at such time as the king entered into the Temple 65 THE HORSE GATE so named because men might ride so farre as that place but then leauing their horses they went on foote into the temple At the which place began the habitations of the priests 66. THE GATE OF THE ESSENS was scituate in the olde wall of the Citty 67. THE FIRST GATE whereof the Prophet Zacharie maketh mention 68. THE PORCH OF PILLERS scituate before Salomons pallace the which was fiftie cubites long and thirty cubites broad and supported with strong pillers 69. THE BEAST MARKET called Probatica where sheepe oxen and other beastes for sacrifice were sold in the open market 70 THE PALLACE OF QVEENE BERNICE sister of king Agrippa who with her brother at Caesaria heard Paules supplication before Festus And afterwards paying her vowes to God at Ierusalem shee came bare foot before Florus sitting in his iudgement seat tyranizing against the cittisens whom she beseeched in vaine as concerning them 71. THE PALLACE OF GRAPTA the neece of Izata kinge of the Adiabens which she built for her selfe Wherein afterward Ihon the Captaine of the seditious abiding lefte there his mony and spoiles of tyranny 72. THE PALLACE OF HELEN which exalted it selfe in the middest of the mountaine Acra She being the Queene of the Adiabens which dwelt beyond Euphrates was conuerted from Gentilisme to the religion of the Iewes and came to Ierusalem to dwell Where she being become a Christian at what time that greate famine whereof Agabus prophesied in the dayes of the emperour Claudius pinched the whole world but specially the land of Iudaea this good Queene I say at her proper costs and charge sent for great store of corne out of Egypt which shee distributed among the poore and needy at Ierusalem 73. THE PALLACE OF MONOBAZ kinge of Adiabens the sonne of Helen which was situat in the easte parte of the cittie 74. THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD otherwise called the Lordes house and the sanctuary The which Salomon the peaceable kinge builded of the matter prepared by Dauid his father and of electe hewen and pollished stones and of timber cut from mount Libanus by the labour of more then a hundred fitie three thousand men in the mont Moria without any sound of axe or hammer in seuen yeares so sumptuous and magnificent both within and without with shining gould that it was counted the miracle of the world Concerning the wonderfull excellencie whereof nothing can bee sufficiently spoken When Salomon dedicated this Temple the cloude and glory of the Lord filled it the fire which came from heauen consumed the sacrifices which were offered therein As concerning the enterance of this temple the same was contrary to the fashion now vsed being East-ward and the backe part tended west whereuppon the priests and people praied turning to the west and worshipped God herein with greate reuerence vntill through the Impietie of the kinges and people of the Iewes it was prophaned with the pollusions of Idols often times Therefore foure hundred fortie and one yeares after the firste foundation thereof by the iust iudgement of God Nabuchodonozer kinge of Babilon burnt the same and so destroied it that it lay desolate threescore and tenne yeares But after that Zorobabell repaired the temple againe in excellent sorte with squared stones and the beste timber in the same mountaine within the space of forty and six yeares And this also was of so great estimation that it was honoured throughout the whole world and was from all partes enriched and bewtified with the greatest gifts and honors of kings and princes The which after three hundred fiftie and fower yeares was spoiled by Antiochus Epiphan king of Syria and polluted with Idols In the third yeare of the contamination thereof the most valiant Captaine of the Iewes Iudas Machaboeus purged it and restored to the same againe the goulden vessels and the worship of God And that it might neuer more be defiled he did waule it about in manner of a castle with deepe trenches with strong and high walles and with gates and towers both forceable and faire Wherein hee being beseeged a long time with one hundred and twentie thousand Gentils coulde not be commaunded But aboute one hundred yeare after this when that famous Captaine of the Romaines Pompei the greate foughte against it hee wanne it with maine force and in the entering thereof hee slue therein twelue thousande Iewes and Pompei himselfe with his peeres entring into the moste holye place and behoulding the Table the Candlesticke and other thinges there of shining goulde and finding also two thousand talents of the holy treasure this heathen Prince mooued as it were with a certayne godlinesse woulde not so muche as touch any of them but the nexte daye after the siege commuanded the keepers of the temple to clense the same and to celebreate their lawfull and solemne sacrifices This selfe and same temple being afterwardes decayed Herod the Ascalonit kinge of the Iewes by the space of nyne yeares and a halfe repaired and bewtified it with sumptuous buildings And according to the prophesie of the prophet Aggei euen as the Church is preferred before a Sinagogue and the bloud of the gospell is more precious then the golde of the lawe greater was the glory of this second temple then was that of the firste because Christe with his presence doctrine and miracles glorified this For in this when hee was a childe hee was offered In this hee sate in the middest of the doctors In the pinacle of this Temple hee was tempted of the Diuel when he fasted fortie dayes and forty nights In this likewise he preached often times and was vexed by the Iewes All which thinges as they make muche for the glory of the temple so they did nothing auayle but that the very same Temple in the yeare from the foundation thereof vnder Zorobabell fiue hundred eightie and sixe by the armye of Titus Caesar after a doubtful and bloudie battaile was wonne with great force and violence and so greate a slaughter of Iewes made aboute the alter for burnt offerings that the bloude of the slayne ranne like a riuer by the stayres of the Temple and the Temple it selfe in the firste brunte and furie of the battaile was sette on fiere by a certayne soldior moued by diuine motion not attending to the commaund of any euen without the Emperours consent And by this burning a worke of al that euer was seene or heard of the most wonderfull and the ornament of the whole worlde the tenth daye of the moneth of August was consumed into ashes to witte euen the very same day and moneth whereon aforetime the temple was burnt by the Babilonians Yet for all this after threescore and fiue yeares the Iewes rebelling agayne and going aboute to restore the Temple in the same place
pompe and triumph the true king and humble triumpher entered in at the goulden gate and rode aboute the temple and the greatest part of the cittie With this newe spectacle the whole cittie was moued saying Who is this The multitude which followed him answered This is Iesus the Prophet of Nazareth a Citty af Galile Then the crie of those that reioysed and were gladde increased more and more and men and women young and olde yea which is wonderful the very infants which came from al parts cryed out together Osanna to the sonne of Dauid Blessed bee the king of Israel which commeth a king in the name of the Lord. Blessed be the kingdome that commeth in the name of him that is Lord of our father Dauid peace in Heauen and glory in the highest Osanna in the hyghest With these ioyful voices and cryes they proclaiming their Messias followed him euen into the Temple Where this newe king happily beginning his kingdome presently healed the blinde and the lame In the meane time the wicked and enuious Pharisies the chiefe priestes and Scribes doo fret and fume who seeing the great maruels which he did and the children crying in the temple Osanna to the sonne of Dauid said among themselues Do ye not see how we profit nothing Behold the whole world goeth foorth after him Wherevpon they begin with Iesus himselfe saying Mayster doost thou heare what these say Rebuke thy Disciples To whome he shewing that this was long before prophesied of by the Prophet answereth Why should they not Haue ye not read Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklings thou hast ordained praise I say vnto you if these holde their peace the stones shall presentlie crye THE PLACES ON THE SOVTH PART OF THE CITTIE 213. ABACVC Here the Angell of the Lord taketh vp the prophet Abacuc by the haire of the head as hee was carying to the reapers in the fielde their dinner and caried him with the same meat into Babilon to feede Daniel being shut vp in the Lyons denne Who being fed he brought Abacuc hither againe 214 ACELDEMA or Haceldemach that is to saye the fielde of bloud It was a potters fielde situate at the South parte of mounte Sion hauing behinde it a hill of the same name This fielde by the counsaile of the Iewes was bought with the thirtie peeces of siluer for the which Iudas soulde Christ that it might serue to bury strangers in the middle parte whereof the Emperesse Helen caused to be inclosed with a foure square wall in length seuenty and two foote and in bredth fiftie And the same to bee couered ouer with a roofe hauing seuen loope holes by which the deade bodies of Christians might be let downe The vertue of this earth is reported to be wonderfull and almost incredible to witte that it bringeth and consumeth into dust the bodies of the dead men within the space of twenty foure howers leauing nothing but the bones 215 THE FVLLERS FIELDE which lay all along at the South ende of the cittie euen from the valley of Siloe east ward vnto mount Gihon towards the west and betweene the wall of the citty and the water In this fielde the Fullers did scoure their cloathes in the brooke next adioyning and did set them on tainters and so dry them 216. THE DENNE OR CAVE of Iames the lesse wherin he is said to haue hid himselfe by the space of three dayes hauing vowed not to eate breade vntill Christe was risen agayne For the which cause the Lorde appered to him a parte after his resurrection 217 THE CAVE OF PETER THE APOSTLE wherein after hee had denied the Lorde thrise hee repented him and mourned with many teares 218 THE TENTS OF THE ASSYRIANS of whom for a reuenge of their blasphemy the most stronge to the nomber of 185000 in the very first night of the beseeging Ierusalem were slaine by the Angell of the Lord and as Augustine reporteth their bodyes were brought into dust that they might not infect the aier their garments armour and weapons notwithstanding remaining whole and sound that the people of Ierusalem might haue the spoile 219 THE HOVSE OF ELIAS wherein it is said that the prophet Elias sometime dwelt Where afterward also a Church was builded 220. THE MOVNTAINE EROGE otherwise called the South Mountaine being very high and loftie bowing a little towarde the west Concerning this mountaine this is worthy to bee noted That when Ozias king of Iuda presumed to put on him the priests attire entered into the sanctuary of the Temple and offered vpon the golden altar the incense of sweete sauour vnto God by and by there came a great earthquake whereof also Amos and zacharias the Prophets make mention whereby the vpper part of the Temple was shaken and this mountaine cleft in the mids with so great and terrible violence that one part thereof falling and tumbling downe was rolled and carried by the space of foure furlongs euen right ouer against the East mountaine which is called the mount of offence where at the length it staied King Ozias himselfe in the meane time blasted and terrified with lightning was stricken in the forehead with a Leprosie For the which cause he being presently cast out of the Temple and Citty languished all his life long and was shut vp in his house and separated euen till the day of his death 221. A FOVNTAINE At this Fountaine the Starre which vanished away when the three wise men which came from the East were entered Ierusalem appeared vnto them againe and led them vnto Bethlehem 222. THE CAVE OF the Prophet Ieremy wherein he sitting with a greeued and sorrowfull mind wept moorned and bewailed the destruction of Ierusalem with sobs and sighes Where Helena the Empresse as Nicephorus testifieth builded a notable monument 223 ISAIAS Here that notable Prophet Isai when hee prophesied in Ierusalem about threescore and ten yeares by the commandment of king Manasses was split through the body with a sawe and was buried vnder an Oake whose sepulture is to be seene at this day 224 THE CAVES OF THE APOSTLES There are many Caues wherein eight of the Apostles as it is reported hid themselues during the time of the Lords passion 225 THE MONVMENT ABSOLOM is a marble piller with an Inscriptiō on the same distant from Ierusalem two furlonges which Absolom beeing aliue set vppe to himselfe for a monument in the kings valley where there is as yet to be seene a great heape of stones which daily is increased more and more For the Pagans and strangers passing by that way vse this for a custome that euery man cast a stone at the piller and challenging as it were according to the lawe his rebellion againste his father Dauid they cursse him with this malediction Cursed be the Parricide
by the meditations of these afflictions of our sauiour faith is illumined hope strengthened charitie inflamed and all vertue increased Wherefore saint Augustine a light of the Church no lesse truly then godly prouoking vs by very forceable woordes therevnto saith thus Behould the woundes of him that hangeth the bloud of him that dieth the price of the redemer the scarres of him that ryseth His heade boweth to kisse thee his hart is opened to loue thee his armes stretched abroad to imbrace thee his whole bodie set forth to redeeme thee Consider what and how greate â—hese thinges be waigh them in the ballance of your heartes that hee may be wholy fastened in your hartes who for vs was wholy fastened on the crosse Thus far Augustine So that it is not enough to meditate of these thinges once but it is profitable to thinke vpon them often yea the oftener the more they auaile and profite In the wholesome contemplation of whose passion although we profite much yet we shall neuer attaine to the perfite knowledge thereof but there will remaine still somewhat that we may seeke for the full knowledge wherof is reserued to our heauenly countrey In the meane tyme let vs contemplate in these thinges day and night in these things let vs recreate and busie our selues In these let vs watch in these let vs sleep yea to die in the meditation of these things is most Christian and auaileable to euerlasting saluation Places of holy Scripture to the praise of IERVSALEM Lamenta II. Is this the citty of perfit bewty the ioye of the whole earth Ezech. V. This is IERVSALEM I haue set it in the middest of the nations countries y t are round about her II. Cron. VII I haue chosen this place for my selfe to be a house of sacrifice Isaias II. Micheas IIII. The Lawe shall go foorth of Sion and the woorde of the Lord from IERVSALEM Apocalips XXI I sawe the holy Citiie new IERVSALEM come downe from God out of Heauen prepared as a bride trimmed for her husband Tobit XIII O IERVSALEM the holy Cittie many nations shall come from far to the name of the Lord God with giftes in their hands euen gyftes to y e King of heauen all generations shal praise thee and giue signes of ioye Cursed are all they which hate thee but blessed are they for euer which loue thee Reioyce and be glad for the children of the iust for they shall be gathered and shall blesse the lord for the iust Blessed are they which loue thee for they shall reioyce in thy peace Blessed are they which haue bene sorrowfull for all thy scourges For they shall reioyce for thee when they shal see all thy glorie and shall reioyce for euer Let my soule blesse God y e great King For IERVSALEM shall be built vp with Saphires Emeraudes and thy walls with pretious stoanes and thy towers thy bulwarkes with pure gould And the streetes of IERVSALFM shalbe paued with Berall and Carbuncle and stoanes of Ophir And all her streets shall say Halleluiah and they shall praise him saying blessed bee God which hath extolled it for euer Thomas Newton to the louing Reader THat stately place that princely bowre that seate of mightie King That floure of Beniamin his tribe whose fame through world did ring Ennobled with such royall stiles and titles of renowne And ouer worldlie citties all most meete to weare the crowne Loe heere presented is to Viewe in such good currrant sort As no penne heretofore perform'd or made thereof report So that wee neede not now to runne or gad from place to place In daungers great through countreis staunge to trie or know this case That braue estate which earst it had is now alas defac'de King dauids house and temple now is quight and cleane disgrac'de Yet sitting still with booke in hand we here may plaine beholde The state of ech thing as it was in times that were of old Where Christ did preach where Christ did suppe where Christ did fast and pray Where Christ was caught where christ was whipt where theeues did him betraye Where he a precious raunsome paid for man who had offended Where he was buried where he rose and eke where he ascended Where Annas kept his pompous court where Caiphas palace stoode Where wicked Pilate dwelt that did condemne most guiltles blood This and much more is here discourst by him that both had read And seene with eye full thirtie yeeres where hee his life had lead Whose worke and paines as they deserue much thankes and hartie praise So Timme his guerdon well deserues of all men in these daies Aswell for heere acquainting vs with this rare worke of skill As also for his other paines that passed haue his quill Who like a candle wastes himselfe in giuing light to others Moe such God graunt to take like care to helpe their Christian brothers Thomas Newton ⧠A BRIEFE DESCRIPTION OF IERVSALEM AND THE SVBVRBES THEREOF AS IT FLORISHED IN THE TIME OF CHRIST 1 IErusalem the elect Cittie of God holy and most glorious built vpon the holy mountaines excelling all the citties of the world as well by the loftinesse of the seate as by the moderation and temperature of the heauens and fruitfulnesse of soile was situated in the midest of the whole worlde and of Iudaea as it were in the very center and heart of the earth And being as a Queene amongest all other neighbour citties had the preheminence as the head ouer the body and shined as the sunne aboue others in sumptuousnes and glorious buildings hauing such surpassing excellency she was by a certaine singular priuiledge in time past the onely place which God had chosen to himselfe and was a figure not only of euery faithfull mans soule but also of the elect Church of Christ militant vppon earth and of that blessed triumphant Church in heauen A cittie of perfect beautie the virgin of the worlde the paragon of all the Easte and the ioye and reioycing of the whole earth This cittie was builded about the yeare from the creation of the world two thousand twenty and three in the time of Abraham by Melchisedech the Kinge In hebrue it was called SALEM and in Greeke SOLYMA and it seemeth that hee possessed the same fiftie yeares The which afterwards the Iebusites enioyed who sprang from Iebusi the sonne of Chanaan of whome it was called for a time Iebus and Iebusaeum at what time Iosua slue the King thereof And the Iebusites helde the same eighte hundred and twentie foure yeares who trusted so much to the strength of their cittie that when king Dauid assailed the same in contempt of him and of his army they placed vpon their walles the blind the halt and the maimed saying that these were sufficient to beate backe the enemy But when Dauid through Gods helpe enioyed the cittie the Iebusites
and the other AGRIPPAS 6. THE PARLOVR OF SION was scituate about the middest of mount Sion being large paued and verie faire wherein Christ in his last supper did eate the paschall Lambe with his disciples washed their feete and instituted the sacrament of his most blessed body and bloud In the fame on the day of his resurrection when he was entered the dores being shut standing in the middest of his disciples he shewed vnto them the wounds of his side of his hands and feete and did eate before them after that breathing vpon them he gaue them the holy ghost and therewithall power to remit and reteine the sinnes of all manner persons The eight day after this here he offered vnto Thomas the Apostle the prints and scarres of the speare and nailes to see and feele Here after the Lords ascension Matthias was by lot chosen into the Apostleship of Iudas the traitour Here on the day of Pentecost the holy Ghost came downe in a great sounde and in the forme of fierie toonges lighted vppon one hundred and twenty beleeuers and at the first sermon of Peter three thousand Iewes were conuerted and baptized In this place Iames the Lordes brother sirnamed Iust was by the Apostles created the first Bishop of Ierusalem and Stephen with six more were ordained Deacons Heere the Apostles entered into the first consultation or councell and set downe the twelue Articles of Christian faith 7. THE CYPRES trees of Mount Sion which were very excellent whereof the booke called Ecclesiasticus maketh mention 8. THE HOVSE OF Annas the chiefe priest the father in law of Caiaphas wherein Christ was examined of Annas concerning his Disciples and his doctrine at what time he aunswered that he had taught openly before all men for the which he receiued a blow on the cheek by a seruant 9. THE HOVSE OF THE WOORTHIES wherin the strong men and valiant peeres of king Dauid dwelt where also as in a wrestling place the cheefe wrestlers and champions for exercise sake vsed to try maisteries 10. THE HOVSE OF THE VIRGIN MARY wherin after the death of her sonne she dwelt with Iohn the Apostle 11. THE HOVSE OF VRIA one of the most valiant souldiors of Dauid whose wife Bethsabe bathing her selfe in a fountaine of her Garden which also is to be seene in the map by her beautie allured Dauid to adultery beholding her from a gallerie of y e kinges house 12. THE VPPER MARKET by reason whereof the vpper cittie also was called sometimes the vpper market 13. THE STAIRES OF THE CASTLE or prison whereon the Apostle Paule stood when hee made aunswer for himselfe 14. THE STAIRES OF SION by which men went vppe to the cittie of Dauid 15 THE KINGES GARDEN the which also was called the garden of Oza wherin Manasses and Amon kinges of Iuda were buried 16 MELLO a valley or dale very deepe and wide which lay betwene mount Sion and the lower citty and extended it selfe from the water gate to the fish gate Dauid builded and compassed mount Sion round about from this valley the concauity and bottome whereof Salomon did make leuell and plaine that it mighte bee a conuenient streete and from thence forth it was called the streete of the water gate He also bewtified the same with buildings which being decaied was repaired by Ezechias In this place it was that Ioas king of Iuda was slaine by his seruants in the way downe to Sela. But in Iosephus time this valley was called Tyropoeon and was very large and full of dwelling houses At this day this valley is so filled vp with earth and stones that there remaineth only a small shew of the former concauity depenes 17 THE PALLACE OF CAIPHAS belonging to euery high prieste large and square wherein somtime dwelled Eliasib the cheef priest In this pallace the princes of the people being gathered together consulted among themselues what pollicy they might vse to catch Iesus and to kill him to whome he was there soulde by Iudas for thirty peeces of siluer Afterwards also he was thrise denyed by Peter and was by false witnesses of the Iewes accused before Caiphas in the counsell of the priestes and elders to whom when hee answered nothing beeing straightly charged by the high priest to tell whether hee were Christ the sonne of God the which when he confessed hee was conuinced as it were of blasphemy the cheefe priest calling for the sentence of the counsell threescore and six elders condemned him to be worthy of death and aunswering said He is worthy to die Wherevpon the seruants and souldiors did presently spit in his face they blinde-folded him buffeted him with their fistes commaunding him to prophesie scorned him all the night with sundry mockes and vexed him with many blasphemies and that I may speake much in few words no mortall man in this life is able to expresse what and how much hee endured this night And in the morning following the rulers of the Iewes assembled together in this place againe to deliuer him vp to death and leading him bounde they deliuered him to Pilate the deputie 18. THE FOVNTAINE OF SION the which was made with great labour and cost 19. THE BRIDGE OF SION by which men went through the valley out of the vpper cittie vnto the Temple 20. THE GATES OF SION which the Lord loueth more than all the Tabernacles of Iacob 21. THE VPPER GATE by which Ioas when he was crowned king of Iuda in the Temple and guarded with the princes of the Iewes was led into the pallace of the kings of Iuda 22. THE SEPVLCHER OF DAVID together with the field wherin the kings were buried the which verie stately was placed aloft in the citty of Dauid wherein Dauid himselfe Salomon and other kings of Iuda also Ioyada the chiefe priest were buried Into this monument of Dauids sepulture Salomon brought great treasure at his burial The which Hircanus y e high priest captain opening brought from thence 3000. talents of siluer Not long after this Herod the Ascalonit king of Iewes went about also to bring much treasure out from thence but a flame of fire breaking forth and consuming two of his souldiors he left off his enterprise and to make satisfaction for himselfe hee adorned the same monument with faire shining Marble which continued there a long time after Where y e Saracens afterwarde builded a church for themselues which standeth as yet which place they greatly reuerence and suffer not any christiā to enter into y e same 23. THE SEPVLCHER OF STEPHEN the first Martyr of Nichodemus and of Gamaliel Paules schoolemaister 24. THE TABERNACLE OF SION couered with skinnes which king Dauid made and placed the same in the little hil of Mount Sion
PRINCE OF THE PHARISEIES in the which Christ touched the man sicke of the dropsie and healed him 42. THE HOVSE OF THE FORREST OF LYBANVS in length one hundred cubits in breadth fiftie and in heigth thirtie cubits the which Salomon builded most braue and glorious of polished marble of Cedar trees garnished with siluer and gold hauing a flat roofe with walkes and galleries according to the fashion of Palestine and within liuely counterfeits of sundry trees and plants most artificially made that the leaues thereof seemed in some sort to shake And neere vnto the same hee planted a groue and a greene arbor made of all manner of trees and watered with fountaines also hee made parkes and fishe pooles wherein it is like were all manner of wilde beastes birds and fishes This house was a storehouse of meate an armorie for weapons of warre a house wherein ointments paintings and sweete perfumes were laied vppe and preserued Beside these two hundred shields of golde for horssemen and three hundred large targets of golde for footemen which Salomon made were in this house by him laide vppe Al other vessels also of this house were of gold To this house the king and his peeres came when the weightie affaires of the Common wealth were ended and recreated their mindes with banquets with plaies and with pleasant walkes 43 THE HOVSE OF SIMON THE PHARISIE which is at this day to bee seene wherein Christ sitting at the Table forgaue vnto Mary Magdalen the sinfull woman bewailing her sinnes and washing his feet with her teares wiping them with her haire kissing them annointing him and much louing him many sinnes 44 THE HOVSE OF THE COMMON PEOPTE wherein they exercised themselues with dartinges other exercises of the arme and with feastes with plaies and walkes refreshed their mindes 45 THE GREAT MARKET which was in the midst of the cittie and neere adioyning to the Castle Antonia wherein Alexander the king of the Iewes and the chiefe priest crucified eight hundred Iewes killing also the Wiues in the presence of their husbands and the children in the sight of their mothers the which spectacle himselfe with his Concubines beheld at what time they were banqueting in the castle Antonia For the which crueltie he was sirnamed Crucida In the same market place Herod the greater fought a great battell with the Parthians which went about to bring againe Antigonus into the kingdom Furthermore when the famine through the Romane siege was exceeding great in Ierusalem in such wife that it consumed whole families and replenished the toppes of houses with fainting women and children and the waies with the dead carcases of olde men in which extremitie they did eate leather their girdles their shooes hay and mothers their owne children then a man might haue seene lusty yoong men which afore time were most flourishing passe through this market place like shadowes of dead men And when those which remained aliue were not able to burie the dead by reason of theyr exceeding multitude and could not endure the stinke of the bodies vnburied they cast them ouer the wall into the vallies of the cittie The which when Titus sawe as hee went about the wals full of dead bodies much putrified he fetcht a great sigh and houlding vppe his handes to GOD protested that it was not his deed for the obstinate Iewes refused peace to them often times offered 46. THE MARKET OF WARES the which was in the vpper part of the lower cittie in the which fish and sundry other things were folde In this market S. Iames the greater the brother of Iohn suffered his martyrdome by the tyranny of Herod Agrippa 47. THE VPHOLSTERS MARKET wherein all maner of olde garments that had beene worne aforetime of others were to be sold 48. THE SCHOLE OF GENTILLITIE which Iesus the false high priest of the Iewes who after the manner of the Gentiles would be called Iason and other Iewes apostatas by the permission of Antiochus Epiphan set vp euen vnder his castle oueragainst the temple wherein the people were taught the lawes and fashions of the Gentils the youth instructed in the studies and disputations of the Greeke philosophers Where they being naked and annoynted with oile exercised themselues in feates of actiuity in martiall actions and in enterludes Furthermore in the same place the sayde Apostatas set vp EBHEBIAM that is to say a Stewes of faire young boyes wherein they committed most filthie thinges against nature By reason thereof many fell from the lawe of God to the manners and abhominations of the Gentiles being as it were sould to commit monstrous wickednes insomuch that some of the priests forsaking the temple and worship of God gaue themselues to the exercise of feats of actiuity here hence also there sprang vp among the Iewes diuers sects namely the Pharisies the Saduceis the Esseies c. 49 THE HOVSES OF THE PRIESTES and of the Leuites whose houses were shut vp by the outward parte of the wall but from the former parte they had a prospect toward the temple 50 THE HABITATION OF THE TARGET BEARERS was builded before the west gate of the temple where first the Iewes then the Romaine soldiors vpon the solemne feast days had the stations for the guarde of the temple 51 THE LYSTES OR TYLT which was placed oueragainst the South parte of the Temple wherein horsses by running agillitie and swiftnesse were exercised And the wrastlers and champions did contend before the people who should rnnne swiftest on foot with chariots diuersly drawne who shoulde breake most speares and in other masteries and feares of valiencie Where Herod the kinge for the honour of Augustus Caesar ordeined the game and prise of fiue yeares continuance appointing vnto the victors greate rewards the same Herod when he should die called all the more noble sorte of the Iewes of al places within his dominion by an Edict threatning death to such as should not obey and caused them to be shut vp in the Lystes to the ende that after his death they all being there slaine euery house might haue cause to waile euen in despight of all Iudaea 52. THE MOVNTAINE MORIA the which in another place is called the lande of vision and the mountaine of the temple and the mountaine of the daughter of Sion lying neere vnto the easte wall of the cittie being very high stoany and very steepe rounde about In this mountaine Abraham being ready to offer vp his sonne Isaac in steede of him offered vp a Ramme which was taken by the hornes in a thicket This was the very same mountaine which Dauid bought of Streuna or Ornan the Iebusite for six hundred sicles of goulde and erecting an alter in his threshing flower he offered a burnt offering vnto the Lorde which the fire from heauen consumed Afterward in the same mountaine Salomon builded vnto
place of y e ould wall and made alofte in forme of a ball was of woonderful height and exceding strong Which Herod builded after the fashion of the tower Pharus in Alexandria And in the honor of his brother Phaselus called it Phaselus who being taken prisoner by the Parthians and hauing no libertie to vse neither weapon nor hands ran his head against a stone and so killed himselfe How this and the other two towers were left standing after the destruction of Ierusalem reade vnder the nomber of 1. going before 143. HERODS PARKE which had in it an orchard a garden watered with ponds riuers fountaines replenished with sundry wild beastes fishes and fouls hauing many large walkes round about the same many towers of tame doues 144 THE HOSPITALL which Hircanus the highe priest founded with the mony which he got out of the sepulcher of Dauid wherin pilgrims poore men and such as were Impotent were sustained and kept 145. THE WRESTLING PLACE the which was placed in Herods Pallas It was large seruing in the winter time for wrestlers and for other exercises and pastimes wherewith men recreated themselues THE FOVRTH PARTE OF THE CITTIE 146. THE NEWE CITTIE called in Greeke Caenopolis the fourth parte of the cittie the which was seuered as the other parts of the cittie were with walles and many narrowe waies which went cros extending to the walles of the cittie Wherein dwelt woolle sellers Carpenters Smithes and other workemen and artificers THE PLACES OF THE NEW CITTIE 147 BEZETHA a mountaine the which hauing many houses built theron was inhabited by the common sorte of people 148 THE CASTEL OF THE ASSIRIANS nere vnto the which Titus pitched his tentes at such time as he had gotten the wall of the citty This castle stood more then an arrow shoote from the second wall 149. THE THIRD WALL the which also is called the outset wall which kinge Agrippa made vpon the common charge of the cittizens extending it more broad and highe then it was before This wall was very firme and strong fiue and twenty cubits high It had foure score and tenne square and loftie towers which were of greate force distant one from the other two hundred cubits whose building and bewty in stone worke was nothing inferior to that of the temple 150 THE BROADE STREETE the which also was caled the streete of the gate of Ephraim 151 THE KINGES CAVES vpon the which the third wall of the cittie was builded in length THE GATES AND TOWERS ABOVT THE CITTIE 152 CAPHETETA the Easte wall of the Cittye vppon the brooke Cedron which Ionathas Machabeus repaired 153 THE CORNER STONE which was moste harde being the firme foundation of mounte Sion This was a figure of Christ who is the stronge and stable foundation of his church 154 THE GATE OF THE CORNER so called because it was situate in the north-easte corner of the cittie next vnto the brooke Cedron The which also was called the gate of Beniamin bicause the way led through the same vnto the tribe of Beniamin By this gate wood was brought into the cittie out of the desert In this gate also Ieremy the prophet was apprehended whose ruines are nowe to bee seene a greate way out of the cittie 155 THE GOVLDEN GATE situate betwene the gate of the valley and the gate of the fountaine so called bicause it was gilden with goulde It was also called the Easte gate bicause it was builded on the easte side of the Temple And bicause it led by a very shorte way from the temple of mounte Oliuet it was rather a gate of the temple then of the cittie and therefore Neemias maketh no mention thereof By this gate Christe came riding vppon an asse into the cittie of Ierusalem at what time men cutte downe palmes and strowed them in his way crying Hosanna before him 156 THE GATE OF EPHRAIM which now of som is called Saint Stephens gate situate on the north part tending toward the way which leadeth vnto the tribe of Ephraim where vppon it was called the gate of Ephraim From this gate vnto the gate of the corner Ioas king of Israell beate downe the wall of Ierusalem by the space of foure hundred cubits and in triumphant manner hee being caried into the cittie in his chariot through that breach became Lorde of the cittye The which wall together with the towers thereof Ozia kinge of Iuda afterwarde restored againe 157. THE WATER GATE the which was situate betwene mount Sion and the mount Moria in the valley called Mello toward the east It was called the water gate bicause it opened a passage vnto the fountaine of the water of Siloe and bicause horses were caried through the same to be watred in the brooke Cedron And for this cause it was called the easte horse gate and it tended toward the valley Gehennom 158 THE GATE GENATH or the gate of kinge Herods Garden which was not farre from the second wall of the cittye By which water was brought vppe into the Tower Hippic By this gate the seditious priuily salyed out many times vppon the Romaines 159 THE GATE OF THE KINGES GARDEN which in mounte Sion was placed betwene two walles of the castle by which kinge Zedechias fled in the night 160 THe gate of the high priests pallace at the south side of the cittie 161 THE FISH GATE the which was situate nexte to the tower of Dauid in the valley Mello betweene mount Sion and the lower cittie towardes the weste and by the vault adioyning to the same it gaue a conuenient passage too and from the cittie to euery man And it was called the fish gate because through the same fishes were brought into the cittye from Ioppe and from other townes of the sea cost This also had other names as the gate of Dauid and the marchants gate Dauids gate bicause it was nexte to Dauids tower the merchants gate bicause by the same much marchandize were carried into the cittie from Bethelem Hebron Gaza from AEgipt and from AEthiopia By this gate strangers that came from the weste were wont to enter into the cittie 162. THE DOVNG GATE on the east side of the cittie toward the corner gate on the north-east caried all the doung and filth of the cittie which the raine gathered together into the brooke Cedron Where vpon it was rightly called the doung gate 163. THE GATES OF WOMENS TOWERS On the north end of the citty by which the seditious brake forth vppon the Romaines when they beseeged the cittie 164. THE VALLEY GATE so named bicause it made way into the valley of Iosephat situate in the midst betwene the doung gate and the goulden gate and not far distant from the sheepe market and
Iosephus testefieth that Siloe and all other waters which were without the cittie did so faile and vanish away before the comming of Titus Caesar that water was soulde hard by them And after his comming they did so abound to him and his hoast that they had water enough for them and for their cattell Concerning the vertue of this water the most dilligent Surueyour of this place Saligniacus writeth in this sort The water of this fountaine is of greate price at this day euen among the Saracens themselues For whereas naturally they be rammage and stinke like Goates they washing themselues and their children therein doe mittigate the euill sauour thereof The Turkes also make great accoumpte thereof for that they finde by experience that the vse thereof is good for the sight of their eies 200 STEPHEN the Deacon in the very flower of his youth was stoned to death praying to God for them that stoned him whose garments the young man Paule kept This man was the firste that triumphed with the palme of martirdome 201 THE BROOKE CEDRON is a riuer on the easte side of Ierusalem betweene the same and mounte Oliuet which being increased with diuers springs issuing from all partes out of the mountaine and pooles ran through the valley of Iosaphat and Gehennom with a siluer streame and so passed through the plaines of the wildernesse into the dead sea On the bankes of both side this riuer there grewe many frutefull trees the pleasant shew whereof together with the gardens neere adioyning which were watered with the cristall streames of Cedron greatly delighted the eies and mindes of such as walked by the same King Dauid passed ouer this riuer bare footed bare headed and with watery eies accompanied with his moste trusty frendes fleeing from the face of his sonne Absolom Christ also went ouer the same with his disciples when hee wente to the garden of mount Oliuet 202 THE VALLEY OF IOSOPHAT the which also is called the valley of Cedron and the valley of Mountaines It is a wide and deepe valley betwene Ierusalem and mounte Oliuet compassing the cittie on the east parte the which is made very fruitfull by the passage of the brooke Cedron The greate deepenes of this valley was much filled by Titus and Adrian the Romaine Emperours casting into the same great store of earth with the ruines of the temple and cittie yet it was not therewith any thing neere leueled In this valley the godly and religious kinges of Iuda Asa Ezechias and Iosias burned the Idols of the temple and cast their ashes into the brooke Cedron This valley was the common place of buriall for the whole cittie where all the common sorte of people were buried For it was the manner of the Iewes to bury their dead courses out of the citty And in the same place the Turkes are now buried 203. THE VALLEY OF SILOE so named of the fountane of Siloe wherein the Iewes which at this day dwell at Ierusalem are buried 204 THE WAIE OF THE FVLLERS FIELDE lying betweene the water of Siloe and the South-easte corner of the cittie Here the Prophet Isaias foretoulde king Achaz that Christ should be borne of a virgin 205 THE WAY OF THE CAPTIVITIE These small prickes traced foorth in length as you see doe demonstrate the way by which Christe was ledde captiue for the redemption of mankinde For being come into the garden of mounte Oliuet to pray after his laste supper in the parlour of mounte Sion and hauing offered to GOD his Father the holye sacrifice of praiers returning from thence hee mette with his enimies which came to take him to whome hee yeelded himselfe Who hadde scarce gone fortie steppes from the place where hee prayed but the soldiors which were sente from the highe priestes and rulers of the people layed handes on him tooke him and bound him From whence he was presently caried as a meke Lambe by those rauening woolues armed with weapons ouer the brooke Cedron to the house of ANNA which was distante from the place where hee was taken two thousande three hundred and sixtie pases And from hence hee was caried to the Pallace of CAIPHAS three hundred and thirtie paces And so afterwarde hee was conducted by the souldiors and by the people to the pallace of Pilate which was distante from that of CAIPHAS a thousande pases And from thence to the pallace of HEROD which was distante three hundred and fiftie paces Lastly from thence againe to the pallace of Pilate hee was caried by another way then that which hee came the distance of sixe hundred elles which make about the length of halfe a myle and more The pases whereof wee speake here containe two foot and a halfe 206 THE WAY TO ANATHOT to Bethel and to the wildernesse 207 THE WAY TO IERICO and to ENGADDI of the which there is mention made in some of the Euangelists 208. HERE THE THREE APOSTLES Peter Iames and Iohn sate while Christe prayed in the Garden being aboute a stones caste from the selfe same place 209 HERE the other eight Apostles taried being distante about a quarter of a mile from the other three places 210. HERE CHRISTE to make vs free was betraied with a kisse by the Traitor Iudas and was bounde with hard and straight bands as if he had ben an euil doer by the Iewes whom he beate downe backward to the ground by the word of his mouth There Simon Peter moued sodainely with great feruencie stroke the seruant of the high Priest whose name was Malchus and cut off his right eare which christ immediately restored againe But the rest of the Apostles being afeard left the Lord and fled 211. IN this place of mount Oliuet right ouer against the temple neere to a certaine water Christ sate with his disciples making a longe sermon concerning the destruction of Ierusalem the afflictions of the godly to come the comming of false prophetes the signes of the ende of the world and concerning the manner of the last iudgement In the which place there was afterward builded a temple which is now desolate 212. THIS WAY Christ came to Ierusalem sitting vpon the Asses coult wayted on with a great company of men som going before and othersome following after him where vnto also a great number which came out of the cittie ioyned themselues So that he seemed to be receiued of all men with so greate fauour that many spraed their cloathes in the waye som cutting downe the bowes of palmes oliues and other trees to honour him there withal strowed them in the way And the voices of such as reioyced was heard in euery place as he went resounding with these cries Osanna in the highest blessed is he that commeth in the name of the Lord. With this