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A75905	A description and explanation of 268. places in Jerusalem and in the suburbs thereof, as it flourished in the time of Jesus Christ Answerable to each of the 268. figures that are in its large, and most exact description in the map; shewing the several places of the acts and sufferings of Jesus Christ, and his holy Apostles. As also of the Kings, prophets, &c. Very useful for the more clear and fuller opening of very many places in the prophets (as also in Josephus, and other histories) especially in the Gospels, and the Acts of the Apostles. Translated by T.T. Reviewed, and in many places rectified according to the Holy Scriptures, and some things further cleared: with additions of many scripture proofs: by H. Jessey. Imprimatur Joseph Caryl.	Adrichem, Christiaan van, 1533-1585.; Jessey, Henry, 1603-1663.; T. T.	1653 (1653)	Wing A600aA; ESTC R229469	81,732	114

Erusalem the choice City of God The Original places from whence this Commentary is taken and where more is to be read Psalm 48.2 87.1 2 3. Matth 4.5 Psal 74.27 holy and most glorious built upon the holy Mountains excelling all the Cities of the World as well by the loftiness of the Seat as by the moderation and temperature of the Heavens and fruitfulness of Soil was situated in the midst of the whole World and of Judea as it were in the very Centre and Heart of the Earth and being as a Queen amongst all other Neighbor Cities had the preheminence as the Head over the Body Ezek. 5.5 and shined as the Sun above others in sumptuous and glorious Buildings Having such surpassing excellency she was by a certain singular priviledge in time past Joseph Lib. 3. de Bello Iudaico cap. 2. Deut. 16.17 Psal 48.2 Lam. 2.5 the onely place which God had chosen to himself and was a figure not onely of every faithful mans soul but also of the Elect Church of Christ Militant upon Earth and of that blessed Triumphant Church in Heaven A City of perfect Beauty the Virgin of the World the Paragon of all the East and the joy and rejoycing of the whole Earth This City was builded as some judge about the year from the Creation of the World Two thousand twenty and three in the time of Abraham Gen 14.18 Joseph 7. Antiq Iud. cap 7. l. 7. Belli Iud. c. 18 28. Gen. 10. Iosh 15.8 Judg. 1.19 2 Sam. 5.5 1 Chron. 11.4 7. by Melchisedec the King In Hebrew it was called Salem and in Greek Solyma and it seemeth that he possessed the same Fifty years The which afterwards the Jebusites enjoyed who sprang from Jebusi the Son of Canaan of whom it was called for a time Jebus and Jebusaeum at what time Joshua slew the King thereof And the Jebusites held the same Eight hundred twenty and four years who trusted so much to the strength of their City that when King David assailed the same in contemp tof him and of his Army they placed upon their Walls the blinde the halt and the maimed saying That these were sufficient to beat back the Enemy But when David through Gods help enjoyed the City the Jebusites being expulsed Joseph l. 7. Antiq cap. 3. Jerom. Tom. 3. de loc Hebr. lit i. Euseb Evang Praep. l. 9. 1 King 3.5 6 9 10 c. See Number CXXIV Joseph lib. 8. Antiq. cap. 2. 5. he re-edified the same round fortified it with a Castle dwelt therein and made it the Metropolitan City of the whole Province of Judea and the Head of all the Kingdom and from thenceforth called it Jerusalem as it were Jebussalem the letter B to make the better sound turned into R. Or rather from Jireh and Salem Gen. 18.2 14. with 2 Chro. 3.1 Notwithstanding there are some which write That it is called Jerusalem of the magnificent Temple which Solomon built therein as it were Hieron Solomonis For the Greeks call a Temple 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hieron In continuance of time Solomon and other Kings of Judea greatly enlarged the same and so fortified it with most strong Gates Towers Walls and Trenches and so adorned it with a Temple with Pallaces and with most exquisit Buildings that among other Cities it was a miracle of the whole World and is therefore more honored with silence then with all that can be said concerning the same It stood in the Tribe of Benjamin Josh 18.28 Some borders of it were in Judah Josh 15.8 In this glory and excellency Jerusalem flourished Four hundred seventy and seven years Ioseph con Appion lib. 1. Strabo Geograph l. 16. as if it had been an Earthly Paradise being in compass round about Six miles and two hundred and fifty paces And by the Wall and circuit of the City there was a Stony Trench or Vault Threescore foot deep and in bredth Two hundred and fifty wherein was abiding about One hundred and fifty thousand men But when the wickedness of the Princes and People not onely had profaned the Temple 2 Kings 16.21 24 25. 2 Chro. 28.33 36. with the abominations of Idols but also had filled the City even to the full with innocent blood most cruelly shed the City together with the Temple Princes and people by the just vengeance of God was by Nabuchodonozer Micah 3. Jere. 25.26 29 52. King of Babylon but Gods whip so utterly overthrown and desolated Threescore and ten years that Sion was ploughed up like a field and Jerusalem was become as a heap of stones and the Mountain of the Temple as it were the height and top of Woods so as in the mean time as Jerom witnesseth that neither so much as a Bird Hier. Tom. 3. Trad. Heb. in 2 Chro. 15. nor a Beast could flie or pass through the same Afterwards the Temple onely being with much a do and very hardly builded wanting Gates Towers and Walls was inhabited again by the Jews returning out of the captivity of Babylon Threescore years Moreover within the space of Two and fifty days Esdr 1.2 3 4 5 6. Nehe. 1.2 3 4.5 6 7 c. 1 Mac. 12.13 14. Ioseph 6. Bel. 6. Ioseph 1. Bel. 13. c. Nehemiah inclosed it in compass Three miles and seven hundred and fifty paces with Gates Towers and a strong Wall and afterward the same being beautified by the Maccabees by Herod and by others very stately with publick and private Buildings recovered the former dignity being very famous and populous by the space of Five hundred four and twenty years having in it many narrow Streets by reason of the exceeding number of Houses therein At what time there as in a Theatre Jesus Christ wrought our Salvation and from thence Isa 2.4 Micah 4. Acts 2.1 Mark 16. Psal 18. Ioseph 6. Bel. 13. 7. Bel. 14.17 18. as from a Center the Apostles spread forth the Evangelical Doctrine throughout the World But Titus Emperor of Rome being brought by the just judgement of God to take vengeance for the death of Christ the Thirty and eighth year after his Passion besieged it round casting a bank about it and shut up the Jews in the City as in a prison which came out of every Tribe to celebrate the Feast of Passover there Whereupon that City the wonder of the World was made a Den of theeves and a Sepulchre of dead men For by reason of civil murders famine pestilence and sword there perished in the same Eleven hundred thousand Jews And as for the City it self Titus did so utterly subvert it that men which came unto it would scarce believe that ever it had been inhabited Nevertheless he left three principal Herodian Towers that is to say Hippic Mariam and Phasel which were more notable then the rest as well for greatness as for beauty and that part of the Cities Wall which compassed them from the