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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

PRINCE OF THE PHARISEIES in the which Christ touched the man sicke of the dropsie and healed him 42. THE HOVSE OF THE FORREST OF LYBANVS in length one hundred cubits in breadth fiftie and in heigth thirtie cubits the which Salomon builded most braue and glorious of polished marble of Cedar trees garnished with siluer and gold hauing a flat roofe with walkes and galleries according to the fashion of Palestine and within liuely counterfeits of sundry trees and plants most artificially made that the leaues thereof seemed in some sort to shake And neere vnto the same hee planted a groue and a greene arbor made of all manner of trees and watered with fountaines also hee made parkes and fishe pooles wherein it is like were all manner of wilde beastes birds and fishes This house was a storehouse of meate an armorie for weapons of warre a house wherein ointments paintings and sweete perfumes were laied vppe and preserued Beside these two hundred shields of golde for horssemen and three hundred large targets of golde for footemen which Salomon made were in this house by him laide vppe Al other vessels also of this house were of gold To this house the king and his peeres came when the weightie affaires of the Common wealth were ended and recreated their mindes with banquets with plaies and with pleasant walkes 43 THE HOVSE OF SIMON THE PHARISIE which is at this day to bee seene wherein Christ sitting at the Table forgaue vnto Mary Magdalen the sinfull woman bewailing her sinnes and washing his feet with her teares wiping them with her haire kissing them annointing him and much louing him many sinnes 44 THE HOVSE OF THE COMMON PEOPTE wherein they exercised themselues with dartinges other exercises of the arme and with feastes with plaies and walkes refreshed their mindes 45 THE GREAT MARKET which was in the midst of the cittie and neere adioyning to the Castle Antonia wherein Alexander the king of the Iewes and the chiefe priest crucified eight hundred Iewes killing also the Wiues in the presence of their husbands and the children in the sight of their mothers the which spectacle himselfe with his Concubines beheld at what time they were banqueting in the castle Antonia For the which crueltie he was sirnamed Crucida In the same market place Herod the greater fought a great battell with the Parthians which went about to bring againe Antigonus into the kingdom Furthermore when the famine through the Romane siege was exceeding great in Ierusalem in such wife that it consumed whole families and replenished the toppes of houses with fainting women and children and the waies with the dead carcases of olde men in which extremitie they did eate leather their girdles their shooes hay and mothers their owne children then a man might haue seene lusty yoong men which afore time were most flourishing passe through this market place like shadowes of dead men And when those which remained aliue were not able to burie the dead by reason of theyr exceeding multitude and could not endure the stinke of the bodies vnburied they cast them ouer the wall into the vallies of the cittie The which when Titus sawe as hee went about the wals full of dead bodies much putrified he fetcht a great sigh and houlding vppe his handes to GOD protested that it was not his deed for the obstinate Iewes refused peace to them often times offered 46. THE MARKET OF WARES the which was in the vpper part of the lower cittie in the which fish and sundry other things were folde In this market S. Iames the greater the brother of Iohn suffered his martyrdome by the tyranny of Herod Agrippa 47. THE VPHOLSTERS MARKET wherein all maner of olde garments that had beene worne aforetime of others were to be sold 48. THE SCHOLE OF GENTILLITIE which Iesus the false high priest of the Iewes who after the manner of the Gentiles would be called Iason and other Iewes apostatas by the permission of Antiochus Epiphan set vp euen vnder his castle oueragainst the temple wherein the people were taught the lawes and fashions of the Gentils the youth instructed in the studies and disputations of the Greeke philosophers Where they being naked and annoynted with oile exercised themselues in feates of actiuity in martiall actions and in enterludes Furthermore in the same place the sayde Apostatas set vp EBHEBIAM that is to say a Stewes of faire young boyes wherein they committed most filthie thinges against nature By reason thereof many fell from the lawe of God to the manners and abhominations of the Gentiles being as it were sould to commit monstrous wickednes insomuch that some of the priests forsaking the temple and worship of God gaue themselues to the exercise of feats of actiuity here hence also there sprang vp among the Iewes diuers sects namely the Pharisies the Saduceis the Esseies c. 49 THE HOVSES OF THE PRIESTES and of the Leuites whose houses were shut vp by the outward parte of the wall but from the former parte they had a prospect toward the temple 50 THE HABITATION OF THE TARGET BEARERS was builded before the west gate of the temple where first the Iewes then the Romaine soldiors vpon the solemne feast days had the stations for the guarde of the temple 51 THE LYSTES OR TYLT which was placed oueragainst the South parte of the Temple wherein horsses by running agillitie and swiftnesse were exercised And the wrastlers and champions did contend before the people who should rnnne swiftest on foot with chariots diuersly drawne who shoulde breake most speares and in other masteries and feares of valiencie Where Herod the kinge for the honour of Augustus Caesar ordeined the game and prise of fiue yeares continuance appointing vnto the victors greate rewards the same Herod when he should die called all the more noble sorte of the Iewes of al places within his dominion by an Edict threatning death to such as should not obey and caused them to be shut vp in the Lystes to the ende that after his death they all being there slaine euery house might haue cause to waile euen in despight of all Iudaea 52. THE MOVNTAINE MORIA the which in another place is called the lande of vision and the mountaine of the temple and the mountaine of the daughter of Sion lying neere vnto the easte wall of the cittie being very high stoany and very steepe rounde about In this mountaine Abraham being ready to offer vp his sonne Isaac in steede of him offered vp a Ramme which was taken by the hornes in a thicket This was the very same mountaine which Dauid bought of Streuna or Ornan the Iebusite for six hundred sicles of goulde and erecting an alter in his threshing flower he offered a burnt offering vnto the Lorde which the fire from heauen consumed Afterward in the same mountaine Salomon builded vnto

at such time as the king entered into the Temple 65 THE HORSE GATE so named because men might ride so farre as that place but then leauing their horses they went on foote into the temple At the which place began the habitations of the priests 66. THE GATE OF THE ESSENS was scituate in the olde wall of the Citty 67. THE FIRST GATE whereof the Prophet Zacharie maketh mention 68. THE PORCH OF PILLERS scituate before Salomons pallace the which was fiftie cubites long and thirty cubites broad and supported with strong pillers 69. THE BEAST MARKET called Probatica where sheepe oxen and other beastes for sacrifice were sold in the open market 70 THE PALLACE OF QVEENE BERNICE sister of king Agrippa who with her brother at Caesaria heard Paules supplication before Festus And afterwards paying her vowes to God at Ierusalem shee came bare foot before Florus sitting in his iudgement seat tyranizing against the cittisens whom she beseeched in vaine as concerning them 71. THE PALLACE OF GRAPTA the neece of Izata kinge of the Adiabens which she built for her selfe Wherein afterward Ihon the Captaine of the seditious abiding lefte there his mony and spoiles of tyranny 72. THE PALLACE OF HELEN which exalted it selfe in the middest of the mountaine Acra She being the Queene of the Adiabens which dwelt beyond Euphrates was conuerted from Gentilisme to the religion of the Iewes and came to Ierusalem to dwell Where she being become a Christian at what time that greate famine whereof Agabus prophesied in the dayes of the emperour Claudius pinched the whole world but specially the land of Iudaea this good Queene I say at her proper costs and charge sent for great store of corne out of Egypt which shee distributed among the poore and needy at Ierusalem 73. THE PALLACE OF MONOBAZ kinge of Adiabens the sonne of Helen which was situat in the easte parte of the cittie 74. THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD otherwise called the Lordes house and the sanctuary The which Salomon the peaceable kinge builded of the matter prepared by Dauid his father and of electe hewen and pollished stones and of timber cut from mount Libanus by the labour of more then a hundred fitie three thousand men in the mont Moria without any sound of axe or hammer in seuen yeares so sumptuous and magnificent both within and without with shining gould that it was counted the miracle of the world Concerning the wonderfull excellencie whereof nothing can bee sufficiently spoken When Salomon dedicated this Temple the cloude and glory of the Lord filled it the fire which came from heauen consumed the sacrifices which were offered therein As concerning the enterance of this temple the same was contrary to the fashion now vsed being East-ward and the backe part tended west whereuppon the priests and people praied turning to the west and worshipped God herein with greate reuerence vntill through the Impietie of the kinges and people of the Iewes it was prophaned with the pollusions of Idols often times Therefore foure hundred fortie and one yeares after the firste foundation thereof by the iust iudgement of God Nabuchodonozer kinge of Babilon burnt the same and so destroied it that it lay desolate threescore and tenne yeares But after that Zorobabell repaired the temple againe in excellent sorte with squared stones and the beste timber in the same mountaine within the space of forty and six yeares And this also was of so great estimation that it was honoured throughout the whole world and was from all partes enriched and bewtified with the greatest gifts and honors of kings and princes The which after three hundred fiftie and fower yeares was spoiled by Antiochus Epiphan king of Syria and polluted with Idols In the third yeare of the contamination thereof the most valiant Captaine of the Iewes Iudas Machaboeus purged it and restored to the same againe the goulden vessels and the worship of God And that it might neuer more be defiled he did waule it about in manner of a castle with deepe trenches with strong and high walles and with gates and towers both forceable and faire Wherein hee being beseeged a long time with one hundred and twentie thousand Gentils coulde not be commaunded But aboute one hundred yeare after this when that famous Captaine of the Romaines Pompei the greate foughte against it hee wanne it with maine force and in the entering thereof hee slue therein twelue thousande Iewes and Pompei himselfe with his peeres entring into the moste holye place and behoulding the Table the Candlesticke and other thinges there of shining goulde and finding also two thousand talents of the holy treasure this heathen Prince mooued as it were with a certayne godlinesse woulde not so muche as touch any of them but the nexte daye after the siege commuanded the keepers of the temple to clense the same and to celebreate their lawfull and solemne sacrifices This selfe and same temple being afterwardes decayed Herod the Ascalonit kinge of the Iewes by the space of nyne yeares and a halfe repaired and bewtified it with sumptuous buildings And according to the prophesie of the prophet Aggei euen as the Church is preferred before a Sinagogue and the bloud of the gospell is more precious then the golde of the lawe greater was the glory of this second temple then was that of the firste because Christe with his presence doctrine and miracles glorified this For in this when hee was a childe hee was offered In this hee sate in the middest of the doctors In the pinacle of this Temple hee was tempted of the Diuel when he fasted fortie dayes and forty nights In this likewise he preached often times and was vexed by the Iewes All which thinges as they make muche for the glory of the temple so they did nothing auayle but that the very same Temple in the yeare from the foundation thereof vnder Zorobabell fiue hundred eightie and sixe by the armye of Titus Caesar after a doubtful and bloudie battaile was wonne with great force and violence and so greate a slaughter of Iewes made aboute the alter for burnt offerings that the bloude of the slayne ranne like a riuer by the stayres of the Temple and the Temple it selfe in the firste brunte and furie of the battaile was sette on fiere by a certayne soldior moued by diuine motion not attending to the commaund of any euen without the Emperours consent And by this burning a worke of al that euer was seene or heard of the most wonderfull and the ornament of the whole worlde the tenth daye of the moneth of August was consumed into ashes to witte euen the very same day and moneth whereon aforetime the temple was burnt by the Babilonians Yet for all this after threescore and fiue yeares the Iewes rebelling agayne and going aboute to restore the Temple in the same place

was a square thing about the bredth of a mans hand wouen and made of golde lacinct purple scarlet and fine silke whereto were fastened twelue precious stones of diuerse sortes hauing ingrauen in them the names of the twelue sons of Israell according to the order of their natiuitie Moreouer on his head he ware a long rounde cap in forme of a Miter made of Iacinct and fine silke vpon the front wherof was set a brooch of gold in forme of a halfe gloabe which figured the ineffectable name of God Tetragrammaton with these foure Hebrue letters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 theron ingrauē setting forth by the wonderfull brightnesse thereof the excellencie of the diuine maiestie Also the golden Censer in his hand by which he offered vnto God the most fragrant odor of Frankensence is a parte of his ornaments Al which things as they are ful of misteries so some of them excelled the rest in diuine power For that stone which the high prieste did beare on his righte shoulder so often as he had pleased God with sacrifices did so wonderfully shine that they which stoode a greate way off might perceiue it And which is no lesse wonderfull the twelue stones which were on the Reasonable did foreshewe vnto them which went to the warre victorie For before the army should moue it selfe there came so great a brightnesse from them that it gaue al the people to vnderstand that God was present and that he would helpe all those that call vpon him But now God being angry with the wickednesse of his kings both the Reasonable and the Onix also haue ceased one hundred and fiue yeares before the natiuity of Christ to giue their wonted shine and brightnesse 85 THE VAILE was wouen of Iacinct purple scarlet and fine silcke in most bewtifull varietie and was adorned with Cherubims and al manner of flowers imbroydered thereon which hong at the gate before the most holy place and at the death of Christ was rente from the top to the bottome euen in the midst THE THIRD PARTE OF THE TEMPLE 86 THE IEWES ILE The which also is called the Entery the Haule the Holy Secular Salomons Porch being the thirde parte of the temple Into the which men wente vp by foure steppes Whose pauement checkered with marble of sundry sortes was open to the aier and vncouered and was compassed aboute with a wall made with three degrees of stones of sūdry colours To the which were annexed greate porches broade and aboue threescore and tenne cubits high born vp with marble pillers of single stones which wer twenty fiue cubits high the roofe couered with Cedar The inset gates couered with golde shined most gloriously And it had three high gates whereof the first tended toward the easte the second towarde the South and the third toward the North euery of the which gates were shut with two siluer doores thirtie cubits high fiftene broad but the weste part had no gate but was inclosed with a whole wall And this was called the Iewes Ile or Haule because only the Iewes being cleane and chaste made their praiers there and heard the words of the law In the which place Christ taught the people often times and where the Iewes would haue stoned him and Peter when he had healed the lame man spake vnto the people and conuerted fiue thousand men Before this Haule inclosed with alattice there was a Table sette containing this lawe ingrauen with letters of Greeke and Latine Euery stranger that shall enter into the holy place shall dye And the Romaines had giuen authority to the Iewes to put to death as wel Romaines as Iewes which transgressed this law THE PARTES OF THE IEWES ILE 87 THE ALTER OF BVRNT OFFERINGE OF BRASSE the which stoode in the midst of the Ile open to the aier and vncouered Wherein that perpetuall fier was dayely maintained by the putting to of wood which fier in old time the Lord sente downe from heauen when Aaron at the firste time offered sacrifice in the desert On the which altar the priests euery day morning and euening burnte sundry sortes of Male beastes which were cleane and without blemish as Sheepe Oxen and Goates turtels Pigeons and such like which were consumed with this holye and perpetuall fier for a burnte offering and Odor of sweete fauour vnto the Lorde But in the time of the Captiuity of BABILON this perpetuall fier was hidden by the Priestes in a drye pitte or well and being sought for by Neemia the priest threescore and ten yeares after the same there could be no fier found in that place but a certaine thicke water which by diuine power at the praier of Neemia was sette on fier 88 BOOZ and IACHIN two pillers of brasse of wonderfull beawty thirtie two cubits high whose circumference or circuit comprehended twelue cubits which Salomon caused to be made artificially and placed them in the porch of the temple one at the right hand which hee named Iachin and the other at the left hand which he called Booz 89. THE LAVER OF BRASSE a vessell of greate capascitie full of water placed by Salomon on the North side of the temple whereon were carued the pictures of cherubims Lions and Oxen. In this the priests washed the beasts which should serue for burnt offerings which neuerthelesse were firste washed in the sheepe poole called Probatica 90 THE HOVSE OF COVNSEL at the South side of the temple where was the assembly of the elders of the people 91 THE CLOSETS or vesteries were side houses lōg broade and high like towers In the which the Priests when they should enter into the holy place did put off their wollen garments laying them vp till the seruice was ended Wherin also they did eate the partes of the peace offerings 92. THE SEA OF BRASSE containing very greate store of water which Salomon made and placed on the South side of the temple vpon twelue oxen of brasse wherein the priests entering into the temple to serue at the alter washed their hands and their feete 93. THE NEW GATE the which was in the Ile of the temple toward the south where Ieremie foreshewing that the citrie and temple should be destroied was taken And where Baruch red before the people the prophesie of Ieremy 94. THE HOLY GATE otherwise called the brasen gate which being in the Inset parte of the temple opened toward the East before the which Esdras red the law of God before the people and where the rulers of the Iewes a long time after that exhorted the seditious vnto peace 95. THE PORCH OF THE TEMPLE builded by Salomō before the Sanctuary the which was twenty cubits long and ten broade 96. THE RINGES SEATE the which was very loftie the which Salomon prepared for the kings 97. THE LOFTES OF THE SINGERS where diuine praises were songe with voice

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