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 Kechila 65.38 31.47 Maresa 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 â—0 31.58 Azotus 65.35 31.00 Astalon 65.24 31.52 Gath 65.23 31.48 Gaza 65.11 31.40 The townes lying on this side of the riuer Iordan Dan 67 25 33.08 Ior â—ons 67 31 33 07 Caesarea Philippi 67 30 33.05 Seleucia 67.17 32.50 Eruptio fluvij ex Samachoniride palude 67.11 32.44 Capernaum 66.53 31.29 Eruptio fluvij 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 Iordanis 66.17 31.54 Engedi 66.22 31.43 Zoar vel Sagor 66.17 31.38 Eruptio Zered 66.19 31.34 Townes 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 Iaczar 66.39 32.12 Hesbon 66.28 32.05 Iabes 66.55 32.21 Ramah 66.51 32.20 Nobach 66.38 32.16 Iachsa 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 Townes in Egypt 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 Alaxandria 60.30 31.00 Mercurij ciuitas magna 61.40 28.55 Mercurij ciuitas parua 61.00 30.50 Delta magnum 62.00 30 00 Xois 62.30 30.45 Busitis 62.30 30.15 Hâ—sinoe 63.20 29.10 Solis fons 58.15 28.00 Journies out of Aegypt Raemses 63.00 30.05 Pihachiroth 62.50 29.40 Mara 63.35 29.50 Elim 63.45 29.50 Iuxta 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 Iothabatha 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 Ieabarim 67.00 31.18 Zered rorrens vallis 66.44 31.20 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 vallie 66.30 32.00 Townes in Arabia Petraea Petra 65.40 31.18 Paran 94.30 30.04 Midian 65.30 29.15 Hesion gebar 65 35 29.00 Elana villa harla velelath 95.35 29.15 Ostia Nili Canopicum 66.50 31.05 Bolbithinum 61.30 31.05 Sâ—benniticum 61.45 31.05 Pathmiticum 91.35 31.10 Mendesium 62.45 31.10 Pelusiacum 63.15 31.15 Thon 63.00 31.30 Sirbonis lacus eruptio 65.45 31.50 Sirbonis lacus 63.30 31.10 Idem 63.45 31.10 Ciuitas Pelusium 36.25 31.20 Rhinocorura 94.40 31.10 Some other great Townes Babilon 76.00 35.00 Antiochia 60 30 33.35 Damascus 68.55 33.00 Palmira 72.40 35.10 Vr chaldeorum 78.00 39.40 Ecbathana 88.00 37.45 Rages in Media 93.40 36.04 Sula in Persia 83.00 34.15 Persepolis 91.00 33.20 Heccatompilon in Parthia 96.0 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 Citie 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 vtterly beat downe and ouerthrow the Citie burning the costly Temple which King Solomon had built After that Zorobabel and the high Priest Ioshua when they returned from the captiuitie of Babylon re-edified and built againe both the Citie and the Temple in the yeare before the birth of Christ 535. But the second temple which was built after their returne was neither so faire nor so great as the first for it was twenty * Cubitus is a foot and an halfe six hand bredths foure and twentie fingers broad being in former times the fourth part of the height of a man Cubitus a cubando the arme tbat men vse to leane vpon from the elbow to the hand Victru lib. 3. Cal. Lexicon Cubits lower than the former After that King Herod 17 yeares before the birth of Christ caused the said Temple to be broken downe againe as Iosephus saith and erected another new Temple in place thereof which neuerthelesse was not like the first temple that Solomon builded as touching the greatnesse but it was exceeding fairely decked and adorned with gold and siluer so that in regard of the beautifulnesse thereof it was a wonder vnto all that came to Ierusalem Which Temple 40 yeares after Christs death and Ascension was also vtterly destroyed by Titus the sonne of Flavius Vespasian the Emperour I will describe the forme of the Citie Ierusalem as it was before it was defaced by Titus the sonne of Vespasian and therewithall I will shew how the costly Ornaments which Solomon placed therein stood for seeing that the two brasen Pillars and the great Molten sea were not therin when our Lord Iesus Christ liued vpon earth being broken downe by Nabuchadnezzars soldiers it is therefore necessary and very requisite to bee knowne how they stood and to the end that the Reader may be fully satisfied I will also first declare the citie of Ierusalem as it was in those dayes with the chiefest Places Walls Towers Gates Houses Castles Fountaines Hills Vallies and all the principall things therein How the Citie Ierusalem is scituate and standeth distant from Germany THe Towne of Neurenberch is scituate in the middle of Germanie or neere thereabouts and Ierusalem is distant from Neurenberch fiue hundred * Which make 2000 miles English miles but if you will trauell to Venice and from thence to Ierusalem it is fiue hundred and fiftie * Which make 2200 miles miles The scituation of Ierusalem IErusalem was foure square Of the scituation of the Mountaines whereon Ierusalem stood and scituated vpon foure mountaines viz. Mount Sion Mount Moriah Mount Acra and Moun Bezetha Mount Sion was the highest of all and lay within the citie of Ierusalem towards the South whereon stood King Dauids house or the castle of Sion and the vppermost towne 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 towne was built stood Westward in the citie where Annas Caiphas Pilot Herod Agrippa Bernice Helena and other Kings and great Princes dwelt The holy Citie of Ierusalem may in this manner be briefely described THe most holy and beautifull Citie of Ierusalem if any would consider the three principall parts of the World The description of Ierusalem Europe Asia and Affrica stood in the middest of
the World vpon most high mountaines and rockes like an earthly Paradise a liuely figure of the euerlasting Citie of God This Citie being the metropolitan or principallest Citie of the Iewes stood in the Tribe of Benjamin at the first it was called Salem that is Peaceable when Melchisedech the Priest of God raigned therein which hee also built after the Deluge as Iosephus and Egisippus write But at that time it was not very great for it stood onely vpon Mount Sion Mount Moriah where Abraham would haue offered his sonne Isaac stood without the Citie and after that they tooke it into the Citie as when time serueth it shall be declared After the death of Melchisedech vnto whom Abraham payd the Tythes of all his goods the Iebusites dwelt in the Citie 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 reade in Iosuah the 10. Iud. 10. 2. Samuel 1. But at the last Ioab King Dauids Generall of his Armie woon it draue the Iebusites 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 Gods Lyon and mount Libanus * Because it was made of the Ceder trees which came â—ut of Mount Libanus The Prophet Ezechiel 23. calleth it Ahaliba my fixed Pauillion or Tent that is a Citie wherein God had placed his owne habitation The circuit and bignesse of the City Ierusalem THe City of Ierusalem was foure square and in circumference three and thirtie * Which make foure English miles and one furlong furlongs as Iosephus writeth which three and thirty Furlongs make somewhat more than a Dutch mile Some write that it was foure miles compasse about yet these were not Dutch miles but Wallon or Italian miles for foure such Italian miles are a Dutch mile Of mount Sion the higher Citie MOunt Syon stood Northwards in the Citie 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 vpon this Hill the vpper Citie was built which in the Scripture is called the City of Dauid because Dauid wan it from the Iebusites and beautified it with many goodly houses faire and costly buildings but especially with his house of Cedar wood which hee termed the castle of Sion which stood Westwards at the corner of the Hill looking into Bethlehem Southwards In that house Dauid dwelt and therein committed adulterie with Berseba the wife of Vriah the Hittite whose house also with the place of diuers priuie Councellers and officers stood vpon the said Hill not farre from the Kings Pallace as Iosephus writeth Beneath King Dauids house vpon Mount Sion within a Rocke there was to be seene the sepulchre or vault wherein King Dauid Solomon his son and other succeeding Kings of Iuda were entombed and buried Vpon mount Syon also towards the East King Herod had a Garden of pleasure not farre from the Fountaine called Silo Nemiah 3. and there also stood the Tower of Silo whereof Luke in the 13 chapter maketh mention Iosephus in the warres of the Iewes his first book and sixteenth chapter saith That King Herod vnder whom Christ Iesus was borne had two faire and strong houses or Towers which hee set and made in the vpper part of the City Ierusalem vpon mount Syon which were in a manner comparable with the Temple for beautifulnesse which he called after the name of his friends the one Caesarea for Caesar the Emperors sake and the other Agrippa according to the name of the noble Roman Marcus Agrippa that married the daughter of Augustus Caesar This may suffice to declare the scituation of the vpper Citie which stood vpon mount Sion and conteyned in circuit fifteene furlongs which is about halfe a mile This vppermost Citie in the sacred Scripture is called the Citie of Dauid it was also cal-Millo that is fulnesse or plenty for in it there was no want but aboundance of all things Of the steps which descended downe from the citie of Dauid vnto the lower Citie MOunt Sion whereon the vpper citie of Ierusalem did stand was such a high hard hill and so steepe that no man could climbe or ascend vnto it by any way or meanes but only one that is by steps for in the middle thereof there was a great paire of staires made which descended from Dauids Citie vnto the lower Citie That is 26 yards in height into the valley or dale of gates called Thyroreion which staires were 780 foot * high as Iohannes Heydonius writeth and beneath in the valley of Thyroreion ouer against the valley of Cedron at the foot of the staires stood a gate which was called the gate of Sion and they which went vp to mount Sion must passe through that gate and so vp those staires but it is thought neuerthelesse 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 Allegoricall or Spirituall significations of mount Sion SIon in Hebrew signifieth a sure hold or goodly aspect for that from the top thereof a man might haue seen all the land lying thereabouts and was a type of the highest heauens or habitation of Almighty God from whence he beholdeth all things vpon earth from which throne and heauenly habitation he descended into this lower Ierusalem and became our Redeemer Sauiour that so we being purged by his bloud from all our sinnes and imperfections he might bring vs into that heauenly Ierusalem which is eternall glorie Of Mount Moriah on which the Temple stood MOunt Moriah stood Eastward within Ierusalem which was a most hard stony hill from whence towards the rising of the Sunne men by staires might easily descend but round about on the other three sides it was steepe and vnapprochable 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 faire plaine like vnto that of Mount Sion whereon in times past Abraham builded an Altar and would haue offered his sonne Isaac for a Sacrifice Gen. 22. At which time when Abraham obeyed the commandement of God intending to haue offered his sonne Isaac vpon the Hill and thereon had made an Altar then the said Hill lay without the Citie but long time after about the space of 850 yeres when King Dauid had conquered Ierusalem and driuen thence the Iebusites to enlarge the Citie he compassed in Mount Moriah and Mount Acra with a wall vpon which there stood many goodly buildings And amongst other things worthy obseruation vpon this Mount stood the Barne or Threshing floore
Thus they continued for the space of eighteene yeares at the end of which time Adrianus Aelianus the Emperor hearing of those insolencies leuied an Army and sent them into Iudea vnder the gouernment of Iulius Seuerus who in a pitcht field neere to Bethcoron and not far from Emaus conquered this Benchochab or Pseudo-Messiah and with him slew fiue hundred thousand Iewes that were deceiued by his persuasion Now when they went to seeke for the body of this Deceiuer amongst the Dead as saith Talmudista hee was found lying with an horrible Serpent about his necke intimating how God reiected him that would seem to imitate his Son for euen as the Serpent deceiued our first Parents so this Benchochab deceiued the Iews and for this cause they called him Bencozba that is The Son of Lying The number of the Iewes which in the time of this war were slaine amounted to 500000 men besides many others that perished by pestilence and famin This warre hapned 64 yeares after the destruction of Ierusalem After this second desolation of the Iewes at the command of the Emperor that there might be a final extirpation of the antient city of Ierusalem and that the words of our Sauior might be fulfilled Lo there shall not be a stone left vpon a stone Mat. 24 the ruines and foundations thereof were digged vp the stones broken in pieces the ground left desolate and the mountains are now become barren and ouergrown with brambles And that the name thereof might vtterly be forgotten and as it were rooted out of the earth hee set vp a new towne not far from the hill Gihon and Golgotha where Christ was crucified which after he had adorned with many goodly buildings he called it by his owne name Aelia In the place of the Temple he set vp a Church in the honour of Iupiter and Venus Iust in the place where the holy Altar stood he erected his own image vpon a marble pillar which continued vntill Saint Hieroms time At Bethlehem he erected the Image of Adonis and to that he consecrated at Church Vpon the gates of the City he cut Hogs in marble in contempt of the Iewes Then did hee abiure them That they should not come within the walls of the City nor set foot vpon the ground neere Ierusalem This being done as Dion saith he dedicated it to the honour of Iupiter Capitolinus and only made it free for Christians and such like to be in it This town at this day we call Ierusalem although it be scituated in another place and called by another name Future Ages calling the actions of precedent times into question puld a great contempt vpon this Towne and so much the rather because Infidelitie and other heathenish prophanesse was cherisht within this city So that that which a little before was set vp in honour of the Emperour Aelianus is now growne into contempt Wherfore Helena the mother of Constantine the Great hauing command of that Empire to giue some satisfaction to the vniuersalitie caused those prophane Temples and Idols to be abolished and in their places erected others Vpon mount Golgotha the church called Golgothanus vpon the mount of Olives one in the place of the ascention of Christ and Constantine her son richly adorned the Sepulchre and ouer it built a stately Temple all of polisht marble richly gilt with gold so that to this day it remaines as the chiefe ornament of the town In this mans time the Iewes with great boldnesse indeauoured to rebuild the Temple iust in the place where it stood before but at the commandement of the Emperour they were repelled and in recompence of their presumption had their eares cut off and their noses slit because they had eares and would not heare neither obey the commandement of our Sauior But as the Emperor was religious and endeauored to support Christianitie so his successor Iulianus was as full of impietie and prophanenesse who that he might frustrat the prophecie of our Sauior That Ierusalem should neuer be built again in contempt caused the Iewes to assemble together and with all expedition restore it to its former glory giuing the vttermost of his helpe to their endeauours But as they were seriously labouring in this work of a sudden there came a great earthquake and looke what they had built was by that quite ouerturned then fire came out of the earth and from heauen which destroied both the matter and the Workemen And that the Iewes nor any Philosophers might impute it to a natural cause there was seen in the heauens a bloudy crosse and vpon their cloathes crosses shining like stars which the Iewes could by no means wipe off Yet this little preuailed a second time they attempted as before a second earthquake hapned with a storme of winde which came with such extreme violence that all the stuffe which they had heaped together for this purpose was vtterly blown away and destroyed So that of force they were constrained to leaue off acknowledge That Christ whom their Forefathers had crucified was the true Messiah Greg. Nazianzen and Hierome report That neuerthelesse the Iewes euen to this day although it cost them much money come yearely to the place where Ierusalem stood and vpon the day of the destruction thereof weep ouer it Such was their affection vnto this City But these euils were purged with a sudden inuasion for no crying iniuries nor prophane insolencies against God passe vnpunished but that then or soone after a iust reuenge falls vpon them for Cosroës Emperor of the Persians whose impudencie and impietie was so great that hee would be worshipped as a god about the yeare of our Lord 615 besieged this town tooke it and put to death 90000. Christians carried the Patriarch thereof together with many others away captiue But Heraclius the Emperor to punish him for his pride and crueltie set vpon Persia and with fire and sword destroied the country not far from Nineueh conquered his chiefe captain Razetis in a set battell won the city of Nineueh and went away with an honorable victorie Seroës also the only begotten sonne of Cosroës but a little before inuading the kingdom kild his father in prison restored the Patriarch and the rest of the Captiues which his father had taken to Heraclius and about the seuenth yeare after hee had warred vpon Persia hee returned to Aelia with great pompe Not long after in the yeare 637 Haumar the chiefe Prince of the Saracens which was the third from Mahomet with a great Army afflicted Syria and Iudaea conquered these Countries and in his victories vsed great tyrannie and crueltie Within two yeares after he won Aelia which had maintained a long and sharp siege neither would Zacharias the Patriarch giue it vp til he was compelled thereto by extreme famin and soon after died with griefe Thus this towne continued for the space of 450 yeares in the hands of the Saracens Then in the yere 1012 Caliphas Sultan of Egypt won it beat
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 Turkes 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 somtime was the Ark of the Couenant Dan. 9. Mat. 24. and the prophecie of Ieremy is fully finished ca. 19. This place shall be vnclean like vnto the place of Tophet where they did sacrifice to the Host of heauen and vnto other strange gods Of other buildings within the city of Aelia which is now called Ierusalem MOunt Sion is placed toward the South of Ierusalem where euen at this day the Monks vndertake to shew the ruines of Dauids 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 maner that the mountain of Sion with the sepulchre of Dauid fel down and were vtterly defaced Further all true Historians do write That Adrian the Emperour did so much deface the City that hee left not a stone standing vpon 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 seeke those holy places where when they come with the expence of a great deale of time in recompence of their pains are made a laughing stocke to the Kings of Ierusalem and find nothing but feigned and supposed holy places and buildings since the words of our Sauior manifest That there shall not be a stone left vpon a stone which shall not be broken to pieces And Borchardus the Monk saith That the Romans caused the Temple and other princely buildings together with the mountains to be thrown downe and cast into the vallies with which being filled there remaineth not so much as an Emblem of the old Citie From whence may euidently appeare That those places which are now shewen to Pilgrims by the Monkes of Ierusalem are meerly suborned and feigned on purpose to deceiue them get their mony They are very simple therefore that go to Ierusalem seeke their saluation in such places And as for the Sepulchre as is aforesaid the Tartars beat it all in pieces so that this monument of our Lord is not to be found vpon the earth Wherefore our Sauiour Christ is no more to be sought among the dead but in the sacred monument of his holy word for there he hath promised to make euident his divine presence c. Of the Sects that are in and about the Temple of the holy Sepulchre IN and about the church which is built ouer the holy sepulcre vpon mount Calvarie there are at this day many of diuers nations and countries which inhabit of diuers opinions and Religions And although they differ in material points of their faith yet would they be al Christians of which number there are some Latines Greekes Abissines Armenians Gregorians Nestorians Surians and Iacobins The Latines for the most part are such as wee call Franciscan Monks Obseruants or Friers Latines These haue the keeping of the holy Sepulchre and looke to it very diligently where somtimes they make a certain number of Knights of the noble Order of S. Iohns Templers with many ceremonies and great solemnities These Knights are girt with a sword all gilt hanging in a red velvet girdle a chain of gold is put vpon them worth about 100 Hungarian duckets at the end whereof there hangs a Ierusalem Crosse of gold This kind of crosse also they are permitted to weare vpon their armes and clothes then haue they a paire of gilt spurres with velvet tyings But before they are admitted into this order they must sweare vpon the holy Sepulchre to maintain defend the doctrine of the Pope The Grecians that are there be also Monkes Grecians and doe inhabit within the Temple of the holy Sepulchre but they haue the keeping of the place where our Sauior Christ was crucified and differ from the Romanists For they beleeue first That the holy Ghost proceedeth from the Father and not the Sonne Secondly they giue the Sacraments in both kinds thirdly they hold not the Pope to be head of the Church fourthly they deny Purgatory and prayer for the dead fiftly they sing Masse in their own language that euery man may vnderstand it but they obserue seuen Sacraments as the Romanists do They teach men to pray to and call vpon Saints they yearly obserue two strict fasting daies and eat no flesh vpon Saturdaies The rest of the Grecians that are through the East parts leaue mariage free as well for the Clergy as Laity and condemne the Latine Priests because they marry not They allow no grauen images in their Churches but in some places of their Churches they haue faire painted pictures hanging They approue not the Pope but haue a Patriarch for their high Bishop which Patriark is greatly reuerenced and much honored in Constantinople Abissines The Abissins be such as are of Prester Iohns gouernment their complexion is browne their habitation is in the Temple vpon mount Calvary on the East side of the Church dore They also approue not the Pope but allow Priests to mary and giue the sacrament in both kinds yet there are many sects and opinions among them forbearing those meats forbidden in the old Testament they circumcise both male and female which the Iews do not they obserue our Saturday for their Sabbath they baptise their children with fire of which I will speake more hereafter in the description of the towne of Saba Armenians The Armenians are Christians and come out of Armenia their dwelling is in a Chappell vpon mount Sion neere to Saint Iames his church they deny the Pope to be head of the Church they minister the Sacraments in both kinds their Priests marry they forbeare the meats forbidden in the old Testament They haue a kinde of custome to whine and cry by the graues of the dead vpon Twelfth day they keep a great feast and the next day begins their Lent which they keep strictly and eat neither eggs nor fish nor any liuing thing during that time They obserue Wednesdayes and Fridayes they preach sing and say their Seruice in their own tongue they deny prayer for the dead and Purgatory they all weare hats with blew hat-bands Gregorians The Gregorians are Christians that dwell by the great city of Trapezunta vpon the Euxinian Sea Their Priests marrie but if their wiues die they must not marrie againe They dwell in Ierusalem in the Church vpon mount Caluarie where Christ after his resurrection shewed himselfe like a Gardner vnto Marie Magdalen The Nestorian heretickes Nestorians who now are found in great numbers in Niniuie which at this day is called Mossell and in other places
all speed pursued the enemy and in the way as hee went he found an Aegyptian who a little before the Amalekits had left there because he was vnable to follow them This Aegyptian guided Dauid to the tents of the Amalekits who suspecting no such euill were making merry with the booty that they had taken But Dauid with the rest of his company so manfully behaued themselues that they gaue the Amalekites a sudden ouerthrow and as it often hapneth to such as are negligent and carelesse he tooke away from them their former bootie and put most of them to the sword This battell was fought some 8 or 12 miles from Ziclag as by the circumstance of the history may appeare From this slaughter he returned backe to Ziclag which is 12 miles and repaired it to euery neighbouring citie sending a part of the prey Here hee had certaine intelligence of the successe of the Israelites in their wars against the Philistins and of the death of Saul and Ionathan which hee bitterly lamented 1 Sam. 30. 2 Sam. 1. These things hapned in the 10 yeare after Samuel had annointed Dauid King From Ziclag he went to Hebron a metropolitane Citie of the tribe of Iuda being a towne of refuge belonging to the Leuites which was 16 miles At this time Dauid was about the age of thirtie yeares and was annointed King by the Tribe of Iudah in the yeare of the World 2891 and before Christ 1077. Here he kept his Court seuen yeares and six moneths From hence also he sent messengers to Iabes in Gilead 44 miles to signifie his gracious acceptance of that fauour which they shewed vnto Saul in burying of his body there 2 Sam. 1. 1 Chr. 12. From Hebron Dauid went to Ierusalem 22 miles which then was called Iebus being possessed of the Iebusites but he woon it with strong hand and thrust them out of it and in mount Sion set vp the city Millo which was after called the city of Dauid and signifies A place of plenty He began his raigne in Ierusalem in the 38 yere of his age and 7 of his raigne In this place also he set vp his house made of Cedar wood of which Hyram King of Tyrus sent him great plenty from Mount Libanus distant from thence 104 miles 2 Sam. 5. 1 Chr. 12. From thence he went to the valley of Rephaim some 3 miles from Ierusalem in the way that leadeth to the citie of Bethlem where he fought a memorable fight against the Philistines and ouercame them for which cause it was also called Baal-Perizim because by the helpe and assistance of God he had conquered the army of the Philistines 1 Sam. 5. After he had dispersed the enemies hee returned to Ierusalem which is 4 miles The Philistines came the same yeare into the valley of Rephaim againe and pitched their tents within three miles and a halfe of Ierusalem and the Lord gaue Dauid a signe that when he heard a noyse in the mulberry trees hee should set vpon the enemy so Dauid went forth and close by the towne of Gaeba and Kiriath-jearim about two miles from Ierusalem Westward he set vpon the enemie and gaue them the second ouerthrow 2 Sam. 5. 1 Chr. 15. From thence Dauid followed the enemy to Gaza which was 18 miles 2 Sam. 5. In the 10 yeare of his raigne from his first beginning in Hebron Dauid assembled all the Princes Priests and chiefe men of Israel to the number of 30000 which inhabited from Sechor till you come to Chaemah a citie of Nepthalie at the foot of mount Libanus euen 163 miles off These men assembled themselues in the citie of Ierusalem and from thence they with Dauid went to Kiriath-jearim which was about a mile to fetch the Arke of the Couenant from thence into the city of Dauid 1 Sam. 6. 1 Chr. 14. From Kiriath-jearim Dauid and all his traine returned backe again to Ierusalem which was about a mile and they placed the Arke of the Lord in a new cart and caused it to be drawne with Oxen which turned out of the way to the threshing floure of Nachon where Vza rashly and inconsiderately touching the Arke of God contrary to the Diuine Law was presently slaine by the Lord in the way and that place was called Paeri-Vza that is The breach of Vza For he was not of the Tribe of Aaron to whom it was only lawfull to touch the Arke therfore the Lord strooke him that he died miserably wherefore Dauid being terrified by this example of Gods seueritie would not that day bring the ark of the Lord into Ierusalem but carried it to the house of a certaine Nobleman called Obed-Aedom a Gittite who dwelt not far from Ierusalem but when it was told Dauid that the Lord blessed the house of Obed-Aedom and all his family because the arke was there Dauid went from Ierusalem with a great multitude of people to the house of Obed-Aedom who as is said before dwelt not farre from Ierusalem yet there are some that say he was an excellent musitian in Ierusalem and dwelt in Mount Acra that is in the lower citie and from thence Dauid fetcht the Arke of the Lord into the vpper citie which stood vpon mount Sion but I hold the other opinion to be the more probable When the Arke was carried by the Priests Dauid girt himself with a linnen Ephod which kinde of garment the Priests of the inferior order vsed to weare and danced before it singing Psalms and hymnes to the praise and glory of God and with great state brought it to the citie 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 vpper citie which was also called the citie of Dauid This hapned in the tenth yere of his raigne at which time Michal Sauls daughter despised him in her heart and laughed at him but God gaue her a due recompence as you may reade 2 Sam. 6. and him a just reward for he promised by the Prophet Nathan That of his posteritie and bloud the King of Kings and Sauiour of the world should be borne In the yere following Dauid inuaded the land of the Philistins and the citie of Gath which with strong hand he woon this was 34 miles from Ierusalem From thence he returned backe to Ierusalem 34 miles In the twelfth yere of his raigne he afflicted the Moabits with cruel war and destroyed two of their armies with the sword and the rest of the multitude made tributarie which was 24 miles 2 Sam. 8. 1 Chr. 19. He returned thence to Ierusalem with great triumph and joy 24 miles In the 13 yeare of his raigne Anno mundi 2903 and before Christ 1065 he made an expedition vnto Zoba which Iosephus calleth Sophenam and is in Armenia neere to Masia or Mount Taurus 600 miles from Ierusalem towards the North of which you may reade before Dauid in this place woon
Shepheard giueth his life for his Sheepe c. Fourthly in his musicke Dauid was cunning vpon the harp and by that comforted the afflicted spirit of Saul so Christ by the musick and harmonie of his doctrine the glad tydings of saluation comforteth the afflicted members of his Church Fiftly Dauid got his glory and preferment by the death of Goliah so Christ was glorified by conquering Death and the Diuell Sixtly Dauid was persecuted by Saul and pursued from one place to another so that he had not where to hide his head with safety so Christ was persecuted by his own countrymen the Iews shut out from the society of man and as he said Mat. 8. The Foxes haue holes and the Birds haue nests but the Son of man hath not where to hide his head Seuenthly in the dangers that Dauid sustained by Gods prouidence he was mercifully deliuered so Christ was inclosed and in danger of the Iews at Nazareth Luke 4. in Ierusalem in the Temple also Ioh. 8. but he escaped them al because then his time was not come Io. 7.8 Eightly as Absolon rebelled against Dauid being his father so the Iews rebelled against Christ although hee was their Creator according to that of Esay 61. I haue fed and brought vp children but they haue forsaken me Ninthly as Dauid fled to Mount Olivet for refuge being brought to a streight so Christ vpon Mount Olivet his heart being prest with an intollerable agonie fled to his Father by praier for comfort in that extremitie Tenthly as all the friends and familiars of Dauid forsooke him at such time as Absolon 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 Iewes was forsaken of all his followers and many of those which a little before he had done good vnto mocked and derided him as he was vpon the Crosse Lastly as Dauid was restored notwithstanding the former miseries and troubles to his antient glory and eminencie so Christ after he had suffered the due punishment for sin death and before that extteame miserie yet at length conquered both and by his diuine power restored himselfe to his former estate eternall glory The Trauels of ABNER one of Sauls Captaines HEe went with King Saul from Gibeah to the Wildernes of Ziph which was 22 miles Here he was rebuked by Dauid for his negligence From thence he returned to Gibeah 22 miles 1 Sam. 31. From thence he trauelled to the hill Gilboa where Saul killed himselfe 40 miles From thence he went to Machanaim where he made Ishbosheth Sauls son King who kept his court there seuen years 16 miles 2 Sam. 2. From thence hee went to Gibeon where hee slew Asahel Ioabs brother in battell Which was 44 miles 2 Sam. 2. From thence he went ouer Iordan to Bythron 28 miles From thence he went backe to Machanaim 16 miles 2 Sam. 2 Lastly he went thence to Hebron to Dauid and made a Couenant with him where he was treacherously slain by Ioab was 68 miles So all the trauels 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 Northeastward lying between Dibon and Iordan It taketh the name from a House of singing beeing deriued of Baith which signifieth a House and Ron He sung ioyfully The Trauels of IOAB IOAB Dauids Captain was the son of Zerviah Dauids sister for he had two Zerviah and Abogale Zerviah had Ioab Abishas and Asael Abigal had onely Amasa all which were great men in King Dauids time Now when Ioab heard that Abner had brought downe his army to Gibeon hee 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 vnder the gates of the city he traiterously killed Abner 2 Sam. 3. From thence he went with Dauid to Ierusalem where he won Sion and draue thence the blinde 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. cap. 10. From thence he returned backe to Ierusalem 60 miles From thence he went with Dauid into Idumea 160 miles from Ierusalem Southward there he won the towne of Midian conquered the Idumaeans or Edomites 2 Sam. 8. From thence he returned to Ierusalem with his Army beeing 160 miles From thence hee went and besieged Rabba the metropolitan city of the Ammonites beeing 64 miles from Ierusalem North-Eastward Here Vriah was slain 2 Sam. 11. From thence he returned to Ierusalem with K. Dauid 64 miles From thence he went into the kingdom of Gesur which lieth beyond Iordan vpon Mount Libanus by the towne of Caesarea Philippi some 80 miles from Ierusalem Northeastward This countrey was called Trachonites From this land Ioab brought Absolon again to Ierusalem 2 Sam. 14. From thence he returned backe againe with Absolon to Ierusalem 88 miles From thence he went with Dauid when he fled from his sonne Absolon to Machanaim being 44 miles Not far from hence he slew Absolon 2 Sam. 18. From thence he came again with King Dauid to Ierusalem 44 miles 2 Sam. 10. From thence he went to Gibeah where he killed Amasa which was 4 miles From thence he went to the town of Abel-Bethmaacha in the tribe of Nepthali being about 88 miles This town he straightly besieged From thence he went again to Ierusalem 88 miles Afterward he went as Dauid commanded him to number the people at Aroer a towne beyond Iordan which was 24 miles 2 Sam. 24. From thence he went to Iaezer which is 16 miles From thence going through the land of Gilead and passing by the territories of the lower countrey of Hadsi hee came to the town of Dan neere to the place where 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 towne Sidon he went to the walls of Tyre to which place great multitudes of ships resorted which was sixeteene miles From thence he went toward the South til he came to the city Beersaba which was the vtmost bounds of the Holy land Southwestward and was reckoned 132 miles From thence he returned backe to Ierusalem where he deliuered to Dauid the number of those that were chosen souldiers 2. Sam. 24. but the Lord strooke the country and city of Ierusalem with a great plague because hee did contrary to his command 2 Sam. 24. So all the trauels of Ioab were 1348 miles The description of the places to which he trauelled MAny of those cities mentioned in the trauels of Ioab are already described and set forth therefore I account it needlesse in this place againe to repeat them but only such townes as yet haue not bin mentioned
his trauels were 120 miles Of Ahaz King of Iudah AHAZ signifies Apprehending or a possessor He began to raigne after the death of his father Iotham about the end of the 17 yere of Pekah King of Israel Anno mundi 3206 before Christ 762. He raigned wickedly 16 yeares 2 Reg. 16. 2 Chr. 28. For hee was a notorious hypocrite who out of a peruerse zeale worshipped many Idols and burnt his sonne in the valley of Gehinnon as an offering vnto Moloch Wherefore he was vnhappy in his gouernment for God stirred vp mighty enemies against him euen Resin king of Syria and Pekah king of Israel who wasted and destroied his Kingdome and straightly besieging Ierusalem conquered Ahaz in a great battell and put to the sword 120000 of his men After that Resin returned to Elath and tooke it so that he lost more than his father had gotten Where being strucke into a great feare hy reason of these aduersities hee sent to craue the aid of Tiglasse Phulasser king of the Assirians who at his request sent a great Army from Niniueh to Damascus 520 miles and there ouercame Resin and put him to death and tooke captiue 242000 of the people of Damascus and sent them into Cyren a country of Africa 2 Reg. 16. The Trauels of Ahaz King Ahaz went from Ierusalem to Damascus which was 160 miles to meet Tiglath Phulasser King of the Assirians to rejoyce with him for his happy victory and giue him thanks for his aid and assistance where when he saw the Altar at Damascus to be very glorious he sent for Vrija the chiefe Priest who tooke a patterne thereof and carried it with him to Ierusalem where he made an Altar like vnto it 2 Reg. 16. From Damascus he returned backe againe 160 miles So his trauels were 320 miles But yet Ahaz continued in his peruerse impiety and idolatry without any regard or feare of God therefore he stirred vp other enemies against him viz. the Idumaeans who tooke a great multitude of them captiue and the Philistines who with their Army broke into the South part of the tribe of Iuda and tooke these cities following viz. Bethsemes Aialon Timnath Socho Gederoth and Gimso with their villages These Cities for the most part are mentioned in the precedent treatise except Gederoth and Gimso Gederoth commonly called Gederothaim is distant from Ierusalem eight little miles towards the South-west and stands neere to the castle of Emaus being compassed about with a hedge from whence it seemeth to take the name for Gadar is as much to say as He hath hedged about Gimso was also in the Tribe of Iuda but in what place it is not certainely known Thus king Ahaz all the daies of his life did euill in the sight of the Lord for which God punished him and all the land and in the 16 yeare of his raigne he died and was buried with his fathers in the Citie Dauid The Trauels of Ezekias King of Iuda Ezekias which signifies The Champion of Iehouah was borne when his father was but thirteene yeares of age which made many questions whether he should succeed him as his lawfull heire in his Kingdome because they doubted whether he was lawfully begotten For if you doe obserue the order and course of the yeares and chronologie in the Scripture you shall finde that from the beginning of the thirteenth yeare of the age of Ahaz to the first yeare of the raigne of this King Ezekias make just twenty fiue yeres Ezekias therefore began to raigne after the death of his father Ahaz about the end of the third yeare of Hosea King of Israel 2 Reg. 19. Anno mun 3222 before Christ 746 being then about 25 yeres of age a little before Easter as it appeareth 2 Chron. 29. He gouerned that Kingdome with great commendations 29 yeares The first journey that he tooke was from Ierusalem to Gaza which was 44 miles there he ouercame the Army of the Philistines and recouered all those cities which his father Ahaz had lost according to that in the Prophet Esay cap. 15. 2 Reg. 18. From Gaza hee returned to Ierusalem which was 44 miles there he broke downe the places for idolatry and the brasen Serpent made by Moses in the wildernesse and called it Nehustan a brasen thing that hath nothing in it selfe of a diuine nature and could neither profit nor hurt therefore ought not to be worshipped This brasen serpent was kept in memory of that signe that God shewed vnto the children of Israel in the desart when they were bitten and stung to death by fiery serpents for looking vpon this brasen serpent they were healed But now because of the abuse thereof by the Iewes which turned it into idolatry it was broken to pieces Num. 21. 2 Reg. 18. So all the trauels of Ezechias were 88 miles In the 14 yeare of the raigne of Ezekias and in the 38 of his age Senacharib that mighty Emperour of the Assirians hauing taken many townes and cities in the Holy land would haue also besieged Ierusalem and for that purpose sent from Lachis which was 20 miles distant from Ierusalem Thartan Rabsarim and Rabsacha three mighty Princes Embassadors with a great traine to attend them These men went about the citie to see in what part it was most subject to batterie and might easiest begot so when they came to the conduit of the vpper poole which is by the path of the Fullers field between the Fish gate and the old gate in that place where they might easiliest be heard they called to the King but Eliakim the sonne of Hilkiah which was Hezekias Steward Shebnah the Chancellor and Ioab the sonne of Asaph the Recorder went vpon the wall then Rabsacha vttered blasphemous words against the Lord but Ezekias when hee had heard what the enemie had said called all the Elders of Ierusalem together and sent for Isaiah the sonne of Amos the Prophet and they went into the temple of the Lord and praied Wherefore the Lord heard their prayers and sent his Angel into the Campe of the Assirians and loe in one night there were slaine 185000 men as they lay in their tents before Gibeah which at this time they besieged being distant from Ierusalem some ten miles towards the Southwest This great deliuerance hapned in the yeare of the world 3235 and before Christ 733. About the end of the 38 yeare of the age of Ezekiah he fell into a dangerous disease which so farre forth as could be gathered by all likelihoods was the plague for God doth oftentimes try the patience of his Saints with sundry afflictions but yet at his feruent prayers hee was restored to health and his daies were lengthned 15 yeares at which time the Sunne went backe ten degrees according to the variation of the shadow in the Dyall of Ierusalem 2 Reg. 20. Isa 38. 2 Chron. 32. But at the end of the 15 yeares which was about the 54 yeare of his age he died and was buried with his
fathers The Trauels of Manasses MAnasses or Manasseth signifieth forgetting or he hath forgotten This man was 12 yeares old when hee succeeded his father Ezekiah in the Kingdome of Iudah he began to raigne anno mundi 3251 and before Christ 717. This King was a great Idolater and one that put the Prophets of the Lord to death so that it was wonderfull to see what tyranny mischiefe he wrought in Israel wherefore the Lord stirred vp the Assirians against him who ouercame him in a great battell and tooke him captiue carrying him bound in chaines from Ierusalem to Babylon euen 680 miles But after being humbled by his afflictions he came to a knowledge of himselfe and repented for his former euill humbling himselfe with prayer and fasting vnder the hand of God wherefore the Lord tooke compassion of him and stirred vp the minde of the King of Babylon to mercy so that hee loosed his bands and sent him backe againe to Ierusalem 680 miles From that time forward he left idolatry and worshipped the true God adorned the Temple of the Lord with many faire and beautifull buildings and in the 55 yeare of his age he died and was buried in the Kings garden 1 Reg. 21. 2 Chron. 33. So all the trauels of Manasses were 1360 miles Of Amon King of Iuda AMon signifieth True and faithfull he succeeded his father Manasses when he was but 22 yeares of age anno mundi 3307 before Christ 661. He raigned two yeres and then because of his exceeding idolatry the Lord cast him off when he was about 24 yeres of age neere which time some of his seruants conspired against him and put him to death The Trauels of King Iosiah IOsiah signifies A sacrifice of the Lord he succeeded his father Manasses in the gouernment when he was but 8 yeres of age Anno mundi 3309 hefore Christ 659. He gouerned Israel with great commendations 32 yeares 2 Reg. 22. his mothers name was Iedidah and dwelt in a towne called Bozkath but how farre this Towne stood from Ierusalem it is not set downe by any Author This good King went from Ierusalem to Bethel which was 8 miles there he burnt vpon the Altar which Ieroboam built the bones of the Priests of Baal as the man of God that came from Iuda had told Ieroboam 350 yeres before 1 Reg. 13. 2 Chr. 23. From Bethel he returned backe again to Ierusalem which was 8 miles there he celebrated the Passeouer with a solemne feast and great attendance 2 Reg. 23. 2 Chr. 35. In the last yeare of his raigne he went with his army from Ierusalem to Megiddo which was 44 miles against Pharaoh Necho K. of Aegypt in which battell he was slaine with an arrow about the 39 yeare of his age 2 Chron. 35. From Megiddo his body was carried in a chariot backe again to Ierusalem which was 44 miles and there with great lamentations honourably buried 2 Reg. 23. 2 Chr. 35. So all his trauels were 104 miles The Trauels of Iehoahas King of Iudah IEhoahas signifies The knowledge of God he succeeded his father Iosiah in the 23 yeare of his age Anno mundi 3340 which was 628 yeares before Christ and raigned onely three moneths 2 Reg. 24. 2 Chron. 36. Ieremy cap. 22. calleth this man Schallum that is A recompence He went from Ierusalem to Riblah a city in the tribe of Nepthaly which is accounted 80 miles where he was taken prisoner by Pharaoh Necho 2 Reg. 23. From Riblah Pharaoh Necho led him captiue bound in chaines backe again to Ierusalem which was 80 miles and there appointed Iehoiakim his elder brother to raigne in his place 2 Reg. 23. 2 Chron. 36. From Ierusalem he carried Iehoahas to Memphis the Metropolitan citie of Aegypt which was 244 miles 2 Reg. 23. So all the Trauels of Iehoahas were 404 miles Of Iehoiakim King of Iuda IEhoiakim was the eldest sonne of Iosiah that good King and succeeded his brother Iehoahas in the Kingdome Anno mundi 3341 before Christ 627 he gouerned Iudah 11 yeares Pharaoh Necho made him King when he was 25 yeares of age to whom he was constrained to pay 100 talents of * What this is in our money you may reade after in the quantitie of moneys siluer and a talent of gold This money being payed he obtained the Kingdome and continued in great impiety and idolatry for which cause he was sharply reprehended by Ieremiah the Prophet but he being offended at his words sought to put him to death wherefore the Lord stirred vp Nebuchadnezzar the second of that name Emperour of the Assirians and Babylonians who in the 11 yeare of this Kings raigne came to Ierusalem and took him captiue tyed him in two chaines and would haue carried him to Babylon but his minde changed wherefore hee caused him to be put to death and cast out into the fields of Ierusalem for a prey to wilde beasts Ier. 22. 2 Reg. 23. Of Iehoiachin King of Iudah IEhoiachin signifies the preparation of Iehouah This man succeeded his brother Iehoiakim and began his raigne about the end of the 3351 yere of the world and raigned only 3 moneths and 10 daies which was about the 8 yeare of Nabuchodonesor the great at which time he was led captiue from Ierusalem to Babylon together with Mordochae and many other Nobles which was 680 miles This captiuitie hapned 617 yeares before Christ 2 Reg. 24. 2 Chron. 36. Ester 2. Ier. 52. The Trauels of Zedekiah the last King of Iudah AFter Iehoiachin succeeded Zedekiah which signifies The just man of God This was the sonne of that good King Iosiah yet an impious tyrant who by the permission of Nabuchadonezar the great was suffered to be King of Iudah after his brother when he was 21 yeares of age He began to raigne about the beginning of the 3352 yeare of the World and before Christ 616 he gouerned tyrannically 11 yeares 2 Reg. 24. In the 11 yere of this king Ierusalem was taken by Nabuchadonezar the great Emperour of the Babylonians wherefore Zedekiah to escape the brunt of war fled from Ierusalem with all possible speed to Iericho which was 12 miles Ier. 39.52 From the plaine neere the citie of Iericho where he was ouercome by the Princes of the Chaldeans he was led to Riblah to Nebuchadonezar which was 68 miles From Riblah after the Emperour Nabuchadonezar had caused all his children to be put to death before his face and had put out both his eyes he led him captiue to Babylon which was 600 miles where he died miserable 2 Reg. 25. So all the Trauels of Zedekiah King of Iudah were 680 miles Of the destruction of Ierusalem by Nabuchadonezar In the ninth yeare of this Zedekiah which was the last King of Iudah Nabuchadonezar began to besiege Ierusalem it being then Winter anno mundi 3860 vpon the tenth day of the tenth moneth Tebeth which answereth to the 27 day of December which day the Iewes till now obserued as a fasting
that went into exile for he was born about such time as Romulus and Remus were born which was An. mun 3200. and before Christ 798 Tob. 1. About the 30 yeare of his age he went from Niniveh into Media which was 752 miles and there came to a city called Rages in that country to visit the banished Israelites at which time hee lent by Gabel by bond 10 talents of siluer which amounts in our mony at v. s. vi d. the ounce to 2062 li. and 10 s. or thereabouts From Rages he returned backe againe to Niniveh 752 miles So all his trauels were 2104 miles The Trauels of the Angell Raphel and yong Tobias IN the yeare before Christ 708 the Archangell Raphel went from Niniveh to Rages in Media with Tobias the yonger being 752 miles From Rages in Media they returned backe again to Niniveh 752 miles So these journies were 1504 miles ¶ The description of the places mentioned in their trauels Of Nepthaly THis was the chiefe city of the tribe of Nepthaly 84 miles from Ierusalem toward the North. It stood in Galile and in times past was a strong town here Tobias the elder was born It is to be seene at this day as some say but much decayed and is now called by the name of Sirin scituated in a mountain so steep and strongly fortified by nature vpon the West side that it is impossible to ascend vpon it In a valley some two miles from this towne towards the South Naason spoken of in the first Chapter of Toby is scituated Vpon the left side whereof there stood a towne called Sophet but now there is nothing to be seene but a Castle where in antient times the Knights Templers kept their abiding and at this day is in the custody of the Turks This castle is scituated vpon a high mountaine fortified very strongly both by art and nature and standeth within a mile of Nepthaly Southwestward At such time as Iosephus that great Historiographer who was the sonne of Matthia of Marathia a Priest of the Iewes was chosen chiefe Commander of the tribe of Nepthaly he gathered an army of 100000 and fortified this castle Nepthaly and many other townes thereabouts continuing a long and sharp war against the Romans vntill Nepthaly was taken and he constrained to yeeld himselfe captiue In the taking in of which town Titus the son of Vespasian did first ascend the walls there made manifest his noble resolution and valor Vid. Ios de bell Iud. lib. 3 4. Of Rages a city of the Medes RAges is so called of a great Congregation being deriued of Ragasch that is He hath assembled a great company for it was a very populous city It was also called as Strab. li. 11. Cosmograp saith Rahga but after being rebuilt and fortified by Nicanor it was by him called Europus beeing distant from Ierusalem 1396 miles toward the Northeast The Persians call it Arsacia S. Ierom de Trad. Hebr. would haue Edissa a city of Mesopotamia or rather as Pliny saith of Coelosyria to be Rages which stands but 448 miles from Ierusalem Northward and from Ninive 188 miles Westward There are diuers others that haue wrot of this town of Edissa but that this and Rages should be both one I canot see how to agree with Toby for that hee himselfe hath set it down to stand in Media and the Cities of the Medes lie distant from Ierusalem 1396 miles Therefore gentle Reader I referre it to thy better consideration Of Iesus the sonne of Syrach SYrach signifies an Illustrous Prince being deriued of Sarach he hath shined forth he was of that noble family of Dauid that is the son of Syrach the son of Iesu cousin german to Amos Syrach who as Philo saith was the chiefe prince and captain of the children of Israel in the time of Ptolomeus Philadelphus King of Egypt is inserted into the genealogie of Christ Luke 3. He was born 230 years before Christ in the city Ierusalem from whence about the 38 yeare of his age he went to Alexandria a city of Egypt 288 miles Evergetes Ptolomais the sonne of Philadelphus being then King of that countrey where he gathered out of that flourishing Library set vp at the charge of Ptolomais Philadelphus his booke of Ecclesiasticus as bees from diuers floures gather sweet hony Of the great city Alexandria ALexandria was a city of Egypt distant from Ierusalem 288 miles Westward in antient time called No that is a Hinderance But Alexander the Great taking affection to this city in the yere 330 before Christ began to build it for by continuance of time it was much decayed and within the space of 17 dayes made it a goodly city much greater than it was before to which that he might adde the greater grace he called it after his owne name Alexandria and there he lieth buried after hee had gouerned the empire of the Grecians 7 yeares For although he died in Babylon the chiefe city of the Chaldaeans yet Ptolomais one of his chiefe Princes remoued his body thence in a golden chariot to Memphis in Egypt and 20 years after to Alexandria The scituation thereof is very delectable bordering to the North vpon the Mediterranian sea and to the South vpon the poole of Mareridis as Strabo saith lib. 17. It was ten miles about strongly fortified with walls beautified with goodly buildings scituated in a very fruitfull countrey And to giue a greater delight vnto the inhabitants without the Walls there stood many goodly Orchards and Gardens plentifully furnished with fruits and floures of diuers kindes as Pomecitrons Figges c. During the time of Ptolomais Philadelphus it was a famous and flourishing city for this Prince being a great louer of learning instituted an Academy as it is thought in it and added thereto a stately library wherin were 400000 Bookes The same whereof beeing published through the world many people of diuers Nations resorted thither to see it Then Eleazer also the high-priest of the Iews at the request of Ptolemais sent 72 Interpreters to translate the Bible out of Hebrew into Greeke which was as Eusebius obserueth in the third yeare of his reign before Christ 268. In recompence whereof he sent to be dedicated in the Temple of Ierusalem a table of gold richly adorned with Carbuncles smarages and other pretious stones two stately cups and 30 boules of pure gold as appeareth in Iosep lib. Antiq. 12. The Academy continued there till after Christs time as you may reade Acts 6. But the Library was consumed 47 yeares before Christ and the city greatly defaced For Iulius Caesar at that time making war with Pompey the yonger who continued with his sister Cleopatra in this City caused the Kings navy to be set on fire and the Library standing neer it the flame tooke hold of it and burnt it downe to the ground with all that was in it and defaced also a great part of the city Iosephus writing of this city compares it
accomplished they returned home againe But the childe Iesus staied at Ierusalem and his parents knew it not for they thought he had beene among the company Wherefore when they had trauelled a dayes journey that is twentie miles they missed their sonne After they searcht through the companie but could not finde him wherefore they returned backe to Ierusalem being 20 miles where on the third day after they found him in the Temple sitting among the Doctors and disputing with them So the next three daies he returned back again with his parents to Nazereth which was 64 miles and was obedient to them Luke 2. After Iosoph and Mary went euery yeare during the life of Ioseph vp to Ierusalem to the Passeouer and without all doubt took Iesus along with them Thus they continued for the space of three yeares about which time Ioseph died Christ beeing then 16 yeares of age which three yeares trauell of Nazareth to Ierusalem and backe againe commeth to 384 miles From that time forward he continued with his mother till he was 31 yeares of age which was the first yeare of his ministerie Marie his mother being then 45 yeares old was inuited to a marriage in Cana a city of Galile which stood eight miles from Gaâ—ile towards the North-west Iohn 2. Here our Sauiour Christ wrought his first miracle by changing water into Wine From Cana in Galile she went with our Sauiour to Capernaum a city of Galile a little before the feast of the Paschal Lamb which was 20 miles From Capernaum she returned back to Nazareth which was accounted 12 miles In the 32 yeare of the age of our Sauiour Christ which was â—he second of his ministerie Mary went from Nazareth backe againe to Capernaum where our Sauiour Christ cast forth a diuell Matt. 12. Matke 3. which was 12 miles From thence shee returned backe againe to Nazareth which was 12 miles for in this Towne shee dwelt whiles Iesus trauelled from place to place teaching and preaching the word of God Marke 6. And although shee oftentimes went from Nazareth with him to many places continuing still in his company yet then specially when he was to sustaine the wrath of God and punishment for the sinne of man which was in the 34 yeare of his age In which yeare shee would not forsake him till his death for shee went from Galile to Ierusalem with him which was 64 miles a great journey for one of her age being then 48 yeares old And when our Sauiour was crucified shee stood close by the crosse with a heauie and pensiue countenance bewailing the death of her sonne Then was the prophecie of old Simeon accomplished And a sword shall passe through thy soule But after by his glorious resurrection and ascension shee was reuiued and comforted From the passion of Christ to the death of the blessed virgin Marie was 12 yeares All which time shee liued with Iohn the Euangelist in Ierusalem and then being 59 yeares of age dyed and was buried according to the opinion of Nicephorus and others in the garden called Gethsamene So all her Trauels were 3506 miles Now followes the description of the townes and places to which she trauelled Of Nazareth THis was a towne almost of no estimation scituated in a certaine mountaine in Galile the lower sixtie and foure miles and something more from Ierusalem towards the North in the tribe of Zebulon In this Towne our Sauiour Iesus Christ was brought vp Luke 1.2 Some say that it was nineteene or twenty miles from Ierusalem but they mistake themselues yet I will not dispute thereof but follow my authors Iacobus Ziglerus and Tilmanus Stella There is not any mention made of it that is exstant in the old Testament It hath a two fold deriuation the one by Zain and the other by Zade If it bee written by Zaien it may haue a twofold signification since the exposition of this name doth depend vpon the Verbe Nazar which signifies to consecrate and keepe from hence Nezaer a garland of floure or a crowne set with pretious stones c. such as Kings and high Priests are accustomed to weare Also from the same word Nazar is deriued Nazir thence Nazaraeus which is as much to say he is separated from the vse of wine and suffering his haire to bee vncut as being dedicated to the Lord. Therefore our Sauiour Christ is justly called a Nazarite Luke 2. For Naezer first signifies a holy man who hath made a holy vow vnto the Lord Secondly it doth denote a crowne or wreathe of synceritie Exod. 29.39 Thirdly a holy ointment wherewith Kings and Priests were annointed Leuit. 27. and fourthly this word Nezaer signifies a Princely crowne 2 Sam. 1. 2 Kings 11. Psal 89.132 So that Nazareth being deriued of Nazar and Nazir may signifie both a crowne and a holy citie Iudg. 13. but if Nazareth be written by Zade it signifies a flourishing plant or graffe according to that of Isay cap. 11. But there shall come a rod forth of the stocke of Ishai and a graffe shall grow out of his root and the spirit of the Lord shall rest vpon him The inhabitants of this Towne at this day shew certaine monuments and reliques of what had happened in preceding ages as two Churches one built there where the Angell Gabriel saluted the blessed Virgin and shee conceiued by the spirit In which there stands three altars hewen out of a rock and the other built as they say where the house of Ioseph and Marie stood because there our Sauiour Christ was brought vp Also they shew a well where the childe Iesus drew water and ministred to his mother They also shew the vast ruines of the sinagogue where our Sauiour Christ expounded the 61 chapter of Isay for which cause they would haue throwne him headlong downe the hill Luke 4. And many other things of which you may reade in Borchardus the Monke In Saint Ieroms time some 40 yeares before Christ Nazareth was a small towne called Nazarah Of the mountaines by which Mary passed when she went to visit her cosen Elizabeth BEtweene Narareth and Ierusalem there standeth many high hils as Mount Gilboa whereon King Saul killed himselfe Mount Grisim and Hebal vpon which hills the blessings and cursings were pronounced Deut. 27. and mount Ephraim vpon which Ehud kild Eglon king of the Moabites Iudg. 13. Ouer this mountaine being very great and steepe Mary trauelled when she went to visit her cosen Elizabeth Of Bethlehem THere were two cities called by this name the one Bethlem Iuda the other Bethlem Euphrata where our sauior Christ was borne and signifies fruitfull or the house of Bread It stood vpon a hil some 6 miles from Ierusalem towards the South The inhabitants take vpon them to shew the place where our sauiour Christ was borne which stood vpon the East side of the Citie close by the wall thereof where as Eusebius sayth Hellen the Mother of Constantine the Great caused to bee built a
vanisheth away and is without any corporiall substance In the same moneth of Aprill our Sauiour Christ appeared again to Peter Thomas Nathaniel the sons of Zebedeus and other two Disciples as they were fishing vpon the shore of Tiberias which stood 56 miles from Ierusalem Northward betweene Bethsaida and Capernaum Ioh. 21. The day of this apparition is not set downe From the sea of Tiberias neere to Capernaum and Bethsaida to mount Thabor scituated in Galile is reckoned 10 miles there about the end of April our Sauior Christ appeared to aboue 500 brethren at once where many worshipped him others doubted Mat. 28. 1 Cor. 15. In the month of May our Sauior Christ appeared to Iames the son of Alpheus for he had been seen before of Iames the sonne of Zebedeus both which were after crowned with martyrdom in the city Ierusalem the son of Zebedeus vpon the 25 day of Iuly ten yeares after the resurrection and the sonne of Alpheus vpon the feast day of the Passeouer was throwne from a Pinnacle of the Temple 29 yeares after the resurrection of our Sauior Vpon the 40 day after his resurrection hee returned fiftie sixe miles to Ierusalem where his disciples were assembled together and vpon the fourteenth day of May in the sight of all the Apostles with great triumph and ioy he ascended vp into heauen and sitteth at the right hand of his father in diuine majestie and glory Mar. Luk. vlt. Act. 1. Psal 28. Ephes 1. 1 Pet. 3. Heb. 1. So these Trauels of our Sauior Christ were 319 miles But if you reckon his trauels from the time of his infancie to the day of his ascention they make 3093 miles Besides his generall Visitations and journies hither and thither which were so many that as Iohn witnesseth cap. vlt. they could not be described ¶ Of the townes and places to which he trauelled Of Iericho THis city stood very pleasantly in the tribe of Benjamin ten miles from Ierusalem Northeastward Ioshuah ouercame this towne 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 Iews 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 vtterly ouerthrown the second time by the Romans at such time as Vespasian and his son Titus wasted and destroied Ierusalem and all the land of Iudaea yet afterward it was re-edified and in Ieroms time which was 400 yeares after Christ it was a faire city There was shewn the house of Zacheus and the Sycomore tree that he went vpon to see Christ Luk. 19. But by reason of the often destructions and deuastations that hath fallen vpon it there is not to be seen at this day aboue eight houses in the towne and all the monuments and Reliques of the holy places are vtterly destroyed the house of Zacheus and the Sicomore tree are no more to be seen in that place only the place is to be seen where our Sauiour restored the blind man to sight when hee cried after him Lord thou Sonne of Dauid haue mercy vpon mee Luke Chap. 18. Also though this Countrey throughout be very fruitfull and pleasant yet is it 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 bee found there but rather in a Village about sixteen miles from Iordan towards the East And although they stand so farre distant off yet they retain their antient name Between Ierusalem and Iericho there is a desart or wildernes which by the inhabitants of the holy land is called Quarentena where the man of which Christ speaketh fell among theeues Luk. 10. There is in the same place at this day great theeuing and many roberies committed as Brittenbacchus saith In this place also is to be seen the riuer Chereth where the Rauens fed Eliah 1 Reg. 17. Neere to Iericho also is found the riuer the water whereof Elizaeus made sweet by casting in salt whereas before it was bitter and it remaines very pleasant and sweet to this day 2 Reg. 2. Of Ephraim THis city is so called from the pleasantnesse and fruitfulnes of the soile being deriued from Parah To fructifie It lieth 8 miles from Ierusalem Northeastward iust in the way as you go from thence to Iericho in the wildernesse of Quarentena close by the riuer Chereth in the tribe of Benjamin Heere our Sauiour 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 Passeouer 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 alwaies subject to the Crosse and exposed to euery calamitie and therefore is called Bethania that is The house of sorrow and affliction being deriued of Baith an House and Oni Affliction According to the prophecie of our Sauiour who foretold of the afflictions and tribulations that should fall vpon his Church You shall mourn but you shall be comforted and your griefe shall be turned into ioy It was distant from Ierusalem almost two miles towards the South-East Borchardus the Monke obserueth That close by a Well about a stones cast out of this Towne there is shewed the place where Martha met our Sauiour Christ when he came to Bethania and a little after called her sister to meet him Iohn cap. 11. There is also shewne in this Towne the house of Simon the Leper where ◠certaine woman hauing an Alabaster boxe of pretious Ointment poured it on our Sauiors head not without the great indignation of his Disciples Matth. 26. There is also to be seene the house of Martha to which our Sauiour did oftentimes resort Luk. 10. Ioh. 11. 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 Ioh. 11. which stands close by the said Church and ouer it is built a chappell of Marble very decent and comely The Saracens hold this Chappell in great estimation You cannot see the citie of Ierusalem from Bethania because of the mount of Oliues but as soon as you ascend a little hill in the way as you got hence to Ierusalem you may discerne mount Sion and a part of the city then when you are discended from that hill the citie is againe hidden After that vpon the left side of the mount of Oliues some stones cast from Bethpage you doe leaue a small village standing vnder the mountaine of Offence where Solomon in times past committed Idolatry From this village the Asse and the Colt was brought vnto Christ Not farre from thence vpon the South side as you goe vpon the Mount
citie Pergamus 510 Philip and his trauels 514 Paul and his trauels 517 523. 529 547. 555. Of Paphos why so called 526. Of Peâ—ga 527 Of Philippa 590 Patara 554 Puteoli 565 Q THe Queene of Saba 204. R OF the Roman mile 2. Rachels graue 104. Raemses at what time it flourished 115. Of the red sea 116 The mysterie of the Red Sea 117. Rephadiâ— 118 Rithmab 120. Rimnon ibid Rissa ibid. Rechob 132. Of the rocke Eta 158. Ramah 162 Reson Solomons aduersarie 212. 232. Rehoboam and his trauels 233. Of the riuer Cheber 281. Of the riuer Eulaeo 285 Of the Angel Raphael 322 Of Rages a citie of the Meades 323 Of the Isle and citie of Rhodes and why so called 553 Rhegium 564. Rome and why so called 566 Rogel 197 S OF Stades and furlongs 2. Of mount Sion 8. The Allegoricall meaning of mount Sion 10. Of the Springs and Foantaines about Ierusalem 36 Of the Saracens and Turks from 68 to 71. Of Sem 79 Sichem 82. Sodom 88. Of the Sea Asphaltites 89 Of the valley Siddim 96 Succoth 103 Salem ibid. The desart of Sin 118. Of mount Sina 119. Of Saphar 123. Sidon 138. Sampson and his trauels 156. The typicall signification of Sampson 459. Of the riuer Soreck 158. Samuel and his trauels 167. The typicall signification of Samael 168 Saul and his trauels 196. The typical signification of Saul 158 Sur 191 Sunem ibid. Sichor 192 Shemei 199 Solomon and his trauels 200 The typicall signification of Solomon 203 The trauell of Solomons ships 204 Saba and the scituation of it 205 Samaria by whom built 217 Seleucia when it was built and flourished 363. Syria ibid. Of the star that appeared to the wise men in the East 445 Sychar 438. The sea of Galile 446. The description of the holy sepulchre 488 Simry 217 Sallum 224 Saerah King of Aethiopia and his trauels 269. Salmanasser and his trauels 260. Sanacharib and his trauels 261. Sysach King of Aegypt and his trauels 236. Sarepta 273. The Sunamite and her trauells 277. Of Susan 283. Scrubbabel 311. Sobal 320. Simon and his trauels 352 Sephala 356 Of a Sickle 375. Simon of Cyrene who carried Christs Crosse 491 Samaria 497. Smyrna 509. Sardis 512. Saba 515. Salamais 550. Samus an Isle 559. T THe description of the Temple 6 Of the Portches or open Courts of the Temple from 16 to 19. Of the Allegoricall or Spirituall meaning of the Temple from 20 to 24. The Tower Antonia 26. The Tower Ophel 27. The tower of the Centurions 27 The typicall signification of Abraham 87. The trauels of the two Angels 90. The Tower Aeder 104 Thimnah 108. Thahath 123. Tharah ibid. Thabor 146. Thola 152 Thob 153. The trauels of the children of Israell when they fought agaiÌ„st the Benjamites 162. Thecoah 198. Thamor 203. Thirza 213. Thipza 225 The Trauels of the people that Salmanasser carried into captiuitie 227 Tiglat Pullasser his trauels 259 Tyrus or Zor 266. Thispe 273. Tharsis 289. Tobias 321. Of the citie Tharsus 332. The Tubiani a people 343. Tripolis 358. Tryphon and his trauels 365. The trauels of the wise men out of the East 424. The trauels of our Sauior Christ in his infancy 431 The trauels of our Sauiour Christ from his Baptisme till the first yeare of his Minstrie 432 The trauels of our Sauiour Christ in the first yeare of his Minestry 434. The trauels of our Sauiour Christ in the second yeare of his Ministry 440. The trauels of our Sauiour Christ in the third yeare of his ministrie 449 Tyberia 456. Tyrus or Zor 458. The trauels of our Sauior Christ in the fourth yeare of his ministerie 470 Thyatira 512 Tarsus or Tharsus 519. Troas 5â—7 Trogyllium 551. V THe valley of Cedron 31 Vzziah or Azariah and his trauels 243 Vryah and his trauels 280 W OF the wals that compassed the citie of Ierusalem 33. Of Weights Measures and Moneyes from 375 to 411. They Way betweene India and Aegypt 422. Y THe yeares of the iniquitie of Israel 214. Z ZOan 82. Zin Cades 126. Zalmona ibid. Zarea 157. Zoba 173. Ziph 175. Ziglag 129. Zemeraim 219. Zakariah 224 Zarea 234 Zedekiah 252. Zephania 224 Zacharia ibid. Zophar 317 Zabadei 351 Zacharias 414 Zidon 462 FINIS
lower city or the daughter of Sion It was so beautiful that some hold of which number are Egesippus and Eusebius that it exceeded the rest of the city Here stood the house of Helena Queen of the Adiabenors neer about the midst of it as Iosep obserueth Li. Bell. 7. cap. 13. which Queene beeing conuerted to the Iewish Religion built her an house in this City that shee might pray in the Temple Here stood the houses of her sonnes Monobazius and Grapta here stood the houses of the high priests Annas and Caiaphas 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 heere neere 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 Royall seat was after the death of this Herod a Palace for his Successors Archilaus and Herod Agrippa Not farre off he caused two faire Theatres to be also built the one in honour of the Emperour Augustus and this on the one side joined to a tower called Acropolis which was built by Antigonus Epiphanes on a purpose to place a Garrison in to keepe the Iewes in bondage which Iudas Machabeus afterwards made leuel with the ground and on the other side towards his owne Pallace It resembled a semi-Circle made all of white Marble fairely polished the building somewhat low within full of high bankes one rising aboue another like Scaffolds so that the whole multitude might easily heare or see whatsoeuer was said or done It was curiously beautified with gold siluer and many goodly pictures but amongst the rest the battailes which the Emperour Augustus had woon against his people were liuely pourtrayed To this place as well Iews as Gentiles resorted to see Interludes and Playes acted The other was an Amphitheatre and stood vpon the South side of the house it was built round in a whole circle compassed about with high walls large and spatious Here they vsed to fence and to fight both on horse-backe and in Waggons And in the fifth yere in honor of Augustus the circensian games according to the Rites of the Gentiles were very sumptuously performed On the South side of this Amphitheater stood queen Bernice house Sister to Agrippa junior it was a very faire and sumptuous Building little inferiour to King Herods This stood in the market place and so all along were very sumptuous and stately Pillars Heere Agrippa himselfe had also an house and ouer against that vpon the North stood the Iudgement hall where the Sanhedrim or the Councell of the seuenty Elders vsed to meet to heare 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 Pilat the Pretor fairely glistering with gold in which house all the Romane Pretors and Presidents for the most part had their residence and here our Sauiour Christ was whipt crowned with Thornes and spit vpon Not far off from this Pretors house stood the Chancerie or rather as we terme it the Treasury a stately and magnificent house curiously built and appointed onely to lay Records and common Chronologies in Heere also the Officers of the towne gaue in their accounts and Creditors entred their debts This was vtterly destroyed by Vespasian 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 Warres many great battels were fought there as Iosephus saith In this market place close by Pilats house stood a high seat or Tribunal made of faire 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 Latines Lapidanium and with vs it might be termed an heape of stones * for so the word signifieth Here Pilat taking water washed his hands before the people Or a well wrought stone and said I am innocent of this mans bloud At which they cried His bloud be vpon vs and our children And after by Gods appointment according to their own wish fel vpon them for in the same place and close by the same Seat it hapned that Herod wanting money demanded of the Iewes so much out of their Treasurie 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 Fountaine some two hundred furlongs off it but the Iewes supposing it a needlesse worke not onely denied him but gaue many outragious and spitefull speeches tumultuously flocked about him and with great clamors prest vpon him euen as he was in his seat wherfore perceiuing the danger and to preuent mischief he sent to his souldiers to apparell themselues like Citisens and vnder their gownes to bring with them a dagger or ponyard and mingle themselues among the multitude which they did obseruing who they were that made the greatest vprore and when Herod gaue the signe fel vpon them with their ponyards killing a great multitude The rest seeing this massacre suspecting treason amongst themselues fell one vpon another and many for feare of losse or to auoid future danger killed themselues In this very place also Florus Generall of the common souldiers within few yeares after vpon a small occasion made another cruell massacre and much more barbarous than the former for hee spared none the best of them he caused to be whipt to death or else crucified and put to the sword and for the Vulgar spared neither woman nor childe So that within the compasse of one day there died of this obstinate and wicked Nation aboue seuen hundred and thirty This outrage was so cruell that all strangers which inhabited within the town pitied their misery but especially Queen Bernice who being partly frighted with their shreeks partly moued to commiseration through the extremitie of their affliction indangered her life to present her selfe before Florus and vpon her knees besought him to take some mercy and pitty of them and withdraw his hand of vengeance from the bloud of the guiltlesse But the fury of the Roman souldiers was so fierce and the resolution of Florus so vnremoueable that neither her teares nor the present calamities could persuade him But as in such Vprores it commonly happeneth she with the rest was in danger of her safety and was constrained the next night for the preseruation of her estate to keep a strong watch lest the Roman souldiers should haue done her some violence Thus we may see a iust reuenge of a periured and stif necked people and that in the place where the offence was committed though at
least eight and thirtâ— yeares after In this market place Agrippa had built a Gallery all of marble from his own house to the Iudgment hall it was couered aboue and made with diuers and sundry roomes for men to walke in all burnished with gold and called by the name of Xiston as Iosephus hath it Here Agrippa after this cruell massacre made an Oration to the people Queene 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 Iosep lib. de Bell. 2. Egesip lib. 2. cap. 8. To this Gallery there ioyned a bridge which past ouer the valley of Cedron to the Temple And amongst many other faire and sumptuous Buildings that were vpon this place there were the Colledges of the Pharisees Sadduces and the Synagogues and Schooles for the instruction of Youth which were dispersed here and there among other stately buildings and this was called the lower Towne Of the Valley of Cedron BEtweene ths lower City and the Temple there was a deepe Valley extending it selfe from the gate of Benjamin through the middle of the City to the gate of Sion From this Valley they ascended into either mountaines that is Mount Acra and Mount Moriah by certaine steppes or staires These two hills as is before said were ioyned together with a bridge and this Valley passing betweene them was called by Zephaniah cap. 1. Machten In which place aboue all the rest of the Cities dwelt Merchants and such as vsed commerce and trade as appeareth in the eleuenth verse of his prophecie Howle yee Inhabitants of the low place for the company of the Merchants is destroyed all they that exchange for siluer are cut off Vpon which place of Scripture the Chaldaean Paraphrase reades it thus Howle yee inhabitants of the valley Cedron Iosephus in tit Bell. 6. cap. 6. libr. 6. cap. 7 calleth this valley by two names one Machten from the profunditie the other Cedron from the obscurity for so the name signifieth and whosoeuer looked downe into it from the Temple fogs and mists seemed to lie in the bottome of it like a cloud of darknesse such was the depth of it There was another valley which lay betweene mount Sion and these mountaines called by the name of Tyrexdon Of the Mountaine Bezetha THis place lay Northward in Ierusalem and betweene it and the former hils were deep ditches cast it had two Townes standing vpon it diuided with two walls and was commonly called the Suburbs the name of the one which lay neerest to mount Moriah was called the second city the other that lay vpon the North was called Neapolis or the new towne In the second dwelt Hulda the Prophetesse and Zacharias the father of S. Iohn Baptist 2 Kin. 22.2 2 Chr. 34. Nehem. 3. Ioseph li. 10. c. 5. It was adorned with many faire and sumptuous buldings among which was that princely house of Herod Ascalonites that great and mighty King of the Iewes in whose time our Sauior 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 a hundred tables The hall also was very great and richly gilded with refined gold intermixt with siluer about it were many pleasant and delectable walls goodly gardens and fountains for pleasure it was compast with a wal of polisht marble 30 cubits high And as Valerius writeth in that house Herod caused Christ to be mocked put a long white garment vpon him in contempt and so sent him to Pilat Here also was a prison in which Peter was kept when the Angel of the Lord deliuered him Acts 12. Of the towne Neapolis or the New City THis lay without the wals 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 vpon the North side of the hil Here dwelt the Christians and other laborers strangers and by all likelihood it seems that the house of Mary the mother of Iohn syrnamed Marke stood here which because of the continuall resort of the Apostles thither was called the house of the Church Hither Peter resorted when he was deliuered from the hands of Herod by the Angell 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 Citie and loe it opened of it selfe And from thence he went to the house of Mary the mother of Iohn surnamed Marke Here also in my opinion Christ celebrated the last Paschall Lambe because after supper hee went into the mount of Oliues for this lying vnwalled lay open for them to goe and come at their pleasure But afterward in Herod Agrippa's time it was begunne to be compassed in with a wall and before it could be fully finished the Angell of the Lord strucke him and he died miserably Here also stood the Monuments of Iohn Hircanus the high Priest and of Alexander King of the Iewes as it appeareth in Iosephus libr. de Bello 6. cap. 6. The tops of the houses in the Citie of Ierusalem were flat and couered with faire and plaine roofes compassed about with battlements vpon which they vsed to leape dance and banquet and such recreations as they obserued vpon their festiuall daies were there celebrated And thus much shall serue to haue spoken of the mountaines or hills whereon Ierusalem stood Of the Walls that compassed the Citie THis Citie of Ierusalem was so strongly fortified by nature on euery side except the North for it stood vpon high rockes and cliffes that it seemed to be inuincible And that that side might be the better strengthened they compassed it in with three walls and these so strong that when Vespasian the Emperor and his armie inuaded the citie they had much adoe to conquer them The first of these walls was that which Agrippa built and it compassed in Neapolis otherwise called the new towne At the Northwest end of which Wall was built an exceeding high Tower of very faire Marble stone so high that standing on the top thereof a man might see from thence to the Sea and into Arabia and the vttermost bounds of Iudaea This Tower was called Psephina The second wall was that which diuided the two Suburbes wherein there stood 14 towers and gates This King Hezâ—kiah built 2. Chr. 32. in a corner of which betweene 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 trauellers passing towards Ierusalem where guided by it in their way Of this light we reade in Nehem. cap. 3. The third wall compassed in the Temple and all the lower citie in it was sixtie Towers but the chiefe of them stood in the East
Angle betweene 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 vpon this wall King Herod the Ascalonite built three faire Towers one betweene the Garden gate and the old gate which hee called Hippicum in honour of his father Hippicus the other Phaselum in honour of his brother Phasilus and the third Mariamne after his wiues name who notwithstanding hee caused innocently to be put to death These three gates were built of polisht Marble Pliny and Strabo saith That this was the fairest and most spacious city of the East and for the munition and fortification almost inuincible The wals of it were all of white polisht marble some 25 or 30 cubits high the stones were 20 cubits long 20 broad and 5 thicke so closely joyned that the junctures could scarce be perceiued 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 thicke as Iosephus witnesseth lib. Ant. 15. ca. 14. de Bel. Iud. li. 6. ca. 6. which things being rightly considered we may easily perceiue that these walls were very difficult to be destroyed Neither were the ditches of lesse strength that went about the Towne for they were cut out of hard stones at least forty cubits deepe and two hundred and fifty cubits broad which were vnpossible to haue beene woon if God had not holpen and assisted the Romans filling vp those ditches with the bodies of those that died of the plague and famine within the towne Of the gates of Ierusalem IT had twelue gates to goe out and in Vpon the East side lay fiue the first of which was the Fountaine gate which was so called of the Fountaine Siloah And this stood close by the gate of mount Sion In which Fountain the man that was borne blind washt himselfe at the commandement of our Sauiour and had his sight restored Ioh. 9. and at this gate Christ came riding in vpon an Asse when he came from Bethania on Palme Sunday 2 The Sheepe-gate which was so called of the multitude of sheepe that were driuen in by it to be offered in the Temple for it stood hard by the temple Right before this gate stood mount Oliuet some halfe an English mile and a furlong from Ierusalem Eastward By it stood the Garden called Gethsemane where Christ was taken and led into the citie through this gate to be offered vp like an innocent sheepe for the sinnes of the whole World 3 The Dung-gate this tooke the name from a dung-hill because the raine water comming with great power through the Citie washed nway the filth and with great violence carried it through this gate into the poole Cedron Not far from this gate was the water gate and stood a little within it 4 The Valley-gate which tooke the name of the valley Iehosaphat and lay not farre 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 Citie it tooke the name from the Kings horses as appeareth Ier. 31. Neh. 3. The gates vpon the North. 6 The corner gate which stood Northwest 2. K. 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 vpon the West 9 The Raine-gate so called because the raine water clensing the streets carried away all the filth and so past through this gate toward the West and there thrust it out of the Citie Neh. 12. 10 The Garden-gate before which the garden stood wherein Christ was buried 11 The old gate before this Mount Caluarie stood whereon Christ was crucified 12 The fish gate so called because of the Sea fish that came in by it it was also called the Bricke 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 steepe that no man could goe vp vpon it Of the gates within the Citie THe gate of Sion the water gate of which two I haue already spoken The middle gate whereof Ieremie speaketh cap. 19. and it is thought it stood in the middle of the citie in the valley Cedron not farre from the Tower called Mariamne The Iron gate which opened of it selfe when the Angell led Peter out of prison Acts 12. this stood in the City walls passing from one suburbe into another all these gates stood within the city And thus much shall suffice to haue spoken of the portraiture of it Of the Springs Valleys Fountaines and other memorable places as they were scituated neere to the Citie and how to the foure parts of the World IN the next place it resteth to shew what things worthy memorie were about and stood neere to the City the first of which was the brooke Cedron which sprung out of a hill not farre from it vpon the South and with great swiftnesse ran through the East part of the citie and so between Ierusalem the mount of Oliues to the valley gate of Iehosaphat thence passing through the cliffes of mount Oliuet it ran directly East till it came to the dead Sea which brooke in the Summer time was most commonly dry The water of it was something blacke which colour the valley Iehosaphat which was very fertile gaue it from thence it was called Nigrescens torrens a blackish streame This is mystically spoken of in 2. Sam. and Psa 100. where it is said He that is our Sauiour Christ shall drink of the brook in the way which he fulfilled when he made satisfaction for our sinnes by his death passion as it appeareth in the 69 Psal Saue me ô God c. Into this brooke ran the water of Silo and that which came out of the temple Of the mount of Oliues and Bethania which signifies a house of mourning THese two the one lay vpon the East the other Southwest about halfe an English mile and a furlong from Ierusalem Of Bethania you may reade in Nehemia Of the hill Gihon GIhon stood before Ierusalem 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 farre from this stood the mount Golgatha where Christ was crucified From whence may be obserued That as Solomon vpon that hill was crowned King so Christ vpon this was crucified our Sauiour and the true Solomon that made euerlasting peace betweene God and vs. From this mount Gihon sprung the Fountaine 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 sonne of Hinnon THis valley lieth behind the city of Ierusalem Southward on the left hand as they went from Ierusalem to Bethelem In this valley the Iewes set vp an Idoll of copper like a King which they called Moloch that is a King of Idols This Copper Idoll stood with the arms stretching out and vnder it there was a great fire whereby the Image shewed fire-redde and besides that the more to honour it they made a great fire betweene two walls which burnt for his sake and through this fire the Idolatrous Priests cast liuing children into Molochs burning armes which he with his armes red hot burnt to death And in this manner the Iewes offered their owne children to the Idoll Moloch and when they did it they made a great noise crie and beat vpon a drum that the fathers when their children were offered should not here them crie by reason of the great noise of Drums This valley was called the valley of Tophet for Tophet signifies a Drum This was a most grosse and fearefull Idolatry therefore Christ likened this valley of Hinnon to hell fire for he called it Gehenna Mat. 5. That the Iewes should keepe themselues from this monstrous Idolatrie God made a law That if any man were taken committing this kind of Idolatry he should forthwith be stoned to death and not suffered to liue Leuit. 18. 20. The valley of Gehennon is oftentimes named in the holy Scriptures Iosh 15. Nehem. 11.2 Paral. 28.33 Ier. 7. Ierom writeth that here by this Idol Moloch in the valley of Hinnon there was a Wood for the water ran out of the Fountaine Siloah along by it and made the valley moist Of the field of bloud called Hakeldama THis field of bloud which was bought for thirty siluer pence for the which Iudas betraied our Sauiour Christ lay not farre from the valley of Hinnon Southward by the city of Ierusalem as Ierom writeth Of the hill Hameskita or offence and stander THis hill lay Southeast not farre from Ierusalem something wide of mount Oliuet so that there was but one Valley betweene them and was not altogether so high as it Also vpon this hill King Solomon in his old age suffered his wiues or concubines to make Idolatrous Temples wherein he and his wiues worshipped Idols Of the destruction of this famous Citie of Ierusalem by TITVS VESPASIAN THus haue I briefly set forth the dignitie scituation curiosity of the buildings of Ierusalem together with the richnesse of the Temple and sumptuousnesse of the houses now it rests to describe vnto you the manner and meanes how this famous Citie was destroyed surely a thing worthy wonder according to that in Ieremy Whosoeuer shall heare of it his eares shall tingle And that it might be the more famous and the Christians within it might take notice of the neer approaching desolation there were diuers strange accidents hapned and visions seene As first about some foure yeares before the riuer Iordan was turned out of her course and was brought into the Citie Pella a while after that for a yeare together there hung a Comet like a flaming sword ouer the City And in the night there was seene a light in the Temple And in the day when they were at sacrifice a Calfe brought forth a Lambe Then about the middle of the night the Easterne gates of the Temple opened of their owne accord In the skies were seene armies of men fighting and Horses and Chariots running too and againe And at last there was heard a terrible voice in the temple vttering these words Migremus hinc that is Let vs goe hence And that there might be a generall Proclamation of this sad and cruell desolation through the whole citie one Ananias the sonne of Iesus a man poore and impotent vpon the Feast of the Tabernacles ran through all the streets of the Citie and crying O a voice from the East and a voice from the West a voice from the foure windes a voice ouer Ierusalem and the Temple a voice ouer the Bridegroome and the Bride and a voice ouer the whole multitude of this Citie And although he was whipt and imprisoned and cruelly handled yet so long as he liued hee would not cease to vtter these words which by some were judg'd to foretel the horrible desolation which after hapned For Titus Caesar sonne of Flavius the Emperor about seuentie yeares after the Natiuitie of our Lord and about eight and thirty after his ascension vtterly ouerthrew it euen to the ground about the first day of the moneth of Aprill and within a yeare after these signes For he taking aduantage of the three factions which at this time swaied in Ierusalem One of Eleazer the Priest the sonne of Simon the other of Zilotus the chiefe Prince which held the Temple and the third of Iohannes Giscalenus a cruell fellow which had the command of the inferiour Citie besieged it and made this a fit opportunitie to further his enterprises whiles the seditious and factious people little regarding their owne safetie gaue way by their euill and intestine warrs to what he intended weakning themselues much more by their continued slaughters than the enemy by his inuasion Insomuch as the whole citie and Temple was filled with dead bodies common insolencies and publique rapines were ordinarily amongst them some set fire of the City others dispoiling the Temple a third sort killing the Priests euen as they were at sacrifice al places ful of dead bodies and to this to adde a greater measure of miserie without any regard at all to their future defence set fire of the store-house wherein the corne lay for the sustentation of the Citie and consumed that in one day which had been long a gathering by this meanes it came to passe that they were sorely afflicted with the pestilence through the corruption of the aire and with famine for want of Corne. All these things notwithstanding such was the crueltie obstinacie and peruersenesse of this people could not restraine them from violating the most sacred and holy things of the Temple insomuch as Iohannes Giscalenus had a full determination to haue destroyed it but that he was preuented by the Romans About this time was the feast of the Passeouer and it fell vpon the fourteenth day of Aprill being the Sabboth to the celebration whereof there resorted to Ierusalem about three hundred thousand Iewes These the enemy gaue way to enter into the Citie but considering their present necessitie for want of victuals vpon a suddain drew vp their forces and so straightly beleagered them that all this huge multitude was as it were imprisoned within the wals where partaking of the former misery they either died by the plague or famin Whence may be perceiued the maruellous prouidence
desart of Pharan Here Ishmael that excellent Archer and hunter dwelt after with great power and strength he had conquered all the neighboring princes and people thereabout His posteritie also inhabited these parts and after his name were called Ismaelites some eighty miles from Ierusalem toward the South These people were excellent soldiers and of noble courage their principal delight was shooting and therein they exceeded others liuing 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 deriued 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 Trauels of Eleazer the seruant of Abraham AFter Eleazer had sworne to his master to take a wife for his son Isaac of the generation of his fathers he went from the valley of Mamre neere Hebron to Haran a City of Mesopotamia 468 miles off and there made a Contract with Rebeccâ— the daughter of Bethuel and sister of Laban whom he tooke along with him and returned to his master So that his journey to and againe was 944 miles These things hapned in the yeare of the world 2089 and before Christ 1879 Isaac then being forty yeres of age This Eleazer was Steward of Abrahams house and borne at Damascus the chiefe City of Syria Hee was so called because God was his helpe Eleazer being a compound word of El and Ezaer which signifies Almighty God the helper From whence we may perceiue that God is the keeper of the poore and a ready helper in time of tribulation according to that in the Psalmes All they that know thee trust in thee because thou O Lord hearest their prayers and bringest them out of trouble Rebeccha as it should seeme tooke her name from the expectation of Eternall life for Rebechan in Hebrew doth denote such a woman which expecteth a free deliuerie frrom all calamitie and an inheritance of eternall life Therefore Rebeccha is a notable type of the Church of God which is the Spouse of Christ shadowed in Isaac as shall hereafter be more plainely manifested The Trauels of the Patriarch Isaac ISaac being young went with his father Abraham from Berzeba to mount Moriah where his father would haue offered him vnto God as the Lord commanded him which is fortie miles Gens 22. 2 From thence with his father hee returned againe to Berzeba which is forty miles 3 From Berzeba he trauelled with his father to Hebron by the plaine of Mamre which is 16 miles 4 From the plaine of Mamre Isaac trauelled Southward to the fountain of life which is 16 miles there he dwelt Gen. 24. 5 From thence he returned backe again to his fathers burial who was laid in that double caue in Mamre which is 16 miles 6 From thence he returned backe againe to the Well of life where he dwelt 16 miles 7 From the Fountaine of life hee went to Gerar which is 8 miles where Abimelech seeing the beauty of his wife Rebeccha would haue rauisht her and for feare she told him that she was his sister Gen. 26. 8 From Gerar Isaac went Westward to the valley of Gerar which is 8 miles and there he caused the Well to be digged vp againe which the inhabitants had stopped vp Gen. 26. 9 From thence he went to Beersaba which is foure miles where the same night the Lord appeared vnto him and said I am the God of thy father Abraham feare not for I am with thee and will blesse and multiply thy seed for my seruant Abrahams sake Gen. 26. 10 From Beersaba he returned againe to Hebron by the plain of Mamre which is 16 miles here Abraham Sarah and Rebeccha died and were buried Gen. 35. So all the trauels of the Patriarch Isaac were one hundred forty eight miles The typicall signification of Isaac THe name of Isaac is deriued from laughter for Zakah in Hebrew is as much as quod risit is in Latine which signifieth that he laughed and from hence Zechock signifies a Laughter and Isaac mirth or one that reioyceth with mirth This name was giuen to him by God before his natiuitie Gen. 17.18 There were seuen that were named by God before their natiuitie viz. Ishmael Gen. 16. Isaac Gen. 17. Cores or Cyrus King of the Persians Esa 44. Sampson Iudg. 13. Iosia King of Iuda 1. Kings 13. Iohn Baptist and Iesus Christ the sonne of God Luke 1. of whom Isaae was a notable type For Christ is our true rejoicing the laughter mirth and delight of the whole Church of God Abraham vpon the day of the natiuitie of Isaac made a great feast to which no doubt he called many godly men and perhaps some of the Patriarchs for there was then liuing Sarag Arphaxad Salah Heber Thamar and Sem the sonne of Noah who also had a certaine knowledge of Gods promise to Abraham and that of the seed of Isaac should come the Sauiour of the world And as Abraham when hee would haue offered his sonne vnto the Lord carried the fire and the sword but Isaac the wood vpon which he should be slaine and burned O miserable sight especially to a father to see his onely sonne and heire which was miraculously begotten euen then when he was without hope of issue burnt to ashes before his face this was on mount Moriaâ— a little from Salem or Ierusalem euen so our Sauiour Christ foâ— the sinnes that man commits and carries about him bore vpon his shoulders the woodden crosse whereupon he was offered anâ— acceptable sacrifice to his father that so by his mediation and satisfaction we might receiue pardon for them And this was likewise done vpon mount Caluarie a little from Ierusalem And as the Lord prouided another sacrifice for Abraham that so hee might saue his sonne which was a Ramme tied and intangled in thornes so God prouided a sacrifice for the saluation of the world euen Iesus Christ our mediatour who is that immaculate and pretious Lambe of God whose head being crowned with thornes and hanging vpon the crosse by his precious death opened vnto vs the doore of eternall life and made vs capable of euerlasting happinesse Iohn 19. 1 Peter 1. Such was the loue of Abraham a father vnto God such the loue of God a father vnto man that they spared not their only sonnes the one typically to represent the other The other that is the only begotten sonne of God to dye effectually for Abraham Isaac and all mankinde Ioh. 3. Gen. 22. The Trauels of the Patriarch Iacob FRom Beersaba Iacob went to Bethel which is 48 miles and there hee saw a Ladder that reached downe from heauen whereby the Angels ascended and descended Genes 28. 2 From Bethel he went to Haran in Mesopotamia which is 432 miles where he married Leah and Raehel Gen. 28. 3 From Haran in Mesopotamia hee went to mount Gilead which is 380 miles and when Laban pursued him at the
King of Egypt 2 Reg. 23. In the trauels of Iosiah King of Iuda I will speake of this town more at large The 27 King dwelt at Kades Ios 19.21 The 28 King dwelt at Iaknedam 27 miles from Ierusalem Northward being vpon the Mediterranean sea This towne was alotted to the Tribe of Zabulon and giuen to the Levits Ios 21. The 29 King dwelt at Naphet Dor which towne lay vpon the sea coast between the hill Carmel and the town of Cesarea Stratonis 48 miles from Ierusalem Northward The 30 King dwelt at Gilgal between Iericho and the Riuer Iordan and was the first King that Iosuah ouercame and slew al his host The 31 King dwelt at Thirtza in the Tribe of Manasses 24 miles from Ierusalem In this towne Ieroboam and after him all the Kings of Israel kept their courts before Samaria was built THE BOOKE OF IVDGES The Trauels of Caleb and Athniel CAleb and Athniel with all the Children of Iuda went from Iuda to Beseck 44 miles where they tooke King Adoni-Beseck prisoner and cut off his fingers and toes Iudg. 1. From Beseck they went to Ierusalem 44 miles which they tooke by force and burnt it Iudg. 1. From Ierusalem they went to Hebron 22 miles which they tooke and slew the Gyants that inhabited therein Iudg. 1. Not far from Hebron lay the towne of Debir which Athniel won and therefore Caleb gaue him his daughter Achsa for his wife Iudg. 1. From Debir they went to Zephat 16 miles which town they won Iudg. 1. From Zephat they went to Gaza 4 miles From Gaza they went to Ascalon 6 miles Iudg. 1. From Ascalon the went to Hebron 14 miles From Hebron they went backe again to Debir where Athniel dwelt 12 miles So all the trauels of Caleb and Athniel were 132 miles The Description of the Townes and places to which they trauelled Of Beseck BEseck was a metropolitan city of the Canaanites neere to the water Merom where Adoni-Beseck kept his Court 44 miles from Ierusalem toward the North and tooke the name of Desaeck or Beseck which signifies lightning Of this King you may reade Iudg. 1. Of Zephah THis was a town vpon the borders of the tribes of Iudah and Simeon not far from Siclag Ios 15. It takes the name from Zaphah which signifies a watch-tower and was also called by the sons of Iuda who destroyed all the country Chorma which signifies a Curse or a desolat place To the citisens hereof Dauid sent gifts 1 Sam. 36. Of Gaza OF this town you may reade more hereafter in the Trauels of the Arke of the Couenant The typicall signification of CALEB CALEB signifieth An hearty man or A man after Gods owne heart louing his Neighbour with all his heart For Col is as much as Omnis which signifies All and Cala Hee forgiueth all and Leb or Lebbah signifieth an Heart the seat and fountain of all life So that Caleb seems to take his name from a singular heartie affection whereby he forgiueth his neighbour For as this man being of a noble resolution and courage in the 29 yeare of his age won Hebron a strong City and put to death the three sons of Anak terrible Gyants so Christ the Son of God that so loued the world that he gaue himselfe for it with a more than humane resolution conquered hell and those three mighty Gyants incident vnto it the sons of Sathan Sin the World and Death Of Athniel IN the yeare of the World 1503 and before Christ 2565 Ioshuah died after whose death Caleb and Athniel iudged Israel about which time the Israelites committed idolatry and worshipped Baal and Asteroth wherefore the Lord suffered them to fall into the hands of Chushan Rishathaim King of Mesopotamia But because of their oppression they cried vnto the Lord and hee stirred vp Othniel the yonger brother of Caleb who in the yeare of the world 2512 conquered Chushan deliuered the people and gouerned Israel 40 years Iudg. 3. Athniel or Othniel signifies the god of time being deriued of Aeth that is an Age and is a Type of Christ who is the God of time and in his due time conquered the world and Sathan the prince thereof thereby deliuering the poore afflicted members of his Church out of his miserable seruitude and bondage for which cause God hath made him judge ouer it and giuen him fell power and authority to rule and gouern it The Trauels of Ehud the third Iudge of Israel EHud was the sonne of Gira of the Tribe of Iuda and dwelt in the City of Iericho or of the Palmes Hee was a valiant and resolute man lame of his right hand Iudg. 3. and to the iudgement of man not fit to bee a Captaine beeing so infirme Yet it happened that this man growing in fauor with Eglon King of the Moabites who at this time kept his Court in Iericho which towne he had but eighteene yeares before conquered tooke opportunitie by the Children of Israels comming to Gilgal for they came thither to offer to the Idoll and to bring gifts of the king to present these presents vnto him and because of his former familiaritie was admitted to speake in priuat with him in his summer parlour where as he was talking with him he thrust him into the belly with a short knife and locking the dore he fled back to Seirah and told the children of Israell what he had done From thence they presently went to Ephraim there blew the trumpet and set vpon the Moabits and put them to the sword Iudg. 3. The Trauels of Ehud EHud went from Iericho to Gilgal 2 miles From Gilgal he went to Iericho 2 miles From Iericho he went to mount Ephraim 6 miles From Mount Ephraim he went to Iorden 4 miles where hee ouerthrew 10000 Moabites So all the trauels of Ehud were 14 miles Of Mount Ephraim THis mountain is about 8 miles from Ierusalem towards the South and extends it selfe in longitude to the city neer the Mediterranean sea called Ioppa which is distant from Ierusalem 20 miles toward the Northwest The Trauels of the sonnes of Hobab the Kenite THe sons of Hobab the Kenite Moses brother in law were from Iericho to Arad a City in the tribe of Iuda scituated in the desart toward the South Num. 10. Iudg. 1. 44 miles Of Arad ARad is a city in the Tribe of Iuda 22 miles from Ierusalem towards the South taking the name of a multitude of asses that were found thereabouts in the desart and is deriued from Arod which signifies a wilde Asse a rude creature The Trauels of Iael the wife of Heber the Kenite who killed Sisera the Captaine FRom Arad shee and her husband went to the plaine of Zaaenaim and dwelt there neere to a Towne called Kades a Towne of refuge of the Leuites in the Tribe of Nephthali 166 miles there she killed Sisera This towne lieth 92 miles from Ierusalem towards the North. Of Deborah and Barak DEborah was the wife of Lapidoth and dwelt vnder
a memorable battell against Hadad-Ezer the King thereof neere to the riuer Euphrates he tooke 700 horse and 20000 foot burnt their chariots tooke 100 castles conquered all the Townes and Countrey round about and went away with a great bootie as well of Gold as siluer brasse and other things which brasse for the excellencie thereof was like vnto gold and as Iosephus saith afterwards Solomon made the molten sea of it When Gadarezer King of the Syrians he that built that famous citie of Damascus heard of the ouerthrow of Hadad-Ezer hee sent a great army to his aid which King Dauid neere to the riuer Euphrates smote with the sword so that 20000 of them were slaine and he carried away a glorious victorie extending his gouernment from Ierusalem 600 miles towards the North that is into Armenia and beyond the riuer Euphrates and made these two nations tributary vnto him 2 Sam. 8. 1 Chr. 19. After Dauid had woon these 2 memorable victories neere Euphrates he went thence with all his army towards the South and inuaded the land of Syria in which journey Ioram the sonne of Tohi King of Antiochia which citie at this time was called Hemath met Dauid with gifts and presents in the name of his Father returning him many thankes because he had destroied the common enemy Hadad-Ezer and by strong hand subdued and quelled the furie of that mighty tyrant who was also a trouble and vexation to the Kingdome of Antiochia Dauid entertained this message kindly thankfully receiued his gifts which was of gold siluer and fine brasse and so gaue Ioram an acceptable dispatch and from thence with his army went to Damascus the Metropolitan citie of Syria where in the valley of salt he got a great victory in which 18000 Syrians were slaine and soon after the Citie of Damascus taken in which Dauid placed a garrison and compelled them to pay tribute 2 Sam. 8. This was distant from the kingdome of Soba 520 miles From Damascus he went with his army into the land of the Ammonites 100 miles in the way that leadeth out of Syria to Ierusalem all which he conquered and all the cities and townes thereabouts and compelled them to pay tribute 2 Sam. 8. From thence he returned to Ierusalem which was 60 miles and all the bootie that he had gotten in his journey he dedicated vnto the Lord 2 Sam. 8. A while after hee with his army made an incursion into the land of Idumaea and compelled the inhabitants to pay tribute Moreouer he destroied the citie of Midian the Metropolitane of that countrey of which you may reade before it was distant from Ierusalem 160 miles towards the South So that the extent of Dauids kingdome from the North to the South was 800 miles euen from the kingdome of Soba to the Red sea and from the East to the West 120 miles from Tyrus and Sydon reaching to Damascus Thus by the singular blessing of God he obtained a spacious and powerfull Empire 1 Sam. 8. 1 Reg. 11. 1 Chr. 19. He made his expedition into Idumaea about the 14 yeare of his raigne From Midian in Idumaea hee returned with great glory and praise to Ierusalem which was 160 miles In the 14 yere of his raigne and in the yere of the world 2904 and before Christ 1064 Nahas King of the Ammonites died and Haron his sonne succeeded him this man contemptuously abused the messengers of Dauid 2 Sam. 10. and to justifie that injury he gathered an army out of Soba Siria and Mesopotamia euen a mighty Host to oppose Dauid who in the 15 yeare of his gouernment met him with his Armie at Helam some twenty miles from Ierusalem where he obtained a notable victorie and destroied 700 chariots and 40000 horse 1 Chr. 20. Dauid after this with great applause of the people was entertained into Ierusalem which was 20 miles distant where being puft vp with prosperity he forgat his former pietie and sanctitie and by degrees fell into vnlawfull actions and vnjust desires whence it hapned that soone after he committed adulterie with Bathseba after that to hide his fault caused her husband to be slaine This was kept secret till the Lord by Nathan sharply reprehends him laies before him what hee was and what his present estate is from whence that came and then concludes that he is most vnthankfull carelesse and negligent towards God and man in committing those insolencies neither left he there but told him that God would seuerely punish him for his offence which after hapned as you may reade 1 Sa. 11.12.14.17 Dauid being nipt in his conscience with this sharpe reprehension fell into great lamentation the extremitie of whose passions may very well appeare in the poenitentiall Psalmes which at this time and soone after hee wrot and left to future ages After this about the end of Summer he gathered an army and went into the land of the Ammonites some 64 miles where hee took the Metropolitan citie which at that time was called Rabba because of the multitude of citizens that were in it but after being restored by Ptolomeus Philadelphus King of Aegypt hee called it after his own Philadelphia there took the crowne from the head of the king of the Ammonites which weighed a Talent of * How much this was you may read after in the quantitie of weights gold being as Iosephus saith richly adorned with faire Sardonicke stones of which you may reade in 2 Sam. 12. From thence he returned back to Ierusalem which is 64 miles where hee married Bathseba and by her had foure sonnes Simeon Sobab Nathan and Solomon 1 Chr. 3. Soone after this Ammon defloured his sister Thamar not long after that his son Absalon killed his brother Ammon beeing then about 18 yeares of age which Dauid tooke so hainously that he would not suffer him to come into his sight for three yeares 1 Sam. 13. Then Ioab by the subtiltie of the woman of Tekoa reconciled him to the king his father yet neuerthelesse he came not to his court of two yeares after This Absolon was a goodly man affable for which cause enen at that time the people began to affect him Afterward in the yeare of the world 2950 and before Christ 1408 Absolon being then about 25 yeares of age moued sedition against his father A matter remarkeable that although he had slaine his owne brother being disgraced and absent from the Court almost fiue yeres yet within short time after he so strongly vnited the affection of the people to him that he constrained Dauid standing in feare of his greatnesse all his former acts and worthy victories notwithstanding to forsake his owne citie and for safety to fly to the mount of Oliues beeing three quarters of a mile from the citie There he staied a while to see the condition of the tumult but necessitie constrained him to take his way to Bahuzim And as he was going Zimri the sonne of Gesa of the house of Saul cursed
he might manifest his thankfulnesse to the King of Tyre he went to Cabul a city in the tribe of Ashur some 80 miles Northward where hee gaue to the aforesaid Hiram 20 towns or cities with al the country round about wherefore King Hiram called this Cabul that is Displeasant and dirty 2 Reg. 9. You may reade of Cabul Ios 19. From thence he returned to Ierusalem 88 miles From thence he went to Hazor and restored the city which was 44 miles From thence he returned to Ierusalem 44 miles From thence he went to Megiddo which is not farre from Iesreel in the tribe of Manasses 44 miles from Ierusalem toward the North. This city Solomon fortified 1 Reg. 9. and Iosiah King of Iuda a long time after was there wounded to death 2 Reg. 9. From Megiddo he returned to Ierusalem 44 miles After that Pharaoh King of Egypt had conquered Gaser and destroyed it with fire hee gaue it to his Daughter the Wife of Solomon who rebuilt it This towne was scituated in the tribe of Ephraim 28 miles from Ierusalem Northward 1 Reg. 9. From Gaser Solomon returned backe again to Ierusalem being 28 miles From thence he went to the higher Bethoron which he fortified and stood twenty eight miles from Ierusalem Northward 2 Chr. 8. From thence he went to the lower Bethoron 16 miles from the vpper toward the South 1 Reg. 9. 2 Chr. 8. From the lower Bethoron hee went to Ierusalem which was 8 miles After Solomon built the city Belath which was 12 miles from Ierusalem Northwestward 1 Reg. 9. 2 Chr. 8. From thence he returned back to Ierusalem 12 miles and it is very like that Solomon often visited those towns that he had built and restored From Ierusalem he went to Hemath afterward called Antiochia which was 320 miles and compassed it about with a wall fortified it and afterward constrained all the kingdomes thereabout to be obedient to his gouernment 2 Chr. 8. From thence he went with great state into the kingdom of Zoba which is 600 miles and fortified all the great cities castles of that country that with the greater facility they might oppose the inuasions of neighbouring countries From thence hee returned to that famous city Thamar which was also called the city of the Palmes 400 miles this he rebuilt and fortified 1 Reg. 9. 2 Chr. 8. From thence he went to Ierusalem which is 388 miles From thence hee went to Ezeongaber neere the Red sea in the countrey of Idumaea where he built a company of stately ships and sent them to India to fetch gold which was 176 miles from Ierusalem Southward 1 Reg. 9. From thence he returned to Ierusalem which is 176 miles But of his great prosperitie and aboundance of riches he grew proud for he excelled all the Kings neere him and gaue himselfe to vnlawfull pleasures he tooke vnto him 300 Concubines and 70 wiues by whose persuasion he began to worship the gods of the Gentiles which idolatry was euill in the sight of the Lord. And after he had reigned forty yeares which was about the sixtieth of his age he died and was buried by his father Dauid in Mount Sion the city of Dauid An. mundi 2770 and before Christ 998. So all the trauels of Solomon were 2544 miles The description of the places to which he trauelled Of Gazer you may reade before in the trauels of Dauid Of Bethoron THe vpper and the lower Bethoron were two Cities in the tribe of Ephraim built by Saaerah the daughter of Ephraim 1 Chron. 7. The inferiour Bethoron was not farre from the Castle of Emmaus 8 miles from Ierusalem toward the Northwest The superior was 20 miles distant toward the North. These towns Solomon repaired Neere to the lower Bethoron the Lord put the enemies of Ioshuah to flight with thunder and haile Ios 10. Here also Iudas Machabeus ouercame the army of Antiochus 1 Mac. 3. Here also he put Nicanor to death 1 Mac. 7. and signifieth A white house being deriued of Beth which signifies an house and Chor he hath made white Of Baaelath THis is a city twelue miles from Ierusalem Northwestward in the tribe of Dan. This city Solomon repaired at such time as he fell in loue with many women from whence it seemeth to take his name for Baaeleth signifieth his beloued Lady Of Thamar THamar Tadmor or Palmira stood partly in the desart of Siria and partly in a fruitfull soile being compassed about on the one side with a Wood on the other with faire and pleasant fields It was the Metropolitan city of all Syria not farre from Euphrates some 388 miles from Ierusalem Northeastward and as Pliny saith lib. 5. cap. 25. Although it lay betwixt two mighty Empires Rome and Parthia yet it was subiect to neither fairely scituated a free city adorned with fair and sumptuous buildings and contented with their own gouernment The wildernesses called after this towns name Palmarnae or the desarts of the Palms extend themselues to Petra the metropolitan city of Arabia Petraea and to the borders of Arabia foelix one daies journey from Euphrates two from the vpper part of Syria and six from Babylon as Iosephus obserueth Antiq. lib. 8. cap. 5. This city Solomon made tributary to him and fortified it with strong walls 1 Reg. 9. Of Ezeongaber you may reade before The Typicall signification of Solomon SOLOMON is as much as Frederick in high-Dutch which signifieth a Peace-maker being deriued of the Hebrew word Schelomoh or Schalom to bring glad tydings of peace Typically representing Christ the Prince of peace who hath reconciled vs with his heauenly Father and merited an eternall place of peace and happinesse for all such as trust in him Esay 9. And as Solomon built vp the Temple of the Lord with great majestie and glorie so Christ hath built vp that heauenly Temple the Church of God and adorned it with the gifts and graces of his holy Spirit in this world that so it might be capable of eternall glory in the world to come 2 Cor. 6. The Trauels of Solomons Ships THis Navy of Solomons went vnto Ophir that is India which was accounted from the Mart town 4800 miles From India they returned backe again 4800 miles so all their trauels were 9600 miles This journy was finished in 3 yeares to and again so that euerie yeare they went 3200 miles and brought home plenty of gold siluer pretious stones Ebony c. Of India MOses called this country Havilah Gen. 2. and Ios li. Antiq. 8. c. 7. Ophir which name saith he it took of two brothers so called which inhabited and gouerned that country all along the riuer Ganges But more modern writers deriue it from Indus a riuer passing through it It is a spatious and fruitfull country pleasant to inhabit and as Pomponius saith hath in it 5000 cities being diuided into two parts the outward and inward The Trauels of the Queene of Saba FRom Saba in Ethiopia she came to Ierusalem 964 miles From
carrieth the smell vnto the red sea and they that saile can easily discerne the sweetnesse of the aire There is gold also found there very fine and pure insomuch as for the goodnesse of it it is called Arabian gold The Phoenix is found there of which there is but one in the world Pliny lib. 9. cap. 35. describes her to be as big as an Eagle with a list of feathers like gold about her necke the rest are of a purple colour therefore from Phoenicea and the purple colour of her wings shee is called Phoenix Shee hath a tuft of feathers vpon her head like vnto a crowne Shee liueth 660 yeares at the end of which time she buildeth her a nest of Cassia Cinnamon Calamus and other pretious Gummes and herbs which the Sun by the extremitie of the heate and the wauing of her wings fires and she taking delight in the sweetnesse of the sauor houers so long ouer it that she burnes her selfe in her owne nest Within a while after out of the marrow of her bones and the ashes of her body there groweth a worme which by little and little increaseth to some bignesse and after to a purple bird Then her wings extend themselues to a full greatnesse till such time as she commeth to be a perfect Phoenix This Bird doth liuely represent our Sauiour Christ who only and alone is the true Messiah and through whom we must expect euerlasting life who in the fulnesse of time offered himself a Sacrifice vpon the Crosse sustaining the punishment for sin at the time of his Passion putting on a purple robe being all be sprinkled with his owne bloud Ioh. 19. And as the Phoenix is burnt in her owne nest so likewise was hee consumed in the fire of Gods wrath according to that in the 22 Psal My heart is become like melting wax in the middest of my body And as the Phoenix of it selfe begetteth another of the same kinde so Christ by the power of his Deitie raised vp his body from the dust of the earth and ascended vp into heauen a glorious body to sit at the right hand of his father in that euerlasting Kingdome of glory Thus gentle Reader I thought fit to describe vnto you these two townes that when you shall reade of them in the holy Scripture the one being in Aethiopia towards the South the other in Arabia Foelix and called Seba you might discerne the one from the other of both which there is mention in the 72 Psalme The Kings of the Sea and of the Isles shall bring presents the Kings of Saba and Seba shall giue gifts The Trauels of King Pharaoh out of Aegypt when he ouercame the Towne of Gazer 1 Reg. 9. IN the 16 yeare of King Dauid Anno mundi 2906 and before Christ 1602 Chabreus King of Aegypt began to raigne and raigned 56 yeares Diod. lib. 2. cap. 2. Herodotus calleth this man Chephrines in his second booke and Eusebius Nepher Cherres He went from Memphis the chiefe Citie of Aegypt with a great armie 268 miles euen vnto the tribe of Ephraim and there tooke Gazer a Citie of the Leuites and burned it with fire 1 Reg. 8. Ios 21. After he came to Ierusalem which was 28 miles And this city which he had thus destroied he gaue to his daughter the wife of Solomon 1 Reg. 9. From thence he returned to Memphis in Aegypt 244 miles So all the Trauels of King Pharaoh were 244 miles Of Memphis MEmphis is a great city in Egypt where commonly the kings of that country keepe their Courts and lyeth from Ierusalem 244 miles South-westward This citie was built a little before the floud but repaired and enlarged by a king called Ogdoo who in loue of his daughter after her name called it Memphis You may reade of it in the ninth of Hosea called there by the name of Moph for thus he saith The people of Israel are gone out of the land of Ephraim because of their Idolatrie into Aegypt but Aegypt shall gather them vp Moph that is Memphis shall bury them Moph or Mapheth in this place signifieth A prodigious wonder but the rest of the Prophets call it Noph for the fertilitie pleasantnes of the country as you may reade Esa 19. The Princes of the Zoan are become foolish and the Princes of Noph or of Memphis are deceiued See also Ierem. 2.44.46 Ezech. 30. in which places you may find it called after this name Zoan is the citie Tanis where Moses wrought all his miracles But Noph or Moph is this Memphis a beautifull towne large and spacious scituated in the strongest and profitablest place in Aegypt diuided into two parts by the riuer Nilus so that any kind of commodities or merchandise might with ease bee brouht thither by water for which cause the kings of that countrie for the most part kept their abiding there Strabo saith lib. 17. That vpon the East part of this citie there standeth a Tower or Castle called Babylon built by certaine Babylonians who leauing their owne countrey by the permissions of the kings of Egipt dwelt there in after times there was placed a garrison in it one of the three which were for the defence of Aegypt and by Ptolomy was called Babilon through both which viz. Memphis and Babilon Nilus passed the one standing vpon the East side the other vpon the West Zoan or Tanis stood about some foure miles from this towne and was a faire spacious citie also scituated towards the South vpon the East side of Nilus to which the kings of that country often resorted and Heliopolis anothet faire citie stood some six miles off that towards the Northeast All these foure townes were so wonderfully inhabited by reason of their pleasant profitable scituation that in processe of time they become all one citie and in this age is called Alcaire containing in circuit 60 miles so that it seemeth to spectators to be like a country replenished with nothing but fair houses goodly churches strong towers exceeding all the rest of the cities of Egypt aswell for the beautifulnesse of the place as the extent and largenesse of it It is reported that in the yeare of our Lord 1476 there was such an extreme pestilence in it that there died 20000 a day from whence may be gathered how infinitely it is peopled Neere to this towne stood the Pyramides which are held to he one of the wonders of the World as Strabo saith lib. 17. the height of one of them was 625 foot and square on each side 883 foot it was twentie yeares a building a hundred thousand workemen emploied about it whence it may be easily gathered how hard and difficult it was in those times to get stone it being for the most part brought from Arabia and at what an excessiue charge they were that set vp them Of Gazar This Citie is described in the Trauels of Solomon The Trauels of Hadad King of Idumaea WHen Dauid conquered Idumaea Hadad
of whom you muy reade Nehem 13. But some two hundred yeares after the first foundation Iohn Hircanus high Priest of Ierusalem vtterly destroied it to the ground The Trauels of our Sauiour Christ in the second yeare of his Ministerie which was the two and thirtieth yeare of his age IN the moneth of Ianuary Christ went from Cana in Galile to Nazareth which was eight miles Here vpon the Sabboth day he went into the Sinagogue and began to teach insomuch as the inhabitants were astonished at his doctrine but the citizens being ingratefull he went to Capernaum a citie which he had chosen to dwell in before all others Luke 4. Mat. 4. which was 12 miles or thereabouts In the moneth of February hee compassed about all Galile preaching the Gospel of the kingdome of God healing the sick and those that were diseased amongst the people Matth. 4. In this visitation our Sauiour went to Gaesarea Philippi which was distant from Capernaum fortie eight miles towards the North. Here Matthew was called as he was at the receipt of Custome and the woman was healed of her bloudy issue Mat. 9. But that Mathew was called about this time the circumstances of times make euident for a little after the second Passeouer of our Sauior Christ the same Mathew was chosen to be an Apostle Luke 5 6. Mat. 9. Mark 2. In the moneth of March the inhabitants of the towns which Christ visited in Galilee brought vnto him many that were possessed of diuels and afflicted with other diseases all which he healed insomuch that there followed him a great company out of Galile and Decapolis and from Ierusalem and Iudaea and of all the countries beyond Iordan Mat. 4. Thus hauing finishing this visitation as it may be thought he returned backe againe to Capernaum where he dwelt as I haue shewed before which was 48 miles for Caesarea Philippi stood so farre from Capernaum A little after these things were finished The second Passeouer of the Ministerie of Christ was the feast of the Iewes Iohn 4. and Iesus went vp to Ierusalem Iohn 5. to celebrate the feast of the Passeouer which this yeare hapned a little before Haruest which was 56 miles This second Passeouer of the Ministrie of Christ fell vpon the six and twentieth day of March at which time Christ celebrated the Passeouer with his Disciples according to the Law of God Here vpon the Sabboth day being the last day of March he healed a certaine man that lay by the Poole Bethesda which had bin diseased eight and thirtie yeres Ioh. 5. And at the end of the Passeouer he went with his Disciples from Ierusalem through the corne fields but his Disciples being hungry began to pull the eares of corne and to eat them wherefore the Pharises beeing offended at them began to reprehend our Sauiour Christ and his Disciples vpon which followed the disputation concerning the Sabboth Luke 6. Matth. 12. Vpon the seuenth day of Aprill he went on the Sabboth day to Peraea which country was in the command of Herod Antipas and there he healed a man with a dried hand Luke 6. Marke 3. The country of Peraea beyond Iordan is distant from Ierusalem twentie miles But when the Herodian Councell heard that he had healed a man on the Sabboth day they sought occasion how they might doe to put him to death Wherefore our Sauiour Christ went thence to the sea of Galile which was 40 miles Here he went vp into a mountain not far from Capernaum and chose the twelue Apostles Luke 6. Mark 3. And then vpon this mountain he preached vnto the people which resorted thither vnto him out of the Countrey round about whom they heard with great diligence and attendance This sermon being ended hee came down from the mountaine and healed the man that was sicke of the Leprosie Hee also went into Capernaum and healed the Centurions seruant Mat. 8. Luke 7. Afterward Christ in the same moneth of April when the man whom he healed of his leprosie had published that Miracle hee went from Capernaum into the Desart which lay neere vnto Bethsaida for there was a certaine Desart Marke 1. Luke 7. In the moneth of May our Sauiour went out of Galile towards Ierusalem to keep the feast of Penticost so he came to the gates of the city Naim which stood on the border of Samaria and was distant from Capernaum 16 miles Here he recalled the widowes sonne to life Luke 7. And after he went to Ierusalem which was 48 miles that he might celebrate the feast of Penticost according to the law of God Exo. 23. Thrice euery yeare shall euery male childe appeare before the Lord thy God This feast fell this yeare vpon the 15 day of May for it behooued our Sauiour according to the law to go euery yere to Ierusalem to these three principall feasts that is of the Passeouer Penticost and of the Tabernacles A little after the feast of Penticost Iohn Baptist being then in prison hauing certaine intelligence of the Miracle that our Sauiour wrought vpon the Widowes sonne at the gates of Naim and of other wonderfull Miracles that he did in Ierusalem and in other places in Iudaea sent two of his disciples from the Castle of Macharuntes to aske him the question whether he was the Messia or no So when they came vnto him and deliuered their message at that time he cured many of their sicknesse and plagues and euill spirits and to many blinde men hee gaue sight freely And Iesus said vnto them Goe your wayes and tell Iohn what things you haue seene and heard That the Blinde see the Halt go the Lepers are clensed the Deafe heare the Dead are raised and the Poore receiue the Gospell And blessed is hee that shall not be offended in me Mathew 11. Luke 7. At this sermon it was thought hee conuerted the sinner that washed his feet poured a box of pretious oile vpon his head Luke 7. In the moneth of Iune our Sauior Iesus Christ went with the Twelue about six and fifty miles out of Iudaea into Galilee and there in diuers Cities and Townes he began to preach and teach the Kingdome of God At this time there were diuers Women followed him whom hee had healed of euill Spirits and of their infirmities but principally Mary Magdalen out of whom he had cast seuen Diuels and Ioan the wife of Chuza Herods Procurator and Susanna All which ministred vnto him of their substance Luke 8. Now when he had trauelled from place to place some certain time and visited many cities and towns thereabouts he returned backe again to the city of Capernaum where it is said that our Sauior Christ dwelt and there dispossest the man of a diuel that was both blind lame and dumbe Mat. 12. Mar. 3. Luke 11. And going thence to the sea he recited 8 Parables Matth. 13. Marke 4. Luke 8. In the euening of the same day he went six miles into the country of the Gadarens
repeating these words Thou shalt tread vpon the Aspe and vpon the Basiliske c. Eusebius in his Ecclesiasticall Historie saith that there are yet standing in Tyre certaine Marble pillars and other precious stones of a wonderfull greatnesse that it amaseth such as behold them neere to which there haue beene many Christians and Pilgrims put to death by the Saracens There are also foure wels of wholesome and pleasant water standing not far from it of which wells you may reade before Of Zidon THis also was a city of Phoenicia scituated vpon the shore of the Mediterranean sea thirtie six miles from Ierusalem toward the North and sixteene from Tyrus In times past it was assigned to the Tribe of Ashur and lay vpon the borders of the Philistines neere to Mount Libanus Being called Sidon or Zidon of Zidon the sonne of Canaan who first built it Gen. 10. and signifies a hunter It was a notable mart towne wherein much Satin was made which kinde of stuffe was very precious among the Iewes and it is said That Ioseph of Arimathia wrapped the body of our Sauior in white Satin for in Matthew 27. it is called Zadin which in English is Satin And as at this day the finest glasse is made at Venice so the finest glasse 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 reade before This towne in times past was one of the chiefe cities of Phoenicia but because of the extraordinarie pride of the citisens God afflicted them with diuers punishments brought in Ocho king of the Persians who besieged it and by treason woon it and burnt it to the ground as Diodorus Siculus lib. 16. saith The Citisens whereof were driuen to such streights by the enemy that there perished in the fire aboue fortie thousand men Within a while after Darius last Emperour of the Persians rebuilt it but made it nothing so beautifull neither fortified it in like manner as it was before hee ordained one Strato to be King thereof a man proud and arrogant After about three hundred and two yeares before the natiuitie of Christ Alexander being then but 24 yeres of age hauing ouercome Darius that mighty Emperour of the Persians at Issa a citie of Cilicia in a cruell and sharpe warre he sent Hephestion one of his Princes to the Sydonians with authoritie to depose Strato and to let the Citisens vnderstand that they should chuse him for their King whom they thought most worthy of that honour as Quint. Curt. sheweth lib. 4. At this time there was a certaine young man among the followers of Hephestion in whose behalfe he moued the Citisens that hee might be their King but they refused saying it was not their custome to chuse any to rule ouer them but such as were of the Kings stocke and progenie Hephestion hearing this answer greatly admired their resolution and modestie especially when they refused to accept him for their King whom others had sought to obtaine with fire and sword saying Truly there is more required to rule and gouerne a Kingdome than to get it but yet name one vnto me of royall discent whom you would willingly receiue to be your King So they named vnto him one Abdolomius who had beene knowne to haue beene of the Kings stocke by many discents but because of his pouertie he was constrained to dwell in the suburbs of the Citie in a cottage and had little else but a Garden to liue vpon This man howsoeuer poore and because of that of many contemned yet hee was knowne to be honest and of an vpright life following with all dilligence his vocation without any regard of other businesse insomuch as he was vtterly ignorant of all these stirre and combustions which had so lately vexed Asia As he was now in his garden digging and labouring purging it of weeds and planting herbes Hephestion with the rest of the Citizens went vnto him and brought him the robes and habiliments of a King The poore Gardner stood amazed to see such a company of gallants come vnto him but Hephestion told him That the occasion of their comming was to make an exchange with him of those royall ornaments which he had in his hands for those poore and foule garments which he wore therefore goe and wash thy selfe and returne So he did where immediately they put vpon him those royall robes and saluted him as their Soueraigne Afrer these things were finished quoth Hephestion Now remember in what a state thou art no more Gardener but a King and therefore take vnto thee the minde and resolution of a King that so thou mayest rule and gouerne this citie as a man worthy of that honour and remember that although the liues and goods of thy subjects are at thy command yet by them thou wast chosen neither be forgetfull of him that was the author of thine honour No sooner was he enthronised in his kingdom but fame who is more speedie than a thousand Posts had dispersed this newes through all the neighbouring cities some being thereby moued to admiration and quickned in their studies others stirred vp to indignation and enuie Those that were mighty and friends to Alexander contemned and despised his humilitie and pouertie 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 hee had welâ— viewed the lineaments and proportion of his person and could not perceiue it any whit repugnant to the fame of his birth hee demanded of him how it was possible that hee should endure his pouertie with patience To which he answered I pray the gods I may continue the gouernment of this kingdome with the like minde for these hands were sufficient for me to liue by and as I had nothing so I wanted nothing At which answer Alexander was so well pleased that he not only gaue him all the princely jewels and ornaments of the first king called Strato but also a great part of the booty which he tooke from the Emperor of Persia and added to his command all the neighboring countries round about This history I haue inserted that thereby we might perceiue the mighty power of God in all his works that can exalt the poore contented with his estate out of the very dust and can pull the mighty from their thrones So the Euill carke 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 chiefe town Tyrus onely excepted in all Phoenicia ioyning vpon the West to the Mediterranian sea extending it selfe towards the North and South lying in a plain vnder Antilibanus which mountain lay some two miles off it vpon the East It oftentimes because of the pride of the inhabitants felt the wrath and
punishing hand of God as wel by the inuasion of Enemies as sickenesse and dearth according to the predictions of the Prophets Esay 28. and Ezek. 28. vntil at last in succeeding ages it was vtterly destroyed the ruins of which city remain to this day and make euident that it was a faire and spatious towne There is to be seen yet to this day a city built out of the ruines of the former though nothing so large as it very strong mightily fortified so that it seemeth almost inuincible if it haue men wherewith to defend it Vpon the one side it ioyneth to the sea and vpon the other side of it there standeth two mighty strong castles one of them scituated toward the North vpon a very strong â—ock as it were in the heart of the sea the which was built by cerâ—ain Pilgrims that came out of Germany to visit the holy city of â—erusalem The other of them was scituated vpon a hill toward the South of the city as well fortified and no lesse difficult to be conquered These two castles with the whole city in times past were in the hands of the Knights templers The land round about it is very pleasant and fertile abounding with all kinde of good things necessarie for the maintenance of life and delight There is also found great aboundance of Grapes which are very delicious and pleasant to the tast wherof the wine Canamella is made But because the Turkes and Saracens are inhibited by the strict law of their Alcaron from drinking of wine therefore they suffer no vineyards to be planted neither the inhabitants to dresse those Vines that grow naturally Before the East gate of the antient city which now lies destroied there is built a Chappel in which place they say the woman of Canaan entreated our Sauior Christ to cast a Diuell out of her daughter Mat. 15. The mountain Antilibanus beginneth close by the riuer Eleutherius and extends it selfe beyond Tripolis and in some places it ioyneth so close to the sea that for the streightnesse of the wayes those that trauel that way can scarse passe In this city was the fairest purple in all those parts nay as some Authors affirme the like was not to be found in the world c. Of Cana Syro-Phoenicea THis towne which was called Cana the Great was scituated vpon the borders of Tyrus and Sydon 112 miles from Ierusalem Northward scituated in the Tribe of Ashur 4 miles from Sydon towards the South and three from Sarepta towards the East In this towne the Syrophoenician dwelt that besought our Sauior Christ to heale her daughter that was possessed of a diuel Mat. 15. Mar. 7. It was called Cana to put a difference betweene it and another Cana scituated in Galile the lower in which city our Sauior Christ turned water into wine You may reade more of this towne before Of Trachonitis THis city was so called from the stony hardnes of the mountains of Gilead which compasse it in vpon the East side in which prouince the tribe of Gad and the halfe tribe of Manasses inhabited It was in antient times called Basan in which Og the mighty Gyant had a great command but Moses ouercame him and gaue the land to the tribe of Gad and the half tribe of Manasses In Christs time the Tetrarch and gouernour of it was Philip who was son to Herod the Great and brother to Herod Antipas Tetrach in Galile and Petraea which Herod tooke to wife Herodia whom his brother Philip had formerly maried the said Philip beeing at that time aliue but because Iohn Baptist reprehended him for that fact therefore at her request he was beheaded in the Castle of Machera Itura was another Prouince belonging to the tetrarchy of Philip ioyning vpon the West to the riuer of Iordan and called Galile of the Gentiles of which you may reade before Of Decapolis THis country is so called of ten cities that were scituated in it It stood beyond Iordan and the sea of Galile as may be gathered out of Mark ca. 7. and Mat. 15. So that it is manifest that that country which in times past was called Gilead was afterward known and called by the name of Decapolis because of the ten cities which stood there as Chorazin which Christ cursed Mat. 11. Gamala where Agrippa King of the Iewes was hurt in his right arme Ios de bell Iud. lib. 4. cap. 1. Iuliades built by Herod Antipas in honor of the Empresse Iulia. Gadara where our Sauior Christ cast out the legion of diuels suffering them to enter into the herd of swine Mat. 8. Mar. 5. Astaroth the chiefe citie of that Countrey in the time of Og King of Basan Ios cap. 12. Here also that holy man Iob sometimes had his dwelling Iabes in Gilead where Saul King of Israel lieth buried 1 Sam. 31. Mizpah where Ieptha offered his daughter for a sacrifice to the Lord Iudg. 11. Ramoth in Gilead where King Ahab was slaine with a Dart 1 Reg. 22. And Abel of the Vines where Baalams Asse spake Num. 22. These are those ten cities whereof this country is called Decapolis being scituated in the land of Gilead betweene Iordan where our Sauior healed the man that was both blind and deafe Mark 7. This opinion exactly agreeth with that of the holy scripture Yet I know there are some as Plin. lib. 5. cap. 18. and others who differ from this in the description of this countrey but they erre from the truth Of Magdala THis was a city scituated vpon the West side of the Galilean sea 52 miles from Ierusalem Northward in which Country Mary who of this town was called Magdalen was borne At this time this city is called by the name of Castle Magdala in which place they shew the house of Mary Magdalen Vpon the West and North side of the city there lieth a great and spatious plain preserued only for pasture which Mar. cap. 8. calls Dalmanutha that is Drawn dry or a poore and naked habitation being deriued of Dalal He hath made dry and Maon a House or dwelling place It may be a notable figure of the Christian Church which in this world may rightly be said to haue a poore habitation but yet is a right Magdala that is a strong and impregnable Tower against which the gates of Hell shall not be able to preuaile Matt. 16. Vpon the borders of Magdala and Dalmanutha the Pharisees and Sadduces tempting our blessed Sauior Christ demanded of him a signe from heauen Mat. 15.16 Mar. 8. This city belonged to the tribe of Issacher Of Thabor MOunt Thabor was a round and high hill vpon which our blessed Sauior Christ was transfigured scituated vpon the borders of the tribes of Issacher Zebulon fifty two miles from the City of Ierusalem towards the North and extendeth it selfe toward the South to the riuer Kison Heere Deborah and Barack discomfited the Host of Sisera King of the Canaanites and put them to flight Iug. 4. Of this mountain
1â—0 broad There were so many gifts gratuities sent from all the cities and kings round about toward the building of this Temple that the riches and treasure thereof was wonderfull insomuch that when it was finished it was accounted one of the stateliest buildings the world could afford and numbered amongst the wonders of the world This temple thus built at such an extraordinarie charge that it was almost vnvaluable was set on fire by one Herostratus a wicked peruerse fellow in the same Olympiad and day that Alexander the Great was borne who hauing nothing in him that might make him famous in after-ages burnt this goodly building that so though not for his good but for his euill he might get a name But the Ephesians were so insenced because of this mischiefe that they procured proclamation to bee made through all the kingdomes round about that his name should not be once mentioned which perhaps for a time was obserued but in future ages they could not preuent it but that he was both spoken of written of Notwithstanding afterward the inhabitants of this City became so exceeding wealthy that they soon after rebuilt this temple of Diana and made it much fairer than it was before all the Citisens contributing with willing hands to the charge of the building insomuch that the women brought all their siluer gold and other pretious ornaments and communicated them towards this great worke Also in after-times those faire pillars before spoken of were againe erected towards the rebuilding whereof they receiued so many and wonderfull gifts from all the neighbouring Kings Cities and Countries that this Temple might as it was thought compare with all the world beside for riches and treasure It was standing in S. Pauls time who came thither about 12 yeares after the resurrection of our Sauior and continued there three yeares in which time he so faithfully and diligently preached the Gospell that he conuerted most of the Citisens from their idolatry and worship of Diana to the reuerend knowledge and confession of our blessed Sauior For which cause Demetrius the siluer smith who made a great gain by idolatry stirred vp a great tumult so that the Gentiles running vp and down the City for two houres space cried out with a loud voice Great is Diana of the Ephesians Acts 19. Here also Paul fought with beasts 1 Cor. 15. And to this city Paul wrot his Epistle and sent it from Rome 996 miles He made Timothy also a Bishop of this city to whom he wrot two Epistles the first was sent him from Laodicea to Phrygia beeing 280 miles the second from Rome as I said By these Epistles Timothy was greatly comforted and taught them to his disciples and auditors that so they might constantly continue perseuer in the Christian faith and religion to the end To conclude Iohn the Evangelist came also to Ephesus wrot his Gospel against the heretick Cerinthus who denied Christ to be the true God for which cause God grieuously punished him so that he died as hee was bathing himselfe in a bath Irenaeus lib. 5. ca. 3. Euseb li. 3. c. 22. This was the first Church to which Iohn wrot his Reuelation and there when he returned out of Pathmos he raised his host Drusana from death to life So when he had gouerned the churches in Asia 30 yeares after the death of Paul hee died when hee was 91 yeares old and was honorably buried at Ephesus not far from the city There was also another Iohn that liued in Ephesus to whom as many think the Epistles of Iohn the Evangelist were dedicated as Ierom sheweth in his catalogue of Ecclesiastical Writers The sepulchre of this man is shewed not far from the Sepulchre of S. Iohn the Evangelist as Euseb witnesseth lib. 3. cap. 31. At this day this city is named Figlo ho Epheso See Gesner Of Pathmos THis is an Isle of the Aegean sea scituated betwixt Asia minor Grecia 2080 miles from Ierusalem Northwestward Pli. l. 4. c. 12. saith that it was 30 miles in compasse Into this Isle the Evangelist was banished by Domitian Nero where he wrot his Reuelation It was one of the Cyclad Islands which were 53 in number that lay round about the Island Delus as Stra. li. 10. Geog. obserues It stood 40 miles from Ephesus Southwestward and as Petr. Apianus saith was somtimes called Posidius but now Palmosa Of Smyrna THis is the second city to which Iohn dedicated his Reuelation It was scituated in Ionia in Asia minor 540 miles from Ierusalem Northwestward This was a very faire city beautified with many goodly buildings and of good account in Grecia It was at first but a Colony transplanted from another city in that country But Theseus that great prince beeing then King thereof that he might adde some grace to that which hee had begun hee called it after his wiues name Smyrna signifying Myrrh Herod saith that Homer was born here but not blind and called by the name of Melisigines but after the Cumaenians called him of his blindnesse Homer Strab. li. 14. Geogr. saith That the inhabitants take vpon them to shew his picture standing there also a temple built in his honour During his life he was a man of small or no reputation or rather contemned than honored as Herod saith But after his death his works beginning to grow famous the Cities of Greece contended who should patronise him The Colophonians claim a part in him because he was in that towne and there made some of his Odysses They of Chios say he belonged to them because he liued there a long time and taught schoole But for ought that can bee found by Authours the Smyrnians haue most interest in him Neuerthelesse I leaue him to them that please to patronise him since it is not certainly found where hee liued He liued about 900 yeares before Christ Eusebius saith Hist Eccles lib. 4. cap. 14. that in after times this city grew very famous and was so much inlarged that it became a Bishops See whereof Polycarpus a very godly and religious man was Bishop He gouerned the Church in that place at such time as Iohn the Evangelist wrot his Reuelation and by him cap. 2. is called the Angell of the Church of Smyrna This man after he had faithfully preached the Gospell for the space of 86 yeares was by the inhabitants thereof condemned to death for the profession of Christ Anno 170. But the towne of Smyrna because of the vnthankfulnesse and crueltie of the inhabitants was grieuously punished for within ten yeares it was cast downe by an earthquake since which time it was hardly rebuilt again The riuer Pactolus which beginneth in Lydia runneth by this town of Smyrna But the inhabitants because of the golden veins that are found therein call it Crysorrhoas Plin. lib. 5. cap. 29. A little after that there was such an extreme plague hapned in Rome that they were constrained to carry out the dead bodies
it was repaired by King Corinthus who as some thinke was the sonne of Marathon Suidas saith the sonne of Pelops others would haue him the sonne of Orestis and after his name was called Corinth that is The floure of Maides It was a faire and goodly citie very commodiously built for it stood betweene the two seas of Ionium and Aegeum so that there resorted thither great multitude of Merchants from all places Close by the citie there stood a steepe mountaine which was as it were a bulwarke for the defence thereof being 560 feet high and called Acrocorinthus that is the glory and strength of the Corinthians It was also compassed about with strong walls and beautified with many goodly buildings and temples but aboue the rest the Temple of Venus was had in great reputation which as Strabo saith stood vpon the top of the mountaine Acrocorinthus wherein there were aboue a thousand Maides prostituted euery yeare This Temple was had in such great honour and was so gloriously built that aboue all the places of the world there was resort vnto it Close by it stood the ancient castle called Sysyphius built all of white Marble and a little below that the fountaine of Pyrene dedicated to the Muses There were many mightie Princes that ruled in this citie as Alethes who was King thereof at such time as Samuel judged Israel which was 1103 yeares before Christ hee bestowed great cost vpon it set vp many faire and goodly buildings and ruled ouer it thirtie and fiue yeares as Eusebius saith After him there succeeded many Kings by whose worthinesse and prowesse it was so much inlarged and made so famous that it was little inferiour to the citie of Rome for at such time as Embassadors were sent thence to intreate of some businesse concerning the state the Corinthians did not let to giue them many reprochfull tearmes as Strabo saith lib. 8. because of which insolencie the Romans sent Lucius Mummus the Consul into Graetia who besieged Corinth and within a short time tooke it and burnt it downe to the ground in the yeare before Christ 145 of which you may reade more in Florus and in the second Decad of Lyuie It was a maruellous rich Towne and abounded with gold siluer and costly brasse also with plate and curious pictures so that although Mummius conquered Corinth yet Corinth conquered Rome for the citizens thereof were so bewitched with the riches and glory of this towne that they forgot their ancient seueritie and with violence followed their vices as Salust saith lib. 1. So that as before Corinth abounded with luxurie and diuers other abhominable euils as whoredome adulterie fornication couetousnes idolatry rapine and murther so Rome in future ages became as bad or worse than it Thus it continued waste from that time till Iulius Caesar was Emperour of Rome who hauing trauelled into those parts of the world and seene the ruines of this citie and the profitale scituation for traffique caused it to be rebuilded after which time it began to grow great spacious little inferiour to the former in glory and no lesse corrupted with vices hauing forgot the former miserie which it sustained by the hands of the Romans and so continued from the yeare before Christ 44 vntill the yeare after Christ 41 at which time Paul came thither preached the Gospell by whose diuine doctrine and godly life and conuersation they were conuerted from their euill courses and liued more holily and honestly as appeareth by the two Epistles of Saint Paul wrote from Philippos to the inhabitants of this towne But after they falling from their faith and forsaking their ancient integritie the Lord punished them with a second desolation for at such time as Amurath Emperor of the Turkes grew to eminencie and had conquered Thessalonica Boaetia and Attica he came into this Isthums and made all Peloponessus tributary to him Then after him Mahomet the second although the inhabitants of Corinth had fortified their citie with three walls and made it so strong that it was thought to be almost inuincible besieged it and woon it An. Dom. 1458. about six yeares after Constantinople was conquered by the Turkes But now it is in the command of the Venetians and that and all the countrey is called by the name of Morea as it appeareth in the Turkish Historie lib. 10. The fourth peregrination of the Apostle Paul IN the yeare after the Natiuitie of Christ 53 Paul went from Antiochia in Syria and came to Galatia and Laodicia in Phrygia and thence wrote his Epistle to Timothy as it appeareth by the subscription of that Epistle which was 380 miles From Laodicea hee went to Ephesus which was 280 miles and there appointed Timothy to be a Bishop and daily disputed in the schoole of a certaine Tyrant and did many miracles as it appeareth Acts 19. From Ephesus he came to Troada which was 200 miles where when he could not find Titus he was troubled in spirit 2 Cor. 2. From Troada hee sailed into Macedonia and came to Philippos which was 232 miles from hence hee wrote his Epistles to the Corinthians and sent them to Corinth which was 292 miles In the same yeare also Paul passing through Graecia in euery place where he came preaching and visiting the churches Act. 19. at length came to Corinthus which was 480 miles In the 57 yeare after the Natiuitie of Christ when Paul had wintred among the Corinthians in the Spring that hee might auoyd the deceits of the Iewes who went about to take away his life hee went thence and returned to Philippos which was 292 miles where he celebrated the feast of Penticost Acts 2. From thence he sailed to Troada which was 232 miles where he raised Eutichus from death to life Acts 20. From Troada he went to Assa which was thirtie and six miles Acts 20. From Assa he sailed to Mileten which was 760 miles Acts 20. From Mileten he went to Chius which was 64 miles Acts 20. From Chius he sailed to Samus which was 60 miles and continued in the Isle of Trogylius which was close by Samus as Pl. saith lib. 5. cap. 3. and Strabo cap. 13. From Trogylius hee sailed by Ephesus and came to Miletus which was 160 miles From thence hee sent Messengers to the Ministers of Ephesus commanding them to haue a speciall care to the flocke of Christ which he had purchased with his pretious bloud and added that he was so much the more importunate in that behalfe because they should neuer see him againe Wherefore they embraced Paul with great lamentations and sorrow Acts 2. From Myletus he his companions went with a direct course to the Island of Cous which was 200 miles Acts 21. From thence the next day they went to Rhodes which was 84 miles From Rhodes they went to Patara which was 100 miles From Patara they sayled to Tyrus leauing Cyprus vpon the left hand which was 360 miles where hee found certaine Disciples and
you might iustly say that Rome in her prosperitie and eminencie was the glory of the world but as all estates are fickle and vncertain still subiect to varietie and change so was this first enuied of the world because of the extreame oppression of her gouernours and after made desolate by violence and force all her former glorie beeing eclipsed and the greatest part of these goodly buildings layed leuell with the ground Thus haue I shewed you what Rome was when it was in her prosperitie It resteth now to shew what Rome is Rome at this day differeth as much from the antient Rome as the substance from the shadow For although the Pope hath beautified and adorned the West part of it with many faire and goodly buildings and called it by the name of new Rome Yet is it nothing comparable to the antient city as it was when Augustus and Constantine the Great were Emperours thereof neither doth it stand in the antient place for the first Citie stood vpon the East side of Tyber this vpon the West The chiefe part of the other stood vpon the mountaines Capitolinus and Palatinus vpon which were the stately buildings of Senatours Kings and Emperors but now they lie desolate and waste The Capitol also and the Temple of Iupiter Feretrius goodly Buildings beaten to the ground onely some ruins to shew that such things there hath beene And what now resteth that are worthie note are in the commaund and power of the Pope which are not many the most that can be named are the Vattican the tower of S. Angelo the Popes Pallace his banquetting house and the gardens and walkes about it which are so well scituated that they are a grace to all Rome the rest are but ordinarie and common buildings Thus may you see that there is nothing in this world but hath a period to which if with much labour it attaineth then it commonly declineth seldome continueth for who knowes not with what labour what perills by sea what dangers by land through how many forreine warres and Domesticke seditions Rome was raised to her greatnesse And how suddenly was all this lost What the vertue and wisedome of graue and resolute Consuls Captaines and Commaunders had with great hazard heaped vp thrusting their Capitol and other Treasuries ful with the triumphant spoiles of forreine nations was left to be consumed either by seditious souldiers or prodigall Emperours and the State left as a prey to those that were mightiest so that they were accounted most honourable that with most injurie could get to themselues either countenance to ouersway authoritie or opulency to purchase eminency insomuch that there hath been no action so euill nor any attempt so pernicious in former times but may be matcht in the declining of the Romane state Where more murthers where more corruption where more oppression than is mentioned in Histories to bee practised amongst the Romans the liues of men the state of Prouinces and the crowns of Kings sold for money But now her time is finished and her ruins are left for succeeding ages to admire that so in beholding they might learne to know the difference betweene vertue and vice and from thence conclude That there is nothing permanent and that those things wherein men most glorie doe oftentimes soonest decay For if this citie which commanded the nations Princes of the earth whose Colonies Armies Legions confederacies and treasures were so mightie and extended so farre that there was almost no countrey vnconquered or nation that did not feare to heare the inhabitants therof named is made desolate and laid leuell with the ground what then may be said of pettie Cities Townes Lordships Manors and Houses shall not they likewise be subiect to the like calamities wasted and destroyed through the continuance of time Verily yea Wherefore let not the king glorie in his power nor the strong man in his strength nor the rich man in his riches but let him that glorieth glorie in the Lord. FINIS A Table of the Persons Townes and places mentioned in the foregoing Treatise A ADam 72.78 Abarim 127 Abel of the Vines 129. Abner his trauels 194. Abraham and his trauels 79 Absalon and his trauels 197. Achor 134. Aethyopia 205 320. Aialon 134. Alexandria 324. Amanus 361. Antiochus Epiphanes and his trauels 325. Antiochus Eupator 357. Apamca 320. Aphec 166. Arabia 522. Aroer 154. Asdod 136. Azeca 134. Asteroth 92 128. Athens 542. Antipatris 556. Ahab and his trauels 218 Aeziongaber 125. Arbona ib. Almon Diblathaim 127. Athniel 143. Arad 144. Abdon 155. Ascalon 158. Of the Arke of God 165. Abiathar 180. Abishag 200. Ahazia 224 Abijn ibid. Aza ibid. Ahazia 240. Athalia 241. Amasia 242. Amos 287. Ammon king of Iuda 250. Assarbaddon 260. Abelmehola 274. An instruction to vnderstand the Prophets 297 An Alphabeticall table of all the cities countries mentioned in the Prophets fram 298 to 309. Ange 319. Antiochia 330. 523. Asseremoth 343. Adarsa 344. Addus 352. Addor ibid. Arabath 355. Alexander son of Epiphanes 359 Alcimus and his trauels 373. Arbela ibid. Adummim 448. Aenon 429. Antiochia Pisidia 527. Attalia 528. Amphipolis 540. Apolonia ibid. B BAbylon from 253 to 258. Babylon in Aegypt 583. Baaena and his trauels 197. Baesa and his trauels 215. Bazra 289. Benhadad his trauels 228 232 Berea 374 542. Bethabara 429. Bethania 480. Bethoron or Bethcoron 202. Bethel 100. Bethlem 104 420. Bethpage 481. Bethsaliza 173. Bethsan 176 350. Bethseme ibid. Bethsura 234. Bethulia 321. Beerzaba 86 Baalzephon 117. Benei Iaaechon 125. Baalam and his trauels 129. Besech 142. Bezra 152. Bahurim 192. Baalhazor 198. Baaelath 203. Ben Merodach 263. Balthazar Emperor of the Assirians 268. Bildad 317. Bâ—schamah 352. Bethsaida 454. Bethbesah 350. Bythinia 535. C CAdes Barnea 124. Caesarea Philippi 444. Caren 78. Caleb and his trauels 141. Caphar Salama 344. Catchemis 266. Carmel 174. Cedron or Kydron a little Hill that runs through Ierusalem 487. Chasor or Hazor 138. Creet and the scituation thereof 363 537. Chehelah 112. Chasmona 124. Chesbon 128. Chinereth 152. Cilicia 319 530. Caspina 310. Caspin 345. Chazor a field 351. Canah in Galile 423 436. Capernaum 437. Chorazin 435. Of Canah Syro Phoenicia 466. Of Mount Caluarie 487. Caesarea Strato 502. The Isle of Cyprus and how it is scituated 525. The Isle of Chius and how scituated 550. The famous citie of Corinthia 544. Cous how scituated and why so called 552 Of the Isle of Clauda and how scituated 559 Of Colossa in Phrigia 566. D DOthan so called from commaunding 111. Doch a castle 356 Dora a hauen towne 366. Dibon Gad 127 Deborah and Barak 145. 147 Debir 135. Danites and their trauels 160 Demetrius Soter and his trauells 358 Demetrius Nicanor and his trauels 361. Decapolis and why so called 467 Derbe 528 Dauid and his trauels 180. The typical signification of Dauid 192. Daniel and his trauels 282. The typical signification of Daniel 286 Damascus a famous citie in
resembles our Sauiour Christ who compared himselfe vnto a Vine and the Faithfull vnto the branches saying I am the true Vine and whosoeuer is ingraffed into me shal haue eternall life Io. 15. The Crystall grapes do denote the doctrine of the Gospell and the works of the Faithfull which are faith loue hope charity patience prayer and workes of grace all which do inhere vnto such as beleeue The mysterie of Oblations and Sacrifices ALl the Oblations and Sacrifices of the old Testament were Types and figures of our Sauiour That as they were slaine for the performance of the ceremonial law so Christ for the saluation of man was slain and made a free-will Offering by whose bloud and mediation the sin of man is pardoned and he made capable of eternall life Esay 53. Iohn 10. Heb. 9 c. The mysterie of the vpper Court THe vpper Court was a figure of the spirituall Priesthood of Iesus Christ who hath made vs all Priests and Kings and hath beautified vs with his guiltlesse death 1 Pet. 2 The mysterie of the Fountaine and molten Sea standing vpon twelue Oxen in the vppermost Court THe molten Sea and Fountain was a figure of Baptisme and that liuing water issuing from the wounds of Christ whereby we are washed from all our sinnes the Lavor of regeneration whereby we are made capable of eternall life that Well of water whereof if we drinke we shall neuer thirst The twelue Oxen represent the twelue Apostles whose voice haue gon through the world according to that in the Corinthians and haue carried the sea of Grace through all the parts of the earth Of which Water saith S. Augustine if thou drinkest but one drop it is more effectuall to quench the thirst of worldly and insatiable desires than an Ocean of earthly waters The mysterie of the middle Court SOlomons Court wherein Christ taught and in which the Iewes vsed commonly to pray was a figure of that Church which should be gathered from amongst the Iewes For from thence he indeauoured 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 haue yet other Sheepe which I must also bring hither that so there might be one sheepfold one Pastor c. Of the rest of the memorable Buildings standing vpon mount Moriah HAuing thus described the temple together with the seueral courts ornaments al which did typically represent Christ his church I wil now proceed to the rest of the buildings standing vpon mount Moriah The first and most memorable was the house of Solomon which stood iust against the Temple vpon the South it shined so with gold and siluer was so stately and sumptuously built that when queene Saba came to Ierusalem she stood amased to see it There belonged to it diuers Courts and Walkes in one of which the Prophet Ieremy was prisoner Ier. 37. Ouer against this he made the Iudgement hall in which hee placed the Ivory Chaire spoken of 1 Kin. 10. He built by that another house for his Queen she that was daughter of Pharaoh 1 Kin. 7. But when Nebuchadnezzar conquered Ierusalem all these together with the Temple were burnt and vtterly defaced Of the Poole of Bethesda VPon the North lay that sheepfold o◠sequestred place called Bethesda Ioh. 5. which hath fiue porches or Xenodochius as some would haue it here Cattell came to drinke and the Priests vsed to wash their Sacrifices because no vncleane beast might come within the Temple nor any thing that was foule or spotted be offered vpon the Altar The water was of reddish colour and ran into that place in great aboundance 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 whosoeuer stepped in was presently cured and heere our Sauiour Christ healed the man that had beene diseased 38 years Ioh. 5. This place was made by King Hezekiah who caused the water of the vppermost poole which was called Gihon not far from mount Calvary to be conueied by pipes passages through the earth into the lower city called Acra and so fel into this place for which cause it was called the lower poole The Allegorie or mysterie hereof is That euery one of Christs Sheepe ought to be washed in the poole of his bloud before they can be made fit sacrifices to enter into his Temple or church 1 Io. 1. Of the tower or castle called Antonia THis castle as Iosep hath it lib. 6. de Bell. cap. 6. stood betweene two Courts of the Temple at the North-West corner at first built by the Machabees and called by the name of Baris but after King Herod taking affection to that place bestowed great cost vpon it walled it about built vp sumptuous towers made it very strong then gaue it the name of Antonia in fauor of Antonius that noble Roman which Augustus a long time sustained after their decease Of the Hall called Coenaculum Anguli THis house stood vpon an angle or cantle of the hill and was therefore called Coenaculum Anguli it was very large spatious and within had a great hall whereof Nehem. cap. 3. maketh mention and here as some thinke our Sauior Christ ate the Paschal Lambe with his Disciples but I rather thinke it was in the suburbs Of the Tower Ophel or the darke Tower NEere to the valley of Cedron toward the East not farre from the Temple and neere the castle Antonia there was builded a lofty and strong tower or palace called Ophel that is a place of darknesse it was a very sumptuous thing Of Hamea or the Tower of the Centurions IN the town wall betweene the sheepe gate and the dung gate stood this castle Hamea or Centurion taking the name à Centenario numero i. the number of an hundred and was vpon the East side of the city neere to the sheepfold or poole Bethesda Neh. 3.12 Here the Centurions commonly kept watch Of Mount Acra and the buildings vpon it MOunt Acra as is aforesaid stood vpon the West side of Ierusalem it was a very high mountain and tooke that name from the Greeke word Acra a sharpe or high hill It was much higher than mount Moriah in times past till Simon Iudas Machabeus brother caused it to be cut lower to make it equall in height with mount Moriah Between these two hils lay the vally Cedron which was in profunditie 400 cubits Vpon this Mountain another part of the city was builded beeing strongly fortified and richly adorned with sumptuous houses of which Dauid and Solomon were the principal founders and was called the
Of Gesur GEsur was a country neere to Caesarea Philippi in the land of Basan beyond Iordan neere Libanus in the Tetrarchie Trachonitides 88 miles from Ierusalem Northeastward With the King of this country Absolon remained in banishment for 3 yeres space after he had slain his brother Ammon and with vs may be termed the vally of Oxen 2 Sam. 13. Of Hadsi THe lower country of Hadsi stood neere to the city Corazin in the halfe tribe of Manasses 52 miles from Ierusalem toward the Northeast and signifies a new land beeing deriued of Chadasch that is New Of the fountaine Rogel THis was neere Ierusalem Eastward to which place Ionathan and Ahimaas Dauids intelligencers brought him newes of Absalons counsels and intentions 2 Sam. 17. It seemeth that trauellers vsually washed their feet in it from whence it was called the Wel of feet beeing deriued from Raegael signifying a Foot Neere to this place was the stone Zochaeleth where Adoniah at such time as he affected the kingdome contrary to his fathers liking called an assembly and made a great feast 1 Reg. 1. The Trauels of Baena and Rechab THese two went out of the tribe of Benjamin ouer Iordan to Machanaim 40 miles There they murthered their master king Ishbosheth in his chamber as he lay vpon his bed and after cut off his head The head they brought to King Dauid to Hebron 68 miles But Dauid was not pleased with their treacherie wherefore hee caused them both to be put to death So their trauels were 108 miles The Trauels of Absalon ABsalon was borne in Hebron and went with his father to Ierusalem 22 miles 2 Sam. 13. From thence he went to Baalhazor 8 miles where hee caused his brother Ammon to be slain From thence for feare of his father he fled into the land of Gesur 88 miles 2 Sam. 14. From thence he came backe with Ioab to Ierusalem which was 88 miles 2 Sam. 14. From thence he went to Hebron 22 miles and made himselfe King and rebelled against his father From thence he went backe againe to Ierusalem which is 22 miles There he lay with his fathers Concubines 2 Sam. 16. From thence he pursued his father to Machanaim 40 miles there was hanged by the haire in an oke tree where Ioab put him to death 2 Sam. 18. So all the trauels of Absolon were 290 miles Of Baal-hazor IN this city Absolon made a great feast for his sheepe-sherers and inuited all his brothers to it where he caused Ammon to be slain because he had abused his sister Thamar It lieth in the way some 8 miles from Ierusalem toward the North-East as you go to Iericho neere to mount Ephraim 2 Sam. 13. and is deriued of Baal which signifies a Lord or husband and Chazir a Den or caue Of the name ABSOLON ABSOLON signifieth a Father of peace although he was the author of all discord and sedition against his father The Trauels of the wise woman of Thecoa THis woman went from Thecoa to Ierusalem 8 miles and spake with King Dauid and with her sweet words shee persuaded him that he would recall his sonne out of exile who then remained in Gesur 2 Sam. 14. Of Thecoa THecoa was a city in the tribe of Iuda some 8 miles from Ierusalem toward the Southeast neere this city Iosaphat by praier and the sound of Trumpets without drawing sword got a memorable victory and for that cause it signifieth the sound of a Trumpet In this place the prophet Amos dwelt and there lieth buried whose sepulchre was to be seene 400 yeares after Christ as S. Ierom obserueth It was from Bethlem Iuda 6 miles Neere to Techoa was the lake Aspher where Ionathan and Simon Iudas Machabeus brothers pitcht their tents 1 Mach. 9. Of this city you may reade Ier. 6. Am. 1. 2 Chr. 11. Of ACHITOPHEL THis perfideous and wicked man was borne in the towne of Gilo not far from Hebron and Debir in the tribe of Iudah Ios 15. 2 Sam. 15. 20 miles from Ierusalem Southeastward who when his counsell would not take place he went home to his own house and there desperatly hanged himselfe The Trauels of wicked Shimei SHimei went from Bahurim where he cursed King Dauid to Bathabara vpon the riuer Iordan which was 18 miles where he got pardon of Dauid 2 Sam. 19. From thence he went backe with King Dauid to Gilgall foure miles 2 Sam. 19. From thence he went with King Dauid to Ierusalem 12 miles 2 Sam. 19. From thence he went to Bahurim 3 miles From Bahurim King Solomon sent for him again to Ierusalem 3 miles There he was constrained to build him an house and not to depart thence vpon pain of death 1 Reg. 2. But Shimei transgressing this commandment of the king went to Gath a city of the Philistims 12 miles From thence hee returned back againe to Ierusalem 12 miles where he was slain by the command of King Solomon in the third yeare of his reign 1 Reg. 2. So all the trauels of Shimei were 104 miles The Books of Kings and Chronicles Of ABISHAG the Virgin that lay with Dauid THis Maid was accounted the fairest in all Israel for which cause she was brought to Ierusalem for King Dauid that she might lie with him in his old age to procure heat she was born at Sunem a town some 44 miles from Ierusalem 1 Reg. 1. Of Sunem you may read before in the trauels of Dauid Saul The Trauels of King Solomon SOlomon the son of Dauid King of Israel entred vpon the full gouernment of the kingdome of Israel An. mundi 2931. and before Christ 1037. when he was about 20 yeares old After he went from Ierusalem to Gilgal 4 miles and there offered vpon the altar which Moses had made 1000 burnt offerings 1 Reg. 3. 2 Chr. 1. From thence he went backe to Ierusalem which was 4 miles and built a Temple to the Lord in mount Moriah 1 Reg. 6. This was begun about the fourth yere of his reign and 480 yeres after the children of Israel came out of Egypt in the moneth Ziph which answereth to our May. So that the Temple began to bee built in Anno mundi 2934. and before Christ 1034. To the building whereof Hiram King of Tyre sent Cedar trees from Mount Libanus 120 miles to Ierusalem 1 Reg. 5. 2 Chr. 2. This Temple Solomon within plaited ouer with pure gold and set with pretious stones and finished it in the month of Nouember about the eleuenth yeare of his reigne 1 Reg. 6. The dedication whereof was about the twelfth yeare of his reigne and in the 32 yeare of his age Anno Mundi 2942 and before Christ 1026. The Temple being finished he began to build his owne house which was 13 yeares a building and was finished about the 44 yeare of his age and in the 24 of his reign 1 Reg. 7.8 After 20 years in which time he had finished the house of the Lord and his own house in Mount Sion that