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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

when time serveth it shall be declared After the Death of Melchisedech unto whom Abraham paid the Tythes of all his Goods the Iebusites dwelt in the City of Ierusalem and had the dominion of it and all the Land thereabouts in their Subjection called the City Iebus after their Name which Name was held a long time as we read in Iosh. 10. Iud. 10. and 2 Sam. 1. But at last Ioab King David's General of his Army won it and drave the Jebusites out of it and called it Ierusalem that is A Sight or Vision of Peace It hath also other Names in the holy Scripture for in Esay 29. it is called Ariel that is God's ●yon and Mount Libanus The Prophet Ezechiel 23. calleth it Ahaliba my fixed Pavillion or Tent that is a City wherein God had placed his own Habitation The Circuit and Bigness of the City Jerusalem THE City of Ierusalem was four-square and in circumference three and thirty Furlongs as Iosephus writeth which three and thirty Furlongs make somewhat more than a Dutch mile Some write that it was four miles Compass about yet these were not Dutch miles but Walloon or Italian miles for four such Italian miles are a Dutch mile Of Mount Sion the higher City MOunt Sion stood Northwards in the City Ierusalem and was much higher than all the other Hills that were therein therefore it was called Sion that is a watch Tower because from thence one might see the Holy Land and all the Countries thereabout upon this Hill the upper City was built which in the Scripture is called the City of David because David won it from the Iebusites and beautified it with many goodly Houses and fair and costly buildings but especially with his house of Cedar-wood which he termed the Castle of Sion which stood Westwards at the corner of the Hill looking into Bethlehem Southwards In that house David dwelt and therein committed Adultery with Berseba the Wife of Vriah the Hittite whose House also with the place of divers Privy Councellors and Officers stood upon the Hill not far from the King's Palace as Iosephus writeth Beneath King David's House upon Mount Sion within a Rock there was to be seen the Sepulchre or Vault wherein King David Solomon his Son and other succeeding Kings of Iuda were entombed and buried Upon Mount Sion also towards the East King Herod had a Garden of Pleasure not far from the Fountain called Silo Nehemiah 3. and there also stood the Tower of Silo whereof Luke in the 13 chapter maketh mention Iosephus in the Wars of the Jews his first Book and sixteenth Chapter saith That King Herod under whom Christ Jesus was born had two fair and strong Houses or Towers which he set and made in the upper part of the City Ierusalem upon Mount Sion which were in a manner comparable with the Temple for Beautifulness which he called after the Name of his Friends the one Caesarea for Caesar the Emperor's sake and the other Agrippa acording to the name of the noble Roman Marcus Agrippa that marryed the Daughter of Augustus Caesar. This may suffice to declare the Scituation of the upper City which stood upon mount Sion and contained in Circuit fifteen Furlongs which is about half a mile This uppermost City in the sacred Scripture is called the City of David it was also called Millo that is Fullness or Plenty for in it there was no Want but Abundance of all things Of the Steps which descended down from the City of David unto the lower City MOunt Sion whereon the upper City of Ierusalem did stand was such a high hard Hill and so steep that no man could climb or ascend unto it by any way or means but only one that is by steps for in the middle thereof there was a great pair of stairs made which descended from David's City unto the lower City into the Valley or Dale of Gates called Thyroreion which stairs were 780 Foot high as Iohannes Heydonius writeth and beneath in the Valley of Thyroreion over against the Valley of Cedron at the foot of the stairs stood a Gate which was called the Gate of Sion and they which went up to Mount Sion must pass through that Gate and so up those Stairs but it is thought nevertheless that in some other part of the Hill there was some winding or other oblique way made by which Horses and Chariots by little and little might ascend Allegorical or Spiritual Significations of Mount Sion SIon in Hebrew signifieth a sure hold or goodly Aspect for that from the top thereof a man might have seen all the Land lying thereabouts and was a type of the highest Heavens or Habitation of Almighty God from whence he beholdeth all things upon Earth from which Throne and Heavenly Habitation he descended into this lower Ierusalem and became our Redeemer and Saviour that so we being purged by his Blood from all our Sins and Imperfections he might bring us into that heavenly Ierusalem which is eternall Glory Of Mount Moriah on which the Temple stood MOunt Moriah stood Eastward within Ierusalem which was a most hard stoney Hill from whence towards the rising of the Sun men by stairs might easily descend but round about on the other three sides it was steep and unapprochable like a Stone wall yet it was not so high as Mount Sion howbeit it was exceeding high extending and reaching 600 Foot in height and on the top thereof was a very fair Plain like unto that of Mount Sion whereon in times past Abraham built an Altar and would have offered his Son Isaac for a Sacrifice Gen. 22. At which time when Abraham obeyed the Commandment of God intending to have offered his Son Isaac upon the Hill and thereon had made an Altar then the said Hill lay without the City but long time after about the space of 850 Years when King David had conquered Ierusalem and driven thence the Iebusites to enlarge the City he compassed in Mount Moriah and Mount Acr● with a Wall upon which there stood many goodly Buildings And amongst other things worthy Observation upon this Mount stood the Barn or Threshing floor of Araf●a the Iebusite wherein King David built an Altar offered burnt Offerings and besought the Lord that the Angel of God whose hand was stretched over Ierusalem holding a bloody Sword and had smitten the City with the Pestilence might cease from punishing the same and the Plague ceased On the same place where the Barn of Araf●a the Jebusite stood King Solomon also did build the Temple 1 Paral. 23. 24. Ioseph Antiq. Jud. lib. 23. 24. An Allegorical or Spiritual Interpretation of Mount Moriah MOriah is as much as to say the Lord's Mirrh and signifieth our Lord Jesus Christ which is the true Mirrh and sweet smelling Sacrifice unto God a stedfast Rock an immoveable Foundation whereon God's Church and the Members thereof are built Esay 28. Matth. 16. Vpon this Rock will I build my

miles and within a short time after that is upon the seventh day of October being then the Feast of Expiation our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was baptised when he was fully thirty Years of Age Luke 3. Matthew 3. Iohn 1. In the Year following which was the one and thirtieth Year of the Nativity of Christ a little before the Feast of Easter the Synedrion of Ierusalem sent Messengers unto Iohn he then remaining at Bethabara to know whether he was the Christ or Elias or some other Prophet Iohn 1. Upon the eighteenth day of September the same Year Iohn entred upon the second year of his Ministry about which time Caiphas began to enter upon the Office of the High Priest and the Sadducees and Pharisees to persecute Iohn Baptist. Wherefore he departed from Bethabara and went to Aenon a City in Galilee which was twenty four miles After that Iohn had preached publickly and freely by the space of a whole year and two months about the month of December and the end of the first year of the Ministry of our Saviour by the Commandment of Herod he was taken and led Prisoner from Aenon to the Tower of Macheruntes which was twenty eight miles where he remained untill his Death So all his Travels were eighty eight miles Of the Towns and Places to which he travelled Of Adumim ADumim or Adummim as it is in Ioshua cap. 15. was a Tower twelve miles from Ierusalem towards the East scituated in the Wilderness that is between Ierusalem and Iericho so called because of the multitude of Robberies and Murthers that were done in that place for Dam signifieth Blood Here the poor man that Christ mentioned Luke 10. fell amongst Thieves and here Eliah continued when he was sed by the Rave●s and drank the Water of the River Cherith 1 King 17. which was a notable Type of Iohn the Baptist who lived in a Cave in this place This Cave stood close by the Garden of Engedi where in former times the Academy and School of the Prophets Eliah and Elisha was kept here the Esseis which was a Sect amongst the Iews also continued who led a Monastical kind of Life and gave themselves wholly to Prayers and good Works under whose Discipline and Instruction Iohn was brought up Mathesius wisely observes that of all other the Esseis would never oppose Christ but were a People that lived chastly and honestly according to the Custom of the Nazarites with all diligence reading the Scriptures and avoiding idleness as a great temptation of the Devil giving themselves principally to the Study of Physick After this sort was Iohn brought up Of Bethabara THIS was a Town scituated upon the East side of the River Iordan sixteen miles from Ierusalem towards the East where there was either a Bridge or a Ferry to pass over Iordan from whence this place was called Bethabara being derived of Baith a House and Abarah a Passage wherefore at a certain time there being assembled in this place a great Concourse and Congregation of People Iohn did first enter upon the Ministry of the New Testament and taught the People the Doctrine of Repentance and Baptism Here Elias the Thesbite who was a Type of Iohn the Baptist was taken up into Heaven in a fiery Chariot Here Iohn spake with the Messengers that came to inquire whether he was Christ or not to whom he answered That he was neither Elias nor a Prophet of the Old Testament but the Voice of a Cryer in the Wilderness Io. 4. Is. 40. And in the same place where the Priests stood with the Ark of the Covenant whilst Ioshua and the Children of Israel passed over Iordan Iohn baptized Christ the true Ark of the Covenant of the Throne of Grace Iosh. 3. 4. Mat. 4. Luke 3. Heb. 9. Of Aenon THIS Town stood upon the West-side of the River of Iordan 42 miles from Ierusalem Northward a little on this side of the Sea of Tiberias near the mouth of the River Iaboch where it falleth into Iordan in which place was great abundance of Waters Here also Iohn sometimes baptized Ioh. 3. it being two miles from Salem where Iacob in times past dwelt Gen. 33. Of the meeting together of the Waters this Town was called Aenon of Ain which signifies an Eye and a Fountain that springeth as it were from an Eye Of Macherus or Macharuntes MAcherus was a Town of Peraea beyond Iordan twenty miles from Ierusalem towards the East scituated in a high Mountain being derived of Macherah that is a Sword This was one of the chief Castles of Herod Antipas who obtained the chief Command in the City of Ierusalem Plin. lib. 5. c. 16. In this place Iohn Baptist was beheaded as Ioseph saith lib. Antiq. 80. c. 10. And although his Disciples buried his Body thereabouts yet long after the Christians removed his Bones and Relicks to Sebasten that is Samaria where they were the second time buried with great Honour and Reverence Afterward as Nicephorus and Theodorus sa● his Bones were taken up again by Iulian the Apostate and burn'd There are many other things that are written concerning his Reliques which because of the uncertainty of them I omit to speak of and will proceed to a further Description of this City Alexander King of the Iews first built and fortified it and then making War against Aristobulus it hapned to be destroyed by Gabinus one of his Captains and so continued desolate till Herod's time who rebuilt the Town and the Castle and fortified it with strong Walls and high Towers even a hundred and sixty Cubits in height so that a man could scarce see to the top of it But that God might revenge the blood of his Saints at such time as Ierusalem and the Holy Land was left desolate Lucius Bassus a noble Roman came to this City and besieged it during which Siege Bassus took a certain young man which was a Prince of the Iews called Eleazer and caused a Cross to be set on purpose to have crucified him but they which were besieged in the Town seeing the pitiful Lamentations this young man made promised Bassus if he would spare his Life to yield up the Town which he did so the Castle being taken the Gates of the City were set open But the Romans fell to the Slaughter without Mercy and put to the Sword 1700 Persons besides there were a great multitude of Women and Children carried thence into Captivity as Iosephus lib. de Bello Iud. 7. cap. 25. affirmeth There were many goodly Wells and stately Buildings within this City there is cut out in the Castle a Rue Tree of an admirable greatness and in the Valley upon the North-side of the City the Root Baarus is found presenting both in Colour and Figure a Flame There are also found many hot Baths and Fountains of wholsome Waters but above the rest Iosephus maketh mention of one in a Cave where two Streams issueth as it were out of two Dugs the one hot