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A30018	Itinerarium totius Sacræ Scripturæ, or, The travels of the holy patriarchs, prophets, judges, kings, our Saviour Christ and his apostles, as they are related in the Old and New Testaments with a description of the towns and places to which they travelled, and how many English miles they stood from Jerusalem : also, a short treatise of the weights, monies, and measures mentioned in the Scriptures, reduced to our English valuations, quantity, and weight / collected out of the works of Henry Bunting ; and done into English by R.B.; Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae, das ist, Ein Reisebuch uber die gantze Heilige Schrifft. English. 1682	Bünting, Heinrich, 1545-1606.; Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.	1682 (1682)	Wing B5362A; ESTC R37168	398,143	460

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 co●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

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 Concu●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 ●abara● 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 Iuni●er for Rothaem in Hebrew signifies Juniper It is distant from Ierusalem 112 miles toward the South-eas● 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

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 H●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 ●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

River of Cutha a multitude of Iews with great shame and grief were constrained to dwell He also gathered a great multitude of other People out of Babylon Hamath or Antiochia some out of his own Dominions of Assyria also out of Media and the People of Ava and Sepharvaiim which People are mentioned Esay 37. and sent them to inhabit in Samaria and all the Cities and Countries round about because it was a Fertile and pleasant Country and to defend it against the incursions of strangers From whence may be gathered that in this behalf the Policy of this Emperour was much greater than that of the Romans for the retaining of this Kingdom but especially than that of Titus Vespasian for he having conquered the Land wasted it and destroyed it with Fire and Sword put thence the Inhabitants and dispersed them here and there left the Country bare and naked only a few Garrisons were placed in the strongest Cities to keep it to their use Which not being able enough to oppose the incursions of the Saracens that in great Troops brake out of the Desarts of Arabia-Petraea they soon lost all that they had gotten and the Turks joyning with them they have now gained into their possession that pleasant and fruitful Land of Iudaea and inhabit therein even to this day to the great detriment and scandal of the Christians But to return to the People sent to inhabit this Kingdom who as they were of divers Nations so were they of divers Religions and every Family had his particular God Wherefore the Lord sent a Multitude of Lyons among them which daily vexed them from whence it happened that Salmanasser was constrained to send back unto them a Levite one of the Priests that had been carried away Captive to shew them the true Worship of God He came to Bethel and there taught them the Doctrine of the Lord and the Customs and Ceremonies of the Mosaical Law whereby it happened that they began to worship God and their Idols in neither observing their Ancient custom For which cause they became so abominable unto the Iews that they refused their company and familiarity as that Samaritan woman confessed to Christ at Iacobs Well Ioh. 4. so that when the Iews could call a man by any ignominious or odious name they would term him a Samaritan Ioh. 8. Do we not say rightly that thou art a Samaritan and ●est a Devil But of all the People which Salmanasser sent into the Holy-Land those that came out of the East part of Persia from Cutha called Cutheis dwelt in Samaria and got the chief command and Government over the rest The Travels of the Kings of Syria that made Wars upon the Kings of Israel And first of the Travels or Incursions of Benhadad BEnhadad King of Syria went from Damascus the chief City of his Kingdom and came to Samaria and straitly besieged it in the time of Ahab King of Israel 1 Reg. 24. being 132 miles From thence being overcome and put to flight by Ahab he returned back to Damascus which was 132 miles The second time he came from thence and invaded the Land of Israel even unto the City of Apheck 124 miles which he besieged But Ahab King of Israel overcame him in a great Battel and put 100000 Syrians to the Sword and when the rest of the multitude would have fled into the City the ruins of a Wall fell down upon them so that there dyed 27000. This put Benhadad in such a fear that he was constrained to fly from one chamber to another to hide himself but at last was taken and not without the great wrath and indignation of God by that wicked King Ahab pardoned and set at liberty 2 Reg. 20. Wherefore he went thence back to Damascus which was 124 miles Within three years after he brought a great Army against Ramoth in Gilead which is 104 miles from Damascus South-Eastward Here he won of Ahab a great Battel in which Ahab was slain with an Arrow 1 Reg. 22. From thence he returned back to Damascus which was about 104 miles After that he came again from Damascus into the land of Israel with a great Army 120 miles where he counselled with his Captains and men of War saying Here and there will we incamp our selves But the Prophet Elisha disco●ered their purposes 2 Reg. 6. Out of the Land of Isrel he returned to Damascus which was 120 miles From thence he returned again with his Army to Samaria being 132 miles which the second time he besieged so straitly that an Asses head was worth eighty pieces of Silver But yet the Lord at the fervent Prayers of Elizeus the Prophet struck such a fear and anguish among the Enemies that Benhadad and his Army were constrained to fly 2 Reg. 6. Being sore troubled because he was thus put to flight he went to Damascus which was 132 miles and there within a while after died of grief 2 Reg. 9. So all the Travels of King Benhadad were 1224 miles The Travels of the Captains which Benhadad King of Syria sent to waste and destroy the Land of Baesa King of Israel THIS Army went from Damascus and came to the Town of Hion seventy two miles From thence they went to Dan which is four miles From Dan they went to the City of Abel-Bethmaacha twelve miles From thence they went to the land of Chineroth which was accounted eight miles there they took certain Cities of Fruit and spoiled and destroyed them From Chineroth in the Tribe of Nephtaly when they had cruelly wasted and destroyed that Country they returned with a great booty to Damascus being eighty eight miles 1 Reg. 15. So all their Travels were 184 miles The Description of the Towns and Places to which they travelled Hion and Dan. HIon and Dan are two Towns near to Mount Libanus and the Fountains of Iordan some 104 miles from Ierusalem North-Eastward Hion signifies a Town of the Fountain because it standeth near to the Town or Fountains from whence Iordan issueth Of Abel-Bethmaacha you may read before Of Chineroth THIS Chineroth or Cineroth was the Metropolitan City of the Tribe of Nephtaly seventy two miles from Ierusalem Northward It was scituated in a very fruitful and pleasant place and for that cause was so called for Kinroth being derived of Kinnor signifieth Musick or Mirth The Travels of Naaman the Syrian NAaman came from Damascus to Samaria which was 132 miles to be cured of his Leprosie by Elizeus who commanded him to go to the River Iordan and wash himself therein seven times and he should be cleansed Wherefore from Samaria he went to Iordan twenty six miles and there according to the commandment of the Prophet he washed himself seven times and was cleansed 2 Reg. 5. From the River Iordan he returned back again to Elizeus the Prophet to give him thanks for that benefit which was about sixteen miles From Samaria he returned to Damascus 132 miles So all the Travels of Naaman the

to lie which was 16 miles here he restored her Son to Life 2 Reg. 4. From thence he went to Gilgal which is distant from Sunem thirty six miles towards the South here he fed 100 men with twenty Barley loaves 2 Reg. 4. From Gilgal he went to Samaria which is accounted twenty miles to this place Naaman the Syrian came to him to be healed of his Leprosie 2 Reg. 5. From Samaria he went to Iordan which was eight miles Here he made a Hatchet of Iron that fell into the Water to swim 2 Reg. 6. From Iordan he went to Dothan where the Children of Iacob sold their Brother Ioseph to the Midianites which was eight miles here the Angels of the Lord compassed him and his Servant about lest they should have been taken by the Army of the Syrians and God struck the Syrians with Blindness 2 Reg. 6. From thence he led the Army of the Syrians being thus made blind to Samaria being twelve miles and delivered them to the King of Israel upon condition that he should give them Meat and Drink to refresh themselves and suffer them to depart in Peace which he did 2 Reg. 6. From Samaria he went to Sunem which was sixteen miles here he advised the Woman where he used to lye to travel thence to some other Place because of the Famine that should follow and continue for seven years 2 Reg. 8. From Sunem he went Damascus being 132 miles there he told Hazael that he should succeed his Master Benhadad in the Government of the Syrians 2 Reg. 8. From Damascus he returned to Samaria which was 132 miles where soon after he fell sick and died his body was buried near to Samaria where the Lord a long time after his Death shewed a wonderful Miracle for a dead man being thrown into his Sepulchre was restored again to life by touching of his Bones 2 Reg. 13. This man governed the Church of God amongst the Children of Israel sixty years after the death of Elias So all the Travels of Elisha were 730 miles Concerning the Towns and places mentioned in his Travels you may read before The Typical Signification of Elisha ELisha or Elischa signifieth the Salvation of God being derived of El that is God and Iaschag he hath saved from hence Jesus a Saviour because this Prophet was a notable Type of our Saviour Jesus Christ for as Elisha was anointed Priest by the Prophet Eliah so Christ was the anointed Priest of the Father and as Elisha did many works of Mercy and Miracles to make evident Gods Power and Providence so our Saviour Christ went from place to place shewing mercy to the blind lame and impotent upon them working wonderful Miracles that thereby his doctrine might be made evident to the World and all such as trust in him be made capable of eternal happiness The Travels of the Shunamite whose Son Elisha had raised from Death to Life FRom Sunem she went to Mount Carmel and besought Elisha to come and raise her Son from Death to Life which was sixteen miles 2 Reg. 4. From thence she and Elisha returned back again to Sunem which was sixteen miles and there he delivered her Son unto her alive 2 Reg. 4. From Sunem having buried her Husband she travelled into the Land of the Philistines because of the Famine that was to come suddenly after being fifty six miles 2 Reg. 8. From the Land of the Philistines she returned to Samaria which was forty miles 2 Reg. 8. From Samaria she returned to Sunem which was sixteen miles So all her Travels were 144 miles Of the Prophet Isaiah or Jesaia JEsaia or Ieschaia is all one in signification with Elisha that is a Saviour He was the Son of Amos which signifieth strength and by consequence Ozia King of Iudah was his Cousin-German as may appear by this Genealogy following Iosas ofIuda Amasiah King of Iuda Ozias King of Iuda Iotham King of Iuda Ahas King of Iuda Ezekias King of Iuda Manasses King of Iuda who caused Isaiah to be slain Amos Isaias Father Isaias had two Daughters Sear Iasub that is the rest remaining and was a sign of the rest of the Posterity of Iuda that should remain and dwell there Isa. 7. Mahez Schatal that is a sudden Destruction for this second Daughter of Isay did denote the immediate Desolation of the Kingdoms of Syria and Samaria From whence it plainly appeareth that the Prophet Esaias was of the stock of David and lineage of Christ for which cause in the fifth Chapter of his Prophecy he calleth him his beloved He began to teach publickly in the year of the World 3167 and before Christ 800. and governed the Church eighty years and more until the time of Manasses who caused him to be cut in pieces with a Saw In Anno Mundi 3190. before Christ 778. Isay saw the Lord sitting upon a high Throne in great Majesty the lower part whereof filled the Temple and the Seraphins compassed him round about Esa. 6. Cherubins are glorious and bright shining Angels of a fiery nature for Saraph signifieth He hath turned to Fire His Doctrine was twofold that is partly concerning the Law partly the Gospel as may appear by his Prophesie in the first forty Chapters whereof the Doctrine of the Law is set ●orth with sharp Reprehensions for Sin in the first four of which are grievous Accusations of Sinners for breach of the first Commandment the other for the most part prophecy of horrible Punishments Mutations and Change of Government but principally of the Iews Babylonians Assyrians Syrians and Aegyptians From the ●ortieth to the end of the Book is contained the Doctrine of the Gospel and of the Kingdom of our Saviour Jesus Christ which he hath set forth with such excellent Eloquence Figures and Amplifications that he may be compared with the best Orator that ever wrote The Travels of the Prophet Jeremias 〈◊〉 or ●eremiah signifieth The exalted of the Lord he was born in the Tribe of Benjamin in a City of the Priests called Anathoth and from thence came to Ierusalem being two miles and continued there for forty years teaching and prophecying From Ierusalem he was sent to Euphrates where in the cliff of a Rock he hid his Girdle Ier. 13. being 400 miles From the River Euphrates he returned back again to Ierusalem 400 miles A little after the Lord sent him back again to Euphrates 400 miles to fetch his Girdle and l●e it was putrefied From thence he returned back again the second time to Ierusalem 400 miles From Ierusalem he was led captive bound in Chains with other Prisoners to Ramath a City in Mount Ephraim being eight miles there Nabuzaradan the chief Captain caused him to be set at Liberty From Ramath he went to Mispah which is eight miles where he continued a while with Gediliah Prince of the Iews which man had the chief command of certain Cities of Iudaea under Nabuchadnezzar But in the seventh Year of the Captivity 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 wa● sixty four miles a great Journey for one of her age being then forty eigh● 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 ●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 afte● 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

on it There is painted on the Pillars and Walls almost all the Stories of the Old Testament till the Birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ with such excellent cunning and so lively that it is to be admired In the Quire of this Church there is found two Altars one close by the Chappel of St. Katherine at the East end thereof not far distant from which they shew the place where our Saviour was circumcised and in the middle of the Quire there standeth another Altar where they say the Wise men left their Dromedaries and prepared their Gifts to present unto our Saviour when they worshipped him Upon the South side of this Quire towards the East they descend by ten stone steps into the Chappel of the Nativity of Christ richly beautified and curiously wrought paved with polished Marble This Chappel is not very great but wonderful fair and sumptuous When the Holy Land was over-run by the Gentiles this as many other places were in that Country was all polluted with Filth and Dirt that they had much ado to make it clean a great while after Upon the place where they said our Lady the Blessed Virgin Mary brought forth our Saviour into the World there is placed a Table of white Marble after the manner of an Altar about some four Foot from this they shew the place where the Manger stood a part of it yet remaining cut out of a Rock not of Marble but of other stone as many other Mangers are in that Country Close by that there is an Altar where they say the Wise men presented their Gifts to our Saviour Christ and worshipped him At the entrance into the Church there standeth a goodly Building which in times past seemed to have been some Arch-Bishops See but now is called St. Maries Church Upon the North side they descended by certain steps into the Chappel of St. Ierom who lay a long time buried there till his Bones were removed thence to St. Maries in Rome About a mile from Bethlehem Southward stood the Tower of Eder being a Watch-Tower of the Bethlehemites and so called because there resorted thither many flocks of sheep for Aeder●ignifieth ●ignifieth a Herd Round about this Tower were fair and fruitful Pastures to which many Shepherds resorted to feed their Flocks to some of which Shepherds the Angels told the glad tidings of the Birth of our Saviour and that he was laid in a Manger at Bethlehem For which cause in after times there was a Church built just in the place where the Tower stood and in Saint Ierom's time called by the name of Angelos ad Pastores the same Luther affirmeth that it is yet standing Iacob sometime dwelt in that Place and buried his wife Rachel thereabouts The Monument that he set upon her grave remaineth to this day which was twelve Stones pitch'd an end standing about a quarter of a mile from this place upon the right Hand as they go to Ierusalem of which Grave all the Country thereabouts is called by the name of Rachel Of the Way between Judea and Egypt BEtween Egypt and Iudea lieth Arabia Petraea a Land for the most part barren and unfruitful full of Sands Rocks and Mountains destitute of Water and subject to many dangers being in the Summer Solstice scorched with extremity of heat the Sun being then perpendicular over them according to Munster in the day time and in the night troubled with extream Winds which blowing the Sand with great violence it casteth it upon great heaps and Mountains by which dust both Beasts and sometime men are suffocated and slain Moreover there dwelt in this Desart a rude and dangerous People called Saracens who take their beginning from Ishmael and are therefore also called Ishmaelites being given to cruelty and malitiousness They get their living for the most part by Theft and Violence and as Ishmael was an excellent Archer so they also are very cunning in shooting and hunting using to this day their ancient evil custom of robbing and spoiling all that pass that way insomuch as Merchants are constrained to go in great companies lest they should be indangered by them and by reason of the Winds and Sands are constrained to guide their Journey by the Compass as men do that sail upon the Sea Through this Wilderness did Ioseph and Mary pass when they went with the Child Jesus out of Iudaea into Egypt where they were in danger of Thieves subject to be smothered by the Sands constrained to travel over high Rocks and Mountains and to rest in Fear because of Lyons Bears and other Beasts which greatly abound in that Place Besides divers other discommodities were incident unto them as want of Meat Drink and other necessaries there being little Water to be found there insomuch as had not the Lord by an express command charged him in a dream to go down into Egypt Ioseph durst hardly have ventured upon so difficult and dangerous a Journey But the Lord so mercifully provided for him that he both went and returned safe Thus may we see to what dangers these good People were exposed and what miseries they sustained from the beginning because of their Son Christ Jesus Of Hermopolis HErmopolis was called the Town of Mercury distant from Ierusalem 304 miles towards the South-West it was one of the chief Cities in Egypt as Appianus writeth Nicephorus and Zozemenus affirm lib. 5. cap. 22. that Ioseph and Mary came and lived in this Town where they continued all the days of Herod that cruel King But Ziglerius saith that they lived in the Land of Gosen where the Patriarch Iacob and his Posterity lived which agreeth well with the words of S. Matthew cap. 2. and Hosea 11. Out of Egypt have I called my Son This Land of Gosen lay 200 miles from Ierusalem towards the South-West The Inhabitants of Alcair in Egypt take upon them to shew the place where Ioseph and Mary dwelt when they went down into that Country but how true it is I cannot tell because there is no Author for it Of Canah in Galilee THis was a City in Galilee distant from Ierusalem sixty eight miles towards the North of which you may read more in the Travels of our Saviour Christ. Of Capernaum THis Town stood upon the Sea of Galilee sixty eight miles from Ierusalem toward the North of which you may read more after The Trav●ls of the Wise Men of the East which came to Bethlehem to see Jesus THE Magi were certain wise men of Persia so called from Meditation being derived of Hagah that is he hath meditated and taken in the third Conjugation it signifies to find or search out a thing they being such as gave themselves to the knowledge of hard things and to find out the Secrets and mysteries of Nature But according to Varinus they were not only Philosophers but Priests also And Pla●o upon Alcibiades saith Magia est Deorum observantia sive ●ultus divinus that is Magick prescribed the due

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 ther●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 Agrip●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 sitting●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

very curious but within all of polished Marble and Alablaster guilt with resplendent Gold so artificially that it dazleth the Beholders Eyes There was a certain Florentine who revolted from the Christian Faith and obtained to be chief Governour of this Town in which he erected a strong and beautiful Castle which stood for the Defence of it No man can sufficiently express the Beauty and Glory of this City there is great Traffique and much resort of People to it but especially of Turks Saracens Mamalucks and other kinds of Pagan People who are preferred before the Christians in that Government and although there are many Christians in that place yet they are constrained to endure great Injury by those Barbarians because they are hated even unto the Death and if any of them chance to die they are buried in that place where Paul was converted The Inhabitants shew the place where St. Paul was let down over the Wall in a Basket also the House of Ananias who cured the Blindness of Paul besides many other things that are memorable in that City of which you may read in Sebestian Munster Sebastian Frankus Plin. lib. 5. and many other Authors Of Arabia MAny things are already spoken concerning this Country as the division of the place one called Petraea the other Deserta and the third Foelix Arabia Petraea is so called from the metropolitan City thereof called Petra which is scituated forty miles from Ierusalem towards the South and bordereth upon Egypt and India It is also called Arabia Nabathea as you may read before Paran and Sur are a part of it compassing towards the East the Land of Iudaea and so extendeth to Damascus This Country is very full of Rocks and Stones the chief City Petra being scituated upon a Rock of which it taketh the Name Here standeth the Mountains Horeb and Sinai here the Children of Israel travelled when they went out of Egypt here is the Sardonix Stone found and the People of this Country in times past were great Prophets and Astrologians here also St. Paul taught the Gospel a little after his Conversion Gal. 1. at which time Aretas was King thereof whose Sister was married to Herod the Tetrarch of Galilee and Petraea but he cast her off and married Herodias his Brother Philips Wife upon which there began a bloody War between Aretas and Herod and a sharp Battel was fought near to Gamala a City beyond Iordan And although the two Kings were not at this Battel yet by the Treason and Flight of the Souldiers out of Tracones who without all question would have revenged the Contempt done unto their Lord Philip the Arabian Army carried away a notable Victory as Iosephus witnesseth lib. antiq 18. cap. 4. Aretas signifieth An excellent Man which was a common Name to the Kings of Arabia It is to be thought that Damascus and all the Country round about was under the Jurisdiction of this King and that he ordained a Lieutenant or General in those Parts who would have taken Paul and put him to death Acts 9. 2 Col. 12. The other part of Arabia is called by Ptolomy Deserta but Strabo calls it Scenilis because the Inhabitants thereof are without Buildings or Tents and live like Vagrants up and down the Woods This is compass'd in upon the South with certain Mountains of Arabia Foelix towards the North it borders upon Mesopotamia and towards the West upon Petraea The third is called Arabia Foelix because of the Fertility thereof for they have there every year two Harvests as they have in India as Strabo observeth See Plin. lib. 6. cap. 28. Of Antiochia YOU may read of this Town before It is said that Luke the Evangelist was born here This Man was by Profession a Physician Col. 4. and an inseparable Companion to Paul in all his Travels he was of the number of the seventy Disciples as Epiphanius observeth Tertullian saith in his fourth Book against Marcion that Luke received his Gospel from the mouth of Paul he lived till he was 84 years old and then died and lies buried at Constantinople as St. Ierom saith for his Bones were removed out of Achaia thither The second Travels of the Apostle Paul in the Company of Barnabas IN the eleventh year after the Nativity of Christ and in the four and fortieth year of Paul he and Barnabas was sent by the Holy Spirit from Antiochia in Syria to Seleucia which was four and twenty miles From Seleucia they sailed to Salamais in Cyprus which was 94 miles Act. 13. From thence they went to Paphos which is in the same Isle where Sergius Paulur was converted and Elymas the Magician who professing himself to be the Messias and Son of God was struck with Blindness Act. 13. This Journey was 100 miles They loosing from Paphos went by Sea and Land the same year to Pergamus a City of Pamphilia scituated in Asia minor which was 148 miles In the 45 year after the Nativity of Christ they went from Pergamus to Antiochia in Pisidia which was 132 miles From thence they went to Iconia which was 96 miles here they stayed some time and converted many Act. 13. 14. In the 46 year after the Nativity of Christ there being a great Tumult raised in that Country lest the Inhabitants should have stoned them they fled thence to Lystra a City of Lycaonia where Paul healed the lame man which was twenty eight miles The Inhabitants seeing this Miracle worshipped them for Gods and called Barnabas Iupiter and Paul Mercurius because he wrought the Miracle But not long after certain Iews coming from Antiochia and Iconia arrived in Listra by whose perswasion the People stoned Paul and supposing him to be dead carried him out of the City but when his Disciples came unto him he rose up and went into the Town Act. 14. The next day they went to Derbe a City of Lyaconia which was 48 miles From thence they returned back again to Lystra in the same year which was 28 miles From Iconia they came to Atiochia in Pisidia which was 16 miles In this City they comforted the Disciples exhorting them that they should persevere in their Faith For through many Afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of Heaven They also elected Elders in the Churches so with Fasting and Prayers they commended them to the Lord in whom they believed In the 47 year after Christ they went from Antiochia thorough all Pi●idia and came to Pergamus a City in Pamphilia which was 132 miles here they preached the Word of the Lord Act. 14. From Pergamus in the following year they went down to the City of Attalia which was 26 miles In the 48 year after the Nativity of Christ they loosed thence and went to Antiochia in Syria which was 340 miles here they assembled the Church and shewed what wonderful things the Lord had wrought by them and how he had opened the door of Faith unto the Gentiles In this place they stayed a great space