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A17140	Itinerarium totius Sacræ Scripturæ. Or, the trauels of the holy patriarchs, prophets, iudges, kings, our sauiour Christ, and his Apostles, as they are related in the Old and New Testaments. With a description of the townes and places to which they trauelled, and how many English miles they stood from Ierusalem. Also a short treatise of the weights, monies, and measures mentioned in the Scriptures, reduced to our English valuations, quantitie, and weight. Collected out of the workes of Henry Bunting, and done into English by R.B.; Itinerarium totius Sacræ Scripturæ. English	Bünting, Heinrich, 1545-1606.; R. B., fl. 1619.	1636 (1636)	STC 4020; ESTC S106784	396,681	582

vpon the hauen to defend such as come thither with ships from the injuries incursions of Pagans and Saracens Of Babylon in Egypt BAbylon signifieth Confusion as you may read before There were two Cities of this name the one was in Chaldaea and the other in Aegypt That in Chaldaea was scituated vpon the riuer Euphrates and this vpon the riuer Nilus which was 244 miles from Ierusalem toward the Southwest called in the Arabian tongue Alcair or Cair whether you please which also signifieth Confusion Concerning both which cities you may reade more at large in their former description From this towne it is credibly thought and not from that towne which stood in Chaldaea Peter wrot his first Epistle as the circumstances of the historie doe euidently declare for that Babylon which stood in Chaldea was in the time of Peter vtterly 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 reade in the end of his first Epistle Wherefore that opinion which some would haue to passe for truth that Peter wrot his first Epistle from Rome calling it allegorically Babylon is vtterly to be condemned since there is none who can certainely proue that conjecture neither is it grounded vpon any firm foundation for although Babylon in the Reuelation of S. Iohn because it was a secret prophecie was allegorically vsed yet in a plaine and manifest historie such kinde of Allegories are not allowed From whence may be concluded that S. Peter wrot his first Epistle from this Babylon not from Rome The Trauels of Saint Iohn with the Annotation of the Times wherein he liued IOhn the Evangelist and Apostle of our Lord Iesus Christ was borne in the tenth yeare after the natiuitie of our Sauior and was made his Disciple when he was 21 years of age He saw the miracle of Christ when hee changed the Water into Wine Iohn cap. 2. In the yeare following viz. in the 22 yeare of his age hee was taken into the number of the twelue Apostles Luke 6. Mar. 3. After that in the three and twentieth yeare of his age he saw the transfiguration of Christ in mount Thabor and when hee was foure and twenty yeares of age he stood vnder the Crosse of our Sauiour Christ and the same yere a little after Christs Ascention he with the rest of the Apostles receiued the gift of the holy-Ghost being then the feast of Penticost which fell about the foure and twentieth day of May in the same yere he was cast into prison with Peter for healing the lame man Acts 3.4 Thus much of his youth About the middle of the first yeare after our Sauiour Christs ascention Iohn being then 25 years old was sent with Peter from the city of Ierusalem to Samaria 32 miles From Samaria he returned back again to Ierusalem 32 miles and as he returned preached the gospel of Christ in diuers towns of the Samaritans Acts 8. Mary the mother of our Lord being now 59 yeares of age died in the twelfth yere after the resurrection of Christ and was buried by Iohn the Evangelist in the garden of Gethsemene Iohn beeing then 35 yeares old Foure yeares after her death hee was present at the Apostolical Councel in Ierusalem Now Iames his brother who was called the Elder was beheaded two yeares before for this Councel was celebrated in the presence of Iames the yonger Peter Iohn Paul and Barnabas c. about sixteene yeares after the resurrection of Christ and 14 after the conuersion of Paul Gal. 2. Before the destruction of Ierusalem which hapned about the 61 yeare of his age and 38 after Christs ascention Iohn went from Ierusalem and came to Ephesus 544 miles where after the death of the Apostle Paul hee gouerned the Churches of Asia minor In the 86 yeare of his age beeing cast into a Vessell of boiling oile and comming out vnhurt by the command of Domitian the Emperor he was banished into the Isle of Pathmos distant from Ephesus 40 miles There he wrot his Revelation to the 7 churches in Asia minor whereof you may reade Apoc. 1. From Pathmos hee returned to Ierusalem which was fortie miles being then 88 yeares of age and there he raised Drusana from death to life After this he gouerned the Churches in Asia foure years that is from the gouernment of Nero the Emperour vnto the fourth yeare of the gouernment of Trajan the Emperor and called the yong man to repentance which was of the Societie of theeues at length he died at Ephesus when he was 91 yeres old An. Dom. 100. as S. Ierom and Nicephorus li. 2. ca. 32. obserue So all his trauels were 688 miles ¶ The testimony of the Fathers concerning Iohn THe testimonies of the holy fathers that are yet extant concerning Iohn are these In Euseb li. 3. c. 1. 18. 20. 3. you may read the history concerning the conuersion of the yong man from the company of theeues Irenaeus witnesseth the same li. 2. ca. 23. In Irenaeus also li. 3. ca. 23. you may reade the history of Cerinthus and how that Iohn liued vntill the time of Trajan the Emperour Also li. 3. ca. 11. hee saith that the Gospel of S. Iohn was written because of the blasphemy of Cerinthus ¶ The description of the townes and places to which Iohn trauelled Of Ephesus THis was the metropolitan city of Ionia scituated in Asia minor 544 miles from Ierusalem Northwestward It was built saith Strabo by Androclus the son of Codrus king of Athens in the time of Dauid King of Israel and because of the beautifull scituation and fertilitie of the soile called Ephesus in future Ages growing into such credit and estimation that it was mightily encreased and became one of the most famous mart townes in all Asia but it stood somewhat low so that the sea brake in vpon it and drowned it and many of the inhabitants perished Neuerthelesse Lysimachus K. of Thrace built it vp again in the place where now it stands and called it Arsinoës after his wiues name But he being dead it was againe called by the antient name Ephesus There were many worthy men that liued in it as Heraclitus Scotinus and Hermadorus who for his excellent vnderstanding singular honestie was banished Hipponachus also the Poet Perrhasius Apelles the Painters Alexander the orator and Theodotio a Iew who interpreted the Bible It was in antient times inhabited by the Amazons whose queen kept her court there and wonderfully increased and adorned it with faire and beautifull buildings Here also that notable Temple dedicated to Diana which as Stra. saith li. 14. Plin. li. 36. ca. 14. was 220 yeares a building It stood vpon moorish ground to auoid the danger of earthquakes There were in it 127 pillars erected by so many Kings among which there were 36 that were curiously sieled and artificially carued and ingrauen it was 425 foot long

of Oliues you come vnto the place where Christ mounted vpon the Asse as we reade Matth. 21. And a little after you may see the whole citie of Ierusalem with Solomons Temple and the Church of the holy sepulchre with many other holy places Then as you descend from the top of the mount of Oliues you may see the place where the multitude cryed Hosanna blessed be he that commeth in the name of the Lord. And in this discent also our Sauiour Christ wept ouer Ierusalem saying O Ierusalem Ierusalem how often would I haue gathered thee vnder my wings as a Hen gathereth her Chickens but thou wouldest not Of Bethpage BEthpage standeth vpon the right hand of the way towards the East as you goe from Bethania to Ierusalem and as S. Ierom saith was somtimes a habitation of the Priests which at their appointed times went vp to Ierusalem to minister to the Lord. It was so called because of the multitude of Figs that grow there for Pagim signifies a Figge Cant. 2. Bethpage is a notable type of the Church for that ought likewise to be fruitfull and to bring forth sweet Figges that is good workes and many other comfortable vertues that so men in their afflictions might be comforted As it is thought the Fig-tree that our Sauiour Christ cursed because it wanted fruit stood not farre from Bethpage Matth. 21. Marke 11. Wherefore let vs take heed that wee be not like that fruitlesse Fig-tree couered onely like our forefathers Adam and Eue with leaues and bearing no fruit Gen. 3. lest so Gods curse fall vpon vs and we be thrust out of eternall happinesse Matth. 3. Of the Castle from whence the Asse and the Colt were brought vpon which our Sauiour rode to Ierusalem THis Castle as Adamus Risnerus saith was a certaine Hold compassed about with strong walls and within beautified with a faire pallace supported with goodly columnes it stood not farre from the Mount of Oliues just in the deuiding of the way as you goe from Bethania to Ierusalem for there goes one way to the fountaine gate and another to the valley of Gehinnon In the Hebrew text it is called Tirah as you may reade in Matthew which signifies not onely a Castle but a firme and sure building with good decorum and order for Tor signifies a circular order It is credible that this Hold is a resting place and that the Asse and the colt were tied in the way for this cause that if by chance any trauellers were wearie by reason of the tediousnesse of their journey they might hire them for certain houres to carrie them ouer the Mount of Oliues and so returne them backe againe The Allegoricall meaning of this Asse and the Colt according to the opinion of many learned men signifies the people of the Iewes who were burthened with Moses lawes and the Asses Colt signifies the rest of the Gentiles which were not charged with the burthen of Moses law but tyed onely to the law of nature So we also like trauellers and strangers in this miserable world are tyed to the afflictions and calamities thereof standing in two waies expecting the death of the body and libertie of the soule then our Sauior Christ commeth in peace and looseth this bond of death as the Apostle saith Rom. 7. and bringeth vs to that heauenly Ierusalem eternall joy according to that of Saint Paul in the first of the Philippians I desire to be loosed and to be with our Lord Iesus Christ Of the Mount of Oliues ABout halfe a mile and a furlong from Ierusalem towards the East stood the Mount of Oliues very fruitfull and pleasant bringing forth Oliues Palmes Figs Gossumpine many other notable fruits but principally Palmes and Oliues of which the mountaine taketh the name It is said in Pliny lib. 16. cap. 19. that these Oliue and Palme trees doe neuer lose their leaues and are greene both Winter and Summer Saint Austine calleth it The mountaine of vnction because of the fertilitie and pleasantnesse of it also The mountaine of health because it bringeth forth Oyles and many other plants necessarie for Physicke also The mountain of light first because it lieth vpon the East so that the Sun shineth in the morning very pleasantly vpon it and in the euening when it setteth the beames thereof reflecting vpon the Temple of Ierusalem casteth a beautifull light to this Mount secondly because it bringeth forth Oyle which is the nourishment and life of light thirdly because it was beautified with the gratious presence of our blessed Lord and Sauiour Christ which is the Day-starre and light of the Church rising vpon high to enlighten all those which shall be called vnto eternall happinesse For which cause it typically representeth the Church which is the light of the World wherein are found many Christians that bring forth pleasant fruit good workes relieuing the necessitie of such as are in want comforting the afflicted patiently supporting the calamitie and misery of this world that so they might triumphantly rejoyce with Christ in that heauenly citie of Ierusalem What things Zacharias hath spoken of this Mount in his last chapter is to be vnderstood of the preaching of the Gospell and propagation of the Church through all the world Saint Ierom saith in his Epitaph vpon S. Paul That vpon this hill the Iewes commonly burnt the red Cow with the ashes whereof the people of God being sprinckled they were purified and sanctified of which you may reade Num. 19. Heb. 6. Hellen the Empresse mother to that godly Emperor Constantine the Great about the yeare of our Lord 332 caused a faire and beautifull church to be built vpon this Mount just in the place where our blessed Lord and Sauior Christ ascended vp into heauen It was built round all of white polished marble vpon the top therof there is no roofe but a window euen as Christ should ascend through it as Eusebius saith in the life of the Emperour Constantine the Great lib. 3. cap. 40. The same S. Ierom affirmeth in his booke de locis Hebraicis He also saith That the inhabitants of the Holy land take vpon them to shew in this Church the impression of the feet of our Sauiour Christ which hapned as they say just at such time as he ascended vp into heauen out of which trauellers and pilgrims take sand to carry with them as an holy relicke though indeed it is verily to be thought that they were feet made in stone by antient Monkes thereby to get mony from such as resorted thither vpon deuotion for looke how oft pilgrims take thence the sand they are presenly filled againe from whence may bee gathered that there is no sand naturally there Euery man therefore ought to embrace a neerer way to saluation than to follow those monkish fables and to seeke Christ in the holy Scripture not vpon the Mount of Oliues or amongst sand for since the graue could not containe him the Mount of Oliues cannot hold him

This Island in times past was very rich populous for in it there was 100 townes the chiefe of which were Gnossos Cortyna and Zydon but Gnossos was the most principall and antientest wherin King Minos kept his court in it the notable Geographer Strabo was borne This town of Gnossos in times past was called Ceratur of the riuer Cerata which passeth by it but now it and all the Island is called Candia The Venetians euery three yeares appointed a new Duke to gouerne it In this Island stood the townes of Salmona and Lassica by Pliny called Lasas and in the middle between those two townes was the hauen of Gutfurt whereof Saint Luke maketh mention in the Acts of the Apostles cap. 27. saying That Paul counsailed the Saylers that were in the ship to anchor there and stay the Winter season in that Island but the Captain of the ship gaue more credit to the Master of the ship than to Pauls words wherby in the end they were in danger of their liues The townes of Salmona and Lassica with the hauen of Gutfurt lay Southward in this Island vpon the coast of the Mediterranean sea somewhat distant from them stood the towne of Asson by Pliny called Asum where they hoised out their boate and sayled Northward and because they had a faire South-winde they thought to saile to Phoenicia a hauen in Creta but the winde comming about to the East draue them backe againe into the sea by which meanes they were in danger of their liues This Island was brought vnder the subjection of the Romans 66 yeares before the birth of Christ and so for a long time continued vntill the Saracens entred therein and tooke it from the Romans 800 yeares after the birth of Christ After that in the yeare of our Lord 979 the Emperour of Constantinople draue the Saracens out of the Island and kept it but in the end the Venetians brought it vnder their subjection and seigniorie in the yeare of our Lord 1202 and at this day it is called Candia Of Clauda CLauda is an Isle not farre from Creet lying towards the Southwest in the Mediterranean sea 288 miles from Ierusalem towards the West at this day it is called Porto Gabaso here the Saylers the Apostle Paul and the rest of the company haled ouer-bord their Cock-boat and tyed it to their ship and fell to ●awing lest they should haue been sunke into Syrtis a dangerous gulph vpon those seas Acts 27. Of Syrtis THis is a gulph of the sea lying vpon the shore of Africa in which the water is both troublesome and the shore dangerous because of Quick-sands and in this there are two places most remarkeable called by the name of Syrtis from drawing and attracting ships vnto them by which they were greatly endangered the one was called the greater the other the lesse the greater lay 1000 miles from Ierusalem towards the West but the other lay vnder the Isle of Mylete towards the South being distant from Ierusalem 1320 miles towards the West in this place it was where Paul and his companians were in such danger mentioned Acts 17. Of Mylete THis Island was so called from the great aboundance of hony that was found in it but at this day it is called Malta scituated in the Mediterranean sea 1340 miles from Ierusalem towards the West It is very pleasant and fruitfull bringing forth great plenty of Wheat Rye Flax Comin Cotton Figs Wine Roses Violets Tyme Lauender and many other sweet and delightfull herbes from whence Bees did gather great plentie of honey The Sunne is very hot in this Island insomuch that by the extreame feruor thereof the inhabitants lose their naturall complexion and looke of a tawnie colour In Summer euenings there falleth great plenty of dewes whereby the earth is refreshed and the herbes increased There is neither snow nor frost seene in it for the Northerne windes which with vs are the authors of cold and frosts with them procure raine which greatly refresheth and increaseth the fruits of the earth so that the pastures and medowes become very pleasant and full of grasse and although it be but 28 miles long and 60 miles about notwithstanding it is very populous for in the eight parishes that stand in this Isle there is numbred aboue twentie thousand men The inhabitants are very honest religious and godly and the women faire chaste and modest for they neuer come abroad but with their faces couered The children that are borne in this country feare not any snakes neither are hurt be any thing that is venomous insomuch that they will take Scorpions and eat them without danger although in all other parts of the world those kinde of creatures are most pernitious In this Isle also there are bred a kinde of Dogs that are but small yet very white and shagged and so louing that the inhabitants of all the neighbouring countries will buy them though they be at deare rates The chiefe citie thereof called Malta is so strongly fortified both by art and nature that it is almost impossible to be conquered vnlesse it be either by treason or famin The tower or Castle thereof is fortified with the knights of S. Iohns Order who haue mightily expressed their valour and resolution in defending this town from the Turks About a mile from this the ruins of a goodly faire city are to bee seene And vpon the East promontorie a little from the city of Malta there yet remain the decaies which are worthy to looke vpon of a goodly temple dedicated to Iuno It seems by what remaineth that this church hath bin a fair and goodly thing in times past There is also here and there in the earth found certaine brasse monies hauing vpon the one side a superscription written in Greeke letters and vpon the other the image of Iuno There stood vpon the South side of Malta a Temple dedicated to Hercules the ruins of which are yet extant and in it are found monuments worthy of admiration At such time as the Captaine of Massanissa King of the Numidians had conquered this Island amongst other pretious things that he found in these Temples he tooke thence a great deale of goodly Ivorie but that religious King did faithfully restore all those things backe again and dedicated them to the seuerall Temples Thus we may perceiue that the inhabitants of this Isle of Malta were wholly giuen to idolatry and superstition vntil such time as Paul by the inconstancy and vehemencie of the winde was driuen vpon it and conuerted them from that peruerse and prophane worship to the Christian Religion at such time as he suffered shipwracke and Wintered amongst them Acts 27. The inhabitants shew vpon the North part of this Isle the place where the ship was cast away wherein the Apostle Paul was in which place they haue built vp a Chappel and dedicated it to Saint Paul They shew also a Caue in which they say he liued and they verily beleeue that he