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
66.10 31.58 Jarmouth 65.37 31.51 Azecha 65.51 31.54 Lachis 65.51 31.49 Eglon 65.50 31.48 Makeda 65.49 31.52 Libna 95.49 31.50 Debir 65.32 31.46 Bethsur 65.47 31.48 Kâ—chila 65.38 31.47 Mareâ—a 65.42 31.54 Maon 65.38 31.41 Carmel 65.40 31.44 Ziph 65.38 31.43 Arah 65.45 31.37 Hebron 65.33 31.45 Gerer 65.37 31.42 Kades barnea 65.22 31.29 Adar 65.12 31.32 Carcaha 65.06 31.30 Hasmona 65.00 31.30 Bethsemes 65.55 31.55 Beersabah 65.31 31.40 Siclag 65.15 31.37 Ecron 65.40 31.58 Azotus 65.35 31.00 Astalon 65.24 31.52 Gath 65.23 31.48 Gaza 65.11 31.40 The Towns lying on this side of the River Jordan Dan 67.25 33.08 Jor sons 67.31 33.07 Caesarea Philippi 67.30 32.05 Seleucia 67.17 33.50 Eruptio fluvii ex Samachoniride palude 67.11 32.44 Capernaum 66.53 31.29 Eruptio fluvii è mare Genezareth 66.43 32.21 Ephion 66.42 32.20 Ennon 66.40 32.16 Gamala 66.55 32.25 Salem 66.37 32.18 Chrit torrens 66.16 31.57 Ostia Jordanis 66.17 31.54 Engedi 66.22 31.43 Zoar vel Sagor 66.17 31.38 Eruptio Zered 66.19 31.34 Towns standing beyond Jordan Mirba 66.50 32.20 Astharoth 67.00 32.26 Astaroth 66.57 32.23 Gadara 66.48 32.23 Machanaim 66.44 32.19 Jaezar 66.39 32.12 Hesbon 66.28 32.05 Jabes 66.55 32.21 Ramah 66.51 32.20 Nobach 66.38 32.16 Jachsa 66.28 32.02 Aroer 66.30 32.00 Macherus 66.23 31.56 Minith 66.36 32.66 Midian 66.30 31.55 Didon 66.32 32.06 Punuel 66.39 31.18 Edrei 66.15 32.21 Abela Vinearum 67.00 32.23 Philadelphia 67.10 32.22 Pella 67.03 32.20 Phiala fons 67.43 33.05 Betharan 67.30 32.08 Pisgamons 66.26 32.01 Abarim montes 66.29 31.58 Towns in Aegypt Memphis 61.50 29.50 Heliopolis 62.15 29.59 Tanis 63.30 29.50 Taphnis 62.30 31.00 Ony 60.30 30.10 Alexandria 60.30 31.00 Mercurii civitas magna 61.40 28.55 Mercurii civitas parva 61.00 30.50 Delta magnum 62.00 30.00 Xois 62.30 30.45 Busitis 62.30 30.15 Hesâ—oe 63.20 29.10 Solis â—ons 58.15 28.00 Iourneys out of Aegypt Raemses 63.00 30.05 Pihachiroth 62.50 29.40 Mara 63.35 29.50 Elim 63.45 29.50 Juxtâ— mare 63.55 29.45 Paran Promontorium 65.00 29.00 Daphea 64.14 29.46 Alus 64.30 29.46 Raphiddim 64.40 29.53 Sinai mons 65.00 30.00 Hazeroth 65.50 30.14 Zephor mons 65.54 30.50 Mozeroth 64.18 39.04 Hasmona 65.09 31.30 Gidgad mons 65.30 30.20 Jothabatha 65.30 26.40 Habrona 65.30 29.40 Hesion Gaber 65.30 29.20 Sin 66.00 29.56 Hor mons 66.00 30.25 Salmona 66.25 30.40 Phunon 66.30 30.54 Oboth 66.50 31.04 Jeabarim 67.00 31.18 Zered torrens vallis 66.44 21.20 Didon Gad 66.48 31.32 Almon diblathaim 66.48 31.24 Chedemoth solitudo 66.56 32.00 Beer puteus 66.50 23.00 Marthana Solitudo 66.49 23.00 Nathaleel 66.40 00.23 Bamoth vallis 66.30 32.00 Towns in Arabia Petraea Petra 65.40 31.18 Paran 94.30 30.04 Midian 65.30 29.15 Hesion gebar 65.35 29. â—0 Elana villa harla vel elath 95.35 29.15 Ostia Nili Canopicum 66.50 31.05 Bolbithinum 61.30 31.05 Sibenniticum 61.45 31.05 Pathmiticum 92.35 31.10 Mendesium 62.45 31.10 Pelusiacum 63.15 31.15 Thou 63.00 31.30 Sirbonis lacus eruptio 65.45 31.50 Sirbonis lacus 63.30 31.10 Idem 63.45 31.10 Civitas Pelusium 36.25 31.20 Rhinocorura 94.40 31.10 Some other great Towns Babilon 76.00 35.00 Antiochia 60.30 33.35 Damasâ—us 68. â—5 33.00 Palmira 72.40 35.10 Ur chaldeorum 78.00 39.40 Eâ—bathana 88.00 37.47 Rages in Media 93.40 36.04 Sula in Perâ—a 83.00 34.15 Persepolis 91.00 33.20 Heccatompilon in Parthia 96.00 37.50 Zaba in Arabia foelix 97.00 13.00 Meroe 61.30 16.25 Haram in Mesopotania 75.15 36.10 Hircania 98.30 40.00 Ciraenae 50.00 31.20 The Description of the City of Ierusalem as it was before Titus Vespasian destroyed it THE most holy and beautiful City of Ierusalem was twice destroyed first by Nebuchadnezzar the most puissant King of Babylon who did utterly beat down and overthrow the City burning the costly Temple which King Soloâ—on had built After that Zorobabel and the High Priest Ioshua when they returned from the Captivity of Babylon re-edified and built again both the City and the Temple in the Year before the Birth of Christ 535. But the second Temple which was built after their Return was neither so fair nor so great as the first for it was twenty Cubits loweâ— than the former After that King Herod seventeen years before the Birth of Christ caused the said Tâ—â—ple to be broken down again as Iosephus saith and â—â—ected another new Temple in Place thereof which nevâ—rtheless was not like the first Temple that Sâ—lomon built as touching the Greatness but it was exceeding fairly decked and adorâ—â—◠〈◊〉 Gold and Silver so that in regard of the Beautifulness â—â—â—reof it was a Wonder unto all that came to Ierusalem Which Temple forty Years after Christ's Death and 〈◊〉 was also utterly destroyed by Tâ—tus the Son of 〈…〉 the â—mperour I will 〈…〉 form of the City Ierusalem as it was before it was defaced by 〈…〉 of Vespâ—â—an and therewithall I will shew how the costly 〈…〉 Solomon placed therein stood for seeing that the two 〈…〉 great Molten Sea were not therein when our Lord 〈…〉 Earth being broken down by Nebuchadnezzar's 〈…〉 necessary and very requisite to be known how they 〈…〉 that the Reader may be fully satisfied I will also first 〈…〉 of Ierusalem as it was in those Days with the chiefest Places 〈…〉 Towers Gates Houses Castles Fountains Hills Vallies 〈…〉 things therein How the City Ierusalem is scituate 〈…〉 from Germany TH◠〈…〉 is scituate in the middle of 〈…〉 thereabouts and Ierusalem is 〈…〉 five hundred miles but if you will travel to 〈…〉 from thence to Ierusalem it is five hundred and â—ifty Miles The Scituation of Jerusalem and the Mountains whereon it stood JErusalem was four square and scituated upon four Mountains viz. Mount Sion Mount Moriah Mount Acra and Mount Bezetha Mount Sion was the highest of all and lay within the City of Ierusalem towards the South whereon stood King David's House or the Castle of Sion and the uppermost Town Mount Moriah whereon the Temple stood with other excellent Buildings and Towers was on the East side of the City within the Walls Mount Acra whereon the lower Town was built stood Westward in the City where Annas Caiphas Pilate Herod Agripâ—a Bernice Helena and other Kings and great Princes dwelt The holy City of Jerusalem may in this manner be briefly described THE most holy and beautiful City of Ierusalem if any would consider the three principal parts of the World Europe Asia and Africa stood in the midst of the World upon most high Mountains and Rocks like an earthly Paradise a lively Figure of the everlasting City of God This City being the Metropolitan or principallest City of the Jews stood in the Tribe of Benjamin at the first it was called Salem that is Peaceable when Melchisedech the Priest of God reigned therein which he also built after the Deluge as Iosephus and Egisippus write But at that time it was not very great for it stood only upon Mount Sion Mount Moriah where Abraham would have offered his Son Isaac stood without the City and after that they took it into the City as
to this day is found a piece of the Stone which the Angel rolled from the Grave before the Resurrection the other part of the Stone howsoever it came there lyes upon Mount Sion But some think that the Armenians carried it thither because upon it they have built an Altar In this inner Cave there hangs nine Lamps to give light unto them that enter in by the East so that in the inner and outer Vault there standeth eighteen Lamps The Mount whereon Christ was crucified seemeth to stand upon a Rock of Stone whitish and something blushing It is distant from the Holy Sepulchre a hundred and thirty foot The place where the Cross stood was an hard Rock eighteen steps in the Ascent and answereth to nine and twenty feet The hole where the Cross stood is about the roundness of a mans head in Latitude and if a man might believe the Monks thereabouts they say also that in that place is to be seen the colour of our Saviours Blood even to this day Upon the left hand of this there stands an Altar made of Marble and over that a sumptuous Chappel paved and covered with polish'd Marble gilt and adorned with refulgent Gold the Walls whereof are very curiously wrought and gilded In the Church upon Mount Golgotha they also shew part of a Pillar naturally black speck'd with red Spots where they say Christ was whip'd and make the Vulgar believe that these Specks are the drops of Blood that fell from him The other part of this Column was carried to Constantinople as it was thought In this Church Godfrey first Christian King of Ierusalem and the rest of his Successors lie buried Of the Temple of Solomon as it is at this day THIS Temple lieth towards the East and was built by the Christians just in the same place where the former Temple stood at the time when the City was rebuilt and enlarged The body thereof is very high and spatious and built of polish'd Marble adorned with most exquisite and curious Workmanship very artificial and glorious both within and without insomuch that the polished Stones cast a singular beautiful and resplendent Lustre Above it is covered with Lead and was built up at the cost and labour of the Grecians in the Roof whereof the Turks place an half Moon as they usually do in all such Churches wherein they come and have Authority The Turks and Saracens have this Temple in great Reverence and Devotion they adorn it according to their Custom with divers artificial Pictures and Emblems They will suffer no Christians to enter into it nor any Jews upon pain of Death And if it happens that at any time they go into it they first wash themselves with Water very clean then put off their Hose and Shoos and so go bare-foot This Temple they call the holy Rock and in the body thereof there hangeth seven hundred Lamps which burn Night and Day In the midst hereof there standeth a certain little Rock every where indented with Iron near to which not any of the Saracens or Infidels dare to approach or touch although there come many very far to visit it for they believe that there were many memorable and worthy things done in that Rock they think that Melchisedeck the first Priest of the great God offered Bread and Wine upon it Genes 14. and that here the Patriarch Iacob saw the Ladder which reached from Heaven to Earth Gen. 28. which indeed hapned not in Ierusalem but in Bethel as the Scriptures witness Further they believe that upon this Stone David saw the Angel of the Lord standing with a shaken Sword when he struck the City with the Pestilence 2 Sam. 24. and that the Priests of the old Testament offered upon this stone their Sacrifices to the Lord which were devoured with Fire from Heaven All which things do utterly differ from holy Scripture The Jews also are of Opinion That the Prophet Ieremy about the time of the Captivity of Babylon in this Stone hid the Ark of the Covenant until such time as the Lord brought the People back again from the Captivity which is contrary also to the Books of the holy Scripture for 2 Mach. 2. it is said it was hid in the Mount Nebo where Moses stood when he saw the whole Land of Canaan Also the Turks say that Christ sate upon this stone when Simeon took him in his arms and blessed him Here also he sate in the midst of the Doctors when he was but twelve years of Age Luk. 2. which also differeth from the Scripture for this was not the Body of the Temple but in the middle Court or Solomons Porch which sometimes was taken for the Temple because it joyned to it And divers Circumstances of the Scripture do seem to make this evident because here Christ taught and here the People usually met together as appeareth Iosh. 10. and Psal. 72. About the Temple of Ierusalem there is a fair Plain much resembling our Church-yards all paved with marble stone To this there is adjoyning a fair Church covered with Lead and was somtimes called Solomons Porch but after the Christians had won Ierusalem they gave it the Name of St. Maries The Turk keeps burning in this daily eight hundred Lamps and it is much greater than that of Solomons Temple The Sultan of Aegypt also about an hundred years before built a little Church or Moscho close by Solomons Temple wherein are continually burning eighty eight Lamps There is a Vault under the Temple of the blessed Virgin Mary of such an extraordinary Greatness that six hundred Horse may easily be placed in it And thus we may see the Temple of Solomon and City of Ierusalem not only to be in the power of the Turks but also prophaned with the blasphemous Doctrine of Mahomet And also we may here behold the Abomination of Desolation standing in the holy place where sometime was the Ark of the Covenant Dan. 9. Mat. 24. and the Prophecy of Ieremy is fully finished cap. 19. This place shall be unclean like unto the place of Tophet where they did sacrifice to the Host of Heaven and unto other strange Gods Of other Buildings within the City of Aelia which is now called Jerusalem MOunt Sion is placed toward the South of Ierusalem where even at this day the Monks undertake to shew the Ruines of David's Tower the Sepulchres of the Kings of Israel and many other holy places But P. Orosius and other Historians write How in the time of Adrian Caesar there happened a great Earthquake in such a terrible manner that the Mountain of Sion with the Sepulchre of David fell down and were utterly defaced Further all true Historians do write That Adrian the Emperour did so much deface the City that he left not a stone standing upon a stone nay not a whole stone but all were broken into small pieces and yet notwithstanding Pilgrims are so mad and blind that they go thither with great pains to seek those
into the City a little before you come at it This Town standeth upon a fair prospect for you may see from thence through all Galilee to Carmel the Mountains of Phoenicia and Mount Thabor also from Mount Gilead by Iordan and Mount Salem where Iohn baptized near by Mount Hermon upon the North side of Mount Gilboah there lies a fair and plain way to the City Iezreel by which Iehu came when he made Wars upon Ieroboam King of Israel of which you may read more 2 Reg. 9. It stood not far from the River Kison as you may read Ios. 17. 19. 1 Sam. 2. 1 Reg. 4. 18. Of Ahaziah the Son of Ahab AHaziah was crowned King of Israel during the Life of his Father a cruel and wicked man he began his Reign in the 17th year of Iosaphat King of Iudah Anno Mundi 3049 and before Christ 919. about such time as Ahab went down to Ramoth Gilead to recover it from the Syrians Within a while after the death of his Father he fell through the Lattice-window in his upper Chamber which was in Samaria of which hurt he died Of this you may read more 1 King 1. The Travels of Jehoram King of Israel JEhoram succeeded his Brother Ahaziah in the Kingdom of Israel who began his Reign in the eighteenth year of Iosaphat King of Iudah and as Iosephus saith lib. Ant. 9. about the fifth year of his Reign went from Samaria to Ierusalem which was 32 miles There he told Iosaphat how the King of Moab had rebelled against him therefore desired him to go along with him to the War 2 Reg. 3. Then Iehoram and Iosaphat and the King of Edom went from Ierusalem and compassed about through the Wilderness of Idumaea by the space of seven dayes so that they and their Army for want of Water had almost perished but at the Prayers of the Prophet Elisha they were miraculously preserved At length they came to Petra the Metropolitan City of the Moabites and is distant from Ierusalem an hundred seventy two miles which they took and consumed it with Fire and Sword 2 Reg. 3. From the City of Petra Iehoram King of Israel returned back to Samaria which was 104 miles where within a while after he was so sorely besieged by Benhadad King of Syria that the Famine grew very great within the Town insomuch as a certain Woman eat her own Child 2 Reg. 6. From Samaria he went to Ramoth in Gilead with his Army which is 24 miles where he was overcome by Asahel King of the Syrians and wounded even to the death 2 Reg. 8. From the Fight of Ramoth Gilead he was carried in his Chariot back to Iezreel which was 24 miles where he lay to be cured of his Hurts But Iehu one of his chief Captains rebelled against him and as he was in his Chariot shot an Arrow and wounded him the second time whereof he died in the Field of Naboth the Iezreelite 2 Reg. 9. So all the Travels of Iehoram were 356 miles The Travels of Jehu King of Israel JEHV signifies a constant man in himself and was the Son of Iosaphat the Son of Nimschi he was anointed King of Israel in the Castle at Ramoth in Gilead by Elisha Anno Mun. 3063. and before Christ 905. he reigned 28 years 2 Reg. 9. From Ramoth in Gilead in his Chariot he went to Iezreel which was 24 miles where in the Field of Naboth the Iezreelite he killed Iehoram with an Arrow And when he came to the Gates of the City he caused Iezabel to be thrown from a Tower whom he trampled under his Horse feet and after in that same place she was eaten up with Dogs Then he sent Messengers to Samaria commanding the Samaritans that they should put to death the 70 Sons of Ahab which they immediately did and sent their Heads unto him in Baskets 2 Reg. 10. From Iezreel he went to Samaria which is sixteen miles In that Journey he caused to be slain by his Ministers the 42 Brothers of Ahaziah King of Iuda near to the Well which was beside the House where Sheep were shorn And when he came to Samaria he caused all the Posterity of Ahab to be utterly destroyed and rooted out And to conclude the Tragedy by a cunning Policy put to death all the Priests of Baal 2 Reg. 10. So all the Travels of Iehu were 40 miles Of Jehoahas King of Israel JEhoahas was the Son of Iehu and succeeded his Father in the Kingdom of Israel he began his Reign in the 33 year of Ioas King of Iudah in the Year of the World 3091 and before Christ 876. He reigned over Israel seventeen Years God stirred up against this wicked King Asahel King of the Syrians who with 10000 Foot and five hundred Horse besieged Samaria very strongly put to the Sword many of his Subjects and got many Cities and Towns from him as the Prophet Elisha had before told him 2 Reg. 8. 13. The Travels of Joas King of Israel JOAS succeeded his Father Iehoahas and while he was yet living was anointed King of Israel in the thirty seventh year of Ioas King of Iudah and reigned two years with his Father after his Death fifteen so all the Reign of Ioas was seventeen Years This Man was a great Souldier and went from Samaria with an Army against the City of Apheck which was fourteen miles there he smote the Syrians and in three several Battels carried away the Victory recovering the Cities which his Father Iehoahas had lost according to the Prophecy of Elisha 2 Reg. 17. From Apheck he returned to Samaria being 14 miles From thence he went with his Army to Bethsemes in the Land of Iuda where in a sharp and cruel War he conquered Amasia and took him alive 2 Reg. 14. which was 32 miles From Bethsemes he went to Ierusalem and carried the King thereof with him Captive being four miles He won the City and broke down the Walls of it from the Gate of Ephraim till you come to the Angle-Gate four hundred Cubits in length 2 Reg. 14. From the City of Ierusalem Ioas the Conquerour returned to Samaria with the spoil of the Temple and of the King's House with many Captives and a great Prey being thirty two miles where at the end of the seventeenth year of his Reign he died and was buried In this man's time Elisha the Prophet died 2 Reg. 13. 14. So all the Travels of Ioas were ninety six miles Of Bethsemes Of this City you may read before The Travels of Jeroboam the second of that Name King of Israel THIS Ieroboam succeeded his Father Ioas in the Kingdom of Israel and began his Reign Anno Mundi 3123. and before Christ 845. which according to the Text of the Bible happened about the 15th Year of Amasia King of Iuda and he reigned 41 Years 2 Reg. 14. He kept his Court at Samaria where the Prophet Ionas told him that he should recover not only the Towns and Cities of the Land
against them insomuch that he left this goodly City as a Prey to the Gentiles and Foreign Nations that carried the People thereof into Captivity where for a long time they remained in great misery After the first desolation because the Country round about this City was very fertile and pleasant abounding with Springs Rivers Vines Olive Gardens Mountains fruitful Vallies fair Cities and strong Castles and Towns Herod Ascalonites that great King of the Iews who put to death the innocent Children re-edified it set up many goodly buildings beautified with Marble Pillars and pleasant Walks And also in the circuit of the Kings House and under the buildings of the Nobility in the common Market-place the Houses and Vaults were supported with Marble Pillars according to the manner of the Iews The Palace called the Kinâ—s House stood in the midst of the City upon the top of the Mountain and round about it there were divers other buildings set up but much lower even about the descent of the Mountain yet scituated that the Inhabitants might see out of their Houses the Country round about Then close to the Palace in the upper part of the City he caused a Temple to be built in honor of Augustus Thus having finished the inside he compass'd it about with a mighty Wall and upon that placed many Turrets and then to flatter Augustus called it by the name of Sebasten which among the Grecians signifies Augustum venerabile Principem now although this City was very glorious and spacious in those times for it was three miles about yet at this day it is utterly ruined and destroyed insomuch that there is not a House standing two Churches only excepted which were built in honour of St. Iohn Baptist and the chief of these which was the Cathedral Church the Saracens have converted to their use so that at this day Mahomet is worshipped in it In this stood the Sepulchre of St. Iohn Baptist cut out in Marble like the Sepulchre of Christ where as Hierom saith he lieth buried between Elisha and Obediah the Prophets This Church stands upon the side of the Mountain in the descent The Saracens do principally reverence St. Iohn Baptist next after Christ and they affirm the Virgin Mary to have conceived by the holy Spirit and not by the Seed of Man That St. Iohn was the greatest Prophet except Christ that ever was They also believe Christ to be the Son of God but not to be equal with God Yet they prefer Mahomet before both because they hold him a Messenger sent from God not unto all Men but only unto the Saracens and Turks and their Subjects The other Church which stood in Samaria was upon the top of the Mountain which somtimes the Kings Palace stood In this Church in times past there dwelt certain Grecian Monks which were Christians and entertained Christian Pilgrims with great Humanity and furnished them with many Necessaries But the City of Samaria it self hath been so often overthrown and brought to such extream misery that almost all the Ground where it stood is at this time converted into an Olive Garden So that as that wicked King Ahab turned the Vineyard of Naboth which stood close by his House into an Olive Garden so God in his singular Justice hath turned the Palace of that King and the whole City wherein he dwelt which was the strength of his Kingdom into an Olive Garden There are not so many ruins found through all the Land of Iudaea though there have been many worthy Cities destroyed as are in this place at this day The scituation of this City was very beautiful for a man might have seen from it to the Sea of Ioppae and Antipatris also to Caesarea Palestina and thorough all the Mountain of Ephraim to Ramatha Sophim and so to Mount Carmel and the City of Ptolomais Of Lidda THIS City was scituated not far from Ioppa upon the shore of the Mediterranean Sea 20 miles from Ierusalem North-wâ—â—â—ward In this City Peter healed Aeneas who had been sick eight years of the Palsie At this day there is nothing to be seen but the Church of St. George who was beheaded by the Emperour Dioclesian for professing the Christiaâ— Fâ—ith The Grecians call this Town Diospolis i. An holy Town And the Turks account St. George for a valiant Knight and holy man Of Caesarea Strato THIS City was scituated upon the shore of the Mediterranean Sea some 32 miles from Jerusalem North-ward in ancient time it was called Strato being first built by Strato King of Sidon But time having decayed a great part of it Herod Ascalonita repaired it and made it a goodly thing calling it Caesarea after the name of Augustus Caesar. And that Ships might lie at Anchor there without danger he caused to be built a fair Haven to oppose the violence of the Sea This Haven was so wonderfully coâ—trived and set up at such a great charge that it was admirable to look upon for he laid the foundation of it twenty yards under Water burying in the deep Stones of an extraordinary greatness some fifty foot long eight foot thick and ten foot broad and many of them more The Haven it self was beautified with fair Buildings and goodly Walls supported with Marble Pillars and mounted up aloft so that you might see the Ships as they were upon the Sea and made way to his Harbour The entrance into it was upon the North at the mouth thereof there stood three mighty Colosses upon Marble Pillars He also placed upon the Wall of the City towards the Haven mighty Towers the chiefest and fairest of which he dedicated to Drusus Augustus his Son in law and called it by the Name of the Drusian Tower The buildings that joyned to this Haven were all of white polished Marble and the Streets of the City were directly towards it Also the Market-place where they bought and sold was not far from it Upon a little Hill close by this Port he caused a Church to be built in honour of Augustus Caesar. This Temple was a very magnificent and stately building and in it he caused the Statue of Augustus curiously wrought and cast just in the figure of Iupiter Olympius to be erected and worshipped it as his God There are many other stately and sumptuous buildings that were set up by this King But amongst the rest he bestowed great cost upon the Market-place the Theatre and the Amphitheatre which he wonderfully beautified and instituted certain Games to be there used once every fifth year in Honour of Augustus as Ioseph de Bell. Iud. li. 1. witnesseth After the death of this King Herod Agrippa was made King of the Jews This Prince some ten years after the Resurrection of Christ caused James the Son of Zebedeus upon the 25 day of July to be put to death in Jerusalem and when he perceived it was acceptable unto the Jews in the following year about the the Feast of the Passover he caused Peter to be
Asia whereby Lysimachus was constrained to leave this and make opposition against Seleucus Nicanor who had invaded his Dominions But in this War Lysimachus was slain And Philetaerus having in his possession great Riches that he might enjoy what he had was always observant to him that got the Victory by which means he kept himself and his Riches for the space of 20 years in that Castle and then died and left all his Wealth to Eumenes his brothers Son who inlarged his Government and overcame Antiochus the Son of Seleucus This Man after he had reigned 32 years died and Attalus his Son succeeded him in the Government who having conquered Galatia made a league with the Romans and by them was first called by the name of a King After him succeeded his Son Eumenes the second of that name who aided the Romans against Antiochus magnus King of Syria for which service the Romans gave him all the Dominions that Antiochus had on this side the Alps. This man was the first that enlarged the Castle of Pergamus and made it a goodly City planting round about it a thick Wood or Grove and called it Nicephorus And after he had reigned 49 years he died and left his Kingdom to his Son Attalus called Philometor This Attalus after he had done many notable exploits died without issue when he had reigned five years and left his Kingdom to the Romans who turned it into a Province There lived in this Town many learned Men as Galen the Physician who was famous in the time of Trajan the Emperour and as the Fame went lived 140 years Of that Town also was Apollodorus the Rhetorician who was School-Master to Augustus Caesar of which man the Apollodorean Sect took Name and Dionysius Atticus his Scholar Here Antipas was crowned with the Wreath of Martyrdom To the Bishop of this Town Iohn wrote his Revelation and in the second Chapter thereof sharply reprehendeth him because he bore with the Sect of the Nicholaitans which although it lasted not long yet it was very dangerous Eusebius saith That Nicholaus one of the seven Deacons for the Poor at Antiochia of whom you may read Act. 6. was the first Author of this Sect yet Clem. Alexand. clears him of it laying that Offence rather on certain idle Persons that misconstruing his Words being given over to vile Affections covered their Evils under his Name calling themselves Nicholaites though indeed he had no hand in it but lived and died honestly The Opinion that this Sect held as Euseb. saith li. 3. ca. 23. and Irenaeus lib. 1. chap. 27. was That Women were to be common That it was lawful to eat Meat offered to Idols That Fornication and Adultery was no Sin beside many other wicked and perverse Opinions concerning the Deity which would be too tedious to recite in this place You may read more of it in Eusebius and Tertullian Of Thyatira THIS was the fourth Church to which Iohn wrote his Revelation it was scituated close by the River Caicus upon the Borders of Mysia and Lydia 600 miles from Ierusalem North-eastward It was a very fair City in Asia minor yet subject to the Lydians In this Country Lidda was born that dwelt at Philippa and gave entertainment to Paul and Sylas Act. 16. Philippa was distant from this Town 400 miles It was at first called according to the Testimony of Stephen Pelopea and Semiramis But after Seleucus Nicanor King of Syria making War upon Lysimachus King of Thrace coming to this Town had News that his Wife had bore him a Daughter in honour whereof he would needs have the Town called Thugateira which in Greek signifies a Daughter but Thyatira Divine Reverence Of Sardis TO this City also St. Iohn wrote his Revelation It was a famous and Princely Seat scituated in Asia not far from the Mountain Tmolus where Croesus King of the Lydians kept his Court being 536 miles from Ierusalem towards the North-west It was so called without doubt of Sardus the Son of Hercules which maketh Sardis in the plural number Of this Town were those two Diodories which were Orators The Younger of them did write Histories and Poems and was one of Strabo's great Friends Close by this Town is found a precious Stone which after the Towns Name is called Sardis it is of a fleshly Colour and therefore is commonly called Carnalia of which you may read more in Pliny lib. 37. cap. 4. Of Philadelphia SAINT Iohn also wrote his Revelation to this City It was scituated in Myâ—â—a a Country in Asia Minor being 450 miles from Ierusalem towards the North-west This City is so often troubled with Earth-quakes that the Inhabitants are many times constrained to dwell in the open Fields Upon the East side thereof lies a dry and barren Country which seemeth to be burnt and scorch'd with heat being 60 miles long and 48 miles broad where there grows no Trees but there are found great plenty of Grapes which being prest yeild very pleasant Wine and may compare with the best of those Parts The Superficies of the Earth seemeth like Ashes mountainy stony and black many conjecture the cause thereof to be by reason of the great Thunders and Lightning that they have there but there are some which give other reasons for it It was called Philadelphia of Attolus Philodelphius who first built it Of Laodicea THIS was the seventh and last City that Iohn directed his Revelation to It stood close by the River Lycus in Caria a Country in Asia the less five hundred and twenty miles from Ierusalem towards the North-west and is likewise oftentimes troubled with Earthquakes as Sardis Magnesia and Philadelphia are The reason of these often Earthquakes is thought to be because there are Vaults and hallow Caves under the Earth into which the Air in the time of heat having free entrance then closeth up again so that it can find no passage out it striveth with continual motion to make way through the Earth by which means the Earth trembleth and shaketh and look how much the deeper these Vaults are under the Earth so much the more violent are the Earth-quakes by which means Cities are oftentimes utterly overthrown and ruined sometimes the Earth sinketh and Ponds and Rivers are swallowed up It was at first called Diospolis that is the City of Iupiter then Rhoas and lastly it obtained the name of Laodicea And although at the beginning it was but a small Town yet by reason of the fertility of the Soile and pleasant scituation it of a sudden became a fair City beautified with many fair and goodly Houses wherein there dwelt many wealthy Citizens so that for their Nobility and Worthiness it was accounted the most famous Town in all Asia Here Hiero dwelt who divided his Inheritance among the Citizens and over and above he gave them two thousand Talents of Gold besides many other Gifts and Gratuities to adorn and beautifie the City After him there lived Zeno the Orator and
molten Sea standing upon twelve Oxen in the uppermost Court THE molten Sea and Fountain was a figure of Baptism and that living Water issuing from the Wounds of Christ whereby we are washed from all our Sins the Laâ—er of Regeneration whereby we are made capable of Eernal Life that Well of Water whereof if we drink we shall never thirst The twelve Oxen represent the twelve Apostles whose voices have gone through the World according to that in the Corinthians and have carried the Sea of Grace through all parts of the Earth Of which Water saith St. Augustine if thou drinkest but one drop it is more effectual to quench the thirst of Worldly and insatiable desires than an Ocean of earthly Waters The Mystery of the middle Court SOlomon's Court wherein Christ taught and in which the Jews used commonly to pray was a figure of that Church which should be gathered from amongst the Jewes For from thence he indeavoured first to assemble and gather together a Christian Congregation according to that which he spake to the Canaanitish Woman Mat 15. I am sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel Of the outward Court of the Gentiles THis Court signified That the Gentiles also should partake of the sheepfold and Congregation of Christ and be members of his holy Church according to that of Iohn 10. I have yet other sheep which I must also bring hither that sothere might be one sheepfold one Pastor c. Of the rest of the memorable Buildings standing upon mount Moriah HAving thus described the Temple together with the several Courts and Ornaments all which did typically represent Christ and his Church I will now proceed to the rest of the Buildings standing upon mount Moriah The first and most memorable was the house of Solomon which stood just against the Temple upon the South it shined so with Gold and Silver and was so stately and sumptuously built that when Queen Saba came to Ierusalem she stood amazed to see it There belonged to it divers Courts and Walks in one of which the Prophet Ieremy was prisoner Ier. 37. Over against this he made the Judgment-hall in which he placed the Ivory Chair spoken of 1 Kin. 10. He built by that another house for his Queeen she that was daughter of Pharaoh 1 Kin. 7. But when Nebuchadnezzar conquered Ierusalem all these together with the Temple were burnt and utterly deâ—aced Of the Peol of Bethesda UPon the North lay that sheep-fold or sequestred place called Bethesda Ioh. 5. which had five porches or Xenodochius as some would have it here Cattel came to drink and the Priests used to wash their Sacrifices because no unclean Beast might come within the Temple nor any thing that was foul or spotted be offered upon the Altar The water was of reddish colour and ran into that place in great abundance and therefore it was called the house of effusion or pouring out This was the place into which the Angel of God sometimes descended and troubled the Water after which whosoever stepped in was presently cured and here our Saviour Christ healed the Man that had been diseased 38 years Ioh. 5. This place was made by King Hezekiah who caused the water of the uppermost Pool which was called Gâ—â—on not far from mount Calvary to be conveyed by Pipes and passages through the Earth into the lower city called Acra and so fell into this place for which cause it was called the lower Pool The Allegorie or mystery hereof is That every one of Christs Sheep ought to be washed in the Pool of his Blood before they can be made fit Sacrifices to enter into his Temple or Church 1 Ioh. 1. Of the Tower or Castle called Antonia THis Castle as Ioseph hath it lib. 6. de Bell. cap. 6. stood between two Courts of the Temple at the North-West corner at first built by the Machabees and called by the name of Bâ—ris but after King Herod taking affection to that place bestowed great cost upon it walled it about built up sumptuous Towers and made it very strong then gave it the name of Antonia in favour of Antonius that noble Roman which Augustus a long time sustained after their decease Of the Hall called Coenaculum Anguli THis house stood upon an Angle or Cantle of the Hill and was therefore called Coenaculum Anguli it was very large and spatious and within had a great Hall whereof Nehem. cap. 3. maketh mention and here as some think our Saviour Christ ate the Paschal Lamb with his Disciples but I rather think it was in the Suburbs Of the Tower Ophel or the dark Tower NEar to the Valley of Cedron towards the East not far from the Temple and near the Castle Antonia there was builded a lofty and strong Tower or Palace called Ophel that is a place of darkness it was a very sumptuous thing Of Hamea or the Tower of the Centurions IN the Town wall between the Sheep-gate and the Dung-gate stood this Castle Hamea or Centurion taking the name â— Centenario numero i. The number of an hundred and was upon the East side of the City near to the sheepfold or Pool Bethesda Neh. 3. 12. Here the Centurions commonly kept watch Of Mount Acra and the buildings upon it MOunt Acra as is aforesaid stood upon the West side of Ierusalem it was a very high Mountain and took that name from the Greek word Acra a sharp or high Hill It was much higher than mount Moriah in times past till Machabeus's brother caused it to be cut lower to make it equal in height with mount Moriah Between these two Hills lay the Valley Cedron which was in profundity 400 Cubits Upon this Mountain another part of the City was builded being strongly fortified and richly adorned with sumptuous houses of which David and Solâ—mon were the principal Founders and was called the lower City or the Daughter of Sion It was so beautiful that some hold of which number are 〈◊〉 and Eusebius that it it exceeded the rest of the City Here stood the house of Helena Queen of the Adiabenoâ—s near about the midst of it as Ioseph observeth Li. Bell. 7. cap. 13. which Queen being converted to the Jewish Religion built her an house in this City that she might pray in the Temple Here stood the houses of her Sons Monebasius and Grapta here stood the houses of the High Priests Annas and Caiphas not far from the Valley Tyropae King Herod also that wicked Man who caused the innocent Children to be put to Death built him an house here near about the place where the Machabees in times past had a Castle for they built two one in Mount Moriah another in this Mount That in Mount Moriah was after called the Castle of Antonia and stood right against the Temple as is aforesaid And this being very sumptuously built and a Royal Seat was after the death of this Herod a Palace for his Successors Archilaus and Herod Agrippa
Benjamin through the middle of the City to the Gate of Sion From this Valley they ascended into eâ—ther Mountain that is Mount Aâ—ra and Mount Moriah by certain steps or stairs These two Hills as is beforesaid were joyned together with a Bridge and this Valley passing between them was called by Zephaniah cap. 1. Machten In which place above all the rest of the Cities dwelt Merchants and such as used Commerce and trade as appeareth in the eleventh verse of his Prophecie Howl ye Inhabitants of the Low place for the company of Merchants is destroyed all they that exchange for Silver are cut off Upon which place of Scripture the Chaldaean Paraphrase reads it thus Howl ye Inhabitants of the Valley Cedron Iosephus in tit Bell. 6. c. 6. lib. 6. c. 7. calleth this Valley by two names one Machten from the profundity the other Cedron from the obscurity for so the name signifieth and whosoever looked down into it from the Temple Fogs and Mists seemed to lie in the bottom of it like a cloud of darkneâ—s such was the depth of it There was another Valley which lay between Mount Sion and these Mountains called by the name of Tyrexdon Of the Mountain Bezetha THis place lay Northward in Ierusalem and between it and the former Hills were deep Ditches cast it had two Towns standing upon it divided with two Walls and was commonly called the Suburbs the name of the one which lay nearest to mount Moriah was called the second City the other that lay upon the North was called Neapolis or the new Town In the second dwelt Hulda the Prophetess and Zacharias the Father of S. Iohn Baptist 2 Kin. 22. 2 Chr. 34. Nehem. 3. Ioseph li. 10. c. 5. It was adorned with many fair and sumptuous Buildings among which was that princely house Of Herod Ascalonites that great and mighty King of the Iews in whose time our Saviour Christ was born This house was sumptuously built supported and adorned with Pillars of polisht Marble and so spatious that in one room thereof there might stand an hundred Tables the Hall also was very great and richly gilded with refined gold intermixt with Silver about it were many pleasant and delectable Walls goodly Gardens and Fountains for pleasure it was compass'd with a wall of polisht Marble 30 Cubits high And as Valerius writeth in that house Herod caused Christ to be mocked put a long white garment upon him in contempt and so sent him to Pilate Here also was a Prison in which Peter was kept when the Angel of the Lord delivered him Acts 12. Of the Town Neapolis or the New City THis lay without the Walls of the City and became inhabited by reason of the great concourse of People that flocked thither for in times past there were no inhabitants and stood upon the North side of the Hill Here dwelt the Christians and other Laborers and Strangers and by all likelihood it seems that the house of Mary the Mother of Iohn sirnamed Mark stood here which because of the continual resort of the Apostles thither was called the house of the Church Hither Peter resorted when he was delivered from the hands of Herod by the Angel for thus saith the Text Acts 12. 9. That when Peter had past the first and second Watch he came to the Iron Gate which led into the City and loe it opened of it self And from thence he went to the house of Mary the Mother of John sirnamed Mark. Here also in my opinion Christ celebrated the last Paschal Lamb because after Supper he went into the Mount of Olives for this lying unwalled lay open for them to go and come at their pleasure But afterward in Agrippa's time it was begun to be compassed in with a Wall and before it could be fully finished the Angel of the Lord struck him and he died miserably Here also stood the Monument of Iohn Hircanus the High Priest and of Alexander King of the Iewes as it appeareth in Iosephus lib. de Bello 6. cap. 6. The tops of the Houses in the City Ierusalem were flat and covered with fair and plain Roofs compassed about with Battlements upon which they used to Leap Dance and Banquet and such Recreations as they observed upon their Festival days were there celebrated And thus much shall serve to have spoken of the Mountains or Hills whereon Ierusalem stood Of the Walls that compassed the City THis City of Ierusalem was so strongly fortified by Nature on every side except the North for it stood upon high Rocks and Cliffs that it seemed to be invincible And that that side might be the better strengthened they compassed it in with three Walls and those so strong that when Vespasian the Emperor and his Army invaded the City they had much ado to conquer them The first of these Walls was that which Agrippa built and it compassed in Neapolis otherwise called the New Town At the North-west end of which Wall was built an exceeding high Tower of very fair Marble stone so high that standing on the top thereof a man might see from thence to the Sea and into Arabia and the uttermost bounds of Iudaea This Tower was called Psephina The second Wall was that which divided the two Suburbs wherein there stood 14 Towers and Gates This King Hezekiah built 2 Chr. 32. in a corner of which between the West-gate and the Valley-gate there stood a high Tower wherein all the night great fire was made which cast a light a great way off round about so that Travellers passing towards Ierusalem were guided by it in their way Of this light we read in Nehem. cap. 3. The third Wall compassed in the Temple and all the lower City in it was sixty Towers but the chief of them stood in the East Angle between the Dung-gate and the Gate of the Valley which was called Hananiel and signifieth the Grace and Gift of God This is much spoken of in the Scripture upon this Wall King Herod the Ascalonite built three fair Towers one between the Garden-gate and the Old-gate which he called Hippicum in honour of his Father Hippicus the other Phaselum in honour of his Brother Phasilus and the third Mariamne after his Wives name who notwithstanding he caused innocently to be put to death These three Gates were built of polish't Marble Pliny and Strabo say that this was the fairest and most spacious City of the East and for the munition and fortification almost invincible The Walls of it were all of white polish't Marble some 25 or 30 Cubits high the stones were 20 Cubits long 20 broad and 5 thick so closely joyned that the junctures could scarcely be perceived Many of the Towers also were made of such stones but those of the Temple exceeded the rest for they were 25 Cubits long 12 broad and 8 thick as Iosephus witnesseth lib. Ant. 15. ca. 14. de Bel. Iud. li. 6. ca. 6. which things being rightly considered we may easily
perceive that these Walls were very difficult to be destroyed Neither were the Ditches of less strength that went about the Town for they were cut out of hard stones at least forty Cubits deep and two hundred and fifty Cubits broad which were impossible to have been won if God had not help'd and assisted the Romans filling up those Ditches with the Bodies of those that died of the Plague and Famin within the Town Of the Gates of Jerusalem IT had twelve Gates to go out and in Upon the East side lay five the first of which was the Fountain Gate which was so called of the Fountain Siloah And this stood close by the Gate of mount Sion in which Fountain the Man that was born blind wash'd himself at the Commandment of our Saviour and had his sight restored Ioh. 9. And at this Gate Christ came riding in upon an Ass when he came from Bethania on Palm Sunday 2. The Sheep-gate which was so called of the multitude of sheep that were driven in by it to be offered in the Temple for it stood hard by the Temple Right before this Gate stood Mount Olivet some half an English mile and a furlong from Ierusalem Eastward by it stood the Garden called Gethsemane where Christ was taken and led into the City through this Gate to be offered up like an innocent sheep for the sins of the whole World 3. The Dung-gate this took the name from a Dung-hill because the Rain-water coming with great power thâ—ough the City washed away the filth and with great violence carried it through this Gate into the Pool Cedron Not far from this Gate was the Water-gate and stood a little within it 4. The Valley Gate which took the Name of the Valley Iehosaphat and lay not far from the other Gate Hereabouts also stood the Dragon-gate 5. The Horse-gate and stood just in the joyning of the East and North-part of the City it took the name from the Kings Horses as appeareth Ier. 31. Neh. 3. The Gates upon the North. 6. The Corner Gate which stood North-west 2. King 14. 1 Ch. 26. Ier. 31. Zach. 14. 7. The Benjamin-gate so called because Men by this Gate went to the Borders of Benjamin in this Gate the Prophet Ieremy was Prisoner Ier. 37. 8. The Ephraim-gate by which they went to the Borders of Ephraim The Gates upon the West 9. The Rain-gate so called because the Rain-water cleansing the streets carried away all the Filth and so past through this Gate toward the West and there thrust it out of the City Neh. 12. 10. The Garden-gate before which the Garden stood wherein Christ was buried 11. The Old Gate before this Mount Calvary stood whereon Christ was Crucified 12. The Fish-gate so called because of Sea Fish that came in by it it was also called the Brick-gate Here the Prophet Ieremy broke an earthen Pitcher Ieremy 19. And out of this Gate they went to Bethlehem But on the South side there were no Gates for there Mount Sion stood which was so high and steep that no Man could go up upon it Of the Gates within the City THE Gate of Sion the Water-gate of which two I have already spoken The middle Gate Ieremy speaketh of cap. 19. and it is thought it stood in the middle of City in the Valley Cedron not far from the Tower called Mariamne The Iron Gate which opened of it self when the Angel led Peter out of Prison Acts 12. this stood in the City Walls passing from one Suburb into another all these Gates stood within the City And thus much shall suffice to have spoken of the Pourtraiture of it Of the Springs Valleys Fountains and other memorable Places as they were scituated near to the City and how to the four parts of the World IN the next place it resteth to shew what things worthy memory were about and stood near to the City the first of which was the Brook Cedron which sprung out of a Hill not far from it upon the South and with great swiftness ran through the East part of the City and so between Ierusalem and the Mount of Olives to the Valley-gate of Iehosaphat thence passing through the Cliffs of Mount Olivet it ran directly East till it came to the Dead Sea which Brook in the Summer time was most commonly dry The Water of it was something Black which colour the Valley Jehosaphat which was very fertile gave it and from thence it was called Nigrescens torrens a blackish stream This is mystically spoken of in 2 Sam. and Psa. 100. Where it is said He that is our Saviour Christ shall drink of the Brook in the way which he fulfilled when he made satisfaction for our Sins by his Death and Passion as it appeareth in the 69 Psalm Save me O God c. Into this Brook ran the Water of Silo and that which came out of the Temple Of the Mount of Olives and Bethania which signifies a House of Mourning THese two the one lay upon the East the other South-west about half an English Mile and a furlong from Jerusalem Of Bethania you may read in Nehemia Of the Hill Gihon GIhon stood before Jerusalem on the West side right against the Fish-gate and the Old gate 2 Chr. 22. Here King Solomon was Crowned 1. Kin. 1. Not far from this stood the Mount Golgatha where Christ was Crucified From whence may be observed That as Solomon upon that Hill was Crowned King so Christ upon this was Crucified our Saviour and the true Solomon that made everlasting peace between God and us From this Mount Gihon sprung the Fountain Gihon and thereabouts also was the Fullers Field 2 King 18. 2 Chron. 33. In which place Senacharib and other the Princes and Embassadors of the King of Assyria spake Blasphemous words against the Lord wherefore he slew 185 thousand of them as appeareth in the 2 King 19. Of the Valley of the Son of Hinnon THis Valley lyeth behind the City of Ierusalem Southward on the left hand as they went from Jerusalem to Bethlehem In this Valley the Jews set up an Idol of Copper like a King which they called Moloch that is a King of Idols This Copper Idolâ—stood with the Arms stretching out and under it there was a great Fire whereby the Image shewed fire-red and besides that the more to honour it they made a great Fire between two Walls which burnt for his sake and through this Fire the Idolatrous Priests cast living Children into Moloch's burning Arms which he with his Arms red hot burnt to Death And in this manner the Jews offered up their own Children to the Idol Moloch and when they did it they made a great noise and cry and beat upon a Drum that the Fathers when their Children were offered should not hear them cry by reason of the great noise of the Drums This Valley was called the Valley of Tophet for Tophet signifies a Drum This was a most gross and fearful Idolatry and
restrain offered to her Son hard Measure which Abraham upon her Complaint winked at whereupon Hagar partly oppress'd with Grief partly with Envy privily stole away from her Mistress and went from the Valley of Mâ—mre near Hebron to the Well of Life sixteen Miles Southward Genesis 16. and it is to be thought that her Journey tended towards Aegypt which was her native Country for this Well lay directly in the way as they went down into Egypt This flight of Hagar without doubt did greatly trouble Abraham's House and put him and his Wife into a great sorrow and fear lest she should destroy her self and the Infant or fall into some other Danger Wherefore that God might make evident the exceeding Care he had of them he sent an Angel unto Hagar and willed her to return unto her Master which Angel some think was the Son of God for he was called by the name of Iehovah Gen. 16. which name was not communicated to any created Angel Whereupon Hagar according to his Command went back again to her Mistress Sarah into the Valley of Mamre 16 miles Gen. 16. From Hebron Hagar went with her Mistress to that Kingly City Gerar six miles Gen. 20. At Gerar she and her Son Ismael were put out of her Masters house and going in the way that leadeth into Egypt they lost themselves in the Wilderness of Beersaba after they had travelled twelve miles from Gerar where oppress'd with want both of Water and other necessaries she fainted and her Son also wherefore she laid him under a Tree and about a Bows shoot off sate down and wept expecting nothing but death As she was in this misery God heard the voice of the Child and sent an Angel unto her saying Fear not for I will make of thy child a great Nation And God opened her eyes and lo close by her there was a Well so she went and filled her bottle and gave her Boy drink At this time Ismael was fifteen years of age So God blessed the Child and he became an Archer and lived in the Wilderness From thence she and her Son went into the Wilderness of Pharan eighty miles where Ismael married an Egyptian Gen. 21. So all the Travels of Hagar the Egyptian Maid were 132 miles Of the Fountain of Hagar which is also called the Well of Life THIS Well lieth between â—ared and Kades-Bernea ten miles from Ierusalem towards the South Some call it the Well of the Living and Seeing because God did there look mercifully upon Hagar when she fled from her Mistriss Here Isaac dwelt and had his two Sons Esau and Iacob Genes 26. Afterwards it was called the Well of the Living God and seemeth mystically to represent Baptism the Lavor of Grace and Regeneration by the operation and special working of the Spirit for the Church like Hagar with her Son Ismael travelling through the Wilderness of this World is press'd with a multitude of Sins and seeing her own misery finds no remedy but by Faith in Christ Jesus to be delivered from so heavy a Burthen wherefore they joyning together in Prayer crave the merciful audience and gracious assistance of God That it would please him of his goodness to refresh them with the Water of Life the Doctrine of Grace that so they may be made capable of eternal Glory For Hagar signifies a Pilgrim and Ismael a godly and good man whom the Lord heareth who travelling together with his Mother the Church in this World fighteth against the Enemies thereof and shooteth the Arrows of Faith against all infernal and cruel Beasts For Schamah signifies He hath heard and El The Almighty God who mercifully heareth the fervent Prayers and Petitions of the Just according to that of St. Iames ch 5. 15. Ismael was born Ann. Mundi 2035. Abraham being then 86 years of age He was circumcised at thirteen he went from his Father at fifteen he was at Abraham's Funeral being 89 years of age he died when he was 137 years of age fifty years after the death of Abraham and left behind him twelve Sons as Iacob did which were the Princes of their Families as was his Of which the Apostle Paul hath an excellent Allegory Abraham had two Sons one by the Bond-woman another by the Free-woman he that was of the Bond-woman was according to the Flesh but he that was of the Free-woman was by Promise By which things another thing is meant for the one which is Agar of Mount Sinai gendereth unto Bondage for Agar or Sinai is a Mountain in Arabia and answereth to Ierusalem that now is and she is in Bondage with her Children but Ierusalem which is above is free fâ—r it is written Rejoyce thou Barren c. Wherefore we are no more of the Bond-woman which is the Law but of the Free noâ— by our own Works or Righteousness but by Faith in Christ who maketh us Heirs of that Heavenly Ierusalem Where Ishmael dwelt PAran a City of Arabia the Stony stood an 104 miles from Ierusalem South-ward and taketh the name from fertility for Parah with the Hebrews signifies a fruitful root From this Metropolitan Town the Desart of Arabia the Stony near Cades taketh name of which mention is made Num. 13. and 14. Deut. 1. Gen. 14. 21. Habac. 3. and is called the Desart of Pharan Here Ishmael that excellent Archer and Hunter dwelt after that with great power and strength he had conquered all the Neighbouring Princes and People thereabout His Posterity also inhabited these Parts and after his name were called Ishmaelites some eighty miles from Ierusalem toward the South These People were excellent Souldiers and of noble courage their principal delight was shooting and therein they exceeded others living for the most part by Hunting and Pillage and so they continue to this day The Saracens who likewise had their abiding in those Parts were derived from that Family though they had rather take their name from Sara and from thence Saracens These are of the Opinion of the Turks The Travels of Eleazar the Servant of Abraham AFter Eleazar had sworn to his Master to take a Wife for his Son Isaac of the Generation of his Fathers he went from the Valley of Mamre near Hebron to Haran a City of Mesopotamia 468 miles off and there made a Contract with Rebecca the Daughter of Bethuel and Sister of Laban whom he took along with him and returned to his Master So that his Journey to and again was 944 miles These things happened in the Year of the World 2089 and before Christ 1879 Isaac then being forty years of age This Eleazar was Steward of Abraham's house and born at Damascus the chief City of Syria He was so called because God was his help Eleazar being a compound word of El and Ezaer which signifies Almighty God the helper From whence we may perceive that God is the Keeper of the Poor and a ready helper in time of Tribulation according to that in the Psalâ—s All they
dwelt Lastly he returned again with his Father and his Brother into Aegypt 208 miles These things happened in the year of the World 1239. and before Christ 1729. The Description of the Towns and places to which the Patriarch Juda travelled Of Odullam THIS was a Town in the Tribe of Juda eight miles from Jerusalem towards the South-west and signifies The Testimony of the Poor being derived of Ed which signifies a Testimony and Dallimo such as are called Poor Here David hid himself from the fury of Saul in a Cave 1 Sam. 22. Jerom knew this Town and saith that it was a Village This was a Type of the Faithful who being still subject to the calamities and miseries of this World and persecuted for Righteousness sake are glad with David to seek Holes and Caves to defend them from their wicked Persecuters Of Thimnah THimnah is a City in the borders of the Tribe of Judah and Dan scituated in Mount Ephraim six miles from Jerusalem towards the North-west and signifies a perfect and fully finished City being derived from Thamam that is fully and absolutely finished for it was adorned with many very fair and spacious Buildings set up by Joshua for in his time it was a fair and large City and at such time as the Children of Israel invaded Canaan he had much ado to win it Therefore the Children of Israel for his great Valour and to manifest their thankfulness towards him they gave it to him and to his Posterity for ever and here he lyeth buried Ioshua 24. Here Sampson married his wife and by the way killed the Lyon mentioned in the fourteenth of Iudges This is a Type of the Church wherein Christ Jesus the true Ioshuah is the Head illuminating the same by the bright shining beams of his Gospel the lustre whereof hath gone throughout the whole World Of the Travels of the Patriarch Joseph WHEN Ioseph was sent from Hebron by his father Jacob he went to Sichem to seek his brothers 60 miles Gen. 37. 2. From thence he went to Dothan four miles where by his Brothers he was thrown into a Pit and after sold to the Ishmaelites Gen. 37. 3. From Dothan he was carried to Tanis in Egypt and there sold to Potipher Pharaohs chief Steward 272 miles 4. From Tanis he went to meet his Father in the Land of Gosen which is 28 miles Gen. 46. 5. From thence he turned back again to Tanis and presented his Father and Brethren unto Pharaoh Gen. 47. which is 28 miles 6. From thence he went back to Ony to see his Father who now was sick unto death there receiving his Bleâ—sing he closed his eyes which was 28 miles 7. From thence he returned back again to Tanis which is 28 miles 8. From Tanis he went back to Ony with a great company of Horses and Chariots preparing an honourable Funeral for his Father Gen. 15. being 28 miles 9. From Ony he went to Atad which lies upon the further side of Jordan toward the East which is 240 miles where he made a great lamentation for the Death of his Father seven days Gen 50. The reason why Joseph went thus far about was because he went with such a company towards Hebron that the Idumaeans through whose Country he should have gone would not suffer him to pass that way standing in fear of his power 10. From Atad he went to Hebron the Metropolis of the Tribe of Judah near to which stood the double Cave in the Vale of Mamre where Jacob was buried which was 40 miles Gen. 50. 11. From thence to Heliopolis a City of the Aegyptians where Joseph set up a stately Academy for all Aegpyt which was accounted 200 miles 12. From thence he went to Tanis or Zoan which was the chief defence and Metropolitan City of all Aegyâ—t being accounted 6 miles So all the Travels of the Patriarch Ioseph was 1962 miles A Description of the Places and Cities through which Ioseph travelled Of Dothan DOTHAN was a City in the Tribe of Manasseh forty and four miles from Ierusalem towards the North and distant six miles from Tiberias towards the West and signifies a commandment being derived of Dothor Dathath that is he commandeth or ordaineth Here Joseph was thrust into an empty Ditch and sold to the Ishmaelites Gen. 37. Here Elias the Prophet being besieged by the Syrians shewed to his Servant the Host of Angels that defended him with the Chariots of Fire c. 2 King â—6 Here Holophernes was slain who had pitched his Tents against Bethulia for Dothan is a City which at this day remaineth at the foot of the Mount of Bethuel being scituated in a fertile and pleasant place compassed about with fair Vines Olives and pleasant Medows where the Inhabitants do shew that ancient Ditch wherein Ioseph was cast when his brothers sold him to the Ishmaelites according to that of Solomon One Generation passeth and another cometh but the Earth indureth for ever Of Heliopolis or the City of the Sun THIS City is called by the Prophet Esay chap. 19. Irheri which signifies The City of the Sun and is derived of Ir and Cheres which signifies The brightness of the Sun and distant from Ierusalem 224 miles towards the South-west six miles and a half from Zoan or Tanis This was a goodly City and in times past the Kings of Aegypt have in that place kept their Courts and places of residence Here was a flourishing Academy wherein was taught Astronomy Cosmography and many other Liberal Arts and Scienecs with great care and diligence but principally Divinity as Munster saith being adorned with many benefits and priviledges for it was thought that the Patriarch Ioseph was the first Founder of it and taught there Gen. 47. Here dwelt Dionisius the Areopagit a Student of Athens who at such time as our Saviour Christ was crucified at Noon day the Moon then being in the full seeing the Sun totally darkened said to his Master Apollophan Either the God of Nature suffereth or the Fabrick of the World is dissolved The said Dionisius was afterwards converted by the Apostle Paul in the City of Athens Of Goraen Atad THIS Town or Corn-floor was beyond Iordan not far from Bethabara 16 miles from Ierusalem towards the South-east Here Ioseph and therest of the Aegyptians bewailed the Death of Iacob and took the name from Thorns and Briers that compassed it every where about The Interpretation or Allegory of the Patriarch Joseph and of his Life JOSEPH was a type of Christ divers ways for as Iosephs Coat being of divers colours was dipped in the Blood of Goats so Christ being very God taking upon him the Humane Nature and sprinkled with the Blood of his stripes and wounds being the Lamb of God slain for the sins of the World was also made changeable and of divers Colours Again as Ioseph was sent by Iacob to seek his Brethren so Christ was sent by God his Father to seek the lost sheep of Israel which according to the
King by the Tribe of Iudah in the year of the World 2891 and before Christ 1077. Here he kept his Court seven years and six months From hence also he sent Messengers to Iabes in Gilead forty four miles to signifie his gracious acceptance of that favour which they shewed unto Saul in burying of his Body there 2 Sam. 1. 1 Chr. 12. From Hebron David went to Ierusalem twenty two miles which then was called Iebus being possessed of the Iebusites but he won it with strong hand and thrust them out of it and in Mount Sion set up the City Millo which was afterward called the City of David and signifies a place of Plenty He began his Reign in Ierusalem in the thirty eighth year of his Age and seventh of his Reign In this place also he set up his House made of Cedar-wood of which Hâ—ram King of Tyrus sent him great Plenty from Mount Libanus distant from thence 104 miles 2 Sam. 5. 1 Ch. 12. From thence he went to the Valley of Rephaim some three miles from Ierusalem in the way that leadeth to the City of Bethlem where he fought a memorable Fight against the Philistines and overcame them for which cause it was also called Baal-Perizim because by the Help and Assistance of God he had conquered the Army of the Philistines 1 Sam. 5. After he had dispersed the Enemies he returned to Ierusalem which is â—our miles The Philistines came the same Year into the Valley of Rephaim again and pitched their Tents within three miles and a half of Ierusalem and the Lord gave David a sign that when he heard a noise in the Mulberry-trees he should set upon the Enemy so David went forth and close by the Town of Gaeba and Kirjath-jearim about two miles from Ierusalem West-ward he set upon the Enemy and gave them the second Overthrow 2 Samuel 5. 1 Chr. 15. From thence David followed the Enemy to Gaza which was eighteen miles 2 Sam. 5. in the tenth Year of his Reign from his first beginning in Hebron David assembled all the Princes Priests and chief men of Israel to the number of 30000 which inhabited from Sechor till you come to Chaemah a City of Naphtali at the foot of Mount Libanus even 163 miles off These men assembled themselves in the City of Ierusalem and from thence they with David went to Kirjath-jearim which was about a mile to fetch the Ark of the Covenant from thence into the City of David 1 Sam. 6. 1 Chr. 14. From Kirjath-jearim David and all his Train returned back again to Ierusalem which was about a mile and they placed the Ark of the Lord in a new Cart and caused it to be drawn with Oxen which turned out of the way to the threshing-floor of Nachon where Vzza rashly and inconsiderately touching the Ark of God contrary to the Divine Law was presently slain by the Lord in the way and that place was called Paeri-Vza that is The Breach of Uza for he was not of the Tribe of Aaron to whom it was only lawful to touch the Ark and therefore the Lord struck him that he died miserably wherefore David being terrified by this example of God's Severity would not that day bring the Ark of the Lord into Ierusalem but carried it to the House of a certain Noble-man called Obed Aedom a Gittite who dwelt not far from Ierusalem but when it was told David that the Lord blessed the House of Obed Aedom and all his Family because the Ark was there David went from Ierusalem with a great multitude of People to the House of Obed Aedom who as is said before dwelt not far from Ierusalem yet there are some that say he was an excellent Musician in Ierusalem and dwelt in Mount Acra that is in the lower City and from thence David fetch'd the Ark of the Lord into the upper City which stood upon Mount Sion but I hold the other Opinion to be the more probable When the Ark was carried by the Priests David girt himself with a linnen Ephod which kind of Garment the Priests of the inferiour Order used to wear and danced before it singing Psalms and Hymns to the praise and glory of God and with great State brought it to the City of Ierusalem with the sound of Trumpets and Instruments of Musick and placed it in the middle of the Tabernacle which they had curiously erected in Mount Sion in the upper City which was also called the City of David This hapned in the tenth year of his Reign at which time Saul's Daughter despised him in her Heart and laughed at him but God gave her a due Recompence as you may read 2 Sam. 6. and him a just Reward for he promised by the Prophet Nathan That of his Posterity and Blood the King of Kings and Saviour of the World should be born In the Year following David invaded the Land of the Philistines and the City of Gath which with strong hand he won this was thirty four miles from Ierusalem From thence he returned back to Ierusalem 34 miles In the twelfth Year of his Reign he afflicted the Moabites with cruel War and destroyed two of their Armies with the Sword and the rest of the multitude he made Tributary which was 24 miles 2 Sam. 8. 1 Chr. 9. He returned thence to Ierusalem with great Triumph and Joy twenty four miles In the thirteenth year of his Reign Anno Mundi 2903. and before Christ 1065 he made an Expedition unto Zoba which Iosephus calleth Sophenam and is in Armenia near to Masia or Mount Taurus 600 miles from Ierusalem toward the North of which you may read before David in this place won a memorable Battel against Hadad Ezer the King thereof near to the River Euphrates he took 700 Horse and 20000 Foot burnt their Chariots took 100 Castles conquered all the Towns and Country round about and went away with a great Booty as well of Gold as Silver Brass and other things which Brass for the Excellency thereof was like unto Gold and as Iosephus saith afterwards Solomon made the Molten Sea of it When Gadarezer King of the Syrians he that built that famous City of Damascus heard of the overthrow of Hadad-Ezer he sent a great Army to his Aid which King David near to the River Euphrates smote with the Sword so that 20000 of them were slain and he carryed away a glorious Victory extending his Government from Ierusalem 600 miles towards the North that is into Armenia and beyond the River Euphrates and made these two Nations tributary unto him 2 Samuel 8. 1 Chr. 19. After David had won these two memorable Victories near Euphrates he went thence with all his Army towards the South and invaded the Land of Syria in which Journey Ioram the Son of Tohi King of Antiochia which City at this time was called Hemath met David with Gifts and Presents in the Name of his Father returning him many Thanks because he had destroyed the common Enemy
to Mount Olivet for refuge being brought to a streight so Christ upon Mount Olivet his Heart being prest with an intolerable Agony fled to his Father by Prayer for comfort in that extremity Tenthly as all the Friends and Familiars of David forsook him at such time as Absalom rebelled against him and followed him with Persecutions Mocks and Taunts so Christ at such time as Iudas betrayed him into the hands of the Iews was forsaken of all his Followers and many of those which a little before he had done good unto mocked and derided him as he was upon the Cross. Lastly as David was restored notwithstanding the former miseries and troubles to his ancient Glory and Eminency so Christ after he had suffered the due punishment for Sin Death and before that extream Misery yet at length conquered both and by his Divine Power restored himself to his former estate Eternal Glory The Travels of Abner one of Sauls Captains HE went with King Saul from Gibeah to the Wilderness of Ziph which was twenty two miles Here he was rebuked by David for his negligence From thence he returned to Gibeah twenty two miles 1 Sam 31. From thence he travelled to the Hill Gilboa where Saul killed himself forty miles From thence he went to Machanaim where he made Ishbosheth Sauls Son King who kept his Court there seven Years sixteen miles 2 Sam. 2. From thence he went to Gibeon where he slew Asahel Ioabs Brother in Battel which was forty four miles 2 Sam. 2. From thence he went over Iordan to Bythron twenty eight miles From thence he went back to Machanaim sixteen miles 2 Sam. 2. â—astly he went thence to Hebron to David and made a Covenant with him where he was treacherously Slain by Ioab and was sixty eight miles So all the Travels of Abner were 256 miles Of Bithron BIthron or Betharan was a Town beyond Iordan in the Tribe of Gad some 28 miles from Ierusalem North-eastward lying between Dibon and Iordan It taketh the name from a House of singing being derived of Baith which signifies a House and Ron He sung joyfully The Travels of Joab David's Captain was the Son of David's Sister for he had two Zerviah and Abigal Zerviah had Ioab Abishai and Asael Abigal had only Amasa all which were great men in King David's time Now when Ioab heard that Abner had brought down his Army to Gibeon he went from Hebron thither which was 24 miles and there his Brother Asahel was slain 2 Sam. 2. From thence he went to Bethlehem 16 miles where he buried his Brother 2 Sam. 2. From thence he returned to Hebron 20 miles Here under the Gates of the City he traiterously killed Abner 2 Sam. 3. From thence he went with David to Ierusalem where he won Sion and drave thence the blind and the lame being 82 miles From thence he went with his Army against the Ammonites and Syrians whom he conquered in a cruel Fight 60 miles 1 Sam. 20. From thence he returned back to Ierusalem 60 miles From thence he went with David into Idumaea 160 miles from Ierusalem Southward there he won the Town of Midian and conquered the Idumaeans or Edomites 2 Sam. 8. From thence he returned to Ierusalem with his Army being 160 miles From thence he went and besieged Rabba the Metropolitan City of the Ammonites being sixty four miles from Ierusalem North-eastward Here Vriah was slain 2 Sam. 11. From thence he returned to Ierusalem with King David 64 miles From thence he went into the Kingdom of Gesur which lieth beyond Iordan upon Mount Libanus by the Town of Caesarea Philippi some eighty miles from Ierusalem North-eastward This Country was called Trachonites From this Land Ioab brought Absalom again to Ierusalem 2 Sam. 14. From thence he returned back again with Absalom to Ierusalem eighty eight miles From thence he went with David when he fled from his Son Absalom to Machanaim being forty four miles Not far from hence he slew Absalom 2 Sam. 18. From thence he came again with King David to Ierusalem 44 miles 2 Sam. 10. From thence he went to Gibeah where he killed Amasa which was four miles From thence he went to the Town of Abel-Bethmaacha in the Tribe of Naphtali being about 88 miles This Town he straightly besieged From thence he went again to Ierusalem 88 miles Afterward he went as David commanded him to number the People at Aroer a Town beyond Iordan which was 24 miles 2 Sam. 24. From thence he went to Iaezer which is sixteen miles From thence going through the Land of Gilead and passing by the Territories of the lovver Country of Hadsi he came to the Town of Dan near to the place vvhere the Fountains of Iordan are which is accounted 116 miles From thence he went to that famous Mart Town Sidon which was 24 miles From that great Tovvn Sidon he went to the Walls of Tyre to which place great multitudes of Ships resorted which was 16 miles From thence he went toward the South till he came to the City Beersaba which was the utmost Bounds of the Holy Land South-vvestvvard and vvas reckoned 132 miles From thence he returned back to Ierusalem where he delivered to David the number of those that were chosen Souldiers 2 Sam. 24. but the Lord struck the Country and City of Ierusalem with a great Plague because he did contrary to his Command 2 Sam. 24. So all the Travels of Ioab were 1348 miles The Description of the places to which he travelled MAny of those Cities mentioned in the Travels of Ioab are already described and set forth therefore I account it needless in this place again to repeat them but only such Towns as yet have not been mentioned Of Gesur GEsur was a Country near to Caesarea Philippi in the Land of Basan beyond Iordan near Libanus in the Tetrarchy Trachonitides 88 miles from Ierusalem North-eastward With the King of this Country Absalom remained in Banishment for three years space after he had slain his Brother Ammon and with us may be termed the Valley of Oxen 2 Sam. 13. Of Hadsi THE lower Country of Hadsi stood near to the City Corazin in the half Tribe of Manasses fifty two miles from Ierusalem toward the North-east and signifies a new Land being derived of Chadasch that is New Of the Fountain Rogel THIS was near Ierusalem Eastward to which place Ionathan and Ahimaaz David's Intelligencers brought him News of Absalom's Counsels and Intentions 2. Sam. 17. It seemeth that Travellers usually washed their Feet in it from whence it was called the Well of Feet being derived from Raegael signifying a Foot Near to this place was the Stone Zochaeleth where Adonijah at such time as he affected the Kingdom contrary to his Fathers liking called an Assembly and made a great Feast 1 Reg. 1. The Travels of Baena and Rechab THese two went out of the Tribe of Beniamin over Iordon to Machanaim 40 miles There they murthered their Master King Ishbosheth in his Chamber
caused them to be worshipped For after the end of these years according to the Prophecy of Ezekiel caâ— 4. the Sins of Ieroboam should be grievously punished upon the People of Iudah In the like manner from the end of the thirteenth year of Iosiah wherein Ieremie first began to Prophecy until this year in which the Children of Israel were carried away Captive into Babylon are numbred forty years which by Ezek. cap. 4. are called the years of the Iniquity of Iudah because so long the Iews did contemn and despise the admonition of the Prophet Ieremie Of Babylon HOw far this City stood from Ierusalem you may read before which by the Chaldaeans is called Shinear or Sinear and signifies To strike upon the Teeth being derived of Schen A tooth and Naer to strike It may also be taken for that when a man endeavoured with all speed to execute a thing which seems to resemble the condition of Nimrod for that in this place he endeavoured to overcome and conquer all his Neighbours from whence this Land was called Casdius that is The Country of the Destroyer So changing S into L it is called Chaldeus or Chaldaea The Chief and Metropolitan City of which Country was this Babylon built some thirty years after the Floud by Nimrod or the Babylonian Saturn the first great Commander of the World according to Berosus lib. 4. who writeth after this manner Nimrod which was accounted the Son of Iupiter Belus being angry with the Holy Priests of that great God Iehovah came with his Colony and People into the Field of Sinear where he built a City and laid the Foundation of a great Tower 131 years after the Flood and raised this Tower to such a height and withal of such a hugeness that it seemed as if it had been some great Mountain because he would have the Babylonian People accounted the chiefest and greatest in the World also their Governour the King of Kings A little after he saith he built this Tower but before he could finish it dyed in the fifty sixth year after he began it wherefore the City and Tower of Babylon according to the Opinion of Berosus was begun in Anno Mundi 1788 which was 131 years after the Flood and before Christ 2180. There were two causes wherefore the Children of Men built up this Tower first that they might get them a name secondly that they might be safe in case there came another Flood to drown the World It was made of Brick and Bittum lest the Water should loosen it But the Lord turned their Enterprises into evil and divided their Language so that they could not understand one another whereby they were constrained to leave off their building from whence it happened that their Minds Manners Understandings Studies and principal Actions were utterly changed and is the Foundation of all discord and sedition where the fear of God and the true knowledge of Christ doth not prevent it From this division of Tongues it is called the City of Babylon this is the City of Division being derived of the word Balal he hath confounded or mingled together Of this City you may read in Ios. lib. I. cap. 9. where he bringeth in a saying of the Sibyls which was That when all Nations were of one Language they built an exceeding high Tower as though they would have ascended by it into Heaven but the Lord with great tempest and dividing their Tongues subverted their enterprize from whence it was called Babylon This City was the fairest in those times of all others scituated in a spacious Plain upon every side whereof there stood pleasant Orchards and Gardens it was built four square conpassed about with Walls of incredible strength and greatness being fifty Cubits thick and 200 high beautified within with goodly Buildings fair Temples richly gilt with Gold and wonderful to look upon It was in compass 380 Furlongs as Strabo saith which make forty eight miles Through it ran the River Euphrates by which all things necessary were conveyed to the City without it was compassed with fair Ditches fill'd with water like Rivers and in the Wall there stood a hundred Gates Herodotus saith that it was 480 Furlongs about which make sixty miles English but that is not so credible The first Founder of this City was Nimrod who in those times was the chief Commander of the World It is thought that he was the Son of Cham the Son of Noah whose name signifies a cruel Governour or an unmerciful Tyrant And that his Actions might be according to the signification of his name he is branded with most perspicious notes of Cruelty omitting no violent action whereby he might inlarge his Dominions incroaching upon other mens Governments through a thirsty and ambitious desire of Renown without respect of Equity or Humanity And to add evil to evil committed many outrages upon such as were accounted good men and the Priests of the great God Iehovah from whence there grew in him a more than humane resolution accounting himself in this World a God and thorough this opinion grew into contempt of all good things compelling such as were his Subjects and Vassals to do him Worship and Reverence as to a Divine Power which being ingrafâ—ed into the hearts of such as followed in succeeding Ages they countenanced it with Authority from whence it came to pass that he was inrolled into the number of their principal Gods giving him the name of Saturn whom the Hebrews called Sudormin which elegantly implyeth Saturn Berosus saith that the Babylonian Iupiter succeeded this Nimrod whose Authority I am willing to follow to avoid prolixity This man so much inlarged the City that many in succeeding ages have attributed the foundation thereof unto him He ruled over it sixty one years After him succeeded Ninus or as some would have it Nimrod the second who began his Reign Anno Mundi 1909 before Christ 2061 he did many worthy Acts during his life and added to the Empire of Babylon many Provinces and after he had reigned fifty years dyed and was buried in Babylon After him succeeded Semiramis his Wife who took upon her the Government of the Assyrian Empire her Son Ninus being then within age and she began her Government Anno Mundi 1959 before Christ 2009. She was one of the manliest and resolute Women that we read of and performed as many worthy and memorable Actions This Queen built her Sepulchre over the most eminent Gate of Babylon in a publick and perspicious place upon which she caused to be written in Golden letters If there be any King of Babylon that shall come after me and stand in need of Money let him open this Sepulchre and what soever he wanteth he shall find but before it will not be good for him to touch it This notwithstanding it continued till the Reign of Darius who opened this Monument in hope to find what the Superscription imported but no Mony was there to be had only within
might plainly be seen ingraven other Letters to this effect Vnless thou hadst been unâ—â—tiably Covetous thou wouldst never have opened the Graves of the Dead in hope of gain This Woman beautified Babylon with many goodly Buildings built up the Walls thereof set a Bridge over Euphrates made a beautiful Orchard and a Garden in it beautified it with many goodly Towers and Fortifications added unto it many Provinces and Governments and after all because of her own lascivious Appetite as Sallust saith was murthered by her Son Ninus who succeeded her in the Government There were many other memorable things within this City that were built before and after her time as Herodotus saith as that great and mighty Tower before remembred in which stood the Temple of Baelus and his Sepulchre Not far from that stood a Chappel wherein was the Statue of Iupiter all of pure Gold worth 800 Talents of Gold Without that Chappel there stood an Altar of pure Gold upon which they yearly offered 100000 Talents of Frankincense There was another also somewhat less upon which they used to offer their Sacrifices for it was not lawful for them to offer any thing that had life upon the greater Altar there stood also in that place another Statue twelve cubits high all of pure Gold This City was after taken by Cyrus the first Emperour of the Persians An. Mundi 3432. before Christ 536 in the seventieth year after the Captivity of Israel and Iudah according to the Prophecy of Ieremy at which time the City was so great that they which dwelt in the middle of it did not know that the Enemy had entered within the Walls at the farther end which might happen because upon that day when it was taken the Babylonians celebrated a Feast unto Venus in which using extraordinary diligence they were less mindful of such things as hapned unto them Thus this City that with great Tyranny had triumphed over the Nations of the earth for the space of 1600 years being so plentifully furnished with all things necessary for the maintenance of life that the Inhabitants thereof contemned all other People was by God's permission for their pride and presumption wasted and consumed by Cyrus as you have heard and shortly after utterly destroyed by Xerxes the fourth Emperour of the Persians and so continueth to this day as Strabo saith Where then O World is thy Prosperity or Riches thy glory since in the one thou art consumed in the other lest desolate Of the Ruines of old Babylon that are extant at this day BAbylon which as you have heard reigned over the Nations of the Earth like a Queen at this day hath nothing to present you withall but an heap of stones out of the Ruins whereof there was built a little Town close by where it stood called Elugo or Felugo scituated upon the Bank of the River Euphrates Not far from which it seems there is a profitable Harbour for Ships where Merchants often times go a shore and travel thence through many Woods and desart places unto Seleucia which at this day is called by the Turks Bagdeth distant thence some thirty six miles and is the utmost Town of the Turkish and Persian Empires towards the East being divided in the midst by the River Tygris Some Merchants have reported That the place where Babylon stood is become stony unfruitful and unpleasant because of the Ruins of the destroyed buildings which lye in the Earth Also That there is found a Tower built of a black stone which to outward appearance seems to have been a very goodly house high and eminent so that upon the top thereof a man might have seen through the whole City This Tower the Inhabitants of Felugo call the Tower of Daniel in which was the Chamber where he used to pray to the Lord three times a day the Windows whereof looked towards Ierusalem Dan. 6. There is also to be seen divers Arches of the Bridge which Semiramis built standing upon the River Euphrates and the foundation of the great Tower whose top should have reached to Heaven being in compass two miles but not very high Within the Ruins whereof are found certain Serpents very noisom and venemous about the bigness of a Lizard having three heads and spect with divers colours which the Inhabitants call Eglones There are such a multitude of them that no man dares approach within half a mile of it any time but in the Winter season nor then neither but for the space of a Month in which time these Serpents for the extremity of the cold are constrained to keep their holes Thus as this Tower was hateful to God in the beginning so likewise hath he made it hurtful unto man even to this day The Travels of the Babylonian and Assyrian Kings and Emâ—erours that fought against Israel and Judah And first of Phul Belochus King of Assâ—ria PHul Belochus that is he returned wasting began to reign among the Babylonians Anno Mundi 3149. before Christ 819 and governed forty eight years This King or Emperour came from Babylon to Samaria which was 660 miles There he so streightly besieged Menahem King of Israel that he was constrained to give him 1000 talents of Silver to raise his Siege and depart 2 Reg. 15. From Samaria he returned back again to Babylon 660 miles So all Travels of Phul Belochus were 1320 miles The Travels of Tiglat Phulasser King of the Assyrians TIglat Phulasser signifies the Assyrian Conquerour He was also called Tiglath Philasser 2 Reg. 15. which name is attributed to him either because he carried away the Children of Israel captives or else because of the Conquest that he had of all Galilee and over the Tribe of Naphtaly which he carried into Assyria He succeeded his father Phul Belochus in the Government of the Assyrians An. Mundi 3197. before Christ 771. and reigned twenty five years When Reâ—n King of the Assyrians joyning his Army with Pekah Son of Remalia King of Israel had streightly besieged Ierusalem Ahaz was constrained to crave aid of this Tiglath Phulasser and sent him great Presents which he accepted kindly and brought his Army from Niniveh to Damascus 520 miles where he put Reâ—n and the whole City to the Sword 2 Reg. 16. From Damascus he came with his Army into the land of Israel which was 120 miles where he overcame Pekâ—h in a great Battel conquered all the land of Gilead and the tribe of Naphtaly and put a great multitude of the Israelites into perpetual Exile 2 Reg. 15. From thence he went back to Niniveh 640 miles A little after this King Tiglath Phulasser went from Niniveh to Ierusalem 680 miles where he so streightly besieged that wicked King Ahaz that he was constrained to give him great abundance of Gold and Silver to raise his Siege and be gone 2 Chr. 28. From Ierusalem he returned back to Niniveh being 680 miles So all his Travels were 6640 miles Of the City Niniveh you may read
Son King he returned back again to Babylon 680 miles About three Months after he went the third time back to Ierusalem 680 miles for he feared Iechonias would rebell and revenge the death of his Father Ioachim 2 Kin. 24. In the eighth year of his Reign he took Iechonias Mardoche and 3000 other Iews of the Nobility and carried them captive to Babylon which was 680 miles 2 Kin. 2. Chr. 36. Est. 2. Nine years after he came the fourth time to Ierusalem being 680 miles and besieged the City because of the Impiety and Rebellion of Zedekiah King thereof During this Siege he took divers Towns but chiefly Lachis and Aseka Ier. 34. But when he understood that Pharaoh was coming with an Army out of Egypt to rescue Zedekiah he raised his Camp and went about eighty miles into the Countrey of Egypt which Pharaoh hearing was abashed and turned back again In the absence of this Emperour Ieremy the Prophet being then within the City having foretold the Destruction thereof would have fled thence for his better safety into the Tribe of Benjamin but by the way he was taken in the Gate of Benjamin and cast into Prison Ier. 7. Within a while after according to the Prophecy of Ieremy Nebuchadnezzar returned out of the Desart of Sur whither he went to meet the Aegyptians being eighty miles and utterly destroyed the City of Ierusalem carrying thence the Vessels and Ornaments of the Temple to Babylon 2 Kin. 25. 2 Chr. 36. From Ierusalem he went to Riblah in the Tribe of Naphtaly eighty miles where he put out Zedekia's eyes and kill'd his Children 2 Kin. 25. From Riblah he carried Zedekiah to Babylon which was 600 miles where he died miserably in Prison 2 Kin. 25. Afterward Nebuchadnezzar went with his Army from Babylon to Tyrus which he won and pittifully wasted with Fire and Sword according to the Prophecy of Ezekiel cap. 26. being 600 miles From Tyrus he went to Aegypt and passed 480 miles through that Kingdom conquering all the Countries and Provinces as he went along even the Ammonites the Moabites Philistines Idumaeans and Aegypt it self all which Countries he made Tributary to him Isa. 15 16 19. Ier. 46 47 48 49. Ez. 25. 29. From Aegypt he returned to Babel 960 miles From that time till his death he was Emperour of all those Kingdoms In the second year of his Empire Daniel expounded unto him his wonderful Dream under the similitude of an Image setting forth the condition of the four Monarchies of the World Dan. 2. Not long after he caused Sidrack Misack and Abednego to be cast in a Fiery Furnace because they refused to worship the golden Image which he had set up Dan. 3. Also this Nebuchadnezzar for his great Pride and Arrogancy was by God strucken mad and into a deep melancholy in which disease he continued for the space of seven years tied in Bonds and Chains running up and down like a Beast and seeding upon Grass and Roots until he came to understand that God the Governour of Heaven and Earth had the disposing of Kingdoms and Governments giving them to whom he list and again taking them away At the end of which time he was restored again to his understanding and Empire and after beautified the City of Babylon with many goodly Buildings fair Orchards and pleasant places as Iosep. lib. Ant. 10. â—aith And when he had reigned forty three years died and was buried by his Father in Babylon An. Mundi 3387. and before Christ 581. So all the Travels of Nebuchadonozor or Nebuchadnezzar were 7892 miles The Description of the Cities and Places that have not as yet been mentioned Of Carchemis THIS was a City in the Country of Syria near Euphrates 400 miles from Ierusalem North-ward and signifies A sacrificed Lamb being derived of Car which signifies a Ram or Lamb and Mosch He hath cut in pieces It may also be taken in the third Conjugation for a Lamb sacrificed to the Idol Chemosch or Chamos the God of Meetings or nightly Salutations Of Pelusio THIS City Peluso was built by Peleus the Father of Achilles from whence it took the name It stands in Egypt some 172 miles from Ierusalem South-westward near to the Gate of Nilus called Pelusiachus where it falleth into the Mediterranean Sea Not far from this City in the Mountain Casius upon the Borders of Arabia-Petraea where the Temple of Iupiter Casius stood is to be seen the Tomb of Pompey the Great beautified and adorned by Adrianus Caesar as Capitolinus saith At this day this City is called by the name of Damiata You may read of it Ezek. cap. 30. Of Tyrus or Zor TYrus signifieth Cheese or to congeal together as Cheese doth of milk something alluding to the Hebrew word Zor signifying to make strait or a Rock having a strait and sharp Edge It was the Metropolitan City of Phoenicia now the Haven or Passage of Sur but in ancient time it was called Sarra Aul. Gel. lib 14. cap. 6. It was scituated upon a very high Rock compassed about with the Mediterranean Sea 100 miles from Ierusalem Northward and a famous Mart Town for all the Holy Land By the description of Ezekiel it seems to have been like unto Venice both in Scituation and Dignity Ez. 27. Ierem. 28. Esay 27. 28. and many other Prophets prophesied against this Town saying Out of the Land of Kithim that is from Macedonia the Destroyer of Tyrus should come As after hapned for Alexander the Great King of Macedon besieged that Town and in the seventh Month after took it for the obtaining whereof he was constrained to fill up the Sea which compassed it about containing 700 Paces and made it firm Land for his Army to pass upon to the Walls of the City In this Country that famous Civilian Vlpian was born as he writeth lib. 1. ff de Censibus And upon the Borders of Tyrus and Sidon Christ cured the Daughter of a Canaanitish Woman of a Devil Mat. 15. Wherefore you shall read more of it in the second Tomb. Of Evil Merodach Emperour of the Babylonians and Assyrians AMilinus Evil-Merodach Son of Nebuchadonosor the Great succeeded his Father An. Mun. 3388. before Christ 580. In the first year of his Reign he set at liberty Iechonias King of Iuda and attributed to him the Title Dignity and Maintenance of a King Iechonias being then fifty five years of age and thirty seven after he had been in Captivity 2 King ult Ier. ult Whence it is concluded by most That this Emperour did also embrace the Doctrine of Daniel concerning the true God as did Nebuchadonosor his Father who had before by publick Edict professed it to the whole State and caused it to be published through his Dominions and therefore shewed favour and mercy toward King Iechonias And from thence it is thought that those which were impious Princes about him called him Amelinus that is the Circumcised being derived of Mol which signifies to circumcise and Evil simple
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
imitate the steps of their Prince fell to firing the City and according to the custom of Souldiers in such Massacres made a Prey of what they could get increasing the fire with dry stuff and other Combustible matter whereby it came to pass that the whole City was therewâ—th fired and burnt to the ground This was the end of that mighty City which ruled over so many Nations where so many mighty Princes governed that was the scourge of Grecia and the greatest part of the World that sent forth a Navy of 10000 Ships and an Army of an infinite number there being an infinite number there being at this day nothing to be seen unless the River Araxes that ran close by it remaineth Thus was that consumed in a fury which the King and all his Army before endeavoured to spare But after it turned to the great shame of the Macedonians that their King should fire so famous a City in the midst of his Cups and Alexander himself after he had slept repented what he had done You shall find in 2 Mac. cap. 6. That Antiochus Epiphanes besieged a certain City in Persia called Persepolis from whence for his exceeding Covetousness and Sacriledge he was forced by the Inhabitants dwelling about the Town to raise his Siege and be gone Therefore some may gather that this Persepolis before mentioned was rebuilded because it also stood in Persia but if you read 1 Mac. cap. 6. you shall find that this City so besieged by Antiochus was also called Elymais wherein stood the Temple of Diana beautified with many goodly Ornaments shining with the splendor of fine Gold wherewith it was gilt In which Temple as saith Iosephus lib. Ant. 12. Alexander the Great left his Armour and other things From whence may be gathered that this Town was not the Persepolis which he caused to be burn'd but rather some other Town built out of the Ruines of that City according to the opinion of Quintus Curtius or else some Village standing near to it which being built up and enlarged might of some be called new Persepolis though indeed it was anciently called Elymais and all the East part of Persia beyond Susa of that Town called Elematica having some affinity with Elam the ancient name of Persia so called of Elam the Son of Sem Gen. 10. Wherefore it may well be concluded that that Persepolis burnt down by Alexander was never restored but lieth waste to this day Thus the Empire of the Persians after they had ruled over the Nations of the Earth 260 years was conquered by the Grecians who held it 129 years At the end of which time Demetrius Nicanor the last Emperour of the Grecians in Syria and Asia going with a great Army out of Syria toward the East Arsaces King of the Medes and Parthians being aided by the Citizens of Elymais the Persians and Bactrians meeting him in those parts gave him many sharp and cruel Battels and in the end under the pretence of Peace took him Prisoner in the year before Christ 137. and from that time the Parthians governed Persia and Grecia and opposed the Romans in many cruel Battels Afterward in the year of our Lord 226 Artaxerxes that mighty Lord of Persia overcame Artabanus King of the Parthians in a mighty Battel and took his Crown from his head the same year entring upon the Goverment of Persia 548 years after the death of Alexander the Great from which time Artaxerxes and his Posterity reigned in Persia for the Space of 314 years in the which space there succeeded twenty eight Kings viz. Artaxerxes 1. Sapores Ormisdates Vararanes Vararanes 2. Vararanes 3. Narses Misdates Sapores 2. Artaxerxes 2. Sapores 3. Vararanes 4. Cermazat sir-named Isdigertes Vararanes 5. Vararanes 6. Perozes Valens Cavades Zambades Cavades 2. Cosroes Hormisda Cosroes 2. Siroes Adhasir Sarbaras Bornarim Hormisda 2. who was the last King of the Persians for being overcome by Humarus Amiras of the Saracens and third Emperour of the Mahumetans he was thrown out of his Kingdom Anno Dom. 640. After which time it continued long in the Government of the Saracens and Turks Where that holy Priest Mattathias the Father of Judas Machabeâ—s dwelt MAttathias and Dorotheus have both one signification that is The Gift of God being derived of Matath a Gift and Iah God This Mattâ—thias was a Holy Priest of the Tribe of Levi the Son of Iohn the Son of Simon of whom all that Family was called the Posterity of Simon of the Stock of Ioarib of whom you may read 1 Chr. 15. He dwelt in a Town called Modin fourteen miles from Ierusalem toward the North-West scituated in a Mountain close by the way as you go to Ioppa in the Tribe of Dan. Modin signifieth a Measure being derived of Madad he hath measured In this place seeing the cruelty of Antiochus Epiphanes and the Insolence of his Souldiers he killed one of his Captains and afterward in the Synagogue put to death an Idolatrous Iew overthrew the Altar set up by Antiochus after called forth all the Inhabitants of Modin and other Towns near adjoyning to withstand the fury of this King So they brought their Goods out of the City into the Wilderness where they incamped themselves and after so manfully opposed Antiochus that he delivered all the Cities and Towns thereabouts out of his Bondage and from Idolatry But being now grown old after he had admonished his Sons to Constancy in the Service of God and Courage in Defence of the Country he died in the year before Christ 164 and was buried at Modin where afterward his Sons were buried Simon his third Son high Priest of Ierusalem did marvellously beautifie this Sepulchre for he made a Vault of white Marble compassed about with fair Pillars which supported an admirable curious Arch to see to as if it had been one stone Over this Vault in convenient places he built seven Pyramids in memory of his Father Mother his four Brethren and himself In the Circumference of this Monument he set up fair Marble Pillars upon which he caused to be ingraven Ships so artificially that they which sailed upon the Sea might see them and upon these he placed the Arms of his Father and of his Brethren You may read more of this 1 Mach. 13. Ioseph Antiq. lib. 12. cap. 9. The Travels of Judas Macchabeus JVdas Macchabeus succeeded his Father Mattathias in the year before Christ 164 Anno Mundi 3804. and ruled six years Immediately after his Father's death who as is said was buried in Modin he led his Army against Apollonius chief â—aptain of Antiochus who at that time was in Samaria which was thirty miles here he overcame Apollonius and killed him with his own Sword 2 Mac. 2 3. When Seron who was also one of Antiochus's chief Captains in Syria the lower heard that Iudas Macchabeus had overcome Apollonius and put him to death he was very angry and said I will go and conquer Judas Machabeus and those that
Mac. 5. 2 Mac. 22. From Astaroth-Carnaim he went to Ephron being 16 miles this City Iudas Macchabeus destroyed because the Inhabitants thereof denied him Passage and went through it over the dead Bodies 2 Mac. 5. Here Gideon Judge of Israel sometime dwelt it took the Name from the rising up of the Dust being derived of Aphar that is he hath made a dust From Ephron Iudas passed over Iordan into the great Field of Galilee and so went to Scythopolis which in ancient time was called Bethsan which was four miles From Bethsan or Scythopolis he returned to Ierusalem which was 44 miles a little before Pentecost in the fourth year of his Government in the Year 161 before Christ 1 Mac. 5. 2 Mac. 12. After the Feast of Pentecost he went from Ierusalem to Maresa which was 16 miles here he overcame Gorgias Governour of Idumaea in a great Battel 2 Mac. 12. From Maresa he went with his Army to Odullam which was six miles Here sometime David hid himself From Odullam he returned to Ierusalem being eight miles 2 Mac. 12. From Ierusalem he brought his Army to Hebron the Metropolitan City of the Idumaeans which was 22 miles this Town he won and all the Towns and Castles near adjoyning 1 Mac. 5. From thence he went to Samaria which was fifty six miles 1 Mac. 5. From Samaria he led his Army against Azotus being 44 miles This was a City of the Philistines which he destroyed broke their Altars and burn'd their Idols in the Fire 1 Mac. 5. After that he conquered two Castles in Idumaea 1 Mac. 10. After that he returned to Ierusalem which was accounted 22 miles 1 Mac. 5. From Ierusalem he went to meet Timotheus chief Captain of the Syrians who came with a great Army to invade Iudaea But when the Battel waxed hot there appeared to the Enemies from Heaven five comely men upon Horses with Bridles of Gold two of which led the Iews and took Macchabeus between them and covered him on every side with their Weapons that none could hurt him but against their Enemies they shot Darts and Lightnings so that they were confounded with Blindness and beaten down whereby the Iews obtained a great Victory and put to the Sword 20500 Foot and 600 Horse the rest seeing this great Slaughter fled So Iudas praised the Lord and pursued the Enemies to Gazara being sixteen miles Here Timotheus hid himself in a Cave but the Iews took the City found him out and put him to death together with his Brother Chaerea and Pollophanes 2 Mac. 10. From Gazara Iudas Macchabeus returned to Ierusalem being 16 miles In the Year following which was the fifth of his Reign and 160 before Christ Iudas Macchab besieged the Tower of Sion in Ierusalem because those that were in the Garrison had put to the Sword some of the Iews that were sacrificing in the Temple But Antiochus Eupator the Son of Antiochus Epiphanes hearing of it at the Instigation of Menelaus Chief Priest of the Iews brought a great Army to their Rescue wherefore Iudas Macchabeus hearing of his coming left the Siege and went from Ierusalem to Modin to meet him which was 14 miles Here he overcame Antiochus destroyed his Elephants and put 4000 of his Souldiers to the Sword 2 Mac. 13. When King Antiochus had felt a taste of the boldness of the Jews he went with his Army through by-ways and secret Passages to the Castle of Bethsuâ—a which he besieged whither Iudas followed him which was twelve miles encamped himself a mile from Bethsura in a straight place called Bethzachara Here Antiochus betimes in the Morning thinking to take the Army of the Iews at an Advantage set upon them But the Iews and their Leaders behaved themselves so manfully that they put Antiochus the second time to flight and kill'd 600 of his men In this Battel Eliazer the Brother of Iudas Macchabeus was slain by an Elephant Ios. lib. Antiq. 12. lib. 16. 1 Macc. 6. From Bethzachara he returned back to Ierusalem being two miles and when the King had taken the Town of Bethsura for they were constrained to yield by reason of Famine he followed Iudas with whom he joyned the third time in Battel but Iudas overcame him and put to the Sword many of his Army Wherefore having certain Intelligence that Philip whom he had made Over-seer of the Affairs at Antiochia rebelled he made a Peace with Iudas Macchabeus was appeased towards the Iews did sacrifice adorned the Temple and shewed great Gentleness towards the People So Antiochus departed out of Iudaea and took Menelaus that seditious High-Priest along with him captive 1 Mac. 6. 2. Mac. 13. After in the sixth Year of his Government Iudas went with his Army through all the Borders of Iudaea and executed Justice upon all such as were Offenders and Contemners of the true Religion After when Iudas had certain intelligence that Nicanor whom Demetrius King of Syria had sent against Ierusalem went about by fraudulent Courses and under pretence of Friendship to take away his Life 2 Mac. 14. he went privily from Ierusalem and came to Caphar-Salama scituated twelve miles from Ierusalem towards the North. Here Nicanor and he joyned Battel but Judas discomfited his Army and put to the Sword about five thousand of his Men himself not escaping without great danger 1 Mâ—c 7. From Caphar-Salama Judas came to Samaria which was 28 miles here he rested himself and refreshed his Army a while 2 Mac. 15. In the Year before Christ 128 he went from Samaria to Adâ—rsâ— which was 28 miles and there upon the 13th day of Adar which answereth to the 13th day of February near to Bethoron the lower he gave Nicanor a great Overthrow and put him with 35000 of his Host to the Sword 1 Mac. 7. 2 Mac. 15. From Adara and Bethoron the lower he followed the Enemies to Gaza a City of the Philistines being 44 miles 1 Mac. 9. From Gaza he returned to Ierusalem being 44 miles there he caused the Arm of Nicanor whom a little before he had slain at the Battel of Adarsa to be cut off and his Tongue to be cut out of his Head shred small and given to the Fowls of the Heaven and his Head to be cut from his Shoulders because therewith he had blasphemed the Lord and the Temple swearing Desolation and Destruction to it and the Iews 1 Mac. 7. 2 Mac. 15. A little after that is to say almost at the end of the sixth year of his Government Iudas Macchabeus went out with 3000 chosen men in his Army and pitched his Tents near Laisa twelve miles from Ierusalem towards the West but when the Iews perceived the mighty Army of Bacchides for he had 20000 fooâ— and 2000 Horse in his Host there were many of them discouraged so that all left him but 800 men yet nevertheless Iudas constrained by necessity withstood Bacchides and so manfully behaved himself in the Battel that he overcame him and put him to flight 1 Mac. 2.
Leprosie About thirty Paces from the foot of this Hill there ariseth a Fountain which is compassed about with a Wall and is thought to be a Vein of Nilus because they find in it such kind of fishes the like wherof are not to be found in any other place but Nilus Iosephus calleth this Spring Capernaum and likewise all the plain being very pleasant and fruitful for the space of a mile even unto Iordan after the same name because it is subiect to the Jurisdiction of that City About 20 paces from this wall on the shore of the Sea of Galilee there is shewn a place where they say Christ appeared to his seven Disciples after his Resurrection and asked them whether they had any meat And about ten paces from that is shewn a place where they say our Saviours Disciples came to Land and they drew up in their nets a great draught of fishes c. John 21. Of Naim NAim signifies fruitful and pleasant it stood 48 miles from Jerusalem towards the North and typically representeth the condition of the World For the Children of this World live in all manner of Pleasures and Delights never thinking of any sorrow till Death seiseth on them but then that overturns all and those delights become loathsome unto them Notwithstanding this one comfort we have left us Hope in Christ Jesus who as he raised the Widows Son at the gates of this City from Death to Life will by his mighty Power raise us again at the last day from the Bowels of the Earth and make us partakers with him of an heavenly habitation It stood in the Land of Samaria and in the tribe of Issachar about two miles off it upon the East side stood mount Tabor and a little from it upon the South side stood mount Hermon the lesser and extended it self thence unto the Sea of Galilee 16 miles Of these two Hills you may read Psal. 89. and about two miles from Naim Westward Sunem is to be seen to which the Prophet Elisaeus sometimes resorted 2 Reg. 4. Of Gadara GAdarah or Gederah in Hebrew signifies munition and sometimes it is taken to compass about of Gadar he hath hedged or compassed about S. Jerom saith in his time that is 400 years after Christ this was a very fair City and stood in a very high Mountain upon the East side of the Sea of Galilee beyond Jordan in the half tribe of Manasses some 48 miles from Ierusalem Northward and is to be seen at this day Strabo lib. 6. Georg. saith that close by Gadara there is a venomous lake whereof what Beast soever drinketh he immediately loseth his Horns his Hoofs and his Hair and there are many that think this Lake became thus venomous because of the 2000 Swine that were drowned in it when our Saviour suffered the Devils to enter into them Mat 8. Mark 5. Luke 8. Close by this Town stood Gerasa called also Girgesa Mat. 8. so named as some think of Girgasus the Son of Canaan Gen. 10. Of Genesareth THIS was a Country bordering upon the North-west side of the Sea of Galilee from whence this Sea was called the Lake of Genesareth Luke 5. This Land was very pleasant and fruitful as if it had been a Princes Garden bringing forth fair Apples Pomegranates Palmes Olives Vines and divers other kinds of pleasant Fruits fair and goodly to the eye and therefore not without cause was it called the Garden of a Prince being derived of Gan which signifies a Garden and Sur a Prince It is distant from Ierusalem six and fifty miles towards the North as you may read Matth. 6. 14. The chief Cities of this Country were Capernaum and Bethsaida of which Cities though in former times they were very fair and large there are at this day not scarce eight houses to be seen The Travels of our Saviour Christ in the third year of his Ministry which was the three and thirtieth year of his age FROM Ierusalem our Saviour Christ returned some six and fifty miles into Galilee and in the beginning of this year wintered in that place so that as it may be gathered out of the Evangelists he continued there the most part of Ianuary and February and now the Spring approching a little after the death of Saint Iohn the Baptist who as it is thought was put to death between the midst of Winter and the Spring not long before the Feast of the Passover so that he lived two years and a half in his Ministry he wrought many notable Miracles not far from the City of Bethsaida The same time the Feast of the Passover drawing near which was the third Passover of his ministry he went thence over Iordan and so beyond the Sea of Tiberias Matth. 14. Mark 6. Luke 9. At this time the Apostles of Christ being dispersed through all Galilee and Iudaea teaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven hearing of the miserable death of Iohn the Baptist about the beginning of the month of April returned with all possible speed out of every Part to our Saviour Christ that so they might be secure against the tyranny of Herod Matth. 14. Mark 6. Luke 9. Also the Disciples of Iohn came unto him and told him of his Death and Burial Matth. 14. Our Saviour Christ therefore having by this means certain intelligence as he was between Bethsaida and Tiberias of the death of S. Iohn Baptist in the month of April he went into a Ship and passed about four miles to the further side of the Sea of Galilee where in a certain Desart he sed five thousand men with five Barley loaves and two fishes Ioh. 6. From thence he returned back again to the Sea and so to Capernaum which was four miles here he made that long Sermon of the Spiritual eating of his flesh Mat. 14. Luke 9. Iohn 6. From thence he went to Ierusalem which was 56 miles to the Feast of the Passeover being the third Passeover of his ministry The third Passover of the Ministry of Christ. Upon the thirteenth day of April being Sunday according to the Ecclesiastical computation Christ as God commanded celebrated the third Passover of his ministry for the space of eight days in the City of Ierusalem that is till the twentieth day of the same month After the Feast of the Passeover the Iews took counsel how they might put him to death Ioh. 7. wherefore about the end of April he departed thence and went 56 miles into the Land of Galilee In the month of May after the controversie that happened concerning the Tradition of the Elders because of the fallacies and contentions of the Scribes and Pharisees he departed thence into the borders of Tyrus and Sidon which was 56 miles Matth. 15. and there entred into a house and would fain have been private but there was a certain Woman that was a Grecian of Syrophoenissa came unto him and intreated his aid Mark 7. But our Saviour having a determination to depart from this
Zadin which in English is Sattin And as at this day the finest Glass is made at Venice so the finest Glass in those times was made at Sarepta a City that belonged to the Sidonians about which there stood many Mines of which it is called Sarepta as you may read before This Town in times past was one of the chief Cities of Phoenicia but because of the extraordinary Pride of the Citizens God afflicted them with divers punishments and brought in Ocho King of the Persians who besieged it and by Treason won it and burnt it to the ground as Diodorus Siculus lib. 16. saith The Citizens whereof were driven to such streights by the Enemy that there perished in the fire above forty thousand men Within a while after Darius the last Emperour of the Persians rebuilt it but made it nothing so beautiful neither fortified it in like manner as it was before he ordained one Strato to be King thereof a man proud and arrogant After about three hundred and two years before the Nativity of Christ Alexander being then but twenty four years of age having overcome Darius that mighty Emperour of the Persians at Issa a City of Cilicia in a cruel and sharp War he sent Hephestion one of his Princes to the Sidonians with authority to depose Strato and to let the Citizens understand that they should chuse him for their King whom they thought most worthy of that honour as Quintus Curtius sheweth lib. 4. At this time there was a certain young man among the followers of Hephestion in whose behalf he moved the Citizens that he might be their King but they refused saying it was not their custom to chuse any to rule over them but such as were of the King's stock and Progeny Hephestion hearing this answer greatly admired their resolution and modesty especially when they refused to accept him for their King whom others had sought to obtain with Fire and Sword saying truly there is more required to rule and govern a Kingdom than to get it but yet name one unto me of Royal descent whom you would willingly receive to be your King So they named unto him one Abdolomius who had been known to have been of the Kings stock by many descents but because of his Poverty he was constrained to dwell in the Suburbs of the City in a Cottage and had little else but a Garden to live upon This man howsoever poor and because of that of many contemned yet he was known to be honest and of an upright life following with all diligence his Vocation without any regard of other business insomuch as he was utterly ignorant of all these stirs and combustions which had so lately vexed Asia As he was now in his Garden digging and labouring purging it of Weeds and planting of Herbs Hephestion with the rest of the Citizens went unto him and brought him the Robes and Habiliments of a King The poor Gardner stood amazed to see such a Company of Gallants come unto him but Hephestion told him that the occasion of their coming was to make aâ— exchange with him of those Royal Ornaments which he had in his hand for those poor and foul Garments which he wore therefore go and wash thy self and return So he did where immediately they put upon him those Royal Robes and saluted him as their Sovereign After these things were finished quoth Hephestion Now remember in what a state thou art no more Gardener but a King and therefore take unto thee the mind and resolution of a King that so thou mayest rule and govern this City as a man worthy of that honour and remember that although the Lives and Goods of thy Subjects are at thy command yet by them thou wast chosen neither be forgetful of him that was the Author of thine Honour No sooner was he enthronized in his Kingdom but Fame who is more speedy than a thousand Posts had dispersed this News through all the neighbouring Cities some being thereby moved to admiration and quickned in their Studies others stirred up to Indignation and Envy Those that were mighty and Friends to Alexander contemned and despised his Humility and Poverty and no sooner were they come into his presence but they began to accuse him for his Ignorance wherefore Alexander commanded that he should come before him where after he had well viewed the Lineaments and Proportion of his Person and could not perceive it any whit repugnant to the fame of his Birth he demanded of him how it was possible that he should endure his Poverty with Patience To which he answered I pray the Gods I may continue the Government of this Kingdom with the like mind for these hands were sufficient for me to live by and as I had nothing so I wanted nothing At which answer Alexander was so well pleased that he not only gave him all the Princely Jewels and Ornaments of the first King called Strato but also a great part of the Booty which he took from the Emperour of Persia and added to his command all the neighbouring Countries round about This History I have inserted that thereby we might perceive the mighty power of God in all his works that can exalt the poor contented with his estate out of the very dust and can pull the mighty from their Thrones So the evil cark and care in this World to gather riches for the Vertuous to inherit But to return to Sidon This City did so much increase and grew so famous in succeeding Ages that it was the chief Town Tyrus only excepted in all Phoenicia joyning upon the West to the Mediterranean Sea extending it self towards the North and South lying in a Plain under Antilibanus which Mountain lay some two miles off it upon the East It oftentimes because of the Pride of the Inhabitants felt the wrath and punishing hand of God as well by the Invasion of Enemies as sickness and dearth according to the Predictions of the Prophets Esay 28. and Ezek. 28. untill at last in succeeding ages it was utterly destroyed the Ruins of which City remain to this day and make evident that it was a fair and spatious Town There is to be seen yet to this day a City built out of the Ruins of the former though nothing so large as it very strong and mightily fortified so that it seemeth almost invincible if it have men wherewith to defend it Upon the one side it joyneth to the Sea and upon the other side of it there standeth two mighty strong Castles one of them scituated toward the North upon a very strong Rock as it were in the heart of the Sea the which was built by certain Pilgrims that came out of Germany to visit the holy City of Ierusalem The other of them was scituated upon a Hill toward the South of the City as well fortified and no less difficult to be conquered These two Castles with the whole City in times past were in the hands of the Knights Templers
by the power of his Word he raised Lazarus to life after he had been buried four dayes Iohn 11. Lazâ—rus and Eleazer have both one signification that is God is my Help Upon the twenty sixth day of March the Feast of the Passover of the Iews drawing near he went from Bethania to the City of Ephraim near to the Desart that he might avoid the Traps and Deceits of the Iews who went about to take him Iohn 11. being ten miles Upon the twenty seventh day of March he returned back again from Ephraim to Bethania being ten miles coming thither about the evening six dayes before the Passover at which time Martha ministred to him and Mary anointed his feet whereat Iudas grutched Iohn 12. Upon the Sabbath day being the twenty eighth of March he rested in Bethania at the House of Martha Now as he was at Supper with Lazarus many of the Iews understanding that he was there resorted thither not only to see him but Lazarus also whom he had raised from the dead Iohn 12. Upon the twenty ninth of March Christ sitting on an Ass went to Ierusalem Now when the multitude heard that he was come unto Ierusalem they went out to meet him some laying their Garments in the way others strowing the boughs of Trees where he should go and those that went before cried saying Hosanna to the Son of David blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord At this time our Saviour Christ wept over Ierusalem and cast out all those that bought and sold in the Temple Mat. 21. Iohn cap. 17. About the evening he went out of the City again to Bethania almost two miles and there rested all night Mat. 21. So this dayes journey was almost four miles In the evening of this day the Iews chose their Paschal Lamb according to the Law Exod. 12. Upon the thirtieth day of March he went from Bethania to Ierusalem betimes in the morning in which Country he cursed the Fig-tree that wanted Fruit and after entring into the City he cast out of the Temple the Money-changers and Merchants Mark 11. About the evening as may be gathered by circumstance of time he returned back again to Bethania This daies Journey was four miles Upon the last day of March in the morning Christ went back again from Bethania to Ierusalem and by the way as he went his Disciples beheld the Fig-tree that he had cursed and lo it was dried up Mark 11. After when he was in the Temple there came certain Pharisees unto him and disputed with him at which time he recited the Parable of the Marriage of the Kings Daughter Also certain Scribes and Pharisees came unto him asking him whether it was lawful to pay Tribute unto Caesar Mat. 21. 22. He also sharply rebuked the Scribes and Pharisees and recited the Simile of the Hen and her Chickens Mat. 23. After that he went to the Mount of Olives almost a mile And then his Disciples looking upon the goodly building of the Temple from thence he took occasion to preach of the Destruction of Ierusalem and the consummation of the World so he stayd all that night in the Mount of Olives Mat. 24. Upon the first day of April being Wednesday our Saviour Christ rising before day taught again in the Temple and after as he was going to Bethania he said to his Disciples Know ye that within the se two daies is the Feast of the Passover and the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of Sinners and crucified At the same time the Chief Priests assembled themselves together and took counsel how they might do to take him by deceit Mat. 26. The same day as our Saviour Christ was in the House of Simon the Leper whom he had healed of that Sickness there came a Woman and brought a box of precious Ointment and poured it upon his head at which the Disciples murmured Mat. 26. Mar. 14. Luke 21. The fourth Passover of the Ministry of Christ. Upon Thursday being the second day of April the dayes of the Feast of the Passover being now at hand Christ with his Disciples prepared for the eating of the Paschal Lamb which was the fourth Passover of our Saviour and when about the evening of this day it was necessary for them to keep the Paschal Lamb and to prepare the Passover according to God's Law Christ sent Peter and John to make ready the Supper and he with the rest of his Disciples about evening went from Bethania toward Jerusalem just at the beginning of the fourteenth day of the first Month Abib or Nisan which began about the evening of this day Here he celebrated his last Supper among his Disciples between six and seven of the Clock in the evening at which time he celebrated the Sacrament of the Lords Supper concerning the true receiving of his Body and Blood of which you may read Mat. 26. Mark 14. Luke 22. 1 Cor. 11. Afterward about the eighth hour he washed his Dicsiples feet and then leaning upon the Table he pointed out Judas that should betray him John cap. 13. From the ninth hour to the tenth hour about the second Watch of the night Judas that Traitor went from his Disciples John 13. In the mean time Christ made that long Sermon recited only by John 14 15 16. and made that effectual Prayer John 17. About the tenth hour after they had sung a Psalm Christ went over the Brook Cedron to the Garden of Gethsamene being somewhat more than half a mile There between the hours of eleven and twelve he sweat Water and Blood and prayed earnestly About twelve of the Clock it being then midnight Christ was betrayed by Judas who about three dayes before had sold him for thirty Silverlings which was about 3 l. 15 s. From Gethsaâ—ene the Jews brought him bound to Jerusalem being more than half a mile and about one of the Clock in the morning carried him to the house of Annas who was one of the Chief Priests About two of the Clock led him from thence to Caiâ—has Chief Priest From three a Clock till four which was about Cocks-crowing Peter denied Christ. At the same time Caiâ—has and all the Priests of Ierusalem would have condemned the Lord of Glory the Son of God At the same time also the Servants and Officers of the Priests beat him and mocked him About five of the Clock in the morning Christ was condemned by the whole consent of the Synâ—drion of the Iews Luke 22. All these things Christ suffered between Thursday and Friday And whereas the Iews according to the commandment of God begin their day in the evening therefore that night wherein our Saviour Christ suffered all these things belonged unto the fourteenth day of the Month Abib So that just at the same time as the Feast of the Paschal Lamb was celebrated amongst the Iews Christ the true Lamb of God was made a living Sacrifice on the Cross for the Sins of man Thus
Upon the 40 day after his Resurrection he returned fifty six miles to Ierusalem where his Disciples were assembled together and upon the fourteenth day of May in the sight of all the Apostles with great triumph and joy he ascended up into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of his Father in Divine Majesty and Glory Mar. Luke ult Act. 1. Psal. 28. Ephes. 1. 1. Pet. 3. Heb. 1. So these Travels of our Saviour Christ were 319 miles But if you reckon his Travels from the time of his infancy to the day of his Ascension they make 3093 miles besides his general Visitations and Journeys hither and thither which were so many that as Iohn witnesseth cap. vlt. they could not be described Of the Towns and Places to which he travelled Of Jericho THIS City stood very pleasantly in the Tribe of Benjamin ten miles from Ierusalem North-eastward Ioshuah overcame this Town by sounding of Trumpets Ios. 6. Heb. 11. It was rebuilt by Hiel and was compassed about with a new wall by Herod that mighty King of the Iewes who put the Innocent Children to death and called it after his Mothers Name Cyprus Ios. de Bell. Iud. lib. 1. cap. 16. And although this City was taken and utterly overthrown the second time by the Romans at such time as Vespasian and his Son Titus wasted and destroyed Ierusalem and all the Land of Iudaea yet afterward it was re-edified and in St. Ieroms time which was 400 years after Christ it was a fair City There was shewn the House of Zaccheus and the Sycomore-tree that he went up to see Christ Luk. 19. But by reason of the often destructions and devastations that hath fallen upon it there is not to be seen at this day above eight Houses in the Town and all the Monuments and Reliques of the holy Places are utterly destroyed the House of Zaccheus and the Sicomore-tree are no more to be seen in that Place only the Place is to be seen where our Saviour restored the blind man to sight when he cryed after him Lord thou Son of David have mercy upon me Luke chap. 18. Also though the Country throughout be very fruitful and pleasant yet it is nothing so fertile and pleasant as it was when the Children of Israel did dwell there For the Roses of Iericho are no more to be found there but rather in a Village about sixteen miles from Iordan towards the East And although they stand so far distant off yet they retain their ancient name Between Ierusalem and Iericho there is a Desart or Wilderness which by the Inhabitants of the holy Land is called Quarentena where the man of which Christ speaketh fell among Thieves Luke 10. There is in the same place at this day great thieving and many Robberies committed as Brittenbacchus saith In this Place also is to be seen the River Chereth where the Ravens fed Eliah 1 Reg. 17. Near to Iericho also is found the River the Water whereof Elizeus made sweet by casting in Salt whereas before it was bitter and it remains very pleasant and sweet to this day 2 Reg. 2. Of Ephraim THIS City is so called from the pleasantness and fruitfulness of the Soil being derived from Parah to fructifie It lieth 8 miles from Ierusalem North-eastward just in the way as you go from thence to Iericho in the Wilderness of Quarentena close by the River Chereth in the Tribe of Benjamin Here our Saviour Christ after he had raised Lazarus from Death to Life hid himself with his Disciples because the Iewes sought to take away his Life by deceit The Passover following he was made a sacrifice for the Sin of man Ioh. 11. Of Bethania THIS City was a type of the Church which is always subject to the Cross and exposed to every calamity and therefore is called Bethania that is The House of Sorrow and Affliction being derived of Baith a House and Oni Affliction According to the prophecy of our Saviour who foretold of the Afflictions and Tribulations that should fall upon his Church You shall mourn but you shall be comforted and your grief shall be turned into joy It was distant from Ierusalem almost two miles towards the South-East Borchardus the Monk observeth that close by a Well about a stones cast out of this Town there is shewed the place where Martha met our Saviour Christ when he came to Bethania and a little after called her Sister to meet him Ioh. cap. 11. There is also shewn in this Town the House of Simon the Leper where a certain Woman having an Alablaster box of precious Ointment poured it on our Saviours head not without the great indignation of his Disciples Mat. 26. There is also to be seen the house of Martha to which our Saviour did oftentimes resort Luke 10. Iohn 11. and 12. and in that place there is at this day a Church built in honour of those two Sisters which were the Sisters of Lazarus There is also seen the Sepulchre out of which Lazarus was raised from death to life Iohn 11. which stands close by the said Church and over it is built a Chappel of Marble very decent and comely The Saracens hold this Chappel in great estimation You cannot see the City of Ierusalem from Bethania because of the Mount of Olives but as soon as you ascend a little Hill in the way as you go thence to Ierusalem you may discern Mount Sion and a part of the City then when you are descended from that Hill the City is again hidden After that upon the left side of the Mount of Olives some stones cast from Bethpage you do leave a small Village standing under the Mountain of Offence where Solomon in times past committed Idolatry From this Village the Ass and the Colt was brought unto Christ. Not far from thence upon the South side as you go upon the Mount of Olives you come unto the place where Christ mounted upon the Ass as we read Mat. 21. And a little after you may see the whole City of Ierusalem with Solomon's Temple and the Church of the holy Sepulchre with many other holy places Then as you descend from the top of the Mount of Olives you may see the place where the multitude cried Hosanna Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord. And in this descent also our Saviour Christ wept over Ierusalem saying O Ierusalem Ierusalem how often would I have gathered thee under my Wings as a Hen gathereth her Chickens but thou wouldest not Of Bethpage BEthpage standeth upon the right hand of the way towards the East as you go from Bethania to Ierusalem and as St. Ierom saith was sometimes a Habitation of the Priests which at their appointed times went up to Ierusalem to minister to the Lord. It was so called because of the multitude of Figs that grow there for Pagim signifies a Fig Cant. 2. Bethpage is a notable type of the Church for that ought likewise to be fruitful and
the Gardens thereabout 367 Of the Country of Galatia and how the Inhabitants came to be called Galatians 402 Gnidus 422 H. HAran or Charan 57 Hebron and the Inhabiâ—â—â—â—â— thereof 60 The Field of Hakeldama 29 The Hill Hamoskita ibid. Hazezon Thamar 66 Hadad and his Travels 158 Hagar and her Travels 67 Hagar's Well and the Signification of it 68 Heliopolis otherwise called the City of the Sun 80 Hadsi 147 Of Mount Horeb 84 Hazaroth 88 Harada 89 Hor gidgad 91 Of the Mountain Hor 92 Hazor 101 108 Hemath 97 Hai or Ai ib. Hiel 163 Hobab 106 Hasael and his Travels 173 Hannah the Mother of Samuel and her Travels 122 Haggai the Prophet 222 Hananias the false Prophet 211 Hosea the Prophet 215 Of the Prophet Habaccuck when he lived how he lived when he died and where he lieth buried 222 Of the River Hydaspis 240 Hion 173 Hyrcania 274 Heliodorus who would have robbed the Treasury of Ierusalem 276 Hermopolis or he Town of Mercury 320 Hosea King of Israel 170 I. OF Ierusalem 5 Of the Scituation of it 16 The Description of it ib. The Circuit and Bigness of it ib. The Gates of it 26 27. The Destruction of Jerusalem by Vespasian from 29 to 37 Of Jerualem after this Destruction from 37 to 40 Of Ierusalem as it is now from 40 to 46 Of the Sects in Ierusalem from 46 to 51 Where Ishmael dwelt 69 Of Isaac and his Travels 70 The typical Signification of Issac 71 Iacob and his Travels 72 The typical Signification of Iacob 76 Iudah and his Travels 78 Ioseph and his Travels 79 The typical Signification of Ioseph 81 Jotbatha 91 Igim 93 Jahza ib. Jaezer ib. Iael and her Travels 106 Ioshua and his Travels 95 The typical Signification of Ioshua 101 The Names of the Kings that Ioshua overcame and where they dwelt 102 Of Jehoahas King of Israel 166 Jaboch Jogbeha 110 Jotham 111 Of Jaier Judge of Israel 112 Jephta and his Travels 113 The divers Opinions concerning his Death 114 Jabes 122 Jonathan Saul 's Son and his Travels 134 Of the Country called India 153 Jeroboam and his Travels 159 Of Jeroboam's Wife 161 The Journey of the men of God which came out of Juda ib. Jezreel 164 Jehoram and his Travels 165 Jehu and his Travels 166 Jehoahas ib. Jeroboam the second of that Name and his Travels ib. Jehosaphat and his Travels 173 The typical Signification of Jehosaphat 179 Joab and his Travels 146 Ioram King of Juda and his Travels ib. Of Joas King of Israel 167 Joas King of Judah 181 Jabnia 184 Jotham King of Juda and his Travels ib. Josiah and his Travels 188 Jehohahas King of Juda and his Travels ib. Jehoiakim King of Juda and his Travels 189 Of the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar 190 Of the Prophet Isaiah 208 Of the Prophet Jeremiah and his Travels 210 Of the Prophet Joel 216 Of the Prophet Ionah and his Travels 217 The typical Signification of Ionah 221 Japho 217 Of the holy Man Iob 236 Of his three Daughters 239 Of Jesus the Son of Syrack 244 Iudas Macchabeus and his Travels 253 The typical Signification of Iudas Macchabeus 259 Ionathan and his Travels 260 Iohn Hyrcanus and his Travels 268 Iason and his Travels 277 Iohn Baptist and his Travels 323 Jericho 97 362 Of Ioseph of Arimathea 363 Joppa 380 Iordan 100 Iohn and his Travels 381 The testimony of the Fathers concerning Iohn 383 Iconium 400 K. KIriathaim 66 Karkor 110 Kirjath jearim 119 Kyr 195 Kerith 205 Keder 240 Kegilah 134 L. LAbassardach 201 Lot and his Travels 62 Of Lot's Daughters 65 Of the Kings that took Lot Prisoner ib. Of Libnah 89 99 Lachis ib. Libanus 100 The Levite and his Trav. 120 Lais 119 Of Lacedemonia called also Sparta 278 Lidda 378 Laodicea 388 Lystra 400 M. DIversity of Miles 1 Of Mount Moriah 8 62 The allegorical Signification of it 9 The Buildings upon Mount Moriah 19 Of Mount Acra from 21 to 23 Of Mount Bezetha 24 Of the Mount of Olives 28 365 Of the Mount between Bethel and Hay 59 Machanaim 74 Mount Seir 77 Moses and his Travels 81 Midian 83 Marah 85 Mithca 90 Maceheloth ib. Maseroth 91 Makedah 98 Merom 100 Mizpah 113 Minneth 114 Michmas 129 Maon 130 Memphis by whom and when built 155 Menahem and his Travels 168 Maresa 176 Manasses and his Travels 187 Micah 221 Malachi 223 Mallos 241 Mattathias 252 Medaâ—a 263 Menelaus and his Travels 278 Of a Mina 284 The Virgin Mary and her Travels 315 Machares 325 Of the holy Mountain near Capernaum 338 Misia 406 Of the Isle and City of Mitilene 415 Of the Isle and City of Miletus now called Malta 417 Magdala 354 Of the Island Milete 422 Merodach 197 Myra 419 Of Masloth 281 N OF Neapolis or the new town 25 408 Of Noah 56 Of Nimroth ib. Nob 130 Nadab 161 Nabach 110 Naaman the Syrian and his Travels 173 Nebuchadnezzar and his Travels 197 198 Ninus or Niniveh when built and by whom 219 Nahum the Prophet 221 Nehemiah the Prophet 234 Naphtaly 243 Nazareth 317 Naim 339 Nicopolis 429 Niriglissoroor 201 O OF the Cave of Odullam 7 Oboth 9 Omry and his Travels 162 Obediah the Prophet 216 Orthosia 276 Onias and his Travels ib. P OF the Pool of Bethesda 12 Of Paradice and where it stood 51 Of the Palm or Oak of Mamre where Abraham dwelt 59 Penuel 74 Of Pihachiroth 84 Phunon 92 Pisgah 94 Of Phrygia 404 The Plain of the Vines ib. The Philistines Travels from their Camp to Michmas 133 Pharaoh and his Travels 155 Peka and Pekahiah 169 Of Phul Belochus King of the Assyrians and his Travels 194 Pharaoh Necho King of Aegypt and his Travels 203 Pelusio 200 Persepolis when built by whom and why so called 250 Ptolomais 264 Of the Country of Parthia 274 Perea 338 Peter and his Travels 374 Allegations of the Author to prove that Peter was never at Rome 375 Of the Island called Pathmos 385 Of the famous City Pergamus 386 Philadelphia 388 Philip and his Travels 389 Paul and his Travels 391 Of Paphos why so called 399 Of Perga ib. Of Philippa 408 Patara 420 Puteoli 427 Q THe Queen of Saba and her Travels 159 R OF the Roman mile 2 Rachels Grave 75 Raemses at what time it flourished 84 Of the Red Sea ib. The Mystery of the Red Sea 85 Rephadim 86 Rithmah 89 Rimmon ib. Rissa ib. Rechob 97 Of the Rock Eta 117 Ramah 120 Solomon's Adversary 159 Rehoboam and his Travels 175 Of the four Rivers that watered Paradise 52 Of the River Cheber 212 Of the River Eulaeo 214 Of the Angel Raphael 243 Of Rages a City of the Medes ibid. Of the Isle and City of Rodes and why so called 419 Rhegium 427 Rome and why so called 249 Rogel 148 S OF Stades or Furlongs 1 Of Mount Sion 7 The Allegorical meaning of Mount Sion 8 Of the Springs and Fountains about Ierusalem 28 Of the Sarazens and Turks from 48 to
Not far off he caused two fair Theatres to be also built the one in honour of the Emperour Augustus and this on the one side joyned to a Tower called Acropolis which was built by Antigonus Epiphanes on purpose to place a Garrison in to keep the Jews in bondage which Iudas Machabeus afterwards made level with the ground and on the other side towards his own Palace It resembled a Semi-circle made all of white Marble fairly polished the Building somewhat low within full of high Banks one rising above another like Scaffolds so that the whole multitude might easily hear or see whatsoever was said or done It was curiously beautified with Gold Silver and many goodly Pictures but amongst the rest the Battels which the Emperour Augustus had won against his People were lively pourtrayed To this place as well Jews as Gentiles resorted to see Interludes and Plays Acted The other was an Amphitheatre and stood upon the South side of the House it was built round in a whole Circle compassed bout with high Walls large and spatious Here they used to Fence and to Fight both on Horse-back and in Waggons And in the fifth year in honour of Augustus the Circensian Games according to the Rites of the Gentiles were very sumptuously performed On the south side of this Amphitheatre stood Queen Bernice's house Sister to Agrippa junior it was a very fair and sumptuous Building little inferior to King Herods This stood in the Market place and so all along were very sumptuous and stately Pillars Here Agrippa himself had also an House and over against that upon the North stood the Judgment-hall where the Sanhedrim or the Councel of the seventy Elders used to meet to hear and determine of mens causes To this place Christ was brought when they asked him if he was Christ Luke 22. Here were the Apostles whipt Acts 5. And close by this stood the house of Pilate the Pretor fairly glistering with Gold in which house all the Roman Pretors and Presidents for the most part had their Residence and here our Saviour Christ was whipt crowned with Thorns and spit upon Not far off from this Pretor's house stood the Chancery or rather as we term it the Treasury a stately and magnificent house curiously built and appointed onely to lay Records and common Chronologies in Here also the Officers of the Town gave in their Accounts and Creditors entred their Debts This was utterly destroyed by Vespâ—tian Thus much for the Buildings on this Mount Next the Market place was a thing very memorable and was so large and spatious that in the time of the Wars many great Battels were fought there as Iosephus saith In this Market place close by Pilates house stood a high Seat or Tribunal made of fair stone curiously wrought and for the Eminence of it called in the Chaldaean tongue Gabatha and because it was built of Stone the Grecians called it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Latins Lapidanium and with us it might be termed an heap of Stones for so the word signifieth Here Pilate taking water washed his hands before the People and said I am innocent of this mans blood At which they cried His blood be upon us and our Children And after by Gods appointment according to their own wish fell upon them for in the same place and close by this same Seat it hapned that Herod wanting money demanded of the Jews so much out of their Treasury which they called Corban as would pay for the making of a Water-course for he assayed to bring water into the City from a Fountain some two hundred furlongs off it but the Jews supposing it a needless work not only denied him but gave him many outragious and spiteful speeches tumultuously flocked about him and with great clamors prest upon him even as he was in his Seat wherefore perceiving the danger and to prevent mischief he sent to his Souldiers to apparel themselves like Citizens and under their Gowns to bring with them a Dagger or Ponyard and mingle themselves among the multitude which they did observing who they were that made the greatest uproar and when Herod gave the sign fell upon them with their Ponyards killing a great multitude The rest seeing this Massacre suspecting Treason amongst themselves fell one upon another and many for fear of loss or to avoid future danger killed themselves In this very place also Florus General of the common Souldiers within few years after upon a small occasion made another cruel Massacre and much more barbarous than the former for he spared none the best of them he caused to be whip'd to death or else crucified and put to the Sword and for the Vulgar spared neither Woman nor Child So that within the compass of one day there died of this obstinate and wicked Nation above seven hundred and thirty This outrage was so cruel that all Strangers which inhabited within the Town pitied their misery but especially Queen Bernice who being partly frighted with their shreeks partly moved to commiseration through the extremity of their Affliction indangered her life to present her self before Florus and upon her knees besought him to take some mercy and pity of them and withdraw his hand of vengeance from the blood of the guiltless But the fury of the Roman Souldiers was so fierce and the Resolution of Florus so unremoveable that neither her Tears not the present Calamities could perswade him But as in such uproars it commonly happeneth she with the rest was in danger of her Safety and was constrained the next night for the preservation of her Estate to keep a strong Watch lest the Roman Souldiers should have done her some violence Thus we may see a just revenge of a perjured and stiff-necked People and that in the place where the Offence was committed though at least eight and thirty years after In this Market-place Agrippa had built a Gallery all of Marble from his own house to the Judgment-hall it was covered above and made with divers and sundry Rooms for men to walk in all burnished with Gold and called by the name of Xiston as Iosephus hath it Here Agrippa after this cruel Massacre made an Oration to the People Queen Bernice standing by him to this effect That they should forbear to raise any more commotions against the Romans and to banish the Seditious out of the City for that they saw their cruelty Ioseph lib. de Bell. 2. Egesip lib 2. cap. 8. To this Gallery there joyned a Bridge which pass'd over the Valley of Cedron to the Temple And amongst many other sair and sumptuous Buildings that were upon this place there were the Colledges of the Pharisees Sadduces and the Synagogues and Schools for the Instruction of Youth which were dispersed here and there among other stately Buildings and this was called the lower Town Of the Valley of Cedron BEtween this lower City and the Temple there was a deep Valley extending it self from the Gate of