ridiculous yet to such as are at all touched with the sense of Worldly Affairs it cannot chuse but take a deep impression and draw them thence to the knowledge of Christ Jesus and of his Doctrine To which end and for which purpose I have principally endeavoured to publish this Treatise that so comparing the Estate of man in this present World with the Estate of Grace in the World to come they might perceive the impotency of the one and the permanency of the other and from both draw immoveable Axioms that there can be no Salvation where there is no Humility nor no Prosperity where there is not a knowledge of Christ Jesus in his Humanity and thence gather that the afflictions of this World to which he is most subject through the whole course of his Life is the ready means to honour and immortal Glory But that these things may the better appear unto thee I will endeavour to lay before thee the Beginning and so far as the holy Scripture leads me the ending of our Saviour From whence thou may'st draw such comfortable Resolutions that in what Estate soever thou art whether in Prosperity or Adversity thou may'st therewith rest content c. Of Zacharias the Father of John Baptist. ZAcharias or Zachariah signifies Gods Remembrance This man was the Father of Iohn the Baptist being a Priest of the Tribe of Aaron and dwelling at a Town called Abia of which you may read 1 Chr. 24. There were three famous men of this name as Basilius saith One that was a Prophet of the Lord and lived 520 years before the birth of Christ Zach. 1. And another that was the Son of Iehoiada the high Priest who at the command of that ingrateful King Ioas was stoned to death in the upper Court of the Temple 2 Chr. 24. And a third which was this Zacharias the Father of Iohn Baptist and Son of Barachias that is the Blessed who according to the Opinion of Basil was slain for no other cause but for saying that Christ was born of the Virgin Mary This man had to wise Elizabeth of the Posterity of the High-Priest Aaron and by her had a Son called Iohn so named of the Lord who was afterward called Iohn the Baptist. Elizabeth signifies the rest of God being derived of Eli and Scabbath that is the Rest and Sabbath of the Lord. The Inhabitants of the holy Land take upon them even to this day to shew the House were Zacharias and Elizabeth dwelt in a Town that standeth on the right hand of the way as you go from Emmaus to Ierusalem But Saint Luke ca. 1. saith that Zacharias dwelt not in a Town or Field but in the City of Iudah which was scituated in the mountain of Iudah Risnerus and Iohannes Hedenus write that Zacharias dwelt in Ierusalem in the part of the City scituated upon Mount Bezetha as in the first Book of the description of Ierusalem hath bin declared And this seemeth to be verified out of Nehemiah cap. 3. Yet there are some of opinion that he dwelt at Hebron because that was the chief City of the Tribe of Iuda and a Town of the Priests The Travels of the Virgin Mary MARY if it be derived of Marah signifieth such a Person as is oppressed with carefulness and grief one that is laid open to all misery and calamity press'd with continual vexation and mourning She was born upon the eighth day of September 14 years before the birth of Christ and in the fifteenth of her age brought forth her only begotten Son according to S. Hierome and others Her Fathers name was Eliakim of the House of David Upon the five and twentieth day of March in the same year that our Saviour Christ was born Mary being then fourteen years old the Angel Gabriel declared unto her the Embassie of the Conception of our Lord Jesus Christ. A little after about the beginning of April An. M. 3967 she went from Nazareth in great haste over the Hills to Ierusalem sixty four miles to the House of Zacharias and there saluted her Cousin Elizabeth Luk. 1. From thence she returned back again to Nazareth which was sixty four miles And when the command came out from Augustus that all the World should be taxed then Ioseph and Mary went from Nazareth to Bethlehem seventy two miles and there the time of Marys deliverance drew neer and loe she bare the Son of the living God our Lord and Saviour Christ. Luke 2. From Bethlehem Ioseph and Mary brought the Child Jesus to Ierusalem and presented him in the Temple which was six miles Luke 2. And when they had accomplished all things according to the Law they returned back again to Nazareth a Town in Galilee sixty four miles From Nazareth they went back again to Bethlem seventy two miles Thither the wise men coming out of the East brought the Child Jesus Gold Frankincense and Myrrh Mat. 2. From Bethlehem the same night that Herod caused all the Infants of two years old and under to be slain Ioseph and Mary fled with the Child Jesus to Hermopolis a City in Egypt which was 296 miles Mat. 2. Zozom lib. 6. From thence they returned back again with the Child Jesus to Nazareth 368 miles for they were greatly afraid lest Archilaus who succeeded his father Herod in the Government of the Iews would seek the Childs life Mat. 2. From Nazareth Ioseph and Mary came every year to Ierusalem which was sixty four miles to the feast of the Passover and so many miles back again which for ten years coâ—tinuance came to 1280 miles When Christ was twelve years of age and at the beginning of the thirteenth he went with his Parents from Nazareth to the Feast of the Passover being sixty four miles Luke 2. And when the days of the Feast of the Passover were accomplished they returned home again But the Child Iesus stayed at Ierusalem and his Parents knew it not for they thought he had been among the company Wherefore when they had travelled a dayes Journey that is twenty miles they missed their Son After they search'd through the company but could not find him wherefore they returned back to Ierusalem being twenty miles where on the third day after they found him in the Temple sitting among the Doctors and disputing with them So the next three days he returned back again with his Parents to Nazareth being sixty four miles and was obedient to them Luke 2. After Ioseph and Mary went every year during the life of Ioseph up to Ierusalem to the Passover and without all doubt took Iesus along with them Thus they continued for the space of three years about which time Ioseph died Christ being then sixteen years of age which three years Travel from Nazareth to Ierusalem and back again cometh to 384 miles From that time forward he continued with his Mother till he was thirty one years of age which was the first year of his Ministry Mary his Mother being then
King by the Tribe of Iudah in the year of the World 2891 and before Christ 1077. Here he kept his Court seven years and six months From hence also he sent Messengers to Iabes in Gilead forty four miles to signifie his gracious acceptance of that favour which they shewed unto Saul in burying of his Body there 2 Sam. 1. 1 Chr. 12. From Hebron David went to Ierusalem twenty two miles which then was called Iebus being possessed of the Iebusites but he won it with strong hand and thrust them out of it and in Mount Sion set up the City Millo which was afterward called the City of David and signifies a place of Plenty He began his Reign in Ierusalem in the thirty eighth year of his Age and seventh of his Reign In this place also he set up his House made of Cedar-wood of which Hâ—ram King of Tyrus sent him great Plenty from Mount Libanus distant from thence 104 miles 2 Sam. 5. 1 Ch. 12. From thence he went to the Valley of Rephaim some three miles from Ierusalem in the way that leadeth to the City of Bethlem where he fought a memorable Fight against the Philistines and overcame them for which cause it was also called Baal-Perizim because by the Help and Assistance of God he had conquered the Army of the Philistines 1 Sam. 5. After he had dispersed the Enemies he returned to Ierusalem which is â—our miles The Philistines came the same Year into the Valley of Rephaim again and pitched their Tents within three miles and a half of Ierusalem and the Lord gave David a sign that when he heard a noise in the Mulberry-trees he should set upon the Enemy so David went forth and close by the Town of Gaeba and Kirjath-jearim about two miles from Ierusalem West-ward he set upon the Enemy and gave them the second Overthrow 2 Samuel 5. 1 Chr. 15. From thence David followed the Enemy to Gaza which was eighteen miles 2 Sam. 5. in the tenth Year of his Reign from his first beginning in Hebron David assembled all the Princes Priests and chief men of Israel to the number of 30000 which inhabited from Sechor till you come to Chaemah a City of Naphtali at the foot of Mount Libanus even 163 miles off These men assembled themselves in the City of Ierusalem and from thence they with David went to Kirjath-jearim which was about a mile to fetch the Ark of the Covenant from thence into the City of David 1 Sam. 6. 1 Chr. 14. From Kirjath-jearim David and all his Train returned back again to Ierusalem which was about a mile and they placed the Ark of the Lord in a new Cart and caused it to be drawn with Oxen which turned out of the way to the threshing-floor of Nachon where Vzza rashly and inconsiderately touching the Ark of God contrary to the Divine Law was presently slain by the Lord in the way and that place was called Paeri-Vza that is The Breach of Uza for he was not of the Tribe of Aaron to whom it was only lawful to touch the Ark and therefore the Lord struck him that he died miserably wherefore David being terrified by this example of God's Severity would not that day bring the Ark of the Lord into Ierusalem but carried it to the House of a certain Noble-man called Obed Aedom a Gittite who dwelt not far from Ierusalem but when it was told David that the Lord blessed the House of Obed Aedom and all his Family because the Ark was there David went from Ierusalem with a great multitude of People to the House of Obed Aedom who as is said before dwelt not far from Ierusalem yet there are some that say he was an excellent Musician in Ierusalem and dwelt in Mount Acra that is in the lower City and from thence David fetch'd the Ark of the Lord into the upper City which stood upon Mount Sion but I hold the other Opinion to be the more probable When the Ark was carried by the Priests David girt himself with a linnen Ephod which kind of Garment the Priests of the inferiour Order used to wear and danced before it singing Psalms and Hymns to the praise and glory of God and with great State brought it to the City of Ierusalem with the sound of Trumpets and Instruments of Musick and placed it in the middle of the Tabernacle which they had curiously erected in Mount Sion in the upper City which was also called the City of David This hapned in the tenth year of his Reign at which time Saul's Daughter despised him in her Heart and laughed at him but God gave her a due Recompence as you may read 2 Sam. 6. and him a just Reward for he promised by the Prophet Nathan That of his Posterity and Blood the King of Kings and Saviour of the World should be born In the Year following David invaded the Land of the Philistines and the City of Gath which with strong hand he won this was thirty four miles from Ierusalem From thence he returned back to Ierusalem 34 miles In the twelfth Year of his Reign he afflicted the Moabites with cruel War and destroyed two of their Armies with the Sword and the rest of the multitude he made Tributary which was 24 miles 2 Sam. 8. 1 Chr. 9. He returned thence to Ierusalem with great Triumph and Joy twenty four miles In the thirteenth year of his Reign Anno Mundi 2903. and before Christ 1065 he made an Expedition unto Zoba which Iosephus calleth Sophenam and is in Armenia near to Masia or Mount Taurus 600 miles from Ierusalem toward the North of which you may read before David in this place won a memorable Battel against Hadad Ezer the King thereof near to the River Euphrates he took 700 Horse and 20000 Foot burnt their Chariots took 100 Castles conquered all the Towns and Country round about and went away with a great Booty as well of Gold as Silver Brass and other things which Brass for the Excellency thereof was like unto Gold and as Iosephus saith afterwards Solomon made the Molten Sea of it When Gadarezer King of the Syrians he that built that famous City of Damascus heard of the overthrow of Hadad-Ezer he sent a great Army to his Aid which King David near to the River Euphrates smote with the Sword so that 20000 of them were slain and he carryed away a glorious Victory extending his Government from Ierusalem 600 miles towards the North that is into Armenia and beyond the River Euphrates and made these two Nations tributary unto him 2 Samuel 8. 1 Chr. 19. After David had won these two memorable Victories near Euphrates he went thence with all his Army towards the South and invaded the Land of Syria in which Journey Ioram the Son of Tohi King of Antiochia which City at this time was called Hemath met David with Gifts and Presents in the Name of his Father returning him many Thanks because he had destroyed the common Enemy
and the Woman was healed of her Bloody Issue Mat. 9. But that Matthew was called about this time the circumstances of times make evident for a little after the second Passover of our Saviour Christ the same Matthew was chosen to be an Apostle Luke 5. 6. Mat. 9. Mark 2. In the Month of March the Inhabitants of the Towns which Christ visited in Galilee brought unto him many that were possessed of Devils and afflicted with other Diseases all which he healed insomuch that there followed him a great company out of Galilee and Decapolis and from Ierusalem and Iudaea and of all the Countries beyond Iordan Mat. 3. Thus having finished this Visitation as it may be thought he returned back to Capernaum where he dwelt as I have told you before which was forty eight miles for Caesarea Philippi stood so far from Capernaum The second Passover of the Ministry of Christ. A little after these things were finished was the Feast of the Iews Iohn 4. and Jesus went up to Ierusalem Iohn 5. to celebrate the Feast of the Passeover which this year happened a little before Harvest which was 56 miles This second Passeover of the Ministry of Christ fell upon the six and twentieth day of March at which time Christ celebrated the Passover with his Disciples according to the Law of God Here upon the Sabbath day being the last day of March he healed a certain man that lay by the Pool of Bethesda which had been diseased eight and thirty years Ioh. 5. And at the end of the Passover he went with his Disciples from Ierusalem through the Corn Fields but his Disciples being hungry began to pluck the ears of Corn and to eat them wherefore the Pharisees being offended at them began to reprehend our Saviour Christ and his Disciples upon which followed the disputation concerning the Sabbath Luke 6. Matth 12. Upon the seventh day of April he went on the Sabbath day to Peraea which Country was in the Command of Herod Antipas and there he healed a man with a dried hand Luke 6. Mark 3. The Country of Peraea beyond Iordan is distant from Ierusalem twenty miles But when the Herodian Council heard that he had healed a man on the Sabbath day they sought occasion how they might do to put him to death wherefore our Saviour Christ went thence to the Sea of Galilee which was 40 miles Here he went up into a mountain not far from Capernaum and chose the twelve Apostles Luke 6. Mark 3. And then upon this Mountain he preached unto the People which resorted thither unto him out of the Country round about whom they heard with great diligence and attendance This Sermon being ended he came down from the Mountain and healed the man that was sick of the Leprosie He also went into Capernaum and healed the Centurion's Servant Mat 8. Luke 7. Afterward Christ in the same Month of April when the man whom he healed of his Leprosie had published the Miracle he went from Capernaum into the Desart which lay near unto Bethsaida for there was a certain Desart Mark 1. Luke 7. In the month of May our Saviour went out of Galilee towards Ierusalem to keep the Feast of Pentecost so he came to the gates of the City Naim which stood on the border of Samaria and was distant from Capernaum 16 miles Here he recalled the Widows Son to life Luke 7. and after he went to Ierusalem which was 48 miles that he might celebrate the Feast of Pentecost according to the Law of God Exo. 23. Thrice every year shall every male Child appear before the Lord thy God This Feast fell this year upon the fifteenth day of May for it behoved our Saviour according to the Law to go every year to Ierusalem to these three principal Feasts that is of the Passover Pentecost and of the Tabernacles A little after the Feast of Pentecost Iohn Baptist being then in Prison having certain intelligence of the Miracle that our Saviour wrought upon the Widdows Son at the gate of Naim and of other wonderful Miracles that he did in Ierusalem and in other places in Iudea sent two of his Disciples from the Castle of Macharuntes to ask him the question whether he was the Messia or no So when they came unto him and delivered him their Message at that time he cured many of their sickness and Plagues and evil Spirits and to many blind men he gave sight freely And Jesus said unto them Go your ways and tell John what things you have seen and heard that the blind see the halt go the lepers are cleansed the deaf hear the dead are raised and the poor receive the Gospel And blessed is he that shall not be offended on me Mathew 11. Luke 7. At this Sermon it was thought he converted the sinner that washed his feet and poured a box of pretious Oyl upon his head Luke 7. In the month of Iune our Saviour Jesus Christ went with the Twelve about six and fifty miles out of Iudea into Galilee and there in divers Cities and Towns he began to preach and teach the Kingdom of God At this time there were divers Women followed him whom he had healed of evil Spirits and of their Infirmities but principally Mary Magdalen out of whom he had cast seven Devils and Ioan the wife of Chuza Herod's Procurator and Susanna all which ministred unto him of their Substance Luke 8. Now when he had travelled from place to place some certain time and visited many Cities and Towns thereabout he returned back again to the City of Capernaum where it is said that our Saviour Christ dwelt and there dispossest the man of a Devil that was both blind lame and dumb Mat. 12. Mar. 3. Luke 11. And going thence to the Sea he recited eight Parables Mat. 13. Mark 4. Luke 8. In the evening of the same day he went six miles into the Country of the Gadarens Mar. 4. Luke 8. The next day betimes in the morning he went out of the Ship into the Country of the Gadarens and healed two that were possessed of Devils Mat. 2. Mar. 5. Luke 8. Out of these two he cast a Legion of Devils and suffered them to enter into the Herd of Swine which they carried headlong into the Sea Presently our Saviour Christ went thence six miles into the Land of Genesareth where there was a great multitude upon the Sea shore not far from the City of Capernaum that expected his coming Mar. 5. Luke 8. Within a few daies after about the beginning of Iune he entred into Capernaum and there he healed the man that lay sick upon his Bed of a dead Palsie Mat. 9. Mar. 2. Luke 5. After he went to Sea and taught the multitude that came to him Mar. 2. From Capernaum he went to Caesarea Philippi forty eight miles where being invited to a Banquet by Matthew he eat among Publicans and Sinners and confuted the Pharisees and Iohn's Disciples In the same City he restored
the Daughter of Iairus to life Mat. 9. Mark 2. Luke 5. and as he went thence he restored two men to their sight and cast out a Devil Mat. 9. About the end of the Month of Iuly our Saviour Christ went from Caesarea Philippi to Nazareth thirty six miles where because of the ingratitude and contempt of the Citizens he did no great Miracles Mark 6. Mat. 13. In the Month of August our Saviour Christ went from Nazareth toward Ierusalem to the Feast of Tabernacles and as he went he visited the Towns and Cities near adjoyning Now when he saw that they wanted Teachers it being at this time the second Harvest he said unto his Disciples Lo the Harvest is great but the Labourers are few c. and he sent his Disciples out into the Harvest Mat. 9. Luke 9. Of this second Harvest you may read Exod. 23. where God commanded the People that they should observe the Feast of the Tabernacles when in the end of the year they had gathered in all the Fruits of the Fields Also in Levit. 23. it is thus written From the fifteenth day of the seventeenth Month when you have gathered all the Fruits of your Land you shall celebrate unto the Lord your God seven days c. From Galilee our Saviour Christ came to Ierusalem sixty four miles where from the twentieth to the twenty seventh day of September he celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles according to the Law of God The rest of the Travels of our Saviour Christ and the Miracles that he wrought in this three last Months of this year viz. in October November and December for their great multitude cannot be described So the Travels of our Saviour Christ in the second year of his Ministry were 912 miles Of the Towns and Places to which he travelled Of Caesarea Philippi THIS City is scituated not far from the foot of the Mountain Antilibanus 104 miles from Ierusalem toward the North close by the two Wells of Iordan Ior and Dan. Upon the East side of this City these two Streams meet and make the River Iordan Philip the Tetrarch of Traconitis called this City after his own name Philippus and in honour of the Roman Caesars he added the name of Caesarea Tiberias at this time being Emperour of Rome In times past it was called Laisch or Lais which signifies a ravening or roaring Lion But the Tribe of Dan having conquered it and rebuilt it again they called it Dan and the Inhabitants of the Holy Land Laeâ—hem Dan as you may read in the Travels of the Danites But the Town as it is reported by such as have travelled into the Holy Land and by the Authority of Volateran notwithstanding these names is often called Belenas Here as Eusebius Zozomenes and Nicephorus say in their Ecclesiastical Histories the Woman that was diseased with the bloudy Issue was healed by touching the Hem of our Saviour's Garment which Woman in token of thankfulness for so great a benefit and in memory of so notable a Miracle erected in this City a little without the Gates of her House a stone Pillar on which she caused to be set the Image of Christ made of Brass and behind that stood the Image of this Woman who had been diseased twelve years with the bloudy Issue bowing her self at the feet of our Lord and touching the Hem of his Garment They also say there grew certain Herbs about this Pillar whereby Miracles were wrought thirty years after it was set up But Iulian the Apostate having intelligence of these things caused those Images to be broken down and erected his own in the same place But soon after there happened such an exceeding Thunder that fire falling from Heaven strook this Image thus set up by this cruel Tyrant upon the Breast and cast the Head and the Neck thereof with great violence upon the Earth These things happened in Caesarea Philippi Upon the Borders of Caesarea Philippi our Saviour Christ asked his Disciples saying Whom do men say that I am Mat. 6. Ioseph Aâ—t li. 20. cap. 6. saith Agrippa King of the Iews did much inlarge Caesarea Philippi in honour of Nero and called it after his name Neromia but it retained not that name long Of Peraea PEraea or Peraia was the utmost part of the Holy Land in which were the Tribes Gad and Reuben separated from the rest of Iudea by the River Iordan and under the Subjection and Government of Herod Antipas It was sixteen miles from Ierusalem Eastward so called of Peran which signifies beyond or upon the other side Plin. li. 4. ca. 1. In the Castle of Macharuntes standing in this Country Iohn Baptist was beheaded Of the Sea of Galilee THIS Sea lay forty four miles from Ierusalem Northward representing upon the Banks a Harp in figure whence it was called Kinnaereth that is the Sea of the Harp Num. 34. for Kinnor signifieth an Harp Toward the North it extendeth it self into some bredth but toward the South it drew into a streight Angle and was called the Sea of Galilee because it bordered upon Galilee It was also called the Lake of Genesareth because of the pleasantness and fruitfulness of the Soil lying upon the North side of it It is called Ioh. 6. the Sea of Tiberias from the City Tiberias that stood upon the shore of it It was but four miles and a little more broad but in length from the North to the South twelve miles Upon the East side it had the Town Chorazin and upon the West Capernaum and as Iosephus saith the Water of this Sea was very sweet and pleasant from whence it came to pass that Fishes did greatly abound in it and there were many Fishers that lived thereabouts only by fishing in that Sea There were many other Cities besides those two before mentioned that stood upon this Sea as Bethsaida Migdala Tiberias and Trichaea these stood upon the West Upon the East stood Iulia and Cadara Of the holy Mountain near Capernaum in Galilee ABout a mile from Capernaum toward the South-west is to be seen an exceeding high Hill standing upon the shore of the Sea of Galilee beautified with many Herbs and Flowers of divers kinds being very fruitful and pleasant extending it self in length almost two Bows shoot and in breadth one From this Hill one might have seen the whole Sea of Galilee the Countries of Iâ—ura and Trachonitis even to Mount Libanus also the Mountains Sanir and Hermon and a great part of the upper and lower Galilee Here also the Inhabitants of the Holy Land shew a certain Stone on which they say our Saviour Christ did usually sit when he preached to the People which Stone the Christians call the Table here was that Sermon made of the eight Beatitudes Mat. 5. 6 7. Luke 6. Here were the twelve Apostles chosen Luke 6. Mar. 3. And our Saviour Christ descending from this Mountain in the Suburbs of the City of Capernaum healed a Man that was infected with the
66.10 31.58 Jarmouth 65.37 31.51 Azecha 65.51 31.54 Lachis 65.51 31.49 Eglon 65.50 31.48 Makeda 65.49 31.52 Libna 95.49 31.50 Debir 65.32 31.46 Bethsur 65.47 31.48 Kâ—chila 65.38 31.47 Mareâ—a 65.42 31.54 Maon 65.38 31.41 Carmel 65.40 31.44 Ziph 65.38 31.43 Arah 65.45 31.37 Hebron 65.33 31.45 Gerer 65.37 31.42 Kades barnea 65.22 31.29 Adar 65.12 31.32 Carcaha 65.06 31.30 Hasmona 65.00 31.30 Bethsemes 65.55 31.55 Beersabah 65.31 31.40 Siclag 65.15 31.37 Ecron 65.40 31.58 Azotus 65.35 31.00 Astalon 65.24 31.52 Gath 65.23 31.48 Gaza 65.11 31.40 The Towns lying on this side of the River Jordan Dan 67.25 33.08 Jor sons 67.31 33.07 Caesarea Philippi 67.30 32.05 Seleucia 67.17 33.50 Eruptio fluvii ex Samachoniride palude 67.11 32.44 Capernaum 66.53 31.29 Eruptio fluvii è mare Genezareth 66.43 32.21 Ephion 66.42 32.20 Ennon 66.40 32.16 Gamala 66.55 32.25 Salem 66.37 32.18 Chrit torrens 66.16 31.57 Ostia Jordanis 66.17 31.54 Engedi 66.22 31.43 Zoar vel Sagor 66.17 31.38 Eruptio Zered 66.19 31.34 Towns standing beyond Jordan Mirba 66.50 32.20 Astharoth 67.00 32.26 Astaroth 66.57 32.23 Gadara 66.48 32.23 Machanaim 66.44 32.19 Jaezar 66.39 32.12 Hesbon 66.28 32.05 Jabes 66.55 32.21 Ramah 66.51 32.20 Nobach 66.38 32.16 Jachsa 66.28 32.02 Aroer 66.30 32.00 Macherus 66.23 31.56 Minith 66.36 32.66 Midian 66.30 31.55 Didon 66.32 32.06 Punuel 66.39 31.18 Edrei 66.15 32.21 Abela Vinearum 67.00 32.23 Philadelphia 67.10 32.22 Pella 67.03 32.20 Phiala fons 67.43 33.05 Betharan 67.30 32.08 Pisgamons 66.26 32.01 Abarim montes 66.29 31.58 Towns in Aegypt Memphis 61.50 29.50 Heliopolis 62.15 29.59 Tanis 63.30 29.50 Taphnis 62.30 31.00 Ony 60.30 30.10 Alexandria 60.30 31.00 Mercurii civitas magna 61.40 28.55 Mercurii civitas parva 61.00 30.50 Delta magnum 62.00 30.00 Xois 62.30 30.45 Busitis 62.30 30.15 Hesâ—oe 63.20 29.10 Solis â—ons 58.15 28.00 Iourneys out of Aegypt Raemses 63.00 30.05 Pihachiroth 62.50 29.40 Mara 63.35 29.50 Elim 63.45 29.50 Juxtâ— mare 63.55 29.45 Paran Promontorium 65.00 29.00 Daphea 64.14 29.46 Alus 64.30 29.46 Raphiddim 64.40 29.53 Sinai mons 65.00 30.00 Hazeroth 65.50 30.14 Zephor mons 65.54 30.50 Mozeroth 64.18 39.04 Hasmona 65.09 31.30 Gidgad mons 65.30 30.20 Jothabatha 65.30 26.40 Habrona 65.30 29.40 Hesion Gaber 65.30 29.20 Sin 66.00 29.56 Hor mons 66.00 30.25 Salmona 66.25 30.40 Phunon 66.30 30.54 Oboth 66.50 31.04 Jeabarim 67.00 31.18 Zered torrens vallis 66.44 21.20 Didon Gad 66.48 31.32 Almon diblathaim 66.48 31.24 Chedemoth solitudo 66.56 32.00 Beer puteus 66.50 23.00 Marthana Solitudo 66.49 23.00 Nathaleel 66.40 00.23 Bamoth vallis 66.30 32.00 Towns in Arabia Petraea Petra 65.40 31.18 Paran 94.30 30.04 Midian 65.30 29.15 Hesion gebar 65.35 29. â—0 Elana villa harla vel elath 95.35 29.15 Ostia Nili Canopicum 66.50 31.05 Bolbithinum 61.30 31.05 Sibenniticum 61.45 31.05 Pathmiticum 92.35 31.10 Mendesium 62.45 31.10 Pelusiacum 63.15 31.15 Thou 63.00 31.30 Sirbonis lacus eruptio 65.45 31.50 Sirbonis lacus 63.30 31.10 Idem 63.45 31.10 Civitas Pelusium 36.25 31.20 Rhinocorura 94.40 31.10 Some other great Towns Babilon 76.00 35.00 Antiochia 60.30 33.35 Damasâ—us 68. â—5 33.00 Palmira 72.40 35.10 Ur chaldeorum 78.00 39.40 Eâ—bathana 88.00 37.47 Rages in Media 93.40 36.04 Sula in Perâ—a 83.00 34.15 Persepolis 91.00 33.20 Heccatompilon in Parthia 96.00 37.50 Zaba in Arabia foelix 97.00 13.00 Meroe 61.30 16.25 Haram in Mesopotania 75.15 36.10 Hircania 98.30 40.00 Ciraenae 50.00 31.20 The Description of the City of Ierusalem as it was before Titus Vespasian destroyed it THE most holy and beautiful City of Ierusalem was twice destroyed first by Nebuchadnezzar the most puissant King of Babylon who did utterly beat down and overthrow the City burning the costly Temple which King Soloâ—on had built After that Zorobabel and the High Priest Ioshua when they returned from the Captivity of Babylon re-edified and built again both the City and the Temple in the Year before the Birth of Christ 535. But the second Temple which was built after their Return was neither so fair nor so great as the first for it was twenty Cubits loweâ— than the former After that King Herod seventeen years before the Birth of Christ caused the said Tâ—â—ple to be broken down again as Iosephus saith and â—â—ected another new Temple in Place thereof which nevâ—rtheless was not like the first Temple that Sâ—lomon built as touching the Greatness but it was exceeding fairly decked and adorâ—â—◠〈◊〉 Gold and Silver so that in regard of the Beautifulness â—â—â—reof it was a Wonder unto all that came to Ierusalem Which Temple forty Years after Christ's Death and 〈◊〉 was also utterly destroyed by Tâ—tus the Son of 〈…〉 the â—mperour I will 〈…〉 form of the City Ierusalem as it was before it was defaced by 〈…〉 of Vespâ—â—an and therewithall I will shew how the costly 〈…〉 Solomon placed therein stood for seeing that the two 〈…〉 great Molten Sea were not therein when our Lord 〈…〉 Earth being broken down by Nebuchadnezzar's 〈…〉 necessary and very requisite to be known how they 〈…〉 that the Reader may be fully satisfied I will also first 〈…〉 of Ierusalem as it was in those Days with the chiefest Places 〈…〉 Towers Gates Houses Castles Fountains Hills Vallies 〈…〉 things therein How the City Ierusalem is scituate 〈…〉 from Germany TH◠〈…〉 is scituate in the middle of 〈…〉 thereabouts and Ierusalem is 〈…〉 five hundred miles but if you will travel to 〈…〉 from thence to Ierusalem it is five hundred and â—ifty Miles The Scituation of Jerusalem and the Mountains whereon it stood JErusalem was four square and scituated upon four Mountains viz. Mount Sion Mount Moriah Mount Acra and Mount Bezetha Mount Sion was the highest of all and lay within the City of Ierusalem towards the South whereon stood King David's House or the Castle of Sion and the uppermost Town Mount Moriah whereon the Temple stood with other excellent Buildings and Towers was on the East side of the City within the Walls Mount Acra whereon the lower Town was built stood Westward in the City where Annas Caiphas Pilate Herod Agripâ—a Bernice Helena and other Kings and great Princes dwelt The holy City of Jerusalem may in this manner be briefly described THE most holy and beautiful City of Ierusalem if any would consider the three principal parts of the World Europe Asia and Africa stood in the midst of the World upon most high Mountains and Rocks like an earthly Paradise a lively Figure of the everlasting City of God This City being the Metropolitan or principallest City of the Jews stood in the Tribe of Benjamin at the first it was called Salem that is Peaceable when Melchisedech the Priest of God reigned therein which he also built after the Deluge as Iosephus and Egisippus write But at that time it was not very great for it stood only upon Mount Sion Mount Moriah where Abraham would have offered his Son Isaac stood without the City and after that they took it into the City as
therefore Christ likened this Valley of Hinnon to Hell-fire for he called it Gehenna Mat. 5. That the Iewes should keep themselves from this Monstrous Idolatry God made a Law That if any Man were taken committing this kind of Idolatry he should forthwith be stoned to death and not suffered to live Levit. 18. and 20. The Valley of Gehennon is often times named in the Holy Scripture Iosh. 15. Nehem. 11. 2. Paral. 28. 33. Ier. 7. Jerom writeth that here by this Idol Moloch in the Valley of Hinnon there was a Wood for the Water ran out of the Fountain Siloah along by it and made the Valley Moist Of the field of Blood called Hakeldama THis Field of Blood which was bought for thirty silver Pence for the which Judas betrayed our Saviour Christ lay not far from the Valley of Hinnon Southward by the City of Jerusalem as Jerom writeth Of the Hill Hameskita or Offence and Slander THis Hill lay South-east not far from Jerusalem something wide of Mount Olivet so that there was but one Valley between them and was not altogether so high as it Also upon this Hill King Solomon in his old age suffered his Wives or Concubines to make Idolatrous Temples wherein he and his Wives worshipped Idols Of the Destruction of this famous City of Jerusalem by TITUS VESPASIAN THus have have I briefly set forth the Dignity Scituation and Curiosity of the Buildings of Ierusalem together with the Richness of the Temple and sumptuousness of the Houses now it rests to describe unto you the manner and means how this Famous City was destroyed surely a thing worthy Wonder according to that in Ieremy Whosoever shall hear of it his Ears shall tingle And that it might be the more famous and the Christians within it might take notice of the near approaching Desolation there were divers strange Accidents happened and Visions seen As first about some four years before the River Iordan was turn'd out of her course and was brought into the City Pella A while after that for a Year together there hung a Comet like a flaming Sword over the City and in the Night there was seen a Light in the Temple And in the Day when they were at Sacrifice a Calf brought forth a Lamb. Then about the middle of the Night the Eastern Gates of the Temple opened of their own accord In the Skies were seen Armies of Men Fighting and Horses and Chariots running to and again And at last there was heard a terrible Voice in the Temple uttering these Words Migremus Hinc that is Let us go â—ence And that there might be a general Proclamation of this sad and cruel Desolation through the whole City one Ananiâ—s the Son of Jesus a Man poor and Impotent upon the Feast of the Tabernacles ran through all the streets of the City and crying O a Voice from the East and a Voice from the West a Vâ—ice from the four Wiâ—dâ— a Voice over Jerusalem and the Temple a Voice over the Bridegroom and the Bride and a Voice over the whole multitude of this City And although he was Whipt and Imprisoned and cruelly handled yet so long as he lived he would not cease to utter these words which by somewere judg'd to foretell the horrible Desolation which after hapned For Tiâ—us Caesar Son of Flâ—vius the Emperour about seventy years after the Nativity of our Lord and about eight and thirty after his Ascension utterly overthrew it even to the ground about the first day of the Month of April and within a year after these signs For he taking advantage of the three Factions which at this time swayed in Ierusalem One of Eleazar the the Priest the Son of Simon the other of Zilotus the chief Prince which held the Temple and the third of Iohannes Giscalenus a cruel fellow which had the command of the inferior City besieged it and made this a fit opportunity to further his Enterprises while the Seditious and factious People little regarding their own Safety gave way by their evil and intestine Wars to what he intended weakning themselves much more by their continued slaughters than the Enemy by his Invasion Insomuch as the whole City and Temple was filled with dead Bodies common Insolencies and publick Rapines were ordinarily amongst them some set fire of the City others despoiling the Temple a third for killing the Priests even as they were at Sacrifice all places full of dead Bodies and to this to add a greater measure of misery without any regard at all to their future defence set fire of the store-house wherein the Corn lay for the sustentation of the City and consumed that in one day which had been long a gathering by this means it came to pass that they were sorely afflicted with the Pestilence through the corruption of the Air and with Famin for want of Corn. All these things notwithstanding such was the cruelty obstinancy and perverseness of this People could not restrain them from violating the most Sacred and holy things of the Temple insomuch as Iohannes Giscalenus had a full determination to have destroyed it but that he was prevented by the Romans About this time was the Feast of the Passeover and it fell upon the fourteenth day of April being the Sabbath to the Celebration whereof there resorted to Ierusalem about three hundred thousand Iewes These the Enemy gave way to enter into the City but considering their present necessity for want of Victuals upon a suddain drew up their Forces and so straitly beleaguered them that all this huge multitude was as it were 〈◊〉 within the Walls where partaking of the former misery they either diâ—d by the Plague or Famin. Whence may be perceived the marvellous Providencâ— of God that even on the same day and in the very same place where but eight and thirty years before our Saviour Christ suffered the Authors of such cruelty suffered a most just and severe revenge Now as the Army of the Romans lay upon the North of the City Titus drew out a Band of six hundred Horse to ride about to behold and view the Walls of the Town but as he was in this manner wondring at the sumptuousâ—eâ—s of the City the Jewes in great multitudes slipt out at a Postern-gate and set upon him so fiercely that they endangered his Person being without Armour and had he not with great difficulty broke through them and recovered the Tower of the Romans he had bin there slain But presently upon this seâ—â—ng the danger he besieged the City in three parts himself aâ— the Emperour of the Army built a Castle about some two Furlongs from the City 〈◊〉 against the Tower Pseâ—hina the other part of the Army was 〈…〉 the Tower Hiâ—â—ieus not far from the Garden of the Resurrection and the third part had their Castle in the Mount of Olives some five Furlâ—nâ—s or thereabouts from the City Then did he build Bulâ—â—rks make Engiâ—s and wonderful Devices for the battering of
Famin in such an extream measure that with very hunger they have been constrained to eat their Horses Frederick Barbarossus may be an Example of these Calamities who with a great Army making an Expedition to Jerusalem as he was travelling through Asia minor his Horse started and flung him into the River where he died miserably e're he could be saved Many other Princes besides in the like enterprise came to the like ends for they were either destroyed by the Barbarians with the loss of thousands of their men cruely slain or utterly destroyed with unnatural Diseases or untimely Deaths Now when the Emperor Frederick the second of that name had besieged and brought to great misery the Sultan of Egypt and the Knights Templers had done the like to Damieta Corderio the Sultans Son beat down the Walls of Jerusalem and had it not been for the great lamentations and earnest Entreaties of the Christians he would have destroyed the City but for their sakes he left standing Solomon's Temple and the Temple of the holy Sepulchre for at this time Christians inhabit in them Within a while after about the Year 1228. Frederick the second of that Name Emperour of Rome went to the Holy Land with a great Army and came to Ptolomais otherwise called Acon where staying a while he made a League with the Sultan of Aegypt for ten years regained Ierusalem without drawing Sword and was there crowned in the Year 1229. keeping at that time in Ierusalem a Royal Easter This man fortified the Christians with a Garrison rebuilt Nazareth and Ioppa and so returned into Italy In the Year 1246 Cassanus King of the Tartars being persuaded by the Sultan with a great Army invaded Iudaea won Ierusalem caused the Christians to be cruelly slain beat down the Holy Sepulchre even to small pieces and left but little standing It was after this destroyed by Tamerlain King of the Tartars and by Mahomet the second of that Name Emperour of the Turks But the Monks had leave to build up the holy Sepulchre again for the which they payed to the Sultan or his Deputy a yearly Tribute In the year of our Lord 1516 Selymus Emperour of the Turks about the twenty fourth day of August near to Damascus overcame Campson Gaurus Sultan of Aegypt in a cruel War and put to death many thousands of his Men and the Sultan himself seeking to save his Life by Flight was miserably slain This Selymus conquered the Holy Land Syria Damascus and all the Countries thereabouts and as he went through Iudaea leaving his Army at Gaza with a few of his Souldiers he went to Ierusalem that he might see with his Eyes that place which was made so famous by the ancient Writers and was so often mentioned in the Old and New Testament But when he came he found nothing but a ruinate and waste place barren and rude to look upon inhabited by a few poor Christians and they also held in great Contempt and Bondage paying a great Tribute to the Sultan of Aegypt for their Liberty and holy Sepulchre as P. Iovius writeth But after that Selymus in that place had done his Offerings and Sacrifices to his God Mahomet seeing the Priests and Christians press'd with extream Poverty out of his singular Mercy and Compassion gave them a large and sumptuous Gift when he had stayed but one day and one night in the Town The next morning before day he went with all expedition to his Army at Gaza and from thence into Aegypt where he besieged the great and famous City Alcaire and in the year 1517. took it conquered all the Country utterly extirpated the Sultan and went away with an honourable Victory and rich Booty From this year even till now the Town of Aelia or Ierusalem is under the Jurisdiction of the Turks Thus may we see how often and with what miserable Calamities this City hath been afflicted even since the first Destruction by Vespasian which makes evident the great Judgment of God not only upon the Iews but also upon the Earth where they inhabited for their Infidelity and unmerciful Cruelty The Description of Jerusalem and the Scituation thereof as it is now in these times THE former Incursions and common Desolations leaving this Town ruined and spoiled for want of Inhabitants it became a Desart and forsaken place only some few Christians either out of the zeal of Religion or for vulgar Ostentation to shew that there had been a Town dwelt there and thus it continued until the year 1542. at which time Solyman the Great Turk either in respect of the strength of the place or in hope of profit or else to get himself a Name with great Cost and Labour re-edified it set up many stately Buildings and sumptuous Houses beautified it with two costly Temples the one the Temple of Solomon and the other the holy Sepulchre enlarged the extent thereof and seated it upon high Hills After all this compass'd it about with a spacious and thick Wall and upon that placed many strong and stately Towers wherein there stands eight Gates viz. the Fish Gate the old Gate S. Stephens Gate so called because they say S. Stephen went out by that Gate when he was stoned the Angle Gate the Dung Gate the Sheep Gate the Golden and Fountain Gates Thus the ancient City and that which the Emperour Adrian built being both destroyed in another place is set up again So that between both this new City standeth and the first City begins to be again inhabited Of the Temple of the Holy Sepulchre THIS Temple lieth upon the West within this new Town at first fairly built by the Emperour Constantine but destroyed by Caliphas Sultan of Egypt then by the Emperours of Constantinople rebuilt which continueth to this day It is round in the proportion adorned with seventy nine Pillars thirty foot long the Wideness by the Diameter besides the Pillars is seventy three Feet leaded above and upon the top of the Roof standeth a Lanthorn by which the Light cometh in This Lanthorn is very curiously glazed In the middle standeth the holy Sepulchre To this joyneth the Church in Mount Golgotha and serveth instead of a Quire It standeth something lower but all under one Roof The place where the holy Sepulchre standeth is four square eight foot long and eight broad hewn out of a Rock and covered with Marble there is a little door in the East part of it very low by which men go into it and within that the Sepulchre it self standeth upon the North side made of gray Marble 3 handfuls high and 8 foot long There are no Windows for light to come to it but over there hangeth continually nine Lamps burning whereby it receiveth Light The Vault of this Sepulchre is divided with a Wall the outward is both of the same Proportion and Length as the inward but that which is without seemeth to be an Entry to the inner Cave where Christ was buried and there as some say even
South and because in that place there are many Bushes and Thorns it is called Sinai for Senaeh signifies a Bush. Here the Law which we call the Ten Commandments was given and not unfitly because like Thorns they prick and vex the Hearts and Consciences of wicked men It is also called Horeb or Chareb which signifies a place made dry Bernard Britenbach and many others in the Month of September 1483 went purposely to see this Mountain and with great Labour ascended to the top thereof for as he saith it is a great Mountain and of an extraordinary height in the lower part round in the upper part divided into two tops or mountains one standing toward the West the other toward the East That toward the West is called Horeb that to the East Sinai And from these two it is sometimes called Horeb sometimes Sinai being both one Hill of the Base Between these there lies a fair and spacious Plain in the middle whereof and as it may be thought in the midst of the Mountain there stands a Monastery near to which there is adjoyning a very pleasant Garden and Orchard plentifully furnished with Date-trees Fig-trees and many others very profitable and pleasant where in antient times there were many Monks that continued there But it happened that a certain number of Pagans in hope to find some Booty came from a Haven of the Red Sea called Thor and upon a sudden broke in upon them and put forty of them to the Sword from whence it was ever after called the Abbey of the forty Martyrs Now it remains desolate few or none inhabiting there only two Monks of St. Katharines Order and these are also grievously troubled with the incursions of the Arabians The Orchard also is destroyed with Locusts and the ground become barren In this Orchard there stands a little Chappel in which there is a Cave where S. Onuphrius the Anchorist lived At the foot of Mount Sinai upon the North standeth the Monastery of St. Katharine of which the Emperour Iustinian was the first Founder it is compassed about with a Wall close by it standeth a goodly Orchard furnished with divers Trees of Fruit pleasant and delightful in that there standeth a goodly Fountain which watereth all about it In this place there are a great number of poor Monks which get their Living by their hands in the Desart thereabouts They say that here stood the golden Calf spoken of Exodus 32. And they shew a round stone lying there where they say Moses broke the two Tables that were given him by God To Pilgrims also they shew the Tomb of St. Katharine standing upon the right side of the Quire with certain other Relicks of hers Upon the left side of the Quire there stands a little door by which you enter into a place called the Chappel of St. Mary of the Bush where they shew the place of the Bush in which God appeared unto Moses And to give grace to their Superstitions there may none enter into that place but he must put off his hose and shoes There is another place where they say God commanded Moses to bring up Aaron Nadab and Abihu with him and the seventy Elders with many other Superstitious Chappels which would be too tedious and frivolous to recite Not far from this there standeth also a Mosko of the Saracens full as fair and spacious as that of St. Katharines to which there is adjoyned a certain Turret hither the Arabians and Saracens do also often come to visit St. Katharine At the Ascent of the Mount Horeb near to the Monastery of St. Katharine there standeth a Fountain of very clear Water in the likeness of a Bow made of Stone reaching from the one side of it to the other and standeth like unto an Arch or Gate A little above that at the foot of Mount Horeb is to be seen the Cave where Eliah rested when the Lord spake unto him 1 Reg. 19. Something above that is the Cliff of the Rock where Moses stood by Gods appointment when he past by and he saw his back parts Ex. 33. A little beyond that is the top of Mount Horeb where is built a little Chappel that hath an Iron Door the Keys of which are in the Monks Custody of the Abby of Saint Katherine In this place they say Moses received the two Tables of Stone wherein the ten Commandments were written by the Finger of God Ex. 34. There is none that enters into this Chappel but with great Reverence bare-foot and bare-legged and casting themselves upon the Earth kiss it About fifteen paces from this they shew the Cave wherein Moses fasted forty days and forty nights Ex. 24. 34. A little above that there is a Mosk to which there daily resorts Arabians and Saracens in honour of Moses whom they reverence as a Prophet Between these there lieth a Well of cold wholsom Water which is called Moses Well Here seemeth in times past to have been some Monastery for there are divers Ruins of Walks and Buildings to be seen This Mountain is round and difficult to Ascend it is 7000 steps to the top and from thence the Red Sea and the Arm thereof where Pharaoh was drowned when he followed the Children of Israel may easily be discerned Mount Sina is much higher than this and lyeth two days Journey from the Red Sea Upon the top whereof are many Rocks and great Stones From thence you may see sundry places as a Mountain lying in Thebaidaes the great Haven of the Red Sea the Desart of Elim and Sur with many others The Desarts round about take the name from the height thereof and are called the Desarts of Sina Of the Graves of Concuâ—iscence THese Graves are 112 miles towards the South from Ierusalem where the Children of Israel lusting after Meat were fed by the Lord with Quails and for their disobedience died miserably It was also called â—abaraâ— which signifies an inflammation being derived from Baar to Burn because here the Wrath of the Lord was kindled against them and he struck the uttermost parts of their Tents with Fire from Heaven and consumed them Numb 11. Of Hazeroth THis is a place in the Desart some 32 miles from Ierusalem towards the South the name thereof being derived from Chazer which signifieth a Cave about the Mouth whereof there groweth long Grass And therefore from hence Chazer is also taken for Grass Here Miriam the Sister of Moses and Aaron was strook with Leprosie Of Rithmah RIthmah takes name from Iuniâ—er for Rothaem in Hebrew signifies Juniper It is distant from Ierusalem 112 miles toward the South-easâ— Here the Children of Israel pitched their Tents Num. 33. and here it is very likely the Angel of the Lord appeared to the Prophet Eliah and brought him meat and drink Of Rimmon Parez IN this place the Children of Israel the sixteenth remove made their abiding being an hundred and eight miles from Ierusalem towards the South-east Here it is thought the
perfect Phoenix This bird doth lively represent our Saviour Christ who only and alone is the true Messiah and through whom we must expect everlasting life who in the fulness of time offered himself a Sacrifice upon the Cross sustaining the punishment of Sin at the time of his Passion putting on a purple Robe being all be sprinkled with his own bloud Ioh. 19. And as the Phoenix is burnt in her own Nest so likewise was he consumed in the fire of Gods wrath according to that in Psal. 22. My heart is become like melting wax in the midst of my body And as the Phoenix of it self begetteth another of the same kind so Christ by the power of his Deity raised up his Body from the dust of the Earth and ascended up into Heaven a glorious Body to sit at the right hand of his Father in that everlasting Kingdom of Glory Thus gentle Reader I thought fit to describe unto you these two Towns that when you shall read of them in the holy Scripture the one being in Aethiopia towards the South the other in Arabia-Foelix and called Seba you might discern the one from the other of both which there is mention in the 72 Psalm The Kings of the Seas and of the Isles shall bring presents the Kings of Saba and Seba shall give Gifts The Travels of King Pharaoh out of Aegypt when he overcame the Town of Gazer 1 Reg. 9. IN the sixteenth year of King David Anno mundi 2906 and before Christ 1602 Chabreus King of Aegypt began to reign and reigned fifty six years Diod. lib. 2. cap. 2. Herodotus calleth this man Chephrines in his second book and Eusebius Nepher Cherres He went from Memphis the chief City of Aegypt with a great Army 268 miles even unto the Tribe of Ephraim and there took Gazer a City of the Levites and burned it with fire I Reg. 8. Ios. 21. After he came to Ierusalem twenty eight miles And this City which he had thus destroyed he gave to his Daughter the Wife of Solomon 1 Reg. 9. From thence he returned to Memphis in Aegypt 244 miles So all the Travels of King Pharaoh were 244 miles Of Memphis MEmphis is a great City in Aegypt where commonly the Kings of that Countrey keep their Courts and lyeth from Ierusalem 244 miles Soâ—â—h-west-ward This City was built a little before the Flood but repaired and enlarged by a King called Ogdoo who in love of his Daughter after her Name called it Memphis You may read of it in the ninth of Hosea called there by the name of Moph for thus he saith The people of Israel are gone out of the land of Ephraim because of their Idolatry into Aegypt but Aegypt shall gather them up and Moph that is Memphis shall bury them Moph or Mapheth in this place signifieth a prodigious Wonder but the rest of the Prophets call it Noph for the fertility and pleasantness of the Country as you may read Esay 19. The Princes of Zoan are become foolish and the Princes of Noph or of Memphis are deceived See also Ierom 2. 44. 46. Ezech. 30. in which places you may find it called after this name Zoan is the City Tanis where Moses wrought all his Miracles But Noph or Moph is this Memphis a beautiful Town large and spacious scituated in the strongest and profitablest place in Aegypt divided into two parts by the River Nilus so that any kind of commodities or merchandize might with ease be brought thither by Water for which cause the Kings of that Country for the most part kept their abiding there Strabo saith lib. 17. that upon the East part of this City there standeth a Tower or Castle called Babylon built by certain Babylonians who leaving their own Country by the permission of the Kings of Aegypt dwelt there in after times there was placed a Garrison in it one of the three which were for the defence of Aegypt and by Ptolomy was called Babylon through both which viz. Memphis and Babylon Nilus passed the one standing upon the East side the other upon the West Zoan or Tanis stood about some four miles from this Town and was a fair and spacious City also scituated towards the South upon the East side of Nilus to which the Kings of that Country often resorted and Heliopolis another fair City stood some six miles off that towards the North-East All these four Towns were so wonderfully inhabited by reason of their pleasant and profitable scituation that in process of time they became all one City and in this Age is called Alcaire containing in Circuit sixty miles so that it seemeth to Spectators to be like a Country replenished with nothing but fair Houses goodly Churches and strong Towers exceeding all the rest of the Cities of Aegypt as well for the beautifulness of the place as the extent and largeness of it It is reported that in the year of our Lord 1476 there was such an extreme Pestilence in it that there dyed 20000 a day from whence may be gathered how infinitely it is peopled Near to this Town stood the Pyramides which are held to be one of the Wonders of the World as Strabo saith lib. 17. the height of one of them was 625 foot and square on each side 883 foot it was twenty years a building a hundred thousand Workmen employed about it whence it may be easily gathered how hard and difficult it was in those times to get Stone it being for the most part brought from Arabia and at what an excessive charge they were that set them up Of Gazar This City is described in the Travels of Solomon The Travels of Hadad King of Idumaea WHen David conquered Idumaea Hadad the King of that Country with some few of his Courtiers being then but young fled from Midian to Paran the Metropolitan City of Arabia Petraea which was 84 miles 1 Reg. 11. But because he thought himself scarce safe in that place he fled thence to Cheopes that impious and Tyrannical King of Aegypt that built the greatest of the three Pyramides at Memphis He hating King David gave him kind entertainment assigned him a part of the Kingdom of Aegypt to dwell in and after married him with his Sister Taâ—hpenes by whom he had a Son called Genubath who was brought up in Pharaohs or King Chopes Court where he continued all the Life of David being twenty seven years 120 miles David being dead he returned into his own Kingdom of Idumaea which was 200 miles From thence he went back to Damascus which was 240 miles where he was created King of the Syrians by Reson and other fugitives which had conspired against Solomon by which means he grievously troubled that Kingdom and became an utter Enemy to the Israelites all the Life of Solomon And of him is the original and stock of the Kings of Syria So all the Travels of Hadad were 644 miles Of Midian and Paran you may read before in the one dwelt Iethro Moses
that he went to Bethel and conquered all the Country from thence to Ephron which was 36 miles From Ephron he returned to Ierusalem 44 miles there he took unto him fourteen Wives and begat 20 Sons and 16 Daughters 2 Chr. 13. The Travels of Asa King of Judah AS A signifies a Physician He began to reign about the end of the 21th year of Ieroboam King of Israel An. Mâ—n 2990. before Christ 978. He governed Iudah with great commendation 41 years He went from Ierusalem to Maresa 16 miles where in the Valley of Zephatha he overcame the Ethiopians in a memorable Battel 2 Chr. 14. From thence he pursued the Ethiopians to Gerar being 22 miles and recovered many Cities which the Ethiopians dwelt in 2 Chr. cap. 14. From Gerar he went to Ierusalem which was 32 miles and offered to the Lord of the Spoils that he had taken 700 Oxen and 7000 Sheep 2 Chr. 15. These Travels of King Asa make 70 miles The Iourney and Expedition of Saerah King of Ethiopia whom Asa King of Judah overcame in the Valley of Zephatha SAerah or Saerach signifieth A noble and puissant Lord. This was a mighty and warlike Prince who governed Lybia and Aethiopia the King of which Country at this day we call Presbyter Iohn or rather â—etro Iohannes who holdeth his Court in a fair and goodly City called Hamarich the Metropolitan of all Ethiopia and extendeth his Government beyond Meroes in Africa Many though ignorantly suppose he is a Priest because he is called Presbyter though indeed he is not so but rather a puissant and mighty Emperour But to return to Saerah or Saerach who in hope to extend his Empire into these parts went with a great Army out of Ethiopia to the Valley of Zephatha in Iuda to fight with Asa King of Iudah 1200 miles but lost the day and returned with great shame 2 Chr. 15. It seemeth that this King was the mightiest of all his Predecessors and a Prince of no vulgar Estimation because of the multitude and great abundance of Souldiers which he brought in his Army for it is reported that there were 1000000 that bore Armor and 300 Chariots but this great Army was dispersed and most of them died miserably as did that great Army of Xerxes which consisted of 1700000. From whence it may â—e concluded That it is not the Strength of Man which delivereth him buâ— the Lord. The Travels of Jehosaphat King of Judah JEhosaphat signifies The Judge of the Lord. He began his Reign in the fourth year of Ahab 1 Reg. 22. The greatest part therefore of the first year of this King happened in the Year of the World 3033 and before Christ 935. He reigned over Israel twenty five years that is from the 35th of his Age to the sixtieth In the seventh year of his Reign he went from Ierusalem to Samaria which was 32 miles to visit his Kinsman Ahab King of Israel for Ioram his Son some ten years before had married Athaliah King Ahab's Sister 2 Reg. 8. From Samaria he went with Ahab to the War at Ramoth in Gilead being twenty four miles where Ahab was slain 2 Reg 22. 2 Chr. 18. From Ramoth he went safe from the Wars to Ierusalem vvhich vvas forty eight miles From Ierusalem he vvent to the City of Beersaba the utmost bounds of his Kingdom tovvards the South to instruct his People in the Lavv of the Lord forty tvvo miles from Ierusalem South-ward From Beersaba passing through all his Kingdom he came to Mount Ephraim being forty eight miles and the utmost bounds of his Kingdom North-ward being some eight miles from Ierusalem 2 Chr. 19. From Mount Eâ—hraim he went to Ierusalem which was eight miles Thus Iehosaphat went through all his Dominions to instruct his Subjects in Piety and the true Worship of God in every City ordaining Judges and Governours Magistrates Procurators and Assessors committing to their Discretion the deciding of all Controversies saying to them Take heed what you do for the Office you have taken upon you is not Humane but Divine and as you judge so shall you be judged for the Lord is with you in judgment Wherefore do all things with diligence and in the fear of the Lord for with the Lord there is no iniquity nor respect of Persons neither taketh he any bribes And he himself remained chief Judge in Ierusalem to whom any might appeal from the inferiour Judges that so there might be a just end of Controversies 2 Chr. 16. Afterward Iehosaphat went forth with his Army to Tecoa six miles from Ierusalem where by fervent Prayers the sounding of Trumpets and other musical Instruments in obtained a memorable Battel against the Moabites Ammonites and Idumaeans for the Lord turned the Weapons of them one against another and they wounded one another to the death This fight happened in a fair Valley between Tecoa and Engedi So Iehosaphat pursued the Enemy for three days with great slaughter and returned with a mighty spoil This was called the Valley of Blessing because of this great Victory at Tecoa and began eight miles from Ierusalem South-eastward and extended it self to the Tower of Engedi near to the Bank of the Red Sea twenty miles From Engedi out of the Valley of Blessing Iehosaph at and his Army returned to Ierusalem twenty miles and went into the Temple with Shalms Harps Timbrels and great Joy thankfull acknowledging Gods merciful Favour toward him in giving him so great a Victory 2 Chr. 20. But as there is nothing in this Life that can be said permanent so likewise the felicity of Iehosaâ—hat changed on a sudden the froward and adverse frown of Adversity seising upon his Prosperity for joyning with that wicked and impious King of Israel Ahaziah upon condition to build a certain Navy of Ships at Ezeongaber to fetch gold from Tharshish and other places in India he displeased the Lord for the which cause there arose a great Tempest which brake down the Works and destroyed the Navy From Ierusalem he went with Iehoram King of Israel to war against the Moabites and with them went the King of Idumaea so passing through the Desarts of Edom they came to Mount Seir and so went to Petra the chief City of the King of the Moabites distant from Ierusalem seventy two miles 2 Reg. 3. From Petra Iehosaphat returned to Ierusalem seventy two miles where he died and was buried 2 Reg. 22. 2 Chr. 21. So all the Travels of Iehosaphat King of Iuda were three hundred seventy two miles The typical signification of Jehosaphat AS Iehosaphat by Prayer and the sound of Trumpets and other Instruments of Musick overcame and dispersed his Enemies without drawing his Sword so Christ also by the sound of his Word and Doctrine without drawing Weapon overcame the Enemies of the Church The Travels of Joram King of Judah JORAM signifies The exalted of the Lord. He was crowned King his Father yet living at such time as he made his Expedition against Mesa King
of the Moabites which happened about the fifth year of Iehoram King of Israel An. Mundi 3055 and before Christ 913. He reigned with his Father Iehosaphat two years and after his Decease six So Ioram reigned eight years over Iudah and when he was forty years old died miserably 2 Reg. 8 9. About the beginning of the second year of this King's Reign which was the sixth of Iehoram King of Israel Elias the Prophet was taken up into Heaven About the beginning of his Reign he went from Ierusalem to Mount Seir being twenty eight miles South-ward where he used such extreme cruelty toward the Edomites which at this time were his Subjects that of a sudden they fell from him and chose them a King of their own 2 Reg. 8. From the Mountain of Seir he returned to Ierusalem which is twenty eight miles and there cruelly put to death his own Brothers But God stirred up against him the Philistines and Arabians who broke into Iuda and destroyed it with Fire and Sword They also went to Ierusalem and took thence all his Substance and Riches put his Children to the Sword all but Ioachas which was also called Ahaziah or Ochorias and carried away his Wives captive into Arabia Foelix which is near unto Ethiopia 1200 miles Then the Lord struck him with an extream pain in his Bowels of which after two years he died and was buried without any Funeral-pomp or honourable Respect near to the King's Tower A man unworthy to be buried in the Sepulchre of the rest of the Kings because he so much degenerated from David his Predecessor 2 Reg. 8. 2 Chr. 28. So all the Travels of Ioram were fifty six miles The Travels of Ahaziah King of Judah AHaziah which also was called Iehoachas succeeded his Father Ioram in the Government of Iudah and began his Reign in the twelfth year of Iehoram King of Israel Ann. Mund. 3062. and before Christ 906 and reigned one year 1 Reg. 8. He went from Ierusalem to Ramoth in Gilead which is accounted forty eight miles There he went to Battel with Iehoram King of Israel against the Syrians 2 Reg. 8. 2 Chr. 22. From Ramoth in Gilead he returned to Ierusalem forty eight miles Within a while after he went back again to visit his Kinsman Iehoram King of Israel to Iezteel for he was wounded in the Battel against Hasael and lay there to be cured which was forty eight miles With Iehoram he went to meet Iehu the Captain of the Host who shot an Arrow and wounded Iehoram that he died in the Field of Naboth the Iezreelite Wherefore Ahaziah to save his Life fled with all possible speed taking his way to the King's Garden that stood close by the Vineyard of Naboth the Iezreelite not far from teh City and Tower of Iezreel But Iehu followed him so close that he wounded him as he ascended up to a place called GVR which signifieth a Lions Whelp near unto the Town which is called Iiblea Wherefore Ahaziah feeling himself hurt went to Megiddo four miles from Iezreel and near to Apheck upon the West There as Iosephus saith lib. Antiq. 9. he caused his wounds to be searched and bound up This City of Megiddo is forty eight miles from Ierusalem Northward From Megiddo he went to Samaria which was fourteen miles there he lay hid for a while flying from one place to another to save himself 2 Chr. 22. But being found out he was carried back to the City of Megiddo which was fourteen miles and at the commandment of Iehu was there slain 1 Reg. 8. From Megiddo his Carcasa was carried to Ierusalem which was forty eight miles and there buried 2 Reg. 8. 2 Chron. 22. So all the Travels of Ahaziah King of Iudah were 224 miles Of that Idolatrous and wicked Queen Athalia AThalia was Sister to Ahab and Daughter to Omri married to Ioram Son of that good King Iehosaphat when he was but seventeen years of age and after the death of Azahiah who was slain about the twenty third year of his age she usurped upon the Kingdom of Israel Anno Mundi 3063 before Christ 905 and reigned with great Tyranny almost seven years So soon as she had obtained the Government she cruelly and miserably put to death the children of Ahaziah and all those that were next Heirs to the kingdom only Ioas who was saved by the policy of Iehoshabeath Sister to Ahasiah that stole him from among the rest of the King's Sons and put him to Nurse in her Bed-Chamber and he was with them in the House of God six years all which time Athalia raigned over the land And in the seventh year Iehojada waxed bold and proclaimed Ioas King as being next Heir to the Crown and anointed him in the Temple who after Athalia was slain succeeded in the Government 2 Reg. 11. 2 Chron. 23. Of Joas King of Judah JOas began to reign over Iudah when he was almost seven years of age and about the middle of the seventh year of Iehu King of Israel Anno Mundi 3069 and before Christ 899 and raigned over Iudah forty years He did that which was acceptable in the â—ight of the Lord all the days of Iehojada the Priest who crowned him King but after his death he fell into evil courses and caused that good Priest Zachariah the Son of Iehojada who was the Author of all his preferment to be stoned to death in the upper Court of the Temple which act argued that he was very unthankful and tyrannical But the Lord displeased with his cruelty within a year after the death of Zachariah stirred up the Syrians who invaded Iudaea and spoiled the City of Ierusalem in which War all those that stirred up the King to Idolatry were cruelly slain To conclude within a while after some of his Courtiers conspired against him and as he lay sick of a grievous disease in his bed put him to death and buried him in Milo the City of David Thus God justly punished this Tyrant for his Unthankfulness Apostasie and Cruelty when he had lived 47 years 2 Reg. 12. The Travels of Amasiah King of Judah AMasias or Amasiah signifies the strength of Iehovah This man was twenty five years of Age when he was enthronised by his Father about the second year of Ioas King of Israel Anno mundi 3108 and before Christ 806. He ruled the Kingdom while his Father was sick one year and after his decease twenty eight so all the years of his Reign were twenty nine He went with an Army from Ierusalem to Saelag that is to the Tower or Rock of Mount Seir forty miles towards the South here in the Valley of Salt he put to death a multitude of the Idumaeans And although this Town was very strongly scituated yet he won it and called it Ioctiel that is the Year of the Lord because God in that place heard his Prayers being derived of Iakah and El which is God hath heard Near to this Town Amasiah
commanded 10000 Idumaeans which he had taken in War to be cast down headlong from the top of an high Rock into a deep Valley in which fall their bones were shattered all to pieces and they died miserably 2 Reg. 14. From Selag-Ioctiel he returned to Ierusalem being forty miles where he began to worship the Gods of the Idumaeans that he brought along with him 2 Chron. 24. From Ierusalem he went to Bethsemes and there was overcome by Joas King of Israel which was four miles 2 Chron. 25. From Bethsemes Ioas led Amasiah back again to Ierusalem captive being four miles 2 Reg. 14. From Ierusalem he fled to the City of Lachis which was twenty miles and there was slain by his own Servants 2 Chron. 25. From Lachis his carkass was carried back again to Ierusalem twenty miles where it was buried in the City of David 2 Reg. 14. 2 Chron. 25. So all his Travels were 128 miles The Travels of Azariah or Uzziah King of Judah THIS man succeeded his Father Amasia in the year of the World 3138 and before Christ 830 when he was but sixteen years of age and reigned fifty two years his Mothers name was Iecoliah of Ierusalem He did those things which were upright in the sight of the Lord therefore the Lord blessed him And after the death of his Father built Elah and restored it to Iudah He therefore went from Ierusalem to Elah 160 miles towards the South and rebuilt that Town it being a famous Mart-Town scituated upon the Red Sea and fortified it because Resin King of the Syrians in times past for want of due fortification won it and destroyed it 2 Chron. 26. From Elah he returned to Ierusalem 160 miles After he went from Ierusalem to Gath a City of the Philistines which was accounted thirty four miles this Town he won beat down the Walls and destroyed the Bulwarks thereof From thence he went to Iabnia which is twenty four miles and broke down the Walls thereof 2 Chron. 26. From thence he went to Azotus or Asdod which was eight miles 2 Chron. 26. From Asdod he went again to Ierusalem being twenty two miles Within a while after he gathered an Army and went from Ierusalem to Gur-Baal that is Gerar where he overcame the Arabians in a great Battel which was thirty two miles 2 Chron. 26. From Gerar he returned to Ierusalem being thirty two miles He went from Ierusalem that third time into the Land of the Ammonites sixty miles which People he conquered and made Tributary to him so that he was made Famous through all the Countries thereabout even to the utmost part of Aegypt because of his often Victories and Triumphs 2 Chron 26. Out of the land of the Ammonites he returned to Ierusalem being sixty miles But now being lift up with the Prosperity of Fortune and not content with his Regal Dignity he endeavoured to have chief Authority over the Priests also for which cause he went into that part of the Temple where the Altar of sweet Incense stood where it was lawful for none to go but the Priests and there took upon him to offer sweet Incense but as he was offering the Lord struck him with Leprosie so that he was constrained to dwell in a house by himself separated from the Congregation and his Son Iotham governed in his stead all the days of his Life But within a while after he died of this disease and was buried in the Kings Garden at Ierusalem and not in the Sepulchre of the Kings 2 Reg. 15. 2 Chron. 26. So all the Travels of Azariah King of Iudah were 592 miles Of the Places to which he travelled Of Elah THIS was a City scituated upon the Red Sea 160 miles from Ierusalem towards the South between Ezion-Gaber and Midian This City Resin King of the Syrians conquered but Azariah King of Iudah drove thence the Syrians and made it so strong that it seemed impossible to be conquered It took the name of abundance of Oaks which as it seemeth grew about that place for Elah or Ilix signifies a kind of Oak Tree of which there is great plenty in the Holy Land so called because of their strength and hardness Of Jobnia THIS was a City near to Ioppa and Libba 16 miles from Ierusalem towards the North-West This City taketh the name of Wisdom and Prudence being derived of Bin to understand Of Gur-Baal THIS Town is also called Gerar where Abraham and Isaac sometimes travelled it is distant from Ierusalem thirty two miles towards the South-West and six miles from Hebron Here the Iews and neighbouring Arabians afterwards worshipped the Idol Baaâ— and therefore this City which in the times of the Patriarchs was called Gerar a Perigrination was after called Gur-Baal that is the Perigrination of the Idol Baal being derived of Gor which signifies He hath travelled The Travels of Jotham King of Judah JOtham signifies Whole and Perfect He succeeded his Father Azariah when he was about twenty five years of age Anno Mundi 3190 and before Christ 778. He raigned over Iudah seventeen years until the one and fortieth year of his age His Mothers name was Ichruscha so called from an Inheritance or Possession He began his Reign in the second year of Pekah King of Israel and continued it unitl the seventeenth year of his Government 2 Reg. 15. 17. When this noble Prince had rebuilded and richly adorned the House of the Lord he went from Ierusalem and invaded the Country of the Ammonites which was sixty miles conquered their King and made the whole Land pay him Tribute even a hundred Talents of Silver of the common weight 10000 measures of Wheat and 10000 of Barley yearly This Tribute continued three years From the Land of the Ammonites he went back to Ierusalem which was sixty miles where after he had adorned the Temple with many princely buildings he dyed about the one and fortieth year of his age 2 Reg. 15. So all his Travels were 120 miles Of Ahaz King of Judah AHAZ signifies Apprehending or a Possessor He began to reign after the death of his Father Iotham about the end of the seventeenth year of Pekah King of Israel Anno Mundi 3205 before Christ 762. He reigned wickedly 16 years 2 Reg. 16. 2 Chr. 28. For he was a notorious Hypocrite who out of a perverse Zeal worshipped many Idols and burnt his Son in the Valley of Gehinnon as an Offering unto Moloch wherefore he was unhappy in his Government for God stirred up mighty enemies against even Reâ—in King of Syria and Pekah King of Israel who wasted and destroyed his Kingdom and streightly besieging Ierusalem conquered Ahaz in a great Battel and put to the Sword 120000 of his men After that Resin returned to Elath and took it so that he lost more then his Father had gotten Where being struck into a great fear by reason of these adversities he sent to crave the Aid of Tiglasse Phulasser King of the Assyrians who at his request
might plainly be seen ingraven other Letters to this effect Vnless thou hadst been unâ—â—tiably Covetous thou wouldst never have opened the Graves of the Dead in hope of gain This Woman beautified Babylon with many goodly Buildings built up the Walls thereof set a Bridge over Euphrates made a beautiful Orchard and a Garden in it beautified it with many goodly Towers and Fortifications added unto it many Provinces and Governments and after all because of her own lascivious Appetite as Sallust saith was murthered by her Son Ninus who succeeded her in the Government There were many other memorable things within this City that were built before and after her time as Herodotus saith as that great and mighty Tower before remembred in which stood the Temple of Baelus and his Sepulchre Not far from that stood a Chappel wherein was the Statue of Iupiter all of pure Gold worth 800 Talents of Gold Without that Chappel there stood an Altar of pure Gold upon which they yearly offered 100000 Talents of Frankincense There was another also somewhat less upon which they used to offer their Sacrifices for it was not lawful for them to offer any thing that had life upon the greater Altar there stood also in that place another Statue twelve cubits high all of pure Gold This City was after taken by Cyrus the first Emperour of the Persians An. Mundi 3432. before Christ 536 in the seventieth year after the Captivity of Israel and Iudah according to the Prophecy of Ieremy at which time the City was so great that they which dwelt in the middle of it did not know that the Enemy had entered within the Walls at the farther end which might happen because upon that day when it was taken the Babylonians celebrated a Feast unto Venus in which using extraordinary diligence they were less mindful of such things as hapned unto them Thus this City that with great Tyranny had triumphed over the Nations of the earth for the space of 1600 years being so plentifully furnished with all things necessary for the maintenance of life that the Inhabitants thereof contemned all other People was by God's permission for their pride and presumption wasted and consumed by Cyrus as you have heard and shortly after utterly destroyed by Xerxes the fourth Emperour of the Persians and so continueth to this day as Strabo saith Where then O World is thy Prosperity or Riches thy glory since in the one thou art consumed in the other lest desolate Of the Ruines of old Babylon that are extant at this day BAbylon which as you have heard reigned over the Nations of the Earth like a Queen at this day hath nothing to present you withall but an heap of stones out of the Ruins whereof there was built a little Town close by where it stood called Elugo or Felugo scituated upon the Bank of the River Euphrates Not far from which it seems there is a profitable Harbour for Ships where Merchants often times go a shore and travel thence through many Woods and desart places unto Seleucia which at this day is called by the Turks Bagdeth distant thence some thirty six miles and is the utmost Town of the Turkish and Persian Empires towards the East being divided in the midst by the River Tygris Some Merchants have reported That the place where Babylon stood is become stony unfruitful and unpleasant because of the Ruins of the destroyed buildings which lye in the Earth Also That there is found a Tower built of a black stone which to outward appearance seems to have been a very goodly house high and eminent so that upon the top thereof a man might have seen through the whole City This Tower the Inhabitants of Felugo call the Tower of Daniel in which was the Chamber where he used to pray to the Lord three times a day the Windows whereof looked towards Ierusalem Dan. 6. There is also to be seen divers Arches of the Bridge which Semiramis built standing upon the River Euphrates and the foundation of the great Tower whose top should have reached to Heaven being in compass two miles but not very high Within the Ruins whereof are found certain Serpents very noisom and venemous about the bigness of a Lizard having three heads and spect with divers colours which the Inhabitants call Eglones There are such a multitude of them that no man dares approach within half a mile of it any time but in the Winter season nor then neither but for the space of a Month in which time these Serpents for the extremity of the cold are constrained to keep their holes Thus as this Tower was hateful to God in the beginning so likewise hath he made it hurtful unto man even to this day The Travels of the Babylonian and Assyrian Kings and Emâ—erours that fought against Israel and Judah And first of Phul Belochus King of Assâ—ria PHul Belochus that is he returned wasting began to reign among the Babylonians Anno Mundi 3149. before Christ 819 and governed forty eight years This King or Emperour came from Babylon to Samaria which was 660 miles There he so streightly besieged Menahem King of Israel that he was constrained to give him 1000 talents of Silver to raise his Siege and depart 2 Reg. 15. From Samaria he returned back again to Babylon 660 miles So all Travels of Phul Belochus were 1320 miles The Travels of Tiglat Phulasser King of the Assyrians TIglat Phulasser signifies the Assyrian Conquerour He was also called Tiglath Philasser 2 Reg. 15. which name is attributed to him either because he carried away the Children of Israel captives or else because of the Conquest that he had of all Galilee and over the Tribe of Naphtaly which he carried into Assyria He succeeded his father Phul Belochus in the Government of the Assyrians An. Mundi 3197. before Christ 771. and reigned twenty five years When Reâ—n King of the Assyrians joyning his Army with Pekah Son of Remalia King of Israel had streightly besieged Ierusalem Ahaz was constrained to crave aid of this Tiglath Phulasser and sent him great Presents which he accepted kindly and brought his Army from Niniveh to Damascus 520 miles where he put Reâ—n and the whole City to the Sword 2 Reg. 16. From Damascus he came with his Army into the land of Israel which was 120 miles where he overcame Pekâ—h in a great Battel conquered all the land of Gilead and the tribe of Naphtaly and put a great multitude of the Israelites into perpetual Exile 2 Reg. 15. From thence he went back to Niniveh 640 miles A little after this King Tiglath Phulasser went from Niniveh to Ierusalem 680 miles where he so streightly besieged that wicked King Ahaz that he was constrained to give him great abundance of Gold and Silver to raise his Siege and be gone 2 Chr. 28. From Ierusalem he returned back to Niniveh being 680 miles So all his Travels were 6640 miles Of the City Niniveh you may read
and foolish Merodach His Wife's name was Nitocris according to Herod lib. 1. She was a very magnificent and wise Woman set up many fair and goodly Buildings in Babylon and was the Mother of Balthasar the last Emperour of the Assyrians Dan. 5. Of Niriglissoroor Emperour of Babylon NIriglissoroor whose Syrname was Regassaâ— Son-in-law to Nebuchadnezzar the Great having slain Evil-Merodach his Wifes Brother reigned over the Babylonians and Assyrians four years as Berosus saith Of Labassardach the last Emperour of the Babylâ—nians LAbassardach the Son of Niriglissoroor succeeded his Father He reigâ—ed only nine months and died without Heir male Of Balthazar Nabonidus the last Emperour of the Babylonians and Assyrians ANno Mundi 3415 and before Christ 553 Balthazar Nabonidus whose Sirname was Labynitus the Son of Evil-Merodach and Nitocris obtained the Empire and reigned seventeen years according to Berosus with Ioseph cont App. Alexand. Polyb. apud Eusebium Praep. lib 9. l. 4. Alphae Hist. with Euseb. calleth this King Nabinidochus This is that Balthazar saith Iosephus lib. Ant. 10. cap. 13. which Daniel cap. 5. calleth the Son of Nebuchadonosor though indeed he was but his Son's Son as may be gathered from that of Ier. cap. 25. All Nations shall serve Nebuchadonosor and his Son and his Son's Son Bâ—lthasar signifies The Host of the Lord destroying his Enemies Labynitus signifies a shaken Sword This man as he was celebrating a great Feast unto Venus whom they call in the Assyrian Tongue Myleta amongst a great multitude of his Nobility and in that using extraordinary Excess and Blasphemy against the Lord in the midst of his Feast and all his Merriments he saw a hand writing upon the Wall which left these Words Mene Mene Tekel Vpharsin of which you may read more Dan. 5. Some say That at this very time the City was taken by Cyrus Emperour of the Persians and he put to the Sword in those Sports and Pastimes But certain it is that he was slain at a Banquet lost his Empire and was the last of the Assyrian Emperours but whether at that time I refer it to the opinion of the Reader The Travels of the Kings of Aegypt that fought against the Kings of Judah And first of Sisack who made War upon Rehoboam the Son of Solomon THAT proud and presumptuous Prince Sisack which signifies a Garment of Silk in the last year of his Reign which was the first of Rehoboam the Son of Solomon came with 1200 Chariots and 60000 Horse from Memphis to Ierusalem which was 244 miles bringing in his Army a great Multitude of People of divers Nations as Lybians Ethiopians c. With this Company he besieged Ierusalem and took it wasted the City spoiled the Temple and took thence the golden Shields which Solomon had made and destroyed that fair and beautiful house which Solomon had built From whence that Saying of his own was verified Eccles. That it is a great Evil upon the Earth for a man to take care to lay up Riches and Treasures in this World yet knoweth not who shall inherit it For those things which a little before he had with great Labour and Pains builded and beautified within less than twenty Years after were destroyed and made desolate by this King From Ierusalem Sisack returned with the Spoils of the Temple and City to Memphis in Aegypt which was 244 miles and in the Year following he was stricken by the Lord with a grievous Disease of which he died miserably So these two Journeys were 488 miles The Travels of Pharaoh Necho King of Egypt who made War upon Josiah King of Judah NECHO signifies an Enemy or Invader This man was one of the greatest of all the Egyptian Kings who in the thirteenth year of his Reign made War upon Nebuchadnezzar the first and in the Valley of Megiddo near to Magdala 244 miles from Memphis fought a great Battel wherein Iosiah King of Iudah was wounded to death From the Valley of Megiddo Pharaoh Necho went to the River Euphrates 360 miles where he fought a second Battel with Nebuchadnezzar upon a Plain near to Carchemis where he lost the day and was put to flight From Carchemis he fled to Riblah in the Land of Israel being 320 miles where in the Land of Chaemath near to the Lake Samachonites he overcame 〈◊〉 King of Iudah and took him Prisoner From Riblah Pharaoh Necho led Ioachas bound to Ierusalem 80 miles and made Ioachim his Brother King in his place From Ierusalem he returned to Memphis 240 miles Within four years after he went the second time with a great Army from Memphis to the River Euphrates 640 miles But there he was the second time overcome by Nebuchadnezzar and constrained to fly thence back again to Memphis in Egypt being 640 miles But Nebuchadnezzar followed him with an Army of chosen men and conquered all Egypt took Pharaoh Necho and made his Son Psammeticus King in his place who was the second of that name Of this Battel there is mention Ier. ca. 25. 26. So all the Travels of Pharaoh Necho were 1524 miles The Travels of the Holy Prophets and first of the Prophet Eliah ELIAH the Prophet went from Thisbe which was in the Land of Gilead to Samaria twenty four miles where he told the wicked King Ahab that there should be neither Rain nor Dew for the space of seven years 1 Reg. 17. From Samaria he went to the River â—erith twenty four miles where he was fed by a Raven From Kerith he went to Sarepta being an hundred miles where he sojourned with a poor Widow that found him Necessaries whose Son he restored to Life 1 Reg. 17. From Sarepta he went to Mount Carmel in the Land of Israel being sixty miles and by the way as he went he met Obadiah which signifieth the Servant of the Lord and King Ahab whom he rebuked sharply because of his Idolatry Also upon this Mountain he put all Bâ—al's Priests to death and prayed unto the Lord who sent Rain upon the Earth in great abundance 1 Reg. 18. From Mount Carmel he ran by King Ahab's Chariot to Iezreel which was accounted 16 miles After when Queen Iesabel threatned his Death he departed thence and went to Beersaba eighty four miles 1 Reg. 19. From Beersaba he went one dayes Jouney into the Wilderness of Paran because he thought to remain there safe from the mischief of Iesabel which vvas tvventy miles from Beersaba Southvvard Here the Angel of the Lord brought him meat as he vvas sitting under a Juniper-tree 1 Reg. 19. By vertue of this meat Eliah travelled from thence to Mount Horeb or Sinai eighty miles and continued there forty dayes and forty nights vvithout meat or drink There the Lord spake to Eliah as he stood in the â—ntrance of a Cave his Face being covered vvith his Mantle 1 Reg. 19. From the Mount Sinai or Horeb he returned to Abel-Mehola being 156 miles vvhere he called Elizeus the Son of Saphas to the Ministerial Function
sometime Bishop of Tyre saith which was a Town in the Tribe of Issachar not far from Bethulia some fifty two miles from Ierusalem toward the North near to which place Holofernes afterward pitched his Tents extending thence to the Field of Esdrelon and the Town Chelmon from whence it seemeth this Town taketh the Name He prophesied in Israel eight hundred years before Christ his name â—ignifieth a Saviour being derived of Hoschiag the third Conjugation of Iaschag that is He hath saved Mat. 2. Of the Prophet Joel JOEL signifies God's own as St. Ierom expoundeth it He prophesied eight hundred Years before Christ both in Israel and in Iudah He was born in a Village which was called Baâ—homeron not far from Sichem in the Tribe of Manasses as Dorotheus the Bishop of Tyre saith Of the Prophet Amos. THIS Man's Father dwelt at Tekoa a poor man one that kept Kine and used to gather wild Figs as appeareth in the first and seventh Chapters of Amos. In this Town Amos was born and followed the Profession of his Father but the Lord called him to be a Prophet and then he went to Bethel which was twelve miles distant Here he reprehended Ieroboam King of Israel for Idolatry and worshipping the Golden Calf after he was accused by Amasia the Chief Priest of the Idols in Bethel and bound in Chains and at length Vria the Son of this Amasia struck him upon his Head with a Spear whereby he was mortally wounded From Bethel being sick he was carried back to Tecoa which was twelve miles where a little after he died as St. Ierom witnesseth in whose time his Monument was to be seen Amos signifies A Burthen as indeed he was to the wicked Israelites he so sharply reprehended them in his Sermons of the Law He lived eight hundred years before Christ. So his Travels were 24 miles Of the Prophet Obediah OBediah signifies God's obedient Servant of Abad he hath served or been obedient He lived six hundred years before Christ about the time of the Captivity of Babylon St. Ierom saith that in his time there were to be seen in the City of Samaria the Monuments of three Prophets that is of Elisha Obediah and Iohn Baptist. But some think that Obediah the Prophet lay not buried in Samaria but rather it was the Sepulchre of that Obediah which lived in the time of Ahab that hid a hundred of the Lord's Prophets fifty in one Cave and fifty in another between which there were three hundred years difference The Travels of the Prophet Jonah THIS Prophet Ionas was born in Gath Hepher which was a Town in the Tribe of Zabulon from whence to Samaria is accounted thirty two miles here he prophecied to Ieroboam second of that name Kâ—ng of Israel that he should recover Hemath and Damascus and so to the Plain of the Red Sea 2 Reg. 14. From â—amaria to Ioppa or Iapho a Port Town upon the Sea Shore to which Ionas went when he fled from the Lord was thirty eight miles but the Lord stirred up a great Wind when Ionas was upon the Sea that the Mariners cast him out and he was devoured of a Whale Ionas 1. That Whale which had devoured Ionas with a continual course and great violence in three days and three nights swam to the Euxine Sea and there cast him up upon the Shore which was 600 miles Ios. Antiq. lib. 9. From the shore of the Euxine Sea Ionas went to Nineveh which are eight hundred miles Here Ionas preached Repentance to the Ninevites Ion. 3. 4. So all the Travels of Ionas were 1470 miles Of Gath Hepher IN this Town the Prophet Ionas was born it was scituated in the Tribe of Zabulon sixty miles from Ierusalem Northward and four miles from Nazareth towards the South It seems to take the name from abundance of Grapes for Gath Ghepher signifieth a Wine-press Of Japho JAPHO or Ioppa was a City or Haven-Town scituated upon the Sea where all such Ships landed as went into Iudaea At this day the Turks and Saracens call it Iafa lying upon the Mediterranean Sea in the Tribe of Dan Ios. 19. in a certain Mountain twenty miles from Ierusalem North-Westward Pliny li. 5. saith this City was built before the Flood and in St. Ierom's time there was to be seen the Stone to which Andromeda was bound when she should have been devoured by a Monster of the Sea The Poets Seign this Woman to be the Daughter of Cepheus and delivered by Perseus King of the Persians whom after she married It is called Iapho because of the beautiful Scituation Some say it was so called of Iapheth the Son of Noah who first caused it to be built Of Tharsis FRom Ioppa as is said the Prophet Ionas descended into a Ship that he might fly upon the Sea The Latine and Greek Texts read it Tharsin whence it hapned that many have thought that Ionas fled from Tharâ—is a City in Ciliâ—â—a in which Country St. Paul was born But Luther in his Exposition of the Prophecy of Ionas doth utterly disallow of this as false for the Hebrew Text reads it not to Tharsin but in Tharsin that is into the Sea For the Hebrew Tongue hath two words or Syllables which signifie the Sea which are Iam and Tharsis Iam signifieth not only a great Sea but the meeting together of Waters or a Lake So in Luke 5. the Sea of Galilee in which Christ and his Disciples sailed is called a Lake yet Ioh. cap. 5. and the rest of the Evangelists call it a Sea So also Moses Gen. 1. calleth the meeting together of the Waters Iam which may signifie a Sea and a Lake But Tharsis or Tharschich denoteth a great Sea and no Lake or an high and troublesome Sea as the Mediteranean Sea is In this Paul travelled and there standeth many Islands as Rhodes Cyprus Cicilia and others all which are at this day subject to the Turks Venetians or Spaniards It extendeth it self from Ioppa and Cilicia to the Streights between Spain and Mauritania Into this Sea Ionas was cast when the Whale devoured him In like manner the Red Sea and all others that are Ocean Seas are called Tharsis as appeareth in the 72 Psalm where it said The Kings of Tharsis and of the Isles shall bring Presents Here the Kings whose Empires extend themselves along the Sea Coast are understood But the City Tharsis the Country of the Apostle Paul is not a Kingdom neither ever had a King much less many Kings So Solomon sent his Ships by Tharsin that is by Sea towards the South-East into the Red Sea and Eastern Ocean that they might bring Gold precious Stones and sweet Gums from Arabia But the Ships could not sail by the Red Sea unto the Town of Tharsis unless they would have sailed over the Land which is impossible because Tharsis lieth into the Land from the Red Sea as all Cosmographers agree So also the Psalmist saith Thou breakest with thy strong Winds the Ships
Christ in his name For Christ was that gracious and innocent Dove who hath made evident to Man his singular Mercy and Clemency without any shew of bitterness or wrath Then in his Affliction for as Ionas thrust himself into the Sea of Calamity and there was swallowed up of a Whale which might be well resembled to the Grave so Christ our Saviour was cast into the Sea of Affliction the misery and calamity of this World and after that thrust into the jaws of death the Grave where as Ionas did in the Whales belly he lay three daies and then arose again the Earth being unable any longer to contain his Body Of the Prophet Micah THIS Prophet was born at Maresa a Town of Iudaea sixteen miles from Ierusalem Westward it signifieth a bitter Field In St Ierom's time the Ruins of the Wall of this City was to be seen Micah or Micheas signifieth humble or lowly This man was held in great estimation because he was the first that named the Country where our Saviour Christ should be born viz. in Bethlehem 800 years before his Nativity He lived Anno Mundi 3200. Of the Prophet Nahum NAhum signifies a Comforter He was born in a Town of Galilee called Elcosch as he saith in the beginning of his Prophecy This Village was shewn unto St. Ierome by those that travelled with him through the Holy Land in his time it was but a small Village called by the name of Elcos and scituated as Dorotheus Bishop of Tyre saith on the further side of Bethabara sixteen miles and something more from Ierusalem towards the North-East This Prophet lived 750 years before Christ and Prophesied of the Destruction of Niniveh which after came to pass Of the Prophet Habacuck HAbacuck or Chabacuck signifies one that embraceth or a Lover from Chaback he hath embraced For as a Nurse embraceth and kisseth her inâ—ant so also this Prophet embraced and comforted his People with comfortable Doctrine lest by the destruction of Ierusalem which he prophecied should after happen by the Chaldaeans they should be driven to desperation Paul took the foundation of his Epistle to the Romans out of this Prophet reciting a saying of his viz. The juâ—t shall live by faith He began to preach a little before the Prophet Ieremy 650 years before Christ above 100 years before Daniel was cast into the Lions den From whence most of the Learned conclude that this could not be that Habacuck which brought meat to Daniel as he was among the Lions but they rather think it a fragment of a spiritual Comedy and therefore worthy to be called Apocrypha Of the Prophet Zephania ZEphania signifies the Secretary of the Lord being derived of Zaphan he hath kept secret He lived in Ierusalem and Iudaea in the time of Iosiah King of Iuda He was born as Dorotheus Bishop of Tyre saith in a Town called Sabarthaca in the Tribe of Siâ—eon Of the Prophets Haggai and Zacharia HAggai or Chaggi signifieth A Priest celebrating the Feast of the Lord being derived of Chagag he hath celebrated a Feast And Zacharias or Zacharia doth denote such a man as remembred the Lord being derived of Zachar that is he hath remembred or recorded These two Prophets prophecied in Ierusalem in the second year of Darius the Son of Histaspis 519 years before Christ An. mun 3449. Haggai began his Prophecy upon the first day of the sixth month Elul answering to the 28 of August He sharply reprehended the People because they neglected the house of the Lord and built up their own houses In the eighth month Marhusuan which for the most part answereth to our November Zacharias the same year began to prophecy and in his Sermon exhorted the People to repentance adding the promise of our Saviour and that he would turn unto them that would turn unto him Zach. 1. These two Prophets lie buried 20 miles one from the other For as Dorothaeus Bishop of Tyre saith Haggai lies buried in Ierusalem amongst the Priests but Zacharias near to a Town in the field of Bethania 20 miles from Ierusalem Westward but in the time of Theodosius the Emperour was removed and preserved as an holy Relique Concerning that fable and figment inserted into the History Nicephorus I utterly disallow Of the Prophet Malachi THIS Prophet prophesied after the Captivity of Babylon and dwelt in the Town of Ziph as Dorotheus Bishop of Tyre saith Malachi signifies an Angel sent and in Greek a Messenger for this Prophet preached so comfortably as if he had been an Angel of God but principally of Christ and Saint Iohn Baptist who should go before him to prepare his Way and make his Paths strait S. Ierom in his Epistle to Paul and Eustochius writes that some of the Hebrews suppose this Malachi to have been Esdras the Scribe who was sent by Artaxerxes Longimanus Emperour of the Persians to restore the Commonwealth of Israel in the year before Christ 457. An Instruction how the Prophets may rightly be understood FIRST look into the Cosmographical Table at the beginning of this Book and diligently observe the Countries and Cities that are there set down and how they lie scituated from Ierusalem Toward the South of Ierusalem the Idumeans Ismaelites Arabians and Egyptians dwell Toward the East the Moabites Ammonites Chaldaeans Babylonians and Persians Toward the North the Phoenicians Syrians Assyrians and Armenians Toward the West lieth the Mediterranean Sea Grâ—cia Italy Spain and the Isles of the Sea Secondly this rule is to be observed that as often as the Prophets speak of the Tribes of Israel they use these names viz. Israel Samaria Ephrain Ioseth Iesreel Bethel and Bethaven these are the names of the Kingdom of Israel but to the Kingdom of Iuda these names are attributed viz. Iudaâ— Ierusalem Benjamin the house of David But when the Prophets joyn these two Kingdoms together they call them by the names of Iacob and Israel Thirdly when thou readest in the Prophets the name of any Country or City which is not sufficiently known unto thee search this Alphabetical Table here following and thou shalt find the whole matter declared unto thee An Alphabetical Table of all the Countries and Cities mentioned in the Prophets A. ABarim that is a Bridge or Passage over It was a Mountain of the Moabites where the Israelites pitched their Tents Num. 33. Achor the Valley of Trouble Here Achan was stoned to death for his Thievery It stood not far from Gilgal toward the North twelve miles from Ierusalem Ios. 7. Isa. 6. Adama Red Earth This was one of the Cities that were destroyed with Fire and Brimstone from Heaven Ai Hilly This City Ioshua burnt with Fire It lay eight miles from Ierusalem North-ward Iosh. 8. Aiath idem Isa. 10. Ar or Ari a Lion It was a City of the Moabites lying beyond Iordan in the Tribe of Benjamin called Aâ—iopolis scituated upon the Bank of the River Arnon 24 miles from Ierusalem North-Eastward Deut. 2. In Esa. 15. It is
extendeth from Damascus to Jordan after his name was called Vz that is the Land of Counsel for so Vz signifieth There were two Towns in this Country where Job is said to have dwelt that is Astaroth Carnaim and Batzra Astaroth Carnaim was distant from Jerusalem fifty two miles towards the North-East the Inhabitants of which Town worshipped the Goddess Venus and called her by the name of Astaroth of which you may read before St. Jerom saith That the Sepulchre of Job was to be seen in his time in that Town and later Writers testifie as much â—ore their times This Town at this day is called Carnea Batzra is mentioned in the thirty sixth of Genesis it signifieth a Grape gathering In this Town it was thought that Iob was born it lay beyond Iordan in the Tribe of Reuben twenty miles from Ierusalem towards the North-East All this Country in those times was subject to the King of the Edomites or Idumaeans but after it was joyned to the Land of the Moabites they having conquered the Kings of Edom you may read more of it in the sixth of Isay also Ios. 20. where is shewed that it was one of the six Cities of Refuge appointed by Ioshuah Here Iob for the most part continued and held this Town in great honour and reputation He lived about the time of Baela the first King of the Edomites and according to the opinion of St. Ierom Augustine Ambrose Philo and Luther was for his excellent Vertue and singular Piety chosen King of that Country which he greatly inlarged making all the Countries and neighbouring Princes near adjoyning tributary unto him wherefore as Ierom saith in locus Hebraicis having obtained so large an Empire he removed his Seat from Batzra to Astaroth-Carnaim which was a strong and well-defenced City where in those times as Moses witnesseth Gen. 14. there inhabited mighty men and noble Heroes that so by their Vertue he might with the greater facility suppress and conquer other Provinces There are many think him to be of the Stock of Abraham and of the Family of Esau because he is mentioned in the 36 of Genesis where it is said That when Baela died Iobab the Son of Zerah of Bozra or Betzrah reigned in his stead And St. Ierom in his Preface upon the Book of Iob sheweth that he was but five degrees removed from Abraham for Abraham had Ishmael Basmath who was the Wife of Esau Mother of Reguel Grand-mother to Serah and great Grand-mother to Iob. So that by the Mothers side Iob descended from Ishmael and by the Fathers side from Esau. Isaac Esau Reguel Serah Iob or Iobab King of Idumaea Gen. 36. Notwithstanding there are some that are of opinion that he descended from Abraham's Brother and was of the Family of Nahor's Son which opinion also St. Ierom mentioneth in his Hebraâ—cal Qâ—estions But most of the Antient Fathers hold this nothing so probable Luther upon the thirty sixth Chapter of Genesis saith That he was King long time before Moses caâ—ried the Children of Israel out of Egypt For Iuda and Aser the Sons of Iacob had Children before they went into the Land of Egypt Gen. 46. therefore it is not impossible for Reguel the Son of â—sau to have Children also since he was married long before his Brother Iacob From hence then it may be gathered that Iob was King of Idumaea bâ—fore Iacob and his Sons went into the Land of Egypt for although the fourteen Sons of â—sau governed the Land of Edom like so many Princes of which number Reguel the Grand-father of Iob was one because they held it as their Inheritance yet to avoid Sedition and Distractions which oftentimes happen where there is not a certain Head and principal Commander therefore they elected Bela the Son of Beor to be their King after whose death they chose Iob because he was a holy man of God and in his Actions just and upright who without doubt reigned amongst the Edomites a long time for he lived after his Afflictions which God imposed upon him to try him 140 Years Plato saith he married Dina the Daughter of Iacob but St. Ierom That he married the Daughter of an Arabian by whom he had Enon Both these may be true for his first Wife being dead he might marry an Arabian After the death of Iob the Gyants and Heroes in Asteroth-Carnaim fell again from the Idumaeans for when Moses brought the Children of Israel out of the Desart of Arabia-Petraea and that they had conquered the Land beyond Iordan the City Astaroth-Carnaim had a King called Og who governed all the Kingdom of Basan This Gyant was of a mighty Stature he had a Bed of Iron nine Cubits long and four broad Deut. 3. Of Eliphaz ELiphaz the Themanite was the Brother of Iob's Grand-father This Eliphaz had a Son called Theman who built a City and after his own Name called it Theman where Eliphaz his Father dwelt with him From whence it hapned that he was called Eliphaz the Themanite Iob. 2. It was distant from Ierusalem forty miles towards the South and therefore it was called a City of the South you may read of Eliphaz in Ier. cap. 25. He had a Concubine called Thimnah because of her Beauty and comely Proportion by her he had Amaleck of whom came the Amalekites between whom and the Children of Israel were cruel Wars Exad 17. The Travels of Eliphaz the Themanite FROM Themen he went to Astaroth-Carnaim where Iob dwelt which is accounted ninety two miles to comfort his Friend Iob Iob 2. From Astaroth-Carnaim he returned back to his own house which was ninety two miles So the Travels of Eliphaz were 184 miles Of Bildad Job's Friend BEyond Iordan and the Sea of Galilee not far from Astaroth-Carnaim there is at this day found a Town called Suah where as it is thought Bildad the Friend of Iob dwelt Near to this Town as Sebastian Francus observes in his Cosmography there was yearly in the Summer Season a great Mart kept in certain Tents and Tabernacles erected for that purpose of divers colours Bildad signifies an antient Friend and Suah taketh the name from Desolation being derived of Scho He hath made desolate Of Zophar the Friend of Job ZOPHAR dwelt in the City of Naema Iosh. 15. but how far it stood from Ierusalem is uncertain Zophar of Zaphar signifieth swift Naema signifies Pleasant and delectable of Naem courteous and comfortable Of Job's Daughters THE Lord gave unto Iob after his Affliction and that he had tryed his faithfulness three Daughters so fair that there were none fairer to be found in all the Land The name of the first was Iemmima that is as fair as the day of Iom which signifies a Day The second Kazia that is such a one as giveth a pleasant savour like unto Gum Cassia The third because of the excellency of her Countenance was called Kaeren Hapuch that is casting forth rayes or beams Iob 42. APOCRYPHA The Book of JUDITH Of Egbatana
are with him that so I may get my self a name and be famous through the whole Kingdom so he came out of Syria and pitched his Tents near Bethoron the lower in the Tribe of Iudah thirty two miles from Samaria But Iudas went down to him to Bethoron where he broke into his Camp overcame his whole Army and put him to the Sword with 8000 of his men but the rest fled into the Land of the Philistines 1 Mac. 3. These two Victories he obtained in the first year of his Government by which he made the name of Macchabees famous through that Kingdom This Battel was fought eight miles from Ierusalem Antiochus Epiphanes having certain Intelligence of that which had happened in the next year made an Expedition into Persia that he might gather Money in those East parts to make an offensive War against the Iews and gave Authority to Lysias whom he made Governour in his absence to suppress this faction sprung up amongst them Wherefore Lysias sent 40000 Foot and 7000 Horse into Iury and appointed Ptolomais Nicanor and Gorgias to be Generals of the whole Army Who so soon as they had entered Iudaea after Hostile manner they pitched their Tents near to a Town called Emaus Iosep. lib. Ant. 13. c. 10. This Town standeth six miles and somwhat more from Ierusalem but Iudas Macchabeus assembled his Army in Mizpah scituated in the Tribe of Benjamin not far from Ierusalem six miles from Bethoron 1. Mac. 3. After Iudas Macchabeus had implored Gods assistance in his Wars and performed many Religious ceremonies he went with his Army to Emaus which was four miles where coming upon the Enemy in the night and unexpected he overcame Nicanor put him to flight and kill'd 3000 of his men This Victory happened in the third year of Iudas Macchabeus his Government 1. Mac. 4. From Emaus he pursued the Enemy to Gexeron Azotus Asserimoth and Iamniah upon the Borders of Idumaea which was eight miles After he returned back from pursuing the Enemy with his Army to Emaus which was eight miles that he might oppose the Army of Gorgias but Gorgias understanding of the overthrow of Nicanor and burning of his Tents fled Iudas Macchabeus obtained his fourth victory in the third year of his Government which was 62 years before Christ and in the 148 year of the Government of the Graecians in Syria six miles from Emaus near to the Castle or Fortress of Bethsura which signifies the house of the Rock being a very strong place scituated in the top of a high Rock some half a mile from Ierusalem in the way which leadeth to Bethlehem Near to this Castle Iudas Macchabeus overcame Lysias Antiochus his chief General of Syria who had 20000 foot and 5000 horse in his Army carrying away a great victory and put to the sword 5000 of his men Lysias being thus overcome mediated a Peace with the Iews which was concluded upon the fourth day of the Month Diosceris which answereth unto the seventh day of our Month of Iune 2 Macch. 10. From Bethsura Iudas Macchabeus brought back his Army to Ierusalem which was almost a mile where he caused the Temple of the Lord to be cleansed of the abomination of the Gentiles and broke down the Statue of Iupiter Olympus which had continued there for the space of three years and on the fifth day of the month Caslew which is our December celebrated a solemn Passeover and built up a new Altar and dedicated it unto the Lord. In the year after being the fourth year of his Government he repaired â—he Town of Sion and fortified Bethsura against the Idumeans which Nation all this year made War upon the Iews But after Iudas gathered an army and went 40 miles into Idumaea and invaded those that were in Arabathnes and in the Land of the sons of Bean which people troubled the Israelites with continual Robberies and put them to flight so that they were constrained to take their Castle where he fired them and it together 1 Macch. 5. 2. Macch. 10. From Idumaea he returned back again with his army to Ierusalem which was forty miles Afterward he led his Army against the Ammonites which lay 60 miles from Ierusalem towards the Northeast 1. Macch. 5. From thence he went to Iaeser in the Tribe of Gad which was 24 miles which he took and all the Castles thereabouts This Town Moses in times past conquered as you may read before 1 Macch. 15. From Iaeser he returned to Ierusalem which was 40 miles From thence he went to Ioppa which was 20 miles and there he burned their Haven for Ioppa was a Haven-Town and those which scaped the fire he kill'd with the sword 2 Mac. 12. From Ioppa he went to Iamnia which was accounted four miles where in the Night he fired their Haven burn'd their Ships and spoiled their Town insomuch as the Inhabitants of Ierusalem which were sixteen miles off might easily see the Fire 2 Macch. 12. From Iamnia Iudas went with his army against Timotheus chief Captain of Antiochus Eupater who continued at the City Caspin which was something more than a mile where he overcame him and 5000 Arabians which were strengthned with 500 Horse and took the City 1 Mac. 12. Afterward Iudas Macchab. with his Brother Ionathan led an Army to Characa unto the Iews that were called Tubieni which was 96 miles against Timotheus Governour of the Ammonites but he was gone thence and had done nothing but left a Garrison in a strong hold Wherefore Dositheus and Sosipater which were Captains with Macchab. went forth and slew those that Timotheus had left in the Fortress more than 10000 men Timotheus himself also fell into their hands but by reason of his fair Speeches they suffered him to depart with Life 2 Mac. 12. 1 Mac. 5. From thence he went to Bozor a fair City which was scituated beyond Iordan near to Bethabara in the Tribe of Reuben it was also called Bazra which was 24 miles this Town he took and burned with Fire Isa. 64. 1 Mac. 5. From Bozor he went to Mizpa where Iephtha some i me sacrificed his Daughter which was 32 miles In that Journey Iudas Macchabeus rescued the Castle of Datheman drave thence Timotheus and put to the Sword 8000 of his Army After he went thence to Mizpa won the Town burn'd it with Fire and put to the Sword all the male Children because the Inhabitants had vexed the Children of Israel with continual Robbery After that he won many other Towns and Cities thereabouts 1 Mac. 5. From Mizpa Iudas passed the River and went to Astaroth-Carnaim which in the second of Macchabees is called Carnion which was eight miles here he destroyed the Temple of Venus which the Inhabitants call Astaroth and put 25000 of the Inhabitants to the Sword He went also to Atargation a Town not far off and took it and delivered all the Israelites from the greatest to the least which were in Captivity amongst the Giliadites 1.
paid for Tribute from whence may be gathered that the Penny that Peter took out of the Fishes Mouth was worth 2 s. 6 d. The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a King that would call his Servants to account and when he began to reckon with them the one ow'd him 10000 l. in Hebrew Weight which at 37 s. 6 d. the Pound cometh in the whole to 18750 l. so much was the wicked Servant in Debt to his Master And on the contrary one of his Fellow-servants ow'd him 100 Pence in the Hebrew Text it is Centum Obulus and one Obulus was 1 d. q. that is 10 s. 5 d. so that the bad servant ow'd his Master 30000 times more than his Fellow-servant ow'd him The Greek Text saith that this fellow ow'd him Centum Derius that is 3 l. 2 s. 6 d. which is yet a great deal of difference for the wicked Servant ow'd his Master above 6000 times more than his Fellow-servant ow'd him The Lord of the Vineyard agreed with his Labourers for a Penny a day cap. 2. v. 9. In the Hebrew Text it is Zuza and in Greek Denarius both which are of like value English that is 7 d. ob so much each Labourer had by the Day When the Pharisees and Herod's Servants tempting Christ asked him whether it was lawful to pay Tribute unto Caesar or not Christ answered and said You Hypocrites why tempt you me shew me the Tribute Money and they brought him a Penny where it is exprest by the word Zuza or Denarius that is 7 d. ob The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a man that travelling into a far Country called his Servants and delivered unto them his Goods to one he gave five Talents that is 937 l. 10 s. with which he gained just as much more that is 937 l. 10 s. to the second he gave two Talents of the common weight also which ws 375 l. and he also gained just as much more that is 375 l. and to the third he gave one Talent that is 187 l. 10 s. and he gained nothing with it but hid the Talent in the Earth Iudas Iscariot betrayed our Saviour Christ for thirty Pence or pieces of Silver cap. 26. v. 14. which were so many Sicles of the Temple each Sicle beâ—â—g half an ounce which were accounted worth 2 s. 6 d. so the whole came to 3 l. 15 s for which our Saviour Christ was betrayed And with it they bought a Potters field Mark OUR Saviour Christ sate over against the Treasury and beheld how the People cast into the Treasury and many rich men cast in much and there came a certain poor Widdow and she threw in two mites cap. 12. v. 41 42. which is a farthing or Quadrans which was the fourth part of an Assis being almost a Penny English Our Saviour Christ being a Bethanie in the house of Simon the Leper there came a Woman having a box of Oyntment of costly Oyl called Spikenard and she broke the box and poured it upon his head therefore some murmured among themselves and said To what end is this waste of Oyntment for it might have been sold for more than three hundred Denarios or pence cap. 14. v. 15. that is 9 l. 7 s. 6 d. Luke OUR Saviour Christ saith Are not five Sparrows sold for two farthings cap. 12 v. 6. that is Assibus duobus which is 1 d. ob Or what Woman having ten pieces of Silver that is ten Drachma's or Groats each being worth seven pence ob and lose one will not 〈◊〉 till she find it c. cap. 15. v. 8. So these ten were in English Money 5 â— â— d. A certain Noble-man went into a far Country to receive for himself a Kingdom and he called his ten Servants and delivered them ten pâ—eces of Money or ten pounds or Mina's according to the weight of the Temple which came to at 3 l. 2 s 6 d. the Mina in the whole 31 l. 5 s. Iohn WHEN our Saviour Christ would feed 5000 men besides Women and Children he said unto Philip Where might we buy Bread that these People might eat which he spake to prove Philip. Philip answered and said That 200 penny worth of Bread will not be sufficient for them that every man might take a little The two hundred penny worth of Bread are called Dâ—narios which was worth 7 d. ob in our Money and in the whole is worth 6 l. 5 s. From whence may be gathered that there being 5000 every one of them should have had no more bread than might have been bought with a Farthing Mite and half of our Silver As our Saviour Christ six days before the Passover was eating in the house of Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead in Lazarus's Sister took a Box some say a pound of Oyl of Spikenard and annointed Jesus Feet and wiped them with her Hair and the whole house was filled with the savour of the Ointment Then said one of his Disciples even Simon 's Son Why was not this Ointment sold for 300 pence cap. 12. ver 5. that is Denarios every Denarios being worth 7 d. ob which amounted in the whole to 9 l. 7 s. 6 d. When Christs body was to be buried Nicodemus came and brought Myrrh and Aloes mingled together about 100 pound weight chap. 19. v. 39. according to the common weight which was 2500 half ounces and came to 78 pounds and eight ounces English Acts. IN Asia many Books were burnt to the value of 50000 pieces of silver that is Roman Denarios every of which vvas 7 d. ob the whole amounting to 1562 l. 10 s. Thus have I briefly set forth to you the several Weights that were common amongst the Iews both as they vvere originally from themselves and as they received them from other Nations comparing them with the Scriptures as they are severally mentioned and reduced them to our Valuations In casting up of vvhich if there shall chance to be any errour you may vvith the due examination of the vvorth of every piece of Silver or Gold according as you may find them at the beginning of this Treatise easily reform them and bring them to your ovvn understanding Of the ancient Money and Coin that was used amongst the Grecians and Romans FROM vvhat hath been said may be gathered that the Iews used no Coin but Weights only though perhaps to put a distinction betvveen those Weights there vvas used some impression yet that cannot properly be said Coin But in all other Kingdoms vvhere Money vvas current there vvas used Coin and that valued according to the vvill or command of the Prince or State vvhere it vvas coined vvhich also because of the captivity of the Iews came amongst them and past as current according to their vvorth of which Coins I have already spoken Yet because there are many other Coins and Weights mentioned in the Epistles of the Apostles which were partly of the Grecians partly of the
forty five years old was invited to a Marriage in Cana a City of Galilee which stood eight miles from Galilee towards the North-West Iohn 2. Here our Saviour Christ wrought his first miracle by changing water into wine From Cana in Galilee she went with our Saviour to Capernaum a City of Galilee a little before the Feast of the Paschal Lamb which was twenty miles From Capernaum she returned back to Nazareth which was accounted twelve miles In the thirty second year of the age of our Saviour Christ which was the second of his Ministry Mary went from Nazareth back again to Capernaum where our Saviour Christ cast forth a Devil Mat. 12. Mark 3. which was 12 miles From thence she returned back again to Nazareth which was twelve miles for in this Town she dwelt whilst Iesus travelled from place to place teaching and preaching the Word of God Mark 6. And although she oftentimes went from Nazareth with him to many places continuing still in his company yet then especially when he was to sustain the wrath of God and punishment for the Sin of man which was in the thirty fourth year of his age In which year she would not forsake him till his death for she went from Galilee to Ierusalem with him which waâ— sixty four miles a great Journey for one of her age being then forty eighâ— years old And when our Saviour was crucified she stood close by the Cross with a heavy and pensive countenance bewailing the death of her Son Then was the Prophecy of old Simeon accomplished And a Sword shall pass through thy Soul But after by his Glorious Resurrection and Ascension she was revived and comforted From the Passion of Christ to the death of the blessed Virgin Mary was twelve years all which time she lived with Iohn the Evangelist in Ierusalem and then being fifty nine years of age dyed and was buried according to the opinion of Nicephorus and others in the Garden called Gethsamene So all her Travels were 3506 miles Now follows the description of the Towns and Places to which she travelled Of Nazareth THIS was a Town almost of no estimation scituated in a certain Mountain in Galilee the lower sixty four miles and something more from Ierusalem towards the North in the Tribe of Zabulon In this Town our Saviour Jesus Christ was brought up Luke 1. 2. Some say that it was nineteen or twenty miles from Ierusalem but they mistake themselves yet I will not dispute thereof but follow my Authors Iacobus Ziglerus and Tilmanus Stella There is not any mention made of it that is extant in the Old Testament It hath a two-fold derivation the one by Zain and the other by Zade If it be written by Zain it may have a two-fold signification since the exposition of this name doth depend upon the Verb Nazar which signifies to consecrate and keep from hence Nezaer a Garland of Flowers or a Crown set with pretious Stones c. such as Kings and High-Priests are accustomed to wear Also from the same word Nazar is derived Nazir and thence Nazaraeus which is as much as to say He is separated from the use of Wine and suffering his Hair to be un-cut as being dedicated to the Lord. Therefore our Saviour Christ is justly called a Nazarite Luke 2. For â—aezer first signifies a holy man who hath made a holy Vow unto the Lord Secondly it doth denote a Crown or wreath of Sincerity Exod. 29. 39. Thirdly a holy Ointment wherewith Kings and Priests were anointed Levit. 27. And fourthly this word Nezaer signifies a Princely Crown 2 Sam. 1. 2. Kings 11. Psal. 89. 132. So that Nazareth being derived of Nazar and Nazir may signifie both a Crown and a holy City Iudg. 13. but if Nazareth be written by Zade it signifies a flourishing plant or Graff according to that of Isay c. 11. But there shall come a rod forth of the stock of Ishai and a Graff shall grow out of his root and the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him The Inhabitants of this Town at this day shew certain Monuments and Reliques of what had happened in preceeding Ages as two Churches one built there where the Angel Gabriel saluted the Blessed Virgin and she conceived by the Spirit in which there stands three Altars hew'n out of a Rock and the other built as they say where the house of Ioseph and Mary stood because there our Saviour Christ was brought up Also they shew a Well where the Child Jesus drew Water and ministred to his Mother they also shew the vast Ruins of the Synagogue where our Saviour Christ expounded the sixty first Chapter of Isay for which cause they would have thrown him headlong down the Hill Luke 4. and many other things of which you may read in Borchardus the Monk In Saint Ierom's time some forty years before Christ Nazareth was a small Town called Nazarah Of the Mountains by which Mary passed when she went to visit her Cousin Elizabeth BEtween Nazareth and Ierusalem there standeth many high Hills as Mount Gilboa whereon King Saul killed himself Mount Gerisim and Hebal upon which Hills the Blessings and Cursings were pronounced Deut. 27. and Mount Ephraim upon which Ehud kill'd Eglon King of the Moabites Iudg. 13. Over this Mountain being very great and steep Mary travelled when she went to visit her Cousin Elizabeth Of Bethlehem THERE were two Cities called by this name the one Bethlem Iudah the other Bethlem Euphrata where our Saviour Christ was born and signifieth fruitful or the house of Bread It stood upon a Hill some six miles from Ierusalem towards the South The Inhabitants take upon them to shew the place where our Saviour Christ was born which stood upon the East side of the City close by the Wall thereof where as Eusebius saith Hellen the Mother of Constantine the Great caused to be built a fair and stately Church three hundred and twenty years afteâ— the Nativity of Christ. This Church was dedicated to St. Mary and remaineth to this day being had in great honour both amongst the Christians and the Turks and Saracens This Church is such a stately building that it is thought to exceed all the Churches of Christendom for Beauty and curious Workmanship It is two hundred twenty eight Foot long and eighty seven Foot wide being built all of Marble of divers colours and covered with Lead there are in it four rowes of Marble Pillars wonderful to look upon not only in regard of their number but of their greatness for there is fifty Pillars in every row The Body of this Church the Pillars from the bottom to the top the Walls and every part of it is beautified with lively Pictures adorned with divers Colours Silver Gold and curious Workmanship so as it is wonderful to behold The Pavement of it is of Marble polished and of divers colours so cunningly set in Works and with such variety that it is very delightful to such as look
observance and divine worship of the Gods Strabo saith Geogra lib. 6. That the Magi were such among the Persians as those whom the Indians call Gimnosophists and Academians the Babylonians Chaldaeans and the Hebrewes Prophets or Priests which taught the People Divine knowledge And when the ten Tribes were carried into captivity by Salâ—anasser Emperour of the Assyrians into Assyria Media and Persia there is no question but they took with them into the East the holy Books and Volumes of the Law and of the Prophets whereby without doubt many of the People and Philosophers of the East came to have a taste of the true knowledge and worship of God Also the Prophet Daniel was brought up in all the Arts of the Caldaeans whose Writings and Prophecies were not only written and published amongst the Babylâ—nians but also had in great account and estimation amongst the Magi so that they diligently perusing those Books came not only to the knowledge of God but also without doubt to the knowledge of our Saviour Jesus Christ whom they called the Star of Iacob from whence may be concluded that the Wise-Men that came to see our Saviour Christ were rather of Susa in Persia than of Zaba in Aethiopia Wherefore these Wise Men came from the Academy of Susa in Persia to Ierusalem which was 920 miles saying Where is he that is born King of the Iews for we have seen his Star in the East and are come to worship him This hapned in the month of January in the second year after the birth of our Saviour for Herod in the seventieth year of his age caused all the male Children of the Bethlemites of two years old and under according to the time that he was told of the Wise Men to be put to the Sword From Ierusalem they went to Bethlehem which was six miles where upon the sixth of January they offered their Presents which they brought out of Persia to our Saviour viz. Gold as to a King Frankincense as to a Priest and Myrth as to a Mortal man Mat. 2. So let us offer unto Christ our Saviour the Gold of Faith and heavenly Doctrine the Frankincense of earnest Prayers and the Myrrh of Patience in the midst of Calamity Afterward the Wise-Men as they had been warned in a dream returned another way to Susa in Persia which was 920 miles So their Travels were 1846 miles Of Susa you may read before in the Travels of the Old Testament Of the Star that appeared to the Wise-Men in the East SInce this Star appeared in the lower Region of the Air as it is apparent it did from thence it may be concluded that it neither was any of the fixed Stars Planet or a Comet because they commonly are seen in the upper Region of the Air but rather according to the opinion of some it was an Angel of God appearing in the form of a bright shining Star to direct the Wise Men in their way they went to the Town of Bethlem and so by little and little descending from the sublimity of the Air pointed out unto them the very house where they might find Mary the Mother of our Lord and the Child Jesus almost after the same manner as the Angel of the Lord in the time of Moses appeared to the Children of Israel that is in the day like a cloudy Pillar and in the night like a flaming Fire to direct them their way Exod. 13. 14. 34. Wherefore this Star without doubt was no natural Apparition which happened in the inferiour Region of the Air suddenly vanishing away but as I have said an Angel of the Lord representing the form of a Star Or else as Chrysostom saith a certain miraculous new Star which according to the opinion of Augustine was governed by an Angel of the Lord and for the greatness of the Body and variety of the Aspects was not seen first in the Land of Iudaea but in Persia a Country in the East where the Magi dwelt and accompanied thence into Iudaea And although for a short space it left them in their Journey yet when they came in the way to Bethlem it appeared to them again Mat. 2. As Nicephorus and Chrysostom observe the Star appeared upon the day of the Conception of Christ being the twenty fifth day of March about which time the Arch-Angel Gabriel spoke with the Virgin Mary Luke 1. and was seen for a whole year and forty one weeks that is till the sixth of Ianuary in the beginning of the second year after the Nativity of Christ. It wanted eleven weeks of two years and therefore Herod caused all the Male-children of the Bethlehemites of two years old and under to be slain according to the time declared unto him by the Wise-men Mat. 2. Wherefore this new Star did first fore-shew the Birth of Christ that bright shining Star and eternal light of Glory according to the Prophecy of Billa Num. 22. Secondly the Light of God's Word and the Gospel 2 Pet. 1. Thirdly Godly and Faithful Ministers and Teachers who by their Doctrine and godly Life and Conversation should set before their Auditors and such as observe their actions the way to Christ and eternal happiness Dan. ult The Travels of John Baptist. IN the Month of Thisri which answereth to our September Anno Mundi 3966 the Feast of the Tabernacles being then celebrated the Arch-Angel Gabriel told Zacharias the Priest of the Conception of Iohn the Baptist which should be the voice of a Crier in the Wilderness And a little after that is about the Autumnal Aeqinoctial Iohn the Baptist was conceived six Months before our Saviour The next year after about the Month of Iuly he was born Six Months after that our Saviour Christ was born In which year Zacharias the Father of Iohn Baptist was slain in the upper Court between the Altar and the Temple for saying that our Saviour Christ was born and that Mary his Mother was a Virgin Mat. 33. Wherefore Elizabeth the Wife of Zacharias fearing the cruelty of Herod and of the Pharisees about that time when the young Infants of the Bethlehemites were slain she fled from Ierusalem to Apumim as Nicephorus saith which was scituated in the Wilderness between Iericho and Ierusalem where she privately brought up her Son being thirty two miles In the thirty ninth Year of the Nativity of Christ and upon the twenty fourth day of Iune Iohn the Baptist being then thirty Years of Age by the Commandment of the Lord took upon him the Ministry for it was not lawful for any to enter into that Function before they were thirty Years of Age Numb 4. Wherefore upon the eight and twentieth day of September it being then the Feast of the Tabernacles and about the middle of the last Week spoken of by Daniel he went from Adumim to Bethabara where he took upon him the Ministry of the New Testament Hannas the chief Priest being then newly entred into that Office Luke 2. which was about four
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
went from Ierusalem to Bethania which was almost two miles and there visited Mary and Martha where Martha ministred unto him but Mary sitting at his feet gave diligent heed to his Doctrine Luke 10. At this time he took his leave of these two Sisters and went thence to Bethabara beyond Iordan where Iohn baptized which was sixteen miles it being now about the midst of Winter Christ at this time being about thirty three years of age I am not ignorant that there were many which refer that long Journey of our Saviour Christ when he went to visit all Iudaea the sending forth of his Disciples and divers other Miracles mentioned from the ninth Chapter of Luke to the sixteenth to the beginning of the following year But I am of opinion that all those things could not have been done within the compass of four Months and before the Feast of the Dedication so that it must needs be that the seventy Disciples were sent forth before the Feast of the Dedication for after the Feast of the Dedication which was celebrated in the midst of Winter Iohn 10. there were but two Months between it and the raising up of Lazarus in which short time all those things which are described by Luke could not possibly be accomplished especially considering that our Saviour Christ wintered some time in Bethabara and there taught the multitude that came unto him Ioh. 2. So these Travels of our Saviour were five hundred ninety six miles or thereabouts besides the divers Visitations and Journeys he went hither and thither which because of the great multitude of them it was not possible for the Evangelist to set them down Of the Towns and places to which he travelled Of Bethsaida BEthsaida signifies the house of hunting being derived of Baith a house and Zaid hunting from Zod he hath hunted for from this place went the Fishers and Hunters which fished and hunted thorough the World Ierem. 16. In this Town dwelt three Apostles Peter Andrew and Philip Iohn 1. It was scituated upon the West side of the Galilean Sea in the Tribe of Issachar fifty six miles from Ierusalem toward the North. And because of the abundance of Fishes that were in the Sea of Galilee Peter and Andrew became Fishers and in that Vocation got their living till our Lord and Saviour Christ made them Fishers of Men Mat. 4. Luke 5. Before the Birth of Christ this was but a small Town and without doubt was so called from hunting because close by it stood a Wilderness that did greatly abound with wild Beasts Philip the Terrarch of Traconitis and Itura made this a fair City which in honour of Iulia he called Iuliades This Iulia was the Daughter of Augustus Caesar and Wife of Tiberias Philip also brought many Inhabitants thither who dwelt in that City But when Herod the Tetrarch of Galilee and Brother of this Philip had builded up Bethabara which stood beyond the River Iordan on the East side of the Sea of Galilee and called it by the name of Iuliades in honour of this Iulia. This Town re-edified and inlarged by Philip was called again in the time of our blessed Lord and Saviour Christ after the ancient name Bethsaida and so continueth to this day From hence it is manifest that the Sea of Galilee was subject to the Government of both these Tetrarchs since upon the shore thereof on both sides they had Cities standing I do think the Wilderness or Wood and â—and near adjoyning to Bethsaida is called Itura of Ietur the Son of Ismael Gen. 25. or else from the compass and roundness of it for Tur in Hebrew signifies a circle But that Itura stood upon the West side of the Sea of Galilee those that have been at the Holy Land can testifie This City of Bethsaida hath an ancient Water-course coming from a River not far from it which Iosephus calleth little Iordan which falleth into the Sea of Galilee just in the mid-way between this Town and Capernaum the Channel whereof appeareth to this day Beside the many Sermons which our Saviour Christ preached here he did many notable miracles Mark 8. c. But for the ingratitude and impiety of the Citizens the curse of our Saviour fell upon them Wo be to thee Chorazin wo be to thee Bethsaida for if the miracles had been done in Tyrus and Sidon which have been done in thee they had long e're this repented in sackcloth and ashes Verily verily I say unto you it shall be easier for Tyrus and Sidon in the day of Iudgment than for you Mat. 11. Luk. 10. The prophecie of our Saviour Christ fell upon them accordingly for after divers and sundry overthrows and devastations this Town became utterly unpeopled and as Britenbacchus saith there are scarce six houses standing in it at this day Of Chorazin THis City also stands upon the further side of Iordan close by the Sea of Galilee in the same Country as Capernaum stands for the City of Chorazin standeth upon the East side of the River Iordan where it falleth into the Sea of Galilee and Capernaum upon the West in the half Tribe of Manasses some 16 miles from the City of Ierusalem towards the North. This City also neglecting the preachings and miracles of our Saviour Christ felt the efficacy and force of the curse of the Son of God Mat. 11. Luc. 10. For there is not at this day a house to be seen only some ruines where it stood Chorazin doth denote a Dukedom or Principality from Coh and Razon a Prince and Duke for Rozez signifies a laborious Prince Ierom turning this word Rozez into Razi calls it a secret mystery or my secret Of Tiberias TIberias standeth upon the West side of the Sea of Galilee 48 miles from Ierusalem towards the North. Before the Birth of Christ it was cal-called Kinnereth that is the City of the Harp after which name the Lake of Tiberias or the Sea of Galilee is called Numb 14. But Herod the Teâ—rarch of Galilee at whose command Iohn the Baptist was beheaded did beautifie this City with many fair Buildings and compassed it about with strong Walls and after Caesar's name called it Tiberias He also gathered thither many Inhabitants and endowed it with many large Priviledges for although this place before the restoring of the City was very filthy and impure by reason of the dead Bodies both of Men and Beasts which lay in that place from whence it happened that the Iewes shunned this place as utterly unlawful and durst not dwell there yet notwithstanding Herod with singular Industry and Diligence removed all that filthiness and in that very place built up this City both fair and spacious partly with Gifts partly with fair Speeches alluring many Iews to inhabit therein Many poor People also built themselves houses at their own charge and those that had no Children gave way unto the liberty of the City besides many rich and noble men were constrained to remove their whole
goodly Springs but there is no man that dwells in it notwithstanding there are many Towns and Inhabitants at the foot of the Mountain neither do they think any man worthy to dwell in it they hold it in such estimation and reverence it as the Hill of God There are to be seen in it divers great Ruines of Palaces Towers and Princely Edifices in which at this day there harbour many Lions and other wild Beasts It is very difficult to ascend up to the top of it it is so exceeding high It is one of the principal hills in the Holy Land not only because that Christ on it was transfigured but because it is very fruitful and plentifully abounds with Vines and other profitable Plants and Herbs The Air thereof is wholsom and good and the Dew upon it rising thick and sweet with indifferent Rain the Trees high and fair green both Winter and Summer At the foot of the Mountain towards the South near to Endoâ— in the way that leadeth from Syria into Aegypt is shewed the place where as it is said Melchisedeck met with Abraham when he returned from the Battel of the four Kings Gen. 14. At the foot of the Mountain lying toward the West just against Nazareth there is a Chappel built in the place where they say our Saviour Christ descending from this Mountain spake to his Disciples saying Tell none of this Vision Mat. 17. Upon the East side of it runs the Brook Kison where Barak and Deborah overcame the Army of Sisera Iudg. 4. There is also another Hill in the upper part of Galilee 92 miles from Ierusalem Northward which Hill is also called Thabor and is three miles distant from Caesarea Philippi Eastward but that was not the place of Christs Transfiguration The Travels of Christ in the fourth year of his Ministry being the four and thirtieth of his age IN the Month of Ianuary Christ the Son of God wintered in Bethabara 16 miles from Ierusalem North-eastward where Iohn sometimes baptised Ioh. 10. And many came unto him saying Iohn shâ—wed us no â—gns but whatsoever he preached of this Christ are true And many believed on him Now as Christ went into the Desart to preach his Disciples came unto him saying Lord teach us to pray as Iohn taught his Disciples to pray Whereupon he prescribed to his Disciples a Form of Prayer which is called the Lords Prayer Luke 11. At this time there came unto him a great multitude and thronged about him where he made that long Sermon which is described Luke 12. 13. Upon the seventeenth Day of Ianuary it being then the Sabbath he cured a certain Woman which had been diseased 18 years Luke 13. And when there came unto him certain Pharisees saying thou art the Son of God wherefore get the out of this Country for Herod seeks to kill thee Jesus answered them saying Go and tell that crafty Fox behold I cast out Devils to day and tomorrow and the third Day I shall be peâ—fected Presently he departed out of Petraea where Herod kept his Court in the Castle of Macharuntes and went into Galilee beyond Iordan 28 miles Luke 13. Upon the last Day of Ianuary being the Sabbath our Lord and Saviour Christ healed in the house of a certain Prince of the Pharisees a man sick of the Dropsie and recited the Parable of the great Supper Luke 14. In the Month of February he went through all Galilee which was 80 miles long and 24 broad in which visitation there followed him a great company And when there came unto him Publicans and Sinners he began to speak of Repentance but the Phâ—risees and Scribes murmured at him and opposed his Parables of the lost sheep of the Woman that had lost her Groat and of the prodigal Son Luke 15. And a little after he recited unto his Disciples the Parable of the unjust Steward and of Dives and Lazarus Luke 16. About the latter end of February as by the circumstance of the History and Times may appear he made that Sermon of the Power of Faith and good Works c. Luke 17. And going out of Galilee through the midst of Samaria he healed the ten Lepers Luke 17. He recited the Parable of the unjust Judge and that of the Publican and Pharisee Luke 18. In the Month of March he finished this general Visitation Which Journey were so many and divers that his Disciples could not describe them Notwithstanding in this Month he went into the Borders of Iudaea and Petraea beyond Iordan and came to Bethabara where Iohn sometimes baptised and there followed him a great company and he healed them Mat. 19. Mark 10. There the Pharisees moved the disputation of the Divorce and Christ lovingly imbraced the little Children Mark 20. In this Month of March Lazarus the Brother of Martha and Mary who dwelt at Bethania fell sick of a deadly disease and they sent messengers to Christ who at this time was at Bethabara to give him to understand of his Sickness Iohn 11. this message came unto our Saviour Christ to Bethabara upon the twentieth day of March being the last day of the twelfth Month Adar Anno Mundi 4000. and about such time as the seventy Weeks spoken of by Daniel were fully ended at the end of which Prophecy it behoved Christ that he might fulfill the Prophecies of the Old Testament to suffer and by his Resurrection and Ascension to enter into the Glory of God and to be partaker of his eternal Kingdom Although our Saviour had received this message of the Sickness of Lazarus he stayed at Bethabara Two dayes after and as it may be thought about the twenty second day of March which was the second day of the first Month Abib Lazarus died But Lazarus being dead and buried then our Saviour went from Bethabara towards Iericho Iohn 14. Luke 8. and in the way a man came to him and said Good Master what shall I do that I may inherit eternal Life Christ said unto him Go and sell all that thou hast and give it unto the Poor and thou shalt find Treasure in Heaven and then come and follow me But because he was very rich he refused and went his way After he recited the Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard making mention of Predestination Also in this Journey he reprehended the Sons of Zebedeus for their Pride and Arrogancy and fore-telleth his Disciples of his Death and Passion and in the way healed the blind man that sate begging and so entred into Iericho where he rested all night in the house of Zacheus Mat. 20. Zacheus signifies Clean. Upon the twenty fourth of March Christ went from Iericho to Bethania which was twelve miles Here he healed Bartimeus the Son of Timeus Mark 10. Timeus signifieth Unclean of Tame He is defiled And going a little further he healed other two resâ—oring them to sight Mâ—t. 19. Upon the twenty fifth of March being Tuesday our Saviour Christ came to Bethania where
cast into Prison who by the Prayers of the Church was miraculously delivered as you may read Acts 12. A little after that is about the month of August this King was struck by the Angel of the Lord and died miserably for when he came to Caesarea Strato he caused the publick Shews to be solemnly practised and in honour of Claudius Caesar set forth very sumptuous Interludes and Plays to which Feast and Shews all the Nobility and Gentry of that Country round about resorted Where the next day very early in the Morning having put on a rich and goodly Garment made all of Cloath of Gold he went into the Theatre and there according to his usual custom sat in a princely Seat and made an Oration to the Inhabitants of Tyre Now when the Sun was up and shone upon his Garments the Rays therâ—of cast such a reflection upon the beholders that it dazled their Eyes insomuch that they could scarce see Wherefore those that were his Flatterers hearing his gracious Speech cried with a loud Voice O Agripâ—a be propitious unto us for although heretofore we feared thee as a Man yet now we well perceive thou art of a more Noble and Divine Nature But when the King taking delight in these speeches would not restrain the impious clamour of these flatterers a little after he lifted up his head and upon the top of a Pillar he saw an Owl sittingâ—over him Presently he was troubled in his mind and within a while after he was struck with an extream pain in his Bowels insomuch that with a loud Voice he cried unto his Friends I whom but now was called your God am but a Man and him that you imagined to be immortal must presently die These Words being ended they carried him sick into his Palace and it was given out that he was dead No sooner came this News to the Ears of the Vulgar but they with their Wives and Children put on sack-cloath and fell upon the Ground with earnest Supplications to God to be merciful unto him But the King looking out of his Window and seeing them lie thus prostrate upon the Earth wailing and weeping he could not abstain from Tears At length after he had been cruelly tormented by the space of four days upon the fifth died being the second of August the Worms having consumed his Guts and eaten through his Body Thus God greviously punished him who had so much afflicted the Members of the Church of Christ but towards other Men as well Strangers as Gentiles he was mild and courteous He reigned in the whole almost seven years for he held the Tetrarchy of Philip three years under Caligula and other four years he held the whole Kingdom of the Iews He died in the eleventh year after the Resurrection and in the third of Claudius Caesar being then about 54 years of age Acts. 22. Ioseph Antiq. lib. 19. Pliny saith that this Town of Caesarea Strato was sometime called Apollonia but after obtained the name of Caesarea Palestina Saint Ierom saith in his Epitaph upon Paul that in his time which was 400 years after Christ there was to be seen in this place the House of Cornelius the Centurian whom Peter baptized Act. 10. This Cornelius is thought by some to have been of the Family of Lentuli in Rome for they were also called Cornelii as appeareth in Salust in the conspiracy of Cataline and it may be that this Cornelius was that Lentulus which wrote to Tiberius Caesar that excellent Epistle concerning the figure proportion and person of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Also the House of Philip the Deacon and the Chambers of his four Daughters who were Prophetesses When Paul came unto this Town Agabus the Prophet came unto him who bound his Hands and Feet with the Girdle of Paul saying The Man that oweth this Girdle shall be thus bound by the Iews at Ierusalem and they shall deliver him into the Hands of the Gentiles Here he made a notable Sermon before Festus Agrippa Iunior and his Sister Bernice Act. 16. This Town flourished for a long time after the Destruction of Ierusalem and it was scituated in a fair and profitable place fortified towards the West with the Mediterranean Sea and towards the East it was compassed about with a Lake in which were great abundance of Crocodiles though the Water was very sweet and of a great depth Many Godly and Religious Men were here crowned with the Wreath of Martyrdom for professing the Gospel of Christ as Eusebius Bishop of this Town and of Pamphilius well observeth in his Eccles. Hist. But the Lord did so sharply revenge the death of these men that at this day it is utterly destroyed and there is not a house left though in times past it had been a Bishop's See There was also another Town built by Philip the Tetrarch called Caesarea Philippi whereof you may read before Of Ioppa COncerning this Town I have already shewed many things in the Travels of Ionas but omitted some specified by Brittenbach and Dr. Ranwolfe who have described the holy Land as it was in the year of our Lord 1575. which Authors affirm that there is seen a great Chain of Iron fastened to a certain Rock to the which Ships that lay in that Harbour were sometimes tied Also the Chain wherewith Andromda was fast bound to a stone when she should have been devoured of the Sea Monster Also they say that there is a Chappel at this day built up in the place where sometime the house of Simon the Tanner stood who gave entertainment to Peter standing by a Rock close by the Sea side and dedicated to St. Peter But for the rest of the Town although formerly it hath been a goodly City it is utterly destroyed nothing standing but a part of the Wall and two Castles upon the Haven to defend such as come thither with Ships from the Injuries and Incursions of the Pagans and Saracens Of Babylon in Aegypt BAbylon signifieth Confusion as you may read before There were two Cities of this name the one was in Chaldaea and the other in Egypt That in Chaldaea was scituated upon the River Euphrates and this upon the River Nilus being 244 miles from Ierusalem toward the South-West and called in the Arabian Tongue Alcair or Cair whether you please which also signifieth Confusion Concerning both which Cities you may read more at large in their former description From this Town it is credibly thought and not from that Town which stood in Chaldaea Peter wrote his first Epistle as the circumstances of the History do evidently declare for that Babylon which stood in Chaldaea was in the time of Peter utterly destroyed but then this Babylon was had in great estimation About this time also Mark who was the Disciple of Peter was the first Bishop of Alexandria as you may read in the end of this Epistle Wherefore that Opinion which some would have to pass for truth that Peter wrote his
Acts. 14. In the year following they went from Antiochia to Ierusalem which was 280 miles to the Apostolical Council which was celebrated in that City Anno Dom. 49. and as they went they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria and there declared the Estate of the Church among the Gentiles Acts. 15. From Ierusalem they with Sâ—las and Iudas sirnamed Barsabas went again to Antiochia in Syria which was 280 miles here Paul opposed Peter for preaching unto the Gentiles Gal. 2. So these Travels of Paul were 1744 miles Of the Towns and Places to which he travelled Of Cyprus BEcause you may read of Seleucia before I therefore willingly omit it that I might speak more fully of Cyprus This is a fair and spacious Isle scituated in the Mediterranean Sea in the Gulph of Issa bordering upon Cilicia and Syria distant 160 miles from Ierusalem towards the North as Strabo saith lib. 14. It is in compass 428 miles very fertile powerful and spacious for an Island There inhabited in it in times past nine Kings and as Pliny saith lib. 5. cap. 31. called Macaria or one of the happy Islands the Inhabitants were given much unto Luxury and Venery from whence it happened that Venus was greatly honoured amongst them It is said that there are many precious Stones found in it besides Crystal Allum and Cypress Wood which abounds in that place from which it seemeth the Island was called Cyprus There are also found many Simples that are Physical much Sack comes thence and many other things necessary for the Life of Man Here also standeth the Mountain Olympus whose top seemeth to touch the Heavens from whence it taketh the name because there never lies any Clouds upon it Lucan lib 2. There are four Mountains of this name the one lieth between Macedon and Thessaly the other in Cyprus the third amongst the Mysians at the foot whereof Hanibal built Prusa and the fourth in Aethiopia upon the East side of Heliopolis There are many Cities in this Country as Macaria Cyprus or Gyrhea after called Paphos and now Baffa in which there standeth such a famous Temple that Venus of that is called Cypriae and Cytherea Nicosia and Salamus now called Famagusta There have been many and cruel sharp Wars between the Venetians and Turks concerning this Country but at this day it is under the Jurisdiction of the Turks from whence they fetch great abundance of Pitch and Rosin for their Ships and Cables Of Salamais SAlamais Salamin or Salamania was one of the principal Cities of Cyprus and was distant from Ierusalem 196 miles towards the North built by Tucer the Son of Telamon and scituated in the Eubean Sea just against Athens The occasion why this Town was built happened by reason of a discontent that grew betwen Tucer and his Father Telamon For Tucer returning from Troy not having revenged the death of his Mother Ajax so much incensed his Father that he banished him his Country whereupon Teucer sailed thence to Cyprus where he built this City and because of the extraordinary affection that he bore to the Country where he was born called it by the name of Salamena or Salamais Saint Ierom saith that there is a River of extraordinary hot Water that runneth through a great part of this Country and that it was once overcome by the Iews and utterly ruined and destroyed but after re-peopled and called by the name of Constantia This Town at this day is called by the name of Famagusta and was taken with the whole Island of Cyprus by Mustapha chief Captain to Selimus the second Emperour of the Turks An. Dom. 1570. Solon that notable and famous Philosopher was born in this Town And Paul and Barnabas sailed out of Syria and lived in this Town Act. 31. Of Paphos THIS City is scituated upon the shore of Cyprus 212 miles from Ierusalem towards the North and seemeth to take the name from Paphos the Son of Pigmalion the Artificer In this Town there stood a notable Temple built by that Pigmalion in the honour of Venus for that as it seemeth by the Poets he was much given to Women Here Elimas that wicked Magician who as some will have it called himself the Son of Iesus as others the Son of Iehovah dwelt whom the Lord by the Hand of Paul struck with Blindness Here also Sergius Pauluâ— the Pro-Consul was converted It was in times past a goodly fair City as the ruines thereof testifie to this day but now it is destroyed and almost desolate There as it is for the most part through that Island the Air is impure and unwholsom and the ruines of many goodly Churches and Buildings are to be seen also the Walls of a strong and almost impregnable Tower scituated upon a Hill in the middle of the City and as may be thought was sometime the habitatâ—on of Sergius Paulus There is also shewn under a certain Church which in ancient times belonged unto the Brothers of the Minores a certain Prison divided into seven Rooms where Paul and Barnabas were imprisoned for preaching the Gospel Here also under another Church is found a Spring of very wholsome Water which is a present remedy for the Ague and Fever Here also is excellent Wine Of Perga PERGA was a City of Pamphilia from whence Diana is called Pergea because there was a notable Temple in that Town which was dedicated to her It is scituated in Asia the less near to Cheractus as Ptolomais saith but as Strabo saith close by Cestria a fair and goodly River 356 miles from Ierusalem towards the North. The Country wherein this standeth is full of Mountains extending from the Mountain Taurus which beginneth in this place abounding with Vines Olives and other Fruits unto the Sea There are many fair and fruitful Pastures in it and many goodly and beautiful Cities as Aspendius Phaselis and this Perga besides many others needless to be named There was usually every year a great Feast kept here in honour of Diana but Paul and Barnabas coming to this Town converted most of the Inhabitants to the Knowledge of God and of his Son Christ Jesus Acts 13. Of Antiochia in Pisidia THIS was the chief City in Pisidia scituated in Asia Minor 460 miles from Ierusalem towards the North. St. Paul converted a great multitude in this Town to the Faith of Christ. Of Iconium IConium was one of the Metropolitan Cities of Lycaonia as Pliny saith lib. 5. cap. 27. scituated not far from the bowing of Mount Taurus in Asia the less as Strabo saith lib. 12. 420 miles from Ierusalem towards the North. In this City Paul and Barnabas continued a long time and did many Miracles by which means a great multitude of the Inhabitants were converted to the Christian Faith Act. 13. 14. It is to this day a fair City and under the Government of the Turks who won it from the Princes of Caramanian About 400 years before there was a great Battel â—ought close by this Town between
South-wind they thought to sail to Phoenicia a Haven in Creta but the wind coming about to the East drave them back again into the Sea by which means they were in danger of their Lives This Island was brought under the subjection of the Romans 66 years before the birth of Christ and so for a long time continued until the Saracens entered therein and took it from the Romans 800 years after the Birth of Christ. After that in the year of our Lord 979 the Emperour of Constantinople drave the Saracens out of the Island and kept it but in the end the Venetians brought it under their Subjection and Seigniory in the year of our Lord 1202 and at this day it is called Candia Of Clauda CLaudea is an Isle not far from Crete lying towards the Southwest in the Mediterranean Sea 288 miles from Ierusalem towards the West at this day it is called Porto Cabaso here the Saylers the Apostle Paul and the rest of the company haled overboard their Cock-boat and tyed it to their Ship and fell to towing lest they should have been sunk into Syrâ—is a dangerous Gulph upon those Seas Acts 27. Of Syrtis THIS is a Gulph of the Sea lying upon the shore of Africa in which the Water is both troublesome and the shore dangerous because of quick Sands and in this there are two places most remarkable called by the name of Syrtis from drawing and attracting Ships unto them by which they were greatly endangered the one was called the greater and the other the less the greater lay 1000 miles from Ierusalem towards the West but the other lay under the Isle of Mylete towards the South being distant from Ierusalem 1320 miles towards the West in this place it was where Paul and his Companions were in such danger mentioned Act. 17. Of Mylete THIS Island was so called from the great abundance of Honey that was found in it but at this day it is called Malta scituated in the Mediterranean Sea 1340 miles from Ierusalem towards the West It is very pleasant and fruitful bringing forth great plenty of Wheat Rye Flax Cumin Cotton Figs Wine Roses Violets Time Lavender and many other sweet and delightful Herbs from whence Bees did gather great plenty of Honey The Sun is very hot in this Island insomuch that by the extreme servor thereof the Inhabitants lose their natural complexion and look of a tawny colour In Summer Evenings there falleth great plenty of dews whereby the Earth is refreshed and the Herbs increased There is neither Snow or Frost seen in it for the Northern Winds which with us are the Authors of Cold and Frosts with them procure Rain which greatly refresheth and increaseth the Fruits of the Earth so that the Pastures and Medows become very pleasant and full of Grass and although it be but 28 miles long and 60 miles about notwithstanding it is very populous for in the eight Parishes that stand in this Isle there is numbred above twenty thousand Men. The Inhabitants are very honest religious and godly and the Women fair chast and modest for they never come abroad but with their faces covered The Children that are born in this Country fear not any Snakes neither are hurt by any thing that is venomous insomuch that they will take Scorpions and eat them without danger although in all other parts of the World those kind of creatures are most pernicious In this Isle also there are bred a kind of Dogs that are but small yet very white and shagged and so loving that the Inhabitants of all the neighbouring Countries will buy them though they be at dear rates The chief City thereof called Malta is so strongly fortified both by Art and Nature that it is almost impossible to be conquered unless it be either by Treason or Famine The Town or Castle whereof is fortified with the Knights of St. Iohn's Order who have mightily expressed their Valour and Resolution in defending this Town from the Turks About a mile from this the ruines of a goodly fair City are to be seen And upon the East Promontory a little from the City of Malta there yet remain the decays which are worthy to look upon of a goodly Temple dedicated to Iunâ— It seemeth by what remaineth that this Church hath been a fair and goodly thing in times past There is also here and there in the Earth found certain brass Monies having upon the one side a superscription written in Greek Letters and upon the other the Image of Iuno There stood upon the South side of Malta a Temple dedicated to Hercules the ruines of which are yet extant and in it are found Mountains worthy of admiration At such time as the Captain of Massanissa King of the Numidians had conquered this Island amongst other pretious things that he found in these Temples he took thence a great deal of goodly Ivory but that religious King did faithfully restore all those things back again and dedicated them to the several Temples Thus we may perceive that the Inhabitants of this Island of Malta were wholly given to Idolatry and Superstition untill such time as Paul by the Inconstancy and Vehemency of the Wind was driven upon it and converted them from that perverse and prophane Worship to the Christian Religion at such time as he suffered Shipwrack and wintered amongst them Acts 27. The Inhabitants shew upon the North part of this Isle the place where the Ship was cast away wherein the Apostle Paul was in which place they have built up a Chappel and dedicated it to Saint Paul They shew also a Cave in which they say he lived and they verily believed that he expelled all Venome and Poyson out of that Island at such time as he was there It was first subject unto the Africans as may appear by certain Marble Pillars which are here and there found in which there are ingraven certain Characters of the Carthaginians not much unlike to Hebrew Letters And although the Inhabitants are Christians yet their Speech is much like the Saracens which differeth little or nothing from the antient Punick At such time as Dido built Carthage which is thought to be 890 years before Christ Battus was King of this Isle and held a Confederacy with Dido for when Hyarbas King of the Gelutians made War upon Dido because he could not obtain her in Matrimony she received Aid from this Battus and when for the love of Aeneas she had killed her self Hyarbas having conquered Carthage banished her Sister Anne who was entertained by this Battus But Hyarbas taking that unkindly made War upon Battus and conquered the Island of Malta so it continued in the Jurisdiction of the Carthaginians a long time after until the Carthaginians were conquered by the Romans and then one Titus Sempronius about such times as Hannibal brought his Army before Trebia won it 217 years before Christ. And after it continued under the Jurisdiction of the Romans 130 years and then it was