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A49971	Orbis miraculum, or, The temple of Solomon pourtrayed by Scripture-light wherein all its famous buildings, the pompous worship of the Jewes, with its attending rites and ceremonies, the several officers employed in that work, with their ample revenues, and the spiritual mysteries of the Gospel vailed under all, are treated at large.	Lee, Samuel, 1625-1691.	1659 (1659)	Wing L903C; ESTC R41591	488,038	394

the Feast of Tabernacles Our blessed Lord when brought forth into the light of this world according to his humane Nature did then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 make his Tabernacle with men And so for the other that Easter and Whitsontide did resemble the Passover and Pentecost But I shall not lay stress upon these things That which is somewhat more material for such as do sacredly observe these Festivals to consider is this That at this present day we have utterly lost the true time of the celebration of them and truly a great part of the devotion is thereby extinguisht For as to the usual and common solemnization of the Nativity of Christ though we should grant contrary to the sense of Mr. Mede and several learned Authors that our Lord was born on the 25 of December between 1600. and 1700 years ago yet it may be evident to all that will seriously weigh the Truth that we are now several dayes distant from the supposed time and point of his birth For if so be the motion of the Sun from one fixed point suppose the first degree of Aries through the Zodiack to the same point again be comprehended within this space of time viz. of 365 dayes 5 hours 49. minutes and 4 seconds and other odd scruples not worth naming in this Computation According to Bullialdus or as Longomontanus 365 d. 5 h. 48 min. 55 seconds Long. l. 1. Theor. c. 5. p. 2227. and other eminent Astronomers Then there will fall out 11 min. letting passe the 2 seconds to be reserved every year for a Calculation of certain hours yea and dayes at last wherein the Julian year will transcend the true state of the Sun's mensuration For they reserve every year 6 compleat hours to make a day for the Bissextile-year being every fourth in order which doth not precisely agree with the Sun For it exceeds by 4 times 11 minutes which every fourth year arises to 44′ Or to speak more precisely (a) Buliald Astronom Phololaic ed Par. 1645. l. 2. c. 3. p. 68. The Tropical year according to exact Computation is determined to consist of 365 dayes 5 hours 49′ 4″ 21‴ 3 ' ' ' ' which fals short of 6 houres by 10′ 55″ 38‴ 57 ' ' ' ' in every year Now if we compute to the present vulgar year of our Lords Incarnation 1659 These scruples will arise to 11 dayes 13 hours 58 min. 40″ 41‴ 3 ' ' ' ' Wherein the celebration of this Festivity ought to anticipate the 25 of December in our common Julian year and ought to be celebrated almost 12 dayes before our ordinary time As to which who is so ignorant as not to know that therefore the Pontificians do according to the Gregorian Emendation precede us by 10 dayes in their account which is called the New Style But they went no higher than the time of the Nicene Council in the correction of the year and so fell short in this point of the true time The reason why they went no higher I leave for them to give As for the celebration of Easter it is not unknown to such as are but moderately versed in Ecclesiastical History what stirs there have been in the Church in the 5th 6th and 7th Centuries c. between the Greeks and the Latines nay in our Brittain between the Scots and the Saxons as appears (b) Bede Eccles Hist l. 2. c. 2. l. 4. c. 5. l. 2. c. 22. by the Writings of venerable Bede The Christians studying to conform the time of its celebration to the season of the Jewish Passover What laborious Tables Calendars and Canons were framed by Victorius Hippolytus Anatolius Dionysius Exiguus and many others Whereby it comes to passe that this Festival does so vary every year according to that Sabhath which follows the full Moon next after the vernal-Equinoxe Whereas seeing the design of the Christians was therein to commemorate the time of our Lords Resurrection If they would have kept the exact time they should have considered what day of the year he arose and what time of the morning of that day as near as may be to Scripture and by the best Rules have found out the Sun's place exactly in the Zodiack and when the Sun did Return unto that point in every year to celebrate it accordingly (a) Lang. de Annis Christi p. 415. l. 2. c. 8. Langius a learned and laborious Calculator of Scripture-times hath stated the Resurrection of our Lord in the 4746 the year of the Julian period In the 4th year of the 202d. Olympiad the Cycl ☉ 14 of the ☽ 15. the Indiction 6. and on the 5th of April according to the Julian Calendar in the 33d year from his birth according to our common Computation The Aequinoxe in those dayes fell out about the 22 of March and so the Sun will be found in the 14 of Aries upon the 5th of April at noon in the Meridian of Jerusalem or to come nearer the point having examined it by Calculation out of the late corrected Tables I find the ☉ to have been in ♈ 13° 27′ 25″ in the noon of the Resurrection-day agreeing commonly with the 23 of our March By which in any good Ephemeris every one may judge how far the present Celebration of this annual Festivity errs from the Truth and consequently that of Pentecost which depends upon this But I have insisted too long on these things I shall conclude (b) Rom. 14.6 That he who regardeth the day saith holy Paul regardeth it unto the Lord and he that regardeth not the day to the Lord he doth not regard it As for these things as Paul (c) 1 Cor. 7.25 said in another case we have no commandment of the Lord. But of such as endeavour to conform themselves to Jewish Feasts the Apostle may say as of the Galatians (d) Gal. 4.10 Ye observe dayes and times and months and years I am affraid of you lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain But in this point how far Ecclesiastical Sanctions have power and Authority over Christian liberty in matters of indifferency I leave to the decision of able grave learned and holy men But yet however whoso do incline to keep these times certainly they cannot but think their devotion and zeal to be much cooled by the false assignation of the time of their celebration Having thus briefly hinted at the principal Jewish Festivals I shall come to the second thing proposed in the beginning of this Section touching the various sacrifices wi●h their Appendancies Which that they did portend and presignifie the great and only satisfactory sacrifice of the Lord Jesus is granted by all sober persons any thing versed in the comparison of the two Testaments For so the Spirit of God testifies expresly concerning him when he is brought in by an Elegant Prosopopoeia speaking to the Father on this wise (a) Psalm 40.6 Heb. 10.5 c. 1 Pet. 2.24 Burnt offering and

East and the South-East But as to the most precise determination of its distance and position if some curious Artist residing among our Consuls in the Levantine Countries had formerly or should hereafter exquisitely observe a Lunar Eclipse at Jerusalem which might be visible and also observed at London the very same time we might obtain a more punctual decision of this Inquisition upon which we have insisted But least the situation of Jerusalem as to the Altitude of the Pole there and its distance from the first Meridian should not prove by some Eclipses perhaps to be observed hereafter at the same time in both places by the mutual consent of some able Astronomers resident in each to have been exactly stated by fore-cited Authors We shall adde its bearing and distance from some famous Towns in the same Countrey and so conclude In the first place not being fully satisfied about the direct Position of Joppa the Port-Town of Judea before-cited out of Quaresmius to be 40 miles from Jerusalem I observed out of Ptolomy who being a neer Neighbour in Aegypt might possibly himself have made Observations in Syria that the Longitude of Joppa from the Canaries is reckoned at 65 gr 40 min. and its Latitude from the Aequator at 32 gr 6 min. According to these Data having calculated by the former method I found it to be neer about 27 minutes distant from Jerusalem in a direct line which being resolved into miles by Mr. Oughtred's allowance of 66 to a degree brings forth their distance to be of English miles 29 42 60. or 7 10 or which is all one 3696 feet that is almost ¾ of a mile But seeing the English miles exceed the Italian by 280 feet in each mile there will arise 31 miles and 1816 feet of Italian measure for their distance If there were no Hills nor Windings in the common-high-ways according to the supposed stating of Joppa's Situation by Ptolomy But according to Gassendus and Norwood which I rather adhere to allowing 73 Italian miles to a degree the 27 minutes distance will produce 32 51 60 miles upon Earth in a straight line To which agrees the modern Observation of one Timberlake an English Traveller in the Description of his Pilgrimage to the Holy-Land setting it just at 32 miles distance Brocardus the Monk I know sayes it was eight Leagues from Jerusalem Pag. 33. Edit Colon. 1624. which at 4 to a mile makes 32 miles Although I confess in the Preface to his Book a League is said to be an easie hours travel But I rather suspect an errour in the Copy because the same Author pag. 45. tells us that Rama was ten leagues from Jerusalem and in the same Rode that Rama was three from Joppa which by three to a League makes 39 miles To which account Breidenbachius sometimes Dean of Mentz in Germany doth assent in the recital of his Travels in those parts that Joppa was ten miles Edit Mentz An. 1486. pag. 36 38 82 83. or three leagues from Rama and that Rama was thirty long miles or ten leagues from Jerusalem Whereby as also by Moryson's Travels in Turkie giving in the same distances it appears to be the common account of the Countrey I have spoken the more of Joppa because thence was brought the Timber of Mount-Lebanon all by Land which though distant in a direct line but about 33 Italian miles yet might be 40 miles according to the crooked Windings and the great Hills that were in the way according to the Observations of modern Travellers both of our own Nation and Forreigners A tedious way to bring all the Timber of the Temple through But the noble Heart and large Purse of Solomon thought nothing too much for the House of his God Now as to other Towns round about Jerusalem St. Hierom in his small Tract of Hebrew places sayes That Bethel was 12 miles Anathoth 3 Bethlehem six Concerning this Bethlehem our Saviours Birth-place Justin Martyr who was born in Palestine as he himself attests in the beginning of his second Apology sayes that Bethlehem was but 35 stadia from Jerusalem Bethsur twenty Bethany two and Rama in Benjamin Antiq. l. 8. c. 2. Pag. 62. Edit p. 58. Sylburg Edit Bertij in folio p. 12. Aelia or Jerusalem 20. Eleutheropolis 24. Ascalon Ptolom Geogr. lib. 8. Asiae Tab. 4. six miles from Jerusalem Which last Josephus sayes was 40 stadia The same Father placeth Hebron 22 miles from Jerusalem and Beersheba in the outmost Border of Judea twenty miles South of Hebron I might proceed to calculate the distance of Samaria Tyre where Origen was buried according to Breidenbachius Damascus Jericho Nazareth and the rest if I intended a Geographical Description But I shall onely adde one more and that is the famous place in St. Hierom called Eleutheropolis long sought for by some Which appears out of Antonines Itinierary to lye twenty miles from Jerusalem South-Westerly in the High-way to Ascalon and that it lay 24 miles North East of Ascalon and furthermore 18 miles South of Diospolis or Lidda To conclude Jerusalem was the Head-City of Palestine a Province of Asia the Great bounded on the West by the Mediterranean Sea The longest day at Jerusalem was fourteen hours and ⅛ or 7 minutes 30 seconds according to Ptolomy But if any will state it exactlier they may according to the supposed Latitude calculate it more precisely Having now finisht this inquiry of our Cities Situation we shall conclude with a Petition for favour at the hand of every courteous Person for so long detention in this previous Discourse and draw towards a period of this first Chapter In this City thus situated stood the Mountain Moriah Nicol. Fuller Miscel sacr l. 2. c. 14. whose significations with sundry Observations annexed may be learned out of an excellent Critick of our own Nation On this Mountain stood our famous Temple which we are about to describe whose Eastern-Gate and Wall faced Mount-Olivet The Holy of Holies within this Temple stood Westward partly to imply that the Worshippers of the great and living God should not worship the Sun according to the Superstitious Customes of the Eastern Heathens Procopius Gazaeus in Reg. lib. 1. cap. 6. pag. 192. Edit Menri But the omnipotent God and Creator of that Sun who appointed his Temple to be so situated in opposition to Pagan Idolatry which is one reason of many of the Jewish Rites and Ceremonies if Gulielmus Parisiensis may be Judge Partly also it was thus situated to denote the motion of Gods presence into Europe and the Western parts of the World Or lastly as others think to have a respect to Mount-Calvary the place of our Lords suffering whose body was typified by the Temple and his meritorious death by all the Temple-sacrifices Having thus finished what was purposed by way of Preface it rests that we now proceed to the main Body of this Treatise in the Nine Chapters following