldlie citties all most meete to weare the crowne Loe heere presented is to Viewe in such good currrant sort As no penne heretofore perform'd or made thereof report So that wee neede not now to runne or gad from place to place In daungers great through countreis staunge to trie or know this case That braue estate which earst it had is now alas defac'de King dauids house and temple now is quight and cleane disgrac'de Yet sitting still with booke in hand we here may plaine beholde The state of ech thing as it was in times that were of old Where Christ did preach where Christ did suppe where Christ did fast and pray Where Christ was caught where christ was whipt where theeues did him betraye Where he a precious raunsome paid for man who had offended Where he was buried where he rose and eke where he ascended Where Annas kept his pompous court where Caiphas palace stoode Where wicked Pilate dwelt that did condemne most guiltles blood This and much more is here discourst by him that both had read And seene with eye full thirtie yeeres where hee his life had lead Whose worke and paines as they deserue much thankes and hartie praise So Timme his guerdon well deserues of all men in these daies Aswell for heere acquainting vs with this rare worke of skill As also for his other paines that passed haue his quill Who like a candle wastes himselfe in giuing light to others Moe such God graunt to take like care to helpe their Christian brothers Thomas Newton ❧ A BRIEFE DESCRIPTION OF IERVSALEM AND THE SVBVRBES THEREOF AS IT FLORISHED IN THE TIME OF CHRIST 1 IErusalem the elect Cittie of God holy and most glorious built vpon the holy mountaines excelling all the citties of the world as well by the loftinesse of the seate as by the moderation and temperature of the heauens and fruitfulnesse of soile was situated in the midest of the whole worlde and of Iudaea as it were in the very center and heart of the earth And being as a Queene amongest all other neighbour citties had the preheminence as the head ouer the body and shined as the sunne aboue others in sumptuousnes and glorious buildings hauing such surpassing excellency she was by a certaine singular priuiledge in time past the onely place which God had chosen to himselfe and was a figure not only of euery faithfull mans soule but also of the elect Church of Christ militant vppon earth and of that blessed triumphant Church in heauen A cittie of perfect beautie the virgin of the worlde the paragon of all the Easte and the ioye and reioycing of the whole earth This cittie was builded about the yeare from the creation of the world two thousand twenty and three in the time of Abraham by Melchisedech the Kinge In hebrue it was called SALEM and in Greeke SOLYMA and it seemeth that hee possessed the same fiftie yeares The which afterwards the Iebusites enioyed who sprang from Iebusi the sonne of Chanaan of whome it was called for a time Iebus and Iebusaeum at what time Iosua slue the King thereof And the Iebusites helde the same eighte hundred and twentie foure yeares who trusted so much to the strength of their cittie that when king Dauid assailed the same in contempt of him and of his army they placed vpon their walles the blind the halt and the maimed saying that these were sufficient to beate backe the enemy But when Dauid through Gods helpe enioyed the cittie the Iebusites

diuelish Imbracings of the Idoll that so they mighte bee burnte And this they did of a certaine deuelish deuotion offeringe them vppe to the Diuell Moloch for a burnt offering of moste filthie sauour Amiddest these horrible tormentes where with they were thus tormented the miserable Clamor of the children could in no wise bee heard whereby the parentes mighte in any sorte bee moued to pittie or compassion for that the priestes of this Idole Moloch during the whole time of the sacrifice did vsually make an exceeding greate noise both with the trumpettes and drums Wherevppon that place was called also Tophet In this abhominable manner Achaz and Manasses also kinges of Iuda beeing euen as madde as the Common people offered vppe their sonnes to the Diuell Moloch The which detestable madnesse the godly kinge Iosias seeking at the length to redresse brake in peeces the image of Moloch cut downe his Groues and defiled the place thereof with the filthinesse of dead Carcasses of bones and of other vncleane thinges and appointed it to bee a perpetuall dunghil for euer In this Valleye Ieremye at the commandement of GOD breaking an earthen potte in peeces against the grounde before the Elders of Iuda prophesied that GOD woulde after the selfesame manner break and destroye both the Cittye and the people According to which prophesie there was so great and mightie a multitude of people slaine there because they had filled this place with the bloud of Innocent children that this place was called no more the valley of Tophet but Poliandron that is to saye a heape of manye dead bodies whose Carcases lyeng there vnburied became meat for the birdes of the ayre and for the beastes of the field 186. GETHSEMANI a ferme place at the foote of mount Oliuet This had manie fruitfull oliue trees When Christ intended to go vnto the garden that was in mount Oliuet he came from his last supper into this place heauie and sorrowfull vnto the death 187 THE GARDEN OF OLIVET in the mount of Oliuet where Christ praied vnto his father three times that the cuppe of his passion might passe from him And being in an agony as he continued in praier he swet bloud which fel droppe by dropp vnto the earth at what time hee was comforted by an angell from heaueu In Hieroms time there was a Church builded on this place which is as yet to be seene 188 THE KINGS GARDEN the which also was called the inclosed garden It was in the Suburbes of Ierusalem walled round about And like to a parradise it was planted with trees of all sorts of fruits with hearbes with flowers of most sweet sauour and what soeuer els that might delight the sences It had also most pleasant and conuenient walkes In this was that famous fountaine Rogel the stone Zoeleth of both which there is often mencion made in the Scripture where Adonias when he purposed to raigne offered oblations and with his followers made a feast 189. THE GROAVE OF MOLOCH consecrated to the Idol Moloch where the worshippers thereof after they had ended their sacrifice committed fornication vnder the shadow of the trees 190 THE MOVNT OF OFFENCE it was a very high mountaine situate on the south side of the kinges garden Where the moste wise Salomon being nowe old was seduced made folish by his strange wiues building a temple to Melchom the Idoll of the Ammonites which also he worshipped 191 THE MOVNT OLIVET or mounte of Oliues so called by reason of the great plenty of oliues which grew there called also in Greeke Elaeon which otherwise also is named the famous and holy mountaine It was situate on the east side of Ierusalem It was seperated from the high cittie the valley of Cedron lying betwen distant from the cittie a Saboth daies iorney according to the Scripture but according to Iosephus it was distant fiue furlonges who also addeth that the top of the hill was six furlongs from the citty For it was of so greate hight that from the same not only almost all the streetes of Ierusalem but also the dead sea might easily be seene And besides the oliues it abounded with palmes pines mirtells and other fruitful trees In the toppe of this hill the holy king Dauid fleeing from the face of his sonne Absolom weping and bare-footed worshipped God In this mountaine also his sonne Salomon forgetting all godlinesse erected a temple to Astaroth the Idole of the Sidonians right ouer against the temple of Ierusalem from whence euery one that committed Idolatry mighte beeseene The which also with all other places dedicated to Idols Iosias vtterly destroied Christ often times came vp into this mountaine both for quietnesse sake and also to pray tarieng there all the night Also from the top of this mount he ascended into heauen in the presence of his disciples standing there and behoulding him after he had blessed them 192. THE MOVNT OF OFFENCE a high mountain on the other side of the brooke Cedron and on the North side of the mounte Oliuet distant from Ierusalem foure furlonges Whereon Salomon by the motion of his heathenish wiues builded a Temple to Chamosh the Idole of the Moabites This also Iosias brake downe In the time of the Machabees a Castle was builded on this mount some tokens whereof are to be seene at this day 193 THE FVLLERS MONVMENTE the which was not farre from the Corner gate in the North-easte 194. THE PALME TREESE wherof mention is made in Neemias and in Saint Iohns Gospell 195 THE DOVE-HOVSE on the South ende of the mount Oliuet It was made of stone round loftie and fashioned like a tower wherin were store of doues to the number of foure or fiue thousand 196. THE BRIDGE OF CEDRON made of stone with one arche erected ouer the brooke Cedron which Helena the Emperes caused to be made in that place 197. THE SEPVLCHER OF THE VIRGIN MARY which was in the valley of Iosaphat neere vnto the ferme place of Gethseman at the foot of mount Oliuet wherein the body of the most holy and blessed virgin was decently buried by the Apostles 198. THE COMMON PLACE OF BVRIALL which was in the velley of Iosaphat where the common sort of people were buried 199. THE FOVNTAINE OF SILOE whereto was ioyned the poole of Siloe the which also is called the lower poole lyeng on the weste side of the valley of Iosophat and springing from the roote of mounte Sion The water thereof being cleere sweete and plentifull ran with a still and calme streame into the brooke Cedron This fountaine kinge Hezechias repaired In the poole of this fountain the man which was borne blind washing his eies which Christe had annointed with clay and his spittle receiued his sight