Erusalem the choice City of God The Original places from whence this Commentary is taken and where more is to be read Psalm 48.2 87.1 2 3. Matth 4.5 Psal 74.27 holy and most glorious built upon the holy Mountains excelling all the Cities of the World as well by the loftiness of the Seat as by the moderation and temperature of the Heavens and fruitfulness of Soil was situated in the midst of the whole World and of Judea as it were in the very Centre and Heart of the Earth and being as a Queen amongst all other Neighbor Cities had the preheminence as the Head over the Body Ezek. 5.5 and shined as the Sun above others in sumptuous and glorious Buildings Having such surpassing excellency she was by a certain singular priviledge in time past Joseph Lib. 3. de Bello Iudaico cap. 2. Deut. 16.17 Psal 48.2 Lam. 2.5 the onely place which God had chosen to himself and was a figure not onely of every faithful mans soul but also of the Elect Church of Christ Militant upon Earth and of that blessed Triumphant Church in Heaven A City of perfect Beauty the Virgin of the World the Paragon of all the East and the joy and rejoycing of the whole Earth This City was builded as some judge about the year from the Creation of the World Two thousand twenty and three in the time of Abraham Gen 14.18 Joseph 7. Antiq Iud. cap 7. l. 7. Belli Iud. c. 18 28. Gen. 10. Iosh 15.8 Judg. 1.19 2 Sam. 5.5 1 Chron. 11.4 7. by Melchisedec the King In Hebrew it was called Salem and in Greek Solyma and it seemeth that he possessed the same Fifty years The which afterwards the Jebusites enjoyed who sprang from Jebusi the Son of Canaan of whom it was called for a time Jebus and Jebusaeum at what time Joshua slew the King thereof And the Jebusites held the same Eight hundred twenty and four years who trusted so much to the strength of their City that when King David assailed the same in contemp tof him and of his Army they placed upon their Walls the blinde the halt and the maimed saying That these were sufficient to beat back the Enemy But when David through Gods help enjoyed the City the Jebusites being expulsed Joseph l. 7. Antiq cap. 3. Jerom. Tom. 3. de loc Hebr. lit i. Euseb Evang Praep. l. 9. 1 King 3.5 6 9 10 c. See Number CXXIV Joseph lib. 8. Antiq. cap. 2. 5. he re-edified the same round fortified it with a Castle dwelt therein and made it the Metropolitan City of the whole Province of Judea and the Head of all the Kingdom and from thenceforth called it Jerusalem as it were Jebussalem the letter B to make the better sound turned into R. Or rather from Jireh and Salem Gen. 18.2 14. with 2 Chro. 3.1 Notwithstanding there are some which write That it is called Jerusalem of the magnificent Temple which Solomon built therein as it were Hieron Solomonis For the Greeks call a Temple 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hieron In continuance of time Solomon and other Kings of Judea greatly enlarged the same and so fortified it with most strong Gates Towers Walls and Trenches and so adorned it with a Temple with Pallaces and with most exquisit Buildings that among other Cities it was a miracle of the whole World and is therefore more honored with silence then with all that can be said concerning the same It stood in the Tribe of Benjamin Josh 18.28 Some borders of it were in Judah Josh 15.8 In this glory and excellency Jerusalem flourished Four hundred seventy and seven years Ioseph con Appion lib. 1. Strabo Geograph l. 16. as if it had been an Earthly Paradise being in compass round about Six miles and two hundred and fifty paces And by the Wall and circuit of the City there was a Stony Trench or Vault Threescore foot deep and in bredth Two hundred and fifty wherein was abiding about One hundred and fifty thousand men But when the wickedness of the Princes and People not onely had profaned the Temple 2 Kings 16.21 24 25. 2 Chro. 28.33 36. with the abominations of Idols but also had filled the City even to the full with innocent blood most cruelly shed the City together with the Temple Princes and people by the just vengeance of God was by Nabuchodonozer Micah 3. Jere. 25.26 29 52. King of Babylon but Gods whip so utterly overthrown and desolated Threescore and ten years that Sion was ploughed up like a field and Jerusalem was become as a heap of stones and the Mountain of the Temple as it were the height and top of Woods so as in the mean time as Jerom witnesseth that neither so much as a Bird Hier. Tom. 3. Trad. Heb. in 2 Chro. 15. nor a Beast could flie or pass through the same Afterwards the Temple onely being with much a do and very hardly builded wanting Gates Towers and Walls was inhabited again by the Jews returning out of the captivity of Babylon Threescore years Moreover within the space of Two and fifty days Esdr 1.2 3 4 5 6. Nehe. 1.2 3 4.5 6 7 c. 1 Mac. 12.13 14. Ioseph 6. Bel. 6. Ioseph 1. Bel. 13. c. Nehemiah inclosed it in compass Three miles and seven hundred and fifty paces with Gates Towers and a strong Wall and afterward the same being beautified by the Maccabees by Herod and by others very stately with publick and private Buildings recovered the former dignity being very famous and populous by the space of Five hundred four and twenty years having in it many narrow Streets by reason of the exceeding number of Houses therein At what time there as in a Theatre Jesus Christ wrought our Salvation and from thence Isa 2.4 Micah 4. Acts 2.1 Mark 16. Psal 18. Ioseph 6. Bel. 13. 7. Bel. 14.17 18. as from a Center the Apostles spread forth the Evangelical Doctrine throughout the World But Titus Emperor of Rome being brought by the just judgement of God to take vengeance for the death of Christ the Thirty and eighth year after his Passion besieged it round casting a bank about it and shut up the Jews in the City as in a prison which came out of every Tribe to celebrate the Feast of Passover there Whereupon that City the wonder of the World was made a Den of theeves and a Sepulchre of dead men For by reason of civil murders famine pestilence and sword there perished in the same Eleven hundred thousand Jews And as for the City it self Titus did so utterly subvert it that men which came unto it would scarce believe that ever it had been inhabited Nevertheless he left three principal Herodian Towers that is to say Hippic Mariam and Phasel which were more notable then the rest as well for greatness as for beauty and that part of the Cities Wall which compassed them from the
West unshaken to the end that both it might be a Castle for the Roman Souldiers which should be left there for a Garrison and also to shew unto posterity what manner of City Luke 19.41 Euseb in Chro. Hist Eccles l. 4. c. 6. and how well fortified the force of the Romans had subdued But after threescore and five years the Jews rebelling again Aelius Adrianus the Emperor slew many thousands of them and utterly subverted those Towers with the remainder of the VVall and commanded the City to be strewed with Salt Hier. in loc Act. Apost lib. H. Niceph. 3. Hist Eccles 14. Broca in Descrip locorum terrae sanctae itinere 6. whereby it came to pass according to the prophesie of Christ That there was not left one stone of the City upon a stone And building the City again in less compass he excluded Mount Sion with the Palace of Solomon and that of the Queen and the House of the Forest of Libanus also the Gate of the North corner and the Tents of the Assyrians and all the North part even to the Dung Gate and to the Gate of Ephraim But the Mount of Calvary and the Sepulchre of the Lord which were aforetime without the Walls he inclosed with the North Walls of the City and set the Picture of a Sowe cut in Marble upon the forefront of that Gate by which men go to Bethleem thereby giving to understand That the Jews subject to that Law of Swines flesh were under the power of the Romans Will. Tyr. Hist Bel. Sacri lib. â—4 c. 12. Iâ—ob Vitriac â— 55 whom by an Edict he forbad never more to enter into that City or look into the same from the top of any higher place and from thenceforth commanded it to be called Aelia Capitolia after his own name But after this being inhabited of the Christians and dignified with a Patriarchal Seat receiving again in continuance of time the name of Jerusalem flourished five hundred years in Christian Religion And in the year after the Birth of Christ Onuphr in Chro. Eccles Six hundred thirty and six it was taken by the Saracens which reigned in Egypt and so possessed Four hundred threescore and three years After this in the year of Christ One thousand ninety and nine Wilbelm Tyri Arch. Hist Bel. Sacri l. 8. c. 5 18 19 20 21. l. 9. c. 1 2 9. the City Jerusalem was recovered by the Christians having for their Captain Godfrey of Bullion who was the first that entred upon the Wall of the City with great courage and most fierce assault the Ides of July the very same day and hour wherein * So I the Author try this Christ died And so great slaughter was made throughout all the Streets Lanes and corners of the City that no man could pass but over the dead bodies of the slain And so exceeding was the effusion of blood Iacob de Vitriac c. 20. B. Salig in Epist ad Joan. a Lotharing Cardin. that men went over their shooes in the blood of the dead insomuch That the Conquerors themselves were from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head imbrued with blood Who when they enjoyed the City putting off their Armor and cleansing themselves from their blood visited the places of Christs Passion Resurrection and Ascension which the faithful that dwelt in Jerusalem shewed unto them and beheld them with reverence The eight day after with one consent they elected Duke Godfrey and created him the King of Jerusalem but the man being full of godliness and humility would not be crowned with a Crown of Gold after the manner of Kings in the holy City but contented himself and reverenced the like Crown of Thorns with the which the Emperor of Mankinde was crowned in the same place when he went to be Crucified for our Salvation Jerusalem therefore being recovered by the Christians Bas Hero Bel. Sacri cont l. 1. c. 7. l. 6. c. 10. was so held and enjoyed by them Fourscore and eight years Afterward namely in the year One thousand one hundred eighty and seven the second day of October the Christian Princes wo and alas disagreeing among themselves Matth. Palmerius in Chron. Jerusalem was delivered up to Saladine the Soldan of Egypt upon this condition That it should be lawful for the Christians to depart with bag and baggage the which Saladine held it Three hundred and thirty years But in the year of our Lord Mossaeus in Chron. One thousand-five hundred and seventeen it was invaded by Selimo the Emperor of Turks and is at this day in the same compass of Walls possessed by the Turks who name it Cusumobarech or Codsbarich Onuphr in Chron. that is to say A Holy City So that from the first Foundation thereof unto this present year One thousand five hundred ninety and four are passed Three thousand five hundred thirty and one years The places within the City The first part of the City II. MOunt Sion Psal 2.6 15.1 Joel 2.15 3.17 Ioseph 6. Bell. 6. 15. Antiq 14. Niceph. 8. Hist Eccles 30. Brocard Itiner 6. which is called The Mount of the Lord and the Holy Mountain is much more higher then other Mountains and larger after the fashion of a Theatre in the form of a half Circle compassing the City on the South part And being set as a Looking-Glass on a high place founded by God upon a firm Rock on every side broken off had a Plainness thereon like to a Town and being very pleasant and recreative it represented the excellency and delights of Heaven Whose top the Jebusites first of all fortified with a strong Castle and the compass thereof with firm and lofty Walls with Gates and with Towers Salig Tom. 6. cap. 6. Isa 14. 20. Whom when David the King had expulsed he made the Castle and the Walls round about the Gates and the Towers much more defensible and made the top and plainness of the Hill Bas Hero Bel. Sacri conâ—in lib. 1. cap. 8. 2 Sam. 5.6 7. 1 Chro. 11 5 7. 15.1 into Streets and Lanes and builded there for himself for his Nobles and Worthies Houses and called it The City of David which also Josephus calleth The Higher City and The Holy Part. The Maccabees reedifying the same Mountain in compass made it most strong with many Walls and lofty Towers in such wise as notwithstanding any force it was invinsible onely by Famine it might be surprized Where were many straight and narrow passages and many houses of Citizens placed From this Mountain Psal 48.2 87.1 2. Ioseph 6. Bel. 6. 1. Bel. 1. 1 Mac. 4. Ioseph Bel. 15. 16. according to the foretelling of the Prophets a Law and an Evangelical Light came forth and as it were from the Head it self it was spred forth into the whole Body of the World for the saving health of all Nations The which
House of Uria 2 Sam. 11. 23 one of the most valiant Souldiers of David whose wife Bethsheba bathing her self in a Fountain of her Garden which also is to be seen in the Map by her beauty allured David to adultery beholding her from a Gallery of the Kings House XII The upper Market by reason whereof the upper City also was called sometimes the upper Market Ios 6 Bel. 6. XIII The stairs of the Castle Acts 21. last 22.1 or prison whereon the Apostle Paul stood when he made answer for himself XIV The stairs of Sion Nehem 3.15 and 12.37 Ios 15. Antiq. 14. by which men went up to the City of David XV. The Kings Garden Nehem. 3.15 2 King 23.18.26 the which also was called the Garden of Oza wherein Manasses and Amon Kings of Judah were buried XVI Mello a Valley or Dale very deep and wide which lay between Mount Sion and the lower City and extended it self from the Water-Gate to the Fish-Gate David builded and compassed Mount Sion round about from this Valley Bas Hero 1. Bel sac S. Bro itin 6 2 Sam. 5.9 1 Chron. 11.8 1 King 9.15 11.27 Nehem. 8.1.3.16 3.26 12.37 2 Chron. 32.5 2 King 12.20 Ioseph 6. Bel. 6. Bâ—ocord itin 6. the concavity and bottome whereof Solomon did make levell and plaine that it might be a convenient street and from thenceforth it was called the street of the Water-gate He also beautified the same with buildings which being decayed was repaired by Ezekias In this place it was that Joaz King of Juda was slaine by his servants in the way down to Sela. But in Josephus time this valley was called Tyropoeon and was very large and full of dwelling houses At this day this valley is so filled up with earth and stones that there remaineth onely a small shew of the former concavity and deepnesse XVII The Pallace of Caiphas belonging to every high Priest large and square Nehem. 3.20 Mat. 26.3.57 27. Mar. 14.15 Luk. 22 23. Ioan. 18.24.28 wherein sometime dwelled Eliasib the chiefe Priest In this Pallace the Princes of the people being gathered together consulted among themselves what pollicy they might use to catch Jesus and to kill him to whom he was there sold by Judas for thirty peeces of silver Afterwards also he was thrice denied by Peter and was by false witnesses of the Jewes accused before Caiphas in the counsel of the Priests and Elders to whom when he answered nothing being streightly charged by the high Priest to tell whether hee were christ the Son of God The which when hee confessed hee was accused of blasphemy the chief Priest calling for the sentence of the counsel threescore and ten Elders condemned him to be worthy of death saying He is worthy to dye Whereupon the servants and souldiers did presently spit in his face they blinde-folded him buffeted him with their fists commanding him to prophesie scorned him all the night with sundry mocks and vexed him with many blasphemies And that I may speake much in few words no mortal man in this life is able to expresse what and how much he endured this night And in * Mat. 27.1 Mar. 15.1 Luk. 22 66. Io. 18.28 the morning following the Rulers of the Jewes assembled together in this place again to deliver him up to death and leading him bound they delivered him to Pilate the Deputy XVIII The Fountain of Sion Nehem. 3. the which was made with great labour and cost XIX The Bridge of Sion by which men went through the valley out of the upper City unto the Temple Ios 15. Antiq 1â— 7. Bel. 13 15. XX. The Gates of Sion which the Lord loveth more then all the Tabernacles of Jacob. Psal 87.2 XXI The upper Gate by which Joas when he was crowned King of Juda in the Temple 2 Chron. 23.5.13 and guarded with the Princes of the Jews was lead into the Pallace of the Kings of Juda. XXII The Sepulchre of David together with the field wherein the Kings were buried 1 King 2 10. 11.43 2 Chron. 21 20 24 25. 28 27 Nehem. 2.3.5 3.6 Ios â— 7 Antiq. 16 â—3 Ant. 15 16 Ant 7. Act. 2.29 Niceph. hist Eccl. 30. Breid 12. Jul. Sal. tom 7. cap 2 Pasch day 1846 the which very stately was placed aloft in the City of David wherein David himselfe Solomon and other Kings of Juda also Jehoida the chiefe Priest were buried Into this Monument of Davids Sepulchre Solomon brought great treasure at his burial the which Hircanus the high Priest and Captaine opening brought from hence thirty thousand talents of silver Not long after this Herod the Ascalonit King of Jews went about also to bring much treasure out from thence but a flame of fire breaking forth and consuming two of his souldiers he left off his enterprise and to make satisfaction for himselfe he adorned the same Monument with faire shining Marble which continued there a long time after where the Saracens afterward builded a Church for themselves which standeth as yet which place they greatly reverence and suffer not any Christian to enter into the same XXIII The Sepulchre of Stephen the first Martyr Acts 8.2.5.34.22 3. 2 Sam. 6.17 of Nicodemus and of Gamaliel Pauls Schoolmaster removing their bodies by a miracle from the valley of Josaphat hither after three hundred and sixty yeers say Relick-mungers XXIV The Tabernacle of Sion Exo. 26.1.7.14 2 Chron. 1.3 2 Sam. 6.17 2 Chron 5.2 1 Chro. 16.1.39 vers 37. Josep Ant. 4. 2 Chron. 1.3 4. ch 5.2.7 Breid 12. Jul. pasch day 184. Zach. 14.10 not that covered with skins which Moses caused to be made King David placed the same in this City in Sion Gibeon and with great reverence put the Arke of God therein and appointed Priests and Levites continually to minister from day to day by turne which remained there about foure and twenty yeers untill it was carried by Solomon into the Temple In the same saith Breid David sorrowing for his adultery with Bethsheba and murder of Urias made certain Psalms of repentance XXV The Kings Presses wherein the Kings wine was pressed The Second part of the City XXVI THe Daughter of Sion Psal 9.16 Zach. 9.9 Matth. 21.5 Jos 6. Bel. 6. c so called becaused it seemed to grow from Mount Sion the which was also called the lower City being another part of the City whereof there is often mention made in the holy Scriptures and in Josephus The places of the Daughter of Sion XXVII THe Mountain of Acra was sometime in the lower City very lofty and steep Jos 13. Ant. 9. 6. Bel. 6.7 Bel. 13.16 the height whereof afterward Simon Machabaeus abated and made plaine by the continual labour of the people which he imployed herein by the space of three yeers day and night that the Temple alone might be higher then all other places
offered up their Sonnes to the Devill Moloch The which detestable madnesse the godly King Josias seeking at the length to redresse brake in peeces the Image of Moloch cut downe his Groves and defiled the place thereof with the filthinesse of dead Carcasse of bones and of other unclean things and appointed it to be a perpetual dunghil for ever Jer. 7.5 19.7.32.35 Isa 30. In this Valley Jeremy at the Commandement of God breaking an earthen pot in peeces against the ground before the Elders of Juda prophesied that God would after the selfe-same manner break and destroy both the City and the people According to which Prophesie there was so great and mighty a multitude of people slaine there because they had filled this place with the blood of innocent children that this place was called no more the valley of Tophet but Poly and ron that is to say a heap of many dead bodies whose carcases lying there unburied became meat for the birds of the aire and for the beasts of the fields 186. Gethsemani a firm place at the foot of mount Olivet Matth. 26.26 Mar. 14.32 This had many fruitful Olive trees When Christ intended to go unto the Garden that was in mount Olivet he came from his last Supper into this place heavy and sorrowfull unto the death 187. The Garden of Olivet Mat 26.39 Mar. 14.35 Luke 22.41 John 18.1 Hier. in loc Heb lit G. Broc it in 6. Bre. 14. Jul. in the mount of Olivet where Christ prayed unto his Father three times that the cup of his Passion might passe from him And being in an agony as he continued in prayer he swet blood which fell drop by drop unto the earth at what time he was comforted by an Angel from heaven In Hieroms time there was a Church builded on this place which is as yet to be seen 188. The Kings Garden 2 King 25.4 Cant. 4. Jer. 39.4 52 Jos 7. Aut. 15. 9. Aut. 11. the which also was called the inclosed Garden It was in the Suburbs of Jerusalem walled round about And like to a Paradise it was planted with trees of all sorts of fruits with herbs with flowers of most sweet savour and what soever else that might delight the senses It had also most pleasant and convenient walks In this was that famous fountain Rogel and the stone Zoeleth of both which there is often mention made in the Scripture where Adonias when hee purposed to reigne offered oblations and with his followers made a feast 189. The Grove of Moloch consecrated to the Idoll Moloch where the worshippers thereof after they had ended their sacrifice 2 King 23.10 Hier. in Jer. 1.19 in Mat. 10. committed fornication under the shadow of the trees 190. The Mount of offence it was a very high mountain 1 King 11.7 2 King 23.10 scituate on the South-side of the Kings Garden where the most wise Solomon being now old was seduced and made foolish by his strange wives building a Temple to Melchom the Idol of the Ammonites which also he worshipped 191. The Mount Olivet Dan. 11.45 Psal 87.1 Dan. 9.16.20 Zach. 8.3 Act. 1.12 See Number 178. Broch itin 6. Breid 14. Iul. or Mount of Olives so called by reason of the great plenty of Olives which grew there called also in Greek Elaeon which otherwise also is named the famous or glorious and holy Mountaine It was scituate on the East side of Jerusalem It was separated from the high City the valley of Cedron lying between distant from the City a Sabbath dayes journey according to the Scripture but according to Josephus it was distant five furlongs who also addeth that the top of the hill was six furlongs from the City for it was of so great height that from the same not onely almost all the streets of Jerusalem but also the dead Sea might easily be seen And besides the Olives it abounded with Palmes Pines Mirtels and other fruitfull Trees In the top of this hill 2 Sam. 15. the holy King David flying from the face of his son Absolom weeping and barefooted worshipped God In this Mountaine also his Son Solomon forgetting all godlinesse erected a Temple to Astaroth the Idol of the Sidonians right over against the Temple of Ierusalem from whence every one that committed Idolatry might be seen 1 King 11 7. 2 King 23.3 The which also with all other places dedicated to Idols Iosias utterly destroyed Christ oftentimes came up into this Mountaine both for quietnesse sake Luke 19.29.41 Luke 22.2 Mat. 21.1 John 18.8 Act 1.12 and also to pray tarrying there all the night Also from the top of this Mount he ascended into heaven in the presence of his Disciples standing there and beholding him after hee had blessed them 192. The Mount of Offence a high Mountaine on the other side of the brook Cedron 1 King 11.7 2 King 23.8 Broc itin 6. Sal. 6. cap. 5. and on the North side of the mount Olivet distant from Jerusalem four furlongs whereon Solomon by the motion of his heathenish wives builded a Temple to Chumosh the Idol of the Moâ—bites This also Josias brake down In the time of the Machabees a Castle was builded on this Mount some tokens whereof are to be seen at this day 193. The Fullers Monument Jos 6. Bel. 6. the which was not far from the Corner gate in the North-east 194. The Palme Trees whereof mention is made in Nehemiah Neh. 8.15 Joh. 12.13 and in St. Johns Gospel 195. The Dove-house on the South end of the Mount Olivet Jos 6. Bel. 13. It was made of stone round lofty and fashioned like a Tower wherein were store of Doves to the number of foure or five thousand 196. The Bridge of Cedron made of stone Breid 14. Jul. with one arch erected over the brook Cedron which Helena the Emperesse caused to be made in that place 197. The Sepulchre of the Virgin Mary Joan Damasâ— de dormitione Deipar which was in the valley of Jehoshaphat near unto the firme place of Gethseman at the foot of Mount Olivet wherein the body of the most holy and blessed Virgin was decently buried by the Apostles From this Traditional Relicke not once mentioned in Scripture is sucked no small advantage 198. The Common place of burial 2 King 23.32 Ier. 26. which was in the Valley of Jehoshaphat where the common sort of people were buried 199. The Fountain of Siloe whereto was joyned the Pool of Siloe Isa 8. 22. Neh. 3.15 the which also is called the lower Pool lying on the West-side of the valley of Jehoshaphat and springing from the root of Mount Sion The water thereof being cleer sweet and plentifull ran with a still and calm stream into the brook Cedron This Fountaine King Hezekias repaired Jâ—h 9.7.11 Broc itin 6. Breid 14 Iul. Pasch die 197. Io. 6. Bel. 11. In the Pool of this Fountaine the man which
of the City XXVIII The Amphitheater Ios 15. Ant. 10. that is a place invironed with Scaffolds and Stages capable of fourscore thousand men where the people were wont to behold their Games which Herod the elder first of all other builded in the field at Jerusalem with great labour and cost Wherein to recreat the beholders wrastlers and sword players shewed many feats of activity and sometimes Lions Leopards Buls Bears Bores Wolves and other exceeding wild fierce beasts fought one with another and sometime condemned men were cast unto these to be devoured and captives taken in war At which time of their Games the place beneath was strowed with sand to the end that neither the Sword-players should faile in their footing nor the fighters might be defiled with the blood of the slain nor yet that the sprinkling of the blood should bring horror to the lookers on XXIX The Castle Antonia Jos 15. Antiq. 14 18 Ant. 8 Item 1. Bel. 3. 4 16. 6. Bel. 6. alias saeâ—e strong and well fortified lying near to the North-side of the Temple which was builded in time past on a high rock fifty cubits high and very steep round about and the Tower was called Baris In this the chiefe Priests which came of the Machabees even till Herods time inhabited where in a Cell made for that purpose the sacred stool of the chiefe Priest was kept the Governour of the Tower lighting a candle there every day Herod the greater having gotten the Kingdome and seeing that this Castle was conveniently scituate to command the Citizens that they might not seek innovation through sedition repaired the same to his great cost and fortified it within with a Royal Pallace even like a City and with foure lofty Towers at each corner whereof three were fifty cubits high and the fourth threescore and ten from whence the whole Temple might be seen and for the favour which he bare to Marcus Antonius his friend he called it Antonia In this Castle the Roman souldiers kept alwayes watch with their souldiers having an eye and principal care lest the people should work any innovation in the Temple on the feast dayes And so the Temple belonged to the City and the Castle Antonia to the Temple XXX The Court of Records which we commonly call the Court of Chancery or of the Rouls that is to say a house wherein the Acts of the City and of the Citizens and also their publick Records and the account of Creditors were kept the which the seditious burned Ios 2. Bel. 17. 7. Bel. 13. the keepers thereof flying from thence to the end they might destroy all the evidences of the Creditors and joyne unto them all the Debters XXXI The Castle of Antiochus Epiphanes Ios 12. Ant. 6. 1 Mac. 1. Dan. 8.11.12 both high and strong the which after the slaughter of many Citizens the spoyl of the City and Temple and the burning of most fair houses he builded upon the mountaine Acra and fortified it with strong wals and towers and placed a Garrison of Macedonian souldiers there mingling with them certaine of the most rascal fugitive Jews by whom the continual sacrifice was taken away by the space of three years Ios 13. Antiq. 9. and the City it selfe vexed more then six and twenty years But after this Simon Machaeus won and destroyed this Castle XXXII The common Prison of the City wherein the Apostles being shut up by the Rulers of the Jews Act. 5 18.19 Iose 6. Bel. 6. were in the night time brought forth by the Angel Josephus seemeth to call this Prison Betiso XXXIII The Corner Parlour belonging to the corner house Nehem. 3.24 where the publick Suppers were kept XXXIV The Vaulted Cave Ios 19. Ant. 14. B reid 14. Iul. leading from the Castle Antonia into the Temple which Herod the elder made setting a Tower thereon that by the same he might passe privily into the Temple if so bee the people intended to make any insurrection against the King which remaineth as yet very wonderful and large insomuch that six hundred horses may very conveniently be placed therein XXXV The Court in Hebrew called Gasith Joseph 6. Bel. 6 7. Bel. 13. Num. 11.24 Act. 22 30. Mar. 13.9 Act. 5.2 Hier. Tom. 3. Epist 25. ad Fabiol mans 11. Which in the inner City was joyned to an old wall thereof Wherein were threescore and ten Senators and ordinary Judges which were called of the Jews Sanhedrim in Greek Synedron that is to say in English the Councel of the Elders and Seniors of the people These dealt in the affairs of the Commonwealth gave Laws and determined the doubtfull and weighty causes yea even of other Cities also they ended strifes and controversies and gave the sentence of death generally they dealt in all capital causes except onely in the difficulties and mysteries of Gods Law and of the Jews Religion Deut. 17. the which the Priests onely determined In this confistory the Apostles were examined whipped and forbidden to preach Act. 4 5 5.27 and yet went rejoycing from the Councel because they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the name of Jesus Here it was that St. Stephen standing before the Councel Act 6.12 15. and his countenance shining like an Angel lifting up his eyes saw the Heavens open and the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God from thence he being cast with violence out of the City was stoned XXXVI The house of Ananias the high Priest Ios 2. Bel. 1.7 which the seditious at the length fiered XXXVII The house of holy Anne as some write the Grandame of Christ Breid 26. Iul. Sal. Tom 8. cap. 6. Iac. Vitri cap. 58. Luke 1.26 wherein she with Joacim her husband abode when the feast was at Jerusalem where they both dyed Here the blessed Virgine Mary as some conjecture abroad during the passion of Christ That there she was conceived some vainly record for this was at Nazareth in Galilee The house of the rich Glutton saith Breid Luke 6. Breid 14. Iul. Sal. Tom. 8.62.6 c. which burned in hell according to the Evangelical story or Paâ—able In the which house that he dwelt it is reported by some Antiquities a high wall whereof is shewed at this day to Christian Travellers XXXIX The house of Massa whereof mention is made in the second Book of Kings The house of withdrawing or of guard that should not be broken into 2 King 11.6 XL. The house of the Nathinaeans or Nethinims that is Given which carried wood and water into the Temple These seem to be the remnant of the Gibeonites whom David gave to such service Neh. 3.26.31 Ezra 8.20 with Ezra 2.70 XLI The house of the Rulers of the Pharises in the which Christ touched the man sick of the dropsie Luke 14.1 and healed him LXII The house of the Forrest of Libanus 1 King 7
a Ditch which was scituate between two walls of the City Isa 22.11 whereof mention is made in Isaiah the Prophet 132. The middle Tower Ios 6. Bel. 9. which was in the middle wall 133. A Monument of Alexander Jannaeus the high Priest and King Ios 13 Ant 21. 6 Bel. wherein he was buried by the authority of the Pharisees very sumptuously 134. A Monument of Johannes Hircanus high Priest and Captaine of whom mention is often made in Josephus Ios 6. Bel. 7. 135. The second Wall the which is also called the Middle-wall 2 Chron 32. Neh. 3.8 12 Ios 6. Bel. 6. beautified with many gates and divided with fourteen Towers the which wall Hezekias the King repaired and made more strong and higher 136. The Pallace of Herod which was builded by Herod the Ascalonite King of the Jews who killed the Innocents with sundry sorts of pollished marble stones near unto the West-wall of the City from the old wall even to the middle wall Mat. 2. Ios 6 Bel. 6. being most singularly beautified with silver and gold most strongly fortified with an iron gate and three most excellent Towers to wit Hippic Mariam and Phasel which in greatnesse strength Ios 2 Bel. 17. Ios 6. Bel. 6. and beauty excelled all the Towers of the whole world Within was the Kings Hall which being builded on high and very lofty with unspeakable magnificence was wholly compassed about with most beautifull Towers Parlors Chambers Galleries Porches and with Pillars with which there was an inclosed Court open to the aire In this Hall Christ was presented to Herod Antipas Tetrarch of Galilee who had killed John the Baptist This Herod asked Christ many questions Luke 23.8 Mat. 14.1 Vers 10. Luke 23.9 10. Vers 11. Mat. 27.28 Breid 14. Iul. who was there constantly accused by the Jewes whom when he answered nothing the same Herod and his whole rout despised and scorned and so sent him to Pilate clad in white and in scarlet as if he had been a fool or a Kingly Jester No wonder therefore if Christs members be scornfully used Then they should look unto Jesus and follow his steps 1 Pet. 2.21 22. Heb. 12.2 Now that Hall or Pallace is a School for children of the Infidels 137. The Middle Gate of the second wall wherein the outwardmost walls being broken Jer. 39.3 52. the Princes of the King of Babylon did sit 138. The outwardmost Court compassing the Hall of Herod round about Jos 2. Bel. 1.7 where the Kings souldiers did watch and ward Wherein was the Kings prison whereinto malefactors were put In this prison Saint Peter was shut up by King Herod Agrippa who had slaine James the greater Which Peter being bound with two chaines Act. 12.1 2. and most safely kept by four quaternions of souldiers all the daies of sweet or unleavened bread But in the night before the day whereon he should have been put to death he was by the Angel of the Lord loosed from his chaines and by him brought forth through an iron gate by the first and second watch into the City As in Act. 12. 139. The Lake called Strutium Jos 6. Bel. Jud. 12. which was the middle Lake Here also Titus caused a Bulwark to be made 140. The Tower Hippic which being four square was builded in the second wall upon a high hill Ios 6. Bel. 5 6 7. which being four square was builded in the second wall upon a high hill It was fourscore and five cubits high and having two tops was to be seene afarre off It was marvelous strong builded by Herod the elder who having in the war lost his friends the Hippicks called this Tower after their name Hippic 141. The Tower Mariamne which being fifty cubits high stood aloft in most beautiful manner Ios 15. Ant. 9. Bel. 16. 6 Bel. 6. upon a high hill of the old wall which Herod builded for a memorial of Mariamne his best beloved wife whom hee had slaine and called it after her name Mariamne And because it carried the name of a Queen therefore it was more beautifull in shew then the other 142. The Tower Phaselus Ios 14. Ant. 22. 16. Ant. 5. which being fourscore and ten cubits high set upon a high place of the old wall and made aloft in form of a ball was of wonderfull height and exceeding strong Which Herod builded after the fashion of the Tower Pharus in Alexandria And in the honour of his brother Phaselus called it Phaselus who being taken prisoner by the Parthians Ios 17. Ant. 14. 1. Bel. 11. 6 Bel. 6. 7. Bel. 18. and having no liberty to use neither weapon nor hands ran his head against a stone and so killed himselfe How this and the other two Towers were left standing after the destruction of Jerusalem read under the number of 1 going before 143. Herods Parke which had in it an Orchard and a Garden watred with Ponds Rivers and Fountains Jos 6. Bel. 6. replenished with sundry wild beasts Fishes and Fouls having many large Walks and round about the same many towers of tame Doves 144. The Hospital Jos 13. Ant. 15. Egesi 1. Hist. Jud. 1. which Hircanus the high Priest founded with the money which he got out of the Sepulchre of David wherein pilgrims poor men and such as were impotent were sustained and kept 145. The wrestling place Ios 6. Bel. 6. the which was placed in Herods Pallace It was large serving in the Winter time for Wrestlers and for other exercises and pastimes wherewith men recreated themselves The fourth part of the City 146. THe new City called in Greek Kaenopolis Jos 19. Ant. 7. 2. Bel. 15. 6. Bel. 6.7.9.13 the fourth part of the City the which was severed as the other parts of the City were with walls and many narrow wayes which went crosse extending to the walls of the City wherein dwelt Woolsellers Carpenters Smiths and other Workmen and Artificers Latine Bazetha The places of the new City 147. Bezetha a Mountain Jos 6. Bel. 6. the which having many houses built thereon was inhabited by the common sort of people 148. The Castle of the Assyrians Ios 6. Bel. 8. 13. neer unto the which Titus pitched his Tents at such time as hee had gotten the wall of the City This Castle stood more then an arrow-shoot from the second wall 149. The third Wall the which also is called the out set wall which King Agrippa made upon the common charge of the Citizens Ios 19. Ant. 7. 2 Bel. 10. 6. Bel. 6. extending it more broad and high then it was before This wall was very firme and strong five and twenty cubits high It had fourscore and ten square and lofty Towers which were of great force distant one from the other two hundred cubits whose building and beauty in stone work was nothing inferior to that of
Sam. 5.9 Vuil. Tyr. 9. be sac 3. Broc itin 6. the which was builded by King David in a corner of two deep Valleys on the top of a broken rocke with four square stones most firmly joyned together with Iron and Lead whose singular fortitude and notable beauty for the commendation of Christs Spouse which is the Church is spoken of by Solomon when he saith Thy neck is like the Tower of David builded with Bulwarks whereupon there hang a thousand shields yea all the weapons of the Giants Cant. 4.4 170. The high Tower 2 Chron. 26.9 Ios 9. Ant. 11. â— which was builded upon the gate of the Valley The which also King Ozias repaired and that it might be seen beyond mount Olivet he made it one hundred and fifty cubits high 171. The Lantern Tower or Tower of Furnaces scituate on the North-end of the City which men thinke was so called Neh 3.11 〈◊〉 12.38 because fire was continually kept there to serve as a Marke both for Land and Seafaring men to direct them in the right way 172. The great Tower Neh. 3.27 which standing near the wall of the Temple was higher then the rest 173. The Tower Meah Neh. 3.1 12.39 otherwise Emat that is say of one hundred cubits which was not far from the Temple 174. The Tower Psephina Jos 6 Bel. 2.5 6 Broc itin 6. which was eight square of seventy cubits high founded at the North-west corner of the City upon a very high rock being like a strong Tower which by reason of the exceeding height thereof was fearfull from whence on a clear day men might behold Arabia the Sea and the uttermost borders of the Hebrews The ruines whereof are as yet to be seen 175. The Tower of Siloe which falling in Christs time slew eighteen men Luke 13.4 176. The deep valley Broc itin 6. which compassing mount Sion on the North and South part went all along the West side of the City even to the gate of Ephraim making a fit and convenient ditch for the City The places without the City The places at the East part of the City 177. The Water which was brought out of the Temple by Conduit pipes under the earth Arist lib. de 72. interpret Jo. 18.1 issued forth here with great noise and so ran into the brook Cedron 178. Bethania the Noble Castle of Mary and of Martha the sisters of Lazarus Mat. 21.17 ch 26.6 Mar. 11.1 Luke 10.29 Ioh. 11.1 12.1 having many houses the which was scituate beyond mount Olivet distant from Jerusalem fifteen furlongs that is two Italian miles From which place though it were but a little way off yet by reason that mount Olivet â—ay between the City Jerusalem could not be seen except from a little hill from whence part of mount Sion might bee seen Christ oftentimes lodged in this house of Martha where he preached the word of God to Mary sitting at his feet Here he raised up Lazarus to life after he had been buried four dayes and began to stinke Here he sitting in the house of Simon the Leper at the table together with Lazarus Martha serving them Mary anointed him with a most precious ointment 179. Bethphage a little village belonging to the Priests seituate at the East foot at the mount Olivet Mat. 21.1 Mark 11.1 Luke 19.22 Ioh. 12.1 Luke 19.41 42 from whence Christ sent two of his Disciples unto the Castle Opposite or over against them to fetch the Asse and the Colt which being brought and the peoples cloaths laid on the Colt he road on the same into Jerusalem But coming down from mount Olivet and seeing the City hee wept on her and prophesied her utter ruine because she knew not the day of her Visitation 180 The Castle or Village Opposite Mat. 26.6 7. Mat. 11.3 Luke 19.23 or which lyeth over against you to use the words of Christ when he sent his Disciples to fetch him the Asse It was a Village right over against Bethphage It seems to be Bethany 181. The Well neer unto Bethany where when the Lord came to raise up Lazarus Martha first met with him Ioh. 11.30 and afterward called forth her sister Mary The Scripture hath not one word of any Well in that place 182. The Little Hill at the foot of mount Olivet Jos 6. Bel. 13. neer unto the Dove-house a little above the valley of Siloe 183. The withered Fig-tree planted beside the way of Bethany Mat. 21.19 Mar. 11.15 which for bearing no fruit but being garnished onely with leaves was cursed of Christ and so presently withered 184. The Dragon Fountaine which doth spring even at this day which was between the Valley and the Dung-gate Jos 15.8 18.16 2 King 23.10 2 Chr. 28.3 33.6 19.2 32 35. 185. Gehennom the which also was called Benhinnom that is to say the Valley of the sons of Ennom or Hinnon It was a place which was scituate in the Suburbs of the City of Jerusalem toward the South-east In which place of Benhinnom was the Tabernacle and the Idoll Moloch the which Idoll as it was chiefe and principal among all the other Idols so the same being the greatest abomination and most hated unto God he oftentimes forbad the same in the Scriptures It was an Idol the matter whereof was brasse made in the likenesse and smilitude of a King of which some write thus It was hollow within and had a head like to the head of a Calfe the other parts or members of the body having the shape and fashion of a man the armes whereof were stretched out whereto the children that should be offered were made fast and with the vehement and extreme heat of the Idoll were burned and utterly consumed being so holden as it were of the same between his armes For when the Idoll was made red hot with the fire which they had put into the hollownesse of the same then the most wicked parents of these children in most cruel and barbarous manner Lev. 18.21 20 2 3. 1 King 11.7 delivered up their sonnes and their daughters to and into these detestable and develish imbracings of the Idoll that so they might be burnt And this they did of a certain divelish devotion offering them up to the devill Moloch for a burnt offering of most filthy savour Amidst these horrible torments wherewith they were thus tormented the miserable Clamor of the children could in no wise be heard Act 7.43 2 King 16. 21. whereby the parents might in any sort be moved to pity or compassion for that the Priests of this Idoll Moloch during the whole time of the sacrifice did usually make an exceeding great noise both with the Trumpets and Drums or Tabrets Whereupon that place was called also Tophet In this abominable manner 2 Chron. 28.33 2 King 23.10 Achaz and Manasses also Kings of Juda being even as mad as the common people
was borne blind washing his eyes which Christ had anointed with clay and his spittle received his sight Josephus testifieth that Siloe all other waters which were without the City did so fail and vanish away before the comming of Titus Caesar that water was sold neer unto them And after his comming they did so abound to him and his host Salig Tom. 10 cap. 1. that they had water enough for them and for their cattell Concerning the vertue of this water the most diligent Surveyer of this place Saligniacus writeth in this sort The water of this Fountaine is of great price at this day even among the Saracens themselves For where as naturally they be rammage and stinke like Goats they washing themselves and their children therein doe mitigate the evill savour thereof The Turks also make great account thereof for that they finde by experience that the use thereof is good for the sight of their eyes 200. or 201. See before Number 44. Stephen the Deacon Act 7.58 with Act. 6 5. in the very flower of his youth was stoned to death praying to God for them that stoned him whose garments the young man Paul kept This man was the first that triumphed with the palme of martyrdome 201. or 202. The Brook Cedron 2 King 23.4 6.12 Jer 31. Jos 8. Ant. 1 6. Bel. 13. Ezek. 47.8 or Kidron is a River on the East side of Jerusalem between the same and Mount Olivet which being increased with divers springs issuing from all parts out of the Mountaine and Pooles ran through the valley of Jehoshaphat and Gehennom with a silver stream and so passed through the plaines of the wildernesse into the dead Sea On the bankes of both sides this River there grew many fruitfull Trees Broc itin 6. Saâ— Tom. 9. cap. 1 2 Sam. 15.30 the pleasant shew whereof together with the Gardens neer adjoyning which were watered with the Christal streams of Cedron greatly delighted the eyes and minds of such as walked by the same King David passed over this River bare footed bare headed and with watery eyes accompanied with his most trusty friends flying from the face of his son Absolom Christ also went over the same Joh. 18.1 with his Disciples when he went to the Garden of Mount Olivet 203. In Latine was Tugurium S. Pelagia As the 44. Number so this of Number 203. was not judged worthy the Translating by T. T. nor by H. J. 202. in Latine 204. The Valley of Jehoshaphat Jos 6. Bel. 3. Hâ—er in loc Heb. l. â—t C. Zach. 14. Broc itin 6. Sal. Tom. 8. c 8. 1 King 15. 2 King 23.6.12 the which also is called the Valley of Cedron and the Valley of Mountains It is a wide and deep Valley between Jerusalem and Mount Olivet compassing the City on the East part which is made very fruitful by the passage of the brook Cedron The great deepnesse of this Valley was much filled by Titus and Adrian the Roman Emperours casting into the same great store of earth with the ruines of the Temple and City yet it was not therewith any thing neer levelled 2 Chron. 15.2.9.30 In this Valley the godly and religious Kings of Juda Asa Ezechias and Josias burned the Idols of the Temple and cast their ashes into the brook Cedron This Valley was the common place of burial for the whole City where all the common sort of people were buried Joel 3.2.12 Sal. Tom 9. c. 2. For it was the manner of the Jews to bury their dead Coarses out of the City And in the same place the Turks are now buried 203. or 205. c. See before Number 44. The Valley of Siloe so named of the Fountaine of Siloe Jos 6. Bel. 13. Salig tom 8. c. 2. Jo. 9.7 wherein the Jews which at this day dwell at Jerusalem are buried 204. The Wall of the Fullers Field lying between the water of Siloe and the South-east corner of the City 2 King 25. Isa 7 3.14 Here the Prophet Isaias foretold King Achaz that Christ should be borne of a Virgin 205. The way of the Captivity Joan. Pasc in pereg s die 190.193.194.197.200 207. Ioh. 18.1 Isa 53.10 11. Mar. 14.32.43.53 Mat. 26.36.47.57 Luke 22.39.47 54. Ioh. 18.1.3.13 These small pricks traced forth in length as you see doe demonstrate the way by which Christ was lead captive for the redemption of mankinde For being come into the Garden of Mount Olivet to pray after his last Supper in the Parlor of Mount Sion and having offered to God his Father the holy sacrifice of prayers returning from thence he met with his enemies which came to take him to whom he yeelded himselfe who had scarce gone forty steps from the place where he prayed but the Souldiers which were sent from the high Priests and rulers of the people laid hands on him took him and bound him From whence he was presently carried as a meek Lamb by those ravening Wolves armed with weapons over the brook Cedron to the house of Annas which was distant from the place where he was taken Mat. 27.2 Mar. 15.1 Luke 22.66 Ioh. 18.28 two thousand three hundred and sixty paces And from hence he was carried to the Pallace of Caiphas three hundred and thirty paces And so afterward hee was conducted by the Souldiers and by the people to the Pallace of Pilate which was distant from that of Caiphas a thousand paces Luke 23.7.11 And from thence to the Pallace of Herod which was distant three hundred and fifty paces Lastly from thence againe to the Pallace of Pilate he was carried by another way then that which he came the distance of six hundred elles which make about the length of halfe a mile and more The paces whereof we speak here containe two foot and a halfe 206. The way to Anathoth Broc it in 6. Jer. 1. Luke 10.30 18.35 Mar. 10 46. Mar. 26.36 Mar. 14.32 Luke 22 39. to Bethel and to the wildernesse 207. The way to Jericho and to Gilgal of the which there is mention made in some of the Evangelists Matth. 20.29 208. Here the three Apostles Peter James and John sate while Christ prayed in the Garden being about a stones cast from the selfe-same place Mat. 26.36 209. Here the other eight Apostles tarried being distant about a quarter of a mile from the other three places 210. Mat. 26.47 Mar. 14 43. Ioh. 18.3 Luke 22.47 Here Christ to make us free was betrayed with a kisse by the Traytor Judas and bound with hard and streight bands as if he had been an evill doer by the Jews whom he beat downe backward to the ground by the word of his mouth There Simon Peter moved suddenly with great fervency struck the servant of the high Priest whose name was Malchus and cut off his right ear which Christ immediately restored again But the rest of the Apostles being afraid left the Lord and fled
Chro. 26.16 Amos 1.1 Zach. 14.4 5. Ios 9. Aut. 11. otherwise called the South Mountaine being very high and lofty bowing a little toward the West Coucerning this Mountain it is noted by some That when Ozias King of Juda presumed to put on him the Priests attire entred into the Sanctuary of the Temple and offered upon the golden Altar the incense of sweet savour unto God by and by there came a great Earth-quake whereof also Amos and Zacharias the Prophets make mention whereby the upper part of the Temple was shaken Adam Reisnerus Joan. Herdenus inde scrip urbis Hi. rosol l. 7 c. 2. and this Mountaine cleft in the midst with so great and terrible violence that one part thereof falling and tumbling downe was rolled and carried by the space of foure furlongs even right over against the East Mountaine which is called the Mount of offence were at the length it stayed King Ozias himselfe in the mean time blasted and terrified with lightning was stricken in the forehead with a Leprosie For the which cause he being presently cast out of the Temple and City languished all his life long and was shut up in his house and separated even till the day of his death 221. A Fountain Mâ—t. 2 9.10 Breid 14. Iul. Sal. Tom. 10 c. 2 At this Fountaine Papist Bredenbach saith the Star which vanished away when the three wise men which came from the East were entred Jerusalem appeared unto them againe and lead them unto Bethlehem Neither Matthew nor any Scriptures shew any word of any Well or Fountain to have been in that place 222. The Cave of the Prophet Jeremy Lam. 1.2 3 4 5 Nicep 8. Hist Ec. 30. See before Number 217 wherein he sitting with a grieved and sorrowful mind wept mourned and bewayled the destruction of Jerusalem with sobs and sighs Where Helena the Empresse as Nicephorus testifieth builded a notable Monument 223. Isaias Argum in Isaiam Hier. tradit Heb. ju c. 2. Pa. 33 Broc it in 6. Breid 14 Iul. Here that notable Prophet Isai when he Prophesied in Jerusalem about threescore and ten years by the Commandement of King Manasses was sawne through the body with a Saw and was buried under an Oake whose Sepulchre is to bee seen at this day saith Bredan c. 224. The Caves of the Apostles There are many Caves wherein eight of the Apostles as it is reported but not in Scriptures hid themselves during the time of the Lords Passion See Number 217. 225. The Monument Absolom is a Marble Pillar with an Inscription on the same 2 Sam. 18.18 Iâ—s 7. Au. 1.10 distant from Jerusalem two furlongs which Absolom being alive set up to himselfe for a Monument in the Kings valley where there is yet to be seen a great heap of stones which daily is increased more and more For the Pagans and strangers passing by that way use this for a custome that every man cast a stone at the Piller and challenging as it were according to the Law his rebellion against his Father David they curse him with this malediction Cursed be the Parricide Absolom Brâ—id 14. Jul. Pasc d. 191. and accursed be all they for ever which unjustly doe persecute their Parents 226. 2 King 18.17 20.20 2 Chron. 32.30 Isa 7.3 36.2 Hier. in loc Heb. lit T. The River of the upper Fountaine scituate on the South part of Mount Sion which Hierom calleth the Fullers Fountaine the which the noble King Hezekias repaired with the conduit thereof also This hee choaked with earth at what time the Assyrians besieged Jerusalem 227. The Sepulchre as some say of Zacharias the Son of Barachias whom the Jews slew between the Temple and the Altar The places of the West side of the City 228. BAalparazim is a field in the valley of Raphaim wherein David the King at the first time overthrew the Philistians 2 Sam. 5.20 1 Chron. 14.11 and buried their gods which he found in their Tents 229. Herods Tents which as Josephus witnesseth Jos 14 Ant. 24. 1 Bel. 12. hee pitched on the West part of the City 230. The Fountaine Gihon the lower which sprang up in the end of the Fullers field 2 Chr. 32.30 33.14 Broc itin 6. the waters whereof Hezechias brought unto the upper Fountain 231. The Fountain Gihon the higher 2 King 20.20 2 Châ—o 32.30 Eecles 48. Broc itin 6. springing from the Mount Gihon which afterwards Hezekias stopped up and cutting deeper into the rock he brought the waters thereof unto the West part of the City of David by Conduit pipes under the earth by which he brought it through the midst of the City into the innermost Fountaine lest when the City should bee besiedged the people might want water 232. Judas who of an Apostle being become a Traytor hanged himsefe upon a wild fig-tree Mat. 27.5 Act. 1.18 there are some say an Elder tree and being hanged burst asunder in the midst and all his bowels gushed out 233. The Mount of Calvary Jer. 31.40 Mat 27.33 Mar. 15.22 Luke 23.33 Joh. 19.17 a rocky Mountain of mean height called in the Hebrew tongue Golgotha which was next to the North-west part of the City In the which place offenders condemned in open judgement were put to death Where at all times a man might see the bones and bowels of men hanged or otherwise put to death Here Christ Jesus our Saviour which knew no sin became as he Apostle saith sinne for us that is to say was made sacrifice for our sinnes and as if he had been an evill doer 2 Cor 5.21 was hanged between two Theeves and for our salvation crucified So that now Mount Calvary which aforetime was a place most infamous by the passion and blood of Christ is now mode famous and honourable 234. Mount Gihon Broc itin 6. Sal. Tom. 6. cap. 5. a Mountaine full of stones high and long which running along by the West part of the City growing lesse and lesse towards the gate of judgement is severed from the City by a deep Valley In this Mountaine at the commandement of David 1 King 1.33.38 Solomon was Anointed King by Sadoc the chiefe Priest and by Nathan the Prophet with the holy Oyle To whom immediately all the people cryed God save King Solomon 235. The Monument of Anani the chief Priest of which Josephus maketh mention Ios 6. Bel. 13. in his sixth Book and thirteenth Chapter of the Jewes War 236. The Pear-Trees or Mulbery-Trees of the Valley Raphaim 2 Sam. 5.18.24 1 Chron. 14. the which Josephus calleth the wood of weeping neer unto the which David assisted by God from Heaven gave a second overthrow to the Philistins pursuing them a great way 237. The Sepulchre of Christ was a new Monument Mat. 27.60 Mat. 15.46 Luke 23.53 Joh. 19.41 Niceph. 8. Hist Eceles 30. Beda in Mar. 6.16 Broc itin 6. Breid 12. Iul. eight foot long
saith to Joseph of Arimathea and not to her 254. Here Christ meeteth with the women Matth. 28.9 which returned from his Sepulchre toward Jerusalem and saluteth them who imbracing and kissing his feet worshipped him 255. Here Christ in the forme of a stranger Luke 24 13. Mar. 16.12 went with the two Disciples toward Emaus and in the way as they went together he interpreted Moses and the Scriptures of all the Prophets which he proved to be fulfilled in him The places on the North side of the City 256. THe Tents of the Chaldeans 2 King 25.4 Jer. 39.2 52.4.7 On this North part of the City Nebuchadonozer King of Babylon and the Chaldeans scaled the wals of Jerusalem and wan it 257. The Tents of the Romans which were pitched between the Womans Towers Jos Bel. 2.3.5 6 7 8 9 10 7. Bel. 1.2.4.9 10 15 16. and the Tower Psephina On this part although inclosed and fortified with a triple wall Titus and the Romans assayled Jerusalem For on this part onely the City was assailable And albeit the other parts were compassed round about with one single wall onely yet the same being very strong and set upon stony and cragged rocks and having also deep Vallies or Trenches impassable were inexpugnable Therefore they began to scale the first wall which was the outermost and third wall of the City After that they tooke in hand the second wall And then the third wall of the City which was also called the old wall Next they took the Castle Antonia And so the Temple which was fortified like a Castle and last of all they entred Mount Sion of all the rest the most strong At what time also the Christians Anno 1099 took this City in hand to win it they began their enterprise on this part Wil. Tyr. Bel. Iac. lib. 8. cap. 5 18. among whom Godfrey of Bullion was the first that entred the wall near unto the Gate of Ephraim whose Souldiers following the assault like men opened immediately the said Gate and so wan the City The which also the Saracens besieging on the same part wan from the Christians 258. The Hill Garâ—â— Jer. 31.39 the which was neer to Jerusalem on the North. 259. Erebinth Jos 6. Bel. 13. was a little village on the North. 260. Gardens and Farms Jos 6. Bel. 2.4.7 inclosed with wals and hedges where Titus taking a view of the City was in danger 261. The Sepulehre of Helene Queen of the Adiabens who victualled Jerusalem in the time of the Famine with wheat which she most sumptuously builded with three pinnacles Jos 20. Ant. 2 3 6. Bel. 2.5 6. Euseb 2. Hist 12. Hier. Tom. 1. Epist 23. ad Eustoch about three furlongs distant from the City Wherein she was buried with her Son Isates which also was standing in the time of Eusebius and Hierom. 262. The North Mountaine Ios 6. Bel. 13. where Pompey pitched his Tents 263. The Monument of Herod Agrippa Act. 12.1.21.23 Ios 19. Ant. 8. 6 Bel. 3.4 who for his intollerable pride being stricken by the Angel of the Lord and consumed of worms dyed 264. Sapha Ios 11. Ant. 8. 2 Bel. 24. 6. Bel. 3.4 in Greek called Scopos that is to say A place of espial scituate toward the North distant from the City about 7 furlongs It was so named because from thence both the City and Temple might be seen * Or Jaddua Here Jaddus the chiefe Priest and the rest of the Priests in their Priestly attire and all the people clad in white garments went forth to meet Alexander the Great King of the Macedonians when hee came with his Army to destroy Jerusalem Whom when Alexander saw by and by suppressing his fury in humble sort worshipped the name of God which shined in golden Letters in the Reasonable or Breast plate of judgement of the high Priest and gave reverence to the high Priest Then entring into the City and Temple he offered sacrifice to God and granted great priviledges unto the Jews 265. The Fruitful Wood Ios 6. Bel. 4 7 which Titus caused to be cut down 266. The Lake of Serpents Ios 6. Bel. 4. which in old time was called Bethara 267. The Way by which men went into Samaria and Galilee Broc it in 6. 268. The Village noer to Jerusalem Neh. 3. whereof Nehemiah maketh mention THese Christian Reader are the most notable and famous places of the City and Temple of Jerusalem By the placing whereof the scituation of the rest may easily bee knowne Therefore if we have made a true Description let the praise be given to God the giver of all good gifts But if otherwise there be any defect impute that to my want of skill and not to my ill will who for that I was not able to give towards the furnishing of the Temple gold silver or precious stones have notwithstanding offered a little oyle to lighten the Church trusting that the same will be acceptable both to Christ who allowed the two mites which the poor Widow offered and also to those that be good Christians whom it becommeth well to be like unto their Head JESUS CHRIST Try all things Hold fast that which is good I Thes 5.21 Embrace what is sound though somewhat is rotten Embrace not the rotten because much here is sound Jer 23.28 29. The Prophet to whom is a dream let him tell it as a dream and he that hath my word let him speak my word faithfully What is the chaffe to the wheat saith Jehovah Is not my word like a fire saith Jehovah and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in peeces The names of the Authors out of whose Works and Travels this Description of Jerusalem is taken and made The most of them were Romanists Superstitious Yet as the Bee can gather Honey from some noysome flowers So God and his people can make good use of such Authors Sect. 1. THe holy Bible of the Old and New Testament 2. Flav. Josephus a Priest of the Jewes who flourishing in the seventieth year of Christ exactly described the scituation the forme and the besieging of the City of Jerusalem 3. Exemplars of the famous Doctor of the Church Hierom as well Printed as written Who lived in the Year of Christ 380. Sect. 4. James of Vitriac who travelled into the * Zach. 2.12 Mat 4 5. 2 Pet. 1.18 Dan. 9.16.20 Holy Land and returning was made Bishop of Acon who wrote a book concerning the Holy Land and the wonders which he saw there He flourished in the year of our Lord 1231. Sect. 5. James Pantaleon a French-man Patriarch of Jerusalem his book concerning the Holy Land Who was famous in the year of Christ 1247. Sect. 6. The exact Description of Jerusalem and of the places of the Holy Land made by Brocardus a Monk published at Basil by Hervage and at Antwerp by Stelsius Who in the year of Christ 1283.
after great search and diligent survey of that City and Land and the view of the ancient ruines thereof described the same most carefully Sect. 7. The Description of Jerusalem and of the holy places by John Mandeville English-man who finished his peregrination in the year of our Lord 1322. and diligently described the same Printed at Antwerp by Nicol. Wouver in Anno 1564. Sect. 8. A Table of the City Jerusalem a very ancient description of all the Holy Land portraied one hundred fifty years since and more in parchment which John Huls procured from the Library of the Colledge of S. Hierom at Delph in Holland Sect. 9. The Original of the City of Jerusalem and of the Temple in the same described by Rodulph Langius Anno 1476. and Printed at Colen Anno 1517. Sect. 10. The Pilgrimage to Jerusalem and to Mount Sinai of Bernard Breidenbach Dean of the Church of Mentz which he accompanied with others moe finished Anno 1483. and most diligently described the same Adding thereunto a Portraiture of the most principal places of the Holy Land and of his travel which he caused a cunning Painter to make upon the view of every place whom he had in his company for that purpose Printed at Mentz An. 1486. Sect. 11. A Description of the voyage to Jerusalem published in the year 1520. by M. Gerard Kuynretorff and others Sect. 12. A Delineation of the City of Jerusalem which Mr. John Scorrel with the help of a skilful Painter drew forth by the view of the eye sitting on Mount Olivet 1521. Sect. 13. The Description of Jerusalem and of the holy places by Joan. Heuterus Pretor of Delph which he set forth in An. 1521. Sect. 14 The like Description mas wade by Bartholmew of Saligniac Knight and Professor of both Laws 1525. Sect. 15. A Peregrination with an exact Description of Jerusalem and of the holy places made by John Pasch Doctor of Divinity Printed at Lovane in the year 1563. Sect. 16. The Histories of the Holy War whereof there were three and twenty books shewing how in the year 1099. Jerusalem and the whole Land of promise was recovered again by the Christians and so possessed of them fourscore and foure years by William Archbishop of Tyren Chancellor of Jerusalem Printed at Basil in the year 1564. 17. Six Books of History concerning the Holy War set forth by John Herold Printed at Basil in the year 1560. 18. A Delineation or Map of the City Jerusalem and of the holy places of all the Land of Palestine by Herman Broculoo Printed at Utrict in the year 1538. 19. Bonaventure of Mirica his Description of Jerusalem and of the holy places thereof who made three voyages thither and dwelt there a long time in the years 1538. and 39. 20 The universal Cosmography of Sebastian Munster 21. The Description of the City of Jerusalem and of Palestine by Wolfgang Weyssenburch Printed in the year 1542. 22. A diligent Description of the places of the old and new Testament gathered out of many Authors as out of Ptolomy Pliny Pomponius Mela Strabo Herodotus Hieron Josephus Egesippus Stephanus Raphael Volateran Lyra Bocas And out of the more later as James Ziegler Wolfang Wessyenburg and Andrew Althamer men that herein have taken great pains and Printed at Paris 23. A Delineation and Description of the City Jerusalem and of the Land of Promise most exquisitly done by Bonaventure Broccard in the year 1544. 24. A Description of Jerusalem and of the places thereof by Mr. Gerard Joan of Leiden in the year 1556. 25. A Map of the City of Jerusalem and of the whole land of Promise made by Tilmannus Stella in the year 1557. and Printed at Antwerp 26. A Topographical Description of the City of Jerusalem by Fabian Licinius a Venetian Printed at Venice in the yeare 1560. 27. A map of Jerusalem set forth by Adam Reiszner exhibited to the Emperour Ferdinando in the year 1559. 28 The way of Calvary written in Latine by Laurence Surius 29. The way of the Crosse from Pilates house to Mount Calvary published by Peter Calentine and Printed at Lovane in in the year 1561. 30. The Itinerary of John Godscalci of Delph which he finished in the year 1561. 31. A description of Jerusalem and of the places thereabout by Isbrand Godfrey which he finished in the year 1563. 32. The voyage of the noble Knight Baptist van der Muelen of Mechlin who by word of mouth described unto me oftentimes Jerusalem and all the places thereof which he surveyed in the year 1567. 33. The Description of the Old and new Jerusalem made by Peter Lackstein and painted in a Map by Christian Sgrothen in the year 1570. 34. A Topographical delineation of the City of Jerusalem made by Antony de Angelis a Minorite who dwelt a long time at Jerusalem set forth in the year 1578. 35. A very large Map of the City of Jerusalem and of all the Holy Land drawn in Parchment with the hand of Biron a French-man with lively colours and beautified with gold and described in the French-tongue which Map Michael Eyzinger of Austria a most diligent Historiographer delivered unto me THese are for the most part the chiefe Authors among them which of set purpose have handled this Argument and of whom I make special mention I have used many of whom I have nothing spoken And to make mention of all such Writers which having another purpose and yet given me matter to write of were to make a tedious Catalogue A Table Alphabetical whereby the Reader may finde the principal matters contained in this Book The Figures annexed shew not the Page but the Number A. A Arons rod Number 76 Abacuc to Daniel Number 213 Abrams offering Isaac Number 52 Aceldema Number 214 Absoloms Pillar Number 225 Anani his Monument Number 235 Ahaz Dâ—all Number 103 Acra Number 27 Annas his house Number 8 Adultresse freed Joh. 8. Number 109 Amphitheater Number 28 King Amon and Manas Sepul Number 15. Antonia Castle Number 29 Ark of the Covenant Number 76 Altar of Incense Number 80 Altar of burnt offering Number 87 Angel slayes Assyrians Number 208 Appears to Zachary Number 80 S. Annes house Number 37 B. Baalpharazim Number 228 Baâ—â—â—â— reading Number 93 Betbania Number 178 Benhinnon Number 185 Bethphâ—ge Number 179 Bethsheba Number 1 Broad-street Number 150 Bethesda Number 61 Bridge of Cedron Number 196 Bridge of Sion Number 19 Bridge from the Castle Antonia Number 63 Brook of Cedron Number 201 Brook Gihon Number 239 Booz and Jakin Pillars Number 88 Bignesse of Christ his Crosse Number 120 C. Caesar and Agrippas hall Number 5 Caiphas Pallace Number 17 Calvary mount Number 233 Castle Antonia Number 29 Castle of Antiochus Number 31 Castle Pâ—san Number 59 Castle of the Assyrians Number 148 Caves called the Kings Caves Number 151 Castle opposite Number 180 Cave of James Number 136 Cave of the Apostles Number 224 Cave of Peter Number 117 Cave of Jeremy Number 212
Capheteta Number 152 Cherubims Number 77 Candlestick of Gold Number 81 Christs his Crosse before Num. I. 120 Christ rideth to Jerusalem Number 211 Christ falleth down under his Crosse Number 245 247 1.21 Christ speaketh to the mourners Number 246 Christ stript out of his cloaths Number 248 Christ racked and nailed on the Crosse Number 249 Christ delivered to the Virgin Mary Number 253 Christs garment parted by lot Number 252 Christ speaketh to the women after his resurrection Number 254 Christ talketh with his two Disciples going to Emaus Number 255 City Lower Number 26 The Court Number 35 Court of Records Number 30 Corner parlor Number 33 Corner stone Number 153 Court of Herods Pallace Number 138 Conduit or Fountain Number 128 Closers Number 91 Common place of buriall Number 198 Cypresse Trees of Zion Number 7 Crosse See before Number 1 D Daniel fed Number 213 Davids City and Tower Number 2 Dial of Achas Number 103 Dove-house Number 195 Dragon Fountain Number 184 E. Eliasib's house Number 17 Essens Gate Number 66 Eagle of gold Number 101 Erebynth a village Number 359 Ephraims Gate Number 156 F. Face of Christ Number 44 Fountain of Sion Number 18 Fountaine the innermost Number 60 Fountain old Number 62 Fountain in the Temple Number 82 Fountain Number 128 Fountain Dragon Number 18.4 121 Fountaine of Silo Number 199 Fountain Gibon the lower Number 230 Fountain Gihon the higher Number 231 Fruitful wood Number 265 Fullers field Number 115 Fig tree withered Number 183 G. Gamaliel and Nicod Sepulchre Number 23 Gabaon hill Number 24 Gabriels appearing Number 80 Garden belonging to the King Number 15 and 188 Gareb-hill Number 258 Gardens inclosed Number 260 Garden on mount Olivet Number 187 Garments of Christ parted by lot Number 252 Gates of Sion Number 20 Gate called the Upper-gate Number 21 Gate of Warders Number 64 Gate called the Horse-gate Number 65. Gate belonging to the Essenes Number 66 Gate the first Number 67 Gate called the New-gate Number 93 Gate called the middle-Gate Number 137 Gate called Holy-Gate Number 94 North Gate Number 104 Gate South Number 105 Gate in the West Number 106 Gate of the corner Number 154 Golden Gate Number 155 Gate of Ephraim Number 156 Gate called the Water-gate Number 157 Gate Genath Number 158 Gate of the Kings Garden Number 159 Gate of the high Priests Pallace Number 160 Gate called the Fish-Gate Number 161 Gate called the Dung-Gate Number 162 Gate of womens Towers Number 163 Gate called the Valley-Gate Number 164 Gate called the Old-Gate Number 165 Grove of Moloch Number 189 Gehennom Number 86 184 Golgotha Number 213 Godfrey of Bulloigns victory Number 1 H. Hellen Adiaben Number 72 House of Annas Number 8 House of the Worthies Number 9 House of the Virgin Mary Number 10 House of Uria Number 11 House of Ananias Number 30 House of S. Anne Number 37 House of the Rich Glutton Number 38 House of Mesa Number 39 Houses of the Nathineans Number 40 House of the Prince of Phariseis Number 41 House of the Forrest of Lybanus Number 42 House of Simon the Pharisee Number 43 House of the common people Number 44 Houses of the Priests Number 49 Houses of the Target-bearers Number 50 House of Councel Number 90 House of Mary the mother of John Number 126 House of Olda the Prophetesse Number 127 House of Elias Number 19 Helens Crosse See before Number 1 Hill Garee Number 258 Hole where the Crosse stood Number 250 Hill which is little Number 182 Herods Park Number 143 Hinnom Valley Number 184 Hospital Number 144 Holy place Number 79 Holy of holiest Number 75 I. Jerusalem Number 1 Jaddua's meeting Alexander Number 164 Iebusites in Ierusalem Number 2.7.9 Ile of the Iews Number 86 Isle of the Gentiles Number 100 Ioseph Arim. Number 237 Ieremy Number 130.222 Isaias martyred Number 223 Judas hanged on a Tree Number 232 Iulian Number 24 K. Ioash Number 16.162 K. Kidron Brook Number 201 Valley Number 202 L. Lists or Tiltyard Number 51 Laver of brasse Number 89 Lofts of the singers Number 97 Lake or Ditch between two walls Number 131 Lake Amigdalon Number 125 Lake of Serpents Number 266 M. Maccabees Towers Number 29 192. Market place Number 12 45 46 47 69 129 Mary and Iohn behold Christ as he passeth by with his Crosse Number 122 Their house Number 126 A deep vale or dale Number 178 Mello Number 16 Moloch his Grove Number 189 Mount Sion Number 3 Mount Moria Number 52 Mountaine Bezetha Number 147 Mount of offence Number 190 192 Mount Olivet Number 191 Mountain Eroge Number 220 Mount of Calvary Number 233 Mount Gihon Number 234 Mountain in the North part Number 262 Monument of Alexander Number 133 Monument of Iohn Number 134 Monument of the Fuller Number 193 Monument of Absolom Number 225 Monument of Anani Number 235 Monument of Herod Number 263 N. Nethinims house Number 40 North mountain Number 262 North gate Number 104 New City Number 146 O. Olda or Hulda's house Number 120 Oke Rogel Number 224 Ophel Number 54 Olivet mount Number 191 P Parlour of Sion Number 6 Parlour in the corner Number 33 Pallace of Caiphas Number 17 Of Agrippa Number 55 Of David Number 3 Pallace of the Maccabees Number 55 Pallace of Pilate Number 56 Pallace of the Queen Number 57 Pallace of Solomon Number 58 Pallace of Queen Bernice Number 70 Pallace of Grapte Number 71 Pallace of Helen Number 72 Pallace of Herod Number 136 Pallace of Monobaz Number 73 Passage of the Temple from Solomon Pallace Number 113 Palm trees Number 194 Palm trees Number 236 Place of Zâ—charias death being slain Number 98 Place where the Iews would have stoned Christ Number 99 Place where the woman taken in adultery was absolved Number 109 Places of Christs fall Number 121 Place where the three Apostles sate whâ—le Christ prayed Number 208 Place where the eight Apostles tarried Number 209 Place where Iudas betraied Christ with a kisse Number 210 Place where Christ preached of the destruction of Ierusalem Number 211 Place where Mary with others stood at Christ his death Number 251 Porch of Pillars Number 68 Porch of the Temple Number 95 Potters field Number 214 Prison called the Kings prison Number 4 Prison common belonging to the City Number 32 Pool called Probatica Number 61 Priest called the high Priest Number 84 Propitiatory or mercy-seat Number 78 R. Rephaim Number 242 Rechabires habitation Number 130 Rock of the West wall Number 166 River of the upper Fountain Number 226 S. Solomons buildings Number 16.42.53.56 58 c. Sedduces Number 48 Seir Gate Number 106 Sion Number 32.6.27 Sepulchre of David Number 22 Sepulchre of Stephen Gama Nico. Number 23 Sepulchre of Christ Number 237 Sepulchre of Helen Number 261 Sepulchre of the Virgin Mary Number 197 Of Zacharias Number 227 Stairs of the Castle Number 13 Stairs of Sion Number 14 School of Gentility Number 48 Sea of brasse Number 92 Seat appeartaining to the King Number 96 Singers seats aloft Number 97 Solomons Throne Number 112 Simon of Cyren beareth the Crosse Number 123 Second City Number 124 Sodom Number 48 Stephen stoned Number 200 T. Tabernacle of Sion Number 24 Of Moloch Number 185 Temple of the Lord Number 72 Table of gold Number 83 Temple Number 74 Tents of the Assyrians Number 218 Tents of Herod Number 229 Tents of the Chaldeans Number 256 Tents of the Romans Number 257 Theatre Number 111 Throne of Solomon Number 122 Tribunal Number 114 Towers of the Trumpetters Number 108 Tower Strato Number 115 Tower in the middle Number 132 Tower Hippie Number 140 Tower Mariamne Number 141 Tower Phaselus Number 142 Tower Ananiel Number 167 Tower in the corner Number 168 Tower of David Number 169 Tower called the high Tower Number 170 Tower called the Lanthorn Number 171 Tower called the great Tower Number 172 Tower Meah Number 173 Tower Psephina Number 174 Tower of Siloe Number 175 Treasury of the Temple Number 102. V. Valley called the deep Valley Number 176 Valley Iehosaphat 202 Valley of Siloe 203 Valley of dead carcases 240 Valley of the River Gihon 241 Valley of Cedron 116 Valley of Raphaim 242 Vaulted Cave 34 Vail of the Temple rent 85 Village near to Ierusalem 208 Uria his house 11 Veronica before 44 W. Winepresse belonging to the King 25 Walls first 53 Second 135 Third 149 Way of the Crosse 117 Way of entrance for the horses 118 Water issuing forth of the Temple 177 Way of the Fullers field 104 Way of the Captivity 205 Way to Anathoth 206 Way to Iericho 207 Way to Siloe 244 And to Bethlem 243 Way to Samaria and Galilee 267 Well 181 Whipping of the buyers and sellers 110 A Wood 138 Z Zacharias place where he was slaine between the Temple the Altar 98 FINIS IERVSALEM with her suburbes and the most principall places thereof as it florished in CHRIST his tyme most trewly described To the courtrouse behoulder Those thinges which the Grauer by his Arte could not possibly explain in this Figure thou shalt fynde at large in the booke conformed to the nombers herein â—â—â—ressed Farewell Thy Frende T. Tymine LONDON Anno. 1697
things with patience as light and easie Heb. 12.2 3 if we call to minde what hard words harder stripes and most hard pains and afflictions he suffered for us whose head was crowned with thorns his eyes blind-folded his ears filled with reproaches his mouth with gall and vineger his face polluted with spitting his cheeks bruised with buffeting his knees shaking his shoulders laden with the Cross his heart replenished with sorrow his body torn with whips his members racked his hands and feet bored to be briefe from the crown of the head to the soals of the foot he sustained an innumerable sort of wounds and sorrows Wherefore as the waters of Mara being sometimes bitter were made sweet by Moses Exod. 15.25 at what time he cast wood into them even so all our tribulation if we patiently indure the Crosse of Christ will waxe sweet and the gall thereof will turn into honey For by the meditations of these afflictions of our Saviour faith is illuminated hope strengthned charity inflamed and all vertue increased Wherefore holy Augustine a light of the Church no lesse truly then godly provoking us by very forceable words thereunto saith thus Behold the wounds of him that hangeth August in lib. de virginitate the blood of him that dyeth the price of the redeemer the scars of him that riseth His head boweth to kisse thee his heart is opened to love thee his armes stretched abroad to imbrace thee his whole body set forth to redeem thee Consider what and how great these things be weigh them in the ballance of your hearts that hee may bee wholy fastened in your hearts who for us was wholly fastened on the Crosse Thus far Augustine So that it is not enough to meditate of these things once but it is profitable to thinke upon them often yea the oftner the more they avail and profit In the wholesome contemplation of whose Passion although we profit much yet we shall never attain to the perfect knowledge thereof but there will remain still somewhat that we may seek for the full knowledge whereof is reserved to our heavenly Country In the mean time let us contemplate in these things day and night in these things let us recreate and busie our selves In these let us watch in these let us sleep yea to dye in the meditation of these things is most Christian and available to everlasting salvation Places of holy Scripture to the praise of Jerusalem Psal 48.2 Beautiful for scituation the joy of the whole earth is Mount Zion in the sides of the North it is the City of the great King Lam. 11.15 Is this the City of perfect beauty the joy of the whole earth Ezech. 5.5 This is Jerusalem I have set it in the midst of the Nations and Countries that are round about her 2 Cor. 7.12 I have chosen this place for my selfe to be a house of sacrifice Isa 2.3 Mich. 4.2 The Law shall go forth of Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem Apoc. 21.9 I saw the holy City New Jerusalem come down from God out of Heaven prepared as a bride trimmed for her husband To these agreeth Tobit 13. v. 9 10.18 O Jerusalem the holy City many Nations shall come from far to the name of the Lord God with gifts in their hands even gifts to the King of heaven all Generations shall praise thee and give signs of joy Cursed are all they which hate thee but blessed are they for ever which love thee Rejoyce and be glad for the children of the just for they shall be gathered and shall blesse the Lord for the just Blessed are they which love thee for they shall rejoyce in thy peace Blessed are they which have been sorrowful for all thy scourges for they shall rejoyce for thee when they shall see all thy glory and shall rejoyce for ever Let my soul blesse God the great King for Jerusalem shall be built up with Saphires and Emeraulds and thy walls with precious stones and thy Towers and thy Bulwarks with pure gold And the streets of Jerusalem shall bee paved with Beril and Carbuncle and stones of Ophir And all her streets shall say Hallelujah and they shall praise him saying Blessed be God which hath extolled it for ever SEVEN GENERAL RULES For Expounding Scriptures that speak of Christs coming and Kingdom and Judging and of destroying Babylon and of the calling of the Jews and Israel I. AS the Truth of God is fulfilled both by the outward work by which he appears in the World and by the secret Mystery by which he reveals himself in and to the Spirits of his Saints which two answer one another So in the Testimony of the Scripture there is frequently not onely the History in the Letter but a Spiritual Mystery in the sense thereof as is clear in that of Hagar and Sarah Gal. 4. And of the Rock and Manna and of Melchisedech c. 1 Cor. 10.3 4. Heb. 7.1 2. II. In all Scriptural Interpretations the Analogy of Faith is to be respected Rom. 12.5 That is Undeniable principles of Truth clearly held out in other Scriptures which have a special proportion to the place which is to be interpreted according to which the sense thereof must needs be III. And hence as Christs coming and judging imply sometimes some special manifestation of him and sometimes his personal coming at his Incarnation or that second coming that shall be at the restoring of all things Heb. 9.28 Acts 3.19 20 21. with Rom. 11.26 and Isa 59.29 So some of such Prophecies are appliable to both his comings and to several times of his manifestation Mal. 3.1 2 6. Matth. 16.20 with Mark 9.1 2. Joh. 6.18 Zach. 14.1 4. Psal 97.98 last verses IV. As there is Babylon and Egypt Mystical as well as Literal Revel 17.4 11.8 So some Prophesies as Psal 137. Jer. 50. 51. seem appliable to the sin and ruine of both those Babylons V. As there are Jews and Israel seed of Abraham as well spiritual as natural Rom. 2.3 last verses Gal. 6.17 Rom 9.6 So some Prophesies of Israels sins punishments and merciful restorings are applyable to both Zion and Jerusalem Gal. 4. ult Isa 54. with Isa 51.52 53 chapters VI. As both of Natural and Spiritual Israel there was a First-fruits to God in the Apostles days and there is a Harvest that is to come Rom. 11.16 Jam. 1.18 Revel 14.4 So some Prophesies of glorious Blessings are applyable to both times and are fulfilled already to the First-fruits in a less degree that are to be fulfilled at the Harvest plenteously and very gloriously Rom. 15.4 2 Tim. 3.16 2 Cor. 5.17 18. from Isa 43.18 19. with Revel 21.1 5. Jer. 31.31 with Heb. 8.8 and 1 Cor. 11.25 and Rom. 11.12 15 26 27. Luke 1.31 32. Hos 3.4 5. Ezek. 37.24 28. VII All Holy Scriptures and therefore all those Scriptures that foretel the calling of the Jews the fall of Babylon and Antichrist and
Journal Euseb Eccles hist Eusebius Ecclesiast History Jerom. Tom 1. Jerom Tome 1. Jacob. Vitr Jacob us Vitriac Pas Die 197. Pasch on 197 day c. Saligniac Tome 6 c. Salig Tom. 6. c. Will. Tyrens 8th Book of the Holy War Will. Tyr. lib. 8. Bel. Sac. Joseph 15 Book of Antiquities 14 Chapter and of the Jews Wars 6 Book 6 Chap. c. Joseph 15 Ant 14.6 Bel. 6. The other Abbreviations are more easie of which and of all these you may see more fully at the end of the Book after Number 268 at Sect. 10. Sect. 6. 23. Sect. 4. 14 15 16 c. The Reasons why some Traditions of Reliques are forborn in the Translation and why some are published IT is to be granted that this Breidenbach Brocard Pasch Saligniac as also Tyren were Roman Catholicks and that they desired the promoting of their Religion a great part whereof is in visiting of Saints Reliques and they received from their Ancestors many Traditions which they respect and uphold as much as yea more then the Word of God it self Hence several such Passages that were in the Latin are left out by the Translator as that of Veronica's Neckerchere †Or Section 42. of the Book Numb 42 and of Pelagia's House So also this about Helen's finding the Cross by the wonderful smell or odor of the Spices and Oyntments which the Earth sent forth By which miracle that venerable Empress was confirmed say those Popish Authors in Number 240. Which argues That the Women anointed Christs Body with that precious Ointment or Odors upon the Cross For that anointing of Christs feet was six or seven days before Christs death Joh. 12.1 2. Whereas the Scriptures shew most plainly That the Women bought not those Spices for Ointments and Odors to Christs Body until Christ was taken from the Cross and buried Which Odors they brought not to the empty Cross but to the Garden where Christ was buried some way distant from the Cross and there they would have anointed him but did not because Christ was risen before they came Luke 23.53 56. 24.1 Matth. 27.57 28.1 2. Mark 16.1 2 6. Hence the Translator forbears this and divers of such vain Traditions as tend to make the Word of God of none effect Matth. 15.6 9. some of them remain that the Reader may know in what place the Relickmongers will shew such and such things which never were there as the Note added from Holy Scriptures makes evident Which Note being observed in love to the truth may tend to prevent that dreadful doom of the damnable deceivers and deceived denounced in 2 Thes 2.10 12. With all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved And for this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe a lie that they all might be damned who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness I could name one whom I knew noted for miserable covetousness when in sickness he prevailed not to be absolved by a Minister was prevailed with by a Priest that it Ieems absolved him to visit Saint Anne of Buxtons Well which he did and returned a confirmed Papist by this lying strong delusion which he poor wretch believed viz. That he was shewed and saw the very Well it self into which Saint Annes head fell being cut off by a villain that would have abused ber Her Brother hearing of it came after Mass was ended took his sisters head and put it right upon her neck and presently she revived I saw the Well it self where this was done said he This warning is premised That by being forewarned thou maist be fore-armed against the poyson of such Basilisks and maist tread such Serpents under thy feet Remembring 2 Thes 2.10 Many things are here truly recorded from Holy Scriptures and Josephus and Jerom and others cited by those men But can any good come out of Galilee or shall we receive truth from Papists Answ Truth is more precious then Silver or Gold or Rubies Can you be content to take up Silver or Gold or precious Pearls though you espie then on a Dunghil or in the Kennel Then disdain not to own Truth which is far more excellent wheresoever you can espie it Onely look up to the God of all grace who hath given us his own Son to be our Way Truth and Life that he would reveal his Son to us and in us that by him we may savingly know and love the truth as it is in Jesus and may by his light discern and abhor every false way Try all things that are held out for truths hold fast that which is good as the noble Bereans did to their souls everlasting benefit Acts 17.11 and abstain from all appearance of evil And the very God of peace sanctifie you wholly 1 Thes 5.21 22 23. This is the humble request of Thy souls wel-wishing Friend H. Jessey T. N. To the Christian loving Reader of the Use and Benefit of this Pithy Treatise THat Stately place that Princely bowre that Seat of mighty King Psal 48.2 Iosh 18.28 That flower of Be njamin his Tribe whose fame through World did ring Ennobled with such Royal stiles and titles of renown And over worldly Cities all most meet to wear the Crown Lo here presented is to view in such good currant sort As no Pen heretofore perform'd or made thereof report So that we need not now to run or gad from place to place In dangers great through Countreys strange to try or know this case That brave estate which earst it had is now alas defac'd King Davids house 1 Chro. 11.4 7 and Temple now is quite and clean disgrac'd Yet here with Book and Map in hand we now may plain behold The state of each thing as it was in times that were of old Where Christ did preach where Christ did sup where Christ did fast and pray Where Christ was caught where Christ was whipt where thieves did him betray Matth. 26.27 Where he a precious ransom paid for man who had offended Where he was Buried where he Rose and eke where he Ascended Where Annas kept his pompous Court where Caiph as Pallace stood Where wicked Pilate dwelt that did condemn most guiltless blood This and much more is here discourst from some that both had read And seen with eye the City rare that 's here deciphered This work and pains as they deserve much thanks and hearty praife So such their Guerdon well may reap of all men in these days Who like to Candles waste themselves in giving light to others Moe such God grant to take like care to help their Christian Brothers A brief Description and Explanation of Two hundred sixty and eight places of Jerusalem and the Suburbs thereof as it flourished in the time of CHRIST Answerable to the same Figures that are Engraven in the Map thereof I.
when the Romans by the judgement and will of God against all hope of man and without blood-shed had taken the seditious within the City being stricken with a sudden fear and roaming here and there from the wall and hiding themselves in their sinkes being dispersed in all corners and streets with their naked swords slew all that they met with all having no regard of persons or sex and set fire on the houses burning them Actor 13. Ioseph 7. Bel. 16. and all those that were fled into them and destroying many houses whereinto they entred for pillage sake where finding whole families dead whom the famine had consumed they so abhorred the sight thereof that they returned back again empty running thorough with their swords all that they met and so filling the streets with dead bodies that the whole City flowed with blood in such abundance that as Josephus witnesseth many things burning were quenched with the plentiful blood of the slaine But night coming on the slaughter began to cease but the burning increased The next day following Titus being entred into the City wondred at the fortifications of the City and at the Rocks of the Towers which the Tyrants through folly had willingly forsaken To be briefe when he had seen their substantial altitude and invincible force we have fought saith he by the manifest helpe of God and it was God which drave out the Jews from these holds For what hands of men or what engines of war might have prevailed against these Many such words spake hee to his friends This mountaine though it were excluded out of the City yet afterward it was builded again and inhabited But now being in the Suburbs most ruinous it lyeth waste The places of Mount Sion III. THe Castle of Sion being ancient and strong was set on the very top of Mount Sion round like a Crowne and was a sure defence and beauty both of the City and Temple and was as the capital or chiefe place of so great a City 2 King 19.31 2 Sam. 5 6 7. vers 11. Herein the Jebusites dwelt at the first whom David casting out by force enjoyed the Castle and receiving from Hiram King of Tyrus stones wood and Artificers builded out of the same a strong Pallace for himselfe and a house of Cedar 1 Kin. 5.1.10 1 Chron. 11.3.7 with a Kingly Throne In the which Castle afterward David himselfe and other Kings of Juda inhabited â—â—s 6. Bel. 6. and used the same for the Kings seat And for this cause it was continually kept with a strait guard of souldiers And in processe of time it was called the Kings Castle and the house of David the seat and Throne of David also the Court and Kings house Aristaâ—â— l. de 72. interpr 1 Mach. 1. 1 Mach. 13 14. chap. In this Castle the most cruell of all Tyrants Antiochus King of Syria which in Greek was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epiphanes that is to say Renowned but more truly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epimanes that is Mad he deserved to be called placed a Garrison of Gentiles whereby in the time of the Machabees hee afflicted the Jews very much a long time The which when Simon Machabaus had inforced to yeeld through famine and had cleansed the Castle from the pollution of Idols they entred there-into with palms in their hands with Cymbals with Psalterions with hymnes and songs and he placed therein men of the Jewes to defend the City and Country Yet now there is nothing to be seen but the ruines thereof IV. The Kings Prison with a lofty Tower which overlooked the Kings house Nehem. 3.25 Jer. 33.1 ch 39.14.15 Into this prison Jeremy was cast because he prophesied that the City should be taken and at the last was delivered out of the same by Nebuchadnezzar when the City was taken V. Caesars and Agrippas Hall Jos 15. Antiq. 11. 1 Bel. 16 6. Bel. 6. was the Kings house which Herod the Ascalonite builded for himselfe in the uppermost City for he builded in his Pallace two great and fair houses of polished marble and fine gold whereunto the Temple it selfe was not comparable and calling them after the names of Caesar Augustus and of Agrippa his son in law his friends he named the one Caesars and the other Agrippas VI. The upper Chamber of Sion as some writâ— was scituate about the middest of Mount Sion Mat. 26.18 Mark 14.14 Luk. 22.11 Ioh. 13 1. being large paved and very faire wherein Christ in his last supper did eat the Paschal Lamb with his Disciples Luke 24. Ioh. 20. washed their feet and instituted the Sacrament of his most blessed body and blood In the same say some on the day of his Resurrection when he was entred the doors being shut standing in the middest of his Disciples he shewed unto them the wounds of his side of his hands and feet and did eat before them after that breathing upon them he gave them the Holy Ghost and therewithall power to remit Ioh. 20. and retain the sinnes of all manner of persons That the eighth day after this here he offered unto Thomas the Apostle the prints and scars of the spear and nails to see and feel Act. 1.2 Hier. tom 1. Ep. 27. ad Eâ—stoc vir tom 3. Epist 1. ad Paulin Niceph. l. 2. hist Eccl. cap. 3. Act. 6.5 Here as some conjecture after the Lords ascension Matthias was by lot chosen into the Apostleship of Judas the Traytor And that here on the day of Pentecost the Holy Ghost came down in a great sound and in the form of fiery tongues lighted upon one hundred and twenty believers and at the first Sermon of Peter three thousand Jewes were converted and baptized In this place as some guesse James the Lords bâ—other firnamed Just was by the Apostles desired to preside with the Church in Jerusalem and Stephen with six more were ordained Deacons Act. 15. And that here the Apostles entred into the first consultation or councel and set downe the Rules of Christian peace for the good of Jews and Gentiles VII The Cypress Trees of Mount Sion which were very excellent Eccles 24.13 whereof the Book called Ecclesiasticus maketh mention VIII The House of Annas the chief Priest the Father-in-law of Caiaphas wherein Christ was examined of Annas Ioh. 18.13.24 concerning his Disciples and his Doctrine at what time he answered That he had taught openly before all men for the which he received a blow on the cheek by a servant IX The House of the Worthies Nehem. 3. wherein as some say the strong men and valiant Peers of King David dwelt where also as in a wrestling place the chief Wrestlers and Champions for exercise sake used to try masteries X. The House of the Virgin Mary wherein after the death of her Son she dwelt with John the Apostle Niceph. 2. hist Eccles 3. 21 as Nicephorus saith XI The
2. 10.17.21 2 Chron. 9.16.20 Jer. 22 23. Iosep 18. Aut. 5 6 7. in length one hundred cubits in breadth fifty and in height thirty cubits the which Solomon builded most brave and glorious of polished Marble of Cedar trees garnished with silver and gold having a flat roof with Walks and Galleries according to the fashion of Palestine and within lively counterfeits of sundry trees and plants most artificially made that the leaves thereof seemed in some sort to shake And neer unto the same he planted a grove and a green arbor made of all manner of trees and watered with fountaines also he made Parks and Fish-pools Mier tem 3. Epist. 33. ad Suniam Eccles 2.5 6. wherein it is like were all manner of wilde beasts birds and fishes This house was a store-house of meat an Armory for weapons of war a house wherein oyntments paintings and sweet perfumes were laid up and preserved Beside these two hundred shields of gold for horse-men and three hundred large targets of gold for foot-men which Solomon made were in this house by him laid up All other vessels also of this House were of gold To this house the King and his Peers came when the weighty affairs of the Commonwealth were ended and recreated their minds with banquets with sports and with pleasant walks XLIII The House as some say of Simon the Leaper the Pharisee Mat. 26.6 Luke 7.36.44 Job 22.3 which is at this day to be seen wherein Christ sitting at the Table forgave unto Magdalen the sinful woman bewayling her sins and washing his feet with her tears wiping them with her hair kissing them anointing him and much loving him many sinnes According to Matth. 26.6 and Joh. 12.3 this house was in Bethanie and not in Jerusalem If it be the same Simon that is spoken of in Luke 7.44 and Mat. 26. The XLIV in Latine was thus Domus Veronic 2 Ang. the corner house of Veronica This Veronica gave the linnen Kercief of her head to Christ that he might wipe his sweaty face with it To it the Lord imprinted the image of his face say some and restored it to her as a pledge of his love which to this very day being notoriously marked with the face of Christ At Rome in the Royall-Temple of S. Peter built in Vatican-mount by Constantine the Great with grand honour it is preserved and on set dayes it is shewed unto the people So the Latine book tels us from the Tradition of John Pasch a Friar Carmelite writ Anno 1527. and of Dr. Bethlem a Priest and Bredenbach Dean of Mentz Anno 1483. Why did the English omit this Relick Ans It seems because not one word of it is in the holy Scripture no nor in Polycarpus nor Ignatius nor Justin Martyr nor of any ancient approved Authority but forged afterwards to delude such as prefer mens Traditions before Gods word so making it of none effect as Jesus Christ said Mat. 15.6.9 One questions of what cloath that Handkerchief of Veronica was made that is so durable after sixteen hundred yeers that they may have some of that durable Cloath SLIV or XLV The House of the common people wherein they exercised themselves with dartings and other exercises of the arme Ier. 39. and with feasts with other playes and walksrefreshed their minds SLV or XLVI The Great Market which was in the midst of the City and near adjoyning to the Castle Antonia Ios 13. Ant. 20. 1. Bel 3. Ios 14. Aut. 22. item 1. Bel. 7. 11. wherein Alexander the King of the Jews and the chief Priest crucified eight hundred Iews killing also the Wives in the presence of their Husbands and the children in the sight of their Mothers the which spectacle himselfe with his Concubines beheld at what they were banqueting in the Castle Antonia For the which cruelty he was sirnamed Crucida In the same Market place Herod the greater fought a great battel with the Parthians which went about to bring again Antigonus into the Kingdome Furthermore when the famine through the Roman siege was exceeding great in Jerusalem Iâ—s 6. Bel. 14. 7. Bel. 7. 8. in such wise that it consumed whole families and replenished the tops of houses with fainting women and children and the wayes of the dead carcasses of old men in which extremity they did eat Leather their Girdles their Shoos Hay and Mothers their own children Then a man might have seen lusty young men which afore time were most flourishing passe through this Market place like shadows of dead men And when those which remained alive were not able to bury the dead by reason of their exceeding multitude and could not endure the stinke of the bodies unburied they cast them over the wall into the vallies of the City The which when Titus saw as he went about the wals full of dead bodies much putrified he fetched a great sigh and holding up his hands to God protested that it was not his deed for the obstinate Jewes refused peace to them oftentimes offered XLVI or XLVII The Market place of Wares Act. 12.2 Euseb 2 Hist Eccl. 9. Niceph. 2. the which was in the upper part of the lower City in the which Fish and sundry other things were sold In this Market S. James the greater or elder the brother of John suffered his martyrdome by the tyranny of Herod Agrippa as Euseb records XLVII or XLVIII The Vpholsters Market wherein all manner of old garments that had been worn aforetime of others were to be sold XLVIII or XLIX The School of Gentility which Jesus the false high Priest of the Jews who after the manner of the Gentiles would be called Jason and other Jewes apostatas by the permission of Antiochus Epiphan Hist Eccl. 2. Mach. 1 2. of Mac. 4. set up even under his Castle over against the Temple wherein the people were taught the laws and fashions of the Gentiles and the youth instructed in the studies and disputations of the Greek Philosophers Where they being naked and anointed with oyle exercised themselves in feats of activity in martial actions and in enterludes Furthermore in same place the said Apostatas set up EPHEBIAM that is to say a Steweâ— of fair young boyes Sodomy wherein they committed most filthy things against nature by reason thereof many fell from the Law of God to the manners and abominations of the Gentiles being as it were sold to commit monstrous wickednesse insomuch that some of the Priests forsaking the Temple and worship of God gave themselves to the exercise of feats of activity here hence also there sprang up among the Jewes divers Sects namely the Pharisees the Sadduces the Essenes c. XLIX or L. The Houses of the Priests Lyra in Neh. 3 and of the Levites whose houses were shut up by the outward part of the wall but from the former part they had a prospect toward the Temple L. or LI. c. The Habitation
of the Target or Shield Bearers 2 Chron. 12.11 2 King 11.6 Ioseph 20. Ant. 15 was builded before the West-gate of the Temple where first the Jewes then the Roman souldiers upon the solemne feast dayes had the stations for the guard of the Temple LI. The Lysts or Tylt which was placed over against the South part of the Temple wherein horses by running Ioâ— 15 An. 10. 17. Ant. 9 10 13.14 It. Bel. 21. 2. Bel. 2. agillity and swiftnesse were exercised And the Wrastlers and Champions did contend before the people who should run swiftest on foot with Chariots diversly drawn who should break most spears and in other masteries and feats of valiency Where Herod the King for the honour of Augustus Caesar ordained the game and prise of five years continuance appointing unto the Victors great rewards The same Herod when he should dye called all the more noble sort of the Jewes of all places within his dominion by an Edict threatning death to such as should not obey and caused them to be shut up in the Lysts to the end that after his death they all be-being there slain every house might have cause to waile even in despight of all Judaea LII The Mountain Moria Gen. 22.2 Mich. 3.12 1 Mach. 13. 16. chap Isa 10.16 Ioseph 15. Ant. 14. 6. Bel. 6. the which in another place is called the land of Vision and the Mountaine of the Temple and the Mountaine of the Daughter of Sion lying neer unto the East-wall of the City being very high stony and very steep round about In this Mountain Abraham being ready to offer up his son Isaac instead of him offered up a Ram which was taken by the hornes in a thicket This was the very same Mountain which David bought of Streuna or Ornan the Jebusite for six hundred shekels of Gold and erecting an Altar in his threshing flower he offered a burnt offering unto the Lord 1 Chron. 21. Jos 7. Ant. 13. 2 Chr. 3.1.36 which the fire from heaven consumed Afterward in the same Mountaine Solomon builded unto the Lord a most excellent Temple both for largenesse and beauty whereof mention shall be made hereafter LIII The first Wall the which was called the old Wall both in regard of the vallies Jos 6. Bel 6 7 c. and a hill which was aloft above them and also in regard of threescore Towers whereinto it was divided the which made it very defensible and strong LIV. Ophel which Josephus calleth Ophlam was a Tower of an exceeding height whose top seemed to reach unto the Clouds it was fortified with a Castle 2 Chr. 27.3 23 14 Neh. 3.26 27 Neh. 11.21 Jos 2. Bel. 18. 6. Bel. 6 7. 7 Bel. 13. and compassed about with a firm wall near unto the Temple notwithstanding it was without the wall which shut off the habitation of the Priests Herein dwelt the Nethinims Into this Manahemus the Tyrant flying was taken and slaine This same was at the last burned by the Souldiers of Titus LV. The Pallace of the Machabees 1 Mac. 13. builded by them on a very lofty place on the West side of the Temple from whence they which would behold the City and those things which were done therein Jos 17. Ant. 14. 20. Ant. 15. had a most pleasant and delectable prospect The which King Agrippa afterward exceedingly inlarged and made it a Court for himself from whence out of his Parlour he might behold whatsoever was done in the Temple 2 Bel. 2 16 17 7. Bel. 15. For the which cause the Rulers of the Jewes builded a very high Gate between that and the West part of the inner Temple to hinder the Kings prospect This thing both King Agrippa and Festus also the Lieutenant of the Country took in very evill part who also commanded them to pull downe the said Gate But the Rulers intreated that they might have leave to send Ambassadors to Nero the Emperour concerning this matter saying that they could not live if any thing were cast down of the buildings of the Temple The which liberty when they had obtained they sent Ishmael the chief Priest and Helchia the Treasurer and with them ten of their chief Rulers And Nero at the earnest suit of Poppea his wife a godly woman which shee made for the Jewes pardoned the building of the said Gate and permitted the same to stand LVI The Pallace of Pilate and of the Lieutenants of Rome Mat. 27.1 Isa 50. 53 63 Mat. 27. Mar. 15. Luke 23.3 Io. 18. Ioh. 19. adjoyning to the Gallery which lyeth on the North side of the Castle Antonia which Pallace was much more large lofty and fayrer then all the buildings of the City and had an ascent or mounting of eight and twenty steps of Marble Here when Christ was falsely accused and required to be crucified by the Princes and people of the Jews for that as they said he perverted the people forbad tribute to be given to Caesar said that he was Christ a King and therefore approved himselfe a seditious person Pilate condemned him to be whipped under the form of this sentence which was found in a most ancient Chronicle as followeth Jesum Nazarenum virum seditiosum Mosaicae legis contemptorem per pontifices principes sua gentis accusatum expoliate ligate virgis caedite Breid 21. Jul. Sal. Tom. 8. cap. 7. Pasch day 108 that is to say Take ye Jesus of Nazareth accused by the chiefe Peiests and Rulers of his own Nation to be a man seditious and a contemner of Moses Law strip him bind him and whip him Whereupon the souldiers of Pilate led him into the Judgement hall stript him before the whole band of souldiers and other people tyed him to a pillar beat him most cruelly with rods Mat. 27. Io. 19. and rent and tare his most tender body After this they put on him a purple Robe platted and in forcible manner broided on his head a crowne of sharp thorns delivered into his right hand a reed and in scorn saluted him as a King bending the knee before him many wayes mocked him they did spit on him they did buffet him and strike him upon the wounded head with a Cane LVII The Queens Pallace 1 Reg. 7. 9. 2 Chro. 8. Jos 8. Ant. 5. which Solomon most royally builded of precious and polished stones for the habitation of his wife which was Pharaohs daugher LVIII Solomons Pallace exceeding great and fair the which he builded in thirteen years magnificently and most sumptuously on the South part of the Mount Moria 1 King 7. â—0 of bright marble and Cedar trees supported with many pillars for his own habitation this he wonderfully garnished with gold and silver round about and made all the vessels thereof of gold In the same place afterward the Christian Kings of Jerusalem had their Pallace where first began the order of
The Kings Seat which was very lofty 2 Chron. 9.17 Hier. in 2 Chro. 3. which Solomon prepared for the Kings 97. The Loft or Chambers of the Singers where divine prayses were sung with voice and with divers Instruments So some say Ezek 40 44. but no word of this in Ezek. 40. which points at a time not past and legal but to come and Evangelical 98. The place of Zacharias 2 Chron. 24.20 Mat. 23.35 where he was stoned between the Temple and the Altar 99. The place where the Jews would have stoned Christ Joh. 10 3â—â— The fourth part of the Temple 100. THe Ile which belonged to the Gentiles being also called the out-set Court which is the fourth part of the Temple Ezek. 40. See Number 97. Jos 15. Ant. 14. 6. Bello 6. 7 Bel. 10. lib. 2. contra Appionem Ezek. 10.5 2 King 21 5. into the which men ascended by many staires whose in-set space open to the aire paved with all manner of beautifull stones had foure excellent gates opening towards the foure parts of the world which were shut with doors of brasse This being a square porch much like a Cloyster upholden with pillars of Marble and seeled over with Cedar was thirty cubits broad The whole circuit and compasse of which porch was five hundred paces Into this Court or porch all sorts of Jews and Gentiles might enter both clean and unclean whereupon it was called the Court of the Gentiles Here hence it was that Christ did cast out twice the buyers and sellers and suffered not any man to carry so much as a vessell through the same So say some but we finde it was the Temple it selfe Joh 2â— 16. Mat. 21.12 Luke 19.45 Mark 11.7 Joh. 1â— â—â—â— See Number 110. Here hee discharged the woman taken in adultery Here he taught oftentimes Here also the Jews would have stoned him Finally here it was that he was glorified before the Gentiles with a voice from heaven The parts of the Court of the Gentiles 101. THe Golden Eagle was of great weight set up by Herod the greater Ios 17. Antiq. 8. 12. chap. Also 1 Belli Iud. 21. 2 Bel. 1. over the greatest gate of the Temple and was at the last pulled downe by the Jewes and cut in peeces whereupon arose a great tumult and many were slain 102. The Treasury of the Temple in Hebrew called Corban a chest wherein was offered and kept such money as served for the necessaries of the sacrifices for the sustentation of the poor Mar. 7.7 Mat. 27.6 2 King 12.9 and for the repairing of the Temple When Helidore who was sent by the King of the Syrians sought to take the spoyl of this treasury it is said he was scourged by Angels from heaven And when Pilate by the like temerity would have bestowed this holy treasure for the bringing in of waters 2 Chron. 24. 2 Mac. 3. Ios 18. Ant. 5. Ios 17. Bel. 11. 2 Mac. 4. Joan. 8. Mar. 12 Luke 21. Ios 18. Ant. 13. 19. Mat. 20.19 Mar. 10.33 Lu. 18.32 Mar. 12.41 he was let and hindred by a general uproar of the people the which neverthelesse the Romans when they had won the City took and carried away Also we read in 2 Maccab. that Lysimachus was slain near unto this place Here it was that Christ taught himselfe to be the light of the world and said that he should be lifted up upon the Crosse by the Jewes or the Romans rather Christ sitting here pronounced that the poore widow offering two mites had given more then all the rich Over this treasury for a monument of his adverse fortune turned into prosperity King Agrippa hanged up that golden chaine which the Emperour Cajus gave unto him being equall in weight to that iron chaine with which his hands were bound by the command of the Emperour Tiberius 103. Achas or Ahaz his Dial 2 King 20.11 Isa 38.8 the King which he made wherein the King Ezekias being sicke for a signe of recovering his health the shadow of the Sun by divine miracle went backwards ten degrees 104. The North Gate 1 Chro. 26. Ezek. 40.23 whereof mention is oftentimes made in the Scripture and in Josephus 105. The South Gate mentioned oftentimes in Scripture 1 Chro. 26.13 and in Josephus 106. The West Gate 1 Chro. 26.13 1 Chro. 23. the which also in the book of * Chronicles is called the gate of foundation * Qu. If meant of the gate of the fountain Neh. 3.15 107. The East Gate which also is called the gate Sur otherwise Seir also the Kings gate and the Beautiful gate 1 Chon 9.26 Nehem. 3. 2 King 11.15 chap. 2 Chron. 27. Acts 3.1 2. because of all the rest it was the greatest highest and fairest by which also there was the principall entrance into the Temple This being decayed was repaired by King Joatham And neer unto this gate the Apostle Peter with his word in the name of Jesus Christ healed the man which was lame from his mother womb and sate there begging of alms 108. The Towers of Trumpeters Num. 10. Jos 5. Bel. 9. which were erected aloft in the west corners of the Temple In the tops whereof the Priests wanting the use of bells with two silver Trumpets Num. 28. called the people unto the Temple From thence also they told the people of Festival dayes of Sabbaths of Fasts and of solemne Feasts 109. Here Christ writing with his finger on the ground made the accusers of the women taken in adultery ashamed John 8.2 3. and set her free 110. Here Christ making a whip of cords See Number 100 Joh. 2.16 Mat. 21.12 Mar. 11.17 cast out the buyers and sellers together with their Merchandise Thus far we have spoken of the Temple and of the parts thereof and now we will prosecute the other parts of the Daughter of Sion 111. The Theater which was builded in form of a halfe circle by Herod the Ascalonite King of the Jews Jos 15. Ant. 9. 20. Ant. 15 near unto the Pallace of the Macchabees In the circuit whereof in Imagery was set forth the Titles the Victories and Spoyls of Augustus Caesar shining with silver and gold where the better and more worthy sort sitting upon stairs and seats made round in compasse and the rest standing therein beheld the players and actors and Musitians playing their Comedies and Tragedies and other Playes The Places of the Daughter of Sion 112. THe Throne of Solomon 1 King 10. 2 Chron 9.17 Jos 8. Ant. 5. It was a very great Throne of Ivory covered over with shining gold close and round in the top like a Judgement seat having six steps or stairs at each end whereof were twelve Lions set In this Throne King Solomon sate when he heard the controversies of the people and pronounced Judgement and capital sentences appointing Laws and Statutes Lyra in 3. King 7.
Herein also he sate when in royall manner he would shew forth his pompe glory and riches and when he intended to bestow upon his faithfull servants rewards 113. The Passage which King Solomon made of strong timber to go from his Pallace into the Temple 2 Chron. 9. 114. The Tribunal was a publicke place set before the house of Pilate John 19.13 Mat. 27.19 Mar. 15. and appointed for Judgement where the Lieutenants of Rome were wont to give sentence which in Greek was called LITHOSTROTOS that is a place of pavement and in Hebrew GABATHA because it was high and lofty Pilate sitting in this judgement seat and having good will to free Jesus standing before him took water and washed his hands before the people saying I am innocent from the blood of this just man But all the people crying out Crucifie him Crucifie him his blood be on us and on our children And further laying treason to his charge in that he made himselfe a King he condemned Christ to the death of the Crosse in this forme of words wee may finde them in a certaine Author from whence we faithfully report them Jesum Nazarenum subversorem Gentis contemptorem Caesaris falsum Messiam ut majorum suorum testimonio probatum est ducite ad communis supplicii locum Salig Tom. 8. cap. 7. cum ludibrio Regiae Majestatis in medio duorum latronum cruci affigite I lictor expedi cruces that is to say Carry ye to the place of common execution Jesus of Nazareth a subverter of his Nation a coutemner of Caesar and * This seems to crosse that in Joh. 19.19 20.22 a false Messias as is proved by the testimony of the Elders of his own people and crucifie him between two theeves in reproach and scorne of his Kingly Majesty Go Hangman and make ready with speed the crosses The which sentence being pronounced he delivered him to the Souldiers to be crucified Who brought forth Jesus deprived of all beauty and comelinesse and more like a Leaper Isa 53 2.3 then to himselfe by reason of the paines which they had laid on him but that he might be known unto the people they put on him again his own garments and carrying his crosse with two theeves through the Gate of Judgement to bee crucified in Mount Calvary Pilate sitting in this Tribunal seat in time of an Insurrection for bestowing the holy treasures of the Temple Jos 18. Ant. 5. 2 Bel. 8. Euseb 2. Hist Bel. 6. Niceph. 2 Hist Ec. 10. which were called Corban gave a secret signe to the Souldiers which were privily armed under their cloaths that they should not use swords but clubs to beat down the tumultuous Jews By which means many of them were slaine many sore wounded and very many trodden under foot even to death by their owne company in the tumult After this Florus the Lieutenant sitting in the same judgement seat caused many of the Noblemen Jos 2. Bel. 14.15 and Gentlemen of the Jewes to be beaten and torn with rods and whips and to be fastened on crosses who also caused many other massacres about the City nothing sparing neither women children nor sucking babes The which were certain beginnings of vengeance taken by Almighty God upon the obstinate Jews for the shedding of the innocent blood of Christ 115. The Tower of Strato Jos 13. Ant. 18. Bel. 3. in Greek called Pyrgus Sratonis scituate between the Castle Antonia and the Temple it was a hollow and an obscure passage where Antigonus was slain by the souldiers of his brother 116. The Valley of Cedron 2 King 23.4.6.12 Sopho. 1. Ios 14. Ant. 8 15. Ant. 14. Item 1. Bel 5. 6. Bel. 6 7. 6. Ios 20. Ant 16. Eus 2. Hist. Ec. 23 or Kidron broad deep and darke which in manner of a ditch or trench compassed the Temple round about And because it was disposed after the fashion of a Morter it was called in Hebrew Macthes and in Latine Pila This was so exceeding deep that men could not look down from the roof of the Temple into the bottome thereof but their eyes would dazle and their heads seem to turn with giddinesse Herein Merchants and all sorts of Chapmen dwelled Into this Valley James the brother of the Lord first Bishop of Jerusalem say Roman Writers for professing Jesus the Son of God on the feast of Passeover was cast down headlong from the battlements of the Temple at the command of Anani a Saduce chief Priest and was immediately knocked on the head with a Fullers club and was there buried near unto the Temple his Monument remaining there a long time after as some write 117. The Wall of the Crosse as some note it by which Christ having received his judgement to be cruicified went forward with painfull and bloody steps to mount Calvary D. Petrus Poteus M. Matthaeus Stenberch did measure the City of Jerusalem long since by whose report this Description is made many hundred years after Sect. 2. For thus * some Romanists write of it beginning at the Pallace of Pilate he made six and twenty steps which make threescore and five foot unto the place where the crosse was laid upon him Sect. 3. From whence all the City gazing on him carrying his crosse on his sore shoulders he came towards the West or rather North-west fourscore steps which make two hundred foot to the place where men say that he fell downe under his Crosse Sect. 4. From thence going forward by threescore steps and three foot which make a hundred fifty and three foot he came to the place where they say the blessed Virgin Mary Also Petrus Calentinus in his book entituled The way of the Crosse See Number 123. with John the Apostle met with him And proceeding from hence by threescore and eleven steps and one foot and a half which make a hundred seventy and nine foot he came to a certain crosse-way where Simon of Cyren was compelled to bear the hinder part of the Crosse with Christ Is not this a notable proof with Scripture for saying on beads Latin prayers at crosse-wayes Sect. 5. Taking his way hence by one hundred ninety and one step and halfe a foot which cometh to four hundred and seventy foot How punctually did some thus measure the feet some hundred years after he came to the place where they write Veronica met with him And from thence going three hundred thirty six steps and two feet which amount to eight hundred forty and two feet he came to the Judiciary gate where once again he fell with his Crosse Sect. 6. From thence he ascending faintly a very hard and stony way towards the North he gained three hundred forty and eight steps and two foot the summe eight hundred seventy and two foot which brought him unto a two-fold way where certaine women weeping spake unto him And from hence labouring forward threescore steps and one and
halfe a foot which make foure hundred and foure foot he fell downe the last time at the foot of the Mount Calvary From thence he wearily and faintingly went forward eighteen steps or forty five foot to the place where the Hang-men drew off his cloaths where they gave him to drink wine mixed with mirrh and gall Sect. 7. Then he went on twelve steps or thirty foot even to the place where he was nayled on the Crosse on mount Calvary So that from the Pallace of Pilate unto the place where Iesus was crucified the distance is a thousand three hundred and seven steps or by another account three thousand two hundred sixty and eight foot We have made such exact description saith the P. P. Author and demonstration of the Way of the Crosse as also the Way of the Captivity hereafter expressed under the Number of two hundred and five to the end that every Christian man in all places even in the doors of his house or walking oftentimes in his Garden or being in a journey or in the Temple either lying in his bed may by the imagination of his minde conceive the like way and with godly affection of the heart may meditate upon the passion of Christ the which no doubt is both acceptable unto God and for our own souls health most profitable as the writings of good men by their often exhortation do testifie But a far better helpe is appointed and afforded of God even the holy Scriptures themselves that doe best and most affectingly set forth Christs Passion as Isa 53.1 2. Mat. 26.20 to the end of Mat. 27. Mar. 14. Joh. 18. 19. 118. The way of entrance for the Horses Neh. 3.28 2 King 11.19 2 Chron 23. Jos 9. Ant 7. which was between the Pallaces of Solomon and of the Queen By which Athalia the Queen being brought out of the horse-gate was slaine in the valley of the brook Cedron or Kidron 119. The Gallery made in form of a stone bridge with many arches extending it selfe with ample largenesse over the common street adorned with open walks upon the same From the which there was a passage from the Pallace of Pilate into the Castle of Antonia and so from thence into the Temple From this place being very safe Joan. 19. the Lieutenants of Rome were wont to speak unto the people whereon Pilate standing exhibited Jesus to the Princes and people of the Jews to be looked on being very sore scourged spit on Breid 14. Jul. Salig 8. cap. 7. cloathed with a purple cloak and wearing a sharp crown of thorns upon his head saying unto them Behold the man that he being thus afflicted they might have compassion on him But they with confused voyces cryed Crucifie him Crucifie him Whereas yet an arch of stone is to be seen Ios 2. Belli Iud. 6. 5. Bel. 9. and is shewed unto strangers written by Relick-mungers some hundred years after with this Inscription Tolle Tolle crucifig the rest cannot be read by reason Antiquity hath worn it out From this Gallery King Agrippa pronounced an eloquent Oration to pacifie the seditious people exhorting them to obey the Romans Josephus maketh mention many times of this Gallery 120. The Crosse of Christ Pasch Descrip Ierus 207. which was laid on his shoulder was fifteen foot long and eight foot over as we have received by Tradition of the Elders 121. Here it is said that Christ fell the first time under his Crosse Pasch d. 207. 122. Here also by Tradition of some Fathers it is said that the blessed Virgin Mary with John and certaine godly women stood as Christ passed by with his Crosse 123. Christ being come to these two wayes of which in Number 117. Sect. 4. and being wearied with the heavy burden of his Crosse is said to have fallen For the which cause Mat. 27.32 Mar. 15.21 Luke 23.26 Breid 14. Iul. Sa. 1.8 c. 7. Pas d. 208. the souldiers and Jews fearing that he would faint before he could be crucified took a certain man coming out of the Country named Simon of Cyren and compelled him to carry the Crosse after Jesus or to helpe him to carry it The third Part of the City 124. The second City this is the third part of the City 2 King 22. 2 Chron. 34 8. Sopho. 1. Hier. in 2. Chron. 34.8 Ios 6. Bel. 10. See page 2. the which also had many narrow wayes whereof mention is made sometime in the Scripture wherein among others many Prophets and Noble-men dwelt This when the Romans had gotten they were by the seditious again driven out of the City The name of it in Hebrew is Jerushalajim of the dual number implying it seems two Cities the higher above the lower to which the Apostle seems to allude Gal. 4.25 26. The places of the second City 125. The Lake Amigdalon Ios 6. Bel. 12. neer unto which Titus erected a Bulwarke 126. The house of Mary the Mother of John and of Marke one of the seventy and two Disciples of Christ Acts 12.12.4 wherein the faithfull of the Primitive Church were wont to assemble themselves and to pray Where also after the Martyrdome of James the Apostle when Peter was cast into prison by Herod Agrippa they prayed without ceasing for his deliverance Sal. Tom. 8. c. 4. Who at the last being brought out of prison by the Angel and knocking at the door of this house was by a Damsel brought into the same In the which place afterward a Church-house was builded which was the first of the Christian Greeks And is an Episcopall Seat which the Syrians hold unto this day said the Author 127. The house of Olda or Hulda the Prophetesse 2 King 22.14 2 Chro. 34.22 not a Nun but the wife of Sellum a famous Noble-man the great Uncle say some of the Prophet Jeremy whose counsell being asked by the King Josias she foretold him of the destruction of Jerusalem 128. A Conduit Ios 2. Bel. Iul. 18. 6. Bel. 6. and Fountaine which by Pipes sent forth water aloft and by the like Pipes derived water into Herods Pallace and about the same filling the Cisterns thereof 129. The Wood market Ios 2. Bel. 24. which Cestius set on fire 130. The habitation of the Rechabites Jer. 35.2 3. say some who living Religiously according to the Commandement of their Father possessed neither fields nor vineyards and like pilgrims of this world dwelt not in houses but in tents and wholly abstained from wine Wherefore when through the necessity of war they were compelled to come into the City Jeremy not drinking wine unto them but by the Commandement of God bidding them drink wine they would drink no wine By which example of their obedience the same Prophet reprehended the disobedience of the obstinate Jews neglecting the Commandement of God and therefore he did set before the one a punishment and before the other a reward 131. A Lake or
the Temple 150. The broad Street Neh. 8.16 Neh 12.39 the which also was called the street of the gate of Ephraim 151. The Kings Caves Ios 6. Bel. 6. upon the which the third wall of the City was builded in length The Gates and Towers about the City 152. Caphenetha 1 Mach. 12.37 the East wall of the City upon the brook Cedron which Jonathas Machabees repaired 153. The corner stone Isa 28.16 Psal 87.1 Ps 118.22 1 Cor. 3.11 Acts 4.11 1 Pet. 2.6 7. which was most hard being the firme foundation of mount Sion This was a figure of Christ who is the strong and stable foundation of his Church 154. The Gate of the Corner so called because it was scituate in the North-east corner of the City 2 King 14.13 2 Chron 25.23 Jer 31.38 Zaâ—h 14.10 Broc itin 6 Sal. Tom. 8. cap. 5. next unto the brook Cedron The which also was called the gate of Benjamin because the way lead through the same unto the tribe of Benjamin By this gate wood was brought into the City out of the Desart In this gate also Jeremy the Prophet was apprehended whose ruines are now to be seen a great way out of the City 155. The golden Gate scituate between the gate of the valley and the gate of the Fountain so called because it was gilded with gold It was also called the East-gate Ezek. 43.4 Broc itin 6. Sal. Tom. 9. cap. 4 Breid 14. Pasch die 184. Mat. 21. Joh. 12 because it was builded on the East-side of the Temple And because it lead by a very short way from the Temple to mount Olivet it was rather a gate of the Temple then of the City and therefore Nehemias made no mention thereof By this gate Christ came riding upon an Asse into the City of Jerusalem at what time men cut down palms and strowed them in his way crying Hosanna before him 156. The Gate of Ephraim which now of some is called S. Stephens gate 2 King 14.15 2 Chron. 25 23 Neh. 8.16 12.39 Jos 9. Ant. 10. Broc itin 6. Sal. Tom. 8. cap. 5 scituate on the North part tending toward the way which leadeth unto the tribe of Ephraim whereupon it was called the Gate of Ephraim From this gate unto the gate of the corner Joaz King of Israel beat down the wall of Jerusalem by the space of four hundred cubits and in triumphant manner he being carried into the City in his chariot through that breach became Lord of the City Which wall together with the Towers thereof Uzziah King of Juda afterward restored again 157. The Water-gate Neh. 3 15.26.28 Ne. 8.1.16 2 Chron. 23. Ier. 19.31 Broc itin 6. Salig Tom. 8. cap. 5. the which was scituate between mount Sion and the mount Moria in the valley called Mello toward the East It was called the Water-gate because it opened a passage unto the Fountain of the water of Siloe and because horses were carried through the same to be watred in the brook Cedron And for this cause it was called the East horse-gate and it tended toward the the valley Gehennom 158. The Gate Genath or the Gate of King Herods Garden which was not far from the second wall of the City Jos 6 Bel. 6 7 8 by which water was brought up into the Tower Hippic By this gate the seditious privily sallied out many times upon the Romans 159. The Gate of the Kings Garden 2 King 25 4â— which in mount Sion was placed between two walls of the castle by which King Zedechias fled in the night 160. The Gate of the high Priests Pallace Neh. 3.26.28 at the South side of the City 161. The Fish-Gate Neh. 12.39 2 Chro. 33.14 Sopho. l. 10. Nehem. 3.3 Broc itin 6. Sal. tom 8. cap. 1 5. the which was scituate next to the Tower of David in the valley of Mello between mount Sion and the lower City towards the West and by the vault adjoyning to the same it gave a convenient passage to and from the City to every man And it was called the Fish-gate because through the same Fishes were brought into the City from Joppe from other Towns of the Seacoast This also had other names as the gate of David and the Merchants gate Davids gate because it was next to Davids Tower and the Merchants Gate because by the same much Merchandize were carried into the City from Bethelem Hebron Gaza from Aegypt and from Aethiopia By this Gate strangers that came from the West were wont to enter into the City 162. The Dung-gate on the East-side of the City toward the Comer-gate Neh. 3.14 12.31 on the North-east carried all the dung and filth of the City which the rain gathered together into the brook Cedron whereupon it was rightly called the Dung-gate 163. The Gates of Womens Towers Broc iti 6. Sa. tom 8. c. 5. Ios 6. Bel. 2. 5. On the North end of the City by which the seditious brake forth upon the Romans when they besieged the City 164. The Valley Gate 2 Chron. 26.9 Neh. 2.13.15 Neh. 3.13 Broc itin 6. Breid 14. Iul. Sal. tom 8.6.5 so named because it made way into the Valley of Jehosaphat scituate in the midst between the Dung-gate and the Golden-gate and not far distant from the Sheep-market and the Pool called Probatica The which also for this cause deserved to be called the Drove-gate because the flocks of Cattel which were sold in the Sheep-market and were to bee offered for sacrifice in the Temple were brought in by this gate But now it is called S. Stephens gate of the first Martyr Stephen which was stoned to death not far from the same 165. The old Gate Neh. 3.6 12.39 Deut. 22.24 Ruth 4.1 Heb. 13.12 which being on the West-part of the City was called in time past by the Jebusites the Gate Jebus It was also called the Judgement gate because in old time the Judges did fit there in Judgement For then the Seniors did exercise Justice and Judgement in the Gates of their Cities and such as were condemned to dye went out at this Gate Broc itin 6. Sal. tom 8. cap. 7. Whereupon Christ was lead out of the same to be crucified Of this Gate there are at this day some old remainders and ruines to be seen 166. The Rock which was very high going along from the Tower Psephina unto Mount Sion Broc itin 6. upon the which the whole West-wall of the City stood 167. The Tower Hananeel the which being not far distant from the Corner-gate towards the East and by North Jer. 31.38 Zach. 14.10 Neh. 3.1 12 39. was very strong and notable whereof the holy Scripture maketh mention oftentimes 168. The Corner Tower standing aloft upon the Corner gate 2 Chron. 26.9 which King Ozias did strongly repair and made it one hundred and fifty cubits high 169. The Tower of David strong and lofty 2