molten Sea standing upon twelve Oxen in the uppermost Court THE molten Sea and Fountain was a figure of Baptism and that living Water issuing from the Wounds of Christ whereby we are washed from all our Sins the Laâ—er of Regeneration whereby we are made capable of Eernal Life that Well of Water whereof if we drink we shall never thirst The twelve Oxen represent the twelve Apostles whose voices have gone through the World according to that in the Corinthians and have carried the Sea of Grace through all parts of the Earth Of which Water saith St. Augustine if thou drinkest but one drop it is more effectual to quench the thirst of Worldly and insatiable desires than an Ocean of earthly Waters The Mystery of the middle Court SOlomon's Court wherein Christ taught and in which the Jews used commonly to pray was a figure of that Church which should be gathered from amongst the Jewes For from thence he indeavoured first to assemble and gather together a Christian Congregation according to that which he spake to the Canaanitish Woman Mat 15. I am sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel Of the outward Court of the Gentiles THis Court signified That the Gentiles also should partake of the sheepfold and Congregation of Christ and be members of his holy Church according to that of Iohn 10. I have yet other sheep which I must also bring hither that sothere might be one sheepfold one Pastor c. Of the rest of the memorable Buildings standing upon mount Moriah HAving thus described the Temple together with the several Courts and Ornaments all which did typically represent Christ and his Church I will now proceed to the rest of the Buildings standing upon mount Moriah The first and most memorable was the house of Solomon which stood just against the Temple upon the South it shined so with Gold and Silver and was so stately and sumptuously built that when Queen Saba came to Ierusalem she stood amazed to see it There belonged to it divers Courts and Walks in one of which the Prophet Ieremy was prisoner Ier. 37. Over against this he made the Judgment-hall in which he placed the Ivory Chair spoken of 1 Kin. 10. He built by that another house for his Queeen she that was daughter of Pharaoh 1 Kin. 7. But when Nebuchadnezzar conquered Ierusalem all these together with the Temple were burnt and utterly deâ—aced Of the Peol of Bethesda UPon the North lay that sheep-fold or sequestred place called Bethesda Ioh. 5. which had five porches or Xenodochius as some would have it here Cattel came to drink and the Priests used to wash their Sacrifices because no unclean Beast might come within the Temple nor any thing that was foul or spotted be offered upon the Altar The water was of reddish colour and ran into that place in great abundance and therefore it was called the house of effusion or pouring out This was the place into which the Angel of God sometimes descended and troubled the Water after which whosoever stepped in was presently cured and here our Saviour Christ healed the Man that had been diseased 38 years Ioh. 5. This place was made by King Hezekiah who caused the water of the uppermost Pool which was called Gâ—â—on not far from mount Calvary to be conveyed by Pipes and passages through the Earth into the lower city called Acra and so fell into this place for which cause it was called the lower Pool The Allegorie or mystery hereof is That every one of Christs Sheep ought to be washed in the Pool of his Blood before they can be made fit Sacrifices to enter into his Temple or Church 1 Ioh. 1. Of the Tower or Castle called Antonia THis Castle as Ioseph hath it lib. 6. de Bell. cap. 6. stood between two Courts of the Temple at the North-West corner at first built by the Machabees and called by the name of Bâ—ris but after King Herod taking affection to that place bestowed great cost upon it walled it about built up sumptuous Towers and made it very strong then gave it the name of Antonia in favour of Antonius that noble Roman which Augustus a long time sustained after their decease Of the Hall called Coenaculum Anguli THis house stood upon an Angle or Cantle of the Hill and was therefore called Coenaculum Anguli it was very large and spatious and within had a great Hall whereof Nehem. cap. 3. maketh mention and here as some think our Saviour Christ ate the Paschal Lamb with his Disciples but I rather think it was in the Suburbs Of the Tower Ophel or the dark Tower NEar to the Valley of Cedron towards the East not far from the Temple and near the Castle Antonia there was builded a lofty and strong Tower or Palace called Ophel that is a place of darkness it was a very sumptuous thing Of Hamea or the Tower of the Centurions IN the Town wall between the Sheep-gate and the Dung-gate stood this Castle Hamea or Centurion taking the name â— Centenario numero i. The number of an hundred and was upon the East side of the City near to the sheepfold or Pool Bethesda Neh. 3. 12. Here the Centurions commonly kept watch Of Mount Acra and the buildings upon it MOunt Acra as is aforesaid stood upon the West side of Ierusalem it was a very high Mountain and took that name from the Greek word Acra a sharp or high Hill It was much higher than mount Moriah in times past till Machabeus's brother caused it to be cut lower to make it equal in height with mount Moriah Between these two Hills lay the Valley Cedron which was in profundity 400 Cubits Upon this Mountain another part of the City was builded being strongly fortified and richly adorned with sumptuous houses of which David and Solâ—mon were the principal Founders and was called the lower City or the Daughter of Sion It was so beautiful that some hold of which number are 〈◊〉 and Eusebius that it it exceeded the rest of the City Here stood the house of Helena Queen of the Adiabenoâ—s near about the midst of it as Ioseph observeth Li. Bell. 7. cap. 13. which Queen being converted to the Jewish Religion built her an house in this City that she might pray in the Temple Here stood the houses of her Sons Monebasius and Grapta here stood the houses of the High Priests Annas and Caiphas not far from the Valley Tyropae King Herod also that wicked Man who caused the innocent Children to be put to Death built him an house here near about the place where the Machabees in times past had a Castle for they built two one in Mount Moriah another in this Mount That in Mount Moriah was after called the Castle of Antonia and stood right against the Temple as is aforesaid And this being very sumptuously built and a Royal Seat was after the death of this Herod a Palace for his Successors Archilaus and Herod Agrippa
is a Mountain of the Idumaeans eighty eight miles from Ierusalem toward the South-east and is derived of Harar which signifieth a great Mountain here Aaron died The King of the Canaanites which dwelt toward the South in a Town called Arad upon the Borders of Iudaea and Arabia Petraea hearing that Aaron was dead invaded the Iews with a great Army discomfited them and took some of them Captives But after the Israelites to revenge this injury took and destroyed divers Cities which belonged to the Canaanites and put the Citizens to the Sword This Countrey is called Chormah which signifieth a curse or desolation Of Zalmona THIS was a place in the Desart of Zin-Kades where the Israelites pitch't their Tents being 80 miles from Ierusalem to the South-east and took the name from shades or little sheds under which the Israelites dwelt for Zalmona seems a compound of Zel and Mun which signifies a shady place and seems to have affinity with Manah to distribute here and there Of Phunon THIS was a City of the Idumaeans scituated in the Wilderness of Arabia Petraea 64 miles from Ierusalem towards the South-east and takes the name from a fair and flourishing City For Panan in Hebrew signifies an high Pinacle from whence one might see all Parts of the World Here Moses set up the brasen Serpent Of Oboth THIS was the thirty seventh Mansion of the Israelites in the Wilderness and was fifty six miles from Ierusalem towards the South-east and signifies a Serpent called Python Here the Arabians received an answer from the Devil by way of Conjuration Of Igim THIS was the thirty eighth Mansion of the Israelites so called because of the multitude which were assembled near to a Mountain called Abariâ— 52 miles from Ierusalem toward the South-east for Igim signifies a Congregation Of Dibâ—n Gad. THIS was the thirty ninth Station of the Israelites in the Desart being fifty two miles from Ierusalem towards the South-east neer to the Floud Zared bordering upon the Idumaeans and Moabites running from thence into the Red Sea and as it seems taketh name from descending into a strong place Of Almon Diblathaim THis place stands beyond the Red Sea some forty miles from Ierusalem towards the East and taketh name from a Frail of dried Figs for Alam signifieth he hath hidden and Debeleth A Frail of dried Figs. Here was the fortieth Mansion of the Israelites and lay close by the River Arnon Num. 21. and 23. Of the Mountaines Abarim THese Mountaines lay 32 miles from Ierusalem towards the East and taketh the name from Passing along for Abâ—r is as much as to say he went along Between these Mountains and the Lake Asphaltites near to the Eastern River of the Dead Sea the Moabites inhabited Of Jahza THis was a City of the Levites the Sons of Merar in the Tribe of Benjamin 24 miles from Ierusalem Eastward Ies. 21. Here Moses overcame the King of the Ammonites and put them to death Num. 21. Of Chezbon THis was the Metropolis of Sehon King of the Ammorites who held the Country beyond Iordan and because he would not suffer the Children of Israel to pass through his Dominions therefore Moses made War upon him put him to death and gave all his Countrey to the Tribes of Reuben and Gad. This was a Fair Town and after fell to the Levites Num. 21. 33. Deut. 1 2 c. and took its name from Cheschebon which signifies an Artificial understanding for Chaschaf is as much as excogitavit that is he hath found out and Cheschaef is an Artificial and ingenious Work Of Jaezir Jaezir was a City of the Priests in the Tribe of Gad 36 miles from Ierusalem towards the East and in Ieroms time was a small Village and sâ—gnifies the Lord is my help being derived of Iah that is the Lord God and Ezâ—er the helper Of Edrie THIS is a City in the Countrey of Gilead beyond Iordan and the Galilean Sea thirty two miles from Ierusalem South-eastward near the Lake of Gaderin where Og the King of Bâ—san was overcome by Moses and after fell to the Tribe of Mâ—nâ—sses Num. 21. Iosh. 13. Deut. 13. S. Ierom saith that in his time this Town was called Adar Og signifieth a Cook or one that baketh Bread upon coals Aâ—driae signifies an heap of bright Clouds being derived of Adar and Hi that is a clear heap Of Astoroth THIS was a Metropolitan City of Basan four miles distant from Edrei and 56 from Ierusalem toward the South-east It stood beyond Iordan and belonged to the half Tribe of Manasses of which you may read before in the Travels of Lot Of Pisgah THIS was an high Mountain in the Plain of the Moâ—bites against Iericho 240 miles from Ierusalem East-ward It took the name from the Cities Pisgâ—h and Nebo and therefore is called sometimes Pisgah sometimes Nebo Here Moses died Nebo signifies a City of the Prophets Pisgah the top of a Hill The Travels of the Prophet Balaam THERE are many which think that this Prophet Balaam was of the Posterity of Nahor the Brother of Abraham and an Inhabitant oâ— Charan in Mesoâ—otamia Gen. 11. Ioseâ—hus saith he dwelt near to Euphrates and St. Ierom in a City called Phatura of which there is mention Num. 22. and signifies an obscure Prophet or Oracle which interpreteth For Pathar with the Hebrews is the same that He hath interpreted is with us Wherefore this Prophet travelled from Pithora or Phatura in Mesoâ—otamia to Abel or the Plain of Vines where his Ass spake Num. 22. which is 400 miles From thence he went to the Land of the Moabites 40 miles where in the Mount of Peor he blessed the Children of Israel So all the Travels of this Prophet were 440 miles Of the Plain of the Vines THere is often mention of this place in the Scripture and for the fertility of the Countrey and plenty of sweet Wines there was a beautiful City built called Abel of the Vines some 56 miles from Ierusalem South-Eastward and was placed just in the way as they went from Mesopotamia into the Countrey of the Moabites Whereby it appeareth that near to this place the Ass spake to Balaam Numb 22. In Ierom's time there was found a little Village so called where there was great plenty of Vines Here Ieptha overcame the Ammorites and made a great slaughter Iudg. 11. The Travels of that Noble Captain Joshuah JOSHVAH and Caleb travelled with Moses from Raemsis out of Aegyâ—t through the Red Sea and came to Kades-Barnea 268 miles From Kades-Barnea they were sent forth with other Spies to the Land of Canaan Num. 13. and went out of the wilderness of Zin and Paran and came to the Town of Rechob in Galilee 140 miles From thence they went to the Town of Hamath in Syria which was after called Antiochia 188 miles From Hamath or Antiochia they returned again to Hebron 304 miles where upon the side of the River Escol they cut off a Bunch of Grapes with the stalk
of Israel who was crowned King his Father yet living about the beginning of the twenty sixth year of Asa King of Iuda at such time as Benhadad King of Syria invaded and wasted Galilee He reigned two years one of them during the Life of his Father the other alone in Thirza at the end of which he was slain by Simri his Servant 1 Reg. 15 16. Of Zimri King of Israel ZImri signifieth a Singer and was a Captain over King Elah's Chariots he reigned seven dayes in Thirza in which time he put to death and utterly rooted out all the Posterity of Baasha and then Omri besieged the City so straitly that he had no hope to escape wherefore he set the City and Palace on fire in which he also perished 1 Reg. 15 16. The Travels of Omri King of Israel OMRI signifieth a Souldier or one that deserveth his Pay He was made King by the Israelites in his Tent while he was at Wars near to Gibithon from whence he went to Thirza which was thirty six miles and besieged the same upon the very day that Zimri had put the Posterity of Baasha to the Sword and took it He began to reign in Thirza Ann. Mund. 3017 and before Christ 951. and reigned over Israel twelve years the first six in Thirza that latter six in Samaria 1 Reg. 16. From Thirza he went to Mount Semer six miles there Omri built Samaria and made it the Seat of his Kingdom He went thither about the seventh year of his Reign 1 Reg. 16. So these two Journeys were forty two miles Of Samaria SAmaria the chief Seat and Metropolis of Israel was built by Omri in Mount Semer 32 miles from Ierusalem towards the North and took that name of Semer who was Lord of that Mountain of whom King Omri bought it for two Talents of Silver which amounteth to 1200 Crowns In this City fourteen Kings of Israel kept their Courts viz. Omri who was the first Founder of it Ahab Ahazia Iehoram Iehu Ioachas Ioas Ieroboam Zacharias Sallum Menahem Pekahia Pekah and Hosea who was the last of the Kings of Israel that reigned in this City and lost it together with his Liberty Of all these Kings there were but five that died naturally for the Lord being moved to wrath by reason of their Impiety and Idolatry either gave them up into the hands of Foreign Enemies or by Civil War amongst themselves they cruelly murthered one another until such time as the Assyrians destroyed the Land and and led the People captive Thus the Lord punished with a sharp and severe punishment this obstinate Nation because they contemned the Admonitions and Doctrines of the Prophets amongst which Elias and Elizeus were the chief So that although Samaria was a fair and beautiful City and the Countrey for that cause was called the Province of Samaria yet notwithstanding that great God the Judge of all things for the Iniquity of the People caused this fair City to be left desolate the Inhabitants of the Land to be dispersed and the Earth for want of due usage to lye as a Wilderness 2 Reg. 17. This City in the Old Testament according to the Hebrew Phrase is called Shaemaer of Schomron which signifies to keep or a Tower of strength You may read of this 1 Reg. 2. 2 Reg. 1 7. The Greeks and Latines call it Samaria which signifies the Castle of Iehovah or of God You may read more of this in the second Volume Of Hiel that built Jericho again AFter the death of Omri King of Israel when Ahab his Son began to reign Hiel a very rich man in the Town of Bethel that he might leave behind him an eternal memory of his Name went to Iericho which had been formerly destroyed by Ioshuah the Son of Nun and had lain waste for the space of 536 years where contrary to the Commandment of the Lord and curse of Ioshuah he caused the said City to be rebuilt such was the impious Security and Incredulity of this man but the Lord was angry with him and he struck all his Children that they dyed The eldest Son called Abiram at the laying of the Foundation and his youngest Son called Segub at the hanging on of the Gates Ios. 6. 1 Reg. 16. The Travels of King Ahab AHab went from Samaria to the Hill Carmel where Elias put to death the Priests of Baal which was about thirty two miles 1 Reg. 18. From thence he went to Iezreel which is sixteen miles there he told his Wife how Elias had put the Priests of Baal to the Sword 1 Reg. 18. From Iezreel he went again to Samaria eighteen miles where being prest with a hard Siege by Benhadad King of Syria he broke out of the City for his better safety and by Gods great providence and assistance he assailed the Syrians put a great multitude of them to the Sword the rest fled and he went away with a noble Victory as the Prophet of the Lord had formerly told him 1 Reg. 20. From Samaria he went with his Army to Apheck which was fourteen miles where he renewed a second Battel and therein had good success so that he took Benhadad alive and put to the Sword 100000 Syrians In this place the Prophet of the Lord reproved him for his ingratitude and obstinacy wherefore Ahab being angry he went from Apheck to Samaria which was eight miles 1 Reg. 20. From Samaria he went to Iezreel sixteen miles where that perfidious Queen Iesabel caused Naboth to be put to death and took possession of his Vineyard 1 Reg. 21. From Iezreel he went to Ramoth-Gilead twenty four miles and there in a fight that he had against the Syrians was so sore wounded with an Arrow that he was constrained to leave the Battel 1 Reg. 22. And as he went back again to Samaria which was twenty four miles he dyed of his wound Of this man you may read more 1 Reg. 21 22. So all the Travels of Ahab were 152 miles The Description of Carmel Apheck and Ramoth you may read before Of Iezreel JEzreel is a City in the Tribe of Issachar scituated upon a rising ground some forty eight miles from Ierusalem towards the North where Ahab sometimes kept his Court. Here Naboth the Iezreelite dwelt an honest and Religious man one of good Esteem and Authority that feared God and would not suffer the Inheritance of one Tribe to be transferred to another because God had commanded the contrary Num. ult For which cause he would not sell his Vine-yard to Ahab wherefore Iezabel that wicked Woman to satisfie the Kings desire caused him to be stoned Iezreel signifies the Seed of God being derived of Sera Seed and El the Almighty God Though in former times this hath been a fair Town yet at this day there is no past thirty houses in it and is called Charity standing at the foot of Mount Gilboah they shew at this day the field of Naboth the Iezreelite lying towards the West as you go
forward he left Idolatry and worshipped the true God adorned the Temple of the Lord with many fair and beautiful Buildings and in the five and fiftieth year of his age he died and was buried in the Kings Garden 2 Reg. 21. 2 Chron. 33. So all the Travels of Manasses were 1360 miles Of Amon King of Judah AMon signifieth True and Faithful he succeeded his Father Manasses when he was twenty two years of age Anno mundi 3307 before Christ 661. He reigned two years and then because of his exceeding Idolatry the Lord cast him off when he was about twenty four years of age near which time some of his Servants conspired against him and put him to death The Travels of King Josiah JOSIAH signifies A Sacrifice of the Lord he succeeded his Father Manasses in the Government when he was but eight years of age Anno Mundi 3309 before Christ 659. He governed Israel with great commendations thirty two years 2 Reg. 22. his Mothers name was Iedidah and dwelt in a Town called Bâ—zâ—ath but how far this Town stood from Ierusalem is not set down by any Author This good King went from Ierusalem to Bethel which was eight miles there he burnt upon the Altar which Ieroboam built the bones of the Priests of Baal as the man of God which came from Iudah had told Ieroboam 350 years before 1 Reg. 13. 2 Chr. 35. From Bethel he returned back to Ierusalem which was eight miles there he celebrated the Passover with a solemn Feast and great Attendance 2 Reg. 23. 2 Chr. 35. In the last year of his Reign he went with his Army from Ierusalem to Megiddo being forty four miles against Pharaoh Necho King of Aegypt in which Battel he was slain with an Arrow about the thirty ninth year of his age 2 Chron. 3 5. From Megiddo his Body was carried in a Chariot back again to Ierusalem which was forty four miles and there with great Lamentations honourably buried 2 Reg. 23. 2 Chr. 35. So all his Travels were 104 miles The Travels of Jehoahas King of Judah JEhoahas signifies the knowledge of God he succeeded his Father Iosiah in the twenty third year of his age Anno Mundi 3340 which was 628 years before Christ and reigned only three Months 2 Reg. 24. 2 Chron. 36. Ieremy cap. 22. calleth this man Schallum that is a Recompence He went from Ierusalem to Riblah a City in the Tibe of Nepthaly which is accounted eighty miles where he was taken Prisoner by Pharaoh Necho 2 Reg. 23. From Riblah Pharaoh Necho led him Captive bound in Chains back again to Ierusalem being eighty miles and there appointed Iehojakim his elder Brother to reign in his place 2 Reg. 23. 2 Chron. 36. From Ierusalem he carried Iehoahas to Memphis the Metropolitan City of Aegypt which was 244 miles 2 Reg. 23. So all the Travels of Iehoahas were 404 miles Of Jehoiakim King of Judah JEhoiakim was the eldest Son of Iosiah that Good King and succeeded his Brother Iehoahas in the Kingdom Anno Mundi 3341 before Christ 627 he governed Iudah eleven years Pharaoh Necho made him King when he was twenty five years of age to whom he was constrained to pay 100 Talents of Silver and a Talent of Gold This Money being payed he obtained the Kingdom and continued in great Impiety and Idolatry for which cause he was sharply reprehended by Ieremiah the Prophet but he being offended at his words sought to put him to death wherefore the Lord stirred up Nebuchadnezzar the second of that name Emperour of the Assyrians and Babylonians who in the eleventh year of this King's Reign came to Ierusalem and took him captive tyed him in two chains and would have carried him to Babylon but his mind changed wherefore he caused him to be put to death and cast out into the Fields of Ierusalem for a prey to wild Beasts Ier. 22. 2 Reg. 23. Of Jehoiachin King of Judah Jehoiachin signifies the preparation of Iehovah This man succeeded his Brother Iehoiakim and began his Reign about the end of the 3351 year of the World and reigned only three Months and ten days which was about the eighth year of Nabuchadonozor the Great at which time he was led captive from Ierusalem to Babylon together with Mordochae and many other Nobles which was 680 miles This Captivity happened 617 years before Christ 2 Reg. 24. 2 Chron. 36. Ester 2. Ier. 52. The Travels of Zedekiah the last King of Judah AFter Iehoiachin succeeded Zedekiah which signifies the just man of God This was the Son of the good King Iosiah yet an impious Tyrant who by the permission of Nabuchadonozor the Great was suffered to be King of Iudah after his Brother when he was one and twenty years of age He began to reign about the beginning of the 3352 year of the World and before Christ 616 he governed tyranically eleven years 2 Reg. 24. In the eleventh year of this King Ierusalem was taken by Nabuchadonezar the great Emperour of the Babylonians wherefore Zedekiah to escape the brunt of War fled from Ierusalem with all possible speed to Iericho which was twelve miles Ier. 39. 5. From the plain near the City Iericho where he was overcome by the Princes of the Chaldeans he was led to Riblah to Nebuchadonezar which was sixty eight miles From Riblah after the Emperour Nabuchadonezar had caused all his Children to be put to death before his face and had put out both his eyes he led him captive to Babylon which was 600 miles where he died miserably 2 Reg. 25. So all the Travels of Zedekiah King of Iudah were 680 miles Of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Nabuchadonezar IN the ninth year of this Zedekiah which was the last King of Iudah Nabuchadonezar began to besiege Ierusalem it being then Winter Anno Mundi 3860 upon the tenth day of the tenth Month Tebeth which answereth to the seven and twentieth day of December which day the Iews till now observed as a fasting day The Siege continued even till the eleventh year of this King Ierem. 39. 5. 2 Reg. 25. and upon the ninth day of the fourth Month Thamus which agreeth with the tenth day of Iuly the City was taken and Zedekiah was put to flight Upon the seventh day of the fifth Month Ab Nabuzaradan chief Captain of the Army was sent back by Nabuchadonezar into Iudaea where he destroyed and burned the houses and buildings of the City of Ierusalem Ierem. 52. upon the tenth day of the fifth Month Ab which answereth to the ninth day of August being the Sabbath day the Temple of Ierusalem was set on fire Ier. 52. de bello Iudei lib. 6. cap. 26. 27. This first Captivity and Destruction of the City Ierusalem by Nabuchadonezar that great Emperour happened Anno Mundi 3362 and before Christ 606 three hundred and ninety years being then fully compleat and ended from the first year of Ieroboam King of Israel who set up the Golden Calves and
Antiochia took the Town drove thence Demetrius Nicanor and crowned young Antiochus King of Assyria This Journey to and again was 320 miles 1 Mac. 11. In the second year of the Reign of young Antiochus Tryphon went from Antiochia to Bethsan where he perfidiously betrayed Ionathan the Brother of Iudas Macchabeus 1 Mac. 12. being 36 miles From Bethsan he went to Ptolomais 32 miles From Ptolomais he went to Addus a Town upon the Borders of Iudaea sixty eight miles 1 Mac. 13. To Addus Simon sent his Brother's Children and his Ransom which was 60 Talents of Silver but after he had received the Money he broke his Word and went thence with Ionathan and his Sons to Ador which was forty eight miles From Ador he went to Baschaman in the Land of Gilead ninety six miles Here he put to death Ionathan and his Sons From the Countrey of the Gileadites he returned to Antiochia which was 240 miles Here he put to death young Antiochus being but a Boy of seven year of age and usurped upon the Government in his place He began to reign in the 172 year of the Grecians Government in Syria and reigned three years 1 Mac. 14. Ios. lib. ant 13. About the end of the three years which was in the 174 year of the Grecians Government in Syria Antiochus Sedetes Brother of Demetrius Nicanor made War upon Tryphon and compelled him to fly from Antiochia to Dora 240 miles from Antiochia towards the South 1 Mac. 85. But Antiochus Sedetes followed him thither and so streightly besieged Dora that he was constrained to steal thence in a Ship and â—ail to Orthoâ—ia which was 160 miles Lastly In the way as he was going thence to Apamea which was an hundred and twenty miles he was taken and put to death So all his Travels were 1360 miles Of the Places mentioned in his Travels which have been formerly recited Of Dora DORA was a Haven-Town scituated upon the shore of the Mediterranean Sea forty eight miles from Ierusalem Northward in the mid-way between Carmel and Caesâ—rea Strato In Ioseph cap. 17. it is called Dor that is â— durans Of Orthosia THIS was a City of Assyria scituated upon the Shore of the Mediterranean Sea near to the place where the Eleutherius falleth into it 200 miles from Ierusalem Northward being so called of Diana whom the Grecians called Orthosia that is Exalted or lifted up Hither Tryphon sailed when he fled from Antiochus Sedetes 1 Mac. 15. Plin. lib. 5. cap. 20. Concerning the Travels of Apolonius Nicanor Bacchides and Cendebius because they are sufficiently described in the Travels of the Macchabees I thought it unfit to speak further of them The Travels of Heliodorus HEliodorus signifies the House of the Sun He was Secretary and chief Governour of Antiochiâ— in Syria for that mighty King Saleuchus Philopator who was Brother to that cruel Tyrant Antiochus Epiphanes and was sent by his Lord and Master Seleuchus from Antiochia to Ierusalem which was eighty miles to spoil the Temple of the Lord but the Lord sent an Angel richly beautified with Armour of Gold fitting upon a Horse who went to Heliodorus and with his Horse trod him under his feet and there appeared two other Angels full of Majesty and Power that strook Heliodorus and beat him with Whips so that he lay upon the Floor of the Temple as a Man half Dead and could not go forth until he was carried out 2 Mac. 3. From Ierusalem he went with that good man Onias chief Priest of the Iews at whose earnest Prayers and Supplications he was made whole to Antiochia 280 miles where he told Seleuchus Philopator of the wonderful Works of the Lord. So all his Travels were 580 miles The Travels of the High-Priest of the Jews that ruled before the Macchabees as they are severally mentioned in the Books of Maccabees and first of the Travels of Onias the High-Priest ONIAS signifies the Riches of God from On Opulency and Iah God for although he was afflicted with Poverty in this World yet he was rich in God He succeeded his Father Simon the Just An. Mun. 3757. before Christ 211. Antiochus the Great being King of Syria He was High-Priest thirty nine years until the death Seleuchus Philopater at the end of which time one Simon the chief of those that kept the Temple being ambitious of Rule fell to words with Onias and from words to blows so that there were many outrages committed by the Friends of Simon Wherefore Onias to give place to the Fury of his Adversaries went from Ierusalem to Antiochia which was to hundred and eighty miles But Seleucus Philopator being dead and Antiochus Epiphanes in the Government who was a covetous and cruel Prince good Onias partly for fear of him and partly of his Brother Iason who had but a little before purchased the Office of High-Priest for three hundred and sixty Talents of Silver and promised to pay a yearly Tribute of eighty Talents durst not return home to Ierusalem but went to a Sanctuary that stood in the Wood of Daphne which was about one mile from Antiochia in hope of safety to which place one Andronichus chief Captain to Antiochus came to him and with fair Speeches and flattering Words allured him out of the Sanctuary and traiterously put him to death So all his Travels were two hundred eighty one miles The Travels of the High-Priest Jason JAson and Iesus have both one signification he entred upon the Office of High-Priest in the first year of Antiochus Epiphanes which was one hundred seventy three years before Christ. He went from Ierusalem to Antiochia which was two hundred eighty miles where after the death of Onias he paid to Antiochus for the Office of High-Priest almost three Tuns of Gold with promise to pay a yearly Tribute of 48000 Crowns From Antiochia he returned to Ierusalem two hundred eighty miles where he began to build the Tower of Acropolis in Mount Acra and that he might please that wicked King and keep his favour he built certain Theatres in Ierusalem and caused Interludes and Plays to be acted in them at such times and upon such days as the Poeple were wont to meet in the Temple to serve God Also King Antiochus Epiphanes in the fourth year of his Priesthood coming to Ierusalem he gave him royal entertainment The same year Iason was put out of his Office of High-Priest by the policy and cunning of his Brother Menelaus and was constrained to fly into the Land of the Ammonites beyond Iordan being forty miles Two years after when Antiochus Epiphanes invaded Aegypt there was a vain rumour that he was slain wherefore Iason with a thousand Souldiers returned to Ierusalem being forty miles and broke suddenly into the City so that Menelaus was constrained for safety of his life to fly to the Garrison of the Syrians that were in Ierusalem But Antiochus hearing what had happened came out of Aegypt with â— great Army of Ierusalem wherefore he fled
Upon the 40 day after his Resurrection he returned fifty six miles to Ierusalem where his Disciples were assembled together and upon the fourteenth day of May in the sight of all the Apostles with great triumph and joy he ascended up into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of his Father in Divine Majesty and Glory Mar. Luke ult Act. 1. Psal. 28. Ephes. 1. 1. Pet. 3. Heb. 1. So these Travels of our Saviour Christ were 319 miles But if you reckon his Travels from the time of his infancy to the day of his Ascension they make 3093 miles besides his general Visitations and Journeys hither and thither which were so many that as Iohn witnesseth cap. vlt. they could not be described Of the Towns and Places to which he travelled Of Jericho THIS City stood very pleasantly in the Tribe of Benjamin ten miles from Ierusalem North-eastward Ioshuah overcame this Town by sounding of Trumpets Ios. 6. Heb. 11. It was rebuilt by Hiel and was compassed about with a new wall by Herod that mighty King of the Iewes who put the Innocent Children to death and called it after his Mothers Name Cyprus Ios. de Bell. Iud. lib. 1. cap. 16. And although this City was taken and utterly overthrown the second time by the Romans at such time as Vespasian and his Son Titus wasted and destroyed Ierusalem and all the Land of Iudaea yet afterward it was re-edified and in St. Ieroms time which was 400 years after Christ it was a fair City There was shewn the House of Zaccheus and the Sycomore-tree that he went up to see Christ Luk. 19. But by reason of the often destructions and devastations that hath fallen upon it there is not to be seen at this day above eight Houses in the Town and all the Monuments and Reliques of the holy Places are utterly destroyed the House of Zaccheus and the Sicomore-tree are no more to be seen in that Place only the Place is to be seen where our Saviour restored the blind man to sight when he cryed after him Lord thou Son of David have mercy upon me Luke chap. 18. Also though the Country throughout be very fruitful and pleasant yet it is nothing so fertile and pleasant as it was when the Children of Israel did dwell there For the Roses of Iericho are no more to be found there but rather in a Village about sixteen miles from Iordan towards the East And although they stand so far distant off yet they retain their ancient name Between Ierusalem and Iericho there is a Desart or Wilderness which by the Inhabitants of the holy Land is called Quarentena where the man of which Christ speaketh fell among Thieves Luke 10. There is in the same place at this day great thieving and many Robberies committed as Brittenbacchus saith In this Place also is to be seen the River Chereth where the Ravens fed Eliah 1 Reg. 17. Near to Iericho also is found the River the Water whereof Elizeus made sweet by casting in Salt whereas before it was bitter and it remains very pleasant and sweet to this day 2 Reg. 2. Of Ephraim THIS City is so called from the pleasantness and fruitfulness of the Soil being derived from Parah to fructifie It lieth 8 miles from Ierusalem North-eastward just in the way as you go from thence to Iericho in the Wilderness of Quarentena close by the River Chereth in the Tribe of Benjamin Here our Saviour Christ after he had raised Lazarus from Death to Life hid himself with his Disciples because the Iewes sought to take away his Life by deceit The Passover following he was made a sacrifice for the Sin of man Ioh. 11. Of Bethania THIS City was a type of the Church which is always subject to the Cross and exposed to every calamity and therefore is called Bethania that is The House of Sorrow and Affliction being derived of Baith a House and Oni Affliction According to the prophecy of our Saviour who foretold of the Afflictions and Tribulations that should fall upon his Church You shall mourn but you shall be comforted and your grief shall be turned into joy It was distant from Ierusalem almost two miles towards the South-East Borchardus the Monk observeth that close by a Well about a stones cast out of this Town there is shewed the place where Martha met our Saviour Christ when he came to Bethania and a little after called her Sister to meet him Ioh. cap. 11. There is also shewn in this Town the House of Simon the Leper where a certain Woman having an Alablaster box of precious Ointment poured it on our Saviours head not without the great indignation of his Disciples Mat. 26. There is also to be seen the house of Martha to which our Saviour did oftentimes resort Luke 10. Iohn 11. and 12. and in that place there is at this day a Church built in honour of those two Sisters which were the Sisters of Lazarus There is also seen the Sepulchre out of which Lazarus was raised from death to life Iohn 11. which stands close by the said Church and over it is built a Chappel of Marble very decent and comely The Saracens hold this Chappel in great estimation You cannot see the City of Ierusalem from Bethania because of the Mount of Olives but as soon as you ascend a little Hill in the way as you go thence to Ierusalem you may discern Mount Sion and a part of the City then when you are descended from that Hill the City is again hidden After that upon the left side of the Mount of Olives some stones cast from Bethpage you do leave a small Village standing under the Mountain of Offence where Solomon in times past committed Idolatry From this Village the Ass and the Colt was brought unto Christ. Not far from thence upon the South side as you go upon the Mount of Olives you come unto the place where Christ mounted upon the Ass as we read Mat. 21. And a little after you may see the whole City of Ierusalem with Solomon's Temple and the Church of the holy Sepulchre with many other holy places Then as you descend from the top of the Mount of Olives you may see the place where the multitude cried Hosanna Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord. And in this descent also our Saviour Christ wept over Ierusalem saying O Ierusalem Ierusalem how often would I have gathered thee under my Wings as a Hen gathereth her Chickens but thou wouldest not Of Bethpage BEthpage standeth upon the right hand of the way towards the East as you go from Bethania to Ierusalem and as St. Ierom saith was sometimes a Habitation of the Priests which at their appointed times went up to Ierusalem to minister to the Lord. It was so called because of the multitude of Figs that grow there for Pagim signifies a Fig Cant. 2. Bethpage is a notable type of the Church for that ought likewise to be fruitful and
perceive that these Walls were very difficult to be destroyed Neither were the Ditches of less strength that went about the Town for they were cut out of hard stones at least forty Cubits deep and two hundred and fifty Cubits broad which were impossible to have been won if God had not help'd and assisted the Romans filling up those Ditches with the Bodies of those that died of the Plague and Famin within the Town Of the Gates of Jerusalem IT had twelve Gates to go out and in Upon the East side lay five the first of which was the Fountain Gate which was so called of the Fountain Siloah And this stood close by the Gate of mount Sion in which Fountain the Man that was born blind wash'd himself at the Commandment of our Saviour and had his sight restored Ioh. 9. And at this Gate Christ came riding in upon an Ass when he came from Bethania on Palm Sunday 2. The Sheep-gate which was so called of the multitude of sheep that were driven in by it to be offered in the Temple for it stood hard by the Temple Right before this Gate stood Mount Olivet some half an English mile and a furlong from Ierusalem Eastward by it stood the Garden called Gethsemane where Christ was taken and led into the City through this Gate to be offered up like an innocent sheep for the sins of the whole World 3. The Dung-gate this took the name from a Dung-hill because the Rain-water coming with great power thâ—ough the City washed away the filth and with great violence carried it through this Gate into the Pool Cedron Not far from this Gate was the Water-gate and stood a little within it 4. The Valley Gate which took the Name of the Valley Iehosaphat and lay not far from the other Gate Hereabouts also stood the Dragon-gate 5. The Horse-gate and stood just in the joyning of the East and North-part of the City it took the name from the Kings Horses as appeareth Ier. 31. Neh. 3. The Gates upon the North. 6. The Corner Gate which stood North-west 2. King 14. 1 Ch. 26. Ier. 31. Zach. 14. 7. The Benjamin-gate so called because Men by this Gate went to the Borders of Benjamin in this Gate the Prophet Ieremy was Prisoner Ier. 37. 8. The Ephraim-gate by which they went to the Borders of Ephraim The Gates upon the West 9. The Rain-gate so called because the Rain-water cleansing the streets carried away all the Filth and so past through this Gate toward the West and there thrust it out of the City Neh. 12. 10. The Garden-gate before which the Garden stood wherein Christ was buried 11. The Old Gate before this Mount Calvary stood whereon Christ was Crucified 12. The Fish-gate so called because of Sea Fish that came in by it it was also called the Brick-gate Here the Prophet Ieremy broke an earthen Pitcher Ieremy 19. And out of this Gate they went to Bethlehem But on the South side there were no Gates for there Mount Sion stood which was so high and steep that no Man could go up upon it Of the Gates within the City THE Gate of Sion the Water-gate of which two I have already spoken The middle Gate Ieremy speaketh of cap. 19. and it is thought it stood in the middle of City in the Valley Cedron not far from the Tower called Mariamne The Iron Gate which opened of it self when the Angel led Peter out of Prison Acts 12. this stood in the City Walls passing from one Suburb into another all these Gates stood within the City And thus much shall suffice to have spoken of the Pourtraiture of it Of the Springs Valleys Fountains and other memorable Places as they were scituated near to the City and how to the four parts of the World IN the next place it resteth to shew what things worthy memory were about and stood near to the City the first of which was the Brook Cedron which sprung out of a Hill not far from it upon the South and with great swiftness ran through the East part of the City and so between Ierusalem and the Mount of Olives to the Valley-gate of Iehosaphat thence passing through the Cliffs of Mount Olivet it ran directly East till it came to the Dead Sea which Brook in the Summer time was most commonly dry The Water of it was something Black which colour the Valley Jehosaphat which was very fertile gave it and from thence it was called Nigrescens torrens a blackish stream This is mystically spoken of in 2 Sam. and Psa. 100. Where it is said He that is our Saviour Christ shall drink of the Brook in the way which he fulfilled when he made satisfaction for our Sins by his Death and Passion as it appeareth in the 69 Psalm Save me O God c. Into this Brook ran the Water of Silo and that which came out of the Temple Of the Mount of Olives and Bethania which signifies a House of Mourning THese two the one lay upon the East the other South-west about half an English Mile and a furlong from Jerusalem Of Bethania you may read in Nehemia Of the Hill Gihon GIhon stood before Jerusalem on the West side right against the Fish-gate and the Old gate 2 Chr. 22. Here King Solomon was Crowned 1. Kin. 1. Not far from this stood the Mount Golgatha where Christ was Crucified From whence may be observed That as Solomon upon that Hill was Crowned King so Christ upon this was Crucified our Saviour and the true Solomon that made everlasting peace between God and us From this Mount Gihon sprung the Fountain Gihon and thereabouts also was the Fullers Field 2 King 18. 2 Chron. 33. In which place Senacharib and other the Princes and Embassadors of the King of Assyria spake Blasphemous words against the Lord wherefore he slew 185 thousand of them as appeareth in the 2 King 19. Of the Valley of the Son of Hinnon THis Valley lyeth behind the City of Ierusalem Southward on the left hand as they went from Jerusalem to Bethlehem In this Valley the Jews set up an Idol of Copper like a King which they called Moloch that is a King of Idols This Copper Idolâ—stood with the Arms stretching out and under it there was a great Fire whereby the Image shewed fire-red and besides that the more to honour it they made a great Fire between two Walls which burnt for his sake and through this Fire the Idolatrous Priests cast living Children into Moloch's burning Arms which he with his Arms red hot burnt to Death And in this manner the Jews offered up their own Children to the Idol Moloch and when they did it they made a great noise and cry and beat upon a Drum that the Fathers when their Children were offered should not hear them cry by reason of the great noise of the Drums This Valley was called the Valley of Tophet for Tophet signifies a Drum This was a most gross and fearful Idolatry and
the Walls and combining himself with some of the Iews upon the seventh day of the second Month which answereth to the Month of May with great difficulty and much labour entred the first Wall which lay upon the North and won Mount Bâ—zethâ— and Neapolis Upon the twelfth of the same Month which was the Saâ—â—ath day he entred the second Wall which divided the Suburbs but this was again the same day recovered by the virtue of the Jews so that the Jewes were constrained to fight upon the Sabbath day according to the Propâ—â—â—y of our Saviour Christ Matt. 24. But after upon the sixteenth of this Moâ—th of May the Romans again recovered this Wall and kept it in their own custody Within a while after in the Month of June about this time the Famin growing intolerable within the Town Titus in the space of three dayâ— compassed in the whole City of Jerusalem with a Wall and 〈…〉 Towers and Castles lest any of the Jewes should fly to savâ— tâ—emselves Thus was the Prophecy of our Saviour Christ fulfilled Thy 〈◊〉 shall compass thee about and hem thee in on every side Iosephus was now in the City and walking upon the Walls earnestly intreated the Jewes to desist and no longer to oppose the Romans but this was so hateful a speech to many that they began to fling Darts at him And although at this time the extremity of the Famin was so sore that many died for want of sustenance yet all perswasions were in vain and such was the Calamity that as well those as went out as those that continued in the City were in like danger of their lives for they were either slain by the Enemy or else by the Pestilence and Famin common Injuries and unmerciful Outrages still attending upon War Their Misery did rather increase than at all lesson it self for the jealousie of Treason the hope of Riches and the madness of the Seditious distracted the minds of the Citizens with continual fears and filled the Streets full of Murther and daily spectacles of lamentable Tragedies The Markets were unfrequented with Corn the Victuals with Violâ—nce consumed and taken from the true owners And if it chanced that some one had more than would serve his turn though he dwelt in a fair and stately Building yet the remotest Room and most unfrequented he made his Tabernacle and that little which was left with great parcimony he consumed together with his life till both were ended Those that were Fathers and Senators of the People though before served and attended with reverence and great state in this confusion were glad of a small morsel though with much contention The Wife was not ashamed to take away the Meat from her Husband nor the Children from their Parents nor the Mothers from their Infants and if it hapned that in any house the Seditious seemed to smell food with violence they took it ransack'd the rooms round about whilest the Master thereof was made a laughing-stock and mournful Spectator of those mischiefs But according to the condition of Souldiers whose natural disposition is to be violent without any regard either of Sex or Kindred committed daily outrages So that here you might have seen the Mothers weeping over their dying Infants whilst their husbands were massacred in the streets by the Seditious The increase of days were the increase of Torments and the daily wants of such as were in Power being unaccustomed to such evils caused them to invent new means to satisfie their desire and practice unusual Torments for no other purpose but to find out Sustenance yea such was their insatiable â—â—irst of blood that they spared not him whom but now gave them all he had and lest he should live to cumber the City either hang him up by the heels till he died or else pulled out his Entrails with a sharp Iron Those that went out in the Night-time when the Romans were asleep to gather herbs the Seditious would meet and with violence take what they had got from them And though with tears and lamentations and prayers upon their knees they intreated but for one part a small moiety of that which a little before they had got with danger of their Lives yet they would not give it them and scap't fairly if they went away with Life These Insolencies were committed by the common Souldiers upon such as were the meaner sort of People But for the rest that were either Honourable or Rich they became a Prey to the Captains and Commanders some accused as Traitors and that they would have betrayed the City to the Romans others as Fugitives that they would forsake the City most under pretence of one crime or other despoiled of that they had And they whom Iohn had thus oppressed were entertained of Simon and whom Simon had injured they were entertained by Iohn both drunk the blood of the miserable Citizens like Water so that the desire of Rule was the cause of their dissention the concord of their evil and cruel actions There was an infinite number that perished in this City by Famin insomuch as houses were filled with the bodies of Infants and Children The Angle-gate was thrust full of dead corps The young Men that remained walked up and down the City like Images of Death The old Men were destroyed by the Pestilence the contagion of which disease taking away their Senses they became Mad. And of such as died among the Seditious their Wives or kindred had not room nor time to bury them but as they were putting them into the Grave they also dyed Yet for all this amongst this Miserable Society there was no Weeping no complaining no deploring of their necessities for the violence of the Famin having dryed up their radical moisture the fear of grief was taken from them and such as had most cause to lament and were most pricked with the sting of sorrow before they could utter their grief died the beholders not shedding a Tear so that through the whole City there was a still silence and a thick mist of Death and Destruction didfully possess the same But the Seditious were much more cruel than these were oppressed with Calamity and Sorrow for some opened the graves of the Dead and taking out their Bodies thrust them thorow with their Swords others to try the sharpness of the Edge of their Weapons would fall upon those that were yet alive and when they had slain them go away laughing at their pleasure So that as Iosephus saith there was scarce any mischief under the Sun but was both practised and tollerated in this City To conclude by Sedition the Romans conquered the City and Sedition conquered the Romans All love and modesty through this extream and intolerable Famin became utterly extinct and the dearest Friends would kill one another for a crust of bread the fairest Lady commit open Adultery for a little sustenance Their food was extraordinary and such as men did loath and hate some would
the Travels of Sampson were 240 miles The Description of the several Towns and Places to which Sampson travelled Of Zarea THIS is a City in the Tribes of Iuda and Dan near the River Soreck and taketh the Name from a Cole or Leprosie being derived of Sarag that is He was Leprous it stood eighteen miles from Ierusalem Westward Of Esthaol THis was a Town in the Tribe of Dan two miles from Zarea and stood near the River Soreck some twenty miles from Ierusalem towards the West and taketh the name from a Woman and Fortitude for Isca signifieth a Woman and El or Ol strong and powerful Here Sampsen was brought up In St. Ierom's time this was called Asto not far from whence Sampson lieth buried Of Timnah You may read of this in the Travels of Iudah Of Ascalon THis was a City of the Philistines scituated upon the shore of the Mediterranean Sea some thirty miles from Ierusalem Westward and to this day retaineth the figure of half a Circle it taketh the name from an ignominious Fire being derived of Esh and Kalon an ignominious light Of Gaza Of this Town you may read in the Travels of Ioshuah Of the River Soreck THis was a very pleasant River upon the Bank whereof grew great plenty of Vines and Palms from whence it seemeth to have taken the Name for Soreck in Hebrew signifieth a Myrtle Branch which bringeth forth a pleasant Berry whereof excellent Wine is made It takes the beginning at a Fountain in the Tribe of Iuda some twelve miles from Ierusalem towards the West where there is a very fertile Valley in which Dalilah that betrayed Sampson dwelt and from thence it runneth through the Land of the Philistines and falleth into the Mediterranean Sea Of the Rock Eta IN this Rock there was a Cave wherein Sampson dwelt as in a strong Tower it stood in the Tribe of Iuda near to the River Soreck twelve miles from Ierusalem toward the West and seemeth to take the Name from Fowls for before that Sampson inhabited there a multitude of Fowls bred upon it and therefore it was called Eta for Aith signifies a Fowl This Rock growing to decay was repaired again by Ieroboam that Idolatrous King of Israel Of Sampson SAmpson or Schimpson according to the Hebrew Text taking his Name from the Sun for Schaemas in Hebrew signifieth the Sun and seemeth to have some Affinity with Hercules which â—ignifieth The glory of the Air for what can be said to be the glory of the Air but the Light of the Sun without which it would become exceeding dark Wherefore as some think this Sampson was the true Hercules and those noble Exploits that he did the Graecians attributed to their Hercules The typical Signification of Sampson HE typically representeth Christ divers ways first in his Person he was a mighty Man secondly in his Profession he was a Nazarite thirdly in his Calling he was a Prince and Judge fourthly in his manner of living for he went from place to place to revenge himself upon the Enemies of God's People the Children of Israel and in his Death even so our Saviour Christ is that strong man who being mightier than the Devil hath dispossest him of his tyrannical Jurisdiction over the Souls of Mankind hath taken away those gates of Death by his Mercy opening unto us the door of Life that so being set at Liberty from that hellish Imprisonment we may be made Partakers of everlasting Happiness he was also a Nazarite even from his Mothers Womb born and bred there tying himself to a Vow of Bondage that we might be made free he is a Prince for ever and a Priest after the Order of Melchisedeck during the continuance of his Life in this Vail of Misery his chiefest Actions were to go from place to place to teach to do good and to rescue and relieve the poor distressed Members of the Church who lay miserably afflicted under the hands of Satan healing some relieving others and bringing a third sort into the state of Grace so that as Sampson delivered the Israelites from the Bondage of the Philistines Christ our Prince and Judge delivereth his from the Slavery of Satan by his Death saving more Souls than in his Life And thereby pulling down the strong Buildings the Temptations of Satan hath laid them level with the Ground that they shall never be restored again And lastly after this Life ended he shall be our Prince and Judge and bring us to that place of Promise prepared for us in his everlasting Kingdom The Travels of the Spies of the Danites SHortly after the Death of Sampson the Spies of the Danites went from Zarea and Esthaol to Mount Ephraim to the House of Michah which is twenty four miles Iudg. 18. From thence they went to Lais which is a hundred and four miles Iudg. 18. From thence they returned to Zarea and Esthaol which is 126 miles Iudg. 18. So all their Travels were 244 miles Of Lais. LAIS was a City scituated at the Foot of Mount Libanus some 104 miles from Ierusalem towards the North and was sometimes called Belenus this because it stood so far from Aid was quickly conquered by the Danites and by them utterly destroyed it signifieth a roaring or devouring Lyon But after being rebuilt by the Danites they called it Dan and the Canaanites Lesem Dan being derived of Laeschaem which signifieth a Lyon The Travels of the Danites THE Army of the Danites went from Zarea and Esthaol to Kiijath-jearim and there pitched their Tents which is sixteen miles Iud. 15. From thence they went to Mount Ephraim to the house of Micha and took his carved Image and his Levite from him which was eight miles Iudg. 15. From thence they went to Lais 104 miles So all the Travels were 128 miles Of Kirjath-jearim KIrjath-jearim was a City of the Levites in the Tribe of Iuda upon the Borders of the Tribe of Benjamin about a mile from Ierusalem Westward It sometime belonged to the Gibeonites Iosh. 9. and signifies a City of the Desart or Woods being derived from Kiriath which signifies a City and Iaar a Wood or Forrest Here stood the Ark of the Covenant after it had been in the Land of the Philistines seven months and stood in the house of Abinadab whose Son Eleazer because he was of the Family of the Levites by consent of the Children of Israel was consecrated Priest thereof to attend and keep it here it remained forty eight Years till David fetched it thence with great Joy 1 Sam. 7. 2 Sam. 6. 1 Chr. 14. Here Saul was anointed King by Samuel here the Company of the Prophets that is the Scholers of the Wise came down from the more eminent places where the Ark of God was with holy Songs and Instruments of Musick and the Spirit of the Lord came upon Saul and he sung and praised God with them They called this the Hill of God because the Ark of the Covenant stood in it 1 Sam.
into the City a little before you come at it This Town standeth upon a fair prospect for you may see from thence through all Galilee to Carmel the Mountains of Phoenicia and Mount Thabor also from Mount Gilead by Iordan and Mount Salem where Iohn baptized near by Mount Hermon upon the North side of Mount Gilboah there lies a fair and plain way to the City Iezreel by which Iehu came when he made Wars upon Ieroboam King of Israel of which you may read more 2 Reg. 9. It stood not far from the River Kison as you may read Ios. 17. 19. 1 Sam. 2. 1 Reg. 4. 18. Of Ahaziah the Son of Ahab AHaziah was crowned King of Israel during the Life of his Father a cruel and wicked man he began his Reign in the 17th year of Iosaphat King of Iudah Anno Mundi 3049 and before Christ 919. about such time as Ahab went down to Ramoth Gilead to recover it from the Syrians Within a while after the death of his Father he fell through the Lattice-window in his upper Chamber which was in Samaria of which hurt he died Of this you may read more 1 King 1. The Travels of Jehoram King of Israel JEhoram succeeded his Brother Ahaziah in the Kingdom of Israel who began his Reign in the eighteenth year of Iosaphat King of Iudah and as Iosephus saith lib. Ant. 9. about the fifth year of his Reign went from Samaria to Ierusalem which was 32 miles There he told Iosaphat how the King of Moab had rebelled against him therefore desired him to go along with him to the War 2 Reg. 3. Then Iehoram and Iosaphat and the King of Edom went from Ierusalem and compassed about through the Wilderness of Idumaea by the space of seven dayes so that they and their Army for want of Water had almost perished but at the Prayers of the Prophet Elisha they were miraculously preserved At length they came to Petra the Metropolitan City of the Moabites and is distant from Ierusalem an hundred seventy two miles which they took and consumed it with Fire and Sword 2 Reg. 3. From the City of Petra Iehoram King of Israel returned back to Samaria which was 104 miles where within a while after he was so sorely besieged by Benhadad King of Syria that the Famine grew very great within the Town insomuch as a certain Woman eat her own Child 2 Reg. 6. From Samaria he went to Ramoth in Gilead with his Army which is 24 miles where he was overcome by Asahel King of the Syrians and wounded even to the death 2 Reg. 8. From the Fight of Ramoth Gilead he was carried in his Chariot back to Iezreel which was 24 miles where he lay to be cured of his Hurts But Iehu one of his chief Captains rebelled against him and as he was in his Chariot shot an Arrow and wounded him the second time whereof he died in the Field of Naboth the Iezreelite 2 Reg. 9. So all the Travels of Iehoram were 356 miles The Travels of Jehu King of Israel JEHV signifies a constant man in himself and was the Son of Iosaphat the Son of Nimschi he was anointed King of Israel in the Castle at Ramoth in Gilead by Elisha Anno Mun. 3063. and before Christ 905. he reigned 28 years 2 Reg. 9. From Ramoth in Gilead in his Chariot he went to Iezreel which was 24 miles where in the Field of Naboth the Iezreelite he killed Iehoram with an Arrow And when he came to the Gates of the City he caused Iezabel to be thrown from a Tower whom he trampled under his Horse feet and after in that same place she was eaten up with Dogs Then he sent Messengers to Samaria commanding the Samaritans that they should put to death the 70 Sons of Ahab which they immediately did and sent their Heads unto him in Baskets 2 Reg. 10. From Iezreel he went to Samaria which is sixteen miles In that Journey he caused to be slain by his Ministers the 42 Brothers of Ahaziah King of Iuda near to the Well which was beside the House where Sheep were shorn And when he came to Samaria he caused all the Posterity of Ahab to be utterly destroyed and rooted out And to conclude the Tragedy by a cunning Policy put to death all the Priests of Baal 2 Reg. 10. So all the Travels of Iehu were 40 miles Of Jehoahas King of Israel JEhoahas was the Son of Iehu and succeeded his Father in the Kingdom of Israel he began his Reign in the 33 year of Ioas King of Iudah in the Year of the World 3091 and before Christ 876. He reigned over Israel seventeen Years God stirred up against this wicked King Asahel King of the Syrians who with 10000 Foot and five hundred Horse besieged Samaria very strongly put to the Sword many of his Subjects and got many Cities and Towns from him as the Prophet Elisha had before told him 2 Reg. 8. 13. The Travels of Joas King of Israel JOAS succeeded his Father Iehoahas and while he was yet living was anointed King of Israel in the thirty seventh year of Ioas King of Iudah and reigned two years with his Father after his Death fifteen so all the Reign of Ioas was seventeen Years This Man was a great Souldier and went from Samaria with an Army against the City of Apheck which was fourteen miles there he smote the Syrians and in three several Battels carried away the Victory recovering the Cities which his Father Iehoahas had lost according to the Prophecy of Elisha 2 Reg. 17. From Apheck he returned to Samaria being 14 miles From thence he went with his Army to Bethsemes in the Land of Iuda where in a sharp and cruel War he conquered Amasia and took him alive 2 Reg. 14. which was 32 miles From Bethsemes he went to Ierusalem and carried the King thereof with him Captive being four miles He won the City and broke down the Walls of it from the Gate of Ephraim till you come to the Angle-Gate four hundred Cubits in length 2 Reg. 14. From the City of Ierusalem Ioas the Conquerour returned to Samaria with the spoil of the Temple and of the King's House with many Captives and a great Prey being thirty two miles where at the end of the seventeenth year of his Reign he died and was buried In this man's time Elisha the Prophet died 2 Reg. 13. 14. So all the Travels of Ioas were ninety six miles Of Bethsemes Of this City you may read before The Travels of Jeroboam the second of that Name King of Israel THIS Ieroboam succeeded his Father Ioas in the Kingdom of Israel and began his Reign Anno Mundi 3123. and before Christ 845. which according to the Text of the Bible happened about the 15th Year of Amasia King of Iuda and he reigned 41 Years 2 Reg. 14. He kept his Court at Samaria where the Prophet Ionas told him that he should recover not only the Towns and Cities of the Land
sent a great Army from Niniveh to Damascus 520 miles and there overcame Resin and put him to death and took captive 242000 of the people of Damascus and sent them into Cyren a Country of Africa 2 Reg. 16. The Travels of Ahaz KING Ahaz went from Ierusalem to Damascus which was 160 miles to meet Tiglath-Phulasser King of the Assyrians to rejoyce with him for his happy Victory and give him thanks for his aid and assistance where when he saw the Altar at Damascus to be very glorious he sent for Vrijah the chief Priest who took a patern thereof and carried it with him to Ierusalem where he made an Altar like unto it 2 Reg. 16. From Dâ—mascus he returned back again 160 miles So his Travels were 320 miles But yet Ahaz continued in his perverse Impiety and Idolatry without any regard or fear of God therefore he stirred up other Enemies against him viz. the Idumeans who took a great multitude of them captive and the Philistines who with their Army broke into the South part of the Tribe of Iudah and took these Cities following viz Bethsemes Ajalon Timnath Socho Gederâ—th and Gimso with their Villages These Cities for the most part are mentioned in the precedent Treatise except Gederoth and Gimso Gederoth commonly called Gederothaim is distant from Ierusalem eight miles towards the South-West and stands near to the Castle of Emaus being compassed about with a Hedge from whence it seemeth to take the name for Gadar is as much as to say he hath hedged about Giâ—so was also in the Tribe of Iudah but in what place is not certainly known Thus King Ahaz all the days of his Life did evil in the sight of the Lord for which God punished him and all the Land and in the sixteenth year of his Reign he died and was buried with his Fathers in the City of David The Travelâ— of Ezekias King of Judah EZâ—kias which signifies the Champion of Iehovah was born when his Father was but thirteen years of age which made many Questions whether he should succeed him as his lawful Heir in his Kingdom because they doubted whether he was lawfully begotten For if you do observe the order and course of the years and Chronologie in the Scripture you shall find that from the beginning of the thirteenth year of the age of Ahaz to the first year of the Reign of this King Ezekias make just twenty five years Ezekias therefore began to reign after the death of his Father Ahaz about the end of the third year of Hosea King of Israel 2 Reg. 19. Anno mun 3222 before Christ 746 being then about twenty five years of age a little before Easter as it appeareth 2 Chron. 29. He governed that Kingdom with great Commendations twenty nine years The first Journey that he â—ook was from Ierusalem to Gaza which was forty four miles there he overcame the Army of the Philistines and recovered all those Cities which his Father Ahaz had lost according to that in the Prophet Esay cap. 15. 2 Reg. 18. From Gaza he returned to Ierusalem which was forty four miles there he broke down the places for Idolatry and the brazen Serpent made by Moses in the Wilderness and called it Nehustan a Brazen thing that hath nothing in it self of a Divine nature and could neither profit nor hurt therefore ought not to be worshipped This Brazen Serpent was kept in memory of that Sign that God shewed unto the Children of Israel in the Desart when they were bitten and stung to death by fiery Serpents for looking upon this Brazen Serpent they were healed But now because of the abuse thereof by the Iews which turned it into Idolatry it was broken to pieces Num. 21. 2 Reg. 18. So all the Travels of Ezechias were eighty eight miles In the fourteenth year of the Reign of Ezekias and in the thirty eighth year of his age Senacharib that mighty Emperour of the Assyrians having taken many Towns and Cities in the holy-Land would have also besieged Ierusalem and for that purpose sent from Lachis which was twenty miles distant from Ierusalem Thartan Rabsarim and Rabsacha three mighty Princes Embassadors with a great Train to attend them These men went about the City to see in what part it was most subject to battery and might easiest be got so when they came to the Conduit of the upper Pool which is by the path of the Fullers Field between the Fish-Gate and the Old-Gate in that place where they might easiliest be heard they called to the King but Eliakim the Son of Hilkiah which was Hezekia's Steward Shebna the Chancellor and Ioah the Son of Asaph the Recorder went upon the Wall then Rabsacha uttered blasphemous words against the Lord but Ezekias when he had heard what the Enemy had said called all the Elders of Ierusalem together and sent for Isaiah the Prophet the Son of Amos and they went into the Temple of the Lord and prayed Wherefore the Lord heard their Prayers and sent his Angel into the Camp of the Assyrians and lo in one night there were slain 185000 men as they lay in their Tents before Gibeah which at this time they besieged being distant from Ierusalem some ten miles towards the South-West This great deliverance happen'd in the year of the World 3253 and before Christ 733. About the end of the thirty eighth year of the age of Ezekiah he fell into a dangerous disease which so far forth as could be gathered by all likelihoods was the Plague for God doth oftentimes try the Patience of his Saints with sundry afflictions but yet at his servent Prayers he was restored to Health and his days were lengthened fifteen years at which time the Sun went back ten Degrees according to the variation of the shadow in the Dyal of Ierusalem 2 Reg. 20. Isa 38. 2 Chr. 32. But at the end of the fifteen years which was about the fifty fourth year of his age he dyed and was buried with his Fathers The Travels of Manasses MAnasses or Manasseh signifieth forgetting or he hath forgotten This man was twelve years old when he succeeded his Father Ezekiah in the Kingdom of Iudah he began to reign Anno mundi 3251 and before Christ 717. This King was a great Idolater and one that put the Prophets of the Lord to death so that it was wonderful to see what Tyranny and mischief he wrought in Israel wherefore the Lord stirred up the Assyrians against him who overcame him in a great Battel and took him Captive carrying him bound in Chains from Ierusalem to Babylon even 680 miles But after being humbled by his afflictions he came to a knowledge of himself and repenting for his former evil humbling himself with prayer and fasting under the hand of God wherefore the Lord took compassion of him and stirred up the mind of the King of Babylon to mercy so that he loosed his bands and sent him back again to Ierusalem 680 miles From that time
to lie which was 16 miles here he restored her Son to Life 2 Reg. 4. From thence he went to Gilgal which is distant from Sunem thirty six miles towards the South here he fed 100 men with twenty Barley loaves 2 Reg. 4. From Gilgal he went to Samaria which is accounted twenty miles to this place Naaman the Syrian came to him to be healed of his Leprosie 2 Reg. 5. From Samaria he went to Iordan which was eight miles Here he made a Hatchet of Iron that fell into the Water to swim 2 Reg. 6. From Iordan he went to Dothan where the Children of Iacob sold their Brother Ioseph to the Midianites which was eight miles here the Angels of the Lord compassed him and his Servant about lest they should have been taken by the Army of the Syrians and God struck the Syrians with Blindness 2 Reg. 6. From thence he led the Army of the Syrians being thus made blind to Samaria being twelve miles and delivered them to the King of Israel upon condition that he should give them Meat and Drink to refresh themselves and suffer them to depart in Peace which he did 2 Reg. 6. From Samaria he went to Sunem which was sixteen miles here he advised the Woman where he used to lye to travel thence to some other Place because of the Famine that should follow and continue for seven years 2 Reg. 8. From Sunem he went Damascus being 132 miles there he told Hazael that he should succeed his Master Benhadad in the Government of the Syrians 2 Reg. 8. From Damascus he returned to Samaria which was 132 miles where soon after he fell sick and died his body was buried near to Samaria where the Lord a long time after his Death shewed a wonderful Miracle for a dead man being thrown into his Sepulchre was restored again to life by touching of his Bones 2 Reg. 13. This man governed the Church of God amongst the Children of Israel sixty years after the death of Elias So all the Travels of Elisha were 730 miles Concerning the Towns and places mentioned in his Travels you may read before The Typical Signification of Elisha ELisha or Elischa signifieth the Salvation of God being derived of El that is God and Iaschag he hath saved from hence Jesus a Saviour because this Prophet was a notable Type of our Saviour Jesus Christ for as Elisha was anointed Priest by the Prophet Eliah so Christ was the anointed Priest of the Father and as Elisha did many works of Mercy and Miracles to make evident Gods Power and Providence so our Saviour Christ went from place to place shewing mercy to the blind lame and impotent upon them working wonderful Miracles that thereby his doctrine might be made evident to the World and all such as trust in him be made capable of eternal happiness The Travels of the Shunamite whose Son Elisha had raised from Death to Life FRom Sunem she went to Mount Carmel and besought Elisha to come and raise her Son from Death to Life which was sixteen miles 2 Reg. 4. From thence she and Elisha returned back again to Sunem which was sixteen miles and there he delivered her Son unto her alive 2 Reg. 4. From Sunem having buried her Husband she travelled into the Land of the Philistines because of the Famine that was to come suddenly after being fifty six miles 2 Reg. 8. From the Land of the Philistines she returned to Samaria which was forty miles 2 Reg. 8. From Samaria she returned to Sunem which was sixteen miles So all her Travels were 144 miles Of the Prophet Isaiah or Jesaia JEsaia or Ieschaia is all one in signification with Elisha that is a Saviour He was the Son of Amos which signifieth strength and by consequence Ozia King of Iudah was his Cousin-German as may appear by this Genealogy following Iosas ofIuda Amasiah King of Iuda Ozias King of Iuda Iotham King of Iuda Ahas King of Iuda Ezekias King of Iuda Manasses King of Iuda who caused Isaiah to be slain Amos Isaias Father Isaias had two Daughters Sear Iasub that is the rest remaining and was a sign of the rest of the Posterity of Iuda that should remain and dwell there Isa. 7. Mahez Schatal that is a sudden Destruction for this second Daughter of Isay did denote the immediate Desolation of the Kingdoms of Syria and Samaria From whence it plainly appeareth that the Prophet Esaias was of the stock of David and lineage of Christ for which cause in the fifth Chapter of his Prophecy he calleth him his beloved He began to teach publickly in the year of the World 3167 and before Christ 800. and governed the Church eighty years and more until the time of Manasses who caused him to be cut in pieces with a Saw In Anno Mundi 3190. before Christ 778. Isay saw the Lord sitting upon a high Throne in great Majesty the lower part whereof filled the Temple and the Seraphins compassed him round about Esa. 6. Cherubins are glorious and bright shining Angels of a fiery nature for Saraph signifieth He hath turned to Fire His Doctrine was twofold that is partly concerning the Law partly the Gospel as may appear by his Prophesie in the first forty Chapters whereof the Doctrine of the Law is set â—orth with sharp Reprehensions for Sin in the first four of which are grievous Accusations of Sinners for breach of the first Commandment the other for the most part prophecy of horrible Punishments Mutations and Change of Government but principally of the Iews Babylonians Assyrians Syrians and Aegyptians From the â—ortieth to the end of the Book is contained the Doctrine of the Gospel and of the Kingdom of our Saviour Jesus Christ which he hath set forth with such excellent Eloquence Figures and Amplifications that he may be compared with the best Orator that ever wrote The Travels of the Prophet Jeremias 〈◊〉 or â—eremiah signifieth The exalted of the Lord he was born in the Tribe of Benjamin in a City of the Priests called Anathoth and from thence came to Ierusalem being two miles and continued there for forty years teaching and prophecying From Ierusalem he was sent to Euphrates where in the cliff of a Rock he hid his Girdle Ier. 13. being 400 miles From the River Euphrates he returned back again to Ierusalem 400 miles A little after the Lord sent him back again to Euphrates 400 miles to fetch his Girdle and lâ—e it was putrefied From thence he returned back again the second time to Ierusalem 400 miles From Ierusalem he was led captive bound in Chains with other Prisoners to Ramath a City in Mount Ephraim being eight miles there Nabuzaradan the chief Captain caused him to be set at Liberty From Ramath he went to Mispah which is eight miles where he continued a while with Gediliah Prince of the Iews which man had the chief command of certain Cities of Iudaea under Nabuchadnezzar But in the seventh Year of the Captivity of the
Mac. 5. 2 Mac. 22. From Astaroth-Carnaim he went to Ephron being 16 miles this City Iudas Macchabeus destroyed because the Inhabitants thereof denied him Passage and went through it over the dead Bodies 2 Mac. 5. Here Gideon Judge of Israel sometime dwelt it took the Name from the rising up of the Dust being derived of Aphar that is he hath made a dust From Ephron Iudas passed over Iordan into the great Field of Galilee and so went to Scythopolis which in ancient time was called Bethsan which was four miles From Bethsan or Scythopolis he returned to Ierusalem which was 44 miles a little before Pentecost in the fourth year of his Government in the Year 161 before Christ 1 Mac. 5. 2 Mac. 12. After the Feast of Pentecost he went from Ierusalem to Maresa which was 16 miles here he overcame Gorgias Governour of Idumaea in a great Battel 2 Mac. 12. From Maresa he went with his Army to Odullam which was six miles Here sometime David hid himself From Odullam he returned to Ierusalem being eight miles 2 Mac. 12. From Ierusalem he brought his Army to Hebron the Metropolitan City of the Idumaeans which was 22 miles this Town he won and all the Towns and Castles near adjoyning 1 Mac. 5. From thence he went to Samaria which was fifty six miles 1 Mac. 5. From Samaria he led his Army against Azotus being 44 miles This was a City of the Philistines which he destroyed broke their Altars and burn'd their Idols in the Fire 1 Mac. 5. After that he conquered two Castles in Idumaea 1 Mac. 10. After that he returned to Ierusalem which was accounted 22 miles 1 Mac. 5. From Ierusalem he went to meet Timotheus chief Captain of the Syrians who came with a great Army to invade Iudaea But when the Battel waxed hot there appeared to the Enemies from Heaven five comely men upon Horses with Bridles of Gold two of which led the Iews and took Macchabeus between them and covered him on every side with their Weapons that none could hurt him but against their Enemies they shot Darts and Lightnings so that they were confounded with Blindness and beaten down whereby the Iews obtained a great Victory and put to the Sword 20500 Foot and 600 Horse the rest seeing this great Slaughter fled So Iudas praised the Lord and pursued the Enemies to Gazara being sixteen miles Here Timotheus hid himself in a Cave but the Iews took the City found him out and put him to death together with his Brother Chaerea and Pollophanes 2 Mac. 10. From Gazara Iudas Macchabeus returned to Ierusalem being 16 miles In the Year following which was the fifth of his Reign and 160 before Christ Iudas Macchab besieged the Tower of Sion in Ierusalem because those that were in the Garrison had put to the Sword some of the Iews that were sacrificing in the Temple But Antiochus Eupator the Son of Antiochus Epiphanes hearing of it at the Instigation of Menelaus Chief Priest of the Iews brought a great Army to their Rescue wherefore Iudas Macchabeus hearing of his coming left the Siege and went from Ierusalem to Modin to meet him which was 14 miles Here he overcame Antiochus destroyed his Elephants and put 4000 of his Souldiers to the Sword 2 Mac. 13. When King Antiochus had felt a taste of the boldness of the Jews he went with his Army through by-ways and secret Passages to the Castle of Bethsuâ—a which he besieged whither Iudas followed him which was twelve miles encamped himself a mile from Bethsura in a straight place called Bethzachara Here Antiochus betimes in the Morning thinking to take the Army of the Iews at an Advantage set upon them But the Iews and their Leaders behaved themselves so manfully that they put Antiochus the second time to flight and kill'd 600 of his men In this Battel Eliazer the Brother of Iudas Macchabeus was slain by an Elephant Ios. lib. Antiq. 12. lib. 16. 1 Macc. 6. From Bethzachara he returned back to Ierusalem being two miles and when the King had taken the Town of Bethsura for they were constrained to yield by reason of Famine he followed Iudas with whom he joyned the third time in Battel but Iudas overcame him and put to the Sword many of his Army Wherefore having certain Intelligence that Philip whom he had made Over-seer of the Affairs at Antiochia rebelled he made a Peace with Iudas Macchabeus was appeased towards the Iews did sacrifice adorned the Temple and shewed great Gentleness towards the People So Antiochus departed out of Iudaea and took Menelaus that seditious High-Priest along with him captive 1 Mac. 6. 2. Mac. 13. After in the sixth Year of his Government Iudas went with his Army through all the Borders of Iudaea and executed Justice upon all such as were Offenders and Contemners of the true Religion After when Iudas had certain intelligence that Nicanor whom Demetrius King of Syria had sent against Ierusalem went about by fraudulent Courses and under pretence of Friendship to take away his Life 2 Mac. 14. he went privily from Ierusalem and came to Caphar-Salama scituated twelve miles from Ierusalem towards the North. Here Nicanor and he joyned Battel but Judas discomfited his Army and put to the Sword about five thousand of his Men himself not escaping without great danger 1 Mâ—c 7. From Caphar-Salama Judas came to Samaria which was 28 miles here he rested himself and refreshed his Army a while 2 Mac. 15. In the Year before Christ 128 he went from Samaria to Adâ—rsâ— which was 28 miles and there upon the 13th day of Adar which answereth to the 13th day of February near to Bethoron the lower he gave Nicanor a great Overthrow and put him with 35000 of his Host to the Sword 1 Mac. 7. 2 Mac. 15. From Adara and Bethoron the lower he followed the Enemies to Gaza a City of the Philistines being 44 miles 1 Mac. 9. From Gaza he returned to Ierusalem being 44 miles there he caused the Arm of Nicanor whom a little before he had slain at the Battel of Adarsa to be cut off and his Tongue to be cut out of his Head shred small and given to the Fowls of the Heaven and his Head to be cut from his Shoulders because therewith he had blasphemed the Lord and the Temple swearing Desolation and Destruction to it and the Iews 1 Mac. 7. 2 Mac. 15. A little after that is to say almost at the end of the sixth year of his Government Iudas Macchabeus went out with 3000 chosen men in his Army and pitched his Tents near Laisa twelve miles from Ierusalem towards the West but when the Iews perceived the mighty Army of Bacchides for he had 20000 fooâ— and 2000 Horse in his Host there were many of them discouraged so that all left him but 800 men yet nevertheless Iudas constrained by necessity withstood Bacchides and so manfully behaved himself in the Battel that he overcame him and put him to flight 1 Mac. 2.
the other cold which two Waters being mingled â—ogether are very wholsome and cure many Diseases but principally the shrinking of the Sinews And this shall suffice concerning the Travels of Iohn the Baptist. The Travels of our Lord and Saviour Christ in his Infancy Matth. 3. Luke 2. FRom Bethlehem the Child Jesus was brought to Ierusalem and there presented in the Temple Anno Mundi 3967 which was 6 miles From Ierusalem Ioseph and Mary when they had accomplished all things in the Temple of the Lord carried the Child Iesus to Nazareth in Galilee which was sixty four miles From thence Ioseph and Mary brought Jesus back again to Bethlehem which was seventy two miles Upon the second day of Ianuary in the second Year after the Nativity of Christ the wise men of Persia brought Gifts and worshipped him A little after that is about the Ides of Ianuary just the Night before the Command came from Herod to kill the innocent Children Ioseph and Mary went with the Child Jesus through the Mountains and Desarts of Iudea into Egypt to Hermopolis in the Land of Gosen which was reckoned from Bethlehem 296 miles From Hermopolis in Egypt after the death of Herod Jesus was brought back again by his Parents to Nazareth in Iudea which was above 368 miles When Jesus was twelve years of age he went with his Parents from Nazareth to Ierusalem to the Feast of the Passeover which was sixty four miles And when his Parents had lost him and found him again in the Temple among the Learned then he continued in obedience unto them and went with them from Ierusalem to Nazareth which was sixty four miles So his Travels were 934 miles Concerning the Towns and Places mentioned in his Travels you may read before in the Travels of the Virgin Mary The Travels of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ from his Baptism till the first year of his Ministry CHrist in the thirtieth year of his age went from Nazareth and came to Bethabara which stood upon the River Iordan where Iohn baptized and upon the seventh day of October in the middle of the last Week spoken of by Daniel cap. 9. was there baptized at whose baptism the testimony of the Spirit descended down upon him in the likeness of a Dove which was fifty two miles From Iordan Jesus was led by the Spirit into the Wilderness to be tempted of the Devil and there fasted forty dayes and forty nights at the end of which time the Devil came and tempted him How this Wilderness was called the Evangelist doth not specifie but it is to be thought that it was the Desart of Arabia Petraea and that our Saviour Christ fasted upon the mountain of Sinai where Moses and Eliah fasted forty dayes and forty nights Exod. 24. 1. Reg. 19. For this Desart extendeth it self from the borders of Egypt and the Red Sea to Iordan where Iohn baptized and from thence by the Country of Trachonites to the mountain of Libanus Therefore our Saviour Christ might that present seventh day of October whereon he was baptized come into this Wilderness and by little and little go thence to Mount Sinai which was 136 miles For there was no place more fit for Sathâ—n to tempt our Saviour in than where the Law was delivered which is the power of Sin for although the Son of God was without Sin yet he took upon him the Sins of all the World Levit. 16. Joh. 1. Isa. 53. So then our Saviour Christ according to this supputation continued in the Desart from the seventh day of October to the sixteenth of November which was forty dayes and forty nights Epiphanius lib. 2. Tom. 1. Haeres 51. saith that our Saviour Christ was baptized upon the eighth day of November which was the twelfth day of the month Athyr amongst the Egyptians but this supputation is false and altogether repugnant to the certain Mathematical calculation Wherefore upon the seventeenth day of November our Saviour Christ hungred Mat. 4. Mark 1. Luke 4. and then the Devil with an extraordinary boldness came unto him and carried him from Mount Sinai with great violence through the Air and set him upon the top of a Pinacle of the Temple in Jerusalem which was 120 miles this Pinacle was so exceeding high as you may read in the description of Ierusalem that whosoever lookt down from it into the Valley of Cedron their eyes dazled and it seemed as though there had been Clouds in the bottom of the Valley for it was 600 foot from the bottom to the top From this place the Devil bid our Saviour Christ throw himself down c. Mat. 4. From the Pinacle of the Temple the Devil took our Saviour Christ and set him upon a high Mountain but what Hill it was or how called the holy Evangelist doth not set down The Inhabitants of the holy Land think it was the Hill that stood betwixt Bethel and Ai upon which Hill in times past Abraham dwelt Gen. 13. But that Hill is not very high and there are many higher Hills in the holy Land wherefore it is to be thought that he was carried upon the top of that high Mountain Nebo which was also called Pisgah and stood 24 miles from Ierusalem Eastward where God shewed unto Moses all the holy Land beyond Iordan Deut. 34. And in this place as God had shewed Moses so the Devil shewed our Saviour the Kingdoms of the World and the Glory of them saying All these will I give thee c. It is to be thought that all these sharp temptations of the Devil were done in one day This Hill Pisgah is distant from Bethabara 8 miles where Iohn Baptist baptised and bare witness of our Saviour Christ Ioh. ca. 1. Now after the Devil had left him and the Angels had comforted him he came thence unto Iohn which was 8 miles and Iohn said to his Disciples Behold this is the Lamb of God which taketh away the Sins of the World Ioh. 1. So these Travels were 140 miles The Travels of our Saviour Christ in the first year of his Ministry which was the 31 of his age BUT yet our Saviour Christ began not to preach publickly because it was not lawful for any to be admitted into the Ministry of the Word until they were past thirty years of age Now our Saviour Christ in the Months of Ianuary and February being then past thirty for he was full thirty upon the 25 day of December began to preach publickly but yet he had no Disciples neither had he wrought any Miracles In the month of March Iohn Baptist testifieth of Christ before the Priest and Levites and within two days after Christ being then present Iohn said Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the Sins of the World c. Within a while after Christ went thence towards Cana in Galilee in which Journey he took unto him some Disciples namely Andrew and Iohn the Evangelist and as some think Peter Philip and Nathaniel
Leprosie About thirty Paces from the foot of this Hill there ariseth a Fountain which is compassed about with a Wall and is thought to be a Vein of Nilus because they find in it such kind of fishes the like wherof are not to be found in any other place but Nilus Iosephus calleth this Spring Capernaum and likewise all the plain being very pleasant and fruitful for the space of a mile even unto Iordan after the same name because it is subiect to the Jurisdiction of that City About 20 paces from this wall on the shore of the Sea of Galilee there is shewn a place where they say Christ appeared to his seven Disciples after his Resurrection and asked them whether they had any meat And about ten paces from that is shewn a place where they say our Saviours Disciples came to Land and they drew up in their nets a great draught of fishes c. John 21. Of Naim NAim signifies fruitful and pleasant it stood 48 miles from Jerusalem towards the North and typically representeth the condition of the World For the Children of this World live in all manner of Pleasures and Delights never thinking of any sorrow till Death seiseth on them but then that overturns all and those delights become loathsome unto them Notwithstanding this one comfort we have left us Hope in Christ Jesus who as he raised the Widows Son at the gates of this City from Death to Life will by his mighty Power raise us again at the last day from the Bowels of the Earth and make us partakers with him of an heavenly habitation It stood in the Land of Samaria and in the tribe of Issachar about two miles off it upon the East side stood mount Tabor and a little from it upon the South side stood mount Hermon the lesser and extended it self thence unto the Sea of Galilee 16 miles Of these two Hills you may read Psal. 89. and about two miles from Naim Westward Sunem is to be seen to which the Prophet Elisaeus sometimes resorted 2 Reg. 4. Of Gadara GAdarah or Gederah in Hebrew signifies munition and sometimes it is taken to compass about of Gadar he hath hedged or compassed about S. Jerom saith in his time that is 400 years after Christ this was a very fair City and stood in a very high Mountain upon the East side of the Sea of Galilee beyond Jordan in the half tribe of Manasses some 48 miles from Ierusalem Northward and is to be seen at this day Strabo lib. 6. Georg. saith that close by Gadara there is a venomous lake whereof what Beast soever drinketh he immediately loseth his Horns his Hoofs and his Hair and there are many that think this Lake became thus venomous because of the 2000 Swine that were drowned in it when our Saviour suffered the Devils to enter into them Mat 8. Mark 5. Luke 8. Close by this Town stood Gerasa called also Girgesa Mat. 8. so named as some think of Girgasus the Son of Canaan Gen. 10. Of Genesareth THIS was a Country bordering upon the North-west side of the Sea of Galilee from whence this Sea was called the Lake of Genesareth Luke 5. This Land was very pleasant and fruitful as if it had been a Princes Garden bringing forth fair Apples Pomegranates Palmes Olives Vines and divers other kinds of pleasant Fruits fair and goodly to the eye and therefore not without cause was it called the Garden of a Prince being derived of Gan which signifies a Garden and Sur a Prince It is distant from Ierusalem six and fifty miles towards the North as you may read Matth. 6. 14. The chief Cities of this Country were Capernaum and Bethsaida of which Cities though in former times they were very fair and large there are at this day not scarce eight houses to be seen The Travels of our Saviour Christ in the third year of his Ministry which was the three and thirtieth year of his age FROM Ierusalem our Saviour Christ returned some six and fifty miles into Galilee and in the beginning of this year wintered in that place so that as it may be gathered out of the Evangelists he continued there the most part of Ianuary and February and now the Spring approching a little after the death of Saint Iohn the Baptist who as it is thought was put to death between the midst of Winter and the Spring not long before the Feast of the Passover so that he lived two years and a half in his Ministry he wrought many notable Miracles not far from the City of Bethsaida The same time the Feast of the Passover drawing near which was the third Passover of his ministry he went thence over Iordan and so beyond the Sea of Tiberias Matth. 14. Mark 6. Luke 9. At this time the Apostles of Christ being dispersed through all Galilee and Iudaea teaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven hearing of the miserable death of Iohn the Baptist about the beginning of the month of April returned with all possible speed out of every Part to our Saviour Christ that so they might be secure against the tyranny of Herod Matth. 14. Mark 6. Luke 9. Also the Disciples of Iohn came unto him and told him of his Death and Burial Matth. 14. Our Saviour Christ therefore having by this means certain intelligence as he was between Bethsaida and Tiberias of the death of S. Iohn Baptist in the month of April he went into a Ship and passed about four miles to the further side of the Sea of Galilee where in a certain Desart he sed five thousand men with five Barley loaves and two fishes Ioh. 6. From thence he returned back again to the Sea and so to Capernaum which was four miles here he made that long Sermon of the Spiritual eating of his flesh Mat. 14. Luke 9. Iohn 6. From thence he went to Ierusalem which was 56 miles to the Feast of the Passeover being the third Passeover of his ministry The third Passover of the Ministry of Christ. Upon the thirteenth day of April being Sunday according to the Ecclesiastical computation Christ as God commanded celebrated the third Passover of his ministry for the space of eight days in the City of Ierusalem that is till the twentieth day of the same month After the Feast of the Passeover the Iews took counsel how they might put him to death Ioh. 7. wherefore about the end of April he departed thence and went 56 miles into the Land of Galilee In the month of May after the controversie that happened concerning the Tradition of the Elders because of the fallacies and contentions of the Scribes and Pharisees he departed thence into the borders of Tyrus and Sidon which was 56 miles Matth. 15. and there entred into a house and would fain have been private but there was a certain Woman that was a Grecian of Syrophoenissa came unto him and intreated his aid Mark 7. But our Saviour having a determination to depart from this