A briefe description of Hierusalem and of the suburbs therof, as it florished in the time of Christ Whereto is annexed a short commentarie concerning those places which were made famous by the Passion of Christ, and by the actes of holye men, confirmed by certeine principall histories of antiquity. Verie profitable for Christians to read, for the understanding of the Sacred Scriptures and Iosephus his Historie. Hereunto also is appertaining a liuely and beawtifull mappe of Hierusalem, with arithmeticall directions, correspondent to the numbers of this booke. Translated out of Latin into English by Thomas Tymme minister. — Jerusalem sicut Christi tempore flourit. English

Author: Adrichem, Christiaan van, 1533-1585.1595

A Briefe Description of Hierusalem and of the Suburbs therof, as it florished in the time of Christ.

Wherto is annexed a short Commentarie concerning those places which were made famous by the Passion of Christ, and by the Actes of holye men, confirmed by certeine principall Histories of Antiquity.

Verie profitable for all Christians to read, for the vnderstanding of the sacred Scriptures and Iosephus his Historie.

Hereunto also is appertaining a liuely and beawtifull mappe of Hierusalem, with Arithmeticall directions, correspondent to the numbers of this Booke.

Translated out of Latin into English by Thomas Tymme Minister.

LONDON, Printed by Peter Short for Thomas Wight. 1595.

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To the right honourable Sir Iohn Puckering, Knight Lorde Keeper of the great Seale of England, Thomas Tymme, wisheth increase of honour here, to Gods glorie; and perpetuall felicitie in the worlde to come.

FOrsomuch as (right honorable) Jerusalem, the citty of our God, euen vppon his holy mountaine the ioy of the whole earth, and the Cittie of the greate King, that faire and most auncient Cittie, by a speciall prerogatiue is by God him selfe bewtified aboue all other Citties: and was therefore the cheefe, most noble and famous Cittie of the worlde: Many trauellers and Pilgrimes, haue at sundry times both in Mappes and histories, described the same. By the aduantage of whose laboures therein, now of late one Christien Adrichom, hath performed [Page] a most liuely description, and in the Latine tongue enriched with diuers antiquyties. The profit that might come hereby to my countrimen of the vulgar sorte, both for the better vnderstanding of the story of the Bible, where Jerusalem and the partes thereof are often times mentioned, and also for the ready conceauing of Josephus his history, moued me to translate it into the english tongue: And the book thus translated, with the charts expressed in naturall coloures, I haue presumed to dedicate vnto your honour. And bicause the maister workeman in this new plat of ould decayed Jerusalem, hath left behind him sum rubbish and reliques of the Romish superstition, I haue in some measure purged and swept the stretes and corners of the same, with the broome of truth, and carying them out by the Scouregate haue layed them on the Leystall of obliuion. My paines herein taken, though not so great, as the laying of Ierusalems foūdation, or the raising of a chief corner stone or the squaring & finishing any part of this exquisite plat: yet such it is, as euen in the meanest degree of a poore labourer, that doth but sweepe the streetes, I most humbly beseech your honor to accept as a small mite [Page] of my good will: The which I gladly offer, to the ende, that amidst the greate burdens of your most weighty affaires, your honour behoulding this most braue cittie, adorned with so glorious a temple, and contemplating the passion of our sauiour Christ therein, may be delighted and recreated: And further, that viewing this terrestriall cittie, whose glory is now vanished, may thinke still as the Apostle did say, Non habemus hîc manentem ciuitatem, and so aspire to that heauenly Jerusalem, garnished and full stored with all manner of delights which abideth for euer: wherein I doo moste humbly and hartely wish your good Lordship a most happie residence, after you haue performed your most honorable course in this life, in the seruice of your country, the pleasure of your prince, the generall benefit and comfort of your own soule.

Your Honors most dutifull to command, Tho: Tymme.

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The Preface.

FOrsomuch, the truth of historie, is the foundation of faith, and of spirituall vnderstanding, (Christian Reader,) and the history of things donne, blinde and imperfect, without the knowledge of places, the which knowledge giueth muche light, both to the truth of history, and also to the spirituall interpretation thereof: therefore I haue thought good to obserue two things with great diligence in this worke. First that I might portray and set forth the true and liuely Image of Ierusalem, of all other citties the most glorius and famous throughout the whole world, whereof mention is made in sacred and in prophane histories, as it florished in Christ his time; and also the forme of the temple, (the fame whereof hath beene extolled aboue the heauens, and was worthy of eternall memory) by the sacred Scriptures, by approued writers, and by auncient tradition of faithfull and trusty men, in a liuely plot, or map, most equisitly drawn, together with the names, originalls, situations, and formes of euery place, and the most worthy histories concerning the same, with all breuity. Secondly, that I might rightly dispose the places of Christ his passion, and represent euery thing which he suffered in euery place, euen as if they were now donne before our eies: and so represented that I might, explaine it with plainenesse and breuity. For hereby, all those thinges which he suffered for our sakes, wilbe both more plainely vnderstood, and also more profitably remembred. But per aduenture there wilbe some which will mislike this our endeuour, and the rather bicause we haue many thinges by tradition of elders: to whom I answere out of Saint Hierom where [Page] he saith, That ecclesiasticall traditions, which are no hinderance to faith, are so to be kept, as they were deliuered by the auncients. In the meane time I will not say, that they are too rash & too too wicked, which wil deny that thing,Hier. to. 1. which hath beene godly receiued at al times and of all men.Epist. 28. ad Lucinium. So many of vs therefore as washed with the bloud of Christ, do beare his name and are called Christians, if our faith be aunswering to our name, and our life not disagreeing from the truth, hoping to be saued by the merits & grace of Christ our sauiour, let vs beleeue that, which incorrupt and reuerend antiquity hath left, let vs in no wise depart from those thinges which our auncestors haue celebrated without superstition, and which by the consent of the whole worlde, are come euen from them to our hands, and with thankful godlines, and godly thankfulnesse, let vs call to minde those places oftentimes, which may put vs in rememberance of the passion of Christe: to which places this mappe will leade vs, as it were by the hande: and with the eies of faith and of our minde let vs looke vpon the same sonne of God, and inwardly behoulde him, who being vrged with the great loue of our saluation, hauing finished his laste supper in the parlour of Sion and being come into the Garden of Oliuet, prayed and swet bloud, through the anguish and greuous consideration of the Imminent afflictions. Immediately hee was betrayed by the most wicked Iudas; he was taken, bounde, and thrust forward by the Iewes, euen as a lambe by the woolues, most cruelly amidst the noise of clamors and weapons, and then was ledde to the house of Anna the high priest: There hee was stricken: From thence hee was drawne to the pallace of Caiphas: in the same, hee was falsely accused, condemned, spyt vpon, blindfolded, buffeted with fistes, and sundry waies all the night scorned and afflicted. In the morning he was violently caried through the midst of the cittie to the house of Pilate. From thence [Page] he was led to the pallace of Herod and accufed againe, despised of him, mocked, & apparrelled like a foole in a white garment, & brought back again by another way of the city to Pilate. There again he was accused of many faultes, stripped, and greuously whipped, cloathed with purple, crowned with thornes, dyuersly derided, spitted vppon, buffetted with fistes and stricken with a reede▪ and being thus misused, was made a gazeing stocke to the people and adiudged to death. Then he was loden with a heauie crosse, and in the sight of all the people, with greeuous and bloudy steps hee was drawen, punched: and vrged by the furiouse violence of the soldiers, through a great parte of the cittie, and by the gate of Iudgement out of the cittie, by a harde and stoany way, euen vnto mount, Caluarie. And being come thither he was stripped againe, and being both faint and weary, was refreshed with gaule in stede of drink: and about high noone he was fastened to the crosse, & so lifted vpon high. And hanging on the crosse by the space of three howers, was derided with taunts & reproachfull woordes: being thirstie, they gaue him vineger to drinke. Finally he which could saue the world with one drop of his bloude would needes bestowe vppon vs by the fiue Riuers of his woundes, his life, with all his bloude. A figure hereof was that brasen serpent,Cant. 3. which moses caused to be exalted in the wildernes. To this spectacle also our heauenly father calleth euery faithfull soule, Come forth (saith he) ye daughters of Sion, and see king Salomon, Naye one farre greater then Salomon. Lament. of Ieremy 3. In like manner Christ hanging on the crosse crieth out O all ye which passe by the way, behould and see, if there be any sorrow & greefe like myne.

And not onely to the consideration and meditation of these things, but also to the Imitation, God in the holy Scripture exhorteth vs in these woordes (spiritually interpreted) saying, Looke, & make all thinges according [Page] to the example or fashion which was shewed thee in the mount. Exod. 25. For all the precepts of life, which our sauiour taught all the time of his preaching,Heb. 8. as well by word as by example, the same he expressed in himselfe in one day of his passion: Wherefore if we would follow Christ, not onely in woorde but also in woorke, we may, by his liuely crucified Image on mount Caluarie, as it were out of a goulden booke intituled with the noble title of three most principal languages, written with the quils of the speare, of the nails of the thornes, and of the whippes, in the most pure parchment of the Immaculat lambe, and with the purple bloude of the same, both learned and vnlearned, learne easely & breifly, perfect theologie, the most wholesome remedies of Phisicke, the full knowledge of Lawe and of Iustice, the science of liberall artes, of true humilitie, of obedience, of pietie, of charitie, of patience, finally of all manner of vertues, and of thinges most perfect: and may also bee inflamed and drawen to loue and to follow Christ. Thus the blessed virgin, standing nere to the crosse of Christ, did not onely with bodely eies, but also in hart, through faith (which wauered not in her) behould the woundes of her sonne and seriously thinking thereon, was so comforted, that now, as Ambrose saith she was prepared also to die for the good of mankind.Ambrose in Luc. ca. 23. So saint Ihon both seing the side of Christ opened with a speare,Iohn. 19. bloude with water comming foorth of the same, and also giuing testimonie thereunto, did by the meditation thereof so greatly profite, that at the last he became a most perfect diuine, and a soaring Eagle to behoulde the most holy Trinitie.Luk. 23, Hier. to. 1. So the Theefe, when he sawe and hearde Christ Iesus crucified,Epist. 13. ad Paulinum. in continently tourned vnto Christ, and confessing him, he made the punishment of murder martiredome, and chaunged the crosse for Paradice. So also the Centurion by this spectacle,Mar. 15. receaued so great strength of faith, that vnder the crosse he was made a famous [Page] confessor of Christ, and further (as Chrysostome saith) was afterwarde crowned with Martyredome. Chrisost. in Mat. ca. 27. Moreouer Thomas behoulding & touching the wounds of Christ crucified, was so illumined with faith, that hee plainly and openly professed Christ, to be both his Lord and his God.

This beeing so, and loue procuring loue, euen as the loadstone draweth Ironne: who is hee, I pray you, whome so vehement loue of Christ, nay rather a heate and flame will not affecte, kindell, and sette on fier? Who is he when at the death of Christ all creatures do suffer with him, the Sunne darkened, the vaile of the Temple rent in sonder, the earth quaking, Rockes breaking, graues opening, and the deade arising, who and what is hee (I say) that will not woonder, and that will not be abasshed? Onely Adams children, for whose cause he died are not moued with this so great a benefite.

The Adamente, that most harde stoane, is mollified with the bloude of a goate: Iron with the heate of fier is made softe:Heb. 6. 10. but the hartes of Christians more harde then Adamant or Iron, are not mollified with the bloude and fier of Christ▪ but do crucifie a fresh vnto themselues the sonne of God, and do tread vnder their feete the bloude of the testament.

What I pray you can be more beseeming, more meete, more Iuste, and more profitable for vs, then to loue againe him that so loueth vs, and Imitate him whome wee loue? For if any thing herein seme harde, if any thing greuous, that thing, loue, the sweete yoke of the Lord, maketh light and easie, for all labor is light, to him that loueth, according to that notable sentence of that auntiente father saint Gregory, Nihil adeo graue est quod non aequanimiter toleretur, si Chrsti passio, ad memoriam reduca tur. There is nothing so heauy & burthensome but the same [Page] is willingly borne, if so be the passion of Christ be remembered.

For we will indure all thinges with patience as light and easie, if we call to mynde what hard wordes, harder stripes, and most harde paines and afflictions, he suffered for vs, whose heade was crowned with thornes, his eyes blinde foulded, his eares filled with reproaches, his mouth with gaule and vineger, his face polluted with spitting, his cheekes brused with buffetting, his kneese shaking, his shoulders laden with the crosse, his hart replenished with sorrow his bodie torne with whippes, his members racked, his handes and feete bored,Exod. 15. to be breefe from the crowne of the heade to the soales of the foot, he sustained an Innumerable sort of woundes and sorrowes. Wherefore as the waters Mara, being sometimes bitter, were made swete by Moses, at what time he cast wood into them: euen so all our tribulation, if we patiently indure the crosse of Christ, will waxe sweete, and the gaule thereof will: tourne into honny. For 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, August. in lib de virgi nitate. 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 [...]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 [Page] 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: [Page] 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,

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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.
[Page] 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.

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❧ A BRIEFE DESCRIPTION OF IERVSALEM AND THE SVBVRBES THEREOF AS IT FLORISHED IN THE TIME OF CHRIST.

1 IErusalem

the elect Cittie of God,The originall places frō whēce this commentary is taken and where more is to be red. 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,Psalme 47. and 86. 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.Math. 4. 5. And being as a Queene amongest all other neighbour citties,Psalm. 73. had the preheminence as the head ouer the body,Ezech. 5. and shined as the sunne aboue others in sumptuousnes and glorious buildings: hauing such surpassing excellency,Ioseph. lib. 3 de bello Iudaico. cap 2. 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 [Page 2] elect Church of Christ militant vppon earth,Deu. 16. 17 and of that blessed triumphant Church in heauen.Psal. 47. A cittie of perfect beautie:Tren. 2. 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,Gen. 14. two thousand twenty and three, in the time of Abraham, Ios. l. 7, an. Iud. cap. 7. & l. 7. Bell. by Melchisedech the Kinge. In hebrue it was called SALEM; and in Greeke SOLYMA: and it seemeth that hee possessed the same fiftie yeares.Iud. ca. 18. The which afterwards the Iebusites enioyed,Gen. 10. who sprang from Iebusi, Iosua. 10. 15. & 18. the sonne of Chanaan: of whome it was called for a time Iebus, and Iebusaeum at what time Iosua slue the King thereof.Iudg. 1, 19. And the Iebusites helde the same,2. kings 5. eighte hundred and twentie foure yeares,1. Cron. 11. who trusted so much to the strength of their cittie,Ios. l. 7. an. cap. 3. 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,Hier. to. 3. de loc. Heb. lit, 1. the Iebusites being expulsed, hee reedified the same rounde, fortified it with a castle, dwelt therein, and made it the Metropolitan cittie of the whole prouince of Iudaea, Eus. Euāg. praep. li. 9. and the heade of all the kingdome, and from thence foorth called it Ierusalem, 3. Reg, 3. 5. 6. 9, 10. 7. as it were Iebussalem the letter b. (to make the better sounde) tourned into r. Notwithstanding there are some which write, that it is called Ierusalem, of the magnificent temple which Salomon builte therein, as it were Hieron Salomonis. Iosep. lib. 8. For the Greekes call a temple [...].Ant. cap, 2, & 5. In continuance of time Salomon and other kings of Iudaea greatly enlarged the same, and so fortified it with most strong gates, towers, walles, and [Page 3] trenches, and so adorned it with a temple, with pallaces, and with most exquisite buildings, that among other citties it was a miracle of the whole world, and is therefore more honoured with silence, then with all that can be said concerning the same.

In this glory and excellency,Ios. con. Api on lib, 1. Ierusalem florished foure hundred seuenty and seuen yeares, as if it had beene an earthly paradise,Strabo. geograph. li. 16. being in compasse round about, sixe miles and two hundred and fifty paces. And by the wall and circuit of the cittie, there was a stony trench or vaulte threescore foote deepe, and in bredth two hundred and fiftie, wherein was abiding, about one hundreth and fiftie thousand men.4 Reg, 16. 21. 24. 25. But when the wickednesse of the Princes and people not only had profaned the temple with the abhominations of Idols,2. Cron 28. 33. 36. but also had filled the cittie euen to the full with innocent bloud most cruelly shed, the cittie together with the temple, Princes, and people by the iust vengeance of God,Mich. 3. was by Nabuchodonoser kinge of Babilon (but Gods whip) so vtterly ouerthrowne,Ierem, 25. 26. 29. and desolated threescore and ten yeares, that Sion was plowed vp like a field, and Ierusalem was become as a heape of stones,Hier. tom, 3 trad. Heb. in 2, par. 15 and the mountaine of the temple, as it were the height and top of woods, so as in the meane time (as Hierom witnesseth) that neither so much as a bird,1. Edr. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. nor a beast, could flie, or passe through the same.Neem. 1. 2. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

Afterwards the temple only being with much a do and very hardly builded, wanting gates, towers, and walles, was inhabited againe by the Iewes (retourning out of the captiuity of Babilon) threescore yeares.

Moreouer within the space of two and fitie dayes, Nehemia inclosed it in compas three miles and seuen hundred and fity paces,1 Mach. 12. 13 & 14. with gates, towers & a strong wall:Ios. 6. be. 6. and afterward, the same being bewtified by the [Page 4] Machabees, Ios. be. 13. & ce. by Herod, and by others very stately, with publique and priuate buildings,Psal. 37. recouered the former dignity,Isai. 2. being very famous and populous by the space of fiue hundred and foure and twentie yeares:Mich. 4. hauing in it many narrow streetes,Acts. 1. by reason of the exceeding nomber of houses therein.Mar. 16. At what time there,Psal. 18. as in a Theater,Ios. 6. bel. 13, and 7. be. 14. 17. and 18. Iesus Christ wrought our saluation: and from thence as from a center, the apostles spred forth the Euangelicall doctrine throughout the world.

But Titus Emperour of Rome, being brought by the iust iudgement of God to take vengeance for the Death of Christ, the thirtie and eight yeare after his passion, besieged it round, casting a banke about it, & shut vppe the Iewes in the Cittie as in a prison, which came out of euerie Tribe to cellebrate the feast of pasouer there. Wherevpon that Cittie, the woonder of the world, was made a denne of theeues, and a sepulcher of dead men. For by reason of ciuill murders, famine, pestilence, and sword, there perished in the same, eleuen hundred thousand Iewes. And as for the Citty it selfe, Titus did so vtterlie subuert it, that men which came vnto it, would scarse beleeue that euer it had beene inhabited. Neuerthelesse, hee left three principall Herodian Towers, that is to say Hippic, Mariam, and Phasel, which were more notable than the rest, aswell for greatnesse as for beawtie, and that part of the Citties wall,Luk. 19 which compassed them from the West, vnshaken; to the ende, that both it might bee a Castell for the Romane souldiers which should be left there for a Garrison, and also to shewe vnto posteritie what manner of Cittie,Eu. in Cronic. et hist. & how well fortified, the force of the Romans had subdued.Eccle. lib. 4. cap. 6. But after threescore and fiue yeares, the Iewes rebelling againe, A Elius Adrianus the Emperour slue many thousands of them, and vtterly subuerted those Towers with the remainder of [Page 5] the wall,Hier. in lo. Act. Apo. lib. H. and commaunded the Cittie to bee strewed with salt: whereby it came to passe according to the prophesie of Christ, that there was not left one stone of the Cittie vpon a stone. And building the Cittie againe in lesse compasse,Neceph. 3. Histo. Eccl. 24. hee excluded mount Sion, with the pallace of Salomon, and that of the Queene, and the house of the forrest of Libanus, also the gate of the North corner,Broca. in descrip. loco rum terrae sanctae itinere. 6. and the tents of the Assyrians, and all the north parte, euen to the dounge gate and to the gate of Ephraim: but the mount of Caluary, and the sepulcher of the Lord, which were aforetime without the walles, hee inclosed with the North walles of the cittie; and set the picture of a sow cut in Marble vpon the forefrunt of that gate, by which men go to Bethleem, thereby giuing to vnderstande, that the Iewes subiect to that law of swines flesh, were vnder the power of the Romaines: whom by an Edict he forbad neuer more to enter into that cittie,Wil. Tyr. histo. bel. sac. lib. 14. cap. 12. or looke into the same from the top of any higher place, and from thenceforth commanded it to be called AEliam Capitoliam, after his owne name.Iacob. vit. cap. 55. But after this, being inhabited of the Christians, and dignified with a Patriarchall seate, receiuing againe in continuance of time the name of Ierusalem, florished fiue hundred yeares in Christian religion,

And in the yeare after the birth of Christ sixe hundred thirty and six,Onuphr. in chron. Ecclesiast. it was taken by the Saracens which raigned in Egipt, and so possessed foure hundred three score and three yeares.

After this in the yeare of Christ,Wilhelm.Tyriarch. hist. bel. sa. lib. 8. cap. 5. 18. 19. 20. 21. & l. 9. c. 1. 2. 9. 1099 the cittie Ierusalem was recouered by the Christians hauing for their Captaine, Godfrey of Bullion, who was the firste that entred vpon the wall of the cittie with great courage and most fierce assalt, the Ides of Iuly, the very same day and houre, wherein Christ died: And so [Page 6] greate slaughter was made, throughout al the streetes, lanes,Iacob. de vitria. cap 20. and corners of the cittie, that no man coulde passe but ouer the deade bodies of the slaine: and so exceeding was the effusion of bloud, that men went ouer their shooes in the bloud of the dead:B. Salig. in epist. ad Ioā. a Lotharing card. insomuch that the conquerers themselues were from the sole of the foote to the crowne of the heade imbrued with bloud. Who when they enioyed the cittie, putting off their armour, and clensing themselues from their bloud, visited the places of Christs passion, resurrection, and ascension (which the faithful that dwelt in Ierusalem shewed vnto them) and beheld them with reuerence. The eight day after with one conssent they elected Duke Godfrey, and created him the king of Ierusalem. But the man being full of Godlinesse and humility, would not be crowned with a crowne of gold after the manner of Kinges, in the holy cittye, but contented himselfe and reuerenced the like crowne of thornes, with the which the emperour of mankind was crowned in the same place, when he went to be crucified for our saluation.

Ierusalem therefore being recouered by the Christians was so held and enioyed by them fourescore and eight yeares.Bas. Hero. bell, sacri. contin, lib, 1 cap. 7. & l, 6, cap, 10. Afterward namely in the yeare, 1187. the second day of october, the Christian princes (wo and alas) disagreing amonge themselues, Ierusalem was deliuered vp to Saladine the Soldane of Egypt,Matt, Palmerius in Cronic. vppon this condition that it should be lawfull for the Christians to departe with bag and baggage: the which Saladine held it three hundred and thirtie yeares.Mossaeus in Cronic. But in the yeare of our Lord, 1517. it was inuaded by Selimo the emperour of turques, & is at this day in the same compasse of walles possessed by the Turkes:Onaphr, in cronic. who name it Cusumobarech or Codsbarich, that is to say, a holy cittie. So that from the first foundation [Page 7] thereof vnto this present yeare one thousand, fiue hundred, ninety foure are passed three thousand, fiue hundred, thirtie and one yeares.

THE FIRST PART OF THE CITTIE. THE PLACES VVITHIN THE CITTIE.

2 MOVNT SION,

which is called y^e mount of the Lorde, and the Holy Mountaine, is much more higher then other mountaines and larger:Psal. 2. 25. after the fashion of a Theater in the fourme of a halfe circle compassing the cittie on the south parte.Ioel 2. 3. And being set as a looking glas on a high place,Iosep. 6. bel. 6. et. 15. ant 14. founded by God vppon a firme rocke,Nicep. S. hist. eccl. 30 on euery side broken off, had a plainenes thereon like to a towne, and being very pleasant and recreatiue, it represented the excellencie and delights of heauen.Brocard. itiner. 6. Whose top the Iebusites first of all fortified with a strong castle, and the compasse thereof with firme and loftie walles, with gates,Salig. tom. 6, cap. 6. and with towers. Whome when Dauid the king had expulsed, he made the castle and the walles round about,Isa. 14. 20. the gates and the towers, much more defensible,Bas. Hero. bel sa. ri. cout in. lib. 1 cap. 8. and made the top and plainenesse of the hill into streetes and lanes, and builded there for himselfe, for his nobles and worthies, houses, and called it the cittie of Dauid: which now also Iosephus calleth the higher cittie, and the holy parte. The Machabees reedifying the same mountaine in compasse,2. King. 5. made it most stronge with many walles,1 Para, 11. &, 15. and lofty towers, in such wise as notwithstanding any force, it was inuincible, only by famine it might be surprised: where were many straight and narrow passages, and many houses of cittizens placed.

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[Page 8] From this mountaine,Psal, 47. 86 according to the foretelling of the prophets,Ios. 6. bel. 6 & 1. bel. 1. a law, and an euangelicall light came forth,1 Macab. 4. and as it were from the head it selfe, it was spred forth into the whole bodie of the world, for the sauing health of all nations.Iose. bel. 15. & 16. The which when the Romanes by the iudgement and will of God, against all hope of man, and without bloudshed had taken (the seditious within the Citty beeing stricken with a sudden feare, and roaming heere and there from the wall, and hiding themselues in their sinkes) being dispersed in all corners and streetes with their naked swordes, slue all that they met withall,Isai. 2. hauing no regard of persons or sex,Mich. 4. and set fire on the houses burning them and all those that were fled into them,Isai. 49 and destroying manie houses whereinto they entred for pillage sake,Luke. 2. where finding whole families dead (whome the famine had consumed) they so abhorred the sight thereof that they returned backe againe emptie,Actor. 13. running thorowe with their swordes all that they met,Ioseph. 7. bel. 16. and so filling the streetes with dead bodies, that the whole Citty flowed with bloud in such aboundance, that (as Iosephus witnesseth) many things burning, were quenched with the plentifull bloud of the slaine. But night comming on the slaughter began to cease, but the burning increased. The next day following, Titus being entered into the Citty woondered at the fortifications of the Cittie, and at the rockes of the towers, which the Tyrants through follie had willinglie forsaken. To be briefe, when hee had seene their substantiall altitude and inuincible force, we haue fought (saith he) by the manifest helpe of God, and it was God which draue out the Iewes from these holdes. For what hands of men, or what engines of warre might haue preuailed against these? Many such words spake he to his frends. This mountaine though it were excluded out of the [Page 9] cittie, yet afterward it was builded againe and inhabited. But now being in the Suburbs most ruinous, it lieth wast.

THE PLACES OF MOVNT SION.

3. THe Castell of Sion

being ancient and strong, was set on the verie toppe of mount Sion, round like a crown, and was a sure defence and beautie both of the Cittie and Temple,4 king, 13 and was as the capitall or chiefe place of so great a cittie.2 king, 5 7, 11. Heerein the Iebusites dwelte at the firste: whome Dauid casting out by force,3 king. 1 enioyed the castle, and receiuing from Hiram king of Tyrus, stones, wood, and artificers, builded out of the same a strong pallace for himselfe,1 Chron. 11, 17 and a house of Cedar with a kingly throne. In the which castle afterward, Dauid himselfe and other kings of Iuda inhabited, and vsed the same for the kinges seat. And for this cause it was continually kept with a straight garde of souldiors.Iose. 6. bel. 6 And in processe of time it was called the kings castle,Ieremy 17 and the house of Dauid, the seate and throne of Dauid,Luke 1 also the Court and kings house. In this castle the most cruell of all tyrantes Antiochus king of Syria, Aristaeas li. de 72. int which in Greeke was called [...],1 Mach, 1 that is to say Renoumed, 1 Mach, 13 14. (but more truly [...], that is Mad, he deserued to be called) placed a garrison of Gentiles: whereby in the time of the Machabes hee afflicted the Iewes very much a long time. The which when Simon Machabaeus had inforced to yeeld thrugh famine, and had cleansed the castle from the pollusion of Idols, they entered therinto with palmes in their [Page 10] hands with Cimbals, with psalterions, with hymnes and songes: and he placed therein men of the Iewes to defend the Cittie and countrey, yet nowe there is nothing to be seene but the ruines thereof.

4. THE KINGS PRISON

with a lofty Tower,Neem, 3 which ouerlooked the kings house.Ieremy 23 39, 40 Into this prison Ieremie was cast, because hee prophesied that the Cittie should be taken: and at the last was deliuered out of the same by Nabuchadonezer, when the Cittie was taken.

5. CAESARS and AGRIPPAS hall,

Ios. 15, ant. 11. & 1. bel 16. & 6. bel. 6. was the kings house, which Herod the Ascalonite builded for himselfe in the vppermost cittie: for he builded in his pallace two great and faire houses of polished marble and fine gold, wherevnto the Temple it selfe was not comparable, and calling them after the names of Caesar Augustus, and of Agrippa his sonne in law, his friends, he named the one CAESARS, and the other AGRIPPAS.

6. THE PARLOVR OF SION

was scituate about the middest of mount Sion, Mat. 26. being large, paued,Marke, 14 and verie faire:Luk. 22. wherein Christ in his last supper did eate the paschall Lambe with his disciples,Iohn. 13▪ washed their feete, and instituted the sacrament of his most blessed body and bloud.Luke 24. In the fame, on the day of his resurrection (when he was entered,Iohn▪ 20▪ 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, [Page 11] and did eate before them: after that, breathing vpon them,Iohn: 20 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.Actes 1, 2 Here, after the Lords ascension,Hier. to. 1 epist. 27 ad Eustoc. vir. & to. 3 epist. 1. ad Paulin: Niceph. lib. 2. hist. eccle cap. 3. 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, Act. 6, 15 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,

Eccles. 24 which were very excellent, whereof the booke called Ecclesiasticus maketh mention.

8. THE HOVSE OF Annas,

Iohn. 18 the chiefe priest, the father in law of Caiaphas, Thren. 3. 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.

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9. THE HOVSE OF THE WOORTHIES,

wherin the strong men, and valiant peeres of king Dauid dwelt:Neem, 3 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,

Niceph. 2 hist. eccle. 3 & 21. wherin after the death of her sonne she dwelt with Iohn the Apostle.

11. THE HOVSE OF VRIA,

2 king. 11, 23. 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,

Ios. 6, bel. 6, by reason whereof, the vpper cittie also, was called sometimes the vpper market.

13. THE STAIRES OF THE CASTLE,

Acts, 21 and 22 or prison, whereon the Apostle Paule stood, when hee made aunswer for himselfe.

14. THE STAIRES OF SION

,Neem. 3, 12. by which men went vppe to the cittie of Dauid.Ios. 15, ant. 14.

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15 THE KINGES GARDEN,

4 king. 21 the which also was called the garden of Oza,Neem, 3 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,Bas. Hero. 1. bell. sa. 8. and extended it selfe from the water gate to the fish gate.Bro. itin. 6. Dauid builded and compassed mount Sion round about from this valley:2. King. 5. the concauity and bottome whereof Salomon did make leuell and plaine,1. Chro, 11 that it mighte bee a conuenient streete:3. Kin. 9. 11▪ and from thence forth it was called the streete of the water gate.Neem. 8. He also bewtified the same with buildings,2 Chro, 32. 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. 4, king, 12. But in Iosephus time, this valley was called Tyropoeon, Ioseph. 6. bell. 6. and was very large and full of dwelling houses.Brocord. itinere. 6. 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.Neem. 3. In this pallace the princes of the people being gathered together,Matt. 26. & 27. consulted among themselues what pollicy they might vse to catch Iesus,Mar, 14, 15 and to kill him:Luk, 22. 23 to whome he was there soulde by Iudas for thirty peeces of siluer.Ioan. 18. 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 [Page 14] 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,

Ios. 15, ant. 14, and 7 bel. 13, 15 by which men went through the valley out of the vpper cittie vnto the Temple.

20. THE GATES OF SION,

Psal, 86. which the Lord loueth more than all the Tabernacles of Iacob.

21. THE VPPER GATE,

2 Cron. 23, by which Ioas when he was crowned king of Iuda in the Temple, and guarded [Page 15] with the princes of the Iewes, was led into the pallace of the kings of Iuda.

22. THE SEPVLCHER OF DAVID,

3 kin. 2, 11 together with the field wherin the kings were buried,2 Chron. 24, and 26 the which verie stately was placed aloft in the citty of Dauid:Neem, 3 wherein Dauid himselfe,Iosep, 7. ant. 16, and 13 Salomon, and other kings of Iuda, also Ioyada the chiefe priest were buried. Into this monument of Dauids sepulture,Ant. 15, & 16, ant. 7 Salomon brought great treasure at his burial. The which Hircanus y^e high priest & captain opening, brought from thence 3000. talents of siluer.Acts. 2 Not long after this, Herod the Ascalonit king of Iewes,Niceph. hist eccle. 3 went about also to bring much treasure out from thence,Breid. 12 Iul. but a flame of fire breaking forth and consuming two of his souldiors, he left off his enterprise,Sal. to. 7. cap. 2 and to make satisfaction for himselfe, hee adorned the same monument with faire shining Marble,Pasch. d. 184 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,

Acts, 8, 5▪ 22 the first Martyr; of Nichodemus, and of Gamaliel, Paules schoolemaister.

24. THE TABERNACLE OF SION,

1 Chro, 6, 7 couered with skinnes which king Dauid made,2 king. 9 and placed the same in the little hil of Mount Sion which is called Gabaon, 2 Chron, 5 and with great reuerence he put the Arke of God therein,Ios. 7 ant. 4 and appointed priests and Leuites continuallie to Minister from day to day by turne, which [Page 16] remained there twenty and foure yeares,Breid. 12. Iul. pasch. d. 184. vntill it was carried by Salomon into the temple. In the same, Dauid sorrowing for his adultery with Bethsabe, and murder of Vrias, made certeine psalmes of repentance.

25. THE KINGS PRESSES,

zach. 14. wherein the kings wine was pressed.

THE SECOND PART OF THE CITTIE.
26. THE DAVGHTER OF SION,

Psal. 9, 72 so called,zach. 9 because it seemed to growe from mount Sion, the which was also called the lower citty, beeyng another part of the cittie, whereof there is often mention made in the holy scriptures and in Iosephus.

THE PLACES OF THE DAVGHTER OF SION.

27. THE MOVNTAINE OF ACRA,

Iose. 13. ant 9. & 6. bel. 6. 7, & bel. 13, 16. was sometime in the lower cittie verie loftie and steepe, the heighth whereof afterward Simon Machabaeus abated and made plaine by the continuall labour of the people, which he imployed heerein by the space of three yeares day and night, that the Temple alone might be higher then all other places of the cittie.

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28. THE AMPHITHEATER,

Iose. 15, ant. 10. that is a place inuironed with scaffoldes and stages, capable of fourescore thousand men, where the people were woont to behold their games, which Herod the elder first of all other builded in the field at Ierusalem with great labour and cost. Wherein, to recreate the beholders, wrastlers and sword players, shewed many feates of actiuitie: and sometimes, Lyons, Leopardes, Bulles, Beares, Bores, Wolues, and other exceeding wilde and fierce beasts, fought one with another, and sometime condemned men were cast vnto these to bee deuoured, and captiues taken in warre. At which time of their games, the place beneath was strowed with sand, to the end that neither the sword players should faile in their footing, nor the fighters might bee defiled with the bloud of the slain, nor yet that the sprinkling of the bloud shoulde bring horror to the lookers on.

29. THE CASTLE ANTONIA,

Ios. 15. ant. 14. & 18. strong and wel fortified,Ant. 8. lying neere to the North side of the Temple, which was builded in time past on a high rocke fiftie cubits high,Item. 1. bel. 3, & 4. 16, & 6. bel, 6 & aliâs sape. and very steepe round about, and the tower was called Baris. In this the chiefe priests which came of the Machabees euen till Herods time inhabited: where in a Cell made for that purpose, the sacred stole of the chiefe priest was kept, the gouernour of the Tower lighting a candle there euery day. Herod the greater hauing gotten the kingdome, and seeing that this castle was conueniently scituat to command the Cittisens; that they might not seeke innouation [Page 28] through sedition, repaired the same to his greate cost, and fortified it within with a roiall pallace, euen like a cittie, and with fower loftie towers at each corner, whereof three were fiftye cubits hie, and the fourth threescore and ten, from whence the whole temple might be seene: and for the fauour which hee bare to Marcus Antonius his frend, he called it ANTONIA In this castle the Romaine soldiors, kepte alwaies watch with their soldiors, hauing an eie and principall care least the people should worke any innouation in the Temple on the feast daies. And so the Temple belonged to the cittie, and the castle Antonia to the temple.

30. THE COVRTE OF RECORDES,

which wee commonly call the courte of Chauncery, or of the Roules: that is to say, a house wherein the act of the cittie, and of the cittizens, and also their publike records, and the accoumpt of creditors were kepte:Iose, 2, bell. 17. &. 7. bel 13. the which the seditious burned, the keepers thereof flying from thence to the end they might destroy all the euidence of the creditors, and ioyne vnto them all the detters.

31. THE CASTLE OF ANTIOCHVS EPIPHANIS,

Iose.:12. ant. 6. both high and strong, the which, after the slaughter of many cittizens,1. Mac. 1. the spoile of the cittye and temple,Dan. 8. 11. 12. and the burning of most faire houses, he builded vppon the mountaine Acra, and fortified it with stronge walles and towers, and placed a Garrison of Macidonian soldiers there mingling with them certaine of the most raschall fugitiue Iewes, by whom the continual sacrifice was taken away by the space of [Page 29] three yeares and the citty it selfe vexed more then six and twentie yeares. But after this Simon Machabaeus wan and destroied this castle.

32. THE COMMON PRISON OF THE CITTIE,

Act. 4, 5. wherein the Apostles being shut vppe,Iose. 6. bel. 6. by the rulers of the Iewes, were in the night time brought forth by the angell. Iosephus seemeth to cal this prison Betiso.

33 THE CORNER PARLOVR,

Neem. 3. belonging to the corner house, where the publike suppers were kept.

34. THE VAVLTED CAVE,

leading from the castle Antonia into the Temple,Iose. 15, ant 14. which Herod the elder made, setting a tower thereon,Breid. 14. that by the same hee might passe priuilie into the temple,Iul. if so bee the people intended to make any insurrection against the K. the which remaineth as yet very wonderfull & large, insomuch that six hundred horses may verie conueniently be placed therein.

35 THE COVRT,

Iosep. 6, bel. 6, et, 7 be. 13. In Hebrew called Gasith. Which in the inner cittie was ioyned to an olde wal thereof.Exod. 18. Wherein were three score and tenne Senatours and ordinary Iudges,Hier. to, 3. epist. 25, ad. Fabiol. which were called of the Iewes Sanhedrim, in Greeke Synedrium, that is to saye in English,mars. 11. The counsell of the Elders, and Seniors of the people.Num. 11. These dealt in the affaires of the common wealth, gaue Lawes, and determined the doubtfull and weightie causes, yea euen of other Citties [Page 20] also, they ended strifes and controuersies, and gaue the sentence of death,Deu. 17 generally they dealt in all capitall causes, except onely in the difficulties and misteries of Gods Lawe and of the Iewes Religion, the which the priestes onely determined. In this consistorie the Apostles were examined,Actes 4, 5 whipped, and forbidden to preach, and yet went reioysing from the Councell, because they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the name of Iesus.Actes 6, 7 Heere it was that Saint Stephen standing before the Councell, and his countenance shining like an Aungell, lifting vppe his eies, sawe the Heauens open, and the glorie of God, and Iesus standing at the right hande of GOD, from thence hee being cast with violence out of the Citty, was stoned.

36 THE HOVSE OF ANANIAS THE HIGH PRIEST,

Iosep. 2. bel. 17. which the seditious at y^e length fiered.

37. THE HOVSE OF SAINT ANNE,

Breid. 26, the Grandame of Christ,Iul. Sal. to. 8. cap. 6 wherein she with Ioacim her husband abode when the feast was at Ierusalem, where they both died.Iac, vitri. cap. 58 Heere the blessed virgine Mary was conceiued (as some coniecture) and aboad there during the passion of Christ.

38 THE HOVSE OF THE RICH GLVTTON,

Luke. 6 which burneth in hel according to the Euangelicall storie.Breid. 14. In the which house that he dwelt,Iul. it is reported by some antiquities,Sal. tom. 8 cap. 6 a high wall whereof is shewed at this day to Christian trauellers.

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39. THE HOVSE OF MISSA,

4 king. 11 whereof mencion is made in the fourth booke of Kings.

40 THE HOVSE OF THE NATHINAEANS,

Neem. 3 which carried wood and water into the Temple.

41. THE HOVSE OF THE PRINCE OF THE PHARISEIES,

Luke. 14 in the which Christ touched the man sicke of the dropsie and healed him.

42. THE HOVSE OF THE FORREST OF LYBANVS,

3, kin, 7, 10 in length one hundred cubits,2. Par. 9 in breadth fiftie,Isai. 22 and in heigth thirtie cubits: the which Salomon builded most braue and glorious of polished marble,Iosep. 18 ant. 5. 6, 7. 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,Hier. to. 3 epist. 33 ad Suniam. that the leaues thereof seemed in some sort to shake. And neere vnto the same hee planted a groue and a greene arbor,Eccles. 2 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 [Page 22] 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:Luk. 7. 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,Ieremy 39 and with feastes, with plaies and walkes refreshed their mindes.

45 THE GREAT MARKET,

Iose, 13. ant 20. &. 1. bell. 3. which was in the midst of the cittie, and neere adioyning to the Castle Antonia,Iose. 14, ant 22. item. 1. bel. 7. & 11: 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 [Page 23] about to bring againe Antigonus into the kingdom.Iose. 6. bel. 14. & 7. bel, 7. & 8. 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,Acts 12. in the which,Euseb, 2. hist. eccle. 9 fish and sundry other things were folde. In this market S. Iames the greater,Neceph, 2. hist. eccl 12. the brother of Iohn, suffered his martyrdome by the tyranny of Herod Agrippa.

47. THE VPHOLSTERS MARKET,

Neem. 3. wherein all maner of olde garments that had beene worne aforetime of others, were to be sold.

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48. THE SCHOLE OF GENTILLITIE,

1 Mach. 1. and 2. which Iesus, the false high priest of the Iewes (who after the manner of the Gentiles would be called Iason) and other Iewes apostatas, Mac. 4. 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,

Lyra in Neem. 3. 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,

4. King. 11. was builded before the west gate of the [Page 25] temple:Ioseph. 20. where first the Iewes,Ant. 15. then the Romaine soldiors, vpon the solemne feast days had the stations for the guarde of the temple.

51 THE LYSTES,

Ios. 15, ant 10. & 17. ant 9. 10. 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,Gen. 22. and the mountaine of the temple,Mich. 3. and the mountaine of the daughter of Sion, 1 Mach. 13 & 16. lying neere vnto the easte wall of the cittie,Isa. 10. 16. being very high, stoany, and very steepe rounde about.Iosep. 15. ant 14. & 6. bel. 6. 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 [Page 26] threshing flower, he offered a burnt offering vnto the Lorde,1, Cron. 21. which the fire from heauen consumed. Afterward in the same mountaine Salomon builded vnto the Lorde a moste excellent Temple both for largenesse and bewtie; whereof mention shalbe made hereafter.

53. THE FIRST WALL,

Iose. 6, bel, 6 7, &c. the which was called the olde wall, both in regard of the valleis, and a hill which was alofte aboue them, and also in regarde of threescore towers whereinto it was deuided, the which made it very defensible and strong.

54. OPHEL,

2. Cron. 27. 23. which Iosephus calleth Ophlam, was a tower of an exceeding height, whose top seemed to rech vnto the cloudes; it was fortified with a castle, and compassed about with a firme wal, neere vnto the Temple, notwithstanding it was without the wall, which shut off the habitation of the priests. Herein dwelte the Nathenims. Into this Manahemus the tyrant flying, was taken and slaine. This same was at the last burned by the soldiors of Titus.

55. THE PALLACE OF THE MACHABEES,

builded by them on a very loftie place on the weste side of the Temple,1. Mac. 13. from whence they which would behoulde the cittye and those things which were don therein,Iose. 17, ânt 14. had a most pleasant and delectable prospect. The which kinge Agrippa afterward excedingly enlarged and made it a Courte for himselfe: from [Page 27] whence out of his parlour hee might behold whatsoeuer was donne in the temple. For the which cause the rulers of the Iewes builded a very high gate betwene that and the weste part of the inner Temple, to hinder the kings prospect. This thing both kinge Agrippa, and Festus also the Lieutenant of the country tooke in very euill parte, who also commanded them to pull downe the sayde gate. But the rulers intreated, that they might haue leaue to send ambassadors to Nero the emperour concerning this matter, saying that they could not liue if any thinge were casted downe of the buildings of the temple. The which liberty when they had obtained; they sent Ismaell the cheefe priest, and Helchia the treasurer, and with them ten of their chiefe rulers. And Nero at the earnest sute of Poppea his wife, a godly woman, which shee made for the Iewes, pardoned the building of the saide gate, and permitted the same so to stand.

56. THE PALLACE OF PILATE,

Psal. 37, et. 72. and of the Lieutenants of Rome, adioyning to the Gallerie, which lieth on the North side of the castle Antonia: Isa. 1, 50▪ 53, 63. which pallace,Math. 27. was much more large, loftie, and fayrer,Mar. 15. then all the buildinges of the cittye, and had an ascend or mounting,Luk. 23. of twenty and eight steps of Marble.Ioan. 18.

Here when Christe was falsely accused, and required to bee crucified, by the princes and people of the Iewes, for (that as they sayde) hee peruerted the people, forbad tribute to be giuen to Caesar, sayde that he was Christ a King, and therfore approued him selfe a seditious person, Pilate condemned him to be whipped vnder the forme of this sentence▪ which was [Page 28] found in a most ancient chronicle,Breid 21. Iul. Sal. tom 8. cap. 7. as followeth, Iesum Nazarenum virum sediciosum, et Mosaicae legis contemptorem, per pontifices et principes suae gentis accusatum, expoliate, ligate, et virgis caedite. That is to saye, Take ye Iesus of Nazareth accused by the chiefe priestes and rulers of his owne Nation to bee a man sedicious, and a contemner of Moses Lawe, strip him, binde him, and whyp him. Whereupon the soldiors of Pilate led him into the Iudgement haule, stript him before the whole band of soldiors and other people, tied him to a piller, beate him most cruelly with roddes, and rent and tare his most tender body. After this, they put on him a purple robe, platted and in forcible manner, broided on his head a crowne of sharpe thornes, deliuered into his right hand a reede, and in scorne saluted him as a kinge bending the knee before him, many waies mocked him, they did spit on him, they did buffet him, and strike him vpon the wounded heade with a reede.

57 THE QVEENES PALLACE,

3 Reg, 7. 9. which Salomon most royally builded of precious and polished stones,Cro. 2. 8. 9. for the habitation of his wife which was Pharaos daughter.

58 SALOMONS PALLACE,

3 kin. 7, 10 exceeding greate and fayre, the which hee builded in thirtene yeares magnificently and moste sumptuously on the south parte of the mount Moria, of bright marble, and cedar trees, supported with many pillers, for his owne habitation: this he wonderfully garnished with gold and siluer round about, and made all the vessels thereof of gold. In the same place afterward, the Christian [Page 29] kings of Ierusalem had their pallace, where first began the order of the Templers.

59 THE CASTLE PISAN,

Sal. to. 7. cap. 1. compassed about with deep trenches, & towers; the which was builded on the west part of the cittie, by the Christian inhabitants of a towne in Italie belonging to the Pisans, at what time they had the dominion of the holy lande. Where first the Pisans, after them the Saracens, and now the Turkes, do exact of the pilgrims of the holy land sacrilegious tribute.

60 THE INNER FOVNTAINE,

2. Reg, 20. which king Ezechias made in the midst of the cittie at the North side of the temple.2 Cron. 32. For he brought into the cittie the waters of this fountaine,Eccles. 48▪ from the higher fountaine of Gition, by conduct pipes which were vnder the earth, and made them to issue forth in this fountaine. This fountaine he compassed about with a wel to water the whole cittie, that the people in time of siege might not be distressed with the want of water.

61 THE POOLE PROBATICA,

Iohn. 5. that is to say y^e sheep poole, wherein the sheepe and other beastes were washed that were appointed for sacrifice. In Hebrue it is called Bethesda, (and corruptly Bethsaida) that is to say, the house of effusion because the raine waters ran into the same. It was situate betwene the gate of the valley and the temple.Sol. to. 8. cap. 5, 6. It was the largest and most principall poole or water of the whole cittie, hauing fiue porches, which king Salomon made for the seruice [Page 30] of the Temple. And this Iosephus calleth Salomons lake or Poole. For in this poole the Nathenims washed the oblations which they deliuered vnto the priests to be offered in the Temple. The Water heereof was moued at certeine times by the Aungell of the Lord, and who so after the stirring therof went first into the water, he was healed, whatsoeuer disease he had. And therefore there lay a great multitude of languishing people in the porches thereof, as blinde, lame, withered, waiting for the mouing of the water. Among which number Christ healed a man which had languished thirty and eight yeares.

62 THE OLD FOVNTAINE,

Isai. 22. together with a Riuer,Iese. 7, bel. 24. which issuing out of the same runneth through the whole Cittie into the brooke Cedron.

63 THE BRIDGE,

Iose. 14. and portch with gates, by which men went from the gallerie,Ant. 8, et 15. and from the Castle Antonia, ouer the valley of Cedron into the Temple, the which at the first the fauorites of Aristobolus against Pompei, Ant. 14, et 1. Bel. 5. and afterward the seditious against Florus, Item. 2, bel 15, 16, &c. cut off, least by the meanes of the Castle Antonia, the Temple should be gotten.

64 THE WARDERS GATE,

Neem: 12 so called, because certeine of the kings guard warded there, at such time as the king entered into the Temple.

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65 THE HORSE GATE,

Lyran, in Neem. 3 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,

Ios. 6, bel, 6 was scituate in the olde wall of the Citty.

67. THE FIRST GATE,

Zach. 14 whereof the Prophet Zacharie maketh mention.

68. THE PORCH OF PILLERS,

3 king. 7 scituate before Salomons pallace, the which was fiftie cubites long, and thirty cubites broad, and supported with strong pillers.

69. THE BEAST MARKET,

Ioh, 5. called Probatica, where sheepe, oxen, and other beastes for sacrifice were sold in the open market.

70 THE PALLACE OF QVEENE BERNICE,

Act. 25. 26. sister of king Agrippa, Ios. 2, bel 15 16, et, 17. 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.

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71. THE PALLACE OF GRAPTA,

Ios. 5. Bel. 9 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,

Ios. 20, ant. 2. & 6. bel. 7 & bel, 13. Euseb. 2 hist eccle. 12. 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,Acts 11. 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,

Ios. 6, bel. 7. kinge of Adiabens, the sonne of Helen, which was situat in the easte parte of the cittie.

74. THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD,

King. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9, 2 Chro. 2. 3 4. 5. 6. 7 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 [Page 33] 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,4. King. 25. it was prophaned with the pollusions of Idols often times.2 Chro. 36. 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,1 Es. 3, 5, 6. that it lay desolate threescore and tenne yeares. But after that,2 Mac, 3 Zorobabell repaired the temple againe in excellent sorte with squared stones,Iosep. 2, bel. 17, &, 7, bel 10. and the beste timber in the same mountaine, within the space of forty and six yeares.1. Mach. 1. 4, 6. 13. 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, [Page 34] he did waule it about in manner of a castle with deepe trenches,Iose. 14. ant 8. et 7. bel. 4 9. 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,Strabo. Geo gra, lib. 16. hee wanne it with maine force,1 Mac. 6, 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,Agge, 2, and the bloud of the gospell is more precious then the golde of the lawe) greater was the glory of this second temple,Luke, 2. then was that of the firste: because Christe,Math. 4. with his presence, doctrine and miracles,Ioan, 7. 8. 10, et, ce. 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 [Page 35] 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,Iose. 7. bell. 9. 10. 18. 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,En, in chr, et 4, hi. eccl, 6. was consumed into ashes: to witte, euen the very same day and moneth, whereon aforetime the temple was burnt by the Babilonians. Niceph, 3. hist, eccle. 24.

Yet for all this after threescore and fiue yeares, the Iewes rebelling agayne, and going aboute to restore the Temple in the same place where it was afore, AElius Adrian the Emperour, slue of them in one daye fiue hundred and foure score thousande, and vtterly rased the reste of the buildinges of Ierusalem, and leueled the mountaine Moria whereon the Temple was builded, and made it euen, casting the rubbish and earthe thereof into the vale Iosaphat, and into the brooke Cedron, lefte the citty trusting to the defence of the mountaine and Temple, shoulde rise vppe and rebell any [Page 36] more against the Romaines. He wasted also with fire and sword nine hundred and foure score villages. But the emperour Iulian the Apostata, after two hundred and twenty seuen yeares, to make the oracle of Christ false,Ruffin. in Euseb, hist. which he had prophesied concerning the temple that there should not bee lefte one stone vppon another,Eccl, lib, 10 cap, 37, 38. 39. gaue vnto the Iewes money out of the common treasurie, and commanded them to build a new the temple and to sacrifice there according to the law of Moses. Theodoret. 3, hist, eccle. 17.

The Iewes glad of this, came from all partes of the world to Ierusalem, Zozo. 5. hist eccle, 21. and threatning greuous things against the Christians,Niceph. 10. hist, eccle. 32, 33. they prepared & got vnto them skilfull workemen, stones, timber, morter, and all other things necessary for the building: also they caused to be made siluer mattockes, spades, and baskets: and throughly purged the place where the Temple stoode, with such speede and willingnesse, that their women also bestowed all their ouches, taches, bruches, and other Iewells, for the building, and caried out from that place all the rubbish in their laps. And when the foundations were opened and clensed, the day following they should haue begun their foundation, but the same night there came such an exceeding and vehement tempest, that it caried away and scattered abroade their stone, timber, and morter, with other their necessaries. Ouer and besides this, a greate earthquake, shooke all the stones of the olde foundations of the temple and dispersed them, disordered the houses nexte adioyning to the temple by a downefall, and killed many Iewes.

And when they which remained, in the morning enterprised againe to build; a fier falling from heauen, a flame also breaking foorth from the foundations of the temple, destroyed more Iewes then before, which [Page 37] either were busy about the worke, or which came thither to see and looke on: and all that daye burnt and consumed into ashes, their maules, hammers, axes, spades, and all other working tooles, that nothing was left. The Iewes being yet obstinately bent, the next night following, a bright signe of the crosse appeared in heauen, and the garments of all the Iewes were marked as it were from heauen with figures of the crosse, and replenished therewith as the firmament with starres; which when the day appeared they seeking to put out, could not by any manner of means do it. And thus being astonished and confounded, they lefte off both their vaine enterprise and also the place. So that by their wicked endeuour, the diuine oracle, was not only not made frustrate, but also more fulfilled and confirmed.

The Iewes being in this sorte beaten from their enterprise, the Christians neuerthelesse were not afeard to build in the same place. For they erected a temple there in a round forme, made of greate hewen, and pollished stones, couered with a leaden roofe, very large high and bewtifull to behold. The which in processe of time, was honored with the Patriarchall seate, and became famous by reason of the true and pure worship of God which was therein maintayned.Wilh. ty, lib. 8, hist, bel. sacri, c, 20. et. lib. 9, cap 9. At the length being inuaded by the Saracens, it was contaminated foure hundred threescore and three yeares, with the filthy worship of Mahomet. Finally in the yeare of Christ,Broc. iti, 6. 1099. the very same temple,Breid. 14. Iul. though it was fortified with a wall, with towers, and with strong gates by the Christians, yet was it violently wonne by Godfrey of Bullion, a valeant man; who killed within the circuit of the temple, ten thousand Saracens, in such wise that the vpper face of the earth was couered with the bloud of the slayne. In the [Page 38] which place the saide Godfrey erected a Colledge of diuine seruice, giuing continuall maintenaunc to the same, furnishing it with necessary habitations, which so continued by the space of foure score and eighte yeares. The which expired, the same was possessed againe by the Saracens, through the pernicious discorde of Christian princes: who in the toppe thereof, (according to their manner) sette vp the figure of the halfe moone: and in the courts thereof they planted figges, and oliue trees. The same being nowe possessed of the Turkes, is defiled with the detestable worship of Mahomet. And all Christians are commanded by an Edict, not to enter thereinto, vppon paine of death. For if any Christian bee knowne to haue entered therein, hee is by and by either compelled solemnely to deny the faith of Christe, or else publiquely to lose his head.

THE FIRST PARTE OF THE TEMPLE.

75. THE HOLY OF HOLYEST,

Exod. 26. the which is so called bicause of the singuler holinesse of the place.Leu, 16. 23 It is also named the Oracle, Numb. 29. 19. and the Inner house. 3. King. 6. For it was the secretest part of the temple,2 Cro. 3. 4, 5. whereinto fewe did come: being twentie cubits longe, and as many in bredth; the heighte whereof was one hundred and twenty cubits. Whose [Page 39] floore was paued with marble,Heb, 9, 13. and layde ouer with firre boardes,Ioseph, 6. bell 6. couered with plate of golde. The gates were made of polished stones inwardely framed with boordes of cedar, and couered with golden plates: the which being fastened with nailes of golde shined most gloriously, as if it had beene a diuine worke. Whereon were grauen Cherubims, pretious stones, palmes, flowers, Imbosements, and pictures of diuerse sortes, representing the celestiall bewty. The roofe also was couered with golden plate, the very top whereof was sette full of goulden prickets, or sharpe spittes to fraie away birdes, leste by sitting thereon, it mighte bee polluted. Into this sacred holy of holyest, the chiefe Prieste, for the diuine maiesty thereof, entred but once euery yeare alone,Heb, 9. 13. in the feast of purgation: on which daye the Iewes did fast and afflict themselues. And then that greate and chief priest of God, prefiguring the person of Christe, offered the bloude of a calfe burnte without the hoast, for his owne sinnes, and for the sinnes of the people. Who if he weare but somuch as in sleepe polluted, entred not in in his own person, but by his substituted vicar.

THE PARTES OF THE MOST HOLY PLACEs.

76. THE ARKE OF THE COVENANT,

Exo, 25. 27 et 40 the which by the commaundement of God was made of Sethim wood,Num. 17. which corrupteth not,Deut. 31. by Moses in the deserte, couered within and without with plate of pure goulde, being sette in the middest of the holy of [Page 40] holiest,Heb. 9. shining like the sun with the glittering brightnesse of golde.Ios. 3, ant, 8 Whose surpassing bewtie is rather to be wondred at, then with words to be expressed. In this Arke the two tables of stone, containing the ten commaundements written with the finger of God, were kept with a singular care and holinesse: also the Pot wherein was Manna: and Aarons florishing rod, and the booke of Deuteronomy. The Arke abode in this place about foure hundred and thirty yeares.2. Mac. 5, 2. It is written in the book of the Machabees, y^t in the time of the captiuity of Babilon, the Prophet Ieremy by the commandement of God, hid the same priuily together with the Alter of Incense, and the perpetuall fier, in a caue of the mount Nebo. 2 Chro, 36.

But the Hebrues coniecture,Dan. 1. that it was caried by Nabuchodonozer into Babilon: 1. Esd. 1. & that it was neuer returned againe,3. Esd. 1. but another made by the Iewes in steade thereof after the returne from the captiuitie.Hier. in Ioel cap. 3. Other some thinke that Nabuchodonozer carried away the same with fiue thousand and foure hundred vessels of siluer and golde,Iose. 10, ant 13. which belonged to the temple of Ierusalem, Sucton. in vit. vespasi. and put them into the temple of Bell his god,Rodolph. lan gius de vrbis Hirosol templique origine et excidio. lib. [...]. cap. 15. but preserued by Gods prouidence (as it was sometime in Philistaea) after threescore and ten yeares of the captiuitie, they thinke (I say) that it was restored againe to the Iewes, at their returne by Cyrus, together with the said vessels. But after the beseeging of Ierusalem Titus and Vespasian, cariyng out of the temple to Rome, the Arke of the couenant, the two tables of the Lawe, with both the rods of Moses and Aaron: also the goulden table, and some of the shew bread: the goulden Candlestick also, and the foure pillers; made these to be caried among other spoiles, by the Iewes themselues round about the cittie in an open triumph, wherein with greate pompe they triumphed [Page 41] ouer that nation: Simon Giora Captaine of the seditious, and seuen hundred Iewes captiues (which were selected from among the rest for youth and comlynesse) going before the triumpher halfe naked, with their hands bound. This triumph being ended Vespasian, layed vp all the vessels of Ierusalem, in the Temple of Peace at Rome, which hee in moste sumptuous manner had builded: But the lawe of the Iewes, and the purple vailes of the most secret places, he commanded to be safely layde vp in his pallace.

77. THE TWO CHERVBIMS,

Ex. 25, 37. of glory, the which, as it appeareth by the Hebrue text of Paralippomenon, 2. King. 6. are like vnto young boyes,Heb. 9. made of the wood of the oliue tree,Ios. 8, ant, 3. ten cubits high, and couered with plates of gold, and shining with angelicall brightnesse, stood at each ende of the Arke with wings spred, one couple couering the propitiatorie, and with the other couple touching the gate on both sides: Whose faces were directed toward the vttermost house: and looking one towardes the other, they behelde both themselues, and also the propitiatorie.

78. THE PROPITIATORIE,

otherwise also called the oracle, the which being aboue the Arke, betwene the wings of the two Cherubims, and shining with most pure golde in brightnesse aboue the sunne, representing the diuine maiesty, was as it were the seate of God speaking: from whence he gaue oracles and answeres.

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THE SECOND PARTE OF THE TEMPLE.

79. THE HOLIE PLACE,

Exo. 26, 29 so called for the dignitie of the place.Leuit. 10. It was also called the Sanctuary, 3. King. 6 the outwarde house of the Lorde,1 Cro. 23, 24. and the priests Courte.2. Paralip. 3. This is the other parte of the Temple, fortye cubits longe,Ezech. 44. and twenty broade, in highte one hundred and twenty cubits.Luke 1, The doores hereof were of golde.Heb. 9. The floore made of firre boards was couered with plate of goulde.Ios. 8, ant, 3. et 15 an. 14. The gates were made of polished stones, and beeing within lined with boardes of Caedar, were couered outwardely with plates of goulde. Whereon was grauen Cherubims pretious stones, palmes, flowers, and sundry carued workes and pictures, which wonderfullie delighted men to behold. Aboue it was couered with a fayre roofe, shining as if it had beene fier.

From the enterance hereinto, such as were not cleane, were forbidden by the Lawe. Only the priests, which Kinge Dauid reckened to the number of thirty eight thousand, and distinguished them by Lot into foure and twenty orders, entered dayly thereinto.

All which beeing without vice, according to Dauids ordinance, wekely by turne, from Saboth to Saboth abstayning from their wiues, from wine and from all other stronge drincke, their priuities couered with linnen breeches, outwardely cloathed and [Page 43] girded with a linnen garment, wearing a silke myter on their heade, in a wonderfull order, and with the greatest reuerence that coulde bee, they worshipped God, they offered sacrifices and made their praiers.

80. THE ALTER OF INCENSE,

Exo. 30. 37 of gould,Leuit. 2. which by Gods commaundement was placed ouer againste the vaile hanging before the most holy place,1. Mac. 4. called the holye of holyest: Whereon the Priestes,Luk. 1. euery daye morning and euening offered vnto God for a sweete sauour, Frankenscence and sweete perfumes. The angell Gabriell standing sometime at the righte hande of this alter, toulde vnto Zachary, as hee was offering Incense, the conception of Iohn Baptist.

81. THE GOVLDEN CANDELSTICKE,

the which hauing seuen branches,Ex. 25, 26. 27. 37 and so many Candles, was placed on the South side of the Temple: the which being lamps of most pure oile,Leuit. 24. burned continually, and gaue light as well by day as by night,Ios. 3 an, 10. to all the holy place.

82. THE FOVNTAYN,

Ezec. 47. of water which issued forth on y^e right side of the temple the water wherof Salomō deriued into the sea of bras,Ioel 3. and into the copper Lauer: Aristeas li. de 72 anter pret. the which being carried from thence by Conduit pipes vnder the earth breking forth halfe a mile from [Page 44] the east side of the citrie ranne into the brooke Cedron.

83. THE GOVLDEN TABLE,

Exo. 25, 26 37. the which stood on the North side of the temple,Leuit. 24. whereon were sette twelue loaues made of the most pure and fine flower of wheate.1 King. 21. The which being stale,Mar. 2. remayned to the vse of the priests,Ios. 3, ant, 9. and then new were supplyed againe euery Saboth day, vppon the which were layde two golden cups full of Frankensence.

84. THE CHEFE PRIESTE

his Image,Exo. 28, 39 and holy apparell,Leui. 8, 16. euery parte whereof shewe forth vnto vs, a diuine and heauenly magnificence. For when he went to offer sacrifice, or to enter into the most holy place he put on not only the vnder garments spoken of before vnder the nūber seuenty nyne, but also aboue vppon them a Tunicle of Iacinct with sleues downe to the ankells, at the lower hem wherof there did hang threescore and two golden bells, and in another border as many pomegranats. The Tunicle was girt with a girdle foure fingers broad, wouen with silke, gould, precious stones, and flowers of sundry colours. Aloft aboue this, he did wear an Ephod or Superhumeral, that is to say, a most faire cloake, made of golde, of Iacinct, of purple, scarlet and of fine silke most curiously wouen together, dazling of the eies by reason of y^e variety & glittering brightnes of the colours and flowers. Vpon each shoulder whereof there were seueral Onix stones included in golde, which Iosephus calleth Sardonichs: in either of which stones six names of the children of Israell were grauen.

Beside these, he had the Reasonable of Iudgement, [Page 45] which he caried vpon his brest, wherein was doctrine and truth. The Reasonable was a square thing about the bredth of a mans hand, wouen and made of golde, lacinct, purple, scarlet, and fine silke, whereto were fastened twelue precious stones of diuerse sortes, hauing ingrauen in them the names of the twelue sons of Israell, according to the order of their natiuitie. Moreouer on his head he ware a long rounde cap, in forme of a Miter, made of Iacinct and fine silke; vpon the front wherof was set a brooch of gold in forme of a halfe gloabe, which figured the ineffectable name of God, Tetragrammaton, with these foure Hebrue letters [...] theron ingrauē, setting forth by the wonderfull brightnesse thereof the excellencie of the diuine maiestie: Also the golden Censer in his hand: by which he offered vnto God the most fragrant odor of Frankensence, is a parte of his ornaments.

Al which things as they are ful of misteries, so some of them excelled the rest in diuine power. For that stone which the high prieste did beare on his righte shoulder, so often as he had pleased God with sacrifices, did so wonderfully shine, that they which stoode a greate way off might perceiue it. And (which is no lesse wonderfull) the twelue stones which were on the Reasonable, did foreshewe vnto them which went to the warre, victorie.

For before the army should moue it selfe, there came so great a brightnesse from them, that it gaue al the people to vnderstand that God was present, and that he would helpe all those that call vpon him. But now God being angry with the wickednesse of his kings, both the Reasonable and the Onix also haue ceased one hundred and fiue yeares before the natiuity of Christ to giue their wonted shine and brightnesse.

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85 THE VAILE,

Exod. 26. 36. was wouen of Iacinct, purple, scarlet and fine silcke in most bewtifull varietie; and was adorned with Cherubims and al manner of flowers imbroydered thereon,2 Cron. 3. which hong at the gate before the most holy place,Math. 27, and at the death of Christ was rente from the top to the bottome euen in the midst,

THE THIRD PARTE OF THE TEMPLE.
86 THE IEWES ILE

. The which also is called the Entery, 3. King. 6. the Haule, 2 Cron. 4. 6 the Holy Secular, & Salomons Porch, being the thirde parte of the temple.Ezech. 40. Into the which men wente vp by foure steppes.Heb. 9. Whose pauement checkered with marble of sundry sortes,Ioseph. ant 3. 14. et 6. bel et 7. bell 4. 16. et l. 2. cont: Apionene. was open to the aier, and vncouered, and was compassed aboute with a wall made with three degrees of stones of sūdry colours. To the which were annexed greate porches, broade, and aboue threescore and tenne cubits high, born vp with marble pillers of single stones which wer twenty fiue cubits high, the roofe couered with Cedar. The inset gates couered with golde, shined most gloriously. And it had three high gates: whereof the first tended toward the easte, the second towarde the South, and the third toward the North: euery of the which gates were shut with two siluer doores thirtie cubits high, & fiftene broad: but the weste part had no gate but was inclosed with a whole wall. And this was called the Iewes Ile or Haule because only the Iewes [Page 47] being cleane and chaste made their praiers there,Luke 1. and heard the words of the law.Iohn. 10. In the which place,Act. 3. 4. 5. Christ taught the people often times:Iose. 15. ant 14. et. 2. be 16. et. 6. 7. and where the Iewes would haue stoned him: and Peter when he had healed the lame man spake vnto the people: and conuerted fiue thousand men. Before this Haule inclosed with alattice, there was a Table sette, containing this lawe ingrauen with letters of Greeke and Latine, Euery stranger that shall enter into the holy place shall dye. And the Romaines had giuen authority to the Iewes to put to death as wel Romaines as Iewes, which transgressed this law.

THE PARTES OF THE IEWES ILE.

87 THE ALTER OF BVRNT OFFERINGE OF BRASSE,

Ex. 27. 38. the which stoode in the midst of the Ile open to the aier and vncouered.1 Corn. 4 Wherein that perpetuall fier was dayely maintained by the putting to of wood which fier in old time,Leuit. 9, 6 et. 1. the Lord sente downe from heauen, when Aaron at the firste time offered sacrifice in the desert. On the which altar, the priests euery day morning and euening, burnte sundry sortes of Male beastes which were cleane and without blemish, as Sheepe, Oxen, and Goates, turtels, Pigeons, and such like, which were consumed with this holye and perpetuall fier, for a burnte offering and Odor of sweete fauour vnto the Lorde. But in the time of the Captiuity of BABILON, this perpetuall fier was hidden by the Priestes in a drye pitte or well [Page 48] and being sought for by Neemia the priest,2. Mac: 1. threescore and ten yeares after the same, there could be no fier found in that place, but a certaine thicke water which by diuine power, at the praier of Neemia was sette on fier.

88 BOOZ and IACHIN,

3. King. 7. 2 Cron. 3. two pillers of brasse of wonderfull beawty, thirtie two cubits high, whose circumference or circuit comprehended twelue cubits, which Salomon caused to be made artificially, and placed them in the porch of the temple, one at the right hand, which hee named Iachin, and the other at the left hand which he called Booz.

89. THE LAVER OF BRASSE,

2. Kin. 7. 2 Cron. 4. a vessell of greate capascitie, full of water, placed by Salomon on the North side of the temple, whereon were carued the pictures of cherubims, Lions, and Oxen. In this the priests washed the beasts which should serue for burnt offerings, which neuerthelesse were firste washed in the sheepe poole called Probatica.

90 THE HOVSE OF COVNSEL,

1 Cron. 26 at the South side of the temple, where was the assembly of the elders of the people.

91 THE CLOSETS,

1 Cro. 9, 2. Ierem. 35. Ezech. 42. or vesteries, were side houses, lōg, broade, and high, like towers. In the which, the Priests when they should enter into the holy place, did put off their wollen garments, laying them vp till [Page 49] the seruice was ended.1. Mac. 4. Wherin also they did eate the partes of the peace offerings.

92. THE SEA OF BRASSE,

Exo. 30, 38 containing very greate store of water,3. King. 7. which Salomon made, and placed on the South side of the temple,3. Cron. 4. vpon twelue oxen of brasse; wherein the priests entering into the temple to serue at the alter, washed their hands and their feete.

93. THE NEW GATE,

Iere. 26, 36 the which was in the Ile of the temple toward the south where Ieremie foreshewing that the citrie and temple should be destroied, was taken. And where Baruch red before the people the prophesie of Ieremy.

94. THE HOLY GATE,

3. Esd. 9. otherwise called the brasen gate, which being in the Inset parte of the temple, opened toward the East: before the which Esdras red the law of God before the people: and where the rulers of the Iewes, a long time after that, exhorted the seditious vnto peace.

95. THE PORCH OF THE TEMPLE,

3, King. 6. builded by Salomō before the Sanctuary, 2 Cron. 3. the which was twenty cubits long, and ten broade.

96. THE RINGES SEATE,

Hier. in 2 Cron. 3. the which was very loftie, the which Salomon prepared for the kings.

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97. THE LOFTES OF THE SINGERS,

where diuine praises were songe with voice,Ezec: 40. and with diuers instruments.

98. THE PLACE OF ZACHARIAS,

2 Para. 24. where he was stoned betweene the temple and the altar.Mat. 23.

99. THE PLACE,

where the Iewes woulde haue stoned Christ.Iohn. 10.

THE FOVRTH PARTE OF THE TEMPLE.
100 THE ILE,

Ezech. 40. which belonged to the Gentiles,Ios. 15, ant. 14, et, 6, bel. 6, et, 7, bel. 10, et, lib, 2. contra Apionem. being also called the out set Courte, which is the fourth part of the temple, into the which men ascended by many stares. Whose inset space open to the aier paued with al manner of bewtiful stones, had foure excellent gates opening towards the foure partes of the worlde, which were shut with dores of brasse. This being a square porch much like a cloyster, vphoulden with pillers of Marble, & seeled ouer with cedar, was thirtie cubits broade. The whole circuite [Page 51] and compasse of which porch, was fiue hundred paces. Into this Courte or porch all sortes of Iewes and Gentiles might enter, both cleane and vncleane: where vpon it was called the Courte of the Gentiles. Here hence it was that Christ did caste out twise the buiers and sellers: and suffered not any man to carry somuche as a vessell through the same. Here hee discharged the woman taken in adulterie. Here hee taught often times. Here also the Iewes woulde haue stoned him. Finally here it was that hee was glorified before the Gentiles with a voice from heauen.

THE PARTES OF THE COVRT OF THE GENTILES.

101 THE GOVLDEN EAGLE,

Iose. 17, ant 8, et, 12. was of great waigth, sette vp by Herod the greater ouer the greatest gate of the Temple,Item. 1, bel. 21, et, 2, bel, 1. and was at the laste pulled downe by the Iewes and cut in peeces, where vpon arose a great tumult, and many were slaine.

102. THE TREASVRIE

;Mar: 7. in Hebrue called Corban, a chest wherein was offered and kepte suche money,Mar. 27. as serued for the necessaries of the sacrifices,4. King. 12. for the sustentation of the poore, and for the repairing of the Temple. When Helidore, who was sente by the kinge of the Syrians, soughte to take the spoyle of [Page 50] [...] [Page 51] [...] [Page 52] this treasury,2 Cron. 24. he was scourged by angels from heauen. And when Pilate by the like temiretie would haue bestowed this holy treasure for the bringing in of waters he was let and hindred by a general vprore of the people:2 Mac. 3. the which neuerthelesse the Romaines when they had wonne the cittie tooke and caried way.Iose. 18. ant. 5 Also we reade that Lysimachus was slaine neer vnto this place:Iose. 17. bell. 11. Here it was that Christ taught himselfe to be the light of the world,2 Mac. 4. and sayd that he should be lifted vp vpon the crosse by the Iewes.Ioan. 8. Christ sitting here,Mar. 12. pronounced that the poore widdow offering two mites,Luk. 21. had giuen more then all the rich.Iose. 18. aut 13, et, 19. Ouer this treasurie, for a monument of his aduerse fortune turned into prosperitie, kinge Agrippa hanged vp that golden chayne, which the Emperour Caius gaue vnto him: being equall in waight to that Iron chaine with the which his hands were bound by the commandement of the emperour Tiberius.

103. ACHAS DIALL,

4. King. 26. the king, which he made, wherin the kinge Ezechias being sicke,Isai. 38. for a signe of recouering his health, the shadowe of the sunne by diuine miracle, went backwards ten degrees.

104. THE NORTH GATE,

1. Cron. 26. whereof mencion is often times made in the Scripture and in Iosephus.

105 THE SOVTH GATE,

1. Cron. 26, mentioned often times in Scripture, and in Iosephus.

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106 THE WEST GATE,

1. Cron. 26 the which also in the booke of Cronicles,1 Cro. 23. is called the gate of foundation.

107. THE EAST GATE,

the which also is called the gate Sur, 1. Cr. 9, 26. otherwise Seir: also the kinges gate, and the Bewtifull gate:Neem. 3. because of all the reste it was the greatest,4. K. 11, 15. highest,2. Cron. 27 and fairest: by which also there was the principall enterance into the temple.Acts. 3. This being decayed was repaired by kinge Ioatham. And neere vnto this gate the Apostle Peter, with his word, healed the man which was lame from his mothers womb and sate there begging of almes.

108. THE TOWERS OF TROMPETORS,

Num. 10. which were erected alofte in the west corners of the temple.Ios. 5. hel. l 9 In the tops whereof, the priests, wanting the vse of belles, with two siluer trompets, called the people vnto the temple. Frō thence also they tould the people of Festiuall daies, of Sabboths, of fastes, and of solemne feastes.

109

HERE Christe writing with his fingar on the groūd made the accusers of the women taken in adultry ashamed and set her free.Iohn. 8.

110 HERE

Christ making a whip of cordes, caste out the buiers and sellers,Iohn. 2. together with their marchandis.Matth. 21.

[Page 54] Thus far we haue spoken of the Temple, and of the partes thereof: and now me will prosecute the other partes of the daughter of Sion.

111. THE THEATER,

Iose. 15. the which was builded in forme of a halfe circle by Herod the Ascalonite kinge of the Iewes,Ant. 19, et. 20. neere vnto the pallace of the Machabees. In the circuit whereof in Imagerie was sette foorth the tittles,Ant. 15. the victories, and spoiles, of Augustus Caesar; shining with siluer and goulde: where the better and more worthy sorte sitting vppon stayres and seates made round in compasse, and the rest standing therein, behelde the players, and actors, and musitians, playing theire comedies and tragedies, and other plaies.

THE PLACES OF THE DAGHTER OF SION.

112 THE THROANE OF SALOMON

.3. King. 10. It was a very great thron of Iuorie, 2 Cron. 9. couered ouer with shining goulde,Iose. 8, close and rounde in the toppe like a Iudgement seate, hauing sixe steppes or stayres, at eache ende whereof were twelue Lyons set. In this throne kinge Salomon sate, when hee heard the controuersies of the people, and pronounced Iudgement, and capitall sentences, appointing lawes and statutes. [Page 55] Herein also hee sate, when in royall manner hee woulde shewe foorth his pompe,Lyra. in, 3. glory and Riches, and when he intended to bestow vpon his faithful seruants rewardes.King. 7.

113 THE PASSAGE

which Kinge Salomon made of strong timber,2 Cron. 9, to go from his pallace into the temple.

114. THE TRIBVNALL,

was a publique place, set before the house of Pilate, Iohn. 19▪ and appointed for Iudgement,Mat. 27. where the Lieutenants of Rome were wonte to giue sentence,Mar. 15. which in Greeke,Luke 24, was called LITHOSTROTOS, that is, a place of pauement, and in Hebrue, GABATHA: bicause it was highe and loftie. Pilate sitting in this iudgement seate, and hauing good wil to free Iesus standing before him, tooke water and washed his handes before the people, saying, I am innocent from the bloude of this iuste man. But all the people crying out Crucifie him, Crucifie him, his bloude bee on vs and on our children: and further laying treason to his charge in that hee made himselfe a kinge, hee condemned Christ to the death of the crosse, in this forme of wordes, euen as wee founde them in certeine antiquities, from whence we faithfully report them.

Iesum Nazarenum subuersorem Gentis, contemptorem Caesaris, et falsum Messiam, vt maiorum suorum testimonio probatum est, ducite ad communis supplicij locum: et cum ludibrio Regiae maiestatis, in medio duorum latronum cruci affigite. I lictor, expedi cruces. [Page 56] That is to lay, carry ye to the place of common execution Iesus of Nazareth, a subuerter of his nation, a contemner of Caeser, and a false Messias, as is proued by the testimony of the elders of his owne people, and crucifie him betwene two theeues in reproch & scorn of his kingly maiesty. Go hang-mā, & mak ready with speede the crosses. The which sentence pronounced he deliuered him to the soldiors to be crucified. Who brought forth Iesus,Isa. 53. depriued of all bewtie and comlinesse, and more like to a leaper, then to himselfe, by reason of the paines which they had laide on him, but that he might bee knowne vnto the people, they put on him againe his owne garmentes, and carieng his crosse, with two theeues through the gate of Iudgement, to be crucified in mount Caluary.

Pilate sitting in this Tribunall seate in time of an Insurrection for bestowing the holy treasures of the temple,Iose. 18, ant, 5, et, 2, bell. which were called Corban, 8. Euseb. 2. gaue a secret signe to the soldiors which were priuilie armed vnder their cloathes,Hist. celc. 6 that they should not vse swords but clubs,Niceph. 2. to beate downe the tumultuous Iewes.Hist. ec. 10. By which meanes many of them were slaine, many sore wounded, and very many trodden vnder foote, euen to death by their owne company in the tumult.

After this Florus the Lieutenant, sitting in the same iudgement seate,Io. 2, bel, 15. caused many of the Noble men and gentlemen of the Iewes, to be beaten and torne with rods and whips, and to be fastened on crosses: who also caused many other massakers about the cittie, nothing sparing neither women, children, nor sucking babes. The which were certain beginnings of vengeance taken by almighty God vpon the obstinat Iewes for the shedding of the Innocent bloud of Christ.

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115. THE TOWER OF STRATO,

Ios. 13, ant. 18, et, bel, 3 in Greeke called Pyrgus Sratonis, situate betwene the castle Antonia and the temple: it was a hollow & an obscure passage where Antigonus was slaine by the soldiors of his brother.

116 THE VALLY OF CEDRON,

Sopho. 1: Ios. 14, ant. 8, et, 15, an. 14. broad, deepe and dark, which in manner of a ditch or trench compassed the temple round about. And because it was disposed after the fashion of a morter, it was called in He brue Macthes, Item. 1, bel. 5, et, 6. bel. 6▪ 7. et. 6, Ios, 20. ant, 16. and in Latine Pila. This was so exceeding deepe, that men could not looke down from the roofe of the temple into the bottome therof but their eies, would dazle and their heades seme to turne with gidinesse.Euseb. 2. Herein Merchantes, and all sortes of chapmen dwelled.Hist. eccle. 1 et, 23. Into this vally Iames the brother of the Lorde, firste Bishop of Ierusalem, for professing Iesus the sonne of God on the feaste of passeouer was cast downe headlong from the battlementes of the temple at the commandement of Anani a Saducei chiefe prieste, and was immediately knockt on the head with a fullers club, & was there buried nere vnto the temple, his monument remaining there alonge time after.

117 THE WAIE OF THE CROSSE,

by which Christ hauing receiued his iudgement to be crucified, went forward with painefull and bloudy steps to mount Caluary.

[Page 58] For beginning at the Pallace of Pilate he made sixe and twenty steppes (which make threescore and fiue foote) vnto the place where the crosse was layde vpon him.D. Petrus Potens & M. Mattheus Stenberch did measure the cittie of Ierusalē long since, by whose reporte this Description is made.

From whence (all the cittye gazeing on him) carying his crosse on his sore shoulders, hee came towardes the Weste, or rather North-weste, fourescore steppes, which make two hundred foote, to the place, where men say, that hee fell downe vnder his crosse.

From thence going forward, by threescore steppes and three foote (which make a hundred fiftie and three foote) hee came to the place where the blessed virgin Marye with Iohn the Apostle mette with him.Also petrus cal entinus in his booke intituled the way of the crosse. And proceeding from hence by threescore and eleuen steppes, and one foote and a halfe (which make a hundred seuentie and nine foote) he came vnto a certaine crosse way, where Simon of Ciren was compelled to beare the hinder parte of the crosse with Christ.

Taking his way hence by one hundred ninetie and one steppes, and halfe a foote, (which commeth to foure hundred and seuenty foote) hee came to the place where a certayne woman mette with him. And from thence going three hundred thirtie sixe steppes and two foote, (which amounte to eighte hundred fortie and two foote) hee came to the Iudiciarie gate where once againe he fell with his crosse.

From thence hee ascending faintely a very heard and stony way towardes the North, hee gained three hundred forty and eighte steppes and two foote (the summe eight hundred seuentye and two foote) which broughte him vnto a two foulde way, where certaine women weeping spake vnto him: And from hence [Page 59] laboring forwarde threescore steppes and one and halfe a foote, (which make foure hundred and foure foote) hee fell downe the laste time, at the foote of the mounte CALVARIE. From thence hee wearilie and faintingly went forwarde eighteene steppes, or fortie fiue foote to the place where the hange-men drewe off his cloathes, where they gaue him to drinke wine mixt with mirrh and gaule.

Then hee went on twelue steppes, or thirty foote euen to the place where hee was nayled on the crosse on mounte CALVARIE. So that from the Pallace of Pilate, vnto the place where Iesus was crucified, the distance is a thousande three hundered and seuen steppes: or by another accoumpt, three thousand two hundred sixtie and eight foot,

We haue made such exacte descripion and demonstration of the way of the crosse (as also the way of the Captiuity hereafter expressed vnder the number of two hundred and seuen) to the ende that euerie Christian man, in all places, euen in the doores of his house, or walking often times in his garden, or being in a iourney, or in the Temple, either lying in his bedde, may by the Imaginination of his minde conceiue the like way, and with godly affection of the hearte may meditate vpon the passion of Christ: the which no doubt is both acceptable vnto God, and for our owne soules health moste profitable as the holy Scriptures, and the writinges of good men by their often exhortations do testifie.

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118. THE WAY OF ENTRANCE EOR THE HORSES,

4. King. 11. which was betwene the pallaces of Salomon, 2. Cron. 23. and of the Queene.Ios. 9, ant, 7. By which Athalia the Queene being brought out of the horsse gate, was slaine in the valley of the Brooke Cedron.

119 THE GALLERY,

made in forme of a stone bridge, with many arches, extending it selfe with ample largenesse ouer the common streete, adorned with open walkes vppon the same. From the which there was a passage from the pallace of Pilate, into the castle of Antonia, and so from thence into the Temple. Frō this place, being very safe, y^e Lieutenants of Rome were wont to speake vnto the people.Ioan. 19. Whereon Pilate standing, exhibited Iesus to the Princes and people of the Iewes to bee looked on, being very soare scourged, spit on, cloathed with a purple cloake, and wearing a sharpe crowne of thornes vppon his head,Breid. 14. saying vnto them Behould the man; Iul. that he being thus afflicted,Sal. tom, 8. cap. 7. they might haue compassion on him. But they with confused voyces cried,Ios. 2, bel, 1. 6, Item, 5. bel. 9. crucifie him, crucifie him. Whereas yet an arch of stone is to be seene, and is shewed vnto straungers, with this Inscription: Tolle, Tolle, crucifig—the rest cannot be red, by reason antiquitie hath worne it out. From this Gallery kinge Agippa pronounced an eloquent oration to pacifie the sedicious people, exhorting them to obay the Romaines, Iosephus maketh mention many times of this Gallery.

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120 THE CROSSE OF CHRIST,

which was layd on his shoulder,Pasch. d. 207. was fiftene foote long, and eight foot ouer, as we haue receiued by tradition of the elders.

121 HERE

it is sayd that Christ fell the first time vnder his crosse.Pasch. d. 207.

122 HERE

also by tradition of some fathers,Breid. 14. it is sayde, that the blessed virgin Marye with Iohn and certeine godly women stoode,Iul. as Christe passed by with his crosse.

123. CHRIST, being com to these two waies,

Math. 27,and being wearied with the heauy burden of his cros,Mar. 15. is said to haue fallen.Luke. 23. For the which cause,Breid. 14. the soldiors and Iewes,Iul. fearing that he would faint, before he could be crucefied,Sa. 1, 8, c, 7. tooke a certaine man comming out of the country,Pas. d, 20 8. named Simon of Cyren, and compelled him to carry the crosse after Iesus.

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THE THIRD PARTE OF THE CITTIE.
124 THE SECOND CITTIE.

4 King. 22. This is the thirde parte of the cittye,2. Cron. 34 the which also had many narrow waies wherof mention is made somtime in the Scripture wherein amonge others many prophets and noblemen dwelt.Sopho, 1. This when the Romaines had gotten,Hiero. in 2. they were by the seditious againe driuen out of the cittie.Cron. 34. Io. 6, bel, 10

THE PLACES OF THE SECOND CITTIE.

125. THE LAKE AMYGDALON,

Ios. 6, be, 12. neere vnto the which Titus erected a Bulwarke.

126. THE HOVSE OF MARIE,

the mother of Iohn, and of Marke, Acts. 12. one of the seuenty and two disciples of Christ, wherin the faithful of the primitiue church, were wont to assemble themselues, & to pray. Where also after the martirdome of Iames the Apostle, Peter being caste into prison by Herod Agrippa, Sal. tom. 8. cap, 4. they praied without ceassing for his deliuerance. Who at the laste being brought out of prison by the angell, and knocking at the dore of this house, was by a damsell brought [Page 63] into the same. In the which place afterward a church was builded which was the firste of the Christian Greeks. And is an episcopall seate, which the Sirians hould vnto this day.

127. THE HOVSE OF OLDA THE PROPHETES,

the wife of Sellum; 4. King. 22. a famous noble-man the greate vncle of the prophet Ieremy: 2 Cron. 34. whose counsell being asked by the king Iosias, she foretould him of the destruction of Ierusalem.

128. A CONDVIT,

and fountaine, which by pipes sent forth water alofte:Ios. 2, be, 18 & 6, bel. 6. and by the like pipes deriued water into Herods pallace, and about the same, filling the cesterns thereof.

129 THE WOOD MARKET

which Cestius set on fier.Ios. 2, be 24.

130. THE HABITATION OF THE RECHABITES

:Iere, 35. who liuing religiously according to the commandement of their Father, possessed neither fieldes nor vineyards, and like pilgrims of this world, dwelt not in houses but in tents, and wholely abstained from wine. Wherfore when through the necessitie of warre they were cōpelled to come into the citty, Ieremy drinking vnto them by the cōmandement of God, they would drink no wine. By which example of their obedience, the same prophet reprehended the disobedience of the obstinat Iewes, neglecting the commandement of God; and therefore he did set before the one a punishment, and before the other a rewarde.

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131 A LAKE,

which was situate betwene two walles of the citty,Isai. 22. whereof mention is made in Isai the prophet.

132 THE MIDDLE TOWER,

Ios, 6, bel, 9. which was in the middle wall.

133 A MONVMENT

of Allexander Iannaeus the high Priest and king,Ios 13, ant 21, et, 6, bel, 8. wherein he was buried by the authority of the Pharasies very sumptuously.

134 A MONVMENT

of Iohannes Hircanus, Ios. 6, bel, 7. highe priest and Captaine: of whome mention is often made in Iosephus.

135. THE SECOND WALL,

2 Cro. 32, the which is also called the middle wall,Neem. 3, 12 bewtified with many gates,Ios. 6, bel, 6. and deuided with fourteene towers▪ the which wall Ezechias the kinge repaired, and made more stronge and higher.

136 THE PALLACE OF HEROD,

Ios. 6, be 6. the which was builded by HEROD the Ascalonite kinge of the Iewes, (who killed the Innocents) with sundry sorts of pollished marble stones nere vnto the west wall of the cittie, from the old wall, euen to the middle wal: being [Page 65] most singularly bewtified with siluer and gould most strongelie fortefied with an iron gate,Acts 12. and three most excellent towers,Ios, 2. be, 17 to wyt, Hippic, Mariam, and Phasel, which in greatnes, strength and beautie, excelled all the towers of the whole world. Within was the kings haule, which being builded on high and verie loftie with vnspeakable magnificence, was wholly cōpassed about with moste beautifull towers,Luke. 23. parlours, chambers, galleries, porches, & with pillers, with the which there was an inclosed court open to the ayre.

In this haule, Christ was presented to Herod Antipas Tetrarch of Galilie, who killed Iohn the Baptist; which Herod, asked Christ many questions, who was there constantly accused by the Iewes. Whom, when he answered nothing,Breid. 14. the same Herod and his whole rout despised and scorned:Iul. and so sent him to Pilat clad in white, as if he had bene a foole, or a iester. But nowe this pallace is a scoole for children of the Infidelles.

137. THE MIDDEL GATE,

Ierem. 39. & 52. of the second wall, wherin the vttermost walles being broken, the princes of the king of Babilon did sit.

138. THE VTTERMOST COVRT,

compassing the Haule of Herod round about,Io. 2, be, 17. where the kings soldiers did watch and ward. Wherin was the kings prison whereinto malefactors were put. In this prison Saint Peter was shut vp by king Herod Agrippa, Act. 12. who had slane Iames the greater. Which Peter being bound with two chaines, & most safely kept by fower quaternions of soldiors all the daies of sweete bread: [Page 66] But in the night before the day whereon hee should haue bene put to death, he was by the Angell of the Lord loosed from his chaines, and by him brought foorth through an iron gate, by the first and second watch, into the cittie.

139 THE LAKE, CALLED STRVTIVM,

which was the middle Lake.Iose. 6, bel, 12. Here also Titus caused a bulwark to be made.

140. THE TOWER HIPPIC:

The which being fower square,Iose. 6. bel. 5. 6. 7 was builded in the second wall, vpon a high hill. It was fower score and fiue cubits high, and hauing two toppes was to be seene a far off. It was marueilouse strong, builded by Herod the elder: who hauing in the warre lost his friendes the Hippics, called this tower after their name Hippic.

141. THE TOWER MARIAMME,

Iose, ant, 9. & bell. 16. & 6. bel. 6, The which beeing fiftie cubits high stood aloft in most bewtiful manner, vpon a high hill of the ould wall, the which Herod builded for a memoriall of Mariamme his best beloued wife, whom he had slaine, and called it after her name Mariamme. And because it caried the name of a Queene, therefore it was more beautifull in shewe then the other.

142. THE TOWER PHASELVS,

Ios, 14. ant. 22. et 16. which being fower-score & ten cubits high, set vpon a high place of y^e ould wall, and made alofte in forme of a ball was of [Page 67] woonderful height and exceding strong.ant 5. et 17 ant 14. et 1 bel, 11. et 6. bel. 6. et 7. bell, 18. 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,Ios. 6, bel. 6. 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,

Ios. 13, ant. 15. which Hircanus the highe priest founded, with the mony which he got out of the sepulcher of Dauid. Egesi. 1, hi. wherin pilgrims, poore men, and such as were Impotent were sustained and kept.Iudaic, 1.

145. THE WRESTLING PLACE,

Io. 6, bel, 6 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.

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THE FOVRTH PARTE OF THE CITTIE.
146. THE NEWE CITTIE,

called in Greeke Caenopolis, the fourth parte of the cittie;Ios. 19, an. 7 & 2. be. 15. & 6. bel. 6. 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,Ios. 6, bel, 6.. the which hauing many houses built theron was inhabited by the common sorte of people.

148 THE CASTEL OF THE ASSIRIANS,

Ios. 6, bel, 8 & 13, 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.

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149. THE THIRD WALL,

the which also is called the outset wall, which kinge Agrippa made vpon the common charge of the cittizens,Ios 19, ant 7 Item, 2. bel. 10. & 6. bell. 6. 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:

Neem. 3. 8. the which also was caled the streete of the gate of Ephraim.

151 THE KINGES CAVES,

Ios. 6, bel. 6. vpon the which the third wall of the cittie was builded in length.

THE GATES AND TOWERS ABOVT THE CITTIE.

152 CAPHETETA,

1 Mach. 12. the Easte wall of the Cittye vppon the brooke Cedron, which Ionathas Machabeus repaired.

153 THE CORNER STONE,

Isa. 28. which was moste harde, being the firme foundation of mounte Sion. Psal. 117: This [Page 70] was a figure of Christ,Neem. 3. Acts. 4. who is the stronge and stable foundation of his church.Rom. 9 1 Pet, 2.

154 THE GATE OF THE CORNER,

so called because it was situate in the north-easte corner of the cittie,4 King. 14. next vnto the brooke Cedron. 2 Cron. 25. The which also was called the gate of Beniamin, Iere, 31. 37▪ 38. bicause the way led through the same vnto the tribe of Beniamin. By this gate,zach. 14. wood was brought into the cittie out of the desert.Broc, itin, 6. In this gate also Ieremy the prophet was apprehended,Sal. tom. 8. cap, 5. 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:Eze. 43. 5 It was also called the Easte gate,Broc, itin 6. bicause it was builded on the easte side of the Temple.Sal. to. 9. cap. 4 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:Breid. 14 pasch die. 184. 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,

4. King. 41. which now of som is called Saint Stephens gate,2. Cron. 25 situate on the north part tending toward the way which leadeth vnto the tribe of Ephraim, Nee. 8, 12, where vppon it was called the gate of Ephraim. From this gate vnto the gate of the corner [Page 71] Ioas king of Israell, Ios. 9, ant, 10. beate downe the wall of Ierusalem by the space of foure hundred cubits,Broc, itin 6 sal. tom. 8. cap, 5, 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,

Nee, 2. 3. 8 the which was situate betwene mount Sion, 2 Cro. 23, and the mount Moria, Iere 19, 31. in the valley called Mello, Broc, itin, 6. sa, tom. 8, c, 5. 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,Ios. 6, bel. 6. 7. 8. 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,

4. King. 25. which in mounte Sion was placed betwene two walles of the castle: by which kinge Zedechias fled in the night.

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160 THe gate of the high priests pallace,

Neem. 3. at the south side of the cittie.

161 THE FISH GATE,

2 Cro. 33. the which was situate nexte to the tower of Dauid in the valley Mello, Sopho. 1. betweene mount Sion, Neem, 3, 2. and the lower cittie, towardes the weste: and by the vault adioyning to the same,Broc. itin, 6, Sal, to. 8. cap. 1, 5. 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,

Neem. 2. 3. 12. 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

.Broc. iti. 6. On the north end of the citty,Sa. t, 8c. 5. by which the seditious brake forth vppon the Romaines, Ios. 6, bel. 2. & 5. when they beseeged the cittie.

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164. THE VALLEY GATE,

2 Cron. 26. so named,Neem. 2. 3. 12. bicause it made way into the valley of Iosephat, situate in the midst betwene the doung gate,Broc. itin, 6, and the goulden gate, and not far distant from the sheepe market,Breid. 14. and the poole called Probatica. Iul. The which also for this cause deserued to be called the droue gate,Sal. to, 8. cap 5. bicause the flockes of cattell which were soulde in the sheepe market and were to bee offered for sacrifice in the temple, were brought in by this gate. But now it is called Saint Stephens gate of the first martyr Stephen, which was stoned to death not far from the same.

165. THE OLDE GATE,

which being on the west part of the cittie,Nee, 3, 12▪ was called in time past by the Iebusites the gate Iebus. Deut. 22. It was also called the iudgement gate, bicause in olde time,Ruth. 4, the Iudges did sit there in Iudgement.Iohn 19. For then the Seniors did exercise iustice and Iudgement in the gates of their citties.Heb. 13. And such as were condemned to die, went out at this gate.Broc. iti. 6. Where vpon Christ was led out of the same to bee crucified.Sal, tom 8. cap, 7. Of this gate, there are at this day some oulde remainders and ruines to be seene.

166 THE ROCKE

: which was very high, going alonge from the tower Psephina vnto mounte Sion, Broc, itin, 6 vpon the which the whole west wall of the cittie stood.

167 THE TOWER ANANEEL,

Iere, 31. the which being not far distant from the corner gate,Zach. 14. towards the easte [Page 74] and by north,Nee. 3, 12. was very stronge and notable: whereof the holy scripture maketh mention often times.

168 THE CORNER TOWER,

2 Cron. 26. standing alofte vppon the corner gate, which kinge Ozias did strongly repaier, and made it one hundred and fifty cubites high.

169 THE TOWER OF DAVID

:Vuil. Tyr, 9 be, sac, 3. stronge and loftie, the which was builded by king Dauid in a corner of two deepe valleys,Broc. itin, 6. on the toppe of a broken rocke, with foure square stones moste firmely ioyned together with Iron and leade: whose singular fortitude, and notable bewty, for the commendation of Christs spouse (which is the Church) is spoken of by Salomon when he saith. Thy neck is like the tower of Dauid, builded with bulwarkes, where vppon there hang a thousand shields; Cant. 4: yea all the weapons of the Giants.

170 THE HIGH TOWER,

2 Cron. 26. which was builded vppon the gate of the valley.Ios. 9, an, 11 The which also kinge Ozias repaired, and that it might be seene beyonde mounte Oliuet, hee made it one hundred and fiftye cubites high.

171 THE LANTERN TOWER,

situate on the North end of the cittie, which men thinke was so called, bicause fier was continually kepte there,Nee. 3, 12. to serue as a marke both for land and seafaring men, to direct them the right way.

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172. THE GREAT TOWER,

Neem, 3. which standing neere the wall of the temple was higher then the rest.

173. THE TOWER MEAH,

Nee. 3, 12. otherwise Emat, that is to say of one hundred cubits, which was not farre from the temple.

174. THE TOWER PSEPHINA,

Ise. 6, bel, 2. 5, 6. which was eighte square, of seuenty cubits highe, founded at the North-weste corner of the cittie,Broc. Itin, 6 vppon a very high rocke: being like a stronge tower, which by reason of the exceding hight thereof was feareful, from whence on a cleere day, men might behould Arabia, the sea, and the vttermoste borders of the Hebrues. The ruines whereof are as yet to be seene.

175 THE TOWER OF SILOE,

Luk. 13. which falling in Christs time slue eighteen men.

176 THE DEEP VALLEY,

Broc. itin, 6 which compassing mount Sion on the North and south parte, went all along the weste side of the cittie, euen to the gate of Ephraim, making a fitte and conuenient ditch for the Cittie.

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THE PLACES WITHOVT THE CITTIE. THE PLACES AT THE EAST PART OF THE CITTIE.

177. THE WATER,

Aristaeas. lib. de 72. interpretibus. which was brought out of the temple by conduit pipes vnder the earth, issued foorth here with greate noise,Mat, 21. 26 and so ranne into the brooke Cedron. Mar. 11. 14

178. BETHANIA,

the noble castle of Marry and of Martha the sisters of Lazarus, hauing many houses, the which was situat beyond mount Oliuet, Luk. 10. 29 distant from Ierusalem fifteene furlongs,Ioh. 11▪ 12. that is, two Italian miles. From which place, though it were but a little way off, yet by reason that mount Oliuet lay betwene, the cittie Ierusalem could not be seene: excepte from a little hill from whence part of mount Sion might be seene. Christe often times lodged in this house of Martha: where he preached the worde of God to Mary sitting at his feete. Here he raifed vp Lazarus to life, after he had beene buried foure daies, and began to stincke. Here, hee sitting in the house of Simon the leaper, at the table together with Lazarus, Martha seruing thē Mary annointed him with a most pretious ointment.

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179. BETHPHAGE,

Math, 21. a little village, belonging to y^e priests situate at the east foote at the mounte Oliuet, Marke 11. from whence Christ sente two of his disciples vnto the Castle Opposite, Luk 19. or ouer againste them,Iohn. 12. to fetch the Asse and the Coulte. The which brought, and the disciples cloathes laide on the Coulte, hee roade on the same into Ierusalem. But comming down from mount Oliuet, and seeing the cittie, he wept on her, and prophesied hir vtter ruine bicause she knew not the day of hir visitation.

180 THE CASTLE OPPOSITE,

Mat, 21. or which lyeth ouer against you (to vse the wordes of Christ) when he sent his disciples to fetch him the Asse.Mar, 11. It was a village right ouer against Bethphage. Luke 19.

181 THE WELL,

Iohn 11. nere vnto Bethanie, where when the Lorde came to raise vp Lazarus, Martha first met with him, and afterward called forth hir sister Mary.

182 THE LITTLE HILL,

at the foote of mounte Oliuet, Ios. 6, be. 13 neere vnto the Doue-house a little aboue the valley of Siloe.

183. THE WITHERED FIG-TREE,

planted beside the way of Bethanie, Mat, 21. the which bearing no fruite, but garnished only with leaues, was curssed of Christ and so presently withered.

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184 THE DRAGON FOVNTAINE,

which doth springe euen at this daye,Neem. 2. which was betwene the valley and the dung gate.

185. GEHENNOM,

the which also was called Benhennom, Iosu. 15, 18 that is to say, the valley of the sons of Ennom. It was a place which was situate in the Suburbes of the cittie of Ierusalem towarde the South-easte.3. King, 11. In which place of Benhinnom was the tabernacle and the Idole Moloch: Acts. 7, the which Idole as it was chiefe and principall amonge all the other Idols, so the same being the greatest abhomination and moste hated vnto God, hee often times forbad the same in the scriptures. It was an Idoll the matter whereof was brasse; made in the likenesse and similitude of a king, it was hollow within, and had a head like to the head of a Calfe, the other partes or members of the body hauing the shape and fashion of a man, the armes whereof were stretched out: whereto the children that shoulde bee offered were made faste, with the vehement and extreame heate of the Idoll were burned and vtterly consumed being so houlden as it were of the same betweene his armes. For when the Idoll was made red whot with the fier which they had put into the hollownesse of the same, then the moste wicked parents of these children in moste cruell and barbarous manner, deliuered vppe their sonnes and their daughters to these detestable and diuelish Imbracings [Page 79] of the Idoll, that so they mighte bee burnte. And this they did of a certaine deuelish deuotion, offeringe them vppe to the Diuell Moloch for a burnt offering of moste filthie sauour. Amiddest these horrible tormentes where with they were thus tormented, the miserable Clamor of the children could in no wise bee heard, whereby the parentes mighte in any sorte bee moued to pittie or compassion, for that the priestes of this Idole Moloch, during the whole time of the sacrifice,4. King. 16. &. 21 did vsually make an exceeding greate noise both with the trumpettes and drums.

Wherevppon that place was called also Tophet. In this abhominable manner,2 Cro. 28 33. Achaz, and Manasses also,4. King. 23. kinges of Iuda, beeing euen as madde as the Common people, offered vppe their sonnes to the Diuell Moloch. The which detestable madnesse, the godly kinge Iosias seeking at the length to redresse, brake in peeces the image of Moloch, cut downe his Groues, and defiled the place thereof with the filthinesse of dead Carcasses, of bones, and of other vncleane thinges, and appointed it to bee a perpetuall dunghil for euer.

In this Valleye Ieremye at the commandement of GOD,Iere 7, 19, 32. breaking an earthen potte in peeces against the grounde,Isai. 30. before the Elders of Iuda: prophesied that GOD woulde after the selfesame manner, break and destroye both the Cittye and the people. According to which prophesie, there was so great and mightie a multitude of people slaine there, because they had filled this place with the bloud of Innocent children, that this place was called no more the valley of Tophet, but Poliandron, that is to saye a heape of manye dead bodies, whose Carcases lyeng [Page 80] there vnburied, became meat for the birdes of the ayre and for the beastes of the field.

186. GETHSEMANI,

a ferme place, at the foote of mount Oliuet. Math. 26. This had manie fruitfull oliue trees. When Christ intended to go vnto the garden that was in mount Oliuet, Mar. 14. he came from his last supper into this place, heauie and sorrowfull vnto the death.

187 THE GARDEN OF OLIVET,

in the mount of Oliuet, Mat. 26. where Christ praied vnto his father three times,Mar. 14. that the cuppe of his passion might passe from him.Luke 23, And being in an agony, as he continued in praier,Iohn. 18. he swet bloud which fel droppe by dropp vnto the earth:Hier. in loc, at what time hee was comforted by an angell from heaueu.Heb, lib, G. In Hieroms time there was a Church builded on this place,Broc, itin 6. which is as yet to be seene.Bre. 14. Iul.

188 THE KINGS GARDEN,

the which also was called the inclosed garden.2. King. 25. It was in the Suburbes of Ierusalem, 3. King. 1. walled round about. And like to a parradise it was planted with trees,Cant. 4. of all sorts of fruits,4 Kings 25. with hearbes,Iere. 39. 52 with flowers of most sweet sauour, and what soeuer els that might delight the sences.Iose. 7, ant. 15. et. 9. ant 11. It had also most pleasant and conuenient walkes. In this was that famous fountaine Rogel, & the stone Zoeleth, of both which there is often mencion made in the Scripture; where Adonias when he purposed to raigne, offered oblations, and with his followers made a feast.

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189. THE GROAVE OF MOLOCH,

4. King. 23. consecrated to the Idol Moloch: Hieron. in Ier, 19, et, in Mat, 10. where the worshippers thereof, after they had ended their sacrifice, committed fornication vnder the shadow of the trees.

190 THE MOVNT OF OFFENCE

;3. King. 11. it was a very high mountaine,4. King, 23. situate on the south side of the kinges garden. Where the moste wise Salomon being nowe old, was seduced & made folish by his strange wiues, building a temple to Melchom the Idoll of the Ammonites, which also he worshipped.

191 THE MOVNT OLIVET

; or mounte of Oliues, so called by reason of the great plenty of oliues which grew there: called also in Greeke Elaeon, which otherwise also is named the famous, and holy mountaine. It was situate on the east side of Ierusalem. It was seperated from the high cittie, the valley of Cedron lying betwen, distant from the cittie a Saboth daies iorney, according to the Scripture: but according to Iosephus, Dan. 11. it was distant fiue furlonges: who also addeth that the top of the hill was six furlongs from the citty.Zach. 14. For it was of so greate hight,Acts. 1. that from the same, not only almost all the streetes of Ierusalem but also the dead sea,Broch. itin. 5. might easily be seene. And besides the oliues it abounded with palmes,Breid. 14. Iul. pines, mirtells, and other fruitful trees.

In the toppe of this hill, the holy king Dauid fleeing from the face of his sonne Absolom, weping, and barefooted worshipped God.2. King. 15. In this mountaine also his [Page 82] sonne Salomon forgetting all godlinesse,3 King. 11. erected a temple to Astaroth the Idole of the Sidonians, 4. King. 23. right ouer against the temple of Ierusalem (from whence euery one that committed Idolatry mighte beeseene.) The which also with all other places dedicated to Idols, Iosias vtterly destroied.

Christ often times came vp into this mountaine, both for quietnesse sake and also to pray,Luk. 21, 22 24. tarieng there all the night.Iohn. 18. 8. Also from the top of this mount, he ascended into heauen,Act. 1. in the presence of his disciples standing there and behoulding him, after he had blessed them.

192. THE MOVNT OF OFFENCE,

a high mountain, on the other side of the brooke Cedron, and on the North side of the mounte Oliuet, 3. King. 11. distant from Ierusalem foure furlonges.4 King. 23. Whereon Salomon by the motion of his heathenish wiues,Broc, itin, 6. builded a Temple to Chamosh the Idole of the Moabites. Sa. 6, cap, 5 This also Iosias brake downe. In the time of the Machabees a Castle was builded on this mount, some tokens whereof are to be seene at this day.

193 THE FVLLERS MONVMENTE

: the which was not farre from the Corner gate,Iose. 6, bel, 6 in the North-easte.

194. THE PALME TREESE,

Neem. 8. wherof mention is made in Neemias, Iohn. 12. and in Saint Iohns Gospell.

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195 THE DOVE-HOVSE,

on the South ende of the mount Oliuet; Ios. 6, bel. 13. It was made of stone, round, loftie, and fashioned like a tower, wherin were store of doues to the number of foure or fiue thousand.

196. THE BRIDGE OF CEDRON,

Bre. 14. Iul. made of stone, with one arche erected ouer the brooke Cedron, which Helena the Emperes caused to be made in that place.

197. THE SEPVLCHER OF THE VIRGIN MARY,

Ioan. Damasce de dormitione Deipar. which was in the valley of Iosaphat neere vnto the ferme place of Gethseman, at the foot of mount Oliuet wherein the body of the most holy and blessed virgin, was decently buried by the Apostles.

198. THE COMMON PLACE OF BVRIALL,

4. King. 23. which was in the velley of Iosaphat, Ierem. 26. where the common sort of people were buried.

199. THE FOVNTAINE OF SILOE,

Isai. 8. 22. whereto was ioyned the poole of Siloe, Nee, 3. the which also is called the lower poole, lyeng on the weste side of the valley of Iosophat, and springing from the roote of mounte Sion. The water thereof being cleere, sweete, and plentifull, ran with a still and calme streame into the brooke Cedron.

This fountaine kinge Hezechias repaired. In the [Page 84] poole of this fountain the man which was borne blind washing his eies which Christe had annointed with clay and his spittle,Iobn 9. receiued his sight.Broc, itin 6. Iosephus testefieth that Siloe, Breid. 14 Iul. and all other waters which were without the cittie, did so faile and vanish away before the comming of Titus Caesar, pasch die. 197. that water was soulde hard by them.Io. 6, bel, 11 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, Sa. t. 10. c. 1 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,

Acts. 7. 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, 1. King. 3. which being increased with diuers springs issuing from all partes out of the mountaine,Iere, 31. and pooles,Ios. 8, ant. 1. et 6. bel, 13. ran through the valley of Iosaphat, Ezech. 47. 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 [Page 85] many frutefull trees: the pleasant shew whereof, together with the gardens neere adioyning which were watered with the cristall streames of Cedron, Broc, itin, 6. greatly delighted the eies and mindes,Sal. tom. 9. cap, 1. of such as walked by the same. King Dauid passed ouer this riuer bare footed,2. King. 15. 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,

Ios. 6, bel. 3. the which also is called the valley of Cedron, Hieron. in loc. Heb. litt. C. and the valley of Mountaines. It is a wide and deepe valley betwene Ierusalem and mounte Oliuet, zach. 14. compassing the cittie on the east parte,Broc, itin. 6 sal. tom. 8. cap, 8. 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,3 King. 15. casting into the same great store of earth with the ruines of the temple and cittie,4 King. 23. yet it was not therewith any thing neere leueled.2 Cron. 15. 2. 9. 30. 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,Ioel. 3. where all the common sorte of people were buried.Sal, tom. 9. c, 2. 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,

Iose. 6, bel, 13. so named of the fountane of Siloe: Salig. to. 8. cap. 2. wherein the Iewes which at this day dwell at Ierusalem, are buried.

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204 THE WAIE OF THE FVLLERS FIELDE,

4 Kings 25. lying betweene the water of Siloe and the South-easte corner of the cittie.Isai. 7. 36. Here the Prophet Isaias foretoulde king Achaz, that Christ should be borne of a virgin.

205 THE WAY OF THE CAPTIVITIE

.Ioan. Pasc. in pereg. s. die. 190. 193. 194. 197. 200. et 207. 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,Isai. 53. returning from thence hee mette with his enimies which came to take him,Iere. 11. 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,Psal. 109. 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 [Page 87] 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,

Broc, itin 6.to Bethel, and to the wildernesse.

207 THE WAY TO IERICO, and to ENGADDI,

Luke 10. of the which there is mention made in some of the Euangelists.Mar, 11.

208. HERE THE THREE APOSTLES,

Mar. 14. Peter, Iames, and Iohn, Luke 22. 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.Mat, 26.

210. HERE CHRISTE,

Mat, 26. to make vs free, was betraied with a kisse by the Traitor Iudas, Mar. 14. 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 [Page 88] ground by the word of his mouth.Luk. 22. There Simon Peter moued sodainely with great feruencie,Iohn. 18. 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,Mat. 23, et. 25. Christ sate with his disciples,Mar. 13. making a longe sermon concerning the destruction of Ierusalem, Luk. 21. 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,

Mat. 21. sitting vpon the Asses coult,Mar. 11. wayted on with a great company of men,Luk. 19. som going before,Iohn. 12. 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 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 [Page 89] 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. Psal. 8. 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.

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THE PLACES ON THE SOVTH PART OF THE CITTIE.

213. ABACVC.

Dan. 14. Here the Angell of the Lord taketh vp the prophet Abacuc by the haire of the head,Breid. 14. Iul, as hee was carying to the reapers in the fielde their dinner, and caried him with the same meat into Babilon to feede Daniel,Salig. t. 10. cap. 2. being shut vp in the Lyons denne. Who being fed, he brought Abacuc hither againe.

214 ACELDEMA, or Haceldemach,

Zach. 11. that is to saye the fielde of bloud. Mat. 27. It was a potters fielde situate at the South parte of mounte Sion hauing behinde it a hill of the same name.Act. 1. This fielde,Niceph. 8. by the counsaile of the Iewes,Hist ec. 13. was bought with the thirtie peeces of siluer for the which Iudas soulde Christ,Broc. itin. 6 that it might serue to bury strangers in,Breid. 14 Iul. 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.Salig. tom, 6 cap, 5, et, t. 10, cap, 1. 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.Pas. d. 197.

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.

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215 THE FVLLERS FIELDE,

4 King: 18. which lay all along at the South ende of the cittie,Isai. 7. 36. 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,Hie. to. 1. in catal, scrpt. Eccle. hauing vowed not to eate breade vntill Christe was risen agayne. For the which cause the Lorde appered to him a parte,1 Cor, 15. after his resurrection.

217 THE CAVE OF PETER THE APOSTLE,

Breid, 18, Iul. 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, 4. King. 18. 19. were slaine by the Angell of the Lord,2 Cron, 32. and (as Augustine reporteth) their bodyes were brought into dust,August, t. 10 ad fratres in ere serm. 25. 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.

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219 THE HOVSE OF ELIAS,

Breid. 14. Iul. 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, Iosu. 15, 18 being very high and loftie,4 King. 15. bowing a little towarde the west.2 Cron. 26 Concerning this mountaine this is worthy to bee noted;Amos 1. That, when Ozias king of Iuda presumed to put on him the priests attire,zach. 14. entered into the sanctuary of the Temple,Ios. 9, an. 11 and offered vpon the golden altar, the incense of sweete sauour vnto God: by and by there came a great earthquake,Adā Reisne rus et Ioan. Herdenus in descrip. vrbis Hiero sol, lib. 7. c, 2. (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

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222. THE CAVE OF the Prophet Ieremy:

Lamen. 1. 2 3. 4. 5. wherein he sitting with a greeued and sorrowfull mind, wept, moorned,Necep. 8. Hist, ec. 30. and bewailed the destruction of Ierusalem, with sobs and sighes. Where Helena, the Empresse (as Nicephorus testifieth) builded a notable monument.

223 ISAIAS

.Argum. in Isaiam. Here that notable Prophet Isai, when hee prophesied in Ierusalem about threescore and ten yeares,Hierom tradit. Heb. iu. c. 2. Pa, 33. Broc. itin, 6. Breid. 14. Iul. 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,

2. King. 18. is a marble piller,Ios, 7. an, 10 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 [Page 94] piller, and challenging as it were, according to the lawe,Breid, 14. Iul. his rebellion againste his father Dauid, they cursse him with this malediction, Cursed be the Parricide Absalom, and accursed be all they for euer, which vniustly do persecute their parents. Pas. d. 191.

226 THE RIVER OF THE VPPER FOVNTAINE,

situate on the South parte of mount Sion (which Hieron calleth the Fullers fountaine) the which the noble king Ezechias repaired with the conduct therof also.4. King, 18. This he choaked with earrh,2 Cron. 32▪ at what time the Assyrians beseeged Ierusalem. Isai. 7. 36. Hier. in loc. Heb. lit. T.

227 THE SEPVLCHER OF ZACHARIAS,

the son of Barachias, whome the Iewes slue betweene the temple and the altar.

THE PLACES ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE CITTIE.

228. BAALPARASIM,

is a field in the valley of Raphaim, wherein Dauid the king,2 King. 5. at the first time, ouerthrew the Philistians, 1 Cron. 14. and buried their Gods which he found in their tents.

229. HERODS TENTS,

Iose. 14. ant 24. et 1., bel 12. which as Iosephus witnesseth, he pitched on the weste part of the cittie.

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230. THE FOVNTAINE GIHON THE LOWER,

2 Cro. 33 which sprange vp in the end of the fullers field,Broc. itin. 6. the waters wherof Ezechias brought vnto the vpper ountaine.

231. THE FOVNTAINE GIHON the higher,

4. King 20. springing from the mount Gihon, 2 Cron. 32. which afterwards Ezechias stopped vp,Eccle. 48. and cutting deeper into the rocke, he brought the waters thereof vnto the west parte of the cittie of Dauid,Broc. itin, 6, by conduct pipes vnder the earth, by which he brought it through the middest of the cittie, into the innermoste fountaine, leaste when the cittye should be beseeged the people might want water.

232. IVDAS,

Mat. 27. who of an Apostle being become a traytor, hoong himselfe vpon a wilde figge tree:Acts. 1. And being hanged brust asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

233. THE MOVNT OF CALVARIE,

Iere. 31. a rockie mountaine of meane hight,Mat, 27. called in the Hebrue tongue Golgatha; Mar. 15. which was nexte to the Northwest parte of the cittie.Luke 23. In the which place offenders condemned in open iudgement,Iohn. 19. were put to death. Where at all times,2 Cor. 5. a man might see the boanes and bowels of men hanged, or otherwise put to death. Here, Christe Iesus our sauiour, which knew no sin, becam (as the Apostle sayth) sinne for vs, that is to say, was made a sacrifice [Page 96] for our sinnes, and as if he had beene an euill dooer was hanged between two theeues, and for our saluatiō crucified. So that now mounte Caluary, which aforetime was a place moste infamous, by the passion and bloud of Christ, is now made famous and honorable.

234. MOVNT GIHON,

Broc, itin. 6 sal. tom. 6. cap. 5. a mountain full of stones, high and long, which running along by the West part of the Cytty, growing lesse and lesse towards the gate of iudgement, is seuered from the Citty by a deepe valley. In this mountaine, at the commaundement of Dauid, 3. King. 1. Salomon was annointed king, by Sadoc the chiefe priest, and by Nathan the prophet with the holie oyle. To whom immediatly all the people cryed, God saue king Salomon.

235 THE MONVMENT of Anani

the chiefe priest, of which Iosephus maketh mention, in his sixt booke, and thirteenth chapter of the Iewes warre.

236 THE PEARE TREES

of the valley Raphaim, 2. King. 5. the which Iosephus calleth the wood of weeping,1 Cron. 14. neere vnto the which Dauid assisted by God from Heauen, gaue a second ouerthrow to the Philistines, pursuing them a great way.

237 THE SEPVLCHER OF CHRIST,

Isai. 11. was a newe Monument,Mar. 25. eight foot long, distant from Mount Caluarie, Mat. 1. 6 one hundred and eight foot, and from moūt Sion about a mile: which Ioseph of Arimathea, a [Page 97] noble Senator,Luke 23. had hewen out in the rocke for himselfe,Iohn. 19. in the Garden neere vnto mount Caluarie. In the which Sepulcher he togither with Nichodemus, Nicep. 8. and the virgine Mary,Hist ec. 30. with other godly women, buried the body of Iesus,Beda in Mar. ca 16. being with the consent of Pilate taken from the crosse,Broc. itin, 6. and then trimmed with mirre and Aloes,Breid. 12 Iul. and wrapt in a fine linnen cloath, was put honorablely into the same, the head layed toward the west: And rolling a stone of exceeding waight to the mouth of the monument,Sal, tom. 7 cap, 3. et 6. he went his way. But in the meane time, the chiefe priestes and Pharisies, going about to hinder the resurrection of Christ takinge vnto them a strong garde of soldiors, watched the sepulcher, and sealed the stone which shut vp the mouth of the sepulcher, least the keepers and watchmen being corrupted with money shoulde deale deceiptfully. But this dilligence of the Iewes, by which they went about to houlde Christ in the graue from rising againe, increased the miracle, and confirmed the faith of the Resurrection.Mar, 16. And there hee firste of all appered to Mary Magdalen,Iohn 20. at the monument as shee was weeping, in the likenesse of a Gardener.

238. A WOOD,

neere vnto the cittie, as is to be gathered by Iosephus in his sixt booke and fourtene chapter of the Iewes warre.

239 THE BROOKE, OR RIVER GIHON,

2 Cron. 32. at the south-west corner of the cittie: which king Achas had begun to bringe from the lower fountaine Gihon into the vpper fountaine: the which kinge Ezechias at the last finished.

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240 THE VALLE OF DEAD CARCASSES,

Iere. 31. which lay betweene mount Caluarie, Lira, ibid. and the walles of Ierusalem: so called, bicause the dead carcasses, bones, & ashes, of such as were put to death or burnt on mount Caluarie were cast thereinto.

241 THE VALLEY OF THE FOVNTAINE GIHON:

2 Cro. 33. whereof mencion is made in the booke of the Cronicles,Ios. 6. be, 13▪ et 15, et 18, and in Iosephus.

242. THE VALLEY Raphaim,

2. Kin. 5. 23 that is to say, of Gyants. It a is valley on the west side of the cittie very large & great,,1 Cro, 11. 14. which beginneth at the north part, and extendeth vnto the South;Isai. 17. bringing foorth most plentifully in time past excellent wheate, wine, oyle, and al other fruites. In this valley Dauid by the helpe of God, twise ouercame the Phillistines which sought to inuade him with a great armie.

243. THE WAIES TO BETHLEHEM, Emaus, to Gaza, and to Ioppa,

Actor. 8. Broc. itin. 6 which Salomon made with flint and stoane, euen as he did other waies, which led to Ierusalem, both to make the passage more easie, and also to shew foorth the magnificence of his kingdome in this point.

244. THE WAIE TO SILOE, and to Gabaon,

whereof Brocardus in his sixt booke of his traueile maketh mention.

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245. HERE CHRIST

fell againe;Pas. d. 10. as according to the tradition of the fathers of old.

246. HERE IESVS

tourning himselfe about to the women that mourned and wept, Luke 23. sayde, Breid. 14 Iul. ye daughters of Ierusalem,Salig. tom, 8 cap, 7. weep not for me; but weep for your selues and for your children, bicause the day shall come, &c.

247. HERE CHRIST FELL DOWNE

the third time vnder his crosse:Breid. 13. Iul, as the fathers of old time haue affirmed.Pas. d. 181, et 212.

248 HERE CHRIST WAS STRIPT OVT OF HIS GARMENTS;

Psal, 38, et 68. whose body being all to torne with whips,Isai. 63. could not but be very soare, wherunto his bloudy garments cleauing gaue newe occasion of paine,Mat. 27. when they were violently pulled off.Mar. 15. And standing there naked al the while that the cros was a preparing,Breid, 12. in the could & wind, he sate down at the length vpon a stone, where he dranke wine mixt with gaule & mirh.

249 HERE CHRIST BEING LAYED ON HIS BACK ON THE CROSSE,

Psalm. 21. and stretched out vpon the same,zach. 13. his hands and feete was nayled thereunto with Iron nayles:Iohn. 20. and his tender members were with such force strayned and racked vppon the crosse,Salig. to. 7. cap. 4. that the very arteries and sinewes were loosened,Pas, d. 214. and all his bones might be toulde.

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250 THIS IS the most notable and memorable place of the whole world,

Mat. 27. euen the clifte of the Rocke of mount Caluarie, Mar. 15. wherein the Crosse bearing the bodie of Christ,Luk. 23. was fastened about high noone of the feaste day of Passouer.Iohn. 19. Vpon the top of which crosse, a white table was fastened, expressing the cause of his death, written with Pilats owne hand in these woordes of Hebrue, Greke and Latine. ‘IESVS OF NAZARETH, KING OF THE IEWES’

Further it is to be remembered,Math. 27. that the Iewes did in such manner erect and set Christ vpon his crosse,Mar. 15. that his backe partes might be toward Ierusalem, and his face towards the west. For they demed him vnwoorthy to haue his face toward the holie cittie.Luk. 23. But wee must thinke, that this was not done altogether by fortune, or without a mystery: but rather by the singular dispensation of God, his miseries seeme to be no false prophets of our felicitie,Iohn. 19. by this meanes, and by this dede forewarning them of that which the Prophet Ieremy had prophesied should come to passe, saying I will scatter them with an East wind before the enimie, Beda in Luc, cap, 23 I will shew them the backe and not the face, Breid. 12. in the day of their destruction. Iul. For as saint Hierom saith, seeing they are dispersed throughout the whole world, and do cal vpon God night and day in the synagogues of Sathan,Salig. to, 7. cap, 5. God sheweth vnto them his backe, and not his face that they may knowe that hee is alwaies going from them,Iere, 18. and not comming towards them:Hieron. in Iere, cap, 18 And that euen in the day of their destruction, that is to say, during all the time after the passion of our sauiour,Psal. 58. vnto the very ende of the worlde:Isai. 10. that when the fullnesse of the Gentiles is come in,, the remnant of the people [Page 101] of Israell may bee conuerted at the laste,Rom. 9. and. 11. and bee saued. And I verily coniecture that by this their cruelty, they were foretellers of our felicity. For in that they did sette the moste sweete and amiable face of our sauiour towarde the weste, it seemeth vnto me to note no other thinge, but the very same which the kingly Prophet longe before had toulde shoulde come to passe saying, His eies behoulde the gentiles. For hee hauing the eyes of his mercie opened and fixed vppon vs,Psal. 65. from the time of his passion, will not cease to looke vpon vs with a fauorable countenance euen vnto the end of the world.

Therefore, Christe being on this manner hanged on the crosse, three howers naked, bloudy, wounded, crowned with thornes, did hang between two theeues in most grieuous torments, partaker with them of the paine and punishment, as if he had beene a companion with them in their wickednesse: The which thing the prophet Isaias foreshewed should come to passe, saying, Hee was reputed among the wicked. Whome in the meane time, the Iewes, the high priests, together with the Scribes and elders of the people passing by, yea the common soldiors also, and the theefe that was crucified with him, in steed of consolation, which belongeth to al that are afflicted, in most reprochful manner scorned him, shaking their heads, and saying, Thou which destroiest the temple of God, and buildest the same againe in three daies, saue thy selfe: if thou beest the sonne of God, come downe from the crosse, He saued others, him selfe he cannot saue If he be Christ the king of Israell, let him come down now from the crosse; and wee will beleue him. He trusted in God, Let him deliuer him nowe, if hee will haue him. For he said I am the son of God.

Iesus most patiently suffering all these things more bitter then the crosse, was so far from reuenging them [Page 102] that he praied for them that mocked him saying, Father 1 forgiue them for they know not what they doe. And to the other of the theeues requiring mercy hee promised 2 Paradise, saying, Verely I say vnto thee, This day thou shalt bee with me in Paradise. And then behoulding his well beloued mother, and the disciples also whome he loued, and commending a virgin to a virgin, 3 said vnto his mother, Behould thy sonne. And then he sayd to his disciple, Behould thy mother: who from that hower forward tooke her for his owne. While these thinges thus proceeded, the sunne abashed at those passions which the creator of all the worlde suffered on the crosse, as it were mourning hid his face: and was darkened from the sixte hower, (at what time it shyneth in greatest glorye) vntill the ninth hower.

Then Iesus complayning that he is forsaken of his father, cryed out with a strong voice saying, My God, 4 My God, why haste thou forsaken me? This donne, to the ende all thinges that were spoken of by the prophets, 5 might be fulfilled, hee sayd, I thirste. Straight way one running,Psalm, 68. as though he would doo him some good, when he had taken a spounge, and filled it with vinegre, hee put it vppon a reede and gaue him to drinke. Iesus wonderfully thyrsted for the saluation of men: but the Iewes offered him nothing but gaule and vinegre. And so soone as Iesus had tasted the 6 vinegre, hee sayde, It is finished, geuing thereby to vnderstand,Heb, 5. that the sacrifice was truly ended according to the will of his father. And once againe crying out with a loud voice and with sheading of teares, 7 hee sayth, Father into thy handes I commende my spirit: And so bowing downe his heade (a man of florishing age) hee yealded vppe his breath, the nynth hower of the fiue and twentieth day of March, and in [Page 103] the three & thirtith yere of his age and three moneths. But in the yeare from his Incarnation, the thyrty and foure.

By this sacrifice, the moste high and euerlasting priest inflamed with most singular and vnspeakeable loue, offered him selfe a sacrifice and a peace offering to God his father, and by his death destroyed death, ouercame Sathan, brake a sunder hell gates, restored life, and opened vnto all beleeuers, the euerlasting kingdome of heauen. For this cause, the fathers of ould time, ingraued in siluer these words of the psalme in Greeke, and set it in the circumference of the hole which was made on the toppe of mount Caluary, and wherein the crosse of Christ was fastened, but nowe they are ingrauen in copper thus.

[...], that is to saye, Here God our Kinge before worldes wrought saluation in the middest of the earth.

The which one and onely bloudy sacrifice moste truly and lawfully made,Pas. d, 223. et, 224. hee woulde not by and by so soone as he was dead be taken from the crosse, but euen as when he was aliue, so when hee was dead, by the space of three howers he hong as a spectacle to all men: and as he spared no one member from torment so his will was to shed all his bloude, euen to the very laste droppe of his moste pretious heart, and to open the fountaine for the washing away of our sinnes,Zach. 13. the which we may vse to our endlesse comforte.Isai. 12. Therfore one of the soldiors perceauing and opening his side and hearte,Zach. 12. presently there issued foorth bloude and water as from a moste liuely springe, to the sanctifying and saluation of his Church. In the meane season all thinges gaue testimonie to their Lorde and makers death. The vaile of the Temple rente asunder in two [Page 104] partes: the earth was shaken and quaked, the graues opened, the deade bodies of men arose againe, and the stoanie rockes, (to the shame and reproach of the Iewes for the hardnes of their hartes) claue a sunder & burst in peeces.

251 HERE the blessed virgin Marie,

Iohn. 19. accompanied with Iohn, Luk. 2▪ with Marie Magdalen, & with other women, stoode with a firme mind and constant faith,Breid. 12. where according to the prophesie of Simeon, Iul. Salig. to, 7. cap. 5. the sworde of sorrow pearsed her soule.Pas. d. 225.

252 HERE the soldiors

which crucified Christ, parted his garments among them and cast lotts for his seameles coate who should haue it,Iohn. 19. that the saying of the prophet might be fulfilled,Psal. 21. They parted my garments among them, and for my Vesture they did cast lottes.

253. HERE the dead Corpes

of Christ, being taken down from the Crosse,Breid. 12. was deliuered to the blessed virgin Marie to be buried.

254 HERE

Christ meteth with the women,Math. 28. which returned from his Sepulcher toward Ierusalem, and saluteth them, who imbracing and kissing his feete woorshiped him.

255 HERE

Christ in the forme of a straunger,Luk. 24. went with the two disciples toward Emaus: Mar. 16. and in the way as [Page 105] they wente together, hee interpreted Moses, and the Scriptures of all the prophets, which he proued to bee fulfilled in him.

THE PLACES ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE CITTIE.

256. THE tents of the Chaldaeans.

On this North part of the cittie,4 King. 25. Nabuchodonozer kinge of Babilon, and the Chaldaeans, Iere 1, 39, & 52. scaled the wals of Ierusalem, and wan it.

257 THE TENTS of the Romaines,

the which were pitched betweene the Womans towers,Ios. bell, 2. 3, 5, 6. 7, 8 9, 10 et 7. bel 1, 2. 4. 9 10, 15, 16. and the tower PSEPHINA. On this parte, although inclosed and fortified with a triple wall, Titus and the Romains assayled Ierusalem. For on this parte onely, the citty was sauteable. And albeit the other partes were compassed round about with one single wall onely, yet the same being very strong, and sette vppon stony and cragged rocks, and hauing also deepe valleies or trenches Impassable, were inexpugnable. Therefore they began to scale the first wall, which was the outermost and third wall of the cittie. After that they tooke in hand the second wall: And then the third wal of the cittie, which wall also called the old wall. Next they took the castle Antonia: And so the temple, which was fortified like a castle and last of all they entered mount Sion, of al the rest,Wtl, Tyr, bel sac. lib, 8, cap 5 et 18, the most strong. At what time also the Christians tooke this cittie in hand to win it, they began their enterprise on this part, anong whome Godfrey of Bullion was the first that entered the wal, nere vnto the gate of Ephraim, whose soldiors following the assalt like men, [Page 106] opened immediately the sayde gate, and so wan the cittie. The which also the Saracens beseeging on the same parte, wan from the Christians.

258 THE HILL GAREE,

Iere, 31. the which was neere to Ierusalem one the north.

259 EREBINTH

was a little village on the north.Ios.6. be, 13

260. GARDENS AND FEARMES,

Ios. 6, be. 2. 4. 7. inclosed with wals and hedges: where Titus taking a vew of the citty was in danger.

261 THE SEPVLCHER of Helene

Queene of the Adiabens (who vittailed Ierusalem in the time of the famine with wheat) the which she moste sumptuously builded with three pinacles,Iose. 20. ant 2. 3. et 6. bel 2. 5. 6. about three furlongs distant from the cittie.Euseb. 2. hist eccl, 12 Wherin she was buried with her son Isates: Hie. to. 1. epist. 23. ad Eustoch. the which also was standing in the time of Eusebius and Hierom.

262 THE NORTH MOVNTAINE,

Ios, 6. be. 13 where Pompei pitched his tents.

263 THE MONVMENT of Herod Agrippa:

Act. 12. who for his intollerable pride being striken by the angell of the Lord,Ios. 19, ant. 8. et 6, bell, 4. 13. and consumed of wormes, dyed.

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264. SAPHA,

in Greeke called Scopos, that is to say, A place of espiall, situate towarde the north, distante from the cittie about seuen furlongs.Ios, 11. ant, 8. et 2. bel. 24. et 6. bell 3. 4. It was so named, bycause from thence both the citty and temple might be seene. Here Iaddus the chiefe Priest, and the rest of the priests, in their priestly attire, and al the people clad in white garments, went foorth to meete Alexander the greate, kinge of the Macedonians, when hee came with his army to destroy Ierusalem. Whome when Alexander saw by and by suppressing his fury, in humble sort worshipped the name of God, which shined in goulden letters in the Reasonable of the high priest, and gaue reuerence to the high priest. Then entering into the Cittie and Temple, hee offered sacrifice to God, and graunted greate priuiledges vnto the Iewes.

265. THE FRVITEFVLL WOOD,

Ios. 6, bel, 4. et 7, which Titus caused to be cut downe.

266 THE LAKE OF SERPENTS,

Ios. 6. bel, 4. which in ould time was called Bethara.

267. THE WAY,

Broc. itin, 6, by which men went into Samaria and Galile.

268. THE VILLAGE

neere to Ierusalem, Neem. 3. whereof Neemia maketh mention.

[Page 108] THese (Christian Reader) are the most notable and famous places of the Citty and Temple of Ierusalem. By the placing whereof, the scituation of the rest may easily be knowne. Therefore if wee haue made a true description, let the praise be giuen to God, the giuer of all good gifts. But if otherwise there bee any defect, impute that to my want of skill, and not to my ill will: who for that I was not able to giue towards the furnishing of the Temple, golde, siluer, or pretious stones, haue notwithstanding offered a little oyle to lighten the Church; trusting that the same will be acceptable, both to Christ,who allowed the twoe mites which the poore Widdow offered: & also to those that be good Christians, whom it becommeth well to be like vnto their hed CHRIST.

FINIS.

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The names of the Authors out of whose workes and trauels this Description of Ierusalem is taken and made.

THE HOLIE BIBLE, of the old and new Testament.
FLau Iosephus, a priest of the Iewes: who flourishing in the 70. yeare of Christ, exactly described the scituation, the forme, and the besieging of the Citty of Ierusalem.
EXemplars of the famous Doctor of the church S. Hierom, as well printed as written. Who liued in the yeare of Christ. 380.
IAmes of Vitriac, who trauelled into the Holy lande, and and returning was made Bishop of Acon, who wrote a Booke, concerning the Holy land, and the wonders which he saw there. He florished in the yeare of our Lord. 1231.
IAmes pantaleon a Frenchman, Patriarch of Ierusalem, his booke concerning the Holy land. Who was famous in the yeare of Christ, 1247.
THe exact Description of Ierusalem, and of the places of the holy land, made by Brocardus a Moonke, published at Basil by Heruage, and at Antwerp by Stelsius. Who in the yeare of Christ, 1283. after great search and dilligent suruey of that Citty and land, and the view of the antient ruines thereof, described the same most carefully.
THe Description of Ierusalem and of the holy places, by Iohn Mandeuille Englishman, who finished his peregrination in the yeare of our Lord, 1322, and diligentlie described the same: printed at Antwerp by Nicol. Wou [...]er, in Anno. 1564.
A Table of the Citty Ierusalem, and a verie ancient description of all the Holy lande, portrayed one hundred yeare since and more in parchment, which Iohn Huls procured [Page 110] from the Librarie of the Colledge of saint Hierom at Delph in Holand.
THe originall of the Citty of Hierusalem and of the Temple in the same, described by Rodulph Langius, Anno 1476. and printed at Colen, Anno. 1517.
THe Pilgrimage to Hierusalem and to mount Sinai, of Bernhard Breidenbach, Deane of the Church of Mentz, which he, accompanied with others moe, finished, Anno 1483. and most dilligently described the same.
Adding thereunto a portraiture of the most principall places of the holy land and of his trauell, which he caused a cunning painter to make vpon the view of euery place, whom he had in his companie for that purpose: Printed at Mentz, An. 1486.
A Description of the voyage to Hierusalem, published in the yeare 1520. by M. Gerard Kuynretorff and others.
A Delineation of the Citty of Hierusaiem, which mayster Iohn Schorrel with the helpe of a skilfull painter drue foorth by the view of the eie, sitting on mount Oliuet. 1521.
THe Description of Hierusalem and of the holy places, by Ioan. Heuterus Praetor of Delph, which hee sette foorth in An. 1521.
THe like Description was made by Bartholmew of Saligniac Knight, and professor of both lawes. 1525.
A Peregrination, with an exact description of Hierusalem and of the holy places, made by Iohn Pasch Doctor of Diuinitie, printed at Louane in the yeare, 1563.
THe Histories of the Holy warre, whereof there were three and twenty books, shewing how in the year 1099 Hierusalem and the whole land of promise, was recouered againe by the Christians, and so possessed of them 84. years by William, archbishop of Tyren, Chancellor of Hierusalem: printed at Basill in the yeare. 1564.
[Page 111] SIx bookes of Historie concerning the holy warre, sette forth by Iohn Herold, printed at Basil in the year, 1560
A Delineation, or Mappe of the Citty Ierusalem, and of the holy places of al the land of Palestine, by Herman Broculoo, printed at vtrict in the yeare, 1538
BOnauentur of Mirica his Description of Hierusalem, and of the holy places thereof, who made three voiages thyther, and dwelt there a long time, in the yeares 1538. and 39.
The vniuersal Cosmography of Sebastan Munster.
THe Description of the Cittie of Hierusalem, and of Palestine, by Wolfgang Weyssenburch: Printed in the yeare, 1542.
A Dilligent Description of the places of the olde & new Testament gathered out of many authors: as, out of Ptolomie, Plinie, Pomponius Mela, Strabo, Herodotus,
Hierō, Ioseph Egesippus, Stephanus, Raphael volateran, Lyra, Bocas. And out of the morelater, as Iames ziegler, Wolfang Weyssenburg, and Andrue Althamer, menne that heerein haue taken great paines: and printed at Paris.
A Delineation and description of the Citty Ierusalem, and of the land of promise, most exquisitlie doone by Bonauenture Broccard, in the yeare, 1544.
A Description of Ierusalem and of the places thereof, by M. Gerard Ioan of Leiden, in the yeare, 1556.
A Map of the Citty of Ierusalem, and of the whole lande of promise, made by Tilmannus Stella in the yeare, 1557, and printed at Anwerp.
A Topographical description of the Citty of Ierusalem by Fabian Licinius a Venetian, printed at Venes in the yeare, 1560.
A Mappe of Ierusalem set forth by Adam Reiszner, exhibited to the Emperour Ferdinando in the yeare, 1559.
[Page 112] THe way of Caluarie, written in Latin, by Laurence Surius.
THe way of the Crosse, from Pilates house to Mount Caluarie, published by Peter Calentine, and printed at Louane in the yeare, 1561.
THe Itinerarie of Iohn Godscalci of Delph which he finished in the yeare, 1561.
A Description of Hierusalem and of the places therabout by Isbrand Godfrey, which hee finished in the yeere, 1563.
THe voyage of the noble knight, Baptist van der Muelen of Mechlin, who by word of mouth described vnto me oftentimes Hierusalem, & al the places thereof, which he surueyed in the yeare, 1567.
THe Description of the old and new Hierusalem, made by Peter Lackstein, and painted in a map by Christian Sgrothen in the yeare, 1570.
A Topographical delineation of the Citty of Hierusalem made by Antonie de Angelis a minorite, who dwelt a long time at Hierusalem, set forth in the yeare, 1578.
A Verie large map the Citty of Hierusalem, and of all the holy land, drawne in parchment with the hande of Biron a Frenchman with liuely colours, & bewtified with Gold, and described in the French toong, which Mappe, MICHAEL EYZINGER of Austria, a most dilligent historiographer, deliuered vnto me.

THese are for the most part the chiefe Authors among them, which of set purpose haue handeled this Argument, and of whome I make special mention, I haue vsed many, of whom I haue nothing spoken: And to make mention of all such writers, which hauing anoher purpose, and haue yet giuen me matter to write of, yeere to make a tedious Catalogue.

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A Table Alphabeticall, whereby the Reader may finde the principall matters conteyned in this booke.

ABacuc, 213
Aceldema, 214
Anani his moniment, 235
Annas his house, 8
Amphitheater, 28
Antonia his Castell, 29
Arke of the Couenant, 76
Altar of Incence, 80
Altar of burnt offring, 87

BAalpharazim, 228
Bethania, 178
Bethphage, 179
Broad street, 150
Bridge of Cedron, 196
Bridge of Sion, 19
Bridge from the castell antonia, 63
Brooke of Cedron, 201
Brooke Gihon, 239
Booz and Iakin, 88
Bignesse of Christ his crosse, 120

CAesar and Agrippas hall, 5
Caiphas pallace, 17
Castell Antonia, 29
Castell of Antiochus, 31
Castell Pisan, 59
Castell of the Assyrians, 148
Caues, called the kings caues, 151
Castel opposite, 180
Caue of Iames, 116
Caue of the Apostles, 224
Caue of Peter, 117
Caluarie, 233
Caue of Ieremy, 222
Capheteta, 152
Cherubims, 77
Candlestick of gold, 81
Christ his crosse, 120
Christ rideth to Ierusalem, 211
Christ falleth downe vnder his crosse 245, 247, 121.
Christ speaketh to the moorners, 246
Christ stript out of his clothes, 248
Christ racked and nayled on the crosse, 249
Christ deliuered to the virgin mary, 253
Christs garment parted by lot, 252
Christ speaketh to the women after his resurrection, 254
Christ talketh with his two Disciples going to Emaus 255
The court, 35
Court of Records, 30
Corner parlour, 33
Corner stone, 153
Court of Herods pallace, 138
Conduct, or fountaine, 128
Closets, 91
Common place of buriall, 198
Cypres trees, 7

DIall of Achas, 103
Douehouse, 195

ESsens gate, 66
Eagle of gold, 101
Erebynth a village, 259

F The

[Page]Fountaine of Sion, 18
Fountaine the innermost, 60
Fountaine old, 62
Fountaine in the temple, 82
Fountaine, 128, 221
Fountaine dragon, 184
Fountaine of Silo, 199
Fountaine Gihon the lower, 230
Fountaine Gihon the higher, 231
Frutefull wood, 265
Fullers field, 115
Figge tree withered, 183

G The

Garden belonging to the king, 15 and 188
Gardens inclosed, 260
Garden on mount Oliuet, 187
Garments of Christ parted by lot, 252
Gates of Sion, 20
Gate, called the vpper gate, 21
Gate of Warders, 64
Gate called the horsse gate, 65
Gate belonging to the Essenes, 66
Gate the first, 67
Gate, called the new gate, 93
Gate called the middle gate. 137
Gate called holy gate, 94
North Gate, 104
Gate South, 105
Gate in the West. 106
Gate of the corner, 154
Goulden Gate, 155
Gate of Ephraim, 156
Gate called the water gate, 157
Gate Genath, 158
Gate of the kings garden, 159
Gate of the high priests pallace, 160
Gate called the fish gate, 161
Gate called the dung gate, 162
Gate of womens towers, 163
Gate called the Valley gate, 164
Gate called the old gate, 165
Groue of Moloch, 189

H The

House of Annas, 8
House of the Worthies, 9
House of the Virgin Mary, 10
House of Vria, 11
House of Ananias, 36
House of S. Anne, 37
House of the rich glutton, 38
House of Mesa, 39
Houses of the Nathinaeans, 40
House of the prince of Phariseis 41
House of the forrest of Lybanus, 42
House of Simon the pharisei, 43
House of the common people, 44
Houses of the priests, 49
Houses of the target bearers, 50
House of counsel, 90
House of Mary the mother of Iohn, 126
House of Olda the prophetesse, 127
House of Elias, 219
Hill Garee, 258
Hole where the crosse stood, 250
Hill which is little, 182
Herods parke, 143
Hospital, 144
Holy place, 79
Holy of holyest, 75

I The

ILe of the Iewes, 86
Ile of the Gentiles, 100
Isaias martyred, 223
Iudas hanged on a tree, 232

L The

[Page]Lystes or tyltyard, 51
Lauer of brasse, 89
Lofts of the singers, 97
Lake, 131
Lake Amigdalon, 125
Lake of Serpents, 266

M The

MArketplace, 12, 45, 46, 47, 69, 129
Mary and Iohn beholde Christ as he passeth by with his cros, 122
Mello, 16
Moloch his Groue, 189
Mount Sion, 3
Mount Moria, 52
Mountaine Bezetha, 147
Mount of offence, 190, 192
Mount oliuet, 191
Mountaine Eroge, 220
Mount of Caluary, 233
Mount Gihon, 234
Mountaine in the north part, 262
Monument of Alexander, 133
Monument of Iohn, 134
Monument of the Fuller, 193
Monument of Absolom, 225
Monument of Anani, 235
Monument of Herod, 263

N The

NOrth mountayne, 262
North gate, 104
New Citty, 146

O The

Ophel, 54
Oliuet, 191

PArlour of Sion, 6
Parlour in the corner, 33
Pallace of Caiphas, 17
Pallace of the Machabees, 55
Pallace of Pilate, 56
Pallace of the Queene, 57
Pallace of Solomon, 58
Pallace of Queene Bernice, 70
Pallace of Grapte, 71
Pallace of Helen. 72
Pallace of Herod, 136
Pallace of Monobaz, 73
Passage of the temple from Salomōs pallace, 113
Palme trees, 194
Peare trees, 236
Place of zacharias death being slain, 98
Place where the Iewes woulde haue stoned Christ, 99
Place where the woman taken in adultery, was absolued, 109
Places of Christs fall, 121
Place where the three Apostles sate, while Christ prayed, 208
Place where the 8. Apost. tarried, 209
Place where Iudas betrayed Christ with a kisse, 210
Place where Christ preached of the destruction of Hierusalem, 211
Place where Mary with others stood at Christ his death, 251
Porch of pillars, 68
Porch of the temple, 95
Prison, called the kings prison, 4
Prison common, belonging to the citty, 32
Poole, called Probatica, 61
Priest, called the high priest, 84
Propitiatory, or mercy seat, 78

R The

REchabites habitation, 130
Rock of the West Wall, 166
Riuer of the vpper fountaine, 226

S The

[Page] SApha, 264
Sion. 3.26, 27
Sepulcher of Dauid, 22
Sepulcher of Stephen, 23
Sepulcher of Christ, 237
Sepulcher of Helen, 261
Sepulcher of the virgin Mary, 197
Of zacharias, 227
Stayres of the castell, 13
Stayres of Sion. 14
Schoole of Gentility, 48
Sea of brasse, 92
Seate appertayning to the king, 96
Singers seats aloft, 97
Solomons throne, 112
Simō of Cyren, beareth the cros, 132
Second citty, 124
Stephen stoned, 200

T The

TAbernacle of Sion, 24
Temple of the Lord, 74
Table of Gold, 83
Tents of the Assyrians, 218
Tents of Herod, 229
Tents of the Chaldeans, 256
Tents of the Romanes, 257
Theater, 111
Throne of Salomon, 112
Tribunal seat, 114
Towers of the trumpetters, 108
Tower Strato, 115
Tovver in the middle, 132
Tovver Hippic, 140
Tovver Mariamme, 141
Tovver Phaselus 142
Tovver Ananael, 167
Tovver in the corner 168
Tovver of Dauid, 169
Tovver called the high tower, 170
Tovver called the Lanterne, 171
Tovver called the great tower, 172
Tovver Meah, 173
Tower Psephina, 174
Tovver of Siloe, 175
Treasory, 102

V The

VAlley called the deep valley, 176
Valley of Iosaphat, 202
Valley of Siloe, 203
Valley of dead carcases, 240
Valley of the riuer Gihon, 241
Valley of Cedron, 116
Valley of Raphaim, 242
Vaulted caue, 34
Vaile of the temple rent, 85
Village nere to Ierusalem, 268
Vria his house, 11

W The

Wine presse belonging to the K, 25
Wals, first 53, second 135, the thirde, 149
Way of the crosse, 117
Way of entrance for the horses, 118
water issuing forth of the temple, 177
Way of the Fullers field, 104
Way of the captiuity, 205
Way to Anathot, 206
Way to Iericho, 207
Way to Siloe, 244
and to Bethlehem, 243
Way to Samaria, and Galile, 267
Well, 181
Whipping of the buyers and sellers, 110
A Wood, 138

Zacharias place where he was slayne betweene the temple & the Altar, 98.

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Author: Adrichem, Christiaan van, 1533-1585.1595

1 IErusalem

THE FIRST PART OF THE CITTIE. THE PLACES VVITHIN THE CITTIE.

2 MOVNT SION,

THE PLACES OF MOVNT SION.

3. THe Castell of Sion

4. THE KINGS PRISON

5. CAESARS and AGRIPPAS hall,

6. THE PARLOVR OF SION

7. THE CYPRES trees of Mount Sion,

8. THE HOVSE OF Annas,

9. THE HOVSE OF THE WOORTHIES,

10. THE HOVSE OF THE VIRGIN MARY,

11. THE HOVSE OF VRIA,

12. THE VPPER MARKET,

13. THE STAIRES OF THE CASTLE,

14. THE STAIRES OF SION

15 THE KINGES GARDEN,

16 MELLO,

17 THE PALLACE OF CAIPHAS;

18. THE FOVNTAINE OF SION,

19. THE BRIDGE OF SION,

20. THE GATES OF SION,

21. THE VPPER GATE,

22. THE SEPVLCHER OF DAVID,

23. THE SEPVLCHER OF STEPHEN,

24. THE TABERNACLE OF SION,

25. THE KINGS PRESSES,

THE SECOND PART OF THE CITTIE.26. THE DAVGHTER OF SION,

THE PLACES OF THE DAVGH­TER OF SION.

27. THE MOVNTAINE OF ACRA,

28. THE AMPHITHEATER,

29. THE CASTLE ANTONIA,

30. THE COVRTE OF RECORDES,

31. THE CASTLE OF ANTIOCHVS EPIPHA­NIS,

32. THE COMMON PRISON OF THE CITTIE,

33 THE CORNER PARLOVR,

34. THE VAVLTED CAVE,

35 THE COVRT,

36 THE HOVSE OF ANANIAS THE HIGH PRIEST,

37. THE HOVSE OF SAINT ANNE,

38 THE HOVSE OF THE RICH GLVTTON,

39. THE HOVSE OF MISSA,

40 THE HOVSE OF THE NATHINAEANS,

41. THE HOVSE OF THE PRINCE OF THE PHARISEIES,

42. THE HOVSE OF THE FORREST OF LY­BANVS,

43 THE HOVSE OF SIMON THE PHARISIE

44 THE HOVSE OF THE COMMON PEOPTE

45 THE GREAT MARKET,

46. THE MARKET OF WARES,

47. THE VPHOLSTERS MARKET,

48. THE SCHOLE OF GENTILLITIE,

49 THE HOVSES OF THE PRIESTES,

50 THE HABITATION OF THE TARGET BEARERS,

51 THE LYSTES,

52. THE MOVNTAINE MORIA,

53. THE FIRST WALL,

54. OPHEL,

55. THE PALLACE OF THE MACHABEES,

56. THE PALLACE OF PILATE,

57 THE QVEENES PALLACE,

58 SALOMONS PALLACE,

59 THE CASTLE PISAN,

60 THE INNER FOVNTAINE,

61 THE POOLE PROBATICA,

62 THE OLD FOVNTAINE,

63 THE BRIDGE,

64 THE WARDERS GATE,

65 THE HORSE GATE,

66. THE GATE OF THE ESSENS,

67. THE FIRST GATE,

68. THE PORCH OF PILLERS,

69. THE BEAST MARKET,

70 THE PALLACE OF QVEENE BERNICE,

71. THE PALLACE OF GRAPTA,

72. THE PALLACE OF HELEN,

73. THE PALLACE OF MONOBAZ,

74. THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD,

THE FIRST PARTE OF THE TEMPLE.

75. THE HOLY OF HOLYEST,

THE SECOND PART OF THE CITTIE.
26. THE DAVGHTER OF SION,

THE PLACES OF THE DAVGHTER OF SION.

31. THE CASTLE OF ANTIOCHVS EPIPHANIS,

42. THE HOVSE OF THE FORREST OF LYBANVS,

THE THIRD PARTE OF THE TEMPLE.
86 THE IEWES ILE

THE FOVRTH PARTE OF THE TEMPLE.
100 THE ILE,

THE THIRD PARTE OF THE CITTIE.
124 THE SECOND CITTIE.