by the meditations of these afflictions of our sauiour faith is illumined hope strengthened charitie inflamed and all vertue increased Wherefore saint Augustine a light of the Church no lesse truly then godly prouoking vs by very forceable woordes therevnto saith thus Behould the woundes of him that hangeth the bloud of him that dieth the price of the redemer the scarres of him that ryseth His heade boweth to kisse thee his hart is opened to loue thee his armes stretched abroad to imbrace thee his whole bodie set forth to redeeme thee Consider what and how greate â—hese thinges be waigh them in the ballance of your heartes that hee may be wholy fastened in your hartes who for vs was wholy fastened on the crosse Thus far Augustine So that it is not enough to meditate of these thinges once but it is profitable to thinke vpon them often yea the oftener the more they auaile and profite In the wholesome contemplation of whose passion although we profite much yet we shall neuer attaine to the perfite knowledge thereof but there will remaine still somewhat that we may seeke for the full knowledge wherof is reserued to our heauenly countrey In the meane tyme let vs contemplate in these thinges day and night in these things let vs recreate and busie our selues In these let vs watch in these let vs sleep yea to die in the meditation of these things is most Christian and auaileable to euerlasting saluation Places of holy Scripture to the praise of IERVSALEM Lamenta II. Is this the citty of perfit bewty the ioye of the whole earth Ezech. V. This is IERVSALEM I haue set it in the middest of the nations countries y t are round about her II. Cron. VII I haue chosen this place for my selfe to be a house of sacrifice Isaias II. Micheas IIII. The Lawe shall go foorth of Sion and the woorde of the Lord from IERVSALEM Apocalips XXI I sawe the holy Citiie new IERVSALEM come downe from God out of Heauen prepared as a bride trimmed for her husband Tobit XIII O IERVSALEM the holy Cittie many nations shall come from far to the name of the Lord God with giftes in their hands euen gyftes to y e King of heauen all generations shal praise thee and giue signes of ioye Cursed are all they which hate thee but blessed are they for euer which loue thee Reioyce and be glad for the children of the iust for they shall be gathered and shall blesse the lord for the iust Blessed are they which loue thee for they shall reioyce in thy peace Blessed are they which haue bene sorrowfull for all thy scourges For they shall reioyce for thee when they shal see all thy glorie and shall reioyce for euer Let my soule blesse God y e great King For IERVSALEM shall be built vp with Saphires Emeraudes and thy walls with pretious stoanes and thy towers thy bulwarkes with pure gould And the streetes of IERVSALFM shalbe paued with Berall and Carbuncle and stoanes of Ophir And all her streets shall say Halleluiah and they shall praise him saying blessed bee God which hath extolled it for euer Thomas Newton to the louing Reader THat stately place that princely bowre that seate of mightie King That floure of Beniamin his tribe whose fame through world did ring Ennobled with such royall stiles and titles of renowne And ouer worldlie citties all most meete to weare the crowne Loe heere presented is to Viewe in such good currrant sort As no penne heretofore perform'd or made thereof report So that wee neede not now to runne or gad from place to place In daungers great through countreis staunge to trie or know this case That braue estate which earst it had is now alas defac'de King dauids house and temple now is quight and cleane disgrac'de Yet sitting still with booke in hand we here may plaine beholde The state of ech thing as it was in times that were of old Where Christ did preach where Christ did suppe where Christ did fast and pray Where Christ was caught where christ was whipt where theeues did him betraye Where he a precious raunsome paid for man who had offended Where he was buried where he rose and eke where he ascended Where Annas kept his pompous court where Caiphas palace stoode Where wicked Pilate dwelt that did condemne most guiltles blood This and much more is here discourst by him that both had read And seene with eye full thirtie yeeres where hee his life had lead Whose worke and paines as they deserue much thankes and hartie praise So Timme his guerdon well deserues of all men in these daies Aswell for heere acquainting vs with this rare worke of skill As also for his other paines that passed haue his quill Who like a candle wastes himselfe in giuing light to others Moe such God graunt to take like care to helpe their Christian brothers Thomas Newton ⧠A BRIEFE DESCRIPTION OF IERVSALEM AND THE SVBVRBES THEREOF AS IT FLORISHED IN THE TIME OF CHRIST 1 IErusalem the elect Cittie of God holy and most glorious built vpon the holy mountaines excelling all the citties of the world as well by the loftinesse of the seate as by the moderation and temperature of the heauens and fruitfulnesse of soile was situated in the midest of the whole worlde and of Iudaea as it were in the very center and heart of the earth And being as a Queene amongest all other neighbour citties had the preheminence as the head ouer the body and shined as the sunne aboue others in sumptuousnes and glorious buildings hauing such surpassing excellency she was by a certaine singular priuiledge in time past the onely place which God had chosen to himselfe and was a figure not only of euery faithfull mans soule but also of the elect Church of Christ militant vppon earth and of that blessed triumphant Church in heauen A cittie of perfect beautie the virgin of the worlde the paragon of all the Easte and the ioye and reioycing of the whole earth This cittie was builded about the yeare from the creation of the world two thousand twenty and three in the time of Abraham by Melchisedech the Kinge In hebrue it was called SALEM and in Greeke SOLYMA and it seemeth that hee possessed the same fiftie yeares The which afterwards the Iebusites enioyed who sprang from Iebusi the sonne of Chanaan of whome it was called for a time Iebus and Iebusaeum at what time Iosua slue the King thereof And the Iebusites helde the same eighte hundred and twentie foure yeares who trusted so much to the strength of their cittie that when king Dauid assailed the same in contempt of him and of his army they placed vpon their walles the blind the halt and the maimed saying that these were sufficient to beate backe the enemy But when Dauid through Gods helpe enioyed the cittie the Iebusites
created him the king of Ierusalem But the man being full of Godlinesse and humility would not be crowned with a crowne of gold after the manner of Kinges in the holy cittye but contented himselfe and reuerenced the like crowne of thornes with the which the emperour of mankind was crowned in the same place when he went to be crucified for our saluation Ierusalem therefore being recouered by the Christians was so held and enioyed by them fourescore and eight yeares Afterward namely in the yeare 1187. the second day of october the Christian princes wo and alas disagreing amonge themselues Ierusalem was deliuered vp to Saladine the Soldane of Egypt vppon this condition that it should be lawfull for the Christians to departe with bag and baggage the which Saladine held it three hundred and thirtie yeares But in the yeare of our Lord 1517. it was inuaded by Selimo the emperour of turques is at this day in the same compasse of walles possessed by the Turkes who name it Cusumobarech or Codsbarich that is to say a holy cittie So that from the first foundation thereof vnto this present yeare one thousand fiue hundred ninety foure are passed three thousand fiue hundred thirtie and one yeares THE FIRST PART OF THE CITTIE THE PLACES VVITHIN THE CITTIE 2 MOVNT SION which is called y e mount of the Lorde and the Holy Mountaine is much more higher then other mountaines and larger after the fashion of a Theater in the fourme of a halfe circle compassing the cittie on the south parte And being set as a looking glas on a high place founded by God vppon a firme rocke on euery side broken off had a plainenes thereon like to a towne and being very pleasant and recreatiue it represented the excellencie and delights of heauen Whose top the Iebusites first of all fortified with a strong castle and the compasse thereof with firme and loftie walles with gates and with towers Whome when Dauid the king had expulsed he made the castle and the walles round about the gates and the towers much more defensible and made the top and plainenesse of the hill into streetes and lanes and builded there for himselfe for his nobles and worthies houses and called it the cittie of Dauid which now also Iosephus calleth the higher cittie and the holy parte The Machabees reedifying the same mountaine in compasse made it most stronge with many walles and lofty towers in such wise as notwithstanding any force it was inuincible only by famine it might be surprised where were many straight and narrow passages and many houses of cittizens placed From this mountaine according to the foretelling of the prophets a law and an euangelicall light came forth and as it were from the head it selfe it was spred forth into the whole bodie of the world for the sauing health of all nations The which when the Romanes by the iudgement and will of God against all hope of man and without bloudshed had taken the seditious within the Citty beeing stricken with a sudden feare and roaming heere and there from the wall and hiding themselues in their sinkes being dispersed in all corners and streetes with their naked swordes slue all that they met withall hauing no regard of persons or sex and set fire on the houses burning them and all those that were fled into them and destroying manie houses whereinto they entred for pillage sake where finding whole families dead whome the famine had consumed they so abhorred the sight thereof that they returned backe againe emptie running thorowe with their swordes all that they met and so filling the streetes with dead bodies that the whole Citty flowed with bloud in such aboundance that as Iosephus witnesseth many things burning were quenched with the plentifull bloud of the slaine But night comming on the slaughter began to cease but the burning increased The next day following Titus being entered into the Citty woondered at the fortifications of the Cittie and at the rockes of the towers which the Tyrants through follie had willinglie forsaken To be briefe when hee had seene their substantiall altitude and inuincible force we haue fought saith he by the manifest helpe of God and it was God which draue out the Iewes from these holdes For what hands of men or what engines of warre might haue preuailed against these Many such words spake he to his frends This mountaine though it were excluded out of the cittie yet afterward it was builded againe and inhabited But now being in the Suburbs most ruinous it lieth wast THE PLACES OF MOVNT SION 3. THe Castell of Sion being ancient and strong was set on the verie toppe of mount Sion round like a crown and was a sure defence and beautie both of the Cittie and Temple and was as the capitall or chiefe place of so great a cittie Heerein the Iebusites dwelte at the firste whome Dauid casting out by force enioyed the castle and receiuing from Hiram king of Tyrus stones wood and artificers builded out of the same a strong pallace for himselfe and a house of Cedar with a kingly throne In the which castle afterward Dauid himselfe and other kings of Iuda inhabited and vsed the same for the kinges seat And for this cause it was continually kept with a straight garde of souldiors And in processe of time it was called the kings castle and the house of Dauid the seate and throne of Dauid also the Court and kings house In this castle the most cruell of all tyrantes Antiochus king of Syria which in Greeke was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to say Renoumed but more truly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Mad he deserued to be called placed a garrison of Gentiles whereby in the time of the Machabes hee afflicted the Iewes very much a long time The which when Simon Machabaeus had inforced to yeeld thrugh famine and had cleansed the castle from the pollusion of Idols they entered therinto with palmes in their hands with Cimbals with psalterions with hymnes and songes and he placed therein men of the Iewes to defend the Cittie and countrey yet nowe there is nothing to be seene but the ruines thereof 4. THE KINGS PRISON with a lofty Tower which ouerlooked the kings house Into this prison Ieremie was cast because hee prophesied that the Cittie should be taken and at the last was deliuered out of the same by Nabuchadonezer when the Cittie was taken 5. CAESARS and AGRIPPAS hall was the kings house which Herod the Ascalonite builded for himselfe in the vppermost cittie for he builded in his pallace two great and faire houses of polished marble and fine gold wherevnto the Temple it selfe was not comparable and calling them after the names of Caesar Augustus and of Agrippa his sonne in law his friends he named the one CAESARS
pompe and triumph the true king and humble triumpher entered in at the goulden gate and rode aboute the temple and the greatest part of the cittie With this newe spectacle the whole cittie was moued saying Who is this The multitude which followed him answered This is Iesus the Prophet of Nazareth a Citty af Galile Then the crie of those that reioysed and were gladde increased more and more and men and women young and olde yea which is wonderful the very infants which came from al parts cryed out together Osanna to the sonne of Dauid Blessed bee the king of Israel which commeth a king in the name of the Lord. Blessed be the kingdome that commeth in the name of him that is Lord of our father Dauid peace in Heauen and glory in the highest Osanna in the hyghest With these ioyful voices and cryes they proclaiming their Messias followed him euen into the Temple Where this newe king happily beginning his kingdome presently healed the blinde and the lame In the meane time the wicked and enuious Pharisies the chiefe priestes and Scribes doo fret and fume who seeing the great maruels which he did and the children crying in the temple Osanna to the sonne of Dauid said among themselues Do ye not see how we profit nothing Behold the whole world goeth foorth after him Wherevpon they begin with Iesus himselfe saying Mayster doost thou heare what these say Rebuke thy Disciples To whome he shewing that this was long before prophesied of by the Prophet answereth Why should they not Haue ye not read Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklings thou hast ordained praise I say vnto you if these holde their peace the stones shall presentlie crye THE PLACES ON THE SOVTH PART OF THE CITTIE 213. ABACVC Here the Angell of the Lord taketh vp the prophet Abacuc by the haire of the head as hee was carying to the reapers in the fielde their dinner and caried him with the same meat into Babilon to feede Daniel being shut vp in the Lyons denne Who being fed he brought Abacuc hither againe 214 ACELDEMA or Haceldemach that is to saye the fielde of bloud It was a potters fielde situate at the South parte of mounte Sion hauing behinde it a hill of the same name This fielde by the counsaile of the Iewes was bought with the thirtie peeces of siluer for the which Iudas soulde Christ that it might serue to bury strangers in the middle parte whereof the Emperesse Helen caused to be inclosed with a foure square wall in length seuenty and two foote and in bredth fiftie And the same to bee couered ouer with a roofe hauing seuen loope holes by which the deade bodies of Christians might be let downe The vertue of this earth is reported to be wonderfull and almost incredible to witte that it bringeth and consumeth into dust the bodies of the dead men within the space of twenty foure howers leauing nothing but the bones 215 THE FVLLERS FIELDE which lay all along at the South ende of the cittie euen from the valley of Siloe east ward vnto mount Gihon towards the west and betweene the wall of the citty and the water In this fielde the Fullers did scoure their cloathes in the brooke next adioyning and did set them on tainters and so dry them 216. THE DENNE OR CAVE of Iames the lesse wherin he is said to haue hid himselfe by the space of three dayes hauing vowed not to eate breade vntill Christe was risen agayne For the which cause the Lorde appered to him a parte after his resurrection 217 THE CAVE OF PETER THE APOSTLE wherein after hee had denied the Lorde thrise hee repented him and mourned with many teares 218 THE TENTS OF THE ASSYRIANS of whom for a reuenge of their blasphemy the most stronge to the nomber of 185000 in the very first night of the beseeging Ierusalem were slaine by the Angell of the Lord and as Augustine reporteth their bodyes were brought into dust that they might not infect the aier their garments armour and weapons notwithstanding remaining whole and sound that the people of Ierusalem might haue the spoile 219 THE HOVSE OF ELIAS wherein it is said that the prophet Elias sometime dwelt Where afterward also a Church was builded 220. THE MOVNTAINE EROGE otherwise called the South Mountaine being very high and loftie bowing a little towarde the west Concerning this mountaine this is worthy to bee noted That when Ozias king of Iuda presumed to put on him the priests attire entered into the sanctuary of the Temple and offered vpon the golden altar the incense of sweete sauour vnto God by and by there came a great earthquake whereof also Amos and zacharias the Prophets make mention whereby the vpper part of the Temple was shaken and this mountaine cleft in the mids with so great and terrible violence that one part thereof falling and tumbling downe was rolled and carried by the space of foure furlongs euen right ouer against the East mountaine which is called the mount of offence where at the length it staied King Ozias himselfe in the meane 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 Citty languished all his life long and was shut vp in his house and separated euen till the day of his death 221. A FOVNTAINE At this Fountaine the Starre which vanished away when the three wise men which came from the East were entered Ierusalem appeared vnto them againe and led them vnto Bethlehem 222. THE CAVE OF the Prophet Ieremy wherein he sitting with a greeued and sorrowfull mind wept moorned and bewailed the destruction of Ierusalem with sobs and sighes Where Helena the Empresse as Nicephorus testifieth builded a notable monument 223 ISAIAS Here that notable Prophet Isai when hee prophesied in Ierusalem about threescore and ten yeares by the commandment of king Manasses was split through the body with a sawe and was buried vnder an Oake whose sepulture is to be seene at this day 224 THE CAVES OF THE APOSTLES There are many Caues wherein eight of the Apostles as it is reported hid themselues during the time of the Lords passion 225 THE MONVMENT ABSOLOM is a marble piller with an Inscriptiō on the same distant from Ierusalem two furlonges which Absolom beeing aliue set vppe to himselfe for a monument in the kings valley where there is as yet to be seene a great heape of stones which daily is increased more and more For the Pagans and strangers passing by that way vse this for a custome that euery man cast a stone at the piller and challenging as it were according to the lawe his rebellion againste his father Dauid they cursse him with this malediction Cursed be the Parricide
being expulsed hee reedified the same rounde fortified it with a castle dwelt therein and made it the Metropolitan cittie of the whole prouince of Iudaea and the heade of all the kingdome and from thence foorth called it Ierusalem as it were Iebussalem the letter b. to make the better sounde tourned into r. Notwithstanding there are some which write that it is called Ierusalem of the magnificent temple which Salomon builte therein as it were Hieron Salomonis For the Greekes call a temple 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In continuance of time Salomon and other kings of Iudaea greatly enlarged the same and so fortified it with most strong gates towers walles and trenches and so adorned it with a temple with pallaces and with most exquisite buildings that among other citties it was a miracle of the whole world and is therefore more honoured with silence then with all that can be said concerning the same In this glory and excellency Ierusalem florished foure hundred seuenty and seuen yeares as if it had beene an earthly paradise being in compasse round about sixe miles and two hundred and fifty paces And by the wall and circuit of the cittie there was a stony trench or vaulte threescore foote deepe and in bredth two hundred and fiftie wherein was abiding about one hundreth and fiftie thousand men But when the wickednesse of the Princes and people not only had profaned the temple with the abhominations of Idols but also had filled the cittie euen to the full with innocent bloud most cruelly shed the cittie together with the temple Princes and people by the iust vengeance of God was by Nabuchodonoser kinge of Babilon but Gods whip so vtterly ouerthrowne and desolated threescore and ten yeares that Sion was plowed vp like a field and Ierusalem was become as a heape of stones and the mountaine of the temple as it were the height and top of woods so as in the meane time as Hierom witnesseth that neither so much as a bird nor a beast could flie or passe through the same Afterwards the temple only being with much a do and very hardly builded wanting gates towers and walles was inhabited againe by the Iewes retourning out of the captiuity of Babilon threescore yeares Moreouer within the space of two and fitie dayes Nehemia inclosed it in compas three miles and seuen hundred and fity paces with gates towers a strong wall and afterward the same being bewtified by the Machabees by Herod and by others very stately with publique and priuate buildings recouered the former dignity being very famous and populous by the space of fiue hundred and foure and twentie yeares hauing in it many narrow streetes by reason of the exceeding nomber of houses therein At what time there as in a Theater Iesus Christ wrought our saluation and from thence as from a center the apostles spred forth the Euangelicall doctrine throughout the world But Titus Emperour of Rome being brought by the iust iudgement of God to take vengeance for the Death of Christ the thirtie and eight yeare after his passion besieged it round casting a banke about it shut vppe the Iewes in the Cittie as in a prison which came out of euerie Tribe to cellebrate the feast of pasouer there Wherevpon that Cittie the woonder of the world was made a denne of theeues and a sepulcher of dead men For by reason of ciuill murders famine pestilence and sword there perished in the same eleuen hundred thousand Iewes And as for the Citty it selfe Titus did so vtterlie subuert it that men which came vnto it would scarse beleeue that euer it had beene inhabited Neuerthelesse hee left three principall Herodian Towers that is to say Hippic Mariam and Phasel which were more notable than the rest aswell for greatnesse as for beawtie and that part of the Citties wall which compassed them from the West vnshaken to the ende that both it might bee a Castell for the Romane souldiers which should be left there for a Garrison and also to shewe vnto posteritie what manner of Cittie how well fortified the force of the Romans had subdued But after threescore and fiue yeares the Iewes rebelling againe A Elius Adrianus the Emperour slue many thousands of them and vtterly subuerted those Towers with the remainder of the wall and commaunded the Cittie to bee strewed with salt whereby it came to passe according to the prophesie of Christ that there was not left one stone of the Cittie vpon a stone And building the Cittie againe in lesse compasse hee excluded mount Sion with the pallace of Salomon and that of the Queene and the house of the forrest of Libanus also the gate of the North corner and the tents of the Assyrians and all the north parte euen to the dounge gate and to the gate of Ephraim but the mount of Caluary and the sepulcher of the Lord which were aforetime without the walles hee inclosed with the North walles of the cittie and set the picture of a sow cut in Marble vpon the forefrunt of that gate by which men go to Bethleem thereby giuing to vnderstande that the Iewes subiect to that law of swines flesh were vnder the power of the Romaines whom by an Edict he forbad neuer more to enter into that cittie or looke into the same from the top of any higher place and from thenceforth commanded it to be called AEliam Capitoliam after his owne name But after this being inhabited of the Christians and dignified with a Patriarchall seate receiuing againe in continuance of time the name of Ierusalem florished fiue hundred yeares in Christian religion And in the yeare after the birth of Christ sixe hundred thirty and six it was taken by the Saracens which raigned in Egipt and so possessed foure hundred three score and three yeares After this in the yeare of Christ 1099 the cittie Ierusalem was recouered by the Christians hauing for their Captaine Godfrey of Bullion who was the firste that entred vpon the wall of the cittie with great courage and most fierce assalt the Ides of Iuly the very same day and houre wherein Christ died And so greate slaughter was made throughout al the streetes lanes and corners of the cittie that no man coulde passe but ouer the deade bodies of the slaine and so exceeding was the effusion of bloud that men went ouer their shooes in the bloud of the dead insomuch that the conquerers themselues were from the sole of the foote to the crowne of the heade imbrued with bloud Who when they enioyed the cittie putting off their armour and clensing themselues from their bloud visited the places of Christs passion resurrection and ascension which the faithful that dwelt in Ierusalem shewed vnto them and beheld them with reuerence The eight day after with one conssent they elected Duke Godfrey and
and the other AGRIPPAS 6. THE PARLOVR OF SION was scituate about the middest of mount Sion being large paued and verie faire wherein Christ in his last supper did eate the paschall Lambe with his disciples washed their feete and instituted the sacrament of his most blessed body and bloud In the fame on the day of his resurrection when he was entered the dores being shut standing in the middest of his disciples he shewed vnto them the wounds of his side of his hands and feete and did eate before them after that breathing vpon them he gaue them the holy ghost and therewithall power to remit and reteine the sinnes of all manner persons The eight day after this here he offered vnto Thomas the Apostle the prints and scarres of the speare and nailes to see and feele Here after the Lords ascension Matthias was by lot chosen into the Apostleship of Iudas the traitour Here on the day of Pentecost the holy Ghost came downe in a great sounde and in the forme of fierie toonges lighted vppon one hundred and twenty beleeuers and at the first sermon of Peter three thousand Iewes were conuerted and baptized In this place Iames the Lordes brother sirnamed Iust was by the Apostles created the first Bishop of Ierusalem and Stephen with six more were ordained Deacons Heere the Apostles entered into the first consultation or councell and set downe the twelue Articles of Christian faith 7. THE CYPRES trees of Mount Sion which were very excellent whereof the booke called Ecclesiasticus maketh mention 8. THE HOVSE OF Annas the chiefe priest the father in law of Caiaphas wherein Christ was examined of Annas concerning his Disciples and his doctrine at what time he aunswered that he had taught openly before all men for the which he receiued a blow on the cheek by a seruant 9. THE HOVSE OF THE WOORTHIES wherin the strong men and valiant peeres of king Dauid dwelt where also as in a wrestling place the cheefe wrestlers and champions for exercise sake vsed to try maisteries 10. THE HOVSE OF THE VIRGIN MARY wherin after the death of her sonne she dwelt with Iohn the Apostle 11. THE HOVSE OF VRIA one of the most valiant souldiors of Dauid whose wife Bethsabe bathing her selfe in a fountaine of her Garden which also is to be seene in the map by her beautie allured Dauid to adultery beholding her from a gallerie of y e kinges house 12. THE VPPER MARKET by reason whereof the vpper cittie also was called sometimes the vpper market 13. THE STAIRES OF THE CASTLE or prison whereon the Apostle Paule stood when hee made aunswer for himselfe 14. THE STAIRES OF SION by which men went vppe to the cittie of Dauid 15 THE KINGES GARDEN the which also was called the garden of Oza wherin Manasses and Amon kinges of Iuda were buried 16 MELLO a valley or dale very deepe and wide which lay betwene mount Sion and the lower citty and extended it selfe from the water gate to the fish gate Dauid builded and compassed mount Sion round about from this valley the concauity and bottome whereof Salomon did make leuell and plaine that it mighte bee a conuenient streete and from thence forth it was called the streete of the water gate He also bewtified the same with buildings which being decaied was repaired by Ezechias In this place it was that Ioas king of Iuda was slaine by his seruants in the way downe to Sela. But in Iosephus time this valley was called Tyropoeon and was very large and full of dwelling houses At this day this valley is so filled vp with earth and stones that there remaineth only a small shew of the former concauity depenes 17 THE PALLACE OF CAIPHAS belonging to euery high prieste large and square wherein somtime dwelled Eliasib the cheef priest In this pallace the princes of the people being gathered together consulted among themselues what pollicy they might vse to catch Iesus and to kill him to whome he was there soulde by Iudas for thirty peeces of siluer Afterwards also he was thrise denyed by Peter and was by false witnesses of the Iewes accused before Caiphas in the counsell of the priestes and elders to whom when hee answered nothing beeing straightly charged by the high priest to tell whether hee were Christ the sonne of God the which when he confessed hee was conuinced as it were of blasphemy the cheefe priest calling for the sentence of the counsell threescore and six elders condemned him to be worthy of death and aunswering said He is worthy to die Wherevpon the seruants and souldiors did presently spit in his face they blinde-folded him buffeted him with their fistes commaunding him to prophesie scorned him all the night with sundry mockes and vexed him with many blasphemies and that I may speake much in few words no mortall man in this life is able to expresse what and how much hee endured this night And in the morning following the rulers of the Iewes assembled together in this place againe to deliuer him vp to death and leading him bounde they deliuered him to Pilate the deputie 18. THE FOVNTAINE OF SION the which was made with great labour and cost 19. THE BRIDGE OF SION by which men went through the valley out of the vpper cittie vnto the Temple 20. THE GATES OF SION which the Lord loueth more than all the Tabernacles of Iacob 21. THE VPPER GATE by which Ioas when he was crowned king of Iuda in the Temple and guarded with the princes of the Iewes was led into the pallace of the kings of Iuda 22. THE SEPVLCHER OF DAVID together with the field wherin the kings were buried the which verie stately was placed aloft in the citty of Dauid wherein Dauid himselfe Salomon and other kings of Iuda also Ioyada the chiefe priest were buried Into this monument of Dauids sepulture Salomon brought great treasure at his burial The which Hircanus y e high priest captain opening brought from thence 3000. talents of siluer Not long after this Herod the Ascalonit king of Iewes went about also to bring much treasure out from thence but a flame of fire breaking forth and consuming two of his souldiors he left off his enterprise and to make satisfaction for himselfe hee adorned the same monument with faire shining Marble which continued there a long time after Where y e Saracens afterwarde builded a church for themselues which standeth as yet which place they greatly reuerence and suffer not any christiā to enter into y e same 23. THE SEPVLCHER OF STEPHEN the first Martyr of Nichodemus and of Gamaliel Paules schoolemaister 24. THE TABERNACLE OF SION couered with skinnes which king Dauid made and placed the same in the little hil of Mount Sion
which is called Gabaon and with great reuerence he put the Arke of God therein and appointed priests and Leuites continuallie to Minister from day to day by turne which remained there twenty and foure yeares vntill it was carried by Salomon into the temple In the same Dauid sorrowing for his adultery with Bethsabe and murder of Vrias made certeine psalmes of repentance 25. THE KINGS PRESSES wherein the kings wine was pressed THE SECOND PART OF THE CITTIE 26. THE DAVGHTER OF SION so called because it seemed to growe from mount Sion the which was also called the lower citty beeyng another part of the cittie whereof there is often mention made in the holy scriptures and in Iosephus THE PLACES OF THE DAVGHTER OF SION 27. THE MOVNTAINE OF ACRA was sometime in the lower cittie verie loftie and steepe the heighth whereof afterward Simon Machabaeus abated and made plaine by the continuall labour of the people which he imployed heerein by the space of three yeares day and night that the Temple alone might be higher then all other places of the cittie 28. THE AMPHITHEATER that is a place inuironed with scaffoldes and stages capable of fourescore thousand men where the people were woont to behold their games which Herod the elder first of all other builded in the field at Ierusalem with great labour and cost Wherein to recreate the beholders wrastlers and sword players shewed many feates of actiuitie and sometimes Lyons Leopardes Bulles Beares Bores Wolues and other exceeding wilde and fierce beasts fought one with another and sometime condemned men were cast vnto these to bee deuoured and captiues taken in warre 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 bee defiled with the bloud of the slain nor yet that the sprinkling of the bloud shoulde bring horror to the lookers on 29. THE CASTLE ANTONIA strong and wel fortified lying neere to the North side of the Temple which was builded in time past on a high rocke fiftie cubits high and very steepe round about and the tower was called Baris In this the chiefe priests which came of the Machabees euen till Herods time inhabited where in a Cell made for that purpose the sacred stole of the chiefe priest was kept the gouernour of the Tower lighting a candle there euery day Herod the greater hauing gotten the kingdome and seeing that this castle was conueniently scituat to command the Cittisens that they might not seeke innouation through sedition repaired the same to his greate cost and fortified it within with a roiall pallace euen like a cittie and with fower loftie towers at each corner whereof three were fiftye cubits hie and the fourth threescore and ten from whence the whole temple might be seene and for the fauour which hee bare to Marcus Antonius his frend he called it ANTONIA In this castle the Romaine soldiors kepte alwaies watch with their soldiors hauing an eie and principall care least the people should worke any innouation in the Temple on the feast daies And so the Temple belonged to the cittie and the castle Antonia to the temple 30. THE COVRTE OF RECORDES which wee commonly call the courte of Chauncery or of the Roules that is to say a house wherein the act of the cittie and of the cittizens and also their publike records and the accoumpt of creditors were kepte the which the seditious burned the keepers thereof flying from thence to the end they might destroy all the euidence of the creditors and ioyne vnto them all the detters 31. THE CASTLE OF ANTIOCHVS EPIPHANIS both high and strong the which after the slaughter of many cittizens the spoile of the cittye and temple and the burning of most faire houses he builded vppon the mountaine Acra and fortified it with stronge walles and towers and placed a Garrison of Macidonian soldiers there mingling with them certaine of the most raschall fugitiue Iewes by whom the continual sacrifice was taken away by the space of three yeares and the citty it selfe vexed more then six and twentie yeares But after this Simon Machabaeus wan and destroied this castle 32. THE COMMON PRISON OF THE CITTIE wherein the Apostles being shut vppe by the rulers of the Iewes were in the night time brought forth by the angell Iosephus seemeth to cal this prison Betiso 33 THE CORNER PARLOVR belonging to the corner house where the publike suppers were kept 34. THE VAVLTED CAVE leading from the castle Antonia into the Temple which Herod the elder made setting a tower thereon that by the same hee might passe priuilie into the temple if so bee the people intended to make any insurrection against the K. the which remaineth as yet very wonderfull large insomuch that six hundred horses may verie conueniently be placed therein 35 THE COVRT In Hebrew called Gasith Which in the inner cittie was ioyned to an olde wal thereof Wherein were three score and tenne Senatours and ordinary Iudges which were called of the Iewes Sanhedrim in Greeke Synedrium that is to saye in English The counsell of the Elders and Seniors of the people These dealt in the affaires of the common wealth gaue Lawes and determined the doubtfull and weightie causes yea euen of other Citties also they ended strifes and controuersies and gaue the sentence of death generally they dealt in all capitall causes except onely in the difficulties and misteries of Gods Lawe and of the Iewes Religion the which the priestes onely determined In this consistorie the Apostles were examined whipped and forbidden to preach and yet went reioysing from the Councell because they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the name of Iesus Heere it was that Saint Stephen standing before the Councell and his countenance shining like an Aungell lifting vppe his eies sawe the Heauens open and the glorie of God and Iesus standing at the right hande of GOD from thence hee being cast with violence out of the Citty was stoned 36 THE HOVSE OF ANANIAS THE HIGH PRIEST which the seditious at y e length fiered 37. THE HOVSE OF SAINT ANNE the Grandame of Christ wherein she with Ioacim her husband abode when the feast was at Ierusalem where they both died Heere the blessed virgine Mary was conceiued as some coniecture and aboad there during the passion of Christ 38 THE HOVSE OF THE RICH GLVTTON which burneth in hel according to the Euangelicall storie In the which house that he dwelt it is reported by some antiquities a high wall whereof is shewed at this day to Christian trauellers 39. THE HOVSE OF MISSA whereof mencion is made in the fourth booke of Kings 40 THE HOVSE OF THE NATHINAEANS which carried wood and water into the Temple 41. THE HOVSE OF THE
PRINCE OF THE PHARISEIES in the which Christ touched the man sicke of the dropsie and healed him 42. THE HOVSE OF THE FORREST OF LYBANVS in length one hundred cubits in breadth fiftie and in heigth thirtie cubits the which Salomon builded most braue and glorious of polished marble of Cedar trees garnished with siluer and gold hauing a flat roofe with walkes and galleries according to the fashion of Palestine and within liuely counterfeits of sundry trees and plants most artificially made that the leaues thereof seemed in some sort to shake And neere vnto the same hee planted a groue and a greene arbor made of all manner of trees and watered with fountaines also hee made parkes and fishe pooles wherein it is like were all manner of wilde beastes birds and fishes This house was a storehouse of meate an armorie for weapons of warre a house wherein ointments paintings and sweete perfumes were laied vppe and preserued Beside these two hundred shields of golde for horssemen and three hundred large targets of golde for footemen which Salomon made were in this house by him laide vppe Al other vessels also of this house were of gold To this house the king and his peeres came when the weightie affaires of the Common wealth were ended and recreated their mindes with banquets with plaies and with pleasant walkes 43 THE HOVSE OF SIMON THE PHARISIE which is at this day to bee seene wherein Christ sitting at the Table forgaue vnto Mary Magdalen the sinfull woman bewailing her sinnes and washing his feet with her teares wiping them with her haire kissing them annointing him and much louing him many sinnes 44 THE HOVSE OF THE COMMON PEOPTE wherein they exercised themselues with dartinges other exercises of the arme and with feastes with plaies and walkes refreshed their mindes 45 THE GREAT MARKET which was in the midst of the cittie and neere adioyning to the Castle Antonia wherein Alexander the king of the Iewes and the chiefe priest crucified eight hundred Iewes killing also the Wiues 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 time they were banqueting in the castle Antonia For the which crueltie he was sirnamed Crucida In the same market place Herod the greater fought a great battell with the Parthians which went about to bring againe Antigonus into the kingdom Furthermore when the famine through the Romane siege was exceeding great in Ierusalem in such wife that it consumed whole families and replenished the toppes of houses with fainting women and children and the waies with the dead carcases of olde men in which extremitie they did eate leather their girdles their shooes hay and mothers their owne children then a man might haue seene lusty yoong men which afore time were most flourishing passe through this market place like shadowes of dead men And when those which remained aliue were not able to burie the dead by reason of theyr exceeding multitude and could not endure the stinke of the bodies vnburied they cast them ouer the wall into the vallies of the cittie The which when Titus sawe as hee went about the wals full of dead bodies much putrified he fetcht a great sigh and houlding vppe his handes to GOD protested that it was not his deed for the obstinate Iewes refused peace to them often times offered 46. THE MARKET OF WARES the which was in the vpper part of the lower cittie in the which fish and sundry other things were folde In this market S. Iames the greater the brother of Iohn suffered his martyrdome by the tyranny of Herod Agrippa 47. THE VPHOLSTERS MARKET wherein all maner of olde garments that had beene worne aforetime of others were to be sold 48. THE SCHOLE OF GENTILLITIE which Iesus the false high priest of the Iewes who after the manner of the Gentiles would be called Iason and other Iewes apostatas by the permission of Antiochus Epiphan set vp euen vnder his castle oueragainst the temple wherein the people were taught the lawes and fashions of the Gentils the youth instructed in the studies and disputations of the Greeke philosophers Where they being naked and annoynted with oile exercised themselues in feates of actiuity in martiall actions and in enterludes Furthermore in the same place the sayde Apostatas set vp EBHEBIAM that is to say a Stewes of faire young boyes wherein they committed most filthie thinges against nature By reason thereof many fell from the lawe of God to the manners and abhominations of the Gentiles being as it were sould to commit monstrous wickednes insomuch that some of the priests forsaking the temple and worship of God gaue themselues to the exercise of feats of actiuity here hence also there sprang vp among the Iewes diuers sects namely the Pharisies the Saduceis the Esseies c. 49 THE HOVSES OF THE PRIESTES and of the Leuites whose houses were shut vp by the outward parte of the wall but from the former parte they had a prospect toward the temple 50 THE HABITATION OF THE TARGET BEARERS was builded before the west gate of the temple where first the Iewes then the Romaine soldiors vpon the solemne feast days had the stations for the guarde of the temple 51 THE LYSTES OR TYLT which was placed oueragainst the South parte of the Temple wherein horsses by running agillitie and swiftnesse were exercised And the wrastlers and champions did contend before the people who should rnnne swiftest on foot with chariots diuersly drawne who shoulde breake most speares and in other masteries and feares of valiencie Where Herod the kinge for the honour of Augustus Caesar ordeined the game and prise of fiue yeares continuance appointing vnto the victors greate rewards the same Herod when he should die called all the more noble sorte of the Iewes of al places within his dominion by an Edict threatning death to such as should not obey and caused them to be shut vp in the Lystes to the ende that after his death they all being there slaine euery house might haue cause to waile euen in despight of all Iudaea 52. THE MOVNTAINE MORIA the which in another place is called the lande of vision and the mountaine of the temple and the mountaine of the daughter of Sion lying neere vnto the easte wall of the cittie being very high stoany and very steepe rounde about In this mountaine Abraham being ready to offer vp his sonne Isaac in steede of him offered vp a Ramme which was taken by the hornes in a thicket This was the very same mountaine which Dauid bought of Streuna or Ornan the Iebusite for six hundred sicles of goulde and erecting an alter in his threshing flower he offered a burnt offering vnto the Lorde which the fire from heauen consumed Afterward in the same mountaine Salomon builded vnto
place of y e ould wall and made alofte in forme of a ball was of woonderful height and exceding strong Which Herod builded after the fashion of the tower Pharus in Alexandria And in the honor of his brother Phaselus called it Phaselus who being taken prisoner by the Parthians and hauing no libertie to vse 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 Ierusalem reade vnder the nomber of 1. going before 143. HERODS PARKE which had in it an orchard a garden watered with ponds riuers fountaines replenished with sundry wild beastes fishes and fouls hauing many large walkes round about the same many towers of tame doues 144 THE HOSPITALL which Hircanus the highe priest founded with the mony which he got out of the sepulcher of Dauid wherin pilgrims poore men and such as were Impotent were sustained and kept 145. THE WRESTLING PLACE the which was placed in Herods Pallas It was large seruing in the winter time for wrestlers and for other exercises and pastimes wherewith men recreated themselues THE FOVRTH PARTE OF THE CITTIE 146. THE NEWE CITTIE called in Greeke Caenopolis the fourth parte of the cittie the which was seuered as the other parts of the cittie were with walles and many narrowe waies which went cros extending to the walles of the cittie Wherein dwelt woolle sellers Carpenters Smithes and other workemen and artificers THE PLACES OF THE NEW CITTIE 147 BEZETHA a mountaine the which hauing many houses built theron was inhabited by the common sorte of people 148 THE CASTEL OF THE ASSIRIANS nere vnto the which Titus pitched his tentes at such time as he had gotten the wall of the citty This castle stood more then an arrow shoote from the second wall 149. THE THIRD WALL the which also is called the outset wall which kinge Agrippa made vpon the common charge of the cittizens extending it more broad and highe then it was before This wall was very firme and strong fiue and twenty cubits high It had foure score and tenne square and loftie towers which were of greate force distant one from the other two hundred cubits whose building and bewty in stone worke was nothing inferior to that of the temple 150 THE BROADE STREETE the which also was caled the streete of the gate of Ephraim 151 THE KINGES CAVES vpon the which the third wall of the cittie was builded in length THE GATES AND TOWERS ABOVT THE CITTIE 152 CAPHETETA the Easte wall of the Cittye vppon the brooke Cedron which Ionathas Machabeus repaired 153 THE CORNER STONE which was moste harde being the firme foundation of mounte Sion This was a figure of Christ who is the stronge and stable foundation of his church 154 THE GATE OF THE CORNER so called because it was situate in the north-easte corner of the cittie next vnto the brooke Cedron The which also was called the gate of Beniamin bicause the way led through the same vnto the tribe of Beniamin By this gate wood was brought into the cittie out of the desert In this gate also Ieremy the prophet was apprehended whose ruines are nowe to bee seene a greate way out of the cittie 155 THE GOVLDEN GATE situate betwene the gate of the valley and the gate of the fountaine so called bicause it was gilden with goulde It was also called the Easte gate bicause it was builded on the easte side of the Temple And bicause it led by a very shorte way from the temple of mounte Oliuet it was rather a gate of the temple then of the cittie and therefore Neemias maketh no mention thereof By this gate Christe came riding vppon an asse into the cittie of Ierusalem at what time men cutte downe palmes and strowed them in his way crying Hosanna before him 156 THE GATE OF EPHRAIM which now of som is called Saint Stephens gate situate on the north part tending toward the way which leadeth vnto the tribe of Ephraim where vppon it was called the gate of Ephraim From this gate vnto the gate of the corner Ioas king of Israell beate downe the wall of Ierusalem by the space of foure hundred cubits and in triumphant manner hee being caried into the cittie in his chariot through that breach became Lorde of the cittye The which wall together with the towers thereof Ozia kinge of Iuda afterwarde restored againe 157. THE WATER GATE the which was situate betwene mount Sion and the mount Moria in the valley called Mello toward the east It was called the water gate bicause it opened a passage vnto the fountaine of the water of Siloe and bicause horses were caried through the same to be watred in the brooke Cedron And for this cause it was called the easte horse gate and it tended toward the valley Gehennom 158 THE GATE GENATH or the gate of kinge Herods Garden which was not farre from the second wall of the cittye By which water was brought vppe into the Tower Hippic By this gate the seditious priuily salyed out many times vppon the Romaines 159 THE GATE OF THE KINGES GARDEN which in mounte Sion was placed betwene two walles of the castle by which kinge Zedechias fled in the night 160 THe gate of the high priests pallace at the south side of the cittie 161 THE FISH GATE the which was situate nexte to the tower of Dauid in the valley Mello betweene mount Sion and the lower cittie towardes the weste and by the vault adioyning to the same it gaue a conuenient passage too and from the cittie to euery man And it was called the fish gate because through the same fishes were brought into the cittye from Ioppe and from other townes of the sea cost This also had other names as the gate of Dauid and the marchants gate Dauids gate bicause it was nexte to Dauids tower the merchants gate bicause by the same much marchandize were carried into the cittie from Bethelem Hebron Gaza from AEgipt and from AEthiopia By this gate strangers that came from the weste were wont to enter into the cittie 162. THE DOVNG GATE on the east side of the cittie toward the corner gate on the north-east caried all the doung and filth of the cittie which the raine gathered together into the brooke Cedron Where vpon it was rightly called the doung gate 163. THE GATES OF WOMENS TOWERS On the north end of the citty by which the seditious brake forth vppon the Romaines when they beseeged the cittie 164. THE VALLEY GATE so named bicause it made way into the valley of Iosephat situate in the midst betwene the doung gate and the goulden gate and not far distant from the sheepe market and
Absalom and accursed be all they for euer which vniustly do persecute their parents 226 THE RIVER OF THE VPPER FOVNTAINE situate on the South parte of mount Sion which Hieron calleth the Fullers fountaine the which the noble king Ezechias repaired with the conduct therof also This he choaked with earrh at what time the Assyrians beseeged Ierusalem 227 THE SEPVLCHER OF ZACHARIAS the son of Barachias whome the Iewes slue betweene the temple and the altar THE PLACES ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE CITTIE 228. BAALPARASIM is a field in the valley of Raphaim wherein Dauid the king at the first time ouerthrew the Philistians and buried their Gods which he found in their tents 229. HERODS TENTS which as Iosephus witnesseth he pitched on the weste part of the cittie 230. THE FOVNTAINE GIHON THE LOWER which sprange vp in the end of the fullers field the waters wherof Ezechias brought vnto the vpper ountaine 231. THE FOVNTAINE GIHON the higher springing from the mount Gihon which afterwards Ezechias stopped vp and cutting deeper into the rocke he brought the waters thereof vnto the west parte of the cittie of Dauid by conduct pipes vnder the earth by which he brought it through the middest of the cittie into the innermoste fountaine leaste when the cittye should be beseeged the people might want water 232. IVDAS who of an Apostle being become a traytor hoong himselfe vpon a wilde figge tree And being hanged brust asunder in the midst and all his bowels gushed out 233. THE MOVNT OF CALVARIE a rockie mountaine of meane hight called in the Hebrue tongue Golgatha which was nexte to the Northwest parte of the cittie In the which place offenders condemned in open iudgement were put to death Where at all times a man might see the boanes and bowels of men hanged or otherwise put to death Here Christe Iesus our sauiour which knew no sin becam as the Apostle sayth sinne for vs that is to say was made a sacrifice for our sinnes and as if he had beene an euill dooer was hanged between two theeues and for our saluatiō crucified So that now mounte Caluary which aforetime was a place moste infamous by the passion and bloud of Christ is now made famous and honorable 234. MOVNT GIHON a mountain full of stones high and long which running along by the West part of the Cytty growing lesse and lesse towards the gate of iudgement is seuered from the Citty by a deepe valley In this mountaine at the commaundement of Dauid Salomon was annointed king by Sadoc the chiefe priest and by Nathan the prophet with the holie oyle To whom immediatly all the people cryed God saue king Salomon 235 THE MONVMENT of Anani the chiefe priest of which Iosephus maketh mention in his sixt booke and thirteenth chapter of the Iewes warre 236 THE PEARE TREES of the valley Raphaim the which Iosephus calleth the wood of weeping neere vnto the which Dauid assisted by God from Heauen gaue a second ouerthrow to the Philistines pursuing them a great way 237 THE SEPVLCHER OF CHRIST was a newe Monument eight foot long distant from Mount Caluarie one hundred and eight foot and from moūt Sion about a mile which Ioseph of Arimathea a noble Senator had hewen out in the rocke for himselfe in the Garden neere vnto mount Caluarie In the which Sepulcher he togither with Nichodemus and the virgine Mary with other godly women buried the body of Iesus being with the consent of Pilate taken from the crosse and then trimmed with mirre and Aloes and wrapt in a fine linnen cloath was put honorablely into the same the head layed toward the west And rolling a stone of exceeding waight to the mouth of the monument he went his way But in the meane time the chiefe priestes and Pharisies going about to hinder the resurrection of Christ takinge vnto them a strong garde of soldiors watched the sepulcher and sealed the stone which shut vp the mouth of the sepulcher least the keepers and watchmen being corrupted with money shoulde deale deceiptfully But this dilligence of the Iewes by which they went about to houlde Christ in the graue from rising againe increased the miracle and confirmed the faith of the Resurrection And there hee firste of all appered to Mary Magdalen at the monument as shee was weeping in the likenesse of a Gardener 238. A WOOD neere vnto the cittie as is to be gathered by Iosephus in his sixt booke and fourtene chapter of the Iewes warre 239 THE BROOKE OR RIVER GIHON at the south-west corner of the cittie which king Achas had begun to bringe from the lower fountaine Gihon into the vpper fountaine the which kinge Ezechias at the last finished 240 THE VALLE OF DEAD CARCASSES which lay betweene mount Caluarie and the walles of Ierusalem so called bicause the dead carcasses bones ashes of such as were put to death or burnt on mount Caluarie were cast thereinto 241 THE VALLEY OF THE FOVNTAINE GIHON whereof mencion is made in the booke of the Cronicles and in Iosephus 242. THE VALLEY Raphaim that is to say of Gyants It a is valley on the west side of the cittie very large great which beginneth at the north part and extendeth vnto the South bringing foorth most plentifully in time past excellent wheate wine oyle and al other fruites In this valley Dauid by the helpe of God twise ouercame the Phillistines which sought to inuade him with a great armie 243. THE WAIES TO BETHLEHEM Emaus to Gaza and to Ioppa which Salomon made with flint and stoane euen as he did other waies which led to Ierusalem both to make the passage more easie and also to shew foorth the magnificence of his kingdome in this point 244. THE WAIE TO SILOE and to Gabaon whereof Brocardus in his sixt booke of his traueile maketh mention 245. HERE CHRIST fell againe as according to the tradition of the fathers of old 246. HERE IESVS tourning himselfe about to the women that mourned and wept sayde ye daughters of Ierusalem weep not for me but weep for your selues and for your children bicause the day shall come c. 247. HERE CHRIST FELL DOWNE the third time vnder his crosse as the fathers of old time haue affirmed 248 HERE CHRIST WAS STRIPT OVT OF HIS GARMENTS whose body being all to torne with whips could not but be very soare wherunto his bloudy garments cleauing gaue newe occasion of paine when they were violently pulled off And standing there naked al the while that the cros was a preparing in the could wind he sate down at the length vpon a stone where he dranke wine mixt with gaule mirh 249 HERE CHRIST BEING LAYED ON HIS BACK ON THE CROSSE
so his will was to shed all his bloude euen to the very laste droppe of his moste pretious heart and to open the fountaine for the washing away of our sinnes the which we may vse to our endlesse comforte Therfore one of the soldiors perceauing and opening his side and hearte presently there issued foorth bloude and water as from a moste liuely springe to the sanctifying and saluation of his Church In the meane season all thinges gaue testimonie to their Lorde and makers death The vaile of the Temple rente asunder in two partes the earth was shaken and quaked the graues opened the deade bodies of men arose againe and the stoanie rockes to the shame and reproach of the Iewes for the hardnes of their hartes claue a sunder burst in peeces 251 HERE the blessed virgin Marie accompanied with Iohn with Marie Magdalen with other women stoode with a firme mind and constant faith where according to the prophesie of Simeon the sworde of sorrow pearsed her soule 252 HERE the soldiors which crucified Christ parted his garments among them and cast lotts for his seameles coate who should haue it that the saying of the prophet might be fulfilled They parted my garments among them and for my Vesture they did cast lottes 253. HERE the dead Corpes of Christ being taken down from the Crosse was deliuered to the blessed virgin Marie to be buried 254 HERE Christ meteth with the women which returned from his Sepulcher toward Ierusalem and saluteth them who imbracing and kissing his feete woorshiped him 255 HERE Christ in the forme of a straunger went with the two disciples toward Emaus and in the way as they wente together hee interpreted Moses and the Scriptures of all the prophets which he proued to bee fulfilled in him THE PLACES ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE CITTIE 256. THE tents of the Chaldaeans On this North part of the cittie Nabuchodonozer kinge of Babilon and the Chaldaeans scaled the wals of Ierusalem and wan it 257 THE TENTS of the Romaines the which were pitched betweene the Womans towers and the tower PSEPHINA On this parte although inclosed and fortified with a triple wall Titus and the Romains assayled Ierusalem For on this parte onely the citty was sauteable And albeit the other partes were compassed round about with one single wall onely yet the same being very strong and sette vppon stony and cragged rocks and hauing also deepe valleies or trenches Impassable were inexpugnable Therefore they began to scale the first wall which was the outermost and third wall of the cittie After that they tooke in hand the second wall And then the third wal of the cittie which wall 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 entered mount Sion of al the rest the most strong At what time also the Christians tooke this cittie in hand to win it they began their enterprise on this part anong whome Godfrey of Bullion was the first that entered the wal nere vnto the gate of Ephraim whose soldiors following the assalt like men opened immediately the sayde gate and so wan the cittie The which also the Saracens beseeging on the same parte wan from the Christians 258 THE HILL GAREE the which was neere to Ierusalem one the north 259 EREBINTH was a little village on the north 260. GARDENS AND FEARMES inclosed with wals and hedges where Titus taking a vew of the citty was in danger 261 THE SEPVLCHER of Helene Queene of the Adiabens who vittailed Ierusalem in the time of the famine with wheat the which she moste sumptuously builded with three pinacles about three furlongs distant from the cittie Wherin she was buried with her son Isates the which also was standing in the time of Eusebius and Hierom. 262 THE NORTH MOVNTAINE where Pompei pitched his tents 263 THE MONVMENT of Herod Agrippa who for his intollerable pride being striken by the angell of the Lord and consumed of wormes dyed 264. SAPHA in Greeke called Scopos that is to say A place of espiall situate towarde the north distante from the cittie about seuen furlongs It was so named bycause from thence both the citty and temple might be seene Here Iaddus the chiefe Priest and the rest of the priests in their priestly attire and al the people clad in white garments went foorth to meete Alexander the greate kinge of the Macedonians when hee came with his army to destroy Ierusalem Whome when Alexander saw by and by suppressing his fury in humble sort worshipped the name of God which shined in goulden letters in the Reasonable of the high priest and gaue reuerence to the high priest Then entering into the Cittie and Temple hee offered sacrifice to God and graunted greate priuiledges vnto the Iewes 265. THE FRVITEFVLL WOOD which Titus caused to be cut downe 266 THE LAKE OF SERPENTS which in ould time was called Bethara 267. THE WAY by which men went into Samaria and Galile 268. THE VILLAGE neere to Ierusalem whereof Neemia maketh mention THese Christian Reader are the most notable and famous places of the Citty and Temple of Ierusalem By the placing whereof the scituation of the rest may easily be knowne Therefore if wee haue made a true description let the praise be giuen to God the giuer of all good gifts But if otherwise there bee any defect impute that to my want of skill and not to my ill will who for that I was not able to giue towards the furnishing of the Temple golde siluer or pretious stones haue notwithstanding offered a little oyle to lighten the Church trusting that the same will be acceptable both to Christ who allowed the twoe mites which the poore Widdow offered also to those that be good Christians whom it becommeth well to be like vnto their hed CHRIST FINIS The names of the Authors out of whose workes and trauels this Description of Ierusalem is taken and made THE HOLIE BIBLE of the old and new Testament FLau Iosephus a priest of the Iewes who flourishing in the 70. yeare of Christ exactly described the scituation the forme and the besieging of the Citty of Ierusalem EXemplars of the famous Doctor of the church S. Hierom as well printed as written Who liued in the yeare of Christ 380. IAmes of Vitriac who trauelled into the Holy lande and and returning was made Bishop of Acon who wrote a Booke concerning the Holy land and the wonders which he saw there He florished in the yeare of our Lord. 1231. IAmes pantaleon a Frenchman Patriarch of Ierusalem his booke concerning the Holy land Who was famous in the yeare of Christ 1247. THe exact Description of Ierusalem and of the places of the holy land made by Brocardus a Moonke published at Basil by Heruage and at
old 62 Fountaine in the temple 82 Fountaine 128 221 Fountaine dragon 184 Fountaine of Silo 199 Fountaine Gihon the lower 230 Fountaine Gihon the higher 231 Frutefull wood 265 Fullers field 115 Figge tree withered 183 G The Garden belonging to the king 15 and 188 Gardens inclosed 260 Garden on mount Oliuet 187 Garments of Christ parted by lot 252 Gates of Sion 20 Gate called the vpper gate 21 Gate of Warders 64 Gate called the horsse gate 65 Gate belonging to the Essenes 66 Gate the first 67 Gate called the new gate 93 Gate called the middle gate 137 Gate called holy gate 94 North Gate 104 Gate South 105 Gate in the West 106 Gate of the corner 154 Goulden Gate 155 Gate of Ephraim 156 Gate called the water gate 157 Gate Genath 158 Gate of the kings garden 159 Gate of the high priests pallace 160 Gate called the fish gate 161 Gate called the dung gate 162 Gate of womens towers 163 Gate called the Valley gate 164 Gate called the old gate 165 Groue of Moloch 189 H The House of Annas 8 House of the Worthies 9 House of the Virgin Mary 10 House of Vria 11 House of Ananias 36 House of S. Anne 37 House of the rich glutton 38 House of Mesa 39 Houses of the Nathinaeans 40 House of the prince of Phariseis 41 House of the forrest of Lybanus 42 House of Simon the pharisei 43 House of the common people 44 Houses of the priests 49 Houses of the target bearers 50 House of counsel 90 House of Mary the mother of Iohn 126 House of Olda the prophetesse 127 House of Elias 219 Hill Garee 258 Hole where the crosse stood 250 Hill which is little 182 Herods parke 143 Hospital 144 Holy place 79 Holy of holyest 75 I The ILe of the Iewes 86 Ile of the Gentiles 100 Isaias martyred 223 Iudas hanged on a tree 232 L The Lystes or tyltyard 51 Lauer of brasse 89 Lofts of the singers 97 Lake 131 Lake Amigdalon 125 Lake of Serpents 266 M The MArketplace 12 45 46 47 69 129 Mary and Iohn beholde Christ as he passeth by with his cros 122 Mello 16 Moloch his Groue 189 Mount Sion 3 Mount Moria 52 Mountaine Bezetha 147 Mount of offence 190 192 Mount oliuet 191 Mountaine Eroge 220 Mount of Caluary 233 Mount Gihon 234 Mountaine in the north part 262 Monument of Alexander 133 Monument of Iohn 134 Monument of the Fuller 193 Monument of Absolom 225 Monument of Anani 235 Monument of Herod 263 N The NOrth mountayne 262 North gate 104 New Citty 146 O The Ophel 54 Oliuet 191 P PArlour of Sion 6 Parlour in the corner 33 Pallace of Caiphas 17 Pallace of the Machabees 55 Pallace of Pilate 56 Pallace of the Queene 57 Pallace of Solomon 58 Pallace of Queene Bernice 70 Pallace of Grapte 71 Pallace of Helen 72 Pallace of Herod 136 Pallace of Monobaz 73 Passage of the temple from Salomōs pallace 113 Palme trees 194 Peare trees 236 Place of zacharias death being slain 98 Place where the Iewes woulde haue stoned Christ 99 Place where the woman taken in adultery was absolued 109 Places of Christs fall 121 Place where the three Apostles sate while Christ prayed 208 Place where the 8. Apost tarried 209 Place where Iudas betrayed Christ with a kisse 210 Place where Christ preached of the destruction of Hierusalem 211 Place where Mary with others stood at Christ his death 251 Porch of pillars 68 Porch of the temple 95 Prison called the kings prison 4 Prison common belonging to the citty 32 Poole called Probatica 61 Priest called the high priest 84 Propitiatory or mercy seat 78 R The REchabites habitation 130 Rock of the West Wall 166 Riuer of the vpper fountaine 226 S The SApha 264 Sion 3.26 27 Sepulcher of Dauid 22 Sepulcher of Stephen 23 Sepulcher of Christ 237 Sepulcher of Helen 261 Sepulcher of the virgin Mary 197 Of zacharias 227 Stayres of the castell 13 Stayres of Sion 14 Schoole of Gentility 48 Sea of brasse 92 Seate appertayning to the king 96 Singers seats aloft 97 Solomons throne 112 Simō of Cyren beareth the cros 132 Second citty 124 Stephen stoned 200 T The TAbernacle of Sion 24 Temple of the Lord 74 Table of Gold 83 Tents of the Assyrians 218 Tents of Herod 229 Tents of the Chaldeans 256 Tents of the Romanes 257 Theater 111 Throne of Salomon 112 Tribunal seat 114 Towers of the trumpetters 108 Tower Strato 115 Tovver in the middle 132 Tovver Hippic 140 Tovver Mariamme 141 Tovver Phaselus 142 Tovver Ananael 167 Tovver in the corner 168 Tovver of Dauid 169 Tovver called the high tower 170 Tovver called the Lanterne 171 Tovver called the great tower 172 Tovver Meah 173 Tower Psephina 174 Tovver of Siloe 175 Treasory 102 V The VAlley called the deep valley 176 Valley of Iosaphat 202 Valley of Siloe 203 Valley of dead carcases 240 Valley of the riuer Gihon 241 Valley of Cedron 116 Valley of Raphaim 242 Vaulted caue 34 Vaile of the temple rent 85 Village nere to Ierusalem 268 Vria his house 11 W The Wine presse belonging to the K 25 Wals first 53 second 135 the thirde 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 captiuity 205 Way to Anathot 206 Way to Iericho 207 Way to Siloe 244 and to Bethlehem 243 Way to Samaria and Galile 267 Well 181 Whipping of the buyers and sellers 110 A Wood 138 Z Zacharias place where he was slayne betweene the temple the Altar 98. Hier. to 1. Epist 28. ad Lucinium Cant. 3. Lament of Ieremy 3. Exod. 25. Heb. 8. Ambrose in Luc. ca. 23. Iohn 19. Luk. 23 Hier. to 1. Epist 13. ad Paulinum Mar. 15. Chrisost in Mat. ca. 27. Heb. 6. 10. Exod. 15. August in lib de virgi nitate The originall places frō whēce this commentary is taken and where more is to be red Psalme 47. and 86. Math. 4. 5. Psalm 73. Ezech. 5. Ioseph lib. 3 de bello Iudaico cap 2. Deu. 16. 17 Psal 47. Tren 2. Gen. 14. Ios l. 7 an Iud. cap. 7. l. 7. Bell. Iud. ca. 18. Gen. 10. Iosua 10. 15. 18. Iudg. 1 19. 2. kings 5. 1. Cron. 11. Ios l. 7. an cap. 3. Hier. to 3. de loc Heb. lit 1. Eus Euāg praep li. 9. 3. Reg 3. 5. 6. 9 10. 7. Iosep lib. 8. Ant. cap 2 5. Ios con Api on lib 1. Strabo geograph li. 16. 4 Reg 16. 21. 24. 25. 2. Cron 28. 33. 36. Mich. 3. Ierem 25. 26. 29. Hier. tom 3 trad Heb. in 2 par 15 1. Edr. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Neem 1. 2. 3 4 5 6 7. 1 Mach. 12. 13 14. Ios 6. be 6. Ios be 13. ce Psal 37. Isai 2. Mich. 4. Acts. 1. Mar. 16. Psal 18. Ios 6. bel 13 and 7. be 14. 17. and 18. Luk. 19 Eu. in Cronic et hist Eccle. lib. 4. cap. 6.
the Lorde a moste excellent Temple both for largenesse and bewtie whereof mention shalbe made hereafter 53. THE FIRST WALL the which was called the olde wall both in regard of the valleis and a hill which was alofte aboue them and also in regarde of threescore towers whereinto it was deuided the which made it very defensible and strong 54. OPHEL which Iosephus calleth Ophlam was a tower of an exceeding height whose top seemed to rech vnto the cloudes it was fortified with a castle and compassed about with a firme wal neere vnto the Temple notwithstanding it was without the wall which shut off the habitation of the priests Herein dwelte the Nathenims Into this Manahemus the tyrant flying was taken and slaine This same was at the last burned by the soldiors of Titus 55. THE PALLACE OF THE MACHABEES builded by them on a very loftie place on the weste side of the Temple from whence they which would behoulde the cittye and those things which were don therein had a most pleasant and delectable prospect The which kinge Agrippa afterward excedingly enlarged and made it a Courte for himselfe from whence out of his parlour hee might behold whatsoeuer was donne in the temple For the which cause the rulers of the Iewes builded a very high gate betwene that and the weste part of the inner Temple to hinder the kings prospect This thing both kinge Agrippa and Festus also the Lieutenant of the country tooke in very euill parte who also commanded them to pull downe the sayde gate But the rulers intreated that they might haue leaue to send ambassadors to Nero the emperour concerning this matter saying that they could not liue if any thinge were casted downe of the buildings of the temple The which liberty when they had obtained they sent Ismaell the cheefe priest and Helchia the treasurer and with them ten of their chiefe rulers And Nero at the earnest sute of Poppea his wife a godly woman which shee made for the Iewes pardoned the building of the saide gate and permitted the same so to stand 56. THE PALLACE OF PILATE and of the Lieutenants of Rome adioyning to the Gallerie which lieth on the North side of the castle Antonia which pallace was much more large loftie and fayrer then all the buildinges of the cittye and had an ascend or mounting of twenty and eight steps of Marble Here when Christe was falsely accused and required to bee crucified by the princes and people of the Iewes for that as they sayde hee peruerted the people forbad tribute to be giuen to Caesar sayde that he was Christ a King and therfore approued him selfe a seditious person Pilate condemned him to be whipped vnder the forme of this sentence which was found in a most ancient chronicle as followeth Iesum Nazarenum virum sediciosum et Mosaicae legis contemptorem per pontifices et principes suae gentis accusatum expoliate ligate et virgis caedite That is to saye Take ye Iesus of Nazareth accused by the chiefe priestes and rulers of his owne Nation to bee a man sedicious and a contemner of Moses Lawe strip him binde him and whyp him Whereupon the soldiors of Pilate led him into the Iudgement haule stript him before the whole band of soldiors and other people tied him to a piller beate him most cruelly with roddes 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 sharpe thornes deliuered into his right hand a reede and in scorne saluted him as a kinge bending the knee before him many waies mocked him they did spit on him they did buffet him and strike him vpon the wounded heade with a reede 57 THE QVEENES PALLACE which Salomon most royally builded of precious and polished stones for the habitation of his wife which was Pharaos daughter 58 SALOMONS PALLACE exceeding greate and fayre the which hee builded in thirtene yeares magnificently and moste sumptuously on the south parte of the mount Moria of bright marble and cedar trees supported with many pillers for his owne habitation this he wonderfully garnished with gold and siluer round about and made all the vessels thereof of gold In the same place afterward the Christian kings of Ierusalem had their pallace where first began the order of the Templers 59 THE CASTLE PISAN compassed about with deep trenches towers the which was builded on the west part of the cittie by the Christian inhabitants of a towne in Italie belonging to the Pisans at what time they had the dominion of the holy lande Where first the Pisans after them the Saracens and now the Turkes do exact of the pilgrims of the holy land sacrilegious tribute 60 THE INNER FOVNTAINE which king Ezechias made in the midst of the cittie at the North side of the temple For he brought into the cittie the waters of this fountaine from the higher fountaine of Gition by conduct pipes which were vnder the earth and made them to issue forth in this fountaine This fountaine he compassed about with a wel to water the whole cittie that the people in time of siege might not be distressed with the want of water 61 THE POOLE PROBATICA that is to say y e sheep poole wherein the sheepe and other beastes were washed that were appointed for sacrifice In Hebrue it is called Bethesda and corruptly Bethsaida that is to say the house of effusion because the raine waters ran into the same It was situate betwene the gate of the valley and the temple It was the largest and most principall poole or water of the whole cittie hauing fiue porches which king Salomon made for the seruice of the Temple And this Iosephus calleth Salomons lake or Poole For in this poole the Nathenims washed the oblations which they deliuered vnto the priests to be offered in the Temple The Water heereof was moued at certeine times by the Aungell of the Lord and who so after the stirring therof went first into the water he was healed whatsoeuer disease he had And therefore there lay a great multitude of languishing people in the porches thereof as blinde lame withered waiting for the mouing of the water Among which number Christ healed a man which had languished thirty and eight yeares 62 THE OLD FOVNTAINE together with a Riuer which issuing out of the same runneth through the whole Cittie into the brooke Cedron 63 THE BRIDGE and portch with gates by which men went from the gallerie and from the Castle Antonia ouer the valley of Cedron into the Temple the which at the first the fauorites of Aristobolus against Pompei and afterward the seditious against Florus cut off least by the meanes of the Castle Antonia the Temple should be gotten 64 THE WARDERS GATE so called because certeine of the kings guard warded there
the poole called Probatica The which also for this cause deserued to be called the droue gate bicause the flockes of cattell which were soulde in the sheepe market and were to bee offered for sacrifice in the temple were brought in by this gate But now it is called Saint Stephens gate of the first martyr Stephen which was stoned to death not far from the same 165. THE OLDE GATE which being on the west part of the cittie was called in time past by the Iebusites the gate Iebus It was also called the iudgement gate bicause in olde time the Iudges did sit there in Iudgement For then the Seniors did exercise iustice and Iudgement in the gates of their citties And such as were condemned to die went out at this gate Where vpon Christ was led out of the same to bee crucified Of this gate there are at this day some oulde remainders and ruines to be seene 166 THE ROCKE which was very high going alonge from the tower Psephina vnto mounte Sion vpon the which the whole west wall of the cittie stood 167 THE TOWER ANANEEL the which being not far distant from the corner gate towards the easte and by north was very stronge and notable whereof the holy scripture maketh mention often times 168 THE CORNER TOWER standing alofte vppon the corner gate which kinge Ozias did strongly repaier and made it one hundred and fifty cubites high 169 THE TOWER OF DAVID stronge and loftie the which was builded by king Dauid in a corner of two deepe valleys on the toppe of a broken rocke with foure square stones moste firmely ioyned together with Iron and leade whose singular fortitude and notable bewty for the commendation of Christs spouse which is the Church is spoken of by Salomon when he saith Thy neck is like the tower of Dauid builded with bulwarkes where vppon there hang a thousand shields yea all the weapons of the Giants 170 THE HIGH TOWER which was builded vppon the gate of the valley The which also kinge Ozias repaired and that it might be seene beyonde mounte Oliuet hee made it one hundred and fiftye cubites high 171 THE LANTERN TOWER situate on the North end of the cittie which men thinke was so called bicause fier was continually kepte there to serue as a marke both for land and seafaring men to direct them the right way 172. THE GREAT TOWER which standing neere the wall of the temple was higher then the rest 173. THE TOWER MEAH otherwise Emat that is to say of one hundred cubits which was not farre from the temple 174. THE TOWER PSEPHINA which was eighte square of seuenty cubits highe founded at the North-weste corner of the cittie vppon a very high rocke being like a stronge tower which by reason of the exceding hight thereof was feareful from whence on a cleere day men might behould Arabia the sea and the vttermoste borders of the Hebrues The ruines whereof are as yet to be seene 175 THE TOWER OF SILOE which falling in Christs time slue eighteen men 176 THE DEEP VALLEY which compassing mount Sion on the North and south parte went all along the weste side of the cittie euen to the gate of Ephraim making a fitte and conuenient ditch for the Cittie THE PLACES WITHOVT THE CITTIE THE PLACES AT THE EAST PART OF THE CITTIE 177. THE WATER which was brought out of the temple by conduit pipes vnder the earth issued foorth here with greate noise and so ranne into the brooke Cedron 178. BETHANIA the noble castle of Marry and of Martha the sisters of Lazarus hauing many houses the which was situat beyond mount Oliuet distant from Ierusalem fifteene furlongs that is two Italian miles From which place though it were but a little way off yet by reason that mount Oliuet lay betwene the cittie Ierusalem could not be seene excepte from a little hill from whence part of mount Sion might be seene Christe often times lodged in this house of Martha where he preached the worde of God to Mary sitting at his feete Here he raifed vp Lazarus to life after he had beene buried foure daies and began to stincke Here hee sitting in the house of Simon the leaper at the table together with Lazarus Martha seruing thē Mary annointed him with a most pretious ointment 179. BETHPHAGE a little village belonging to y e priests situate at the east foote at the mounte Oliuet from whence Christ sente two of his disciples vnto the Castle Opposite or ouer againste them to fetch the Asse and the Coulte The which brought and the disciples cloathes laide on the Coulte hee roade on the same into Ierusalem But comming down from mount Oliuet and seeing the cittie he wept on her and prophesied hir vtter ruine bicause she knew not the day of hir visitation 180 THE CASTLE OPPOSITE or which lyeth ouer against you to vse the wordes of Christ when he sent his disciples to fetch him the Asse It was a village right ouer against Bethphage 181 THE WELL nere vnto Bethanie where when the Lorde came to raise vp Lazarus Martha first met with him and afterward called forth hir sister Mary 182 THE LITTLE HILL at the foote of mounte Oliuet neere vnto the Doue-house a little aboue the valley of Siloe 183. THE WITHERED FIG-TREE planted beside the way of Bethanie the which bearing no fruite but garnished only with leaues was curssed of Christ and so presently withered 184 THE DRAGON FOVNTAINE which doth springe euen at this daye which was betwene the valley and the dung gate 185. GEHENNOM the which also was called Benhennom that is to say the valley of the sons of Ennom It was a place which was situate in the Suburbes of the cittie of Ierusalem towarde the South-easte In which place of Benhinnom was the tabernacle and the Idole Moloch the which Idole as it was chiefe and principall amonge all the other Idols so the same being the greatest abhomination and moste hated vnto God hee often times forbad the same in the scriptures It was an Idoll the matter whereof was brasse made in the likenesse and similitude of a king it was hollow within and had a head like to the head of a Calfe the other partes or members of the body hauing the shape and fashion of a man the armes whereof were stretched out whereto the children that shoulde bee offered were made faste with the vehement and extreame heate of the Idoll were burned and vtterly consumed being so houlden as it were of the same betweene his armes For when the Idoll was made red whot with the fier which they had put into the hollownesse of the same then the moste wicked parents of these children in moste cruell and barbarous manner deliuered vppe their sonnes and their daughters to these detestable and
diuelish Imbracings of the Idoll that so they mighte bee burnte And this they did of a certaine deuelish deuotion offeringe them vppe to the Diuell Moloch for a burnt offering of moste filthie sauour Amiddest these horrible tormentes where with they were thus tormented the miserable Clamor of the children could in no wise bee heard whereby the parentes mighte in any sorte bee moued to pittie or compassion for that the priestes of this Idole Moloch during the whole time of the sacrifice did vsually make an exceeding greate noise both with the trumpettes and drums Wherevppon that place was called also Tophet In this abhominable manner Achaz and Manasses also kinges of Iuda beeing euen as madde as the Common people offered vppe their sonnes to the Diuell Moloch The which detestable madnesse the godly kinge Iosias seeking at the length to redresse brake in peeces the image of Moloch cut downe his Groues and defiled the place thereof with the filthinesse of dead Carcasses of bones and of other vncleane thinges and appointed it to bee a perpetuall dunghil for euer In this Valleye Ieremye at the commandement of GOD breaking an earthen potte in peeces against the grounde before the Elders of Iuda prophesied that GOD woulde after the selfesame manner break and destroye both the Cittye and the people According to which prophesie there was so great and mightie a multitude of people slaine there because they had filled this place with the bloud of Innocent children that this place was called no more the valley of Tophet but Poliandron that is to saye a heape of manye dead bodies whose Carcases lyeng there vnburied became meat for the birdes of the ayre and for the beastes of the field 186. GETHSEMANI a ferme place at the foote of mount Oliuet This had manie fruitfull oliue trees When Christ intended to go vnto the garden that was in mount Oliuet he came from his last supper into this place heauie and sorrowfull vnto the death 187 THE GARDEN OF OLIVET in the mount of Oliuet where Christ praied vnto his father three times that the cuppe of his passion might passe from him And being in an agony as he continued in praier he swet bloud which fel droppe by dropp vnto the earth at what time hee was comforted by an angell from heaueu In Hieroms time there was a Church builded on this place which is as yet to be seene 188 THE KINGS GARDEN the which also was called the inclosed garden It was in the Suburbes of Ierusalem walled round about And like to a parradise it was planted with trees of all sorts of fruits with hearbes with flowers of most sweet sauour and what soeuer els that might delight the sences It had also most pleasant and conuenient walkes In this was that famous fountaine Rogel the stone Zoeleth of both which there is often mencion made in the Scripture where Adonias when he purposed to raigne offered oblations and with his followers made a feast 189. THE GROAVE OF MOLOCH consecrated to the Idol Moloch where the worshippers thereof after they had ended their sacrifice committed fornication vnder the shadow of the trees 190 THE MOVNT OF OFFENCE it was a very high mountaine situate on the south side of the kinges garden Where the moste wise Salomon being nowe old was seduced made folish by his strange wiues building a temple to Melchom the Idoll of the Ammonites which also he worshipped 191 THE MOVNT OLIVET or mounte of Oliues so called by reason of the great plenty of oliues which grew there called also in Greeke Elaeon which otherwise also is named the famous and holy mountaine It was situate on the east side of Ierusalem It was seperated from the high cittie the valley of Cedron lying betwen distant from the cittie a Saboth daies iorney according to the Scripture but according to Iosephus it was distant fiue furlonges who also addeth that the top of the hill was six furlongs from the citty For it was of so greate hight that from the same not only almost all the streetes of Ierusalem but also the dead sea might easily be seene And besides the oliues it abounded with palmes pines mirtells and other fruitful trees In the toppe of this hill the holy king Dauid fleeing from the face of his sonne Absolom weping and bare-footed worshipped God In this mountaine also his sonne Salomon forgetting all godlinesse erected a temple to Astaroth the Idole of the Sidonians right ouer against the temple of Ierusalem from whence euery one that committed Idolatry mighte beeseene The which also with all other places dedicated to Idols Iosias vtterly destroied Christ often times came vp into this mountaine both for quietnesse sake and also to pray tarieng there all the night Also from the top of this mount he ascended into heauen in the presence of his disciples standing there and behoulding him after he had blessed them 192. THE MOVNT OF OFFENCE a high mountain on the other side of the brooke Cedron and on the North side of the mounte Oliuet distant from Ierusalem foure furlonges Whereon Salomon by the motion of his heathenish wiues builded a Temple to Chamosh the Idole of the Moabites This also Iosias brake downe In the time of the Machabees a Castle was builded on this mount some tokens whereof are to be seene at this day 193 THE FVLLERS MONVMENTE the which was not farre from the Corner gate in the North-easte 194. THE PALME TREESE wherof mention is made in Neemias and in Saint Iohns Gospell 195 THE DOVE-HOVSE on the South ende of the mount Oliuet It was made of stone round loftie and fashioned like a tower wherin were store of doues to the number of foure or fiue thousand 196. THE BRIDGE OF CEDRON made of stone with one arche erected ouer the brooke Cedron which Helena the Emperes caused to be made in that place 197. THE SEPVLCHER OF THE VIRGIN MARY which was in the valley of Iosaphat neere vnto the ferme place of Gethseman at the foot of mount Oliuet wherein the body of the most holy and blessed virgin was decently buried by the Apostles 198. THE COMMON PLACE OF BVRIALL which was in the velley of Iosaphat where the common sort of people were buried 199. THE FOVNTAINE OF SILOE whereto was ioyned the poole of Siloe the which also is called the lower poole lyeng on the weste side of the valley of Iosophat and springing from the roote of mounte Sion The water thereof being cleere sweete and plentifull ran with a still and calme streame into the brooke Cedron This fountaine kinge Hezechias repaired In the poole of this fountain the man which was borne blind washing his eies which Christe had annointed with clay and his spittle receiued his sight
Iosephus testefieth that Siloe and all other waters which were without the cittie did so faile and vanish away before the comming of Titus Caesar that water was soulde hard by them And after his comming they did so abound to him and his hoast that they had water enough for them and for their cattell Concerning the vertue of this water the most dilligent Surueyour of this place Saligniacus writeth in this sort The water of this fountaine is of greate price at this day euen among the Saracens themselues For whereas naturally they be rammage and stinke like Goates they washing themselues and their children therein doe mittigate the euill sauour thereof The Turkes also make great accoumpte thereof for that they finde by experience that the vse thereof is good for the sight of their eies 200 STEPHEN the Deacon in the very flower of his youth was stoned to death praying to God for them that stoned him whose garments the young man Paule kept This man was the firste that triumphed with the palme of martirdome 201 THE BROOKE CEDRON is a riuer on the easte side of Ierusalem betweene the same and mounte Oliuet which being increased with diuers springs issuing from all partes out of the mountaine and pooles ran through the valley of Iosaphat and Gehennom with a siluer streame and so passed through the plaines of the wildernesse into the dead sea On the bankes of both side this riuer there grewe many frutefull trees the pleasant shew whereof together with the gardens neere adioyning which were watered with the cristall streames of Cedron greatly delighted the eies and mindes of such as walked by the same King Dauid passed ouer this riuer bare footed bare headed and with watery eies accompanied with his moste trusty frendes fleeing from the face of his sonne Absolom Christ also went ouer the same with his disciples when hee wente to the garden of mount Oliuet 202 THE VALLEY OF IOSOPHAT the which also is called the valley of Cedron and the valley of Mountaines It is a wide and deepe valley betwene Ierusalem and mounte Oliuet compassing the cittie on the east parte the which is made very fruitfull by the passage of the brooke Cedron The greate deepenes of this valley was much filled by Titus and Adrian the Romaine Emperours casting into the same great store of earth with the ruines of the temple and cittie yet it was not therewith any thing neere leueled In this valley the godly and religious kinges of Iuda Asa Ezechias and Iosias burned the Idols of the temple and cast their ashes into the brooke Cedron This valley was the common place of buriall for the whole cittie where all the common sorte of people were buried For it was the manner of the Iewes to bury their dead courses out of the citty And in the same place the Turkes are now buried 203. THE VALLEY OF SILOE so named of the fountane of Siloe wherein the Iewes which at this day dwell at Ierusalem are buried 204 THE WAIE OF THE FVLLERS FIELDE lying betweene the water of Siloe and the South-easte corner of the cittie Here the Prophet Isaias foretoulde king Achaz that Christ should be borne of a virgin 205 THE WAY OF THE CAPTIVITIE These small prickes traced foorth in length as you see doe demonstrate the way by which Christe was ledde captiue for the redemption of mankinde For being come into the garden of mounte Oliuet to pray after his laste supper in the parlour of mounte Sion and hauing offered to GOD his Father the holye sacrifice of praiers returning from thence hee mette with his enimies which came to take him to whome hee yeelded himselfe Who hadde scarce gone fortie steppes from the place where hee prayed but the soldiors which were sente from the highe priestes and rulers of the people layed handes on him tooke him and bound him From whence he was presently caried as a meke Lambe by those rauening woolues armed with weapons ouer the brooke Cedron to the house of ANNA which was distante from the place where hee was taken two thousande three hundred and sixtie pases And from hence hee was caried to the Pallace of CAIPHAS three hundred and thirtie paces And so afterwarde hee was conducted by the souldiors and by the people to the pallace of Pilate which was distante from that of CAIPHAS a thousande pases And from thence to the pallace of HEROD which was distante three hundred and fiftie paces Lastly from thence againe to the pallace of Pilate hee was caried by another way then that which hee came the distance of sixe hundred elles which make about the length of halfe a myle and more The pases whereof wee speake here containe two foot and a halfe 206 THE WAY TO ANATHOT to Bethel and to the wildernesse 207 THE WAY TO IERICO and to ENGADDI of the which there is mention made in some of the Euangelists 208. HERE THE THREE APOSTLES Peter Iames and Iohn sate while Christe prayed in the Garden being aboute a stones caste from the selfe same place 209 HERE the other eight Apostles taried being distante about a quarter of a mile from the other three places 210. HERE CHRISTE to make vs free was betraied with a kisse by the Traitor Iudas and was bounde with hard and straight bands as if he had ben an euil doer by the Iewes whom he beate downe backward to the ground by the word of his mouth There Simon Peter moued sodainely with great feruencie stroke the seruant of the high Priest whose name was Malchus and cut off his right eare which christ immediately restored againe But the rest of the Apostles being afeard left the Lord and fled 211. IN this place of mount Oliuet right ouer against the temple neere to a certaine water Christ sate with his disciples making a longe sermon concerning the destruction of Ierusalem the afflictions of the godly to come the comming of false prophetes the signes of the ende of the world and concerning the manner of the last iudgement In the which place there was afterward builded a temple which is now desolate 212. THIS WAY Christ came to Ierusalem sitting vpon the Asses coult wayted on with a great company of men som going before and othersome following after him where vnto also a great number which came out of the cittie ioyned themselues So that he seemed to be receiued of all men with so greate fauour that many spraed their cloathes in the waye som cutting downe the bowes of palmes oliues and other trees to honour him there withal strowed them in the way And the voices of such as reioyced was heard in euery place as he went resounding with these cries Osanna in the highest blessed is he that commeth in the name of the Lord. With this