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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

first Epistle from Rome calling it allegorically Babylon is utterly to be condemned since there is none who can certainly prove that conjecture neither is it grounded upon any firm foundation for although Babylon in the Revelation of S. John because it was a secret Prophecy was allegorically used yet in a plain and manifested history such kind of Allegories are not allowed From whence may be concluded that S. Peter wrote his first Epistle from this Babylon not from Rome The Travels of Saint John with the Annotation of the Times wherein he lived JOHN the Evangelist and Apostle of our Lord Jesus Christ was born in the tenth year after the Nativity of our Saviour and was made his Disciple when he was 21 years of Age. He saw the Miracle of Christ when he changed the Water into Wine John cap 2. In the year following viz. in the 22 year of his Age he was taken into the number of the twelve Apostles Luke 6. Mar. 3. After that in the three and twentieth year of his age he saw the transfiguration of Christ in mount Thabor and when he was four and twenty years of age he stood under the Cross of our Saviour Christ and the same year a little after Christs Ascension he with the rest of the Apostles received the Gift of the holy Ghost being then the Feast of Pentecost which fell about the four and twentieth day of May in the same year 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 year after our Saviour Christs Ascension 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 divers Towns of the Samaritans Acts 8. Mary the Mother of our Lord being now 59 years of age died in the twelfth year after the Resurrection of Christ and was buried by Iohn the Evangelist in the Garden of Gethsemene Iohn being then 35 years old Four years after her death he was present at the Apostolical Council in Ierusalem Now Iames his Brother who was called the Elder was beheaded two years before for this Council was celebrated in the presence of Iames the younger Peter Iohn Paul and Barnabas c. about sixteen years after the Resurrection of Christ and fourteen after the Conversion of Paul Gal. 2. Before the Destruction of Ierusalem which happened about the 61 year of his age and 38 after Christs Ascension Iohn went from Ierusalem and came to Ephesus 544 miles where after the death of the Apostle Paul he governed the Churches of Asia minor In the 86 year of his age being cast into a Vessel of boiling Oyl and coming out unhurt by the command of Domitian the Emperour he was banished into the Isle of Pathmos distant from Ephesus 40 miles There he wrote his Revelation to the seven Churches in Asia minor whereof you may read Apoc. 1. From Pathmos he returned to Ierusalem which was forty miles being then 88 years of age and there he raised Drusana from Death to Life After this he governed the Churches in Asia four years that is from the Government of Nero the Emperour unto the fourth year of the Government of Trajan the Emperour and called the young Man to repentance which was of the Society of Thieves at length he died at Ephesus when he was 91 years old An. Dom. 100. as St. Ierom and Nicephorus li. 2. ca. 32. observe So all his Travels were 688 miles The Testimony of the Fathers concerning John THE Testimonies of the holy Fathers that are yet extant concerning Iohn are these In Euseb. ●i 3. c. 1. 18. 20. 3. you may read the History concerning the Conversion of the young Man from the company of Thieves Irenaeus witnesseth the same li. 2. ca. 23. In Irenaeus also li. 3. ca. 23. you may read the History of Cerinthus and how that Iohn lived until the time of Trajan the Emperour Also li. 3. ca. 11. he saith that the Gospel of St. Iohn was written because of the Blasphemy of Cerinthus The Description of the Towns and places to which John travelled Of Ephesus THIS was the Metropolitan City of Ionia scituated in Asia Minor 544 miles from Ierusalem North-westward It was built saith Strabo by Androclus the Son of Codrus King of Athens in the time of David King of Israel and because of the beautiful scituation and fer●ility of the Soil called Ephesus in future Ages growing into such credit and estimation that it was mightily increased and became one of the most famous Mart Towns in all Asia but it stood somewhat low so that the Sea brake in upon it and drowned it and many of the Inhabitants perished Nevertheless Lysimachus King of Thrace built it up again in the same place where now it stands and called it Arsinoes after his Wives name But he being dead it was again called by the antient name Ephesus There were many worthy Men that lived in it as Heraclitus Scotinus and Hermadorus who for his excellent understanding and singular honesty was banished Hipponachus also the Poet Perrhasius and Apelles the Painters Alexander the Orator and Theodotio a Iew who interpreted the Bible It was in ancient times inhabited by the Amazons whose Queen kept her court there and wonderfully increased and adorned it with fair and beautiful Buildings Here also that notable Temple dedicated to Diana which as Strab. saith li. 14. Plin. li. 36. c. 14. was 220 years a building It stood upon Morish Ground to avoid the danger of Earth-quakes There were in it 127 Pillars erected by so many Kings among which there were 36 that were curiously sicled and artificially carved and ingraven It was 425 foot long and 120 broad There were so many Gifts and Gratuities sent from all the Cities and Kings round about toward the building of this Temple that the Riches and Treasure thereof was wonderful insomuch that when it was finished it was accounted one of the stateliest Buildings the World could afford and numbered amongst the Wonders of the World This Temple thus built at such an extraordinary charge that it was almost unvaluable was set on fire by one Herostratus a wicked and perverse Fellow in the same Olympiad and Day that Alexander the Great was born who having nothing in him that might make him famous in after-ages burnt this goodly Building that so though not for his good but for his evil he might get a name But the Ephesians were so incensed because of this Mischief that they procured Proclamation to be made through all the Kingdoms round about that his name should not be once mentioned which perhaps for a time was observed but in future ages they could not prevent it but that he was both spoken of and written of Notwithstanding afterward the Inhabitants of this City became so exceeding wealthy that they soon

South-wind they thought to sail to Phoenicia a Haven in Creta but the wind coming about to the East drave them back again into the Sea by which means they were in danger of their Lives This Island was brought under the subjection of the Romans 66 years before the birth of Christ and so for a long time continued until the Saracens entered therein and took it from the Romans 800 years after the Birth of Christ. After that in the year of our Lord 979 the Emperour of Constantinople drave the Saracens out of the Island and kept it but in the end the Venetians brought it under their Subjection and Seigniory in the year of our Lord 1202 and at this day it is called Candia Of Clauda CLaudea is an Isle not far from Crete lying towards the Southwest in the Mediterranean Sea 288 miles from Ierusalem towards the West at this day it is called Porto Cabaso here the Saylers the Apostle Paul and the rest of the company haled overboard their Cock-boat and tyed it to their Ship and fell to towing lest they should have been sunk into Syr●is a dangerous Gulph upon those Seas Acts 27. Of Syrtis THIS is a Gulph of the Sea lying upon the shore of Africa in which the Water is both troublesome and the shore dangerous because of quick Sands and in this there are two places most remarkable called by the name of Syrtis from drawing and attracting Ships unto them by which they were greatly endangered the one was called the greater and the other the less the greater lay 1000 miles from Ierusalem towards the West but the other lay under the Isle of Mylete towards the South being distant from Ierusalem 1320 miles towards the West in this place it was where Paul and his Companions were in such danger mentioned Act. 17. Of Mylete THIS Island was so called from the great abundance of Honey that was found in it but at this day it is called Malta scituated in the Mediterranean Sea 1340 miles from Ierusalem towards the West It is very pleasant and fruitful bringing forth great plenty of Wheat Rye Flax Cumin Cotton Figs Wine Roses Violets Time Lavender and many other sweet and delightful Herbs from whence Bees did gather great plenty of Honey The Sun is very hot in this Island insomuch that by the extreme servor thereof the Inhabitants lose their natural complexion and look of a tawny colour In Summer Evenings there falleth great plenty of dews whereby the Earth is refreshed and the Herbs increased There is neither Snow or Frost seen in it for the Northern Winds which with us are the Authors of Cold and Frosts with them procure Rain which greatly refresheth and increaseth the Fruits of the Earth so that the Pastures and Medows become very pleasant and full of Grass and although it be but 28 miles long and 60 miles about notwithstanding it is very populous for in the eight Parishes that stand in this Isle there is numbred above twenty thousand Men. The Inhabitants are very honest religious and godly and the Women fair chast and modest for they never come abroad but with their faces covered The Children that are born in this Country fear not any Snakes neither are hurt by any thing that is venomous insomuch that they will take Scorpions and eat them without danger although in all other parts of the World those kind of creatures are most pernicious In this Isle also there are bred a kind of Dogs that are but small yet very white and shagged and so loving that the Inhabitants of all the neighbouring Countries will buy them though they be at dear rates The chief City thereof called Malta is so strongly fortified both by Art and Nature that it is almost impossible to be conquered unless it be either by Treason or Famine The Town or Castle whereof is fortified with the Knights of St. Iohn's Order who have mightily expressed their Valour and Resolution in defending this Town from the Turks About a mile from this the ruines of a goodly fair City are to be seen And upon the East Promontory a little from the City of Malta there yet remain the decays which are worthy to look upon of a goodly Temple dedicated to Iun● It seemeth by what remaineth that this Church hath been a fair and goodly thing in times past There is also here and there in the Earth found certain brass Monies having upon the one side a superscription written in Greek Letters and upon the other the Image of Iuno There stood upon the South side of Malta a Temple dedicated to Hercules the ruines of which are yet extant and in it are found Mountains worthy of admiration At such time as the Captain of Massanissa King of the Numidians had conquered this Island amongst other pretious things that he found in these Temples he took thence a great deal of goodly Ivory but that religious King did faithfully restore all those things back again and dedicated them to the several Temples Thus we may perceive that the Inhabitants of this Island of Malta were wholly given to Idolatry and Superstition untill such time as Paul by the Inconstancy and Vehemency of the Wind was driven upon it and converted them from that perverse and prophane Worship to the Christian Religion at such time as he suffered Shipwrack and wintered amongst them Acts 27. The Inhabitants shew upon the North part of this Isle the place where the Ship was cast away wherein the Apostle Paul was in which place they have built up a Chappel and dedicated it to Saint Paul They shew also a Cave in which they say he lived and they verily believed that he expelled all Venome and Poyson out of that Island at such time as he was there It was first subject unto the Africans as may appear by certain Marble Pillars which are here and there found in which there are ingraven certain Characters of the Carthaginians not much unlike to Hebrew Letters And although the Inhabitants are Christians yet their Speech is much like the Saracens which differeth little or nothing from the antient Punick At such time as Dido built Carthage which is thought to be 890 years before Christ Battus was King of this Isle and held a Confederacy with Dido for when Hyarbas King of the Gelutians made War upon Dido because he could not obtain her in Matrimony she received Aid from this Battus and when for the love of Aeneas she had killed her self Hyarbas having conquered Carthage banished her Sister Anne who was entertained by this Battus But Hyarbas taking that unkindly made War upon Battus and conquered the Island of Malta so it continued in the Jurisdiction of the Carthaginians a long time after until the Carthaginians were conquered by the Romans and then one Titus Sempronius about such times as Hannibal brought his Army before Trebia won it 217 years before Christ. And after it continued under the Jurisdiction of the Romans 130 years and then it was