restrain offered to her Son hard Measure which Abraham upon her Complaint winked at whereupon Hagar partly oppress'd with Grief partly with Envy privily stole away from her Mistress and went from the Valley of Mâ—mre near Hebron to the Well of Life sixteen Miles Southward Genesis 16. and it is to be thought that her Journey tended towards Aegypt which was her native Country for this Well lay directly in the way as they went down into Egypt This flight of Hagar without doubt did greatly trouble Abraham's House and put him and his Wife into a great sorrow and fear lest she should destroy her self and the Infant or fall into some other Danger Wherefore that God might make evident the exceeding Care he had of them he sent an Angel unto Hagar and willed her to return unto her Master which Angel some think was the Son of God for he was called by the name of Iehovah Gen. 16. which name was not communicated to any created Angel Whereupon Hagar according to his Command went back again to her Mistress Sarah into the Valley of Mamre 16 miles Gen. 16. From Hebron Hagar went with her Mistress to that Kingly City Gerar six miles Gen. 20. At Gerar she and her Son Ismael were put out of her Masters house and going in the way that leadeth into Egypt they lost themselves in the Wilderness of Beersaba after they had travelled twelve miles from Gerar where oppress'd with want both of Water and other necessaries she fainted and her Son also wherefore she laid him under a Tree and about a Bows shoot off sate down and wept expecting nothing but death As she was in this misery God heard the voice of the Child and sent an Angel unto her saying Fear not for I will make of thy child a great Nation And God opened her eyes and lo close by her there was a Well so she went and filled her bottle and gave her Boy drink At this time Ismael was fifteen years of age So God blessed the Child and he became an Archer and lived in the Wilderness From thence she and her Son went into the Wilderness of Pharan eighty miles where Ismael married an Egyptian Gen. 21. So all the Travels of Hagar the Egyptian Maid were 132 miles Of the Fountain of Hagar which is also called the Well of Life THIS Well lieth between â—ared and Kades-Bernea ten miles from Ierusalem towards the South Some call it the Well of the Living and Seeing because God did there look mercifully upon Hagar when she fled from her Mistriss Here Isaac dwelt and had his two Sons Esau and Iacob Genes 26. Afterwards it was called the Well of the Living God and seemeth mystically to represent Baptism the Lavor of Grace and Regeneration by the operation and special working of the Spirit for the Church like Hagar with her Son Ismael travelling through the Wilderness of this World is press'd with a multitude of Sins and seeing her own misery finds no remedy but by Faith in Christ Jesus to be delivered from so heavy a Burthen wherefore they joyning together in Prayer crave the merciful audience and gracious assistance of God That it would please him of his goodness to refresh them with the Water of Life the Doctrine of Grace that so they may be made capable of eternal Glory For Hagar signifies a Pilgrim and Ismael a godly and good man whom the Lord heareth who travelling together with his Mother the Church in this World fighteth against the Enemies thereof and shooteth the Arrows of Faith against all infernal and cruel Beasts For Schamah signifies He hath heard and El The Almighty God who mercifully heareth the fervent Prayers and Petitions of the Just according to that of St. Iames ch 5. 15. Ismael was born Ann. Mundi 2035. Abraham being then 86 years of age He was circumcised at thirteen he went from his Father at fifteen he was at Abraham's Funeral being 89 years of age he died when he was 137 years of age fifty years after the death of Abraham and left behind him twelve Sons as Iacob did which were the Princes of their Families as was his Of which the Apostle Paul hath an excellent Allegory Abraham had two Sons one by the Bond-woman another by the Free-woman he that was of the Bond-woman was according to the Flesh but he that was of the Free-woman was by Promise By which things another thing is meant for the one which is Agar of Mount Sinai gendereth unto Bondage for Agar or Sinai is a Mountain in Arabia and answereth to Ierusalem that now is and she is in Bondage with her Children but Ierusalem which is above is free fâ—r it is written Rejoyce thou Barren c. Wherefore we are no more of the Bond-woman which is the Law but of the Free noâ— by our own Works or Righteousness but by Faith in Christ who maketh us Heirs of that Heavenly Ierusalem Where Ishmael dwelt PAran a City of Arabia the Stony stood an 104 miles from Ierusalem South-ward and taketh the name from fertility for Parah with the Hebrews signifies a fruitful root From this Metropolitan Town the Desart of Arabia the Stony near Cades taketh name of which mention is made Num. 13. and 14. Deut. 1. Gen. 14. 21. Habac. 3. and is called the Desart of Pharan Here Ishmael that excellent Archer and Hunter dwelt after that with great power and strength he had conquered all the Neighbouring Princes and People thereabout His Posterity also inhabited these Parts and after his name were called Ishmaelites some eighty miles from Ierusalem toward the South These People were excellent Souldiers and of noble courage their principal delight was shooting and therein they exceeded others living for the most part by Hunting and Pillage and so they continue to this day The Saracens who likewise had their abiding in those Parts were derived from that Family though they had rather take their name from Sara and from thence Saracens These are of the Opinion of the Turks The Travels of Eleazar the Servant of Abraham AFter Eleazar had sworn to his Master to take a Wife for his Son Isaac of the Generation of his Fathers he went from the Valley of Mamre near Hebron to Haran a City of Mesopotamia 468 miles off and there made a Contract with Rebecca the Daughter of Bethuel and Sister of Laban whom he took along with him and returned to his Master So that his Journey to and again was 944 miles These things happened in the Year of the World 2089 and before Christ 1879 Isaac then being forty years of age This Eleazar was Steward of Abraham's house and born at Damascus the chief City of Syria He was so called because God was his help Eleazar being a compound word of El and Ezaer which signifies Almighty God the helper From whence we may perceive that God is the Keeper of the Poor and a ready helper in time of Tribulation according to that in the Psalâ—s All they
first Epistle from Rome calling it allegorically Babylon is utterly to be condemned since there is none who can certainly prove that conjecture neither is it grounded upon any firm foundation for although Babylon in the Revelation of S. John because it was a secret Prophecy was allegorically used yet in a plain and manifested history such kind of Allegories are not allowed From whence may be concluded that S. Peter wrote his first Epistle from this Babylon not from Rome The Travels of Saint John with the Annotation of the Times wherein he lived JOHN the Evangelist and Apostle of our Lord Jesus Christ was born in the tenth year after the Nativity of our Saviour and was made his Disciple when he was 21 years of Age. He saw the Miracle of Christ when he changed the Water into Wine John cap 2. In the year following viz. in the 22 year of his Age he was taken into the number of the twelve Apostles Luke 6. Mar. 3. After that in the three and twentieth year of his age he saw the transfiguration of Christ in mount Thabor and when he was four and twenty years of age he stood under the Cross of our Saviour Christ and the same year a little after Christs Ascension he with the rest of the Apostles received the Gift of the holy Ghost being then the Feast of Pentecost which fell about the four and twentieth day of May in the same year he was cast into Prison with Peter for healing the lame Man Acts 3. 4. Thus much of his Youth About the middle of the first year after our Saviour Christs Ascension Iohn being then 25 years old was sent with Peter from the City of Ierusalem to Samaria 32 miles From Samaria he returned back again to Ierusalem 32 miles and as he returned preached the Gospel of Christ in divers Towns of the Samaritans Acts 8. Mary the Mother of our Lord being now 59 years of age died in the twelfth year after the Resurrection of Christ and was buried by Iohn the Evangelist in the Garden of Gethsemene Iohn being then 35 years old Four years after her death he was present at the Apostolical Council in Ierusalem Now Iames his Brother who was called the Elder was beheaded two years before for this Council was celebrated in the presence of Iames the younger Peter Iohn Paul and Barnabas c. about sixteen years after the Resurrection of Christ and fourteen after the Conversion of Paul Gal. 2. Before the Destruction of Ierusalem which happened about the 61 year of his age and 38 after Christs Ascension Iohn went from Ierusalem and came to Ephesus 544 miles where after the death of the Apostle Paul he governed the Churches of Asia minor In the 86 year of his age being cast into a Vessel of boiling Oyl and coming out unhurt by the command of Domitian the Emperour he was banished into the Isle of Pathmos distant from Ephesus 40 miles There he wrote his Revelation to the seven Churches in Asia minor whereof you may read Apoc. 1. From Pathmos he returned to Ierusalem which was forty miles being then 88 years of age and there he raised Drusana from Death to Life After this he governed the Churches in Asia four years that is from the Government of Nero the Emperour unto the fourth year of the Government of Trajan the Emperour and called the young Man to repentance which was of the Society of Thieves at length he died at Ephesus when he was 91 years old An. Dom. 100. as St. Ierom and Nicephorus li. 2. ca. 32. observe So all his Travels were 688 miles The Testimony of the Fathers concerning John THE Testimonies of the holy Fathers that are yet extant concerning Iohn are these In Euseb. â—i 3. c. 1. 18. 20. 3. you may read the History concerning the Conversion of the young Man from the company of Thieves Irenaeus witnesseth the same li. 2. ca. 23. In Irenaeus also li. 3. ca. 23. you may read the History of Cerinthus and how that Iohn lived until the time of Trajan the Emperour Also li. 3. ca. 11. he saith that the Gospel of St. Iohn was written because of the Blasphemy of Cerinthus The Description of the Towns and places to which John travelled Of Ephesus THIS was the Metropolitan City of Ionia scituated in Asia Minor 544 miles from Ierusalem North-westward It was built saith Strabo by Androclus the Son of Codrus King of Athens in the time of David King of Israel and because of the beautiful scituation and ferâ—ility of the Soil called Ephesus in future Ages growing into such credit and estimation that it was mightily increased and became one of the most famous Mart Towns in all Asia but it stood somewhat low so that the Sea brake in upon it and drowned it and many of the Inhabitants perished Nevertheless Lysimachus King of Thrace built it up again in the same place where now it stands and called it Arsinoes after his Wives name But he being dead it was again called by the antient name Ephesus There were many worthy Men that lived in it as Heraclitus Scotinus and Hermadorus who for his excellent understanding and singular honesty was banished Hipponachus also the Poet Perrhasius and Apelles the Painters Alexander the Orator and Theodotio a Iew who interpreted the Bible It was in ancient times inhabited by the Amazons whose Queen kept her court there and wonderfully increased and adorned it with fair and beautiful Buildings Here also that notable Temple dedicated to Diana which as Strab. saith li. 14. Plin. li. 36. c. 14. was 220 years a building It stood upon Morish Ground to avoid the danger of Earth-quakes There were in it 127 Pillars erected by so many Kings among which there were 36 that were curiously sicled and artificially carved and ingraven It was 425 foot long and 120 broad There were so many Gifts and Gratuities sent from all the Cities and Kings round about toward the building of this Temple that the Riches and Treasure thereof was wonderful insomuch that when it was finished it was accounted one of the stateliest Buildings the World could afford and numbered amongst the Wonders of the World This Temple thus built at such an extraordinary charge that it was almost unvaluable was set on fire by one Herostratus a wicked and perverse Fellow in the same Olympiad and Day that Alexander the Great was born who having nothing in him that might make him famous in after-ages burnt this goodly Building that so though not for his good but for his evil he might get a name But the Ephesians were so incensed because of this Mischief that they procured Proclamation to be made through all the Kingdoms round about that his name should not be once mentioned which perhaps for a time was observed but in future ages they could not prevent it but that he was both spoken of and written of Notwithstanding afterward the Inhabitants of this City became so exceeding wealthy that they soon
ITINERARIVM TOTIUS Sacrae Scripturae OR THE TRAVELS OF THE Holy Patriarchs Prophets Judges Kings Our Saviour CHRIST and his Apostles as they are related in the OLD and NEW TESTAMENTS WITH A Description of the Towns and Places to which they travelled and how many English miles they stood from Ierusalem Also a short Treatise of the Weights Monies and Measures mentioned in the Scriptures reduced to our English Valuations Quantity and Weight Collected out of the Works of HENRY BVNTING and done into English by R. B. LONDON Printed by I. Harefinch for T. Basset at the George in Fleet-street near St. Dunstan's Church MDCLXXXII To the Right Honourable Sr. Hen. Mountague KNIGHT Lord Chief Justice of the KINGS Majesties BENCH IT is a true Saying of the Philosopher Right Honourable and my very good Lord That there is nothing wherein there is Life but it hath either Motion or Action and such is the condition of Man that a greater measure of both is imposed upon him to humble him than upon many other Creatures The whole course of his Life being compared unto a Pilgrimage in which state a man can presume upon no certain Continuance For as a Traveller that intendeth to finish his Journey stays not in his Inn but desires more to be upon his Way than in his Bed so it is with Man who cannot possess himself in rest from the time of his Birth until his Death and oftentimes is troubled with needless and unprofitable Labours to attain unto his Ends which got both they and he perish Let Alexander that great Emperour be a president of this who with much Labour having got a great Estate enjoyed it but a short time and you may read in this Treatise with what intolerable pains Antigonus Epiphanes endeavoured to establish his Kingdom to him and yet in the end purchased little but a lamentable Death There is none of the Patriarchs Princes Judges Kings Prophets Apostles or others mentioned in the Scriptures that could make evident in the whole course of their Life any better than a laborious and tedious Pilgrimage With what pains did Abraham wander from Chaldea into the Land of Canaan How was Moses tormented in the Wilderness almost to the loss of his Soul but absolutely never to come into the promised Land And for David how miserably lived he when he could not trust his own Friends This is the state of man and to say truth he differs in little beside Reason from other Creatures and that either lock'd up in silence or not express'd in some memorable Action makes him so much the more capable of Misery being only able to distinguish of Joy and Fear Now that these things may be the more apparent I have endeavoured to collect out of the Works of others this Treatise wherein is briefly described the Travels of all the Patriarchs Iudges Kings Prophets Princes c. together with the condition of Cities Countreys Islands and other memorable places as they are mentioned in the Old and New Testaments All which that I might express that Duty which hath a long time lain concealed I have wholly dedicated to your Lordships Service humbly intreating your favourable Acceptance of my Pains that so being shrouded under your Honour's Protection they may the better withstand the adverse Opinions of such as please to censure them At your Honour's Service R. B. The Preface to the Reader IT hath always been held a matter worth note gentle Reader even to the best Divines to have the Typographical description of the Towns and Places as they are mentioned in the Scriptures and so much the rather because by comparing the Actions of Men with the beginnings and endings of Cities they might the better understand the Prophets and perceive the wonderful Providence of God who by his Omnipotency so disposeth of Estates that such Cities and Nations which have been mighty and ruled upon the Earth with great Power notwithstanding on a sudden and by unexpected Events have been utterly subverted and overthrown Now that these things might be more apparent I have in as good and brief a method as I can gathered out of sundry Authors the particular Description of the Cities Towns and places as they are mentioned in the Scriptures where they stood under whose command at what time they grew mighty and how lost and decayed To this also I have added a particular Narration of the Travels of all the holy Patriarchs Prophets Princes Iudges Kings Emperours our blessed Saviour and his Apostles to what Towns they travelled what memorable Actions they did in those places with a short Chronology of the times that so by comparing this discourse with any Text of Scripture you may perceive the time when those Accidents happened All which things I am perswaded will prove no less pleasant than profitable and will give a great light to the understanding of the Bible But if you question with me How it is possible that I should come to the knowledge of those things considering that Babylon Niniveh Jerusalem and most of the Cities of the Holy-Land are long since wasted and decayed To this I answer therein consists the greatness of the Travel because I have been constrained to use the help of many Authors who amongst other long and learned discourses have here and there glanced at the Actions that were done in the Land of Judaea amongst which are Strabo Jerom de Locis Hebraicis Plinie Livie Plutarch and many others who have described in the Actions of the Persians Chaldeans Graecians and Romans the State of the Jews as it stood in those times with the Description of the Cities and Towns And Saint Jerom who lived in that Country took a great deal of pains to rectifie these imperfect discourses which more obscure Authors have laboured in and left to future ages that so those which would might by their diligence and care make them useful to inform their understanding both concerning the State of the. Jews and of the obscure meaning of some of the Prophecies Also the scituation and Destruction of Jerusalem a thing pleasant and profitable to know and no whit unworthy your consideration How all or the most part of the Towns Cities Countries Nations Islands Seas Desarts Mountaines and most memorable places are scituated from it how many miles English they stand distant what memorable actions have been done in them and for the most part where they stood and how they are at this day Besides to make this a perfect work you will find after the end of the Old Testament and before the beginning of the New the Discourse concerning the Weights Measures and Monies which are mentioned in the Scriptures reduced unto our Valuation how they were Current among the Jews how with other People Nations and Countries by which means that necessity of commutative Iustice for which Monies were principally invented will be apparent and by this meanes you shall perceive what equality there is and hath been used amongst Nations for
the ordaining of Measures and Monies by which you may perceive that this Vniverse being compared together seemeth but one large and spacious Empire howsoever under divers Governments Again the Peregrination of our Saviour the manner of his wonderful Nativity his long and Tedious Iourneys the condition of his estate whiles he was upon the Earth and as near as can be guest at what time he did most of his Miracles how he behaved himself when he was betrayed with a description of the manner of his death and the Travels of Peter Paul and many other of his Apostles after his death All which things I have with much labour compiled together for your profit and expect nothing in recompence for my pains but your Love And so I commit you to God Yours R. B. A BRIEF DECLARATION OF GEOMETRICAL MEASVRES A Degree of the Heavens is fifteen German or Dutch miles one minute is one quarter of a Dutch mile so that four minutes make a Dutch mile Diversity of miles A Dutch mile is four thousand paces the Spanish miles be very near so long as the Dutch A French mile is two thousand paces a Walloon or Italian mile is a thousand paces so that four Walloon miles make a Dutch mile The word Mile is derived from the Latine word Mille for one thousand paces make a Walloon mile as Gualtherus H. Revius writeth Of Stades or Furlongs THE word Stadium in Latin in English a Furlong is a measure of ground whereof there be three sorts Italicum Olympicum Pythâ—cum That of Italy contained 625 Feet which is 125 Paces half a quarter of an Italian mile The second sort was of the Hill Olympus in Greece where was a Game or Prize kept by the Princes and Cities of Greece every fifth year in the Honour of Hercules who first began it This measure of ground Stadium Olympicum contained 600 Feet that is 120 paces The third kind of Stade or Furlong contained 1000 Feet which is 200 Paces whereof haply arose the difference of Pliny and Diodorus Siculus in describing Sicily What a Furlong is Fifteen Dutch miles make a Degree and a Degree of the Heavens answereth to 480 Furlongs upon Earth whereby it is manifest that 32 Furlongs is a German or common Dutch mile One Minute equalleth eight Furlongs which make an Italian or Walloon mile the fourth part of a Dutch mile Two Minutes of the Heavens or sixteen Furlongs make a Dutch mile Four half of a Dutch mile Three minutes equal 24 Stades or Furlongs which make three quarters of a Dutch mile Four minutes equal 32 Furlongs that is to say a German or Dutch mile The Holy Evangelists S. Luke cap. 24 ver 13. and S. Iohn c. 11. ver 8. reckon the way by Furlongs S. Luke saith the Town Emaus was distant from Ierusalem sixty Furlongs and St. Iohn saith Bethania was fifteen Furlongs distant from Ierusalem Whence it appeareth that Emaus was distant from Ierusalem almost two Dutch miles seven Walloon miles and a half and Bethania almost half a Dutch mile which is a mile a half and half a quarter Iosephus writeth That Mount Olivet was distant from Ierusalem five Furlongs that is a little more than half a quarter of a Dutch mile which is half an Italian mile and half a quarter The same Iosephus saith That the circuit of the City of Ierusalem was thirty three Furlongs a Dutch mile and half a quarter Others say it was four miles in Compass which being understood of Italian or Walloon miles make little or no difference â—eeing it is but the half of a half quarter of a Dutch mile Strabo writeth That the City of Babylon was 380 Furlongs in Circuit that is twelve Dutch miles The Circuit of Samaria was twenty Furlongs that is half a Dutch and half a quarter which is two Italian miles and a half How the Romans measured their Miles THE Romans measured their miles by Paces which they call Passus and that kind of measuring is done after this manner Four Barley-corns laid long-ways one by the other make the breadth of a Finger four Fingers broad make the breadth of an Hand four Hands broad make the length of a Foot which measure is now extant five feet make a Geometrical or great Pace one hundred twenty five such Paces are a Furlong eight Furlongs are one thousand Paces or Walloon mile two thousand Paces are a French mile Ex granis quatuor formabitur unus Est quater in palmo digitus quater in pede palmus Quinque pedes passum faciunt passus quoque centum Viginti quinque stadium dant Sed milliare Octo dabunt stadia duplicatum sit tibi Leuca Four thousand Paces are a Dutch mile I mean a common Dutch mile whereof fifteen are reckoned to a Degree of the Heavens for the Switzer miles are commonly a quarter of a Dutch mile longer than common Dutch miles But through this Book by miles we understand common Dutch miles whereof four thousand Paces make a mile Whosoever will understand St. Ierom. well de locis Hebraicis must mark whether he reckons by Miles or by Stones The miles specified by him are Walloon miles whereof four make a Dutch mile as aforesaid the Stone whereof he writeth whereby also they did measure and divide the way are reckoned six to a Dutch mile To the end that all men that have any little Understanding in Geometry and Cosmography may make the Tables and cast them and at their Pleasure inlarge or diminish them I have here for their direction set down the Longitude and Latitude of the most principal Towns the former Numbers shew the degrees and minutes of the Longitude the later Numbers declare the degrees and minutes of the Latitude  Long. Latit SIdon 67.51 33.30 Tyrus 67.00 33.20 Zarepta 67.10 33.28 Kedes 67.14 33.00 Chabul 67.04 33.04 Rechob 67.13 33.14 Abela Betha macha 67.20 32.59 Senim Vallis 97.01 32.58 Carmel 66.35 32.50 Cana major 67.13 33.24 Cana minor 67.52 32.48 Nazareth 66.56 32.42 Tabor 66.45 32.38 Capernaum 66.53 32.29 Bethsaida 66.51 32.29 Corazim 66.53 32.29 Tiberias 66.44 32.27 Magdalum 66.48 32.28 Dora 66.25 32.08 Caesarea Stratonis 66.19 32.25 Lydda 65.43 32.06 Joppen 65.40 32.05 Messada castellum 66.21 31.47 Maerum lacus 66.36 32.25 Sunem 66.33 32.33 Naim 66.35 32.33 Napthalis 67.06 32.57 Bethoron superior 66.00 32.14 Bethoron inferior 65.54 32.00 Gazar 66.10 32.20 Bethâ—an 66.41 32.23 Endor 66.26 32.27 Megiddo 66.02 32.32 Thebeâ—z 66.30 32.25 Aphec 66.28 32.32 Gilim 66.25 32.22 Alexandrium 66.23 32.11 Thirzo 66.20 32.13 Zilo 65.58 31.58 Beseck 66.34 32.24 Mâ—chmas 66.06 32.04 Samaria 66.22 32.19 Nobe 65.45 32.03 Gazeron 65.45 31.59 Emmahus 65.54 32.01 Jericho 66.10 31.56 Aialon 65.56 31.57 Anathot 66.01 31.55 Gibea Saulis 66.57 31.55 Kiriath-jearim 65.58 31.55 Jerusalem 66.00 31.55 Bahurim 66.03 31.56 Ephraim 66.08 32.00 Gilgal 66.12 32.01 Esthaol 65.36 31.54 Timnah 65.48 32.03 Zarea 65.51 31.55 Gedor 65.14 31.59 Modin 65.45 32.01 Bethanâ—a 66.01 31.54 Bethlehem 65.55 31.51 Debir
four miles from Ierusalem upon the North lying between the two Towns of Bethel and Hay and is called Mount Ephraim where Abraham at his return out of Egypt the second time set up his Tabernacle of purpose to be conversant with Melâ—hisedeck who dwelt in Ierusâ—lem and with him gave thanks to God for the singular favours that he had shewed toward him in delivering his Wife Sara from the hands of Abimelech King of Egypt who woulâ— have ravished her and as he feared indangerâ—d his Life In this place Lot separated himself from Abraham and went to dwell in Sodom Of the Plain or Oâ—k of Mamre THE Plain of Mamre stood a mile from Hebron towards the East and distant from Ierusalem twenty two miles South-eastward In this Vallâ—y there was a fair and pleasant Wood where a certain young man called Mamre dwelt This man was Brother to Escal and Aner mentioned by Moses Genes 14 who according to the custom of Gentlemen with us in these times built up his house nea◠〈…〉 pleasant Wood or Bottom which as some think was called after his name Mamre Others of which Opinion is Ierom of Aelon which signifies a Valley or Tree an Oak-tree saith he But Ioseph and Aegesâ—ppus call it a Terebinth tree which both Summer and Winter beareth green Leaves like a Palm-tree the Sap or Juyce whereof is very good for Medicine Abraham dwelling near to this Tree being entertained by the three Brothers as a Stranger grew into such favour and familiarity with them that he converted them from Paganism and taught them to know the true and ever-living God To gratifie which great favour they aided him in his War against the four Kings that had taken Lot Prisoner and gave him free liberty to inhabit in and use the Plain thereabouts for his Cattel before whose door as some Authors affirm this Terebinth or Oak-tree stood and so continued from the beginning of the World till the time of Constantine the Great it being lawful for none to cut a bough of it or touch it witâ— a Hatchet because it was in those days accounted a holy Tree and visited by divers Strangers and then Helena caused a fair Church to be built in that place and so much the rather for that Abraham sitting under that Tree the three Angels appeared unto him in the Similitude or Likeness of men Gen. 8. â— 2. And some are of Opinion That because of this the Jews offered Incense to their Gods and committed Idolatry upon high Mountains and under green Trees Ezek. 16. There was also a double Cave made of white Marble which as Iosephus saith was very fair and beautiful to the eye and curiously wrought and polished wherein Abraham Isaac and Iacob with their Wives Sarah Rebecca and Leâ—h were buried and as some think was that Cave which he purchased of the Hittites Gen. 23. 34. But that Adam and Evah lye buried in the same place seeing there is no warrant for it in the holy Scriptures I let it pass because whatsoever hath not Authority of Scripture to prove it may as easily be contemned as allowed But Abraham's Sâ—pulchre in Ierom's time was to be seen being old and decayed Of Hebron THIS City was not only a Kings Seat but a Priests also being built not long after the Flood and some seven years before that City of the Aegyptians called Zoan or Tanis Numb 13. and was placed upon a goodly high Mountain very pleasant and delectable It taketh the name from Chabar which signifieth to accompany and from thence Chebron or Hebron a pleasant and delectable Society It was a metropolitan City in the Tribe of Iuda and after called Kiriatharba as it appeareth in Iosh. 14. taking that Name from Arba the Chief Governour of that City This man was one of the Anakims and a very mighty Prince Others there are that say the City being divided into four parts was thereof called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for Arba signifies a Quaternion from the Rote Raba four square It was first built by Heth the Son of that cursed Canaan whose Posterity the Hittites inhabited in it and such was their Hospitality that they entertained Abraham being a Stranger and Traveller These People dwelt there until Joshua's time and then one Hoham was King thereof who with other Kings opposing the Children of Israel was by them slain and had their Country wasted and destroyed This Town was after made a Town of Refuge and belonged to the Inheritance of Caleb and was together with Mamre in the Tribe of Iuda Ios. 20. Here David was first anointed King and reigned therein for the space of seven years 2 Sam. 5. But this Town by the injury of Time and oppression of the Enemy is now become desolate only some few old Relicks are to be seen to shew there had been a Town there Nevertheless there is a Town not far from it which retaineth the name placed in a very fruitful Valley called Mamre to this day Here while it was under the Jurisdiction of the Christians stood a Cathedral Church and a Bishops See but the Turks have turned it into a Mosko or one of their Churches Into this place they will not suffer any Christian to enter The Inhabitants take upon them to shew unto Strangers many things as the Vault or Cave wherein Abraham was buried the place where Cain killed Abel the Well where Adam and Evah wept seven years for the death of their Son with many such like Fables which are to no purpose seeing they are not warrantable by Scripture Some Bows-shot Eastward from this place is the Field of Damascus where the red Earth lieth whereof they feign Man to be made It is naturally tough and may be wrought like Wax or Pitch There is also that is white of the same kind and this is conveyed to many places by the Saracens and sold at dear Rates They use it either for the teering of Sepulchres or to mingle with Salves and Unguents Of Gerar. GErar is the uttermost Town in the Land of Canaan and lieth between the Desarts of Sur and Cades Gen. 20. Here King Abimelech kept his Court at such time as Abraham came thither and here Isaac was born Gen. 21. It takes the name from Gor which signifies a Pilgrim or Traveller and did well agree with the Condition of the ancient Patriarchs that sometimes lived there because for the most part they were like Pilgrims and wayfaring men Gen. 47. It lay six miles from Hebron South-west and from Ierusalem 30 upon the Territories of the Tribe of Iuda Of Beerazaba BEerazaba is a Town scituated upon the utmost Bounds of the Holy Land forty miles from Ierusâ—lem South-westward and is derived from Beer and Shebuah and sigâ—ifieth the Well of Covenant for Abraham having digged a Well near to this place Abimelech King of Gerar entred into League with him and his Posterity Isâ—ac also renewed this League in this place as appears Gen 21. It is now called Gallim or
Dâ—r signifies He hath made sure It is distant from Ierusalem forty four miles toward the North. In S. Ierom's time this was but a small Village Of Bethsan THIS was a City in the Tribe of Mâ—nasses between Bethâ—lia and the Sea of Gâ—lilee some forty four miles from Ierusalem towards the North Ioâ— 17. It taketh the name from a Church-yard or a place of Rest for Bâ—th signifieth a House and Iaschan he hath slept Here Saul killed himself and the Philiâ—â—ines cut off his Head and set it upon the Wall of this City Afterward about St. Ierom's time Ptolomy called this Scythoâ—oliâ— You may read in the Second Book of the Macchabees how it was the Town of the Sâ—â—thians for the Scythians which dwelt some 800 miles from Ierusalem towards the North came with a great Army into the Holy Land and by force won this City and dwelt there of whom it was called the Scythian Town Iosâ—ph in lib. 2. de Bell. Iud. cap. 18. remembreth a strange Accident that hapned near this Town for the Iews besieging it there were of their own Nation that dwelt within the City who that they might make a private Gain took wages of the Scythians to oppose their Brethren and Country-men by which means the Scythians got the better But after a while the Scythians considering that the number of the Iews was great and fearing some sudden Insurrection or Innovation gave them warning to depart and leave the Town they though with great Grief as being prest with a two-fold necessity their own Wants and the hatred of their Kindred did so relying merely upon the Courtesie of Strangers But about some two days after in the night time the Inhabitants of Scythopolis breaking out of the City unawares fell upon them and in recompence of their Kindness put to the Sword some thirteen thousand many slain unawares some as they were eating and most in their Sleep After they had committed this Massacre they compassed about the Wood where they were took away all their Substance and suffered not a Man to depart alive Wherefore one Simon the Son of a certain ancient and noble Citizen called Saul perceiving their present Misery and that there was no hope to escape imminent Dâ—ath and utter Ruine in a cruel and desperate manner breaks out into these Words O miserable Wretch that I am that against my own Conscience have lift up these Impious Hands against my Country committing daily Massacres to pleasure them who at this day lay violent hands upon all we have die therefore thou that art thus prophane and with thine own hands make an end of thy wretched Life since thou dost not deserve to die honourably in the face of the Enemy but wretchedly in a corner and for thine own offence So soon as he had ended these words he turned him about with a fierce countenance and falling upon his Father Mother Wife and Children put them all to the Sword after burnt his Goods and to make an end of the Tragedy ran himself upon his own Weapon These things happened but a little before Vespasian came into the Land of Iudaea At this day this City Scythoâ—olis is called after the ancient name Bethsan The typical representation of Saul SAVL if it be properly taken doth sometime signifie a Grave or Sepulchre and sometimes Hell being derived from Scheuol which may be taken for both As therefore Saul persecuted innocent David with an inveterate malice even unto the death so the Sons of Sathan evil and wicked men persecute Christ and his Members with an immoveable malice sparing neither Prophets nor Apostles neither such as are Religious no nor Christ himself but with cruel torments put them to lingring deaths till they be utterly extirpate as they think and then wanting objects to satisfie their Savage minds they follow their own devillish councels till with Saul they come to desperate ends Schâ—ul or Saul if it be taken in the better part signâ—fieth He hath desired or called The Philistines Travels from their Camp to Michmas THE Philistines incamped themselves at Michmas upon Mount Ephraim some ten miles from Ierusalem Northward and out of the Philistines Camp there issued three Armies to spoil the Countrey The one marched towards Ophra and went from Michmas to Salem twenty eight miles From thence they went to Ophra four miles The second went from Michmas to Bethoron eight miles The third went from Michmas to the Valley of Zeboim eight miles So all the Travels of the Philistines were fifty eight miles Of Zeboim THis Valley is not far from Ierusalem in the Tribe of Benjamin Nehem 11. The Travels of Jonathan Saul's Son JONATHAN went from Gibeah to Kirjath-jearim which was two miles where he drave the Philistines out of their Camp 1 Sam. 13. From thence he went back again two miles From thence he went to Michmas which is eight miles and there by the help of his Armor-bearer he gave the Philistines a great overthrow 1. Sam. 14. From thence he followed the Enemy to Ajalon which is twelve miles there his Father would have put him to death because he had tasted a little Honey 1. Sam. 14. From Ajalon Saul and his Son Ionathan returned to Gibeah his own City which was two miles From Gibeah he went with his Father to Socho and Asekah which was eight miles where after David had slain Goliah for that singular Virtue and Heroical Spirit which Ionathan saw in him he loved him as he did his own Soul and preferred him before his own Life and Honour 1 Sam. 18. From thence he went with his Father to Gibeah some eight miles where Women with great mirth and joy met him saying Saul hath slain his thousand and David his ten thousand for which cause Saul out of meer envy for then he did not know that he had been anointed by Samuel would have slain him and his Son Ionathan also for excusing him 1 Sam. 18 19. From Gibeah Ionathan went into the Desart of Ziph some 22 miles to comfort David there they swore a solemn Oath of mutual friendship to continue as long as they lived 1 Sam. 23. From thence Ionathan returned which was 22 miles 1 Sam. 23. At last he went to the Wars with his Father to Mount Gilboah forty miles there he his Father his Brothers Abinadab and Melchisuah were slain So all the Travels of Ionathan were 126 miles The Travels of Abiathar Abimelech's Son WHEN Doeg the Idumaean at the command of Saul had slain the Priests of the Lord this Abiathar the Son of Abimelech the High Priest fled to the Wood Hareth not far from Kegilah some twenty miles and came and told David of all that had happened 1 Sam. 22 23. Of Kegilah THis was a City in the Tribe of Iudah four miles Hebron towards the East and twenty from Ierusalem toward the South-west From which Town David drove away the Philistines that had besieged it 1 Sam. 23. You may read of it Iosh. 23. Nehem. 3. In St.
and the Woman was healed of her Bloody Issue Mat. 9. But that Matthew was called about this time the circumstances of times make evident for a little after the second Passover of our Saviour Christ the same Matthew was chosen to be an Apostle Luke 5. 6. Mat. 9. Mark 2. In the Month of March the Inhabitants of the Towns which Christ visited in Galilee brought unto him many that were possessed of Devils and afflicted with other Diseases all which he healed insomuch that there followed him a great company out of Galilee and Decapolis and from Ierusalem and Iudaea and of all the Countries beyond Iordan Mat. 3. Thus having finished this Visitation as it may be thought he returned back to Capernaum where he dwelt as I have told you before which was forty eight miles for Caesarea Philippi stood so far from Capernaum The second Passover of the Ministry of Christ. A little after these things were finished was the Feast of the Iews Iohn 4. and Jesus went up to Ierusalem Iohn 5. to celebrate the Feast of the Passeover which this year happened a little before Harvest which was 56 miles This second Passeover of the Ministry of Christ fell upon the six and twentieth day of March at which time Christ celebrated the Passover with his Disciples according to the Law of God Here upon the Sabbath day being the last day of March he healed a certain man that lay by the Pool of Bethesda which had been diseased eight and thirty years Ioh. 5. And at the end of the Passover he went with his Disciples from Ierusalem through the Corn Fields but his Disciples being hungry began to pluck the ears of Corn and to eat them wherefore the Pharisees being offended at them began to reprehend our Saviour Christ and his Disciples upon which followed the disputation concerning the Sabbath Luke 6. Matth 12. Upon the seventh day of April he went on the Sabbath day to Peraea which Country was in the Command of Herod Antipas and there he healed a man with a dried hand Luke 6. Mark 3. The Country of Peraea beyond Iordan is distant from Ierusalem twenty miles But when the Herodian Council heard that he had healed a man on the Sabbath day they sought occasion how they might do to put him to death wherefore our Saviour Christ went thence to the Sea of Galilee which was 40 miles Here he went up into a mountain not far from Capernaum and chose the twelve Apostles Luke 6. Mark 3. And then upon this Mountain he preached unto the People which resorted thither unto him out of the Country round about whom they heard with great diligence and attendance This Sermon being ended he came down from the Mountain and healed the man that was sick of the Leprosie He also went into Capernaum and healed the Centurion's Servant Mat 8. Luke 7. Afterward Christ in the same Month of April when the man whom he healed of his Leprosie had published the Miracle he went from Capernaum into the Desart which lay near unto Bethsaida for there was a certain Desart Mark 1. Luke 7. In the month of May our Saviour went out of Galilee towards Ierusalem to keep the Feast of Pentecost so he came to the gates of the City Naim which stood on the border of Samaria and was distant from Capernaum 16 miles Here he recalled the Widows Son to life Luke 7. and after he went to Ierusalem which was 48 miles that he might celebrate the Feast of Pentecost according to the Law of God Exo. 23. Thrice every year shall every male Child appear before the Lord thy God This Feast fell this year upon the fifteenth day of May for it behoved our Saviour according to the Law to go every year to Ierusalem to these three principal Feasts that is of the Passover Pentecost and of the Tabernacles A little after the Feast of Pentecost Iohn Baptist being then in Prison having certain intelligence of the Miracle that our Saviour wrought upon the Widdows Son at the gate of Naim and of other wonderful Miracles that he did in Ierusalem and in other places in Iudea sent two of his Disciples from the Castle of Macharuntes to ask him the question whether he was the Messia or no So when they came unto him and delivered him their Message at that time he cured many of their sickness and Plagues and evil Spirits and to many blind men he gave sight freely And Jesus said unto them Go your ways and tell John what things you have seen and heard that the blind see the halt go the lepers are cleansed the deaf hear the dead are raised and the poor receive the Gospel And blessed is he that shall not be offended on me Mathew 11. Luke 7. At this Sermon it was thought he converted the sinner that washed his feet and poured a box of pretious Oyl upon his head Luke 7. In the month of Iune our Saviour Jesus Christ went with the Twelve about six and fifty miles out of Iudea into Galilee and there in divers Cities and Towns he began to preach and teach the Kingdom of God At this time there were divers Women followed him whom he had healed of evil Spirits and of their Infirmities but principally Mary Magdalen out of whom he had cast seven Devils and Ioan the wife of Chuza Herod's Procurator and Susanna all which ministred unto him of their Substance Luke 8. Now when he had travelled from place to place some certain time and visited many Cities and Towns thereabout he returned back again to the City of Capernaum where it is said that our Saviour Christ dwelt and there dispossest the man of a Devil that was both blind lame and dumb Mat. 12. Mar. 3. Luke 11. And going thence to the Sea he recited eight Parables Mat. 13. Mark 4. Luke 8. In the evening of the same day he went six miles into the Country of the Gadarens Mar. 4. Luke 8. The next day betimes in the morning he went out of the Ship into the Country of the Gadarens and healed two that were possessed of Devils Mat. 2. Mar. 5. Luke 8. Out of these two he cast a Legion of Devils and suffered them to enter into the Herd of Swine which they carried headlong into the Sea Presently our Saviour Christ went thence six miles into the Land of Genesareth where there was a great multitude upon the Sea shore not far from the City of Capernaum that expected his coming Mar. 5. Luke 8. Within a few daies after about the beginning of Iune he entred into Capernaum and there he healed the man that lay sick upon his Bed of a dead Palsie Mat. 9. Mar. 2. Luke 5. After he went to Sea and taught the multitude that came to him Mar. 2. From Capernaum he went to Caesarea Philippi forty eight miles where being invited to a Banquet by Matthew he eat among Publicans and Sinners and confuted the Pharisees and Iohn's Disciples In the same City he restored
to bring forth sweet Figs that is good Works and many other comfortable Vertues that so men in their afflictions might be comforted As it is thought the Fig-tree that our Saviour Christ cursed because it wanted Fruit stood not far from Bethpage Mat. 21. Mark 11. Wherefore let us take heed that we be not like fruitless Fig-trees covered only like our Forefathers Adam and Eve with Leaves and bearing no fruit Gen. 3. lest so God's Curse fall upon us and we be thrust out of Eternal Happiness Mat. 3. Of the Castle from whence the Ass and the Colt were brought upon which our Saviour Christ rode to Jerusalem THIS Castle as Adamus Risnerus saith was a certain Hold compassed about with strong Walls and within beautified with a fair Palace supported with goodly Columns it stood not far from the Mount of Olives just in the dividing of the way as you go from Bethania to Ierusalem for there goes one way to the Fountain-Gate and another to the Valley of Gehinnon In the Hebrew Text it is called Tirah as you may read in Matthew which signifies not only a Castle but a firm and sure building with good decorum and order for Tor signifies a circular order It is credible that this Hold is a resting place and that the Ass and the Colt were tied in the way for this cause that if by chance any Travellers were weary by reason of the tediousness of their Journey they might hire them for certain hours to carry them over the Mount of Olives and so return them back again The Allegorical meaning of this Ass and the Colt according to the opinion of many learned men signifies the People of the Iews who were burthened with Moses's Laws and the Asses Colt signifies the rest of the Gentiles which were not charged with the burthen of Moses's Law but tied only to the Law of Nature So we also like Travellers and Strangers in this miserable World are tied to the Afflictions and Calamities thereof standing in two ways expecting the death of the Body and liberty of the Soul then our Saviour Christ cometh in Peace and looseth this Body of death as the Apostle saith Rom. 7. and bringeth us to that Heavenly Ierusalem eternal Joy according to that of St. Paul in the first of the Philippians I desire to be loosed and to be with our Lord Iesus Christ. Of the Mount of Olives ABout half a mile and a Furlong from Jerusalem towards the East stood the Mount of Olives very fruitful and pleasant bringing forth Olives Palms Figs Gossumtine and many other notable Fruits but principally Palms and Olives of which the Mountain taketh the Name It is said in Pliny lib. 16. cap. 19. that these Olive and Palm trees do never lose their Leaves and are green both Winter and Summer St. Austin calleth it The Mountain of Vnction because of the Fertility and pleasantness of it also The Mountain of Health because it bringeth forth Oyls and many other Plants necessary for Physick also The Mountain of Light first because it lieth upon the East so that the Sun shineth in the morning very pleasantly upon it and in the evening when it setteth the Beams thereof reflecting upon the Temple of Jerusalem casteth a beautiful light to this Mount secondly because it bringeth forth Oyl which is the nourishment and life of light thirdly because it was beautified with the gracious presence of our blessed Lord and Saviour Christ which is the Day-star and Light of the Church rising up on high to inlighten all those which shall be called unto eternal happiness For which cause it typically representeth the Church which is the light of the World wherein are found many Christians that bring forth pleasant Fruit good Works relieving the necessity of such as are in want comforting the afflicted and patiently supporting the Calamity and Misery of this World that so they might triumphantly rejoyce with Christ in that heavenly City of Jerusalem What things Zacharias hath spoken of this Mount in his last Chapter is to be understood of the preaching of the Gospel and propagation of the Church through all the World St. Jerom saith in his Epitaph upon St. Paul That upon this Hill the Jews commonly burnt the red Cow with the Ashes whereof the People of God being sprinkled they were purified and sanctified of which you may read Num. 19. Heb. 6. Hellen the Empress Mother to that godly Emperour Constantine the Great about the year of our Lord 332 caused a fair and beautiful Church to be built upon this Mount just in the place where our blessed Lord and Saviour Christ ascended up into Heaven It was built round all of white polished Marble upon the top thereof there is no Roof but a Window even as Christ should ascend through it as Eusebius saith in the Life of the Emperour Constantine the Great lib. 3. cap. 40. The same St. Jerom affirmeth in his Book Delocis Hebraicis He also saith That the Inhabitants of the Holy Land take upon them to shew in this Church the Impression of the Feet of our Saviour Christ which hapned as they say just at such time as he ascended up into Heaven out of which Travellers and Pilgrims take Sand to carry with them as an holy Relick though indeed it is verily to be thought that they were feet made in stone by antient Monks thereby to get Money from such as resorted thither upon Devotion for look how oft Pilgrims take thence the Sand they are presently filled again from whence may be gathered that there is no Sand naturally there Every man therefore ought to imbrace a nearer way to Salvation than to follow those Monkish Fables and to seek Christ in the Holy Scripture not upon the Mount of Olives or amongst Sand for since the Grave could not contain him the Mount of Olives cannot hold him who now sitteth at the right Hand of his Father in Power and eternal Glory but rather if we be desirous to see the Footsteps of Christ let us seek them in the Church which is dispers'd through the World wherein we are sufficiently taught how we should follow him The Palm is a famous Tree which bringeth forth Dates and is so called because upon the top the boughs are thick and round extending out like fingers from whence it is called Dactilus that is a finger Of Gethsamene THIS was a Village scituated at the foot of the Mountain of Olives in a pleasant and fruitful place Near unto this Village as Saint Augustine observeth there were many pleasant Gardens which gave forth very sweet and delectable savours unto which Place Christ and his Disciples did oftentimes resort as the Evangelist Luke cap 22. observeth It was so called from the pressing forth of Oyl for Gath or Geth signifies a Press and Schaemen Oyl In this place the heart of our Saviour Christ was so press'd with affliction that he sweat drops of Blood By which Blood the Sins of our Souls are washed
In the 38 Year after the Nativity of Christ he returned from Arabia Petraea and came to Damascus which was 160 miles and there he diligently taught the Gospel of Christ. But when in the same Year Araeta King of Arabia went about to put him secretly to death he was let down in a Basket over the Wall and so went from Damascus to Ierusalem which was 160 miles and when he came thither he brought Barnabas to the Apostles and shewed them his Conversion and remained with Peter fifteen days preaching the Gospel At this time he saw Iames the Son of Alpheus and Brother of our Lord Acts 9. 2 Cor. 11. Galat. 1. But when his Adversaries that were at Ierusalem went about secretly to put him to death he went from Ierusalem and was brought by the Brethren to Caesarea Strato which was 32 miles Act. 9. About the 38 Year after the Nativity of Christ he went thence into Syria to Tarsus a City of Cilicia which was 272 miles here he continued some Years teaching the Gospel of Christ Gal. 1. 2. Cor. 11. In the 41 Year after the Nativity of Christ and about the seventh Year of his Ministry he was brought by Barnabas from Tarsus to Antiochia in Syria which was 120 miles At this time and in this Town all those that believed in Christ began to be called Christians whereas before they were called Disciples and Brothers Acts 11. These things hapned in the eighth year after the Resurrection of Christ about this time also Matthew wrote his Gospel and Agabus prophesied of the universal Dearth that should happen under Claudius Act. 11. In the 42 year after the Nativity of Christ Paul being then at Antiochia and about 32 years of age was wrap'd up into the third Heaven 14 years before he wrote his second Epistle to the Corinthians 2 Cor. 12. In the 43 year after the Nativity of Christ the Famin whereof Agabus prophesied being now begun he went with the gifts of the Church from Antiochia to Ierusalem which was 280 miles this year Iames the Elder was beheaded at the Command of Agrippa Act. 11. 12. In the 44 year after the Nativity of Christ Paul and Barnâ—bas with Peter were delivered out of Prison by the Angel of the Lord. Now having distributed the Gifts of the Church he returned in the Company of Iohn Mark from Ierusalem to Antiochia which was 280 miles So these Travels were 1928 miles Of the Towns and Places to which he travelled Of Tarsus or Tharsus THIS was the Metropolis of Cilicia scituated upon the River of Cydnus which beginning at Mount Taurus runs thence through this Town into the Mediterranean Sea It was first built by Perseus King of the Persians whom the Poets feign to be the Son of Iupiter and Danae and called Tharsus of the Hyacinth stone which as it seemeth is found thereabous It was distant from Ierusalem 304 miles towards the North in ancient time a goodly City but through the Injury of the Time and Invasion of the Enemy much impaired and lay almost ruined till as Strabo saith li. 14. it was repaired by Sardanapalus that effeminate King of the Assyrians of whom Tully remembreth this Epitaph lib. 5. Tuscula Haec habeo quae aedi quaeque exatura libido Hausit at illa jacent multa praeclara relicta What things I eat or spend in Sport and Play Those I enjoy the rest I cast away From his time until the Reign of Darius the last King of the Persians it continued in great Prosperity and was become a marvellous stately City the Inhabitants thereof being grown very wealthy but then Alexander the Great making War upon that Prince amongst others brought his Army against this City but the Citizens hearing of his notable Exploits durst not abide his coming therefore they fired the City lest he should make a Prey of their Riches and fled which when Alexander perceived he gave order to Parmenio with all possible speed to quench the Fire and save the City In the mean time the King being press'd with an extraordinary Thirst by reason of the extream Heat that was in that Country the Dust and his long Journey put off his royal Garments and cast himself into the River Cydnus which being a cold Water coming out of the North struck the heat presently inward and so benummed his Sinews that had it not been for the present help of his Souldiers and the extraordinary diligence and care of Philip his Physician he had died immediately notwithstanding by the great Providence of God and the carefulness of his Physician he recovered his dangerous Sickness beyond the expectation of Man and after overcame Darius in a sharp and cruel War near to a place called Issa as you may read before See Plutarch in vita Alexand. and Quintus Curtius From that time forward this City grew to be very famous and daily encreased in Stateliness and fair Buildings And to add more dignity to it there was a famous Academy in which were many learned and rare Philosophers insomuch that they of Tharsus exceeded the Philosophers of Athens and Alexandria for Learning and Knowledge though indeed for number of Scholars and common Resort they exceeded Tharsus Saint Paul was born and brought up in this Town and here learned the Knowledge of the Tongues Philosophy and other good Arts. He also perused the Writings of Aratus Epimenides Menander and other learned Men whose Sayings are here and there dispersed through his Epistles From thence he was sent to Ierusalem where he lived and was brought up at the feet of Gamaliel who was Provost of that Academy and after was converted to be an Apostle of Christ Jesus as appeareth Acts 22. This Town at this day is subject to the Empire of the Turks and called by the Name of Terassa being neither so famous nor so fair a City as in the time when the Roman Empire flourished for then because of the extraordinary Vertue of the Citizens it was indowed with the Liberty and Freedom of Rome Of Damascus THis was a metropolitan Town in Syria distant from Ierusalem 160 miles towards the North-east being an ancient and fair City and before such time as Antiochia was built the head of all that Kingdom It was scituated in a fair and fruitful place close by the Mountain Libanus which bringeth forth Frankincense Ceders Cypress and many odoriferous and sweet smelling Flowers There were many Kings that kept their Court in it as Hadad Benhadad the First Benhadad the Second Hasael and others who grievously opposed the Kings of Israel in many sharp and cruel Wars as you may read before The Land round about it aboundeth with white and red Roses Pomgranates Almonds Figs and other sweet and pleasant Fruits In that place the Alablaster stone is found very fair and clear The Air pleasant and healthful The River called Chrysorrus runneth close by it in which there is found golden Veins which yielded perfect Gold The Houses without are not
his accustomed Food Thus it continued so that the Dolphin would suffer the Boy to handle him take him by the Gills play with him yea and sometimes to get upon his Back then swim with him a great way into the Lake and bring him back again and suffer him to go safe upon the shore After this manner he continued for many Years together and in the end the Youth died Yet the Dolphin resorted to his usual place expecting his accustomed Food from the hands of this Boy but missing him he left the shore languish'd away and died Concerning the nature of this Fish you may read more at large in Pliny lib. 9. cap. 8. Of Colossa THIS City is scituated in Phrygia a Country in Asia minor near the Rivers of Lycus and Meander 520 miles from Ierusalem North-westward not far from Laodicea so called from the mighty Statues and Colosso's that were set up in it These Cities Colossa Laodicea and Hierapolis where the Apostle Philip was put to death in the tenth year of Nero a little before Paul's Martyrdom were sunk by an Earthquake which without doubt was a great judgment of God upon them because they refused the Grace and Comfort of the Doctrine of the Gospel offered unto them by the Apostles The Epistle of Paul dedicated to the Colossians was sent by the hand of Onesymus from Rome unto these Towns being 1080 miles For although the Rhodians were called Colossians because of that famous Colossus that stood there yet this City wherein Archippus and Philemon dwelt to whom Paul directed that Epistle stood in Phrygia a Country in Asia minor and not in Rhodes Of Nicopolis NIcopolis is a City of Macedonia scituated close by the River Nessus not far from Philippus upon the Borders of Thrace 920 miles from Ierusalem North-westward From hence the Apostle Paul wrote his Epistle to Titus and sent it to Crete 600 miles There are many other Cities of this Name one standing in Epyre built by Augustus another between Cilicia and Syria built by Alexander in glory of his Victory against Darius a fourth in Bythinia a fifth in the Holy Land formerly called Emmaus Of Rome THis City if we rightly consider the derivation of the Name in Hebrew was not built without the singular Providence of God being derived of Rom i. He hath exalted or made high But the Grecians derive it from Romen i. Strength and Power Now although the Providence of God extendeth to every Creature nay to the very hairs of a Man's Head yet where he determines to express his singular Power there he worketh beyond the expectation of man And who knows not that the beginning of this City was mean raised from a confused Company destitute both of Civility Community and Laws yet hath it been and for the most part is the glory of the World and the great Commander of the Princes of the Earth It was so called at first by Romulus as Livy lib. 1. saith who first built it seven hundred fifty and one years before the Nativity of Christ being scituated upon seven Hills that is Capitolinus Aventinus Palatinus Cealius Exquilinus Viminalis and Quirinalis But after when the City was compassed about with Walls the Hill Ianiculus was inclosed within it The Vallies that lay between these Hills were so raised up with Arches Vaults and artificial Mounts that in process of time they became level with the top of some of those Hills It was beautified with fair and sumptuous Buildings so that as it was the head of the World for Command and Power in like manner it exceeded all the rest of the World for Glory and Riches but principally for stately Buildings There were many goodly Temples dedicated to Iupiter Apollo Aesculapius Hercules Diana Iuno Minerva Lucia Concordia Fides Pietas Pax Victoria Isis besides many other dedicated to other Gods But above all that was the most sumptuous that was called Pantheon Deorum at this day called the Church of Alhallows Moreover here was to be seen the Princely Edifices of Kings Emperours Consuls Senators Patricians and other Romans who were mighty in Wealth and Substance built all of polished Marble beautified with Gold and Silver beside Palaces Bulwarks Theatres triumphant Arches Statues and such like all which were glorious and greatly adorned the City But above all these the House of Nero was most worthy of Observation which to see to was built all of burnish'd Gold very curiously wrought Here also stood the Monuments of the two Caesars Iulius and Augustus also their Statues the one made of pure Brass the other of white Marble Besides there were many fruitful Orchards Water Courses and wholsome Baths brought thither by Antonius Nero Dioclesian and Constantine the Great Also the Emperour Constantine erected many goodly Churches for the use of the Christians and endowed them with great means and amongst the rest that which was dedicated to St. Iohn of Latteran a fair and goodly Church and for Riches and curious Workmanship might compare with the stateliest Temples that ever had been in the World most of the Ornaments and Images being made of Gold and Silver he also erected the Vatican which was dedicated to St. Peter and another holy House dedicated to St. Paul in either of which he placed their several Sepulchres and Monuments bestowing extraordinary Cost to beautifie them So many were the Gifts and Gratuities of this Emperour that they can scarce be numbred so that although the Emperour Trajan and Boniface the Fourth Pope of Rome bestowed great Cost to beautifie and adorn the City yet were they nothing comparable to that which this Emperour did These things then being presented to your view you might justly say That Rome in her Prosperity and Eminency was the Glory of the World but as all Estates are fickle and uncertain still subject to Variety and Change so was this first envied of the World because of the extream oppression of her Governours and after made desolate by Violence and Force all her former Glory being eclipsed and the greatest part of these goodly Buildings laid level with the Ground Thus have I shewed you what Rome was when it was in her Prosperity it resteth now to shew what Rome is Rome at this day differeth as much from the ancient Rome as the Substance from the Shadow For although the Pope hath beautified and adorned the West part of it with many fair and goodly Buildings and called it by the name of new Rome yet it is nothing comparable to the ancient City as it was when Augustus and Constantine the Great were Emperâ—ours thereof neither doth it stand in the ancient place for the first City stood upon the East side of Tyber this upon the West The chief part of the other stood upon the Mountains Capitolinus and Palatinus upon which were the stately Buildings of Senators Kings and Emperours but now they lye desolate and waste The Capitol also and the Temple of Iupiter Feretrius goodly Buildings beaten to the
66.10 31.58 Jarmouth 65.37 31.51 Azecha 65.51 31.54 Lachis 65.51 31.49 Eglon 65.50 31.48 Makeda 65.49 31.52 Libna 95.49 31.50 Debir 65.32 31.46 Bethsur 65.47 31.48 Kâ—chila 65.38 31.47 Mareâ—a 65.42 31.54 Maon 65.38 31.41 Carmel 65.40 31.44 Ziph 65.38 31.43 Arah 65.45 31.37 Hebron 65.33 31.45 Gerer 65.37 31.42 Kades barnea 65.22 31.29 Adar 65.12 31.32 Carcaha 65.06 31.30 Hasmona 65.00 31.30 Bethsemes 65.55 31.55 Beersabah 65.31 31.40 Siclag 65.15 31.37 Ecron 65.40 31.58 Azotus 65.35 31.00 Astalon 65.24 31.52 Gath 65.23 31.48 Gaza 65.11 31.40 The Towns lying on this side of the River Jordan Dan 67.25 33.08 Jor sons 67.31 33.07 Caesarea Philippi 67.30 32.05 Seleucia 67.17 33.50 Eruptio fluvii ex Samachoniride palude 67.11 32.44 Capernaum 66.53 31.29 Eruptio fluvii è mare Genezareth 66.43 32.21 Ephion 66.42 32.20 Ennon 66.40 32.16 Gamala 66.55 32.25 Salem 66.37 32.18 Chrit torrens 66.16 31.57 Ostia Jordanis 66.17 31.54 Engedi 66.22 31.43 Zoar vel Sagor 66.17 31.38 Eruptio Zered 66.19 31.34 Towns standing beyond Jordan Mirba 66.50 32.20 Astharoth 67.00 32.26 Astaroth 66.57 32.23 Gadara 66.48 32.23 Machanaim 66.44 32.19 Jaezar 66.39 32.12 Hesbon 66.28 32.05 Jabes 66.55 32.21 Ramah 66.51 32.20 Nobach 66.38 32.16 Jachsa 66.28 32.02 Aroer 66.30 32.00 Macherus 66.23 31.56 Minith 66.36 32.66 Midian 66.30 31.55 Didon 66.32 32.06 Punuel 66.39 31.18 Edrei 66.15 32.21 Abela Vinearum 67.00 32.23 Philadelphia 67.10 32.22 Pella 67.03 32.20 Phiala fons 67.43 33.05 Betharan 67.30 32.08 Pisgamons 66.26 32.01 Abarim montes 66.29 31.58 Towns in Aegypt Memphis 61.50 29.50 Heliopolis 62.15 29.59 Tanis 63.30 29.50 Taphnis 62.30 31.00 Ony 60.30 30.10 Alexandria 60.30 31.00 Mercurii civitas magna 61.40 28.55 Mercurii civitas parva 61.00 30.50 Delta magnum 62.00 30.00 Xois 62.30 30.45 Busitis 62.30 30.15 Hesâ—oe 63.20 29.10 Solis â—ons 58.15 28.00 Iourneys out of Aegypt Raemses 63.00 30.05 Pihachiroth 62.50 29.40 Mara 63.35 29.50 Elim 63.45 29.50 Juxtâ— mare 63.55 29.45 Paran Promontorium 65.00 29.00 Daphea 64.14 29.46 Alus 64.30 29.46 Raphiddim 64.40 29.53 Sinai mons 65.00 30.00 Hazeroth 65.50 30.14 Zephor mons 65.54 30.50 Mozeroth 64.18 39.04 Hasmona 65.09 31.30 Gidgad mons 65.30 30.20 Jothabatha 65.30 26.40 Habrona 65.30 29.40 Hesion Gaber 65.30 29.20 Sin 66.00 29.56 Hor mons 66.00 30.25 Salmona 66.25 30.40 Phunon 66.30 30.54 Oboth 66.50 31.04 Jeabarim 67.00 31.18 Zered torrens vallis 66.44 21.20 Didon Gad 66.48 31.32 Almon diblathaim 66.48 31.24 Chedemoth solitudo 66.56 32.00 Beer puteus 66.50 23.00 Marthana Solitudo 66.49 23.00 Nathaleel 66.40 00.23 Bamoth vallis 66.30 32.00 Towns in Arabia Petraea Petra 65.40 31.18 Paran 94.30 30.04 Midian 65.30 29.15 Hesion gebar 65.35 29. â—0 Elana villa harla vel elath 95.35 29.15 Ostia Nili Canopicum 66.50 31.05 Bolbithinum 61.30 31.05 Sibenniticum 61.45 31.05 Pathmiticum 92.35 31.10 Mendesium 62.45 31.10 Pelusiacum 63.15 31.15 Thou 63.00 31.30 Sirbonis lacus eruptio 65.45 31.50 Sirbonis lacus 63.30 31.10 Idem 63.45 31.10 Civitas Pelusium 36.25 31.20 Rhinocorura 94.40 31.10 Some other great Towns Babilon 76.00 35.00 Antiochia 60.30 33.35 Damasâ—us 68. â—5 33.00 Palmira 72.40 35.10 Ur chaldeorum 78.00 39.40 Eâ—bathana 88.00 37.47 Rages in Media 93.40 36.04 Sula in Perâ—a 83.00 34.15 Persepolis 91.00 33.20 Heccatompilon in Parthia 96.00 37.50 Zaba in Arabia foelix 97.00 13.00 Meroe 61.30 16.25 Haram in Mesopotania 75.15 36.10 Hircania 98.30 40.00 Ciraenae 50.00 31.20 The Description of the City of Ierusalem as it was before Titus Vespasian destroyed it THE most holy and beautiful City of Ierusalem was twice destroyed first by Nebuchadnezzar the most puissant King of Babylon who did utterly beat down and overthrow the City burning the costly Temple which King Soloâ—on had built After that Zorobabel and the High Priest Ioshua when they returned from the Captivity of Babylon re-edified and built again both the City and the Temple in the Year before the Birth of Christ 535. But the second Temple which was built after their Return was neither so fair nor so great as the first for it was twenty Cubits loweâ— than the former After that King Herod seventeen years before the Birth of Christ caused the said Tâ—â—ple to be broken down again as Iosephus saith and â—â—ected another new Temple in Place thereof which nevâ—rtheless was not like the first Temple that Sâ—lomon built as touching the Greatness but it was exceeding fairly decked and adorâ—â—◠〈◊〉 Gold and Silver so that in regard of the Beautifulness â—â—â—reof it was a Wonder unto all that came to Ierusalem Which Temple forty Years after Christ's Death and 〈◊〉 was also utterly destroyed by Tâ—tus the Son of 〈…〉 the â—mperour I will 〈…〉 form of the City Ierusalem as it was before it was defaced by 〈…〉 of Vespâ—â—an and therewithall I will shew how the costly 〈…〉 Solomon placed therein stood for seeing that the two 〈…〉 great Molten Sea were not therein when our Lord 〈…〉 Earth being broken down by Nebuchadnezzar's 〈…〉 necessary and very requisite to be known how they 〈…〉 that the Reader may be fully satisfied I will also first 〈…〉 of Ierusalem as it was in those Days with the chiefest Places 〈…〉 Towers Gates Houses Castles Fountains Hills Vallies 〈…〉 things therein How the City Ierusalem is scituate 〈…〉 from Germany TH◠〈…〉 is scituate in the middle of 〈…〉 thereabouts and Ierusalem is 〈…〉 five hundred miles but if you will travel to 〈…〉 from thence to Ierusalem it is five hundred and â—ifty Miles The Scituation of Jerusalem and the Mountains whereon it stood JErusalem was four square and scituated upon four Mountains viz. Mount Sion Mount Moriah Mount Acra and Mount Bezetha Mount Sion was the highest of all and lay within the City of Ierusalem towards the South whereon stood King David's House or the Castle of Sion and the uppermost Town Mount Moriah whereon the Temple stood with other excellent Buildings and Towers was on the East side of the City within the Walls Mount Acra whereon the lower Town was built stood Westward in the City where Annas Caiphas Pilate Herod Agripâ—a Bernice Helena and other Kings and great Princes dwelt The holy City of Jerusalem may in this manner be briefly described THE most holy and beautiful City of Ierusalem if any would consider the three principal parts of the World Europe Asia and Africa stood in the midst of the World upon most high Mountains and Rocks like an earthly Paradise a lively Figure of the everlasting City of God This City being the Metropolitan or principallest City of the Jews stood in the Tribe of Benjamin at the first it was called Salem that is Peaceable when Melchisedech the Priest of God reigned therein which he also built after the Deluge as Iosephus and Egisippus write But at that time it was not very great for it stood only upon Mount Sion Mount Moriah where Abraham would have offered his Son Isaac stood without the City and after that they took it into the City as
when time serveth it shall be declared After the Death of Melchisedech unto whom Abraham paid the Tythes of all his Goods the Iebusites dwelt in the City of Ierusalem and had the dominion of it and all the Land thereabouts in their Subjection called the City Iebus after their Name which Name was held a long time as we read in Iosh. 10. Iud. 10. and 2 Sam. 1. But at last Ioab King David's General of his Army won it and drave the Jebusites out of it and called it Ierusalem that is A Sight or Vision of Peace It hath also other Names in the holy Scripture for in Esay 29. it is called Ariel that is God's â—yon and Mount Libanus The Prophet Ezechiel 23. calleth it Ahaliba my fixed Pavillion or Tent that is a City wherein God had placed his own Habitation The Circuit and Bigness of the City Jerusalem THE City of Ierusalem was four-square and in circumference three and thirty Furlongs as Iosephus writeth which three and thirty Furlongs make somewhat more than a Dutch mile Some write that it was four miles Compass about yet these were not Dutch miles but Walloon or Italian miles for four such Italian miles are a Dutch mile Of Mount Sion the higher City MOunt Sion stood Northwards in the City Ierusalem and was much higher than all the other Hills that were therein therefore it was called Sion that is a watch Tower because from thence one might see the Holy Land and all the Countries thereabout upon this Hill the upper City was built which in the Scripture is called the City of David because David won it from the Iebusites and beautified it with many goodly Houses and fair and costly buildings but especially with his house of Cedar-wood which he termed the Castle of Sion which stood Westwards at the corner of the Hill looking into Bethlehem Southwards In that house David dwelt and therein committed Adultery with Berseba the Wife of Vriah the Hittite whose House also with the place of divers Privy Councellors and Officers stood upon the Hill not far from the King's Palace as Iosephus writeth Beneath King David's House upon Mount Sion within a Rock there was to be seen the Sepulchre or Vault wherein King David Solomon his Son and other succeeding Kings of Iuda were entombed and buried Upon Mount Sion also towards the East King Herod had a Garden of Pleasure not far from the Fountain called Silo Nehemiah 3. and there also stood the Tower of Silo whereof Luke in the 13 chapter maketh mention Iosephus in the Wars of the Jews his first Book and sixteenth Chapter saith That King Herod under whom Christ Jesus was born had two fair and strong Houses or Towers which he set and made in the upper part of the City Ierusalem upon Mount Sion which were in a manner comparable with the Temple for Beautifulness which he called after the Name of his Friends the one Caesarea for Caesar the Emperor's sake and the other Agrippa acording to the name of the noble Roman Marcus Agrippa that marryed the Daughter of Augustus Caesar. This may suffice to declare the Scituation of the upper City which stood upon mount Sion and contained in Circuit fifteen Furlongs which is about half a mile This uppermost City in the sacred Scripture is called the City of David it was also called Millo that is Fullness or Plenty for in it there was no Want but Abundance of all things Of the Steps which descended down from the City of David unto the lower City MOunt Sion whereon the upper City of Ierusalem did stand was such a high hard Hill and so steep that no man could climb or ascend unto it by any way or means but only one that is by steps for in the middle thereof there was a great pair of stairs made which descended from David's City unto the lower City into the Valley or Dale of Gates called Thyroreion which stairs were 780 Foot high as Iohannes Heydonius writeth and beneath in the Valley of Thyroreion over against the Valley of Cedron at the foot of the stairs stood a Gate which was called the Gate of Sion and they which went up to Mount Sion must pass through that Gate and so up those Stairs but it is thought nevertheless that in some other part of the Hill there was some winding or other oblique way made by which Horses and Chariots by little and little might ascend Allegorical or Spiritual Significations of Mount Sion SIon in Hebrew signifieth a sure hold or goodly Aspect for that from the top thereof a man might have seen all the Land lying thereabouts and was a type of the highest Heavens or Habitation of Almighty God from whence he beholdeth all things upon Earth from which Throne and Heavenly Habitation he descended into this lower Ierusalem and became our Redeemer and Saviour that so we being purged by his Blood from all our Sins and Imperfections he might bring us into that heavenly Ierusalem which is eternall Glory Of Mount Moriah on which the Temple stood MOunt Moriah stood Eastward within Ierusalem which was a most hard stoney Hill from whence towards the rising of the Sun men by stairs might easily descend but round about on the other three sides it was steep and unapprochable like a Stone wall yet it was not so high as Mount Sion howbeit it was exceeding high extending and reaching 600 Foot in height and on the top thereof was a very fair Plain like unto that of Mount Sion whereon in times past Abraham built an Altar and would have offered his Son Isaac for a Sacrifice Gen. 22. At which time when Abraham obeyed the Commandment of God intending to have offered his Son Isaac upon the Hill and thereon had made an Altar then the said Hill lay without the City but long time after about the space of 850 Years when King David had conquered Ierusalem and driven thence the Iebusites to enlarge the City he compassed in Mount Moriah and Mount Acrâ— with a Wall upon which there stood many goodly Buildings And amongst other things worthy Observation upon this Mount stood the Barn or Threshing floor of Arafâ—a the Iebusite wherein King David built an Altar offered burnt Offerings and besought the Lord that the Angel of God whose hand was stretched over Ierusalem holding a bloody Sword and had smitten the City with the Pestilence might cease from punishing the same and the Plague ceased On the same place where the Barn of Arafâ—a the Jebusite stood King Solomon also did build the Temple 1 Paral. 23. 24. Ioseph Antiq. Jud. lib. 23. 24. An Allegorical or Spiritual Interpretation of Mount Moriah MOriah is as much as to say the Lord's Mirrh and signifieth our Lord Jesus Christ which is the true Mirrh and sweet smelling Sacrifice unto God a stedfast Rock an immoveable Foundation whereon God's Church and the Members thereof are built Esay 28. Matth. 16. Vpon this Rock will I build my