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A05059	A briefe description of Hierusalem and of the suburbs therof, as it florished in the time of Christ Whereto is annexed a short commentarie concerning those places which were made famous by the Passion of Christ, and by the actes of holye men, confirmed by certeine principall histories of antiquity. Verie profitable for Christians to read, for the understanding of the Sacred Scriptures and Iosephus his Historie. Hereunto also is appertaining a liuely and beawtifull mappe of Hierusalem, with arithmeticall directions, correspondent to the numbers of this booke. Translated out of Latin into English by Thomas Tymme minister.; Jerusalem sicut Christi tempore flourit. English	Adrichem, Christiaan van, 1533-1585.; Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.	1595 (1595)	STC 152; ESTC S100442	70,773	138

by the meditations of these afflictions of our sauiour faith is illumined hope strengthened charitie inflamed and all vertue increased Wherefore saint Augustine a light of the Church no lesse truly then godly prouoking vs by very forceable woordes therevnto saith thus Behould the woundes of him that hangeth the bloud of him that dieth the price of the redemer the scarres of him that ryseth His heade boweth to kisse thee his hart is opened to loue thee his armes stretched abroad to imbrace thee his whole bodie set forth to redeeme thee Consider what and how greate ●hese thinges be waigh them in the ballance of your heartes that hee may be wholy fastened in your hartes who for vs was wholy fastened on the crosse Thus far Augustine So that it is not enough to meditate of these thinges once but it is profitable to thinke vpon them often yea the oftener the more they auaile and profite In the wholesome contemplation of whose passion although we profite much yet we shall neuer attaine to the perfite knowledge thereof but there will remaine still somewhat that we may seeke for the full knowledge wherof is reserued to our heauenly countrey In the meane tyme let vs contemplate in these thinges day and night in these things let vs recreate and busie our selues In these let vs watch in these let vs sleep yea to die in the meditation of these things is most Christian and auaileable to euerlasting saluation Places of holy Scripture to the praise of IERVSALEM Lamenta II. Is this the citty of perfit bewty the ioye of the whole earth Ezech. V. This is IERVSALEM I haue set it in the middest of the nations countries y t are round about her II. Cron. VII I haue chosen this place for my selfe to be a house of sacrifice Isaias II. Micheas IIII. The Lawe shall go foorth of Sion and the woorde of the Lord from IERVSALEM Apocalips XXI I sawe the holy Citiie new IERVSALEM come downe from God out of Heauen prepared as a bride trimmed for her husband Tobit XIII O IERVSALEM the holy Cittie many nations shall come from far to the name of the Lord God with giftes in their hands euen gyftes to y e King of heauen all generations shal praise thee and giue signes of ioye Cursed are all they which hate thee but blessed are they for euer which loue thee Reioyce and be glad for the children of the iust for they shall be gathered and shall blesse the lord for the iust Blessed are they which loue thee for they shall reioyce in thy peace Blessed are they which haue bene sorrowfull for all thy scourges For they shall reioyce for thee when they shal see all thy glorie and shall reioyce for euer Let my soule blesse God y e great King For IERVSALEM shall be built vp with Saphires Emeraudes and thy walls with pretious stoanes and thy towers thy bulwarkes with pure gould And the streetes of IERVSALFM shalbe paued with Berall and Carbuncle and stoanes of Ophir And all her streets shall say Halleluiah and they shall praise him saying blessed bee God which hath extolled it for euer Thomas Newton to the louing Reader THat stately place that princely bowre that seate of mightie King That floure of Beniamin his tribe whose fame through world did ring Ennobled with such royall stiles and titles of renowne And ouer worldlie citties all most meete to weare the crowne Loe heere presented is to Viewe in such good currrant sort As no penne heretofore perform'd or made thereof report So that wee neede not now to runne or gad from place to place In daungers great through countreis staunge to trie or know this case That braue estate which earst it had is now alas defac'de King dauids house and temple now is quight and cleane disgrac'de Yet sitting still with booke in hand we here may plaine beholde The state of ech thing as it was in times that were of old Where Christ did preach where Christ did suppe where Christ did fast and pray Where Christ was caught where christ was whipt where theeues did him betraye Where he a precious raunsome paid for man who had offended Where he was buried where he rose and eke where he ascended Where Annas kept his pompous court where Caiphas palace stoode Where wicked Pilate dwelt that did condemne most guiltles blood This and much more is here discourst by him that both had read And seene with eye full thirtie yeeres where hee his life had lead Whose worke and paines as they deserue much thankes and hartie praise So Timme his guerdon well deserues of all men in these daies Aswell for heere acquainting vs with this rare worke of skill As also for his other paines that passed haue his quill Who like a candle wastes himselfe in giuing light to others Moe such God graunt to take like care to helpe their Christian brothers Thomas Newton ❧ A BRIEFE DESCRIPTION OF IERVSALEM AND THE SVBVRBES THEREOF AS IT FLORISHED IN THE TIME OF CHRIST 1 IErusalem the elect Cittie of God holy and most glorious built vpon the holy mountaines excelling all the citties of the world as well by the loftinesse of the seate as by the moderation and temperature of the heauens and fruitfulnesse of soile was situated in the midest of the whole worlde and of Iudaea as it were in the very center and heart of the earth And being as a Queene amongest all other neighbour citties had the preheminence as the head ouer the body and shined as the sunne aboue others in sumptuousnes and glorious buildings hauing such surpassing excellency she was by a certaine singular priuiledge in time past the onely place which God had chosen to himselfe and was a figure not only of euery faithfull mans soule but also of the elect Church of Christ militant vppon earth and of that blessed triumphant Church in heauen A cittie of perfect beautie the virgin of the worlde the paragon of all the Easte and the ioye and reioycing of the whole earth This cittie was builded about the yeare from the creation of the world two thousand twenty and three in the time of Abraham by Melchisedech the Kinge In hebrue it was called SALEM and in Greeke SOLYMA and it seemeth that hee possessed the same fiftie yeares The which afterwards the Iebusites enioyed who sprang from Iebusi the sonne of Chanaan of whome it was called for a time Iebus and Iebusaeum at what time Iosua slue the King thereof And the Iebusites helde the same eighte hundred and twentie foure yeares who trusted so much to the strength of their cittie that when king Dauid assailed the same in contempt of him and of his army they placed vpon their walles the blind the halt and the maimed saying that these were sufficient to beate backe the enemy But when Dauid through Gods helpe enioyed the cittie the Iebusites

pompe and triumph the true king and humble triumpher entered in at the goulden gate and rode aboute the temple and the greatest part of the cittie With this newe spectacle the whole cittie was moued saying Who is this The multitude which followed him answered This is Iesus the Prophet of Nazareth a Citty af Galile Then the crie of those that reioysed and were gladde increased more and more and men and women young and olde yea which is wonderful the very infants which came from al parts cryed out together Osanna to the sonne of Dauid Blessed bee the king of Israel which commeth a king in the name of the Lord. Blessed be the kingdome that commeth in the name of him that is Lord of our father Dauid peace in Heauen and glory in the highest Osanna in the hyghest With these ioyful voices and cryes they proclaiming their Messias followed him euen into the Temple Where this newe king happily beginning his kingdome presently healed the blinde and the lame In the meane time the wicked and enuious Pharisies the chiefe priestes and Scribes doo fret and fume who seeing the great maruels which he did and the children crying in the temple Osanna to the sonne of Dauid said among themselues Do ye not see how we profit nothing Behold the whole world goeth foorth after him Wherevpon they begin with Iesus himselfe saying Mayster doost thou heare what these say Rebuke thy Disciples To whome he shewing that this was long before prophesied of by the Prophet answereth Why should they not Haue ye not read Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklings thou hast ordained praise I say vnto you if these holde their peace the stones shall presentlie crye THE PLACES ON THE SOVTH PART OF THE CITTIE 213. ABACVC Here the Angell of the Lord taketh vp the prophet Abacuc by the haire of the head as hee was carying to the reapers in the fielde their dinner and caried him with the same meat into Babilon to feede Daniel being shut vp in the Lyons denne Who being fed he brought Abacuc hither againe 214 ACELDEMA or Haceldemach that is to saye the fielde of bloud It was a potters fielde situate at the South parte of mounte Sion hauing behinde it a hill of the same name This fielde by the counsaile of the Iewes was bought with the thirtie peeces of siluer for the which Iudas soulde Christ that it might serue to bury strangers in the middle parte whereof the Emperesse Helen caused to be inclosed with a foure square wall in length seuenty and two foote and in bredth fiftie And the same to bee couered ouer with a roofe hauing seuen loope holes by which the deade bodies of Christians might be let downe The vertue of this earth is reported to be wonderfull and almost incredible to witte that it bringeth and consumeth into dust the bodies of the dead men within the space of twenty foure howers leauing nothing but the bones 215 THE FVLLERS FIELDE which lay all along at the South ende of the cittie euen from the valley of Siloe east ward vnto mount Gihon towards the west and betweene the wall of the citty and the water In this fielde the Fullers did scoure their cloathes in the brooke next adioyning and did set them on tainters and so dry them 216. THE DENNE OR CAVE of Iames the lesse wherin he is said to haue hid himselfe by the space of three dayes hauing vowed not to eate breade vntill Christe was risen agayne For the which cause the Lorde appered to him a parte after his resurrection 217 THE CAVE OF PETER THE APOSTLE wherein after hee had denied the Lorde thrise hee repented him and mourned with many teares 218 THE TENTS OF THE ASSYRIANS of whom for a reuenge of their blasphemy the most stronge to the nomber of 185000 in the very first night of the beseeging Ierusalem were slaine by the Angell of the Lord and as Augustine reporteth their bodyes were brought into dust that they might not infect the aier their garments armour and weapons notwithstanding remaining whole and sound that the people of Ierusalem might haue the spoile 219 THE HOVSE OF ELIAS wherein it is said that the prophet Elias sometime dwelt Where afterward also a Church was builded 220. THE MOVNTAINE EROGE otherwise called the South Mountaine being very high and loftie bowing a little towarde the west Concerning this mountaine this is worthy to bee noted That when Ozias king of Iuda presumed to put on him the priests attire entered into the sanctuary of the Temple and offered vpon the golden altar the incense of sweete sauour vnto God by and by there came a great earthquake whereof also Amos and zacharias the Prophets make mention whereby the vpper part of the Temple was shaken and this mountaine cleft in the mids with so great and terrible violence that one part thereof falling and tumbling downe was rolled and carried by the space of foure furlongs euen right ouer against the East mountaine which is called the mount of offence where at the length it staied King Ozias himselfe in the meane time blasted and terrified with lightning was stricken in the forehead with a Leprosie For the which cause he being presently cast out of the Temple and Citty languished all his life long and was shut vp in his house and separated euen till the day of his death 221. A FOVNTAINE At this Fountaine the Starre which vanished away when the three wise men which came from the East were entered Ierusalem appeared vnto them againe and led them vnto Bethlehem 222. THE CAVE OF the Prophet Ieremy wherein he sitting with a greeued and sorrowfull mind wept moorned and bewailed the destruction of Ierusalem with sobs and sighes Where Helena the Empresse as Nicephorus testifieth builded a notable monument 223 ISAIAS Here that notable Prophet Isai when hee prophesied in Ierusalem about threescore and ten yeares by the commandment of king Manasses was split through the body with a sawe and was buried vnder an Oake whose sepulture is to be seene at this day 224 THE CAVES OF THE APOSTLES There are many Caues wherein eight of the Apostles as it is reported hid themselues during the time of the Lords passion 225 THE MONVMENT ABSOLOM is a marble piller with an Inscriptiō on the same distant from Ierusalem two furlonges which Absolom beeing aliue set vppe to himselfe for a monument in the kings valley where there is as yet to be seene a great heape of stones which daily is increased more and more For the Pagans and strangers passing by that way vse this for a custome that euery man cast a stone at the piller and challenging as it were according to the lawe his rebellion againste his father Dauid they cursse him with this malediction Cursed be the Parricide