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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40681	A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the confines thereof with the history of the Old and New Testament acted thereon / by Thomas Fuller ...	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1650 (1650)	Wing F2455; ESTC R18096	609,969	642

amongst good authors about the proportion thereof Some count it so much as was betwixt each mans proper habitation and the next Synagogue or place of publick worship to which he was to repair Others that distance which one might goe after the Morning and return before the evening sacrifice was offered But let us attend to the text which directs us to some certainty therein Then returned they to Ierusalem from the mount called Olivet which is from Ierusalem a Sabbath-days journey By the Mount here we understand not the verge or bottome but the summity top or ridge thereof whence our Saviour made his ascension Secondly both going thither and returning thence are computed in the compass of the journey Now Bethany which was on mount Olivet is elsewhere said to be nigh to Ierusalem about fifteen furlongs two miles on the matter all which put together the result is that four miles or there-abouts make up a Sabbath-days journey Provided it was leasurely and moderately paced coming under the notion rather of recreation then toil a walk then a work both to man and beast otherwise the day might be broken as well in going too fast as too far § 9. It will here be demanded seeing this was flatly against the letter of the Law if not onely meant for the gathering of Manna positive and negative Abide yee every man in his place let no man goe out of his place on the seventh day Whence then did this indulgence or dispensation arise Some ground it on Ioshua's ordering that the Ark should in its removall be distanced from the people about two thousand cubits by measure which space is presumed might be gone forward and backward by any on the Sabbath-day without offence But others conceive this equity included in the very words of the Ordinance For surely God intended not that the Sabbath should nail the Iews as fast to their houses as the darkness did the Egyptians when none arose from their place seeing such a sedentary stupidity had been a rack not a rest and a poor refreshing to the Jewish servants that those who had been labourers six days should be prisoners the seventh Some necessary motion therefore must be allowed And when the Disciples walked th●ough the corn on the Sabbath-day the Pharisees found fault not with their feet but their hands not with their going but gathering ears of corn as they went As for the Pars quota how far people might goe on that day custome and tradition had decided it about the days of our Saviour § 10. For in the age of Elisha the nice restriction of a Sabbath-days journey was unknown For when the Shunamite requested of her husband to send her one of the young men and one of the asses that she may run to the man of God and come again he rejoyned Wherefore wilt thou goe to him to day It is neither new Moon nor Sabbath Intimating that had it been Sabbath either weekly or annuall it was her duty and had been her custome to repair to the place where the Prophet lived though Carmel where Elisha resided was from Shunem at least fifteen miles As for the Iews in our Saviours time they persisted in the rigorous observation of the Sabbath even till and after the destruction of the Temple insinuated in our Saviours counsell Pray that your flight be not in winter nor on the Sabbath-day Christ in the latter pitying that conflict which would happen in the scrupulous conscience of ceremonious Iews betwixt their love of saving their lives and keeping the law lest that while the one spurred them to fly and the other bridled them to stay they would be at such a stand that their enemies might easily knock them down in that stound of amazement and their life be determined in this world before the question decided in their conscience § 11. As for latitudes and longitudes the light and life of all great Maps we have onely observed them in our generall descriptions of Palestine and Egypt omitting them in the draughts of particular Tribes whose smalness render them incapable thereof without very much pains and with very small profit In the latitudes we may attain a tolerable certainty but so different are good Authors in assigning the longitudes that they accord no better in their testimonies then the witnesses brought against Christ not any two of them agreeing together Nor doth this discord onely arise from the different meridians whence the ancients and moderns doe start their computations because this being easily arbitrated according to just proportion the difference almost remains as much as ever before However we have followed authors of the best authority as hereafter God willing we shall give the Reader a particular account thereof CHAP. 14. Directions for the use of the Scale of miles in our Maps § 1. WIthout a Scale of miles or degrees equivalent the livelyest draught of a Countrey is no regulated Map but a paper full of names of places However vast is the difference betwixt the miles in severall Countreys An Italian mile containeth seven an English eight furlongs A French is equall to two a vulgar Dutch to three English miles the large Dutch to four the miles in Swizerland to five not to say six of our English computation so that in that mountainous countrey travellers have a double disheartning the worst of ways and longest of miles Yea upon the Alpes in the juncture of Germany and Italy in the self same mountain on the north side the miles are the longest on the south side the shortest in Christendome § 2. Come over into England and what difference is there betwixt a Middlesex and a Yorkshire mile The former the shortest because as some will have it every London-Lady when weary with walking concludes the space though never so short to be a mile whilest the well mounted Rank-riders in the northern countrey insensible of the length of the way because of the swiftness of their horses make miles of the largest proportion Our scale of miles presented in all these Maps is according to the English mile containing eight furlongs to which we have reduced a task rather troublesome then difficult the measures of other authours giving allowance according to the standards of the severall countreys whereof they were § 3. Here if my complaint might finde any pity and that pity give me any ease I would complain of the irreconcileable difference betwixt Authors proceeding on one and the same scale of miles in making their distances betwixt their severall places We read of Saul that he so scattered the army of the Ammonites so that two of them were not lest together Such a dispersion we finde in the judgment of learned men not two of them generally concurring in the measuring of miles betwixt eminent places § 4. Now as Jurie-men when severall witnesses swear point-blank one against another make bold to beleeve his

which the Priests in the night might carry about with them By these Candlesticks also having lights always in them Gods Ministers in generall were represented For to say that by these seven lamps in the ten Candlesticks threescore and ten in all the seventy Disciples were designed would savour of too much curiosity § 2. Next we take notice of the Table of shew-bread which Solomon made of that gold which his Father David had peculiarly prepared for that purpose The particular dimensions and fashion thereof is not mentioned in Scripture Probably of the like form with that which Moses made in the Tabernacle though of a far greater proportion On this loaves were daily presented to God Who not out of any necessity If I be hungry I will not tell thee for the world is mine and the fulness thereof but free will was pleased to accept thereof otherwise no more needing this bread to feed then the light of the lampes to guide him The bread on this Table was tendered to God partly as a Quit-rent in confession that the Iews held all their food from his providence and partly as a Type of Christ The bread which came down from heaven And as serving-men feed on the reversions which their Masters leave so the Priests when new was substituted in the room of the formet eate those loaves which were taken away Not pretending with Bels Priests that their God eat up what they secretly devoured themselves but by license from him they openly avouched their lawfull repast thereupon § 3. But the most eminent utensill in the Holy was the Altar of incense made by Moses in the Tabernacle two cubits high and four square namely with a cubit in the length and another in the breadth thereof Proportionable enough for that purpose no sacrifices of bulk being to be offered thereon but onely sweet odours much whereof might lie in little space and spirituall spices as I may term them which took up but smal room therein Davids express care provided refined gold for this Altar of incense And no doubt Solomon the Executour of his Will performed it accordingly For when it is said that he covered the Altar with Cedar and that hee overlaid the whole Altar elsewhere made the Altar which was by the Oracle with gold it can refer to none other but this Altar of incense seeing that for burnt sacrifices was made of brass It seems that when Solomon made the Holy in the Temple far larger then that in the Tabernacle and when every implement therein to make the furniture proportionable to the room commenced and took an higher degree of glory and greatness then he cased the old Altar of incense with Cedar and overlaid the same with gold to be but the Basis and Pedestall of a greater Altar which for the same purpose he advanced thereupon § 4. As for the position of this Altar that it was not set in the Oracle or most Holy place but onely in the Holy or inward Temple may by the ensuing arguments be demonstrated 1 The text saith expresly Moses put it in the tent of the congregation before the vaile 2 The incense thereon was to be perpetuall renewed every morning and therefore it could not be in Sancto Sanctorum which was penetrable but once a year for the high Priest 3 Zacharias an inferiour Priest as of the eight order or course of Abiah incapable to enter the Holy of Holies officiated on this Altar of incense Greater therefore is the difficulty that notwithstanding the premises so plain to the contrary the Authour to the Hebrews placeth it in the Holy of Holies And after the second vaile the Tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all which had the golden censer and the Ark of the Covenant c. § 5. All that our best endevours can perform herein is onely to present the severall solutions learned men produce to the present difficulty 1 Iunius placeth this Altar within the vail and without the Sanctuary in so strange a posture that scarcely either Jewish or Christian Tacticks of Temple-implements will admit thereof 2 Others by the golden censer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 understand not this Altar of Incense but that eminent censer of Aaron used by him in his contest with Korah which they conceive though omitted by Moses preserved with his Budding rod as a memoriall in the Holy of Holies 3 Others understand that Censer which the high Priest once a year carried thereinto full of incense and which for the time being was in the Holy of Holies namely during the high Priest his remaining therein 4 Ribera expounding it properly of the Altar of incense avoucheth that the Holy of Holies had the golden censer not quoad situm but quoad usum not within the compass but command thereof as more immediately subservient thereunto Indeed this Altar of incense peculiarly belonged to the anniversary solemnity of the Holy of Holies upon the hornes whereof once a year the high Priest with the bloud of the sin offering sacrificed no doubt on the brazen Altar without but sprinkled here made an atonement for the people § 6. So much for the Utensils of the Holy onely we will adde that whereas the Table of shew-bread and Altar of incense were made by Moses with staves and rings to make them more portable on the Priests shoulders probably Solomon omitted the same as superfluous when now setled in a fixed residence Except any will say that as the Israelites when peaceably possessed of their countrey were still enjoined to eat the Passover with staves in their hands to preserve the memory of their journey at the first institution thereof so these Utensils even in the Temple continued their staves about them in memoriall of their long pilgrimage and late coming home to their constant habitation CHAP. VIII Of the vessels in the Holy of Holies § 1. PAss we now into the Holy of Holies into which the high Priest onely entered once a year finding three gradations in their religious service which waited on the Temple 1 Hourely attendance in the outward Courts where many Porters especially watched all houres of day and night 2 Daily in the Holy where lighting lampes and burning incense were quotidian duties 3 Weekly in the same place where new shew-bread was substituted every Sabbath day 4 Yearly in the Holy of Holies open onely to the anniversary entring of the high Priest This was a little house well filled with mysterious vessels And for the main we may observe that although Solomon altered and enlarged the Utensils in the Holy and outward Courts yet in the Holy of Holies he made use of those numericall vessels of Moses his making without any addition or alteration as at the first formed so exactly and fitted so suitably to the privacy of the place that