THis word Stadium in Latine, in Engliſh a Furlong, is a meaſure of ground, whereof there be three ſorts, Italicum, Olympicum, Pythicum. That of Italy contained 625 feet, which is 125 paces, halfe a quarter of an Italian mile. The ſecond ſort was of the hill Olympus in Greece, where was a game or priſe kept by the Princes and Cities of Greece euery fifth yeare, in the honour of Hercules, who firſt began it. This meaſure of ground Stadium Olympicum contained 600 feet, that is, 120 paces. The third kind of ſtade or furlong contained 1000 feet, which is 200 paces; wherof haply aroſe the difference of Pliny and Diodorus Siculus in deſcribing Sicily.

Fifteen Dutch miles make a Degree,What a Furlong is. and a Degree of the heauens anſwereth to 480 furlongs vpon earth; whereby it is manifeſt that 32 furlongs is a German or common Dutch mile.

One minute equalleth eight Furlongs, which make an Italian or Wallon mile, the fourth part of a Dutch mile. Two minutes of the heauens or ſixteen furlongs make a Dutch mile. Four half of a Dutch mile. Three minutes equall 24 ſtades or Furlongs, which make three quarters of a Dutch mile. Four minutes equal 32 furlongs, that is to ſay, a German or Dutch mile.

The holy Evangeliſts, S. Luke, ca. 24. ver. 13. and S. Iohn, ca. 11. ver. 8. reckon the way by Furlongs. S. Luke ſaith the Towne Emaus was diſtant from Ieruſalem ſixty Furlongs: and Saint Iohn ſaith Bethania was 15 Furlongs diſtant from Ieruſalem. Whence it appeareth, that Emaus was diſtant from Ieruſalem almoſt two Dutch miles, ſeuen Wallon miles and a halfe; and Bethania almoſt halfe a Dutch mile, which is a mile, a half, & half a quarter.

Ioſephus writeth, That Mount Olivet was diſtant from Ieruſalem fiue Furlongs, that is a little more than halfe a quarter of a Dutch mile, which is half an Italian mile and half a quarter. The ſame Ioſephus ſaith, That the circuit of the city of Ieruſalem was 33 Furlongs, a Dutch mile and halfe a quarter. Others ſay it was foure miles in compaſſe, which beeing vnderſtood of Italian or Walloon miles, make little or no difference, ſeeing it is but the halfe of a halfe quarter of a Dutch mile.

Strabo writeth, That the city of Babylon was 380 Furlongs in circuit, that is twelue Dutch miles. The circuit of Samaria was twenty furlongs, that is halfe a Dutch and halfe a quarter, which is two Italian miles and a halfe.

THe Romans meaſured their miles by paces, which they call Paſſus, and that kind of meaſuring is done after this maner; Foure barley cornes laid long-waies one by the other make the bredth of a finger, foure fingers broad make the bredth of an hand, foure hands broad make the length of a foot, which meaſure is now extant; fiue feet make a Geometricall or great pace; one hundred twenty fiue ſuch paces are a Furlong; eight Furlongs are one thouſand paces or Wallon mile; two thouſand paces are a French mile.

Four thouſand paces are a Dutch mile, I mean a common Dutch mile, whereof fifteen are reckoned to a degree of the heauens; for the Switfer miles are commonly a quarter of a Dutch mile longer than common Dutch miles. But through this book by miles we vnderſtand common Dutch miles, whereof four thouſand paces make a mile.

Whoſoeuer will vnderſtand S. Ierom wel, de locis Haebraicis, muſt mark whether he reckons by miles or by ſtones: the miles ſpecified by him are Wallon miles, whereof four make a Dutch mile as aforeſaid: the ſtone whereof he writeth (wherby alſo they did meaſure and diuide the way) are reckoned ſix to a Dutch mile.

To the end that all men that haue any little vnderſtanding in Geometry and Coſmography may make the Tables, and caſt them, and at their pleaſure inlarge or diminiſh them; I haue here for their direction ſet downe the longitude and latitude of the moſt principal towns: the former number ſhew the degrees and minutes of the longitude, the later numbers declare the degrees and minutes of the latitude.

  Long. Latit. SIdon 67.51 33. • 0 Tyrus 67.00 33.23 Zarepta 67.10 33.28 Kedes 67.14 33.00 Chabul 67.04 33.04 Rechob 67.13 33.14 Abela Betha macha 67.20 32.59 Senim Vallis 97.01 32.58 Carmel 66 35 32.50 Cana maior 67.13 33.24 Cana minor 67.52 32.48 Nazereth 66 56 32.42 Tabor 66.45 32.38 Capernaum 66 53 32.29 Bethſaida 66.51 32.29 Corazim 66.53 32.29 Tyberias 66.4 • 32.27 Magdalum 66.48 32.28 Dora 66.25 32.08 Caeſarea S • ratonis 66.19 32.25 Lydda 65.43 32.06 Ioppen 65.40 32.05 Meſſada caſtellum 66.21 31.47 Maetum lacus 66.36 32.25 Sunem 66.33 32.33 Naim 66 35 32.33 Napthalis 6 • .06 32.57 Bethoron ſuperior 66 00 32.14 Bethoron inferior 65.54 32.00 Gazar 66.10 32.20 Bethſan 66 41 32.23 Endor 66.26 32.27 Megiddo 66.02 32.32 Thebetz 66.30 32.25 Aphec 6 .28 32 32 Gilim 66.25 32 22 Alexandrium 66.23 32.11 Thirzo 66.20 32.13 Zilo 65.58 31.58 Beſeck 66 34 32.24 Michmas 66.06 32.04 Samaria 66.22 32.19 Nobe 65.45 32.03 Gazeron 65.45 31.59 Emmahus 65.54 31.59 Iericho 66.10 32.01 Aialon 65.56 31.56 Anathot 66.01 31.57 Gibea Saulis 66.57 31.55 Kiriath-jearim 65.58 31.55 Ieruſalem 66.00 31.55 Bahurim 66.03 31.56 Ephraim 66.08 32.00 Gilgal 66.12 32.01 Eſthaol 65.36 31.54 Timnah 65.48 32.03 Zarea 65.51 31.55 Gedor 65.44 31.59 Modin 65.45 32.01 Bethania 66.01 31.54 Bethlehem 65.55 31.51 Debir 66.10 31.58 Iarmouth 65.37 31.51 Azecha 65.51 31.54 Lachis 65.51 31.49 Eglon 65.50 31.48 Makeda 65.49 31.52 Libna 95.49 31.50 Debir 65.32 31.46 Bethſur 65.47 31.48 Kechila 65.38 31.47 Mareſa 65 42 31.54 Maon 65.38 31.41 Carmel 65.40 31.44 Ziph 65.38 31 43 Arah 65.45 31.37 Hebron 65.33 31.45 Gerer 65.37 31.42 Kades barnea 65.22 31.29 Adar 65.12 31.32 Carcaha 65.06 31.30 Haſmona 65.00 31.30 Bethſemes 65.55 31.55 Beerſabah 65.31 31.40 Siclag 65.15 31.37 Ecron 65 • 0 31.58 Azotus 65.35 31.00 Aſtalon 65.24 31.52 Gath 65.23 31.48 Gaza 65.11 31.40 The townes lying on this ſide of the riuer Iordan. Dan 67 25 33.08 Ior • ons 67 31 33 07 Caeſarea Philippi 67 30 33.05 Seleucia 67.17 32.50 Eruptio fluvij ex Samachoniride palude 67.11 32.44 Capernaum 66.53 31.29 Eruptio fluvij è mare Genezareth 66 43 32.21 Ephion 66.42 32.20 Ennon 66.40 32.16 Gamala 66.55 32.25 Salem 66.37 32.18 Chrit torrens 66.16 31.57 Oſtia Iordanis 66.17 31.54 Engedi 66.22 31.43 Zoar vel Sagor 66.17 31.38 Eruptio Zered 66.19 31.34 Townes ſtanding beyond Jordan. Mirba 66.50 32.20 Aſtharoth 67.00 32.26 Aſtaroth 66.57 32.23 Gadara 66.48 32.23 Machanaim 66.44 32.19 Iaczar 66.39 32.12 Hesbon 66.28 32.05 Iabes 66.55 32.21 Ramah 66.51 32.20 Nobach 66.38 32.16 Iachſa 66.28 32 02 Aroer 66.30 32.00 Macherus 66.23 31.56 Minith 66.36 32.66 Midian 66.30 31.55 Didon 66.32 32.06 Punuel 66.39 31.18 Edrei 66.15 32.21 Abela Vinearum 67.00 32.23 Philadelphia 67.10 32.22 Pella 67.03 32.20 Phiala fons 67.43 33.05 Betharan 67.30 32.08 Piſgamons 66 26 32.01 Abarim montes 66.29 31.58 Townes in Egypt. Memphis 61.50 29.50 Heliopolis 62.15 29.59 Tanis 63.30 29.50 Taphnis 62 30 31.00 Ony 60.30 30.10 Alaxandria 60.30 31.00 Mercurij ciuitas magna 61.40 28.55 Mercurij ciuitas parua 61.00 30.50 Delta magnum 62.00 30 00 Xois 62.30 30.45 Buſitis 62.30 30.15 H • ſinoe 63.20 29.10 Solis fons 58.15 28.00 Journies out of Aegypt. Raemſes 63.00 30.05 Pihachiroth 62.50 29.40 Mara 63.35 29.50 Elim 63.45 29.50 Iuxta mare 63.55 29.45 Paran promontorium 65.00 29.00 Daphea 64.14 29.46 Alus 64.30 29.46 Raphiddim 64.40 29.53 Sinai mons 65.00 30.00 Hazeroth 65.50 30.14 Zephor mons 65.54 30.50 Mozeroth 64.18 39.04 Haſmona 65.09 31.30 Gidgad mons 65.30 30.20 Iothabatha 65.30 26.40 Habrona 65.30 29.40 Heſion Gaber 65.30 29.20 Sin 66.00 29.56 Hor mons 66.00 30.25 Salmona 66.25 30.40 Phunon 66.30 30.54 Oboth 66 50 31.04 Ieabarim 67.00 31.18 Zered rorrens & vallis 66.44 31.20 Didon Gad 66.48 31.32 Almon diblathaim 66.48 31.24 Chedemoth ſolitudo 66.56 32.00 Beer puteus 66.50 23.00 Marthana Solitudo 66.49 23 00 Nathaleel 66.40 00.23 Bamoth vallie 66.30 32.00 Townes in Arabia Petraea. Petra 65.40 31.18 Paran 94.30 30.04 Midian 65.30 29.15 Heſion gebar 65 35 29.00 Elana villa harla velelath 95.35 29.15 Oſtia Nili. Canopicum 66.50 31.05 Bolbithinum 61.30 31.05 S • benniticum 61.45 31.05 Pathmiticum 91.35 31.10 Mendeſium 62.45 31.10 Peluſiacum 63.15 31.15 Thon 63.00 31.30 Sirbonis lacus eruptio 65.45 31.50 Sirbonis lacus 63.30 31.10 Idem 63.45 31.10 Ciuitas Peluſium 36.25 31.20 Rhinocorura 94.40 31.10 Some other great Townes. Babilon 76.00 35.00 Antiochia 60 30 33.35 Damaſcus 68.55 33.00 Palmira 72.40 35.10 Vr chaldeorum 78.00 39.40 Ecbathana 88.00 37.45 Rages in Media 93.40 36.04 Sula in Perſia 83.00 34.15 Perſepolis 91.00 33.20 Heccatompilon in Parthia 96.0 37.50 Zaba in Arabia foelix 97.00 13.00 Meroe 61.30 16.25 Haram in Meſopotania 75 15 36.10 Hircania 98.30 40.00 Ciraenae 50.00 31.20

THe Towne of Neurenberch is ſcituate in the middle of Germanie, or neere thereabouts, and Ieruſalem is diſtant from Neurenberch fiue hundredWhich make 2000 miles Engliſh. miles: but if you will trauell to Venice, and from thence to Ieruſalem, it is fiue hundred and fiftieWhich make 2200 miles. miles.

IEruſalem was foure ſquare,Of the ſcituation of the Mountaines whereon Ieruſalem ſtood. and ſcituated vpon foure mountaines, viz. Mount Sion, Mount Moriah, Mount Acra, and Moun Bezetha.

Mount Sion was the higheſt of all, and lay within the citie of Ieruſalem towards the South, whereon ſtood King Dauids houſe or the caſtle of Sion, and the vppermoſt towne.

Mount Moriah, whereon the Temple ſtood, with other excellent buildings and Towers, was on the Eaſt ſide of the city, within the Walls.

Mount Acra, whereon the lower towne was built, ſtood Weſtward in the citie, where Annas, Caiphas, Pilot, Herod Agrippa, Bernice, Helena, and other Kings and great Princes dwelt.

THe moſt holy and beautifull Citie of Ieruſalem (if any would conſider the three principall parts of the World,The deſcription of Ieruſalem. Europe, Aſia, and Affrica) ſtood in the middeſt of the World, vpon moſt high mountaines and rockes, like an earthly Paradiſe, a liuely figure of the euerlaſting Citie of God. This Citie, being the metropolitan or principalleſt Citie of the Iewes, ſtood in the Tribe of Benjamin; at the firſt it was called Salem, that is, Peaceable: when Melchiſedech, the Prieſt of God, raigned therein, which hee alſo built after the Deluge (as Ioſephus and Egiſippus write.) But at that time, it was not very great; for it ſtood onely vpon Mount Sion. Mount Moriah, where Abraham would haue offered his ſonne Iſaac, ſtood without the Citie, and after that they tooke it into the Citie, as when time ſerueth it ſhall be declared.

After the death of Melchiſedech, vnto whom Abraham payd the Tythes of all his goods, the Iebuſites dwelt in the Citie of Ieruſalem, and had the dominion of it, and all the land thereabouts in their ſubjection, called the City Iebus, after their name; which name was held a long time, as we reade in Ioſuah the 10. Iud. 10. & 2. Samuel, 1. But at the laſt Ioab, King Dauids Generall of his Armie, woon it, & draue the Iebuſites out of it, and called it Ieruſalem, that is, a ſight or viſion of Peace. It hath alſo other names in the holy Scripture, for in Eſay 29. it is called Ariel, that is, Gods Lyon, and mount Libanus.Becauſe it was made of the Ceder trees which came • ut of Mount Libanus. The Prophet Ezechiel 23. calleth it Ahaliba, my fixed Pauillion or Tent, that is, a Citie wherein God had placed his owne habitation.

THe City of Ieruſalem was foure ſquare, and in circumference three and thirtieWhich make foure Engliſh miles and one furlong. furlongs, as Ioſephus writeth, which three and thirty Furlongs make ſomewhat more than a Dutch mile. Some write that it was foure miles compaſſe about, yet theſe were not Dutch miles, but Wallon or Italian miles: for foure ſuch Italian miles are a Dutch mile.

MOunt Syon ſtood Northwards in the Citie Ieruſalem, and was much higher than all the other Hills that were therein, therefore it was called Sion, that is, a watch Tower▪ becauſe from thence one might ſee the Holy land, and all the countries thereabout: vpon this Hill, the vpper Citie was built, which in the Scripture is called the City of Dauid, becauſe Dauid wan it from the Iebuſites, and beautified it with many goodly houſes, & faire and coſtly buildings: but eſpecially with his houſe of Cedar wood, which hee termed the caſtle of Sion, which ſtood Weſtwards at the corner of the Hill, looking into Bethlehem Southwards. In that houſe Dauid dwelt, and therein committed adulterie with Berſeba the wife of Vriah the Hittite; whoſe houſe alſo with the place of diuers priuie Councellers and officers, ſtood vpon the ſaid Hill, not farre from the Kings Pallace, as Ioſephus writeth.

Beneath King Dauids houſe, vpon Mount Sion, within a Rocke, there was to be ſeene the ſepulchre or vault wherein King Dauid, Solomon his ſon, and other ſucceeding Kings of Iuda, were entombed and buried.

Vpon mount Syon alſo (towards the Eaſt) King Herod had a Garden of pleaſure, not farre from the Fountaine called Silo, Nemiah 3. and there alſo ſtood the Tower of Silo, whereof Luke in the 13 chapter maketh mention.

Ioſephus (in the warres of the Iewes, his firſt book, and ſixteenth chapter) ſaith, That King Herod vnder whom Chriſt Ieſus was borne, had two faire and ſtrong houſes or Towers, which hee ſet and made in the vpper part of the City Ieruſalem, vpon mount Syon, which were in a manner comparable with the Temple for beautifulneſſe, which he called after the name of his friends; the one Caeſarea, for Caeſar the Emperors ſake; and the other Agrippa, according to the name of the noble Roman Marcus Agrippa, that married the daughter of Auguſtus Caeſar.

This may ſuffice to declare the ſcituation of the vpper Citie, which ſtood vpon mount Sion, and conteyned in circuit fifteene furlongs, which is about halfe a mile. This vppermoſt Citie, in the ſacred Scripture is called the Citie of Dauid, it was alſo cal-Millo, that is, fulneſſe or plenty, for in it there was no want, but aboundance of all things.

SIon in Hebrew ſignifieth a ſure hold or goodly aſpect; for that from the top thereof a man might haue ſeen all the land lying thereabouts; and was a type of the higheſt heauens, or habitation of Almighty God, from whence he beholdeth all things vpon earth; from which throne and heauenly habitation he deſcended into this lower Ieruſalem, and became our Redeemer & Sauiour, that ſo we being purged by his bloud, from all our ſinnes and imperfections, he might bring vs into that heauenly Ieruſalem which is eternall glorie.

MOunt Moriah ſtood Eaſtward within Ieruſalem, which was a moſt hard ſtony hill, from whence towards the riſing of the Sunne, men by ſtaires might eaſily deſcend; but round about on the other three ſides it was ſteepe and vnapprochable, like a ſtone wall: yet it was not ſo high as Mount Sion, howbeit it was exceeding high, extending and reaching 600 foot in height: and on the top thereof was a very faire plaine, like vnto that of Mount Sion, whereon in times paſt Abraham builded an Altar, and would haue offered his ſonne Iſaac for a Sacrifice, Gen. 22.

At which time, when Abraham obeyed the commandement of God, intending to haue offered his ſonne Iſaac vpon the Hill, and thereon had made an Altar, then the ſaid Hill lay without the Citie: but long time after, about the ſpace of 850 yeres, when King Dauid had conquered Ieruſalem, and driuen thence the Iebuſites; to enlarge the Citie, he compaſſed in Mount Moriah and Mount Acra with a wall, vpon which there ſtood many goodly buildings. And amongſt other things worthy obſeruation, vpon this Mount ſtood the Barne or Threſhing floore ofOr Arauna. Arafna the Iebuſite, wherein King Dauid built an Altar, offered burnt Offerings, & beſought the Lord that the Angell of God (whoſe hand was ſtretched ouer Ieruſalem, holding a bloodie ſword, and had ſmitten the Citie with the peſtilence) might ceaſe from puniſhing the ſame, and the plague ceaſed. On the ſame place where the Barne of Arafna the Iebuſite ſtood, King Solomon alſo did build the Temple, 1. Paral. 23. 24. Ioſeph. Antiq. Iud. lib. 23. 24.

MOriah is as much to ſay, as The Lords Mirrhe, and ſignifieth our Lord Ieſus Chriſt, which is the true Mirrhe & ſweet ſmelling Sacrifice vnto God; a ſtedfaſt Rocke, an immoueable Foundation, whereon Gods Church and the members thereof are built, Eſay 28. Matt. 16. Vpon this Rocke will I build my Church, and the gates of hell ſhall not preuaile againſt it. Moriah is alſo expounded to be Cultus & timor Domini, the worſhip and feare of God; and that in the ſame place the figuratiue ſeruice of God ſhould begin and continue vntill the comming of Chriſt.

THe Temple ſtood vpon Mount Moriah, was fairely built, & artificially contriued, of white Marble ſtones, which were ſo well conjoyned or cloſed together, that a man could not ſee or perceiue the junctures or creſts of them: and the inner Walls of it were made all of Cedar wood, carued with the ſimilitude of Angels, Cherubins, roots of Palme trees, and with floures of diuers kindes, gilt all ouer with pure gold, and ſet with pretious ſtones; inſomuch that all parts of the vpper roofe within the Temple, did ſhine with the luſtre of it. The pauement thereof alſo was plated all ouer with fine Gold; ſo that all the Temple within, both aboue, vnder foot, and on euery ſide and corner thereof, was gilt cleane ouer: but without it was of ſmooth poliſht white marble ſtone, excellently beautifull, and faire to the eye,That is, a hundred cubits, which make fiftie yards Engliſh; ſo that the Temple was fiftie yards long, fiftie broad, and ſixtie high. much reſembling the colour of any Pearle, Vnit or Margaret. It was in length a hundred ells, in breadth a hundred ells, and in height a hundred and twenty ells, as Ioſephus writeth in the old acts and warres of the Iewes, in his fifteenth booke and fourteenth chapter.

The roofe thereof was made of thin planks of Oliue wood, all couered ouer with plates of gold: it was adorned with ſharp and plaine ſpikes of gold, leſt birds ſhould defile it with their doung. When any man trauelled to Ieruſalem, and ſaw the temple farre off when the Sunne ſhined thereon, the white marble ſtones and the golden roofe therof; did caſt ſuch a light and reflexing brightneſſe from them, that it did make the beholders eyes darke and blind with looking vpon it.

Within the Temple there was the moſt ſacred Quire, which ſtood at the Weſt end therof, the which Quire was formed foure ſquare, that is, twenty ells broad, long, and high. This Quire was called the Holy of Holieſt, wherein it was lawfull for no man to enter, but the high Prieſt, and he alſo but once in a yeare, which was on the Feaſt day of the Propitiatory Sacrifice, to appeaſe Gods wrath. In the middle part of the Quire there ſtood two Cherubins, made of Oliue wood, couered all ouer with fine gold, whoſe Faces and Formes were like vnto young Children; the height of them was ten ells; each of them had two wings, which were fiue els broad; they ſtood one right againſt the other, ſo that with the innermoſt wings they touched together, and the vttermoſt ſides of the wings touched the ſides of the Quire: their faces looked wards the Eaſt: in the middle vnder the wings of the Cherubins was placed the Arke of the Couenant; but after the Babylonian captiuity the Ark of the Couenant ſtood no more there; for then the Holy of holieſt was empty, and nothing ſeene in the ſecond Temple but the two Cherubims, as is aforeſaid. The wall of this Quire was of pure gold, excellent faire and curiouſly grauen: In this wal of the moſt holy quire there was a gate made all of gold which had two leaues or little dores that opened & ſhut, very curiouſly emboſſed; through which dores men went into the moſt holy Quire, where the Lord did anſwer by Vrim and Thummim; there the Cherubims ſtood, and before that gate there did hang a rich Vaile or Curtain which was made of fine ſilke, wouen very artificially, wherein there was wrought the picture of the Cherubims, with Needle-worke of diuers colours. This was the ſame Vaile which at the paſſion of Chriſt did rent in ſunder from the top to the bottom; to ſhew that then Aarons Leuiticall Sacrifices were aboliſhed, and now euery man may freely approch (thorow the mercy of his dearly beloued Sonne) vnto the preſence of Gods heauenly Throne.

Before the moſt ſacred Quire there was builded towards the Eaſt a place within the Temple containing forty Ells in length, twenty in bredth and thirty in height, cloſed vp on both ſides with golden walls, which was called the Holy place or Sanctuarie of the Temple, wherein no man might enter but onely the Prieſt, when hee offered Incenſe, and prayed vnto God. In the middle of that Holy place there ſtood an Altar, couered with plates of gold; neere vnto which the Angel Gabriel appeared vnto Zacharias, and brought him the glad tydings, That Elizabeth his wife ſhould beare him ſonne whoſe name ſhould be Iohn, who ſhould prepare the way of Chriſt. At the South end of this Altar vpon the one ſide ſtood the holy Candleſtickes, and at the other end on the other ſide ſtood a golden Table whereupon the Shew bread was ſet. And in this holy place there ſtood ten Tables more for the meat Offerings, and ten golden Candleſtickes more, which were beautified with Lamps, Lillies, and other faire floures. The opening doores whereby men went into the Holy place were alſo very rich and coſtly, made of gold, with carued Cherubims, Palm trees, and broad flours thereupon. And before thoſe dores alſo there were hanging vailes or curtaines, very curiouſly wrought. On both ſides of the Temple there were certain Walks or Galleries, which were three ſtories high one aboue an other, and on the right ſide there ſtood a paire of turning ſtaires, by the which men went vp to the Chamber of the Temple, and there all the ſmall Veſſels and other things belonging to the Temple were kept. The roofes of theſe Galleries were all plated ouer with gold, but that part was ſomewhat lower than the principall part of the Temple. The Windowes of the Temple were wide within and narrow without. The gates of the Temple were made of pure gold, fiue and twenty Ells high, and ſixteene Ells broad; but eſpecially the gate that ſtood Eaſtward in the Temple was exceeding high, which in the ſecond Booke of Kings, cap. 25. is called the High gate: and as Ioſephus ſaith, the ſayd gate was 90 Ells high, the doores whereof were forty Ells long and twenty Ells broad, gilt all ouer, and richly emboſſed, beautified with Cherubims and pretious ſtones. The wall before this gate towards the Eaſt was pure gold, emboſt and curiouſly ingrauen in maner of Vines, with great golden leaues as big as the ſtature of a man, whereon there did hang the picture and forme of grapes, which were made of fine Cryſtall. Within that high gate alſo there did hang a Vaile or Curtaine as long and broad as the gate within: This Vaile was made of a piece of Babylonian Tapiſtry, wonderfully wrought, and made of Silke, beautified with diuers colours, of Scarlet, Purple, and Velvet; and as Ioſephus writeth, the Sphere of the heauens was wrought therein, but the twelue Signes were not, and when the winde blew, the Vaile did moue like a Vane.

BEfore the high gate of the Temple towards the Eaſt there were three Porches or Courts open without roofes, which were made all of poliſht ſtone with fair marble pillars, beautified with all kind of colours, in which Porches men praiſed and ſerued God.

The firſt was called the vpper Porch, where none but the prieſt might enter when he offered and ſerued God; which porch ſtood next vnto the high Quire. The ſecond was called Solomons Hall or Porch; there the people vſed to pray, and in that court our Sauior Chriſt preached, Iohn 10. The third porch King Herod built, adding that therto for the heathen people which alſo came vnto Ieruſalem to pray.

Theſe three porches went foure ſquare round about the Temple, as the Temple it ſelfe was, and betweene theſe porches there were alſo ſpaces left, ſupported with pillars of marble, and cloſe aboue the head for men to walke vnder when it rained, which were all made of Cedar and Cypreſſe wood, and of marble ſtone beautified with gold. But towards the Eaſt, right ouer againſt the high Quire of the Temple, there the Porches were broadeſt and greateſt.

Here gentle Reader you muſt note, that as often as in the Deſcription of the Temple I ſpeake of certain Ells, you muſt not vnderſtand ſuch Ells as we vſe here in our Countrey, but only of the Geometrical ells or elbowes, which are called Cubits, being the length of one foot and a halfe or ſix hands in bredth, and two ſuch Ells or Cubits doe containe three foot, which make a yard of our meaſure.

The firſt Temple, which King Solomon built, had but two Porches, as alſo the ſecond Temple which Zorobabel & Ioſhuah or Ieſu the ſon of Iozedeck made after the captiuitie in Babylon; but that was twenty cubits lower, and incloſed about with two porches alſo. But King Herod Aſcalonita the great King of the Iewes, ſon of Antipater Idumaeus, 16 yeares before the birth of Chriſt pulled down that Temple, and built a new Temple vp from the ground, which was like to Solomons Temple, but that it had three porches: for Herod built the third Porch to the intent that the heathen people might pray therein, as a ſanctuarie for pilgrims and ſtrangers, as Ioſephus writeth, Antiq. Iud lib. 21, ca. 14. & de Bello Iudaeo, lib. 6. ca. 6. Item Egeſippus, lib. 1. cap. 35, 36. But ſome do thinke, which is more likely, that the ſaid Herod did but repaire and add buildings to the ſecond Temple.

And where Ioſephus, lib. 2. contra Appionem, writeth of four Porches, whereas principally there were but three; it is to be vnderſtood that Solomons Portch was made with a wall in the middle thereof, wherein on the North ſide the Iewiſh women that were vnſpotted or vndefiled vſed to pray; and on the other ſide (being South) the Iewiſh women who alſo according to the Law were vnſpotted, prayed; as Ioſephus ſaith, lib. 6. cap. 6. de Bello Iudaeo.

IN the vpper Porch which ſtood right ouer againſt the high Quire in the Temple, there was an Altar of brraſſe proportioned foure ſquare, conſiſting of twenty cubits in length, & twenty cubits in bredth, extending to ten cubits in height, beautified with golden hornes, whereon they vſed to offer burnt ſacrifices of Oxen, Sheepe, Turtle Doues, Calues, and other things. Alſo in times paſt there ſtood the great molten Sea made by King Solomon, and the two braſen Pillars which were made with knobbes, Pomegranats, and Lillies, very coſtly and moſt artificially done; and ten Kettles vpon Treuets; but thoſe kettles and pillars with knobs and pomegranats, and the great molten Sea made by King Solomon, were carried away by Nabuchadnezzar King of Babylon, and broken in pieces; after which captiuity they were neuer ſeen more in the Temple, for there were no more made. But the Altar of Braſſe with the great hornes, whereon they offered oxen, ſheep and Doues, was made againe and ſtood there, as I ſaid before, by which there ſtood diuers Tables whereon they killed their Offerings. In this Court alſo there was a goodly Fountaine, with the Water whereof they vſed to waſh the bloud of the beaſts out of the Temple. For there were certaine holes and gutters between the marble ſtones, whereby the water ranne vnder the earth, and through the earth was conueyed in a pipe into the Lake Kidron. In this Court Zacharias the ſonne of Barrachias was killed, betweene the Temple and the Altar, Mat. 23. And Zacharias the high prieſt the ſonne of Ioiadah was ſtoned to death, 2 Chron. 24. It was compaſſed about with a great wall made of Marble ſtone of diuers colours, wherein there were diuers doores to goe out out and in, decked with lofty towers and pleaſant walks made of Cedar wood, reſembling our antient Cloiſters. But principally toward the Eaſt it had a great gate of ſeuenty Ells or cubits high and twenty fiue broad, all couered ouer with gold (as Ioſephus writeth) ſtanding alwayes open, without any doores to ſhut, that euery man might looke into it when the Prieſt ſerued God. If any man offered any thing, he brought it to the Prieſt before the gate, but might not go in himſelfe. Ieremy, Chap. 26 and 36, calleth it the New gate. Here alſo was the Chappel of Gemaria the ſonne of Saphan, in which Chappell Baruch read the booke of the Prophet Ieremy to the people, Ieremy 36. And when the Sunne was in Capricorne it ſhone right in at that gate, and through the high Quire of the Temple to the Holy of Holieſt (as Ioſephus writeth.

THis Court was ſomething lower than the other, for from it to the vppermoſt they went by certaine ſteps, and in the tenth of Iohn is called Solomons Porch; which (as Ioſephus writeth) was parted in the middle with a Wall, wherein on the North ſide the Iewiſh women that were clean and vndefiled vſed to pray, and on the South the men, according to the LawMaſculi enim ab auſtria muliere a ſeptentrione dominū innocarunt.: But no vnclean perſon, or ſtranger, or heathen, might enter therein; for on the Eaſt ſide thereof, before the ſteps whereon men aſcended into the ſaid porch, there ſtood a portall curiouſly made of marble ſtone, and between it ſtood pillars of marble, whereon was ingrauen in Hebrew, Greeke, Latine, and Idumaean Tongues, this ſentence, Omnis alienigena accidens ad habitaculum Domini moriatur; That is, If any ſtranger go into the houſe of God he ſhall ſurely die. And Herod alſo cauſed to be hanged ouer the Eaſterne gate by which they came into this Court, a golden Sword, with this Inſcription, Peregrinus ſi fuerit ingreſſus moriatur; That is, If a Stranger be ſo bold to enter, let him die. So as no Stranger or Heathen might goe into Solomons Porch vpon danger of his life. Here Simeon tooke the childe Ieſus in his armes and ſayd, Lord let now thy ſeruant depart in peace according to thy word, for mine eyes haue ſeen thy ſaluation, &c. At the ſame time alſo the Propheteſſe Anna the daughter of Phaneul, of the tribe of Aſhur, made a notable propheſie of the child Ieſus to all the people of Iſrael, Luk. 2. and after Ieſus was baptiſed, in this place he taught, wrought miracles, and did many worthy and memorable actions. The Apoſtles alſo commonly met together in this court, & here the holy-Ghoſt deſcended vpon them. Here ſtood the Treaſury which Heliodorus thought to haue robbed, but was preuented by the Angel of God, 2 Mac. 3. This was the ſame Treaſury wherein the poore widow caſt the two mites, whom Chriſt commended for the ſame as appeares Mark 12. Vpon which S. Ambroſe ſaith, Deny not to caſt two mites into this Treaſury, that is, Faith and Grace, ſith by them thou ſhalt be made capable of a celeſtial kingdom; neither flatter thy ſelf with thy riches, becauſe thou canſt giue more than the poore, for God reſpects not how much, but with what deuotion thou giueſt thy reward, Amb. li. de Viduo, & Epiſt. li. 9. Ep. 76. And here Chriſt abſolued the Adultereſſe that was accuſed to him, being ſory for her offence; ſaying, I came not to condemne, but to ſaue ſinners that repent. Vpon which S. Chryſoſtom ſaith, Although thou art a publican, yet thou maiſt be made an Evangeliſt; though a perſecuter of the Church, yet an Apoſtle; though a theef, yet of the city of Paradiſe; though a Magitian, yet thou mayſt worſhip God: for there is no ſin ſo dangerous but repentance may obtain pardon. Not far from this Treaſury there ſtood certain galleries curiouſly adorned with marble pillars, the root whereof was plaited with ſiluer and gold, and was cloſe aboue the head, that when it rained, men might walke vnder them dry, and indeed did much reſemble our antient Monaſteries. The dores of theſe walks were couered ouer with gold and ſiluer; ſo alſo was that high gate whereby men went Eaſtward into Solomons porch, and was 50 cubits high, and the dores forty, as Ioſephus writeth.

THe terreſtriall Temple built by Solomon was partly a Figure of our Sauiour Chriſt, and partly of his Church. For when the Sonne of God ſuffered the Temple of his holy body to be deſtroyed, and was riſen again from the dead, Iohn 2. Then hee raiſed vp to vs the Chriſtian Church, which is the true ſpirituall houſe and Temple wherein God dwelleth, 1 Cor. 6.

THe Gold and pretious ſtones in the Temple ſignified the Deity of Chriſt; for in him dwelt the fulneſſe of the Deity 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , wholly and abſolutely; and in him was contained the Fountaine and treaſure of all wiſedome and knowledge, Col. 2.

AS the Cedar, Cypres, and Olive wood was neither ſubiect to putrifaction, nor poſſible to be deuoured with wormes; ſo the humane nature of Chriſt was ſubiect to no corruption, no putrifaction, Pſal. 16.

THe Temple alſo is a figure of the heauenly glory, & of euerlaſting life to come, where the Angels and Cherubims beeing ingrauen and pictured to the image of man, do repreſent the congregation of the bleſſed Angels and Saints, who in preſence of the Lord ſing a continuall Te Deum laudamus, Apoc. 4. The two Cherubims placed vpon the Mercy ſeat in the holy Quire, ſignifie the old and new Teſtament, which containes the Doctrine of Chriſt: and as their wings touched one another, ſo the old & new Teſtament were ioined together, the end of the one, the beginning of the other: the one continued to the end of the firſt world, the other ſhall continue to the end of the ſecond; both had relation to Chriſt, to whom the miniſterie of God was committed.

THe Son of God our Lord Ieſus Chriſt hanging vpon the altar of the Croſſe, is the true Vaile that is put betweene God and vs, ſhadowing with his wounds and pretious bloud the multitude of our offences, that ſo we may be made acceptable to his Father, Heb. 10.

THe Arke of God made of Sittim wood, wherin was kept the pot of Manna, Aarons Rod, and the Tables of the Commandements, Exod. 25. Heb. 9. repreſent as well our Sauior Chriſt, as the hearts of the Faithfull: for as in Chriſts breaſt was contained the doctrine both of the Law and Goſpell, ſo likewiſe is it in the Faithfull, though not in that meaſure. Hee was the true Manna that deſcended from heauen to giue light vnto the world, Iohn 6. The Tables of the Law moue vs to mutuall loue and new obedience. Aarons Rod flouriſhing with bloſſomes ſignifies the ſweetneſſe of the Goſpel, and the glory of our high Prieſt Ieſus Chriſt of whom Aaron was a Type.

THe ſacrificing altar in the Sanctuarie of the Temple, wheron were foure golden hornes, beeing made partly of Sittim wood, and partly of Gold, compaſſed about with a Crowne of gold, repreſent the vnitie of the Humanitie and Deity in our Sauiour. For as the wood, naturally incorruptible, was beautified with refulgent gold; ſo the Humanity of Chriſt, not capable of any putrifaction, Pſalme 16. being adorned with Celeſtial glorie of the Deity, perſonally vnited to the Diuine Nature, aſcended vp into the Heauens, and there ſitteth at the right hand of his Father, crowned with a crown of majeſty in eternal happines, Pſa. 8.

THe golden Candleſtick with ſix branches and ſeuen lights, ſignifies Chriſt and the Miniſters of the church. Chriſt the foundation is the chiefe Prieſt and Light of the world, illuminating vs to eternal life, Ioh. 1. The Doctors and Teachers of the church are the branches by whom Chriſt inlightneth his church with the ſound and vncorruptible doctrine of the Goſpel, Apoc. 1. Neither ought they to be ſeparated from Chriſt, but by the light of their doctrine and ſincere conuerſation be a lanthorn vnto our feet, Pſal. 119. that ſo their works may return to his glory and the good of his church. And as all the branches were vnited into the body of the Candleſtick, ſo euery Miniſter and faithfull child of God ought to be vnited into the body of Chriſt, without any ſchiſmaticall diſſention or ſeparation. The floures and lillies denote the ornaments and graces of the holy Spirit, which Chriſt hath bountifully beſtowed vpon his Miniſters. The Lights and lamps do admoniſh all godly Miniſters to a diligent care, leſt the light of Gods diuine word ſhould either by mens traditions, or carnal and philoſophical opinions, be either diminiſhed, or by little and little aboliſhed: but as often as ſuch things happen, with the ſincere doctrine of the Goſpel to be purged and preſerued.

THe golden Table wheron the Shew bread ſtood, being compaſſed about with a pretious crown, ſignifies the miniſterie of the Goſpell. For the bread that is ſet before vs is Chriſt that Bread of Life which deſcended out of heauen, Iohn 6. and hee by the miniſtry of the twelve Apoſtles is myſtically offered vnto vs in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, that whoſoeuer eateth thereof as they ought might haue eternal life. The Frankincenſe that ſtood by the bread admoniſheth vs, that earneſt prayers and godly actions are to be vſed in the time of the adminiſtring of the Lords ſupper. For as Macarius ſaith, If the diuel was as ſtrong as mountaines, yet at the prayers of the Saints he melteth as wax before the fire. And S. Cyril ſaith, That Chriſt is the Table vpon which the bread of life is ſet, whereby all the Faithfull are nouriſhed vnto eternall life. And the Crowne about this Table is the goodneſſe and mercy of God, wherby we are crowned & brought to eternal happineſſe. S. Ierom ſaith, That this Table was a figure of the table and the ſupper in the kingdome of God, Luk. 2. The Shew-bread vpon the table is the Son of God, which giueth life vnto the world, Iohn 6.

THe Vine in the Eaſt part of the temple made of ſhining gold, fitly reſembles our Sauiour Chriſt, who compared himſelfe vnto a Vine, and the Faithfull vnto the branches, ſaying, I am the true Vine, and whoſoeuer is ingraffed into me ſhal haue eternall life, Io. 15. The Cryſtall grapes do denote the doctrine of the Goſpell, and the works of the Faithfull, which are faith, loue, hope, charity, patience, prayer, and workes of grace, all which do inhere vnto ſuch as beleeue.

ALl the Oblations and Sacrifices of the old Teſtament were Types and figures of our Sauiour, That as they were ſlaine for the performance of the ceremonial law; ſo Chriſt for the ſaluation of man was ſlain and made a free-will Offering; by whoſe bloud and mediation the ſin of man is pardoned, and he made capable of eternall life, Eſay 53. Iohn 10. Heb. 9, &c.

THe vpper Court was a figure of the ſpirituall Prieſthood of Ieſus Chriſt, who hath made vs all Prieſts and Kings, and hath beautified vs with his guiltleſſe death, 1 Pet. 2

SOlomons Court, wherein Chriſt taught, and in which the Iewes vſed commonly to pray, was a figure of that Church which ſhould be gathered from amongſt the Iewes. For from thence he indeauoured firſt to aſſemble and gather together a Chriſtian congregation, according to that which he ſpake to the Canaanitiſh woman, Mat. 15. I am ſent only to the loſt Sheep of the houſe of Iſrael.

THis Court ſignified, That the Gentiles alſo ſhould partake of the ſheepfold and congregation of Chriſt, and be members of his holy Church; according to that of Iohn 10. I haue yet other Sheepe which I muſt alſo bring hither, that ſo there might be one ſheepfold, one Paſtor, &c.

HAuing thus deſcribed the temple, together with the ſeueral courts & ornaments, al which did typically repreſent Chriſt & his church, I wil now proceed to the reſt of the buildings ſtanding vpon mount Moriah. The firſt and moſt memorable was the houſe of Solomon, which ſtood iuſt againſt the Temple vpon the South: it ſhined ſo with gold and ſiluer, & was ſo ſtately and ſumptuouſly built, that when queene Saba came to Ieruſalem ſhe ſtood amaſed to ſee it. There belonged to it diuers Courts and Walkes, in one of which the Prophet Ieremy was priſoner, Ier. 37. Ouer againſt this he made the Iudgement hall, in which hee placed the Ivory Chaire ſpoken of 1 Kin. 10. He built by that another houſe for his Queen, ſhe that was daughter of Pharaoh, 1 Kin. 7. But when Nebuchadnezzar conquered Ieruſalem, all theſe together with the Temple were burnt and vtterly defaced.

VPon the North lay that ſheepfold o • ſequeſtred place called Betheſda, Ioh. 5. which hath fiue porches or Xenodochius, as ſome would haue it: here Cattell came to drinke, and the Prieſts vſed to waſh their Sacrifices; becauſe no vncleane beaſt might come within the Temple, nor any thing that was foule or ſpotted be offered vpon the Altar. The water was of reddiſh colour, and ran into that place in great aboundance, and therefore it was called the houſe of effuſion or pouring out. This was the place into which the Angel of God ſometimes deſcended and troubled the water, after which whoſoeuer ſtepped in was preſently cured: and heere our Sauiour Chriſt healed the man that had beene diſeaſed 38 years, Ioh. 5. This place was made by King Hezekiah, who cauſed the water of the vppermoſt poole, which was called Gihon, not far from mount Calvary, to be conueied by pipes & paſſages through the earth, into the lower city called Acra, and ſo fel into this place, for which cauſe it was called the lower poole. The Allegorie or myſterie hereof is, That euery one of Chriſts Sheepe ought to be waſhed in the poole of his bloud, before they can be made fit ſacrifices to enter into his Temple or church, 1 Io. 1.

THis caſtle, as Ioſep. hath it, lib. 6. de Bell. cap. 6. ſtood betweene two Courts of the Temple at the North-Weſt corner; at firſt built by the Machabees, and called by the name of Baris: but after, King Herod taking affection to that place, beſtowed great coſt vpon it, walled it about, built vp ſumptuous towers, & made it very ſtrong; then gaue it the name of Antonia, in fauor of Antonius that noble Roman; which Auguſtus a long time ſuſtained after their deceaſe.

THis houſe ſtood vpon an angle or cantle of the hill, and was therefore called Coenaculum Anguli: it was very large & ſpatious, and within had a great hall, whereof Nehem. cap. 3. maketh mention: and here, as ſome thinke, our Sauior Chriſt ate the Paſchal Lambe with his Diſciples; but I rather thinke it was in the ſuburbs.

NEere to the valley of Cedron toward the Eaſt, not farre from the Temple, and neere the caſtle Antonia, there was builded a lofty and ſtrong tower or palace called Ophel, that is, a place of darkneſſe: it was a very ſumptuous thing.

IN the town wall betweene the ſheepe gate and the dung gate, ſtood this caſtle Hamea or Centurion, taking the name à Centenario numero, i. the number of an hundred, and was vpon the Eaſt ſide of the city, neere to the ſheepfold or poole Betheſda, Neh. 3.12. Here the Centurions commonly kept watch.

MOunt Acra (as is aforeſaid) ſtood vpon the Weſt ſide of Ieruſalem; it was a very high mountain, and tooke that name from the Greeke word Acra, a ſharpe or high hill. It was much higher than mount Moriah in times paſt, till Simon, Iudas Machabeus brother, cauſed it to be cut lower, to make it equall in height with mount Moriah. Between theſe two hils lay the vally Cedron, which was in profunditie 400 cubits. Vpon this Mountain another part of the city was builded, beeing ſtrongly fortified and richly adorned with ſumptuous houſes, of which Dauid and Solomon were the principal founders; and was called the lower city, or the daughter of Sion. It was ſo beautiful, that ſome hold (of which number are Egeſippus and Euſebius) that it exceeded the reſt of the city. Here ſtood the houſe of Helena Queen of the Adiabenors, neer about the midſt of it, as Ioſep. obſerueth, Li. Bell. 7. cap. 13. which Queene beeing conuerted to the Iewiſh Religion, built her an houſe in this City, that ſhee might pray in the Temple. Here ſtood the houſes of her ſonnes Monobazius and Grapta: here ſtood the houſes of the high prieſts Annas and Caiaphas, not far from the valley Tyropae; King Herod alſo that wicked man, who cauſed the innocent Children to be put to death, built him an houſe heere, neere about the place where the Machabees in times paſt had a Caſtle; (for they built two, one in mount Moriah, another in this Mount.) That in mount Moriah was after called the Caſtle of Antonia, and ſtood right againſt the Temple, as is aforeſaid. And this being very ſumptuouſly built, and a Royall ſeat, was after the death of this Herod a Palace for his Succeſſors Archilaus and Herod Agrippa. Not farre off he cauſed two faire Theatres to be alſo built; the one in honour of the Emperour Auguſtus; and this on the one ſide joined to a tower called Acropolis (which was built by Antigonus Epiphanes, on a purpoſe to place a Garriſon in, to keepe the Iewes in bondage; which Iudas Machabeus afterwards made leuel with the ground) and on the other ſide towards his owne Pallace. It reſembled a ſemi-Circle, made all of white Marble fairely poliſhed, the building ſomewhat low; within full of high bankes one riſing aboue another like Scaffolds, ſo that the whole multitude might eaſily heare or ſee whatſoeuer was ſaid or done. It was curiouſly beautified with gold, ſiluer, and many goodly pictures; but amongſt the reſt, the battailes which the Emperour Auguſtus had woon againſt his people were liuely pourtrayed. To this place as well Iews as Gentiles reſorted to ſee Interludes and Playes acted. The other was an Amphitheatre, and ſtood vpon the South ſide of the houſe: it was built round in a whole circle, compaſſed about with high walls large and ſpatious. Here they vſed to fence and to fight both on horſe-backe and in Waggons. And in the fifth yere, in honor of Auguſtus, the circenſian games, according to the Rites of the Gentiles, were very ſumptuouſly performed. On the South ſide of this Amphitheater, ſtood queen Bernice houſe, Siſter to Agrippa junior: it was a very faire and ſumptuous Building little inferiour to King Herods. This ſtood in the market place, and ſo all along were very ſumptuous and ſtately Pillars. Heere Agrippa himſelfe had alſo an houſe, and ouer againſt that vpon the North ſtood the Iudgement hall, where the Sanhedrim or the Councell of the ſeuenty Elders vſed to meet, to heare and determine of mens cauſes. To this place Chriſt was brought when they asked him if he was Chriſt, Luke 22. Here were the Apoſtles whipt, Acts 5. and cloſe by this ſtood the houſe of Pilat the Pretor, fairely gliſtering with gold, in which houſe all the Romane Pretors and Preſidents for the moſt part had their reſidence: and here our Sauiour Chriſt was whipt, crowned with Thornes, and ſpit vpon. Not far off from this Pretors houſe ſtood the Chancerie, or rather as we terme it the Treaſury, a ſtately and magnificent houſe, curiouſly built, and appointed onely to lay Records and common Chronologies in. Heere alſo the Officers of the towne gaue in their accounts, and Creditors entred their debts. This was vtterly deſtroyed by Veſpaſian. Thus much for the Buildings on this Mount.

Next, the market place was a thing very memorable, and was ſo large and ſpatious, that in the time of the Warres many great battels were fought there, as Ioſephus ſaith. In this market place, cloſe by Pilats houſe ſtood a high ſeat or Tribunal made of faire ſtone curiouſly wrought, and for the eminence of it called in the Chaldaean tongue Gabatha; and becauſe it was built of ſtone the Grecians called it 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 : the Latines, Lapidanium; and with vs it might be termed an heape of ſtones * (for ſo the word ſignifieth) Here Pilat taking water waſhed his hands before the people,Or a well wrought ſtone and ſaid, I am innocent of this mans bloud: At which they cried, His bloud be vpon vs and our children. And after by Gods appointment, according to their own wiſh fel vpon them; for in the ſame place and cloſe by the ſame Seat it hapned that Herod wanting money, demanded of the Iewes ſo much out of their Treaſurie (which they called Corban) as would pay for the making of a Watercourſe (for he aſſayed to bring water into the City from a Fountaine, ſome two hundred furlongs off it) but the Iewes ſuppoſing it a needleſſe worke, not onely denied him, but gaue many outragious and ſpitefull ſpeeches, tumultuouſly flocked about him, and with great clamors preſt vpon him euen as he was in his ſeat: wherfore perceiuing the danger, and to preuent miſchief, he ſent to his ſouldiers to apparell themſelues like Citiſens, and vnder their gownes to bring with them a dagger or ponyard, and mingle themſelues among the multitude; which they did, obſeruing who they were that made the greateſt vprore; and when Herod gaue the ſigne, fel vpon them with their ponyards, killing a great multitude. The reſt ſeeing this maſſacre, ſuſpecting treaſon amongſt themſelues, fell one vpon another; and many for feare of loſſe, or to auoid future danger, killed themſelues. In this very place alſo, Florus Generall of the common ſouldiers, within few yeares after, vpon a ſmall occaſion, made another cruell maſſacre and much more barbarous than the former: for hee ſpared none, the beſt of them he cauſed to be whipt to death, or elſe crucified and put to the ſword; and for the Vulgar ſpared neither woman nor childe. So that within the compaſſe of one day there died of this obſtinate and wicked Nation aboue ſeuen hundred and thirty. This outrage was ſo cruell, that all ſtrangers which inhabited within the town pitied their miſery; but eſpecially Queen Bernice, who being partly frighted with their ſhreeks, partly moued to commiſeration through the extremitie of their affliction, indangered her life to preſent her ſelfe before Florus, and vpon her knees beſought him to take ſome mercy and pitty of them, and withdraw his hand of vengeance from the bloud of the guiltleſſe. But the fury of the Roman ſouldiers was ſo fierce, and the reſolution of Florus ſo vnremoueable, that neither her teares nor the preſent calamities could perſuade him. But as in ſuch Vprores it commonly happeneth, ſhe with the reſt was in danger of her ſafety, and was conſtrained the next night, for the preſeruation of her eſtate to keep a ſtrong watch, leſt the Roman ſouldiers ſhould haue done her ſome violence. Thus we may ſee a iuſt reuenge of a periured and ſtif necked people, and that in the place where the offence was committed, though at leaſt eight and thirt • yeares after.

In this market place Agrippa had built a Gallery all of marble, from his own houſe to the Iudgment hall; it was couered aboue, and made with diuers and ſundry roomes for men to walke in, all burniſhed with gold, and called by the name of Xiſton, as Ioſephus hath it. Here Agrippa after this cruell maſſacre made an Oration to the people (Queene Bernice ſtanding by him) to this effect; That they ſhould forbear to raiſe any more commotions againſt the Romans, and to baniſh the Seditious out of the city, for that they ſaw their cruelty; Ioſep. lib. de Bell. 2. Egeſip. lib. 2. cap. 8. To this Gallery there ioyned a bridge which paſt ouer the valley of Cedron to the Temple. And amongſt many other faire and ſumptuous Buildings that were vpon this place, there were the Colledges of the Phariſees, Sadduces, and the Synagogues and Schooles for the inſtruction of Youth, which were diſperſed here and there among other ſtately buildings; and this was called the lower Towne.

BEtweene ths lower City and the Temple there was a deepe Valley, extending it ſelfe from the gate of Benjamin through the middle of the City, to the gate of Sion. From this Valley they aſcended into either mountaines, (that is, Mount Acra, and Mount Moriah) by certaine ſteppes or ſtaires. Theſe two hills (as is before ſaid) were ioyned together with a bridge; and this Valley paſſing betweene them, was called by Zephaniah, cap. 1. Machten. In which place aboue all the reſt of the Cities dwelt Merchants, and ſuch as vſed commerce and trade, as appeareth in the eleuenth verſe of his prophecie; Howle yee Inhabitants of the low place, for the company of the Merchants is deſtroyed: all they that exchange for ſiluer are cut off. Vpon which place of Scripture the Chaldaean Paraphraſe reades it thus Howle yee inhabitants of the valley Cedron. Ioſephus, in tit. Bell. 6. cap. 6. & libr. 6. cap. 7 calleth this valley by two names; one Machten, from the profunditie; the other Cedron, from the obſcurity: for ſo the name ſignifieth; and whoſoeuer looked downe into it from the Temple, fogs and miſts ſeemed to lie in the bottome of it, like a cloud of darkneſſe, ſuch was the depth of it. There was another valley which lay betweene mount Sion and theſe mountaines, called by the name of Tyrexdon.

THis place lay Northward in Ieruſalem, and betweene it and the former hils were deep ditches caſt; it had two Townes ſtanding vpon it, diuided with two walls, and was commonly called the Suburbs; the name of the one, which lay neereſt to mount Moriah, was called the ſecond city; the other that lay vpon the North, was called Neapolis or the new towne. In the ſecond dwelt Hulda the Propheteſſe, and Zacharias the father of S. Iohn Baptiſt, 2 Kin. 22.2. 2 Chr. 34. Nehem. 3. Ioſeph. li. 10. c. 5. It was adorned with many faire and ſumptuous buldings, among which was that princely houſe of Herod Aſcalonites that great and mighty King of the Iewes, in whoſe time our Sauior Chriſt was born. This houſe was ſumptuouſly built, ſupported and adorned with pillars of poliſht marble, and ſo ſpatious, that in one room thereof there might ſtand a hundred tables. The hall alſo was very great, and richly gilded with refined gold intermixt with ſiluer: about it were many pleaſant and delectable walls, goodly gardens and fountains for pleaſure: it was compaſt with a wal of poliſht marble 30 cubits high. And (as Valerius writeth) in that houſe Herod cauſed Chriſt to be mocked, put a long white garment vpon him in contempt, and ſo ſent him to Pilat. Here alſo was a priſon, in which Peter was kept when the Angel of the Lord deliuered him, Acts 12.

THis lay without the wals of the city, and became inhabited by reaſon of the great concourſe of people that flocked thither (for in times paſt there were no inhabitants) and ſtood vpon the North ſide of the hil. Here dwelt the Chriſtians and other laborers & ſtrangers: and by all likelihood it ſeems that the houſe of Mary the mother of Iohn ſyrnamed Marke ſtood here, which becauſe of the continuall reſort of the Apoſtles thither, was called the houſe of the Church. Hither Peter reſorted when he was deliuered from the hands of Herod, by the Angell: for thus ſaith the Text, Acts 12.9. That when Peter had paſt the firſt and ſecond watch he came to the Iron gate which led into the Citie, and loe it opened of it ſelfe. And from thence he went to the houſe of Mary the mother of Iohn, ſurnamed Marke. Here alſo (in my opinion) Chriſt celebrated the laſt Paſchall Lambe, becauſe after ſupper hee went into the mount of Oliues, for this lying vnwalled, lay open for them to goe and come at their pleaſure. But afterward in Herod Agrippa's time, it was begunne to be compaſſed in with a wall, and before it could be fully finiſhed, the Angell of the Lord ſtrucke him, and he died miſerably. Here alſo ſtood the Monuments of Iohn Hircanus the high Prieſt, and of Alexander, King of the Iewes, as it appeareth in Ioſephus, libr. de Bello, 6. cap. 6. The tops of the houſes in the Citie of Ieruſalem were flat, and couered with faire and plaine roofes, compaſſed about with battlements; vpon which they vſed to leape, dance and banquet, and ſuch recreations as they obſerued vpon their feſtiuall daies were there celebrated. And thus much ſhall ſerue to haue ſpoken of the mountaines or hills whereon Ieruſalem ſtood.

THis Citie of Ieruſalem was ſo ſtrongly fortified by nature on euery ſide, except the North, (for it ſtood vpon high rockes and cliffes) that it ſeemed to be inuincible. And that that ſide might be the better ſtrengthened, they compaſſed it in with three walls, and theſe ſo ſtrong, that when Veſpaſian the Emperor and his armie inuaded the citie they had much adoe to conquer them. The firſt of theſe walls was that which Agrippa built, and it compaſſed in Neapolis, otherwiſe called the new towne. At the Northweſt end of which Wall, was built an exceeding high Tower of very faire Marble ſtone; ſo high, that ſtanding on the top thereof, a man might ſee from thence to the Sea, and into Arabia, and the vttermoſt bounds of Iudaea. This Tower was called Pſephina.

The ſecond wall was that which diuided the two Suburbes, wherein there ſtood 14 towers and gates. This King Hez • kiah built, 2. Chr. 32. in a corner of which, betweene the Weſt gate and the Valley gate, there ſtood a high Tower, wherein all the night great fire was made, which caſt a light a great way off round about; ſo that trauellers paſſing towards Ieruſalem, where guided by it in their way. Of this light we reade in Nehem. cap. 3.

The third wall compaſſed in the Temple and all the lower citie; in it was ſixtie Towers, but the chiefe of them ſtood in the Eaſt Angle, betweene the dung gate and the gate of the valley, which was called Hananiel, and ſignifieth, The grace and gift of God. This is much ſpoken of in the Scripture: vpon this wall King Herod the Aſcalonite built three faire Towers; one betweene the Garden gate and the old gate, which hee called Hippicum, in honour of his father Hippicus; the other Phaſelum, in honour of his brother Phaſilus; and the third Mariamne, after his wiues name, who notwithſtanding hee cauſed innocently to be put to death. Theſe three gates were built of poliſht Marble. Pliny and Strabo ſaith, That this was the faireſt and moſt ſpacious city of the Eaſt; and for the munition and fortification almoſt inuincible. The wals of it were all of white poliſht marble, ſome 25 or 30 cubits high: the ſtones were 20 cubits long, 20 broad, and 5 thicke, ſo cloſely joyned that the junctures could ſcarce be perceiued. Many of the Towers alſo were made of ſuch ſtones; but thoſe of the Temple exceeded the reſt; for they were 25 cubits long, 12 broad, and 8 thicke, as Ioſephus witneſſeth, lib. Ant. 15. ca. 14. & de Bel. Iud. li. 6. ca. 6. which things being rightly conſidered, we may eaſily perceiue that theſe walls were very difficult to be deſtroyed: Neither were the ditches of leſſe ſtrength that went about the Towne; for they were cut out of hard ſtones, at leaſt forty cubits deepe, and two hundred and fifty cubits broad, which were vnpoſſible to haue beene woon, if God had not holpen and aſſiſted the Romans, filling vp thoſe ditches with the bodies of thoſe that died of the plague and famine within the towne.

IT had twelue gates to goe out and in: Vpon the Eaſt ſide lay fiue, the firſt of which was the Fountaine gate, which was ſo called of the Fountaine Siloah. And this ſtood cloſe by the gate of mount Sion. In which Fountain, the man that was borne blind waſht himſelfe at the commandement of our Sauiour, and had his ſight reſtored, Ioh. 9. and at this gate Chriſt came riding in vpon an Aſſe, when he came from Bethania, on Palme Sunday.

2 The Sheepe-gate, which was ſo called of the multitude of ſheepe that were driuen in by it, to be offered in the Temple (for it ſtood hard by the temple.) Right before this gate ſtood mount Oliuet, ſome halfe an Engliſh mile and a furlong from Ieruſalem, Eaſtward. By it ſtood the Garden called Gethſemane, where Chriſt was taken, and led into the citie through this gate; to be offered vp like an innocent ſheepe, for the ſinnes of the whole World.

3 The Dung-gate: this tooke the name from a dung-hill, becauſe the raine water comming with great power through the Citie, waſhed nway the filth, and with great violence, carried it through this gate into the poole Cedron. Not far from this gate was the water gate, and ſtood a little within it.

4 The Valley-gate, which tooke the name of the valley Iehoſaphat, and lay not farre from the other gate. Hereabouts alſo ſtood the Dragon gate.

5 The Horſe-gate, and ſtood juſt in the joyning of the Eaſt and North part of the Citie: it tooke the name from the Kings horſes, as appeareth, Ier. 31. Neh. 3.

6 The corner gate which ſtood Northweſt, 2. K. 14. 1. Ch. 26. Ier. 31. Zach. 14.

7 The Benjamin-gate, ſo called becauſe men by this gate went to the borders of Benjamin: in this gate the Prophet Ieremy was priſoner, Ier. 37.

8 The Ephraim gate, by which they went to the borders of Ephraim.

9 The Raine-gate, ſo called becauſe the raine water clenſing the ſtreets, carried away all the filth, and ſo paſt through this gate toward the Weſt, and there thruſt it out of the Citie, Neh. 12.

10 The Garden-gate, before which the garden ſtood wherein Chriſt was buried.

11 The old gate: before this, Mount Caluarie ſtood, whereon Chriſt was crucified.

12 The fiſh gate, ſo called becauſe of the Sea fiſh that came in by it: it was alſo called the Bricke gate. Here the Prophet Ieremy broke an earthen pitcher, Ieremy 19. and out of this gate they went to Bethlehem. But on the South ſide there were no gates, for there mount Sion ſtood, which was ſo high and ſteepe that no man could goe vp vpon it.

THe gate of Sion, the water gate; of which two I haue already ſpoken. The middle gate, whereof Ieremie ſpeaketh, cap. 19. and it is thought it ſtood in the middle of the citie, in the valley Cedron, not farre from the Tower called Mariamne. The Iron gate, which opened of it ſelfe, when the Angell led Peter out of priſon, Acts 12. this ſtood in the City walls, paſſing from one ſuburbe into another: all theſe gates ſtood within the city. And thus much ſhall ſuffice to haue ſpoken of the portraiture of it.

IN the next place it reſteth to ſhew what things worthy memorie were about, and ſtood neere to the City: the firſt of which was the brooke Cedron, which ſprung out of a hill not farre from it vpon the South, and with great ſwiftneſſe ran through the Eaſt part of the citie, and ſo between Ieruſalem & the mount of Oliues, to the valley gate of Iehoſaphat: thence paſſing through the cliffes of mount Oliuet, it ran directly Eaſt till it came to the dead Sea; which brooke in the Summer time was moſt commonly dry. The water of it was ſomething blacke, which colour the valley Iehoſaphat (which was very fertile) gaue it; & from thence it was called Nigreſcens torrens, a blackiſh ſtreame. This is myſtically ſpoken of, in 2. Sam. and Pſa. 100. where it is ſaid, He (that is, our Sauiour Chriſt) ſhall drink of the brook in the way: which he fulfilled when he made ſatisfaction for our ſinnes by his death & paſſion, as it appeareth in the 69 Pſal. Saue me ô God, &c. Into this brooke ran the water of Silo, and that which came out of the temple.

THeſe two, the one lay vpon the Eaſt, the other Southweſt, about halfe an Engliſh mile and a furlong from Ieruſalem. Of Bethania you may reade in Nehemia.

GIhon ſtood before Ieruſalem on the Weſt ſide, right againſt the fiſh gate and the old gate, 2. Chr. 22. Here King Solomon was crowned, 1. Kin. 1. Not farre from this ſtood the mount Golgatha, where Chriſt was crucified. From whence may be obſerued, That as Solomon vpon that hill was crowned King, ſo Chriſt vpon this was crucified; our Sauiour and the true Solomon, that made euerlaſting peace betweene God and vs.

From this mount Gihon ſprung the Fountaine Gihon, and thereabouts alſo was the Fullers field, 2. King. 18. 2. Chron. 33. In which place Senacharib and other the Princes and Embaſſadors of the King of Aſſyria, ſpake blaſphemous words againſt the Lord, wherefore he ſlew 185 thouſand of them, as appeareth in the 2. King. 19.

THis valley lieth behind the city of Ieruſalem Southward on the left hand as they went from Ieruſalem to Bethelem. In this valley the Iewes ſet vp an Idoll of copper like a King, which they called Moloch, that is, a King of Idols. This Copper Idoll ſtood with the arms ſtretching out, and vnder it there was a great fire, whereby the Image ſhewed fire-redde: and beſides that, the more to honour it, they made a great fire betweene two walls, which burnt for his ſake: and through this fire the Idolatrous Prieſts caſt liuing children into Molochs burning armes, which he with his armes red hot burnt to death. And in this manner the Iewes offered their owne children to the Idoll Moloch: and when they did it, they made a great noiſe & crie, and beat vpon a drum, that the fathers when their children were offered, ſhould not here them crie, by reaſon of the great noiſe of Drums. This valley was called the valley of Tophet; for Tophet ſignifies a Drum. This was a moſt groſſe and fearefull Idolatry, & therefore Chriſt likened this valley of Hinnon to hell fire; for he called it Gehenna, Mat. 5. That the Iewes ſhould keepe themſelues from this monſtrous Idolatrie, God made a law, That if any man were taken committing this kind of Idolatry, he ſhould forthwith be ſtoned to death, and not ſuffered to liue, Leuit. 18. & 20. The valley of Gehennon is oftentimes named in the holy Scriptures, Ioſh. 15. Nehem. 11.2. Paral. 28.33. Ier. 7. Ierom writeth, that here by this Idol Moloch in the valley of Hinnon, there was a Wood; for the water ran out of the Fountaine Siloah along by it, and made the valley moiſt.

THis field of bloud, which was bought for thirty ſiluer pence, for the which Iudas betraied our Sauiour Chriſt, lay not farre from the valley of Hinnon, Southward by the city of Ieruſalem, as Ierom writeth.

THis hill lay Southeaſt, not farre from Ieruſalem, ſomething wide of mount Oliuet; ſo that there was but one Valley betweene them, and was not altogether ſo high as it. Alſo vpon this hill King Solomon in his old age ſuffered his wiues or concubines to make Idolatrous Temples, wherein he and his wiues worſhipped Idols.

THus haue I briefly ſet forth the dignitie, ſcituation, & curioſity of the buildings of Ieruſalem; together with the richneſſe of the Temple, and ſumptuouſneſſe of the houſes: now it reſts to deſcribe vnto you, the manner and meanes how this famous Citie was deſtroyed; ſurely a thing worthy wonder (according to that in Ieremy) Whoſoeuer ſhall heare of it his eares ſhall tingle. And that it might be the more famous, and the Chriſtians within it might take notice of the neer approaching deſolation, there were diuers ſtrange accidents hapned, and viſions ſeene. As firſt, about ſome foure yeares before, the riuer Iordan was turned out of her courſe, and was brought into the Citie Pella: a while after that, for a yeare together, there hung a Comet like a flaming ſword ouer the City: And in the night there was ſeene a light in the Temple: And in the day when they were at ſacrifice, a Calfe brought forth a Lambe. Then about the middle of the night, the Eaſterne gates of the Temple opened of their owne accord. In the skies were ſeene armies of men fighting, and Horſes and Chariots running too and againe. And at laſt there was heard a terrible voice in the temple, vttering theſe words, Migremus hinc; that is, Let vs goe hence. And that there might be a generall Proclamation of this ſad and cruell deſolation, through the whole citie, one Ananias the ſonne of Ieſus, a man poore and impotent, vpon the Feaſt of the Tabernacles, ran through all the ſtreets of the Citie, and crying, O, a voice from the Eaſt, and a voice from the Weſt, a voice from the foure windes, a voice ouer Ieruſalem and the Temple, a voice ouer the Bridegroome and the Bride, and a voice ouer the whole multitude of this Citie. And although he was whipt, and impriſoned, and cruelly handled, yet ſo long as he liued, hee would not ceaſe to vtter theſe words, which by ſome were judg'd to foretel the horrible deſolation which after hapned.

For Titus Caeſar ſonne of Flavius the Emperor, about ſeuentie yeares after the Natiuitie of our Lord, and about eight and thirty after his aſcenſion, vtterly ouerthrew it euen to the ground, about the firſt day of the moneth of Aprill, and within a yeare after theſe ſignes. For he taking aduantage of the three factions which at this time ſwaied in Ieruſalem: One of Eleazer the Prieſt the ſonne of Simon; the other of Zilotus the chiefe Prince which held the Temple; and the third of Iohannes Giſcalenus a cruell fellow, which had the command of the inferiour Citie; beſieged it, and made this a fit opportunitie to further his enterpriſes, whiles the ſeditious and factious people, little regarding their owne ſafetie, gaue way by their euill and inteſtine warrs, to what he intended, weakning themſelues much more by their continued ſlaughters, than the enemy by his inuaſion. Inſomuch as the whole citie, and Temple was filled with dead bodies; common inſolencies, and publique rapines were ordinarily amongſt them: ſome ſet fire of the City, others diſpoiling the Temple, a third ſort killing the Prieſts euen as they were at ſacrifice, al places ful of dead bodies; and to this, to adde a greater meaſure of miſerie (without any regard at all to their future defence) ſet fire of the ſtore-houſe, wherein the corne lay for the ſuſtentation of the Citie, and conſumed that in one day which had been long a gathering: by this meanes it came to paſſe, that they were ſorely afflicted with the peſtilence through the corruption of the aire, and with famine, for want of Corne. All theſe things notwithſtanding (ſuch was the crueltie, obſtinacie, and peruerſeneſſe of this people) could not reſtraine them from violating the moſt ſacred and holy things of the Temple: inſomuch as Iohannes Giſcalenus had a full determination to haue deſtroyed it, but that he was preuented by the Romans.

About this time was the feaſt of the Paſſeouer, and it fell vpon the fourteenth day of Aprill, being the Sabboth; to the celebration whereof, there reſorted to Ieruſalem, about three hundred thouſand Iewes. Theſe the enemy gaue way to enter into the Citie; but conſidering their preſent neceſſitie for want of victuals, vpon a ſuddain drew vp their forces, and ſo ſtraightly beleagered them that all this huge multitude was (as it were) impriſoned within the wals, where partaking of the former miſery, they either died by the plague or famin. Whence may be perceiued the maruellous prouidence of God, that euen on the ſame day, and in the very ſame place, where but eight and thirtie yeares before our Sauiour Chriſt ſuffered, the authors of ſuch crueltie ſuffered a moſt juſt and ſeuere reuenge, Now as the army of the Romans lay vpon the North of the Citie, Titus drew out a band of ſix hundred horſe to ride about, to behold and view the walls of the Towne: but as he was in this manner wondring at the ſumptuouſneſſe of the Citie, the Iewes in great multitudes ſlipt out at a poſterne gate, and ſet vpon him ſo fiercely, that they endangered his perſon, being without armour; and had he not with great difficultie broke through them, and recouered the Tower of the Romans, hee had beene there ſlaine. But preſently vpon this ſeeing the danger, hee beſieged the Citie in three parts; himſelfe as the Emperour of the armie, built a caſtle about ſome two furlongs from the Citie, iuſt againſt the Tower Pſephina. Thc other part of the army was intrenched right againſt the Tower Hippicus not farre from the Garden of the reſurrection. And the third part had their Caſtle in the Mount of Oliues, ſome fiue furlongs or thereabouts from the Citie. Then did hee build Bulwarkes, make Engines, and wonderfull deuiſes, for the battering of the Walls; and combining himſelfe with ſome of the Iewes, vpon the ſeuenth day of the ſecond moneth, which anſwereth to the moneth of May, with great difficultie and much labour entred the firſt Wall which lay vpon the North, and woon Mount Bezitha and Neapolie. Vpon the twelfth of the ſame moneth (which was the Sabboth day) hee entred the ſecond wall, which diuided the ſuburbs: but this was againe the ſame day recouered by the vertue of the Iewes, ſo that the Iewes were conſtrained to fight vpon the Sabboth day, according to the prophecie of our Sauiour Chriſt, Matt. 24. But after vpon the ſixteenth of this moneth of May, the Romans againe recouered this wall and kept it in their owne cuſtody.

Within a while after in the month of Iune (about this time the famine growing intollerable within the towne) Titus in the ſpace of three daies, compaſſed in the whole citie of Ieruſalem with a Wall, and vpon that ſet Towers and Caſtles, leſt any of the Iewes ſhould flye to ſaue themſelues. Thus was the prophecie of our Sauiour Chriſt fulfilled, Thy enemies ſhall compaſſe thee about and hem thee in on euery ſide. Ioſephus was now in the Citie, and walking vpon the Walls, earneſtly intreated the Iewes to deſiſt, and no longer to oppoſe the Romans, but this was ſo hatefull a ſpeech to many, that they began to fling darts at him. And although at this time the extremitie of the famine was ſo ſore, that many dyed for want of ſuſtenance, yet all perſwaſions were in vaine; and ſuch was the calamitie, that as well thoſe as went out, as thoſe that continued in the Citie, were in like danger of their liues; for they were either ſlaine by the enemy, or els by the peſtilence and famine; common injuries, and vnmercifull outrages ſtill attending vpon warre.

Their miſery did rather increaſe, then at all leſſon it ſelfe; for the jealouſie of treaſon, the hope of riches, and the madnes of the ſeditious, diſtracted the mindes of the Citizens with continuall feares, and filled the ſtreets full of murther and daily ſpectacles of lamentable tragedies: The markets were vnfrequented with Corne, the victuals, with violence conſumed and taken from the true owners. And if it chanced that ſome one had more than would ſerue his turne, though he dwelt in a faire and ſtately building, yet the remoteſt roome and moſt vnfrequented he made his tabernacle, and that little which was left, with great parcimonie he conſumed, together with his life, till both were ended. Thoſe that were Fathers and Senats of the people (though before ſerued and attended with reuerenced and great ſtate) in this conſuſion was glad of a ſmall morſell, though with much contention. The wife was not aſhamed to take away the meate from her huſband, nor the children from their parents, nor the mothers from their infants: And if it hapned that in any houſe the ſeditious ſeemed to ſmell food, with violence they tooke it, ranſackt the roomes round about, whiles the maſter therof was made a laughing ſtocke and mournfull ſpectator of thoſe miſchiefes. But according to the condition of ſouldiers, whoſe naturall diſpoſition is to be violent, without any regard either of ſex or kindred, committed daily outrages. So that here you might haue ſeene the mothers weeping ouer their dying infants, whiles their husbands were maſſacred in the ſtreets by the ſeditious.

The increaſe of daies were the increaſe of torments, and the daily want of ſuch as were in power being vnaccuſtomed to ſuch euils, cauſed them to inuent new meanes to ſatisfie their deſire, and practiſe vnuſuall torments, for no other purpoſe but to finde out ſuſtenance: yea, ſuch was their inſatiable thirſt of bloud, that they ſpared not him whom but now gaue them all hee had, and leaſt he ſhould liue to cumber the city, either hang him vp by the heeles till he died, or elſe pulled out his entrailes with a ſharpe yron. Thoſe that went out in the night time when the Romans were aſleepe, to gather herbes, the ſeditious would meet and with violence take what they had got from them: and though with teares and lamentations, and prayers vpon their knees, they intreated but for one part, a ſmall moitie of that which a little before they had got with danger of their liues, yet they would not giue it them, and ſcap't fairely if they went away with life. Theſe inſolencies were committed by the common ſouldiers, vpon ſuch as were of the meaner ſort of people. But for the reſt that were either honorable or rich, they became a prey to the Captains and Commanders, ſome accuſed as traitors, and that they would haue betraied the Citie to the Romans; others as fugitiues, that they would forſake the Citie; moſt vnder pretence of one crime or other, diſpoiled of that they had. And they whom Iohn had thus oppreſſed, were entertained of Simon, and whom Simon had injuried, they were entertained by Iohn; both drunke the bloud of the miſerable Citizens like water: So that the deſire of rule was the cauſe of their diſſention, the concord of their euill and cruell actions.

There was an infinite number that periſhed in this citie by famine, inſomuch as houſes were filled with the bodies of infants and children. The Angle gate was thruſt full of dead corpes. The young men that remained, walked vp and downe the Citie like Images of death. The old men were deſtroyed by the peſtilence, the contagion of which diſeaſe taking away their ſenſes, they became madde. And of ſuch as died among the ſeditious, their wiues or kindred had not roome nor time to bury them, but as they were putting them into the graue they alſo dyed. Yet for all this, amongſt this miſerable ſocietie, there was no weeping, no complaining, no deploring of their neceſſities, for the violence of the famin hauing dried vp their radical moiſture, the feare of griefe was taken from them: and ſuch as had moſt cauſe to lament, and were moſt pricked with the ſting of ſorrow, before they could vtter their griefe died, the beholders not ſhedding a tear: ſo that through the whole city there was a ſtill ſilence, and a thicke miſt of death, and deſtruction did fully poſſeſſe the ſame.

But the ſeditious were much more cruell than theſe were oppreſſed with calamitie and ſorrow; for ſome opened the graues of the dead, and taking out their bodies thruſt them thorow with their ſwords. Others to trie the ſharpeneſſe of the edge of their weapons would fall vpon thoſe that were yet aliue, and when they had ſlaine them, goe away laughing at their pleaſure. So that as Ioſephus ſaith, there was ſcarce any miſchiefe vnder the Sunne, but was both practiſed and tollerated in this Citie. To conclude, by ſedition the Romans conquered the Citie, and ſedition conquered the Romans.

All loue and modeſtie, through this extreme and intollerable famine, became vtterly extinct, and the deereſt friends would kill one another for a cruſt of bread; the faireſt Lady commit open adultery for a little ſuſtinance. Their food was extraordinary, and ſuch as men did loath and hate: Some would feed vpon ſnailes and wormes, others of old hay chopt ſmall; many ate corne either vnground or made into bread: ſome pluckt the meat from the ſpit raw, others with their teeth gnaud off the leather off their ſhields: And that very mouth which cried, Crucifie him, crucifie him, let his bloud be vpon vs and our children, was conſtrained to feed vpon three ſorts of dung, that is to ſay, Doues dung, Oxens dung, and Mans dung. Moreouer, many were conſtrained for meere neceſſitie, to feed vpon the dead bodies of ſuch, as a little before dyed, partly by famine, partly by the peſtilence. And to conclude, for very madneſſe eat vp their gold: for ſome of them being taken as they were flying for their ſafety by the Romans, in their excrement was found gold, of which the ſouldiers hearing, and ſuppoſing that all the Iewes had beene full of gold, thorow couetouſneſſe of that gaine, in one night killed 2000 of them, and ript vp their bellies; And had not Titus Caeſar by a ſeuere Edict, forbidden theſe cruell and vnheard of ſlaughters, there had beene many more ſlaine.

To make an end of this vnheard of famine, I will repeat one memorable example our of Ioſephus, of an outrage which a mother committed euen vpon her owne ſonne. There was a woman of the inhabitants beyond Iordan, whoſe name was Marie, of the ſtocke of Eliazer, and of the Towne Bethezor, which ſignifies the houſe of Hiſſop; ſhee was of a noble and rich family, and amongſt others, went to Ieruſalem in hope of ſafety, where ſhe was likewiſe oppreſſed with the miſerie of this ſiege; for as ſoone as ſhe had brought all her riches and ſubſtance into the City, which ſhe had before beyond Iordan, this famine growing greater and greater vpon the inhabitants. The ſeditious perceiuing that this woman was well furniſhed both with riches and ſuſtinance, on a ſuddain ſet vpon her houſe, diſpoiled her of her ſubſtance, tooke away her ſuſtinance, and vtterly depriued her of all meanes to liue. Shee beeing pricked with the miſery and calamitie of the times, ſaw it little preuailed to ſtriue, wherefore with teares, vpon her knees ſhe intreated that ſhee might haue but ſome ſmall part of that they had taken from her, to maintain her ſelfe and her ſon with life; but the ſeditious gaue little eare to her intreaties: wherfore being mooued to extreme anger ſhe daily curſed with contumelious words thoſe barbarous villains, that had thus rob'd her of all her means: but when ſhee ſaw that neither anger nor intreatie could procure mercie, and through the Towne not one morſell of food was to be found, partly preſt with an extreame neceſſitie, partly with a furious rage, beyond all nature and compaſſion, laid violent hands vpon her owne ſonne, and accounted an vntimely death more honourable, than that he ſhould liue to bee a prey to the ſeditious, or a ſlaue to the Romans.

The body of this infant ſhee roſted and eat: the ſoldiers of the Towne beeing preſt with hunger, ſmelling the meat, ſuppoſing that as in former times, they ſhould haue found plenty, with violence broke in vpon her, and looke what ſhe had prouided greedily conſumed, and compelled her to fetch the reſt; which ſhee did, and when they were well ſatisfied, ſhe ſhewed them the head and feet of her ſonne: which they perceiuing, loathing the inhumanitie of the fact, with dejected countenance departed. This famine was ſo extreame, that one meaſure of graine was worth a talent, that is, 600 crownes. But the Romans all this while did abound with plenty of all things, and to vex the Iewes they ſhewed them the great aboundance of their ſtore, for the neighboring prouinces ſent them ſupplies.

After this famine, there followed an extreme plague, procured partly through the ſtanch of the bodies that lay vnburied, partly by the multitude of the maſſacres that daily hapned, that (as Egiſippus writeth) within the compaſſe of eleuen weekes, there were carried out by one gate of the Citie, 111000 dead bodies; yet could they not emptie the Citie, but that they were conſtrained either to bury them at the publike charge, or elſe caſt them ouer the wals into the ditches of the citie: which when Titus ſaw, and that the putrifaction of the bodies ſwam vpon the brim of the ditch (for it was full with dead carkaſſes) fetching a deepe ſigh, and lifting vp his hands to heauen, he ſaid, God is my witnes, this is not my fault, but the puniſhment of God vpon them.

The city being thus peſtired with ſedition, famine, peſtilence, and warre, was made now a ready prey to the Enemy: and that they might make a finall end of their miſeries, Titus cauſed the engines of batterie to be brought againſt the walls; and vpon the firſt day of the fourth month (whicn anſwers to our Iune) he took the third wall which lay vpon the North. Vpon the fourth of Iune after, though with great labour, he tooke the Tower of Antonia, and in it placed a Garriſon. Vpon the ſeuenteenth day of the fourth moneth, which was a faſt to the Iewes, Ioſephus going vp to the top of that Tower, made an Oration to Giſcalinus and the reſt, to diſſwade them from their rebellion, & ceaſe to oppoſe the Romans, but this little preuailed. Vpon the twentieth day of Iuly, the Iewes burnt a part of the Porch of the Temple towards the North, not far from the Tower of Antonia, leſt that the Romans hauing got that Hold, ſhould with the greater facilitie haue conquered the Temple alſo. Two daies after, the Romans deſtroyed the whole Porch with fire, and the Iewes helpt to pull it downe with their hands: this was none of the three Porches but a bulwarke of the Temple. Vpon the 25 day of Iuly the Iewes filled the Porch toward the Weſt with pitch and betume, and then made as though they meant to fly and leaue the citie, which ſome of the Romans perceiuing, without any command of their Captaines, put ſcaling ladders to the Tower, and began to aſſault it, but when they were moſt buſie, the Iewes of a ſudden put fire to the pitch, and burnt them moſt miſerably; inſomuch as Titus pittied them to ſee their extremitie, although they were ſuch as did contrary to his command. Vpon the laſt day of this moneth they tooke the North gate, which lay towards the riſing of the Sunne, and cloſe by the brooke Cedron; rhis they burnt downe with fire. Vpon the third of Auguſt, Titus commanded to fire the gate of the Temple, that was all couered ouer with gold & ſiluer, by this gate the Romans made a breach into the Temple, which ere this had beene prophaned by the Iewes: whiles this gate was a burning, the Iewes ſtood aſtoniſhed, and not one of them reſiſted the Romans. Caeſar and all his army labored three daies to quench this fire, after which hee called a councell to determine what he ſhould do with the temple, it was ſo rich and ſumptuous, that he would faine haue left it as an ornament for the Roman Empire. But the Iewes hauing got a little breathing, made new incurſions vpon the Romans, by which meanes they could not determine thereof. The 6 of Auguſt, the ſouldiers of Titus, without command of their Captaines, fired the Temple, juſt vpon that day which Nebuchadnezzar before time had deſtroyed it, as Ioſephus witneſſeth, li. de Bell. 6. c. 26.27. Caeſar would faine haue ſaued this Temple for the ſumptuouſneſſe of it, and beckoned to his ſouldiers to haue quencht the fire, but they, partly preſt on with a deſire of wealth, partly being prickt on with a fury and madneſſe, gaue no eare to his ſpeeches, but committed moſt cruell maſſacres, without either regard of age or ſex: So that the cries of the ſlaughterd, the ſound of the Roman trumpets, the fierce reſiſtance of the ſeditious, and the fire furiouſly burning, repreſented a moſt horrible ſpectacle: The ground below was couered with dead bodies, many in deſperation threw themſelues into the fire, 6000 were burnt in the ſame gate, whither they fled for refuge, and the prieſts moſt cruelly maſſacred as they were in the Temple. This was the end of the Temple of Ieruſalem, the mirror of the world, being conſumed and ſpoiled with fire and ſword.

After theſe things, vpon the bridge that paſſeth from the temple ouer the valley into the lower towne, Titus made a ſpeech by an interpreter, to the two ſeditious Captaines, gently intreating them to leaue off their rebellion, and he would ſpare the Citie and commit no more outrages, and ſuch further requeſts as they deſired ſhould according to reaſon be granted them; but if they would not embrace mercy and ceaſe their violent reſiſtance, they muſt expect no manner of compaſſion, but the very law of Armes. This they contemned and made but a mocke of Caeſar for all his offers; whereupon in a great rage hee gaue the ſignall to his ſouldiers, and they went through all the City and ſet it on fire. The next day they woon the lower Citie, and with fire and ſword conſumed the place where the records lay, the Court and all the Princely buildings, vntill they came to that ſtately houſe of Helena, which ſtood in the midſt of Acra, all the houſes neere being filled with the bodies of the dead, and the ſtreets horribly defiled with the bloud of thoſe that were ſlaine. Within a ſhort while after, Iohannes Giſcalinus was taken aliue and committed to priſon.

The inferiour Citie being thus taken and deſtroyed, about the 16 day of Auguſt, Caeſar began to build his engines, and batter the walls of the vpper citie, which within the ſpace of 18 daies after with extreme labour and skill, hee laid flat with the ground, (as Ioſephus ſaith.) And vpon the 7 of September, with great facilitie hee conquered the citie, the Iewes of their owne accord deſcending from the Towers: and the Romanes ſet vpon the walls their enſignes, with a great acclamation, and waſted all the citie with fire and ſword, ſparing neither men, women, nor children.

The 8 day of the moneth of September, the whole Citie was deſtroyed, and not a ſtone left vpon a ſtone but laid leuell with the ground, onely the three Towers that were built by Herod, which were of ſhining Marble (viz. Hippicus, Phaſelus, and Mariamne) that future ages ſeeing the excellencie of thoſe buildings they might iudge of the ſtatelines of the reſt. But theſe alſo were after deſtroyed by Adrianus Caeſar.

There died by the famine and peſtilence an innumerable number, by fire and ſword ten hundred thouſand: 2000 were found that either killed themſelues, or one killed another, 7900 were taken captiues; of theſe, all the ſeditious theeues that accuſed one another, were ſlaine by Frontonius Caeſar, Titus freed many, 7000 were ſent into Aegypt, with extreme labour to conſume and die, the propereſt and moſt able were reſerued for triumph, many were diſtributed through the prouinces, ſome were ſlaine by the ſword, and by beaſts for publike ſpectacles, and thoſe that were 16 yeares of age and vnder, together with many other, Caeſar ſold vnder the crowne, at thirty for a ſiluer penny; that as Chriſt was ſold for thirty pence, ſo thirty of them ſhould be ſold for a penny, With the riches of this towne Caeſar triumphed, rode into Rome with two golden Chariots, built the Temple of Peace, and there put all the plate which he found in the temple of Ieruſalem. After all this, for a full determination of thoſe euils, the two ſeditious captaines Iohannes Giſcalenus and Simon the ſon of Giora, were put to moſt cruell deaths. Thus may we ſee the grieuous puniſhment of the obſtinat and ambitious, which God permitted to fall vpon them for their vnthankfulneſſe and cruell tyranny.

THe city of Ieruſalem being thus laid leuel with the ground, for the ſpace of ſixty yeares lay deſolate, a receptacle for theeues and murtherers, a fit place for Wolues and wilde beaſts, which reſorted thither to feed vpon the dead bodies. And now time conſuming their fleſh, left their bones and skuls to lye vpon the earth as in a Charnell houſe. Thus it continued vntill one Benchochab (which ſignifies the Son of the Stars) born in the towne of Bethcoron not farre from Emaus, profeſſed himſelfe to be the Meſſiah or Chriſt. The Iewes ſuppoſing this to be true, becauſe of that ſaying of Numb. 24. There ſhall a Starre riſe vp out of Iacob) aſſembled themſelues to the number of many thouſands and followed him, with great tyranny and crueltie ſpoyling the Holy Land, and through all the countrey of Iudaea committing many outrages and maſſacres. Thus they continued for the ſpace of eighteene yeares, at the end of which time Adrianus Aelianus the Emperor hearing of thoſe inſolencies, leuied an Army and ſent them into Iudea, vnder the gouernment of Iulius Seuerus, who in a pitcht field neere to Bethcoron and not far from Emaus conquered this Benchochab or Pſeudo-Meſsiah, and with him ſlew fiue hundred thouſand Iewes that were deceiued by his perſuaſion. Now when they went to ſeeke for the body of this Deceiuer amongſt the Dead (as ſaith Talmudiſta) hee was found lying with an horrible Serpent about his necke; intimating how God reiected him that would ſeem to imitate his Son; for euen as the Serpent deceiued our firſt Parents, ſo this Benchochab deceiued the Iews, and for this cauſe they called him Bencozba, that is, The Son of Lying. The number of the Iewes which in the time of this war were ſlaine amounted to 500000 men, beſides many others that periſhed by peſtilence and famin. This warre hapned 64 yeares after the deſtruction of Ieruſalem.

After this ſecond deſolation of the Iewes, at the command of the Emperor (that there might be a final extirpation of the antient city of Ieruſalem, and that the words of our Sauior might be fulfilled, Lo, there ſhall not be a ſtone left vpon a ſtone, Mat. 24) the ruines and foundations thereof were digged vp, the ſtones broken in pieces, the ground left deſolate, and the mountains are now become barren and ouergrown with brambles: And that the name thereof might vtterly be forgotten, and as it were rooted out of the earth, hee ſet vp a new towne not far from the hill Gihon and Golgotha where Chriſt was crucified; which after he had adorned with many goodly buildings, he called it by his owne name, Aelia. In the place of the Temple he ſet vp a Church in the honour of Iupiter and Venus. Iuſt in the place where the holy Altar ſtood, he erected his own image vpon a marble pillar, which continued vntill Saint Hieroms time. At Bethlehem he erected the Image of Adonis, and to that he conſecrated at Church. Vpon the gates of the City he cut Hogs in marble, in contempt of the Iewes. Then did hee abiure them, That they ſhould not come within the walls of the City, nor ſet foot vpon the ground neere Ieruſalem. This being done, (as Dion ſaith) he dedicated it to the honour of Iupiter Capitolinus; and only made it free for Chriſtians and ſuch like to be in it. This town at this day we call Ieruſalem, although it be ſcituated in another place, and called by another name.

Future Ages calling the actions of precedent times into queſtion, puld a great contempt vpon this Towne, and ſo much the rather, becauſe Infidelitie and other heatheniſh prophaneſſe was cheriſht within this city. So that that which a little before was ſet vp in honour of the Emperour Aelianus, is now growne into contempt. Wherfore Helena the mother of Conſtantine the Great hauing command of that Empire, to giue ſome ſatisfaction to the vniuerſalitie, cauſed thoſe prophane Temples and Idols to be aboliſhed, and in their places erected others. Vpon mount Golgotha the church called Golgothanus; vpon the mount of Olives one in the place of the aſcention of Chriſt: and Conſtantine her ſon richly adorned the Sepulchre, and ouer it built a ſtately Temple all of poliſht marble, richly gilt with gold, ſo that to this day it remaines as the chiefe ornament of the town. In this mans time the Iewes with great boldneſſe indeauoured to rebuild the Temple iuſt in the place where it ſtood before: but at the commandement of the Emperour they were repelled, and in recompence of their preſumption had their eares cut off and their noſes ſlit, becauſe they had eares and would not heare, neither obey the commandement of our Sauior.

But as the Emperor was religious, and endeauored to ſupport Chriſtianitie, ſo his ſucceſſor Iulianus was as full of impietie and prophaneneſſe; who that he might fruſtrat the prophecie of our Sauior, That Ieruſalem ſhould neuer be built again, in contempt cauſed the Iewes to aſſemble together, and with all expedition reſtore it to its former glory, giuing the vttermoſt of his helpe to their endeauours. But as they were ſeriouſly labouring in this work, of a ſudden there came a great earthquake, and looke what they had built was by that quite ouerturned; then fire came out of the earth and from heauen, which deſtroied both the matter and the Workemen. And that the Iewes nor any Philoſophers might impute it to a natural cauſe, there was ſeen in the heauens a bloudy croſſe, and vpon their cloathes croſſes ſhining like ſtars, which the Iewes could by no means wipe off. Yet this little preuailed: a ſecond time they attempted, & as before, a ſecond earthquake hapned, with a ſtorme of winde, which came with ſuch extreme violence, that all the ſtuffe which they had heaped together for this purpoſe was vtterly blown away and deſtroyed. So that of force they were conſtrained to leaue off, & acknowledge, That Chriſt, whom their Forefathers had crucified, was the true Meſſiah. Greg. Nazianzen and Hierome report, That neuertheleſſe the Iewes euen to this day, although it coſt them much money, come yearely to the place where Ieruſalem ſtood, and vpon the day of the deſtruction thereof weep ouer it. Such was their affection vnto this City.

But theſe euils were purged with a ſudden inuaſion (for no crying iniuries nor prophane inſolencies againſt God paſſe vnpuniſhed, but that then or ſoone after a iuſt reuenge falls vpon them) for Coſroës Emperor of the Perſians, whoſe impudencie and impietie was ſo great that hee would be worſhipped as a god, about the yeare of our Lord 615, beſieged this town, tooke it, and put to death 90000. Chriſtians, carried the Patriarch thereof, together with many others away captiue. But Heraclius the Emperor to puniſh him for his pride and crueltie ſet vpon Perſia, and with fire and ſword deſtroied the country not far from Nineueh, conquered his chiefe captain Razetis in a ſet battell, won the city of Nineueh, and went away with an honorable victorie. Seroës alſo, the only begotten ſonne of Coſroës, but a little before inuading the kingdom, kild his father in priſon, reſtored the Patriarch and the reſt of the Captiues which his father had taken, to Heraclius: and about the ſeuenth yeare after hee had warred vpon Perſia, hee returned to Aelia with great pompe.

Not long after, in the yeare 637, Haumar the chiefe Prince of the Saracens, which was the third from Mahomet, with a great Army afflicted Syria and Iudaea, conquered theſe Countries, and in his victories vſed great tyrannie and crueltie. Within two yeares after, he won Aelia, which had maintained a long and ſharp ſiege; neither would Zacharias the Patriarch giue it vp, til he was compelled thereto by extreme famin, and ſoon after died with griefe.

Thus this towne continued for the ſpace of 450 yeares in the hands of the Saracens. Then in the yere 1012, Caliphas Sultan of Egypt won it, beat downe the walls, deſtroied the Temple which the Emperor Conſtantine had built, and made havock of al things. Preſently vpon this, the Turkes that came out of Scythia by the Caſpian mountains, won the city, & draue thence the Saracens. Thus we may ſee that the Saracens and Turks, though they were both of one religion, yet for the country of the Iewes fought one againſt another, and compelled the Chriſtians to pay them Tribute for the fourth part of the city, wherein the Sepulchre of our Lord ſtood, being againe reſtored by the Emperor Conſtantine after the deſtruction of Caliphas.

The Chriſtians being weary of this tribute, and of the oppreſſion of the Infidels, became ſutors to Pope Vrban the ſecond of that name, for their deliuery; who in the yeare 1094 aſſembled a Councel at Clearemont in France, and by the inſtigation of one Peter the hermit, ſtirred vp the hearts of diuers Chriſtian princes and great Lords to make a croyſado; ſo that 10000 braue & well mounted ſouldiers went into the Holy land, and for a token of their war bore red croſſes vpon their armes.

In the ſame yeare there was a great blaſing ſtarre ſeene in the Weſt, and after that followed a great plague for the ſpace of two yeares through the world: this neuertheleſſe hindred them not in their deſignes, but that they went their intended journy, won the City of Aelia from the Saracens, deliuered the Chriſtians from their bondage and tax, and choſe Godfrey of Lorrain Earle of Bullion King thereof, whom they anointed in the Temple of the holy Sepulchre; but hee refuſed to be crowned with a Crowne of gold, ſaying, That it ill beſeemed him to be called King of Ieruſalem, (the true King whereof was Chriſt) or to ſit crowned with gold, in the place where he was crowned with thorns that was the Son of the euer-liuing God: and then choſe Arnolphus of Rhodes Patriarch.

In the moneth of October the ſame yeare, a blaſing Starre of maruellous bigneſſe appeared towards the South: it ſeemed to be like a wauing ſword, foreſhewing no doubt the deſtruction of all thoſe that went about to re-eſtabliſh this earthly Ieruſalem. Immediatly after the Feaſt of the Natiuitie of Chriſt, all the Chriſtians of the Eaſt countries vpon Candlemas day came out of Syria, but eſpecially out of Antiochia, to Ieruſalem, & in the Temple of the holy Sepulchre conſecrated their Biſhops and Choraſters, and with one conſent ſung Illuminare Ieruſalem. They tooke alſo all the Cities, Caſtles, and Villages, and ouer them ſet Biſhops; created foure Principalities, one at Ieruſalem, another at Antiochia, a third at Ediſſa, a fourth at Tripoly. Alſo certain Earledomes and Baronies, as at Brito, Zidon, Caeſarea, Galilee, Ioppa, and Aſcalon. All theſe were appointed to pay tribute to the King of Ieruſalem. All this was done in the yere of our Lord, 1099.

No ſooner were theſe newes publiſhed to the world, but there was an vniuerſall croyſado through all Chriſtendom, for the conquering and winning of the reſt of the holy land, but before they could get thither, they were either ſlaine by the Grecians and other nations, or els died through famin & thirſt: ſo that in them was fulfilled the prophecie of Zacharias, cap. 12.3. where it is ſaid, It ſhall happen that I will make Ieruſalem an heauy ſtone for all people all they that lift it vp ſhal be torn, though all the people of the earth be gathered together againſt it. And verſe 9, And in that day I will ſeeke to deſtroy all the nations that come againſt Ieruſalem.

This yeare 1100 died Godfrey King of Ieruſalem, of a feuer, vpon the • 8 day of Iuly, when he had reigned ſcarce a yere, and was buried in the temple of mount Calvarie.

After him ſucceeded his brother Baldovin the firſt of that name, & ſecond King of Ieruſalem. This man reigned 18 years in Ieruſalem, and being ouercome by Caliphas Sultan of Egypt, after the loſſe of thirteene thouſand Chriſtians, he had much adoe to eſcape with life. Within a ſhort time after hee died without iſſue.

Baldwin the ſecond ſucceeded his vncle, and was the third king of Ieruſalem. He began his reign Anno 1118. This man ouercame the Turks: and the King of Damaſcus had iſſue only one daughter, named Mileſent, whom he maried to the Earle of Angiers, and gaue with her the kingdom of Ieruſalem, and died without heire male, in the yeare 1131.

Fulco in right of his wife ſucceeded his father in law, & was the fourth King of Ieruſalem. This Fulco was brother to the King of England, he reigned 13 years, fought many worthy battels againſt the Turkes, put 3000 of their men to the ſword, tooke many of them priſoners and caried them to Ieruſalem. After that, as hee was hunting the Hare by Acon, riding ſpeedily, hee fell from his horſe and was ſorely bruſed, whereof he died, and left two ſonnes called Baldwin and Almerick.

Baldwin the third was the fifth King of Ieruſalem, and ſucceeded his father. He won the city of Aſcalon, he rebuilt the towne of Boza, (which had beene deſtroyed) placed there certaine Knights Templers, he loſt the City of Ediſſa to the Saracens, where many Chriſtians were cruelly ſlain. And hauing reigned 19 yeares he died without iſſue.

After him ſucceeded his brother Almerick, as was the ſixt king of Ieruſalem. In the time of this king the Sultan of Egypt gaue a great ouerthrow to the Knights Templers; which he ſeeking to reuenge, inuaded Egypt with a great army, beſieged the great city of Alcaire, but to ſmall purpoſe; wherefore returning back to Ieruſalem, he ſhortly after died, when he had reigned 12 years: he left behinde him three children, a ſonne called Baldwin, and two daughters, Sibilla and Iſabella.

Baldwin the fourth ſucceeded his father, and was the ſeuenth king of Ieruſalem; who abuſing his gouernment was ſtruck with leproſie, with the contagion of which diſeaſe he died miſerably, in the 25 yere of his age, hauing reigned 13 years. Baldwin the fift of that name, the onely begotten ſon of his ſiſter Sibil, by his conſent was choſen his ſucceſſor, a youth of 9 yeares old, his fathers name was William Mountferrat, earle of March, who dying, his mother married one Guy Earle of Luſignan, to whom Baldwin committed the protection of the kingdome and of his yong kinſman till he came to mans eſtate. But this yong man within 7 years after the death of his vncle, died ſitting at his table, not without ſuſpition of poiſon. Guy his protector, by the perſuaſion of his wife, and at the inſtigation of the Ieroſolimits, took vpon him the gouernment: but Raimond Earle of Tripoli was his great aduerſary, for that Baldwin 4. for his exceeding pride, at the inſtigation of that Guy had diſplaced him of all his Offices and titles in the commonwealth. Theſe two ſtriuing for the kingdom, it hapned that Guy was charged with his kinſmans death, vnder which pretence Raimond made war againſt him. During theſe troubles, Saladine Sultan of Egypt taking aduantage of this opportunitie, made war vpon them both, and with great facility conquered the kingdome and deſtroied Ieruſalem.

In this yeare 1187, there happened ſo great an Eclipſe of the Sunne, that at noone day the Starres were plainely to bee ſeene. Soone after this, Raimond and Guy were both taken priſoners, and thirty thouſand Chriſtians cruelly put to the ſword. After this, the Saracens ſacked the Towne, threw the Bells out of the Steeples, made ſtables of the Churches; only the Temple on Mount Golgotha ſtood vntoucht: for the Turkes and Saracens honour Chriſt as a great Prophet.

And thus the new kingdome of the Chriſtians in Ieruſalem ended, which was vpon the ſecond day of October, in the yeare 1187, after it had continued in their poſſeſſion 88 yeares. During the continuance of this kingdome there were many horrible viſions and ſtrange Signes and Wonders ſeene both in Heauen, on earth, and in the ayre; foreſhewing (no doubt) that God was not well pleaſed with their actions which ſought to reſtore that kingdom of Ieruſalem. For, My kingdome (ſaith Chriſt) is not of this world.

And although after that, there were many Kings that by all poſſible means endeauored to recouer and reſtore the ſame, and for that purpoſe haue leauied many great Armies, and vndertaken many tedious journies; yet all their counſels and determinations came to nothing, for that God ſo often as they vndertooke any ſuch expedition, either ſtayed their Armies, oppreſſed them with war, or elſe plagued them with famine, in ſuch an extreame meaſure, that with very hunger they haue bin conſtrained to eat their Horſes.

Frederick Barbaroſſus may be an example of theſe calamities; who with a great army making an expedition to Ieruſalem, as he was trauelling through Aſia minor, his horſe ſtarted and flung him into the riuer, where he died miſerably ere he could be ſaued. Many other Princes, beſides in the like enterpriſe came to the like ends; for they were either deſtroied by the Barbarians, with the loſſe of thouſands of their men cruelly ſlain, or vtterly deſtroied with vnnatural diſeaſes or vntimely deaths.

Now when the Emperour Fredericke the ſecond of that name had beſeeged and brought to great miſerie the Sultan of Egypt, and the Knights Templers had done the like to Damieta; Corderio the Sultans ſon beat downe the walls of Ieruſalem, and had it not bin for the great lamentations and erneſt entreaties of the Chriſtians, he would haue deſtroied the city; but for their ſakes he left ſtanding Solomons Temple, and the Temple of the holy Sepulchre; for at this time Chriſtians inhabit in them.

Within a while after, about the yeare 1228, Fredericke the ſecond of that name, Emperor of Rome, went to the holy land with a great army, and came to Ptolomais, otherwiſe called Acon, where ſtaying a while, he made a league with the Sultan of Egipt for ten years, regained Ieruſalem without drawing ſword, & was there crowned in the yeare 1229, keeping at that time in Ieruſalem a royal Eaſter. This man fortified the Chriſtians with a garriſon, rebuilt Nazareth and Ioppa, and ſo returned into Italy.

In the yeare 1246, Caſſanus King of the Tartars being perſuaded by the Sultan, with a great army inuaded Iudaea, won Ieruſalem, cauſed the Chriſtians to be cruelly ſlaine, beat downe the holy Sepulchre euen to ſmall pieces, and left but little ſtanding. It was after this deſtroyed by Tamerlaine King of the Tartars, and by Mahomet the ſecond of that name, Emperour of the Turkes. But the Monkes had leaue to build vp the holy Sepulcre againe, for the which they payed to the Sultan or his Deputy a yearely tribute.

In the yeare of our Lord 1516, Selymus Emperor of the Turks, about the twenty fourth day of Auguſt, neere to Damaſcus ouercame Campſon Gaurus Sultan of Egypt in a cruell Warre, and put to death many thouſands of his men; and the Sultan himſelfe ſeeking to ſaue his life by flight was miſerably ſlaine. This Selymus conquered the Holy Land, Syria, Damaſcus, and all the Countries thereabouts; and as he went through Iudaea, leauing his Army at Gaza, with a few of his Souldiers he went to Ieruſalem, that he might ſee with his eyes that place which was made ſo famous by the antient Writers, and was ſo often mentioned in the Old and New Teſtament. But when he came he found nothing but a ruinate and waſte place, barren and rude to looke vpon, inhabited by a few poore Chriſtians, and they alſo held in great contempt and bondage, paying a great tribute to the Sultan of Egypt, for their liberty and the holy Sepulchre, as P. Iouius writeth. But after that Selymus in that place had done his Offerings and Sacrifices to his god Mahomet, ſeeing the Prieſts and Chriſtians preſt with extreme pouertie, out of his ſingular mercy and compaſſion gaue them a large and ſumptuous gift, when hee had ſtayed but one day and one night in the Towne. The next morning before day he went with all expedition to his Army at Gaza, & from thence into Egypt, where he beſieged the great and famous city Alcaire, and in the yeare 1517 took it, conquered all the country, vtterly extirpated the Sultan, and went away with an honorable victory and rich booty. From this yeare euen till now, the towne of Aelia or Ieruſalem is vnder the juriſdiction of the Turks. Thus may we ſee how often, and with what miſerable calamities this city hath bin afflicted, euen ſince the firſt deſtruction by Veſpaſian; which makes euident the great iudgment of God not only vpon the Iews, but alſo vpon the earth where they inhabited, for their infidelitie and vnmercifull cruelty.

THe former incurſions and common deſolations leauing this town ruined and ſpoiled for want of inhabitants, it became a deſart and forſaken place; onely ſome few Chriſtians, either out of the zeale of religion, or for vulgar oſtentation, to ſhew that there had bin a town, dwelt there: and thus it continued vntill the yeare 1542. at which time Solyman the great Turk, either in reſpect of the ſtrength of the place, or in hope of profit, or elſe to get himſelfe a name, with great coſt and labor re-edified it, ſet vp many ſtately buildings and ſumptuous houſes, beautified it with two coſtly Temples, the one the Temple of Solomon, and the other the holy Sepulchre; inlarged the extent thereof, and ſeated it vpon high hils. After all this, compaſt it about with a ſpatious and thicke wall, and vpon that placed many ſtrong and ſtately towers, wherein there ſtands eight gates, viz. the fiſh gate, the Old gate, S. Stephens gate (ſo called becauſe they ſay S. Stephen went out by that gate when hee was ſtoned) the Angle gate, the Dung gate, the Sheep gate, the Golden and Fountaine gates. Thus the antient city, and that which the Emperor Adrian built, being both deſtroied, in another place is ſet vp again. So that between both, this new city ſtandeth, and the firſt city begins to be again inhabited.

THis Temple lieth towards the Eaſt, and was built by the Chriſtians iuſt in the ſame place where the former Temple ſtood at the time when this City was rebuilt and inlarged. The body thereof is very high and ſpatious, and built of poliſht marble, adorned with moſt exquiſit and curious workemanſhip, very artificiall and glorious both within and without, inſomuch that the poliſhed ſtones caſt a ſingular beautifull and reſplendant luſtre. Aboue it is couered with lead, and was built vp at the coſt and labor of the Grecians; in the roofe whereof the Turks place an halfe moone, as they vſually doe in all ſuch churches wherein they come and haue authority. The Turkes and Saracens haue this Temple in great reuerence and deuotion, they adorne it (according to their cuſtome) with diuers artificial pictures and emblems. They will ſuffer no Chriſtians to enter into it, nor any Iewes vpon paine of death. And if it happens that at any time they go into it, they firſt waſh themſelues with water very clean, then put off their hoſe and ſhoos, and ſo go bare foot. This Temple they call the holy Rocke, and in the body thereof there hangeth 700 lamps which burne night and day. In the midſt hereof there ſtandeth a certaine little rocke euery where indented with yron, neere to which not any of the Saracens or Infidels dare to approach or touch, although there come many very farre to viſit it: for they beleeue that there were many memorable & worthy things done in that rock: they think that Melchiſedeck the firſt Prieſt of the great God offered bread and wine vpon it, Geneſ. 14. and that here the Patriarch Iacob ſaw the Ladder which reached from heauen to earth, Gen. 28. which indeed hapned not in Ieruſalem, but in Bethel, as the Scriptures witneſſe. Further they beleeue, that vpon this ſtone Dauid ſaw the Angel of the Lord ſtanding with a ſhaken ſword when he ſtrook the city with the peſtilence, 2 Sam. 24. and that the Prieſts of the old Teſtament offered vpon this ſtone their ſacrifices to the Lord, which were deuoured with fire from heauen. All which things do vtterly differ from holy Scripture.

The Iewes alſo are of opinion, That the prophet Ieremy about the time of the captiuity of Babylon, in this ſtone hid the Ark of the Couenant, vntill ſuch time as the Lord brought the people backe again from the captiuitie. Which is contrarie alſo to the books of the holy Scripture; for, 2 Mach. 2. it is ſaid, it was hid in the mount Nebo, where Moſes ſtood when he ſaw the whole land of Canaan. Alſo the Turkes ſay that Chriſt ſate vpon this ſtone when Simeon tooke him in his armes and bleſſed him. Here alſo he ſate in the midſt of the Doctors when he was but twelue yeares of age, Luk. 2. which alſo differeth from the Scripture; for this was not the body of the Temple, but in the middle court or Solomons porch, which ſometimes was taken for the Temple, becauſe it ioyned to it. And diuers circumſtances of the Scripture do ſeeme to make this euident, becauſe heere Chriſt taught, and here the people vſually met together, as appeareth, Ioſh. 10. and Pſal. 72.

About the Temple of Ieruſalem there is a fair Plain much reſembling our Church yards, all paued with marble ſtone. To this there is adioyning a faire Church couered with lead, & was ſomtimes called Solomons porch; but after the Chriſtians had woon Ieruſalem they gaue it the name of S. Maries. The Turke keepes burning in this daily 800 lamps, and it is much greater than that of Solomons Temple. The Sultan of Egypt alſo about an hundred yeares before, built a little Church or Moſcho cloſe by Solomons Temple, wherein are continually burning 88 Lampes. There is a vault vnder the Temple of the bleſſed Virgin Mary, of ſuch an extraordinary greatneſſe that 600 horſe may eaſily be placed in it. And thus we may ſee the Temple of Solomon and city of Ieruſalem not only to be in the power of the Turkes, but alſo prophaned with the blaſphemous doctrine of Mahomet. And alſo we may here behold the abomination of deſolation ſtanding in the holy place where ſomtime was the Ark of the Couenant, Dan. 9. Mat. 24. and the prophecie of Ieremy is fully finiſhed, ca. 19. This place ſhall be vnclean like vnto the place of Tophet, where they did ſacrifice to the Hoſt of heauen, and vnto other ſtrange gods.

MOunt Sion is placed toward the South of Ieruſalem, where euen at this day the Monks vndertake to ſhew the ruines of Dauids Tower, the ſepulchres of the Kings of Iſrael, and many other holy places. But P. Oroſius and other Hiſtorians write, How in the time of Adrian Caeſar there happened a great earthquake in ſuch a terrible maner, that the mountain of Sion with the ſepulchre of Dauid fel down and were vtterly defaced. Further all true Hiſtorians do write, That Adrian the Emperour did ſo much deface the City, that hee left not a ſtone ſtanding vpon a ſtone, nay not a whole ſtone, but all were broken into ſmall pieces; and yet notwithſtanding pilgrims are ſo mad and blind, that they go thither with great pains to ſeeke thoſe holy places, where when they come, with the expence of a great deale of time, in recompence of their pains are made a laughing ſtocke to the Kings of Ieruſalem, and find nothing but feigned and ſuppoſed holy places and buildings: ſince the words of our Sauior manifeſt, That there ſhall not be a ſtone left vpon a ſtone which ſhall not be broken to pieces. And Borchardus the Monk ſaith, That the Romans cauſed the Temple and other princely buildings, together with the mountains, to be thrown downe and caſt into the vallies, with which being filled, there remaineth not ſo much as an Emblem of the old Citie. From whence may euidently appeare, That thoſe places which are now ſhewen to Pilgrims by the Monkes of Ieruſalem, are meerly ſuborned and feigned, on purpoſe to deceiue them & get their mony. They are very ſimple therefore that go to Ieruſalem ſeeke their ſaluation in ſuch places. And as for the Sepulchre (as is aforeſaid) the Tartars beat it all in pieces; ſo that this monument of our Lord is not to be found vpon the earth. Wherefore our Sauiour Chriſt is no more to be ſought among the dead, but in the ſacred monument of his holy word, for there he hath promiſed to make euident his divine preſence, &c.

IN and about the church which is built ouer the holy ſepulcre vpon mount Calvarie, there are at this day many of diuers nations and countries which inhabit, of diuers opinions and Religions. And although they differ in material points of their faith, yet would they be al Chriſtians: of which number there are ſome Latines, Greekes, Abiſſines, Armenians, Gregorians, Neſtorians, Surians, and Iacobins.

The Latines for the moſt part are ſuch as wee call Franciſcan Monks, Obſeruants, or Friers.Latines. Theſe haue the keeping of the holy Sepulchre, and looke to it very diligently; where ſomtimes they make a certain number of Knights of the noble Order of S. Iohns Templers, with many ceremonies and great ſolemnities. Theſe Knights are girt with a ſword all gilt, hanging in a red velvet girdle; a chain of gold is put vpon them worth about 100 Hungarian duckets, at the end whereof there hangs a Ieruſalem Croſſe of gold. This kind of croſſe alſo they are permitted to weare vpon their armes and clothes; then haue they a paire of gilt ſpurres with velvet tyings. But before they are admitted into this order, they muſt ſweare vpon the holy Sepulchre to maintain & defend the doctrine of the Pope.

The Grecians that are there be alſo Monkes,Grecians. and doe inhabit within the Temple of the holy Sepulchre; but they haue the keeping of the place where our Sauior Chriſt was crucified, and differ from the Romaniſts. For they beleeue firſt, That the holy Ghoſt proceedeth from the Father and not the Sonne. Secondly, they giue the Sacraments in both kinds; thirdly, they hold not the Pope to be head of the Church; fourthly, they deny Purgatory and prayer for the dead; fiftly, they ſing Maſſe in their own language that euery man may vnderſtand it, but they obſerue ſeuen Sacraments as the Romaniſts do. They teach men to pray to and call vpon Saints, they yearly obſerue two ſtrict faſting daies, and eat no fleſh vpon Saturdaies.

The reſt of the Grecians that are through the Eaſt parts leaue mariage free, as well for the Clergy as Laity, and condemne the Latine Prieſts becauſe they marry not. They allow no grauen images in their Churches, but in ſome places of their Churches they haue faire painted pictures hanging. They approue not the Pope, but haue a Patriarch for their high Biſhop, which Patriark is greatly reuerenced, and much honored in Conſtantinople.

Abiſſines.The Abiſſins be ſuch as are of Preſter Iohns gouernment: their complexion is browne, their habitation is in the Temple vpon mount Calvary, on the Eaſt ſide of the Church dore: They alſo approue not the Pope, but allow Prieſts to mary, and giue the ſacrament in both kinds; yet there are many ſects and opinions among them, forbearing thoſe meats forbidden in the old Teſtament: they circumciſe both male and female, which the Iews do not; they obſerue our Saturday for their Sabbath; they baptiſe their children with fire, of which I will ſpeake more hereafter, in the deſcription of the towne of Saba.

Armenians.The Armenians are Chriſtians, and come out of Armenia; their dwelling is in a Chappell vpon mount Sion neere to Saint Iames his church; they deny the Pope to be head of the Church: they miniſter the Sacraments in both kinds; their Prieſts marry; they forbeare the meats forbidden in the old Teſtament. They haue a kinde of cuſtome, to whine and cry by the graues of the dead; vpon Twelfth day they keep a great feaſt, and the next day begins their Lent, which they keep ſtrictly, and eat neither eggs nor fiſh, nor any liuing thing during that time: They obſerue Wedneſdayes and Fridayes; they preach, ſing and ſay their Seruice in their own tongue; they deny prayer for the dead, and Purgatory; they all weare hats with blew hat-bands.

Gregorians.The Gregorians are Chriſtians that dwell by the great city of Trapezunta vpon the Euxinian Sea. Their Prieſts marrie, but if their wiues die they muſt not marrie againe. They dwell in Ieruſalem, in the Church vpon mount Caluarie, where Chriſt after his reſurrection ſhewed himſelfe like a Gardner vnto Marie Magdalen.

The Neſtorian heretickes,Neſtorians. who now are found in great numbers in Niniuie, which at this day is called Moſſell, and in other places thereabout; doe yet hold the hereſie of Neſtorias there maſter, and teach, That Chriſt had two natures, and that he hath two perſons, and that Marie was not the mother of God, but that ſhe bare Chriſt who was man onely: about their Hats they were fleſh coloured hatbands. Some of their Prieſts are found to dwell in the Temple of mount Caluarie.

The Surians follow the Graecian Chriſtians,Surians. touching the moſt of their opinions; they reſpect not much their religion; for in regard of their pouertie they are forced to worke for day wages vnder the Turks. Some of them alſo dwell in Ieruſalem in a church called S. Marks, which ſtandeth in the place of the houſe where Iohn Marke dwelt, where the Apoſtle Peter knockt when the Angell led him out of priſon.

The Sect of the Iacobins are reſident in a Chappell which ſtandeth behind the Sepulchre.Iacobins. They take that name of Iacob the Hereticke, who was a Diſciple of the Patriarch of Alexandria; they are wauering and vnconſtant among themſelues, and are here and there found in Iudaea, Aegypt, and Barbarie, diuided into many Sects; for ſome of them hold with Eutichus and Macharus, who aſcribe one nature to Chriſt, which is the Godhead, and denie the manhood. Some of them circumciſe their children, ſome baptiſe them with fire, and make a croſſe vpon their faces. Of this fierie baptiſme you ſhall reade more hereafter in the deſcription of the Citie of Saba.

Hereby you may note, how the temple of the holy Sepulchre in Ieruſalem is filled with many Sects, who altogether giue and pay tribute to the Emperour of the Turkes; whereby you may ſee that Chriſt will be no more ſought in the holy Sepulchre, but rather in the holy Euangeliſts, where he ſuffereth himſelfe to be found by all thoſe that ſeeke him with a pure heart.

ADAM the firſt man, tooke his name from Adamah, which ſignifies redde earth, becauſe he was made of the redde ſlime of the earth. Therefore the Latines deriue Homo from Humo; alſo the Graecians from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , which ſignifies the earth. But when man was layed open to all calamities, miſeries, yea & death, the Hebrews called him Enoſh, which ſignifies, a mortall and miſerable man: for this attribute to man agreeth with the word Noſch, which ſignifies to be ſicke of a deadly diſeaſe. There are ſome that thinke that man was made in Syria neere to Damaſcus, becauſe there is found much redde earth. Others ſay neere to Hebron a citie in the Tribe of Iuda, and there alſo lies buried; for in a caue neere that place, lies much redde earth, which the inhabitants euen to this day ſhew vnto Pilgrims: but this is nothing to the purpoſe, ſince we know that man was firſt created, and then brought into Paradiſe, Gen. 1. and 2.

PAradiſe, which in Greeke is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , and in Hebrew Pardes, ſignifies a pleaſant Garden plentifully furniſhed with fruitfull trees, but principally Myrtle trees, which beareth a kinde of berrie of a very delectable taſte: for this Hebrew word ſeemeth to be a compound, that is, of Parah, which ſignifies to fructifie, and Hadas, a mirtle; of the fruit of which tree, there is made a certaine wine called mirtle or mulberrie wine: the myſterie hereof is, that Chriſt is that tree of life, that fruitful and pleaſant mirtle, wherby we are raiſed vp vnto eternall life, Gen. 2. Apoc. 22. Mat. 11. Luther calleth Paradiſe in his diſcourſe of Germany, a pleaſant Garden, Eccl. 2. Munſter, an Orchard: and in the Bible it is called Eden, a place plentifully furniſhed with al things neceſſary for the procuring of pleaſure & delight. The Grecians call it Hedone, which ſignifies an extraordinary delectable and pleaſant place; for in it there was great aboundance of all things, as well of trees, fruits, herbes, and ſweet ſmelling floures, as of beaſts and fowles of the heauen. Into this place God put man, to dreſſe it and keep it: But where it ſtood, and whether it be now vpon the earth, there are diuers opinions: the Romaniſts hold, that it is placed in the Eaſt without the Tropicks: others would haue it vnder the Aequator, becauſe it is a very temperate region: but experience tells vs, that there it is very hot and ſcorching: others think it ſtands vpon the top of a high mountain, free from all the violent motions and impreſſions of the ayre, in which place they hold Aenoch and Eliah are yet liuing: there are others that aſſigne the whole Eaſt part to be Paradiſe, and that there were ſome peculiar places moſt fruitfull, of which they thinke was Syria, Damaſcus, Arabia Foelix, Egipt and Iudaea, in which part man was put. They alſo ſay, that the tree of Knowledge ſtood vpon Mount Caluary, neere about that place where Chriſt was crucified, ſo that he made ſatisfaction for ſinne in the ſame place where ſinne was firſt committed. And this I hold to be the better opinion; and that it remained till the deluge, kept in the cuſtody of Angells, at Gods appointment, and by the floud, together with other creatures, was aboliſhed.

And for that ſaying of our Sauior to the theefe vpon the croſſe, This day ſhalt thou be with me in Paradiſe, is not to be vnderſtood of the earthly Paradiſe, but of the heauenly, the place of the bleſſed angels and ſaints, where God with his diuine majeſty filleth them with the light of righteouſneſſe, and quickneth them with eternall life. This place Paul cals the third heauen, and that heauenly Paradiſe of which the earthly Paradiſe is a type, 2. Cor. 12.

ADam and Eua, being driuen out of Paradiſe, dwelt at Damaſcus, 160 miles from Ieruſalem, as Munſter and others write: the Towneſ-men of Damaſcus, at this day ſhew the place where Cain ſlew his brother Abel, and it is well to be beleeued that this Citie receiues her name thereby, for Damaſcus ſignifies bloud-ſhedding or a place which hath drunke vp bloud.

CAin after he had ſlaine his brother Abel, dwelt in the land of Nod, a land of feare and diſquiet, in the Towne of Hanoch, and as ſome thinke, it was the ſame place where Babylon (after Noes Floud) was built, being foure hundred and eightie miles from Ieruſalem Eaſtward.

NOah ſignifying quiet and reſt, dwelt in Armenia, ſix hundred miles from Ieruſalem Northward, hard by Mount Ararat, vpon which Mount, the Arke, (after the Floud) ſtaied it ſelfe, Gen. 8. Ptolomeus nameth Theſe high Hills in Armenia Gordes, which are alwaies couered with ſnow, and no man may get vpon them.

SEm who in the holy Scriptures is called Melchiſedeck, that is, a King of righteouſneſſe, dwelt in the Citie of Ieruſalem, which as then was called Salem, that is, a Citie of peace.

NImroth was the firſt Prince and regent vpon earth, and built Babylon, which is ſix hundred and eighty miles from Ieruſalem Eaſtward. Strabo writeth, That in Babylon there was an old foure ſquare Tower built of bricke, foure hundred and ſixteene ells highThat is, 200 yards high., and each ſide thereof foure hundred and ſixteene ells broad: This without doubt was a piece of the Tower of Babylon, the toppe whereof ſhould haue reached vp to Heauen, Gen. 22.

Babel or Babylon ſignifieth a confuſion, becauſe in that place God confounded the workemens tongues, when they built the Tower of Babylon.

1 ABraham went out of his owne Countrey of Vhr in Chaldaea, to the Citie of Haran in Meſopotamia, which is 376 miles.

2 Erom Haran, by Gods commandement hee went to Sichem, which is foure hundred miles.

3 From Sichem he went to the Plaine and wood of Mamre to the Hill betweene Bethel and Hay, which is 28 miles.

4 From thence he went into Aegypt, trauelling Southward 240 miles.

5 Out of Aegypt he went againe into Canaan, to the hill that lyeth betweene Bethel and Hay, which is 240 miles, Gen. 13.

6 From thence hee went to the Plaine of Mamre neere Hebron, 32 miles.

7 From the plaine of Mamre, hee went to Dan, which is 124 miles and there ouerthrew the foure Kings which had taken Lot priſoner, Gen. 14.

8 Then he purſued the enemie for the ſpace of 80 miles to Hobam in Phoenicia, which lyeth in the left ſide of Damaſco, Gen. 14.

9 From Phoenicia, hee went to Sodom, wnere Melchiſedech met him, which are 160 miles, Gen. 14.

10 From Sodom, he went backe again to the plaine of Mamre, which are 40 miles.

11 From the Plaine of Mamre, he went to Gerer, which is ſix miles, where his ſonne Iſaac was borne, Gen. 20.21.

12 From Gerar, he went to Beerſaba, which is 12 miles, where he tooke an oath of King Abimilech.

13 From Beerſaba, he went to mount Moriah, which is 40 miles, where he would haue offered his ſonne Iſaac, Gen. 22.

14 From mount Moriah, hee returned againe to Beerſaba, which is 40 miles.

15 From Beerſaba, he and his wife went to the plaine of Mamre by Hebron, which is 16 miles, and there they died and were buried, Gen. 23. and 25.

So that all the Trauels of the Patriarch Abraham, were 1794 miles.

THe Towne of Vhr in Chaldaea, where Abraham was borne at this day is called Orchae, (as Petrus Appianus writeth) and is diſtant from Ieruſalem 624 miles Eaſtward. It ſeemeth, it either tooke that name from light or fire, or elſe from diuine worſhip, for there they vſed to offer many burnt offerings, but at that time they committed idolatry, for which cauſe Abraham went from thence, perceiuing that the Chaldeans tooke the fire for their god, becauſe fire came downe from Heauen and conſumed their offerings. Learned men therefore are of opinion, that the Chaldaeans in the town of Vhr, worſhipped the fire for their god.

SIchem is a town in Samaria on the borders of Ephraim, lying on mount Garizim, 36 miles from Ieruſalem Northward. It takes the name (as Phil. Melancthon writeth) from the place wheron it ſtandeth, like a ſhoulder; for Sichem ſignifies a ſhoulder.

Of this town I will ſpeak more at large in the new Teſtament, for that by it Chriſt ſpake with the Samaritan woman, Ioh. 4.

In this town Dina Iacobs daughter was rauiſhed, Gen. 34. and there the bones of the Patriarch Ioſeph were buried, Ioſ. 24.

Abimelech for ſpight & vpon no occaſion vtterly deſtroied the town, and hauing razed it to the ground, ſowed it with ſalt, Iudg. 9 But Ieroboam King of Ieruſalem built it vp again and dwelt therin, 1 Kin. 12.

It was a free town, whither a man-ſlayer might reſort that had killed any man by chance, and ſaue himſelfe, Ioſ. 20.

Mount Garizim, wheron the town of Sichem ſtood, was a piece of mount Ephraim.

TAnis or Zoan was the chiefe city in Egypt, where Pharaoh in Abrahams time kept his court, as we reade in the thirteenth Chapter and fourth book of Moſes, and Pſal. 58. and lyeth 232, miles from Ieruſalem Southeaſtward: four miles from Tanis ſtood the kingly towne of Memphis, which was likewiſe built before Abrahams time; but at that time it was not ſo famous as Tanis, for there is not one word ſpoken of Memphis in the books of Moſes. But when time ſerues I will ſpeake more of theſe two places.

THis hil is 4 miles from Ieruſalem vpon the North, lying between the 2 towns of Bethel & Hay, and is called mount Ephraim; wher Abraham at his return out of Egipt the ſecond time ſet vp his Tabernacle, of purpoſe to be conuerſant with Melchiſedeck who dwelt in Ieruſalem; and with him gaue thanks to God for the ſingular fauors that he had ſhewed toward him, in deliuering his wife Sara from the hands of Abimelech King of Egypt, who would haue rauiſhed her, & as he feared, indangered his life. In this place Lot ſeparated himſelfe from Abraham, and went to dwell in Sodom.

THe Plain of Mamre ſtood a mile from Hebron towards the Eaſt, and diſtant from Ieruſalem 22 miles South-eaſtward. In this yally there was a faire and pleaſant wood, where a certain yong man called Mamre dwelt. This man was brother to Eſcal and Aner, mentioned by Moſes, Geneſ. 14. who according to the cuſtome of gentlemen with vs in theſe times, built vp his houſe neere to a pleaſant Wood or bottome, which as ſome thinke was called after his name Mamre. Others, (of which opinion is Ierom) of Aelon, which ſignifies a valley or tree (an Oke tree, ſaith hee.) But Ioſeph & Aegeſippus call it a Terebinth tree, which both ſummer and winter beareth greene leaues like a Palme tree, the ſap or juice whereof is very good for medicine. Abraham dwelling neere to this tree, beeing entertained by the three Brothers as a ſtranger, grew into ſuch fauour and familiaritie with them, that hee conuerted them from Paganiſme, and taught them to know the true and euer-liuing God. To gratifie which great fauor, they aided him in his Warre againſt the foure Kings that had taken Lot priſoner, and gaue him free libertie to inhabit in, and vſe the Plain thereabouts for his cattel: before whoſe dore (as ſome Authors affirm) this Terebinth or oke tree ſtood, and ſo continued from the beginning of the world, till the time of Conſtantine the Great, it being lawfull for none to cut a bough of it, or touch it with a hatchet, becauſe it was in thoſe daies accounted a holy tree, and viſited by diuers ſtrangers: and then Helena cauſed a fair church to be built in that place; and ſo much the rather, for that Abraham ſitting vnder that tree, the three Angels appeared vnto him in the ſimilitude or likeneſſe of men, Gen. 8.1, 2. And ſome are of opinion, That becauſe of this, the Iewes offered Incenſe to their gods, and committed idolatry vpon high mountaines and vnder green trees, Ezek. 16. There was alſo a double Caue made of white marble, which as Ioſephus ſaith, was very faire and beautifull to the eye, and curiouſly wrought and poliſhed; wherein Abraham, Iſaac, and Iacob, with their Wiues Sarah, Rebecca, and Leah were buried: and as ſome thinke was that caue which he purchaſed of the Hittites, Gen. 23.34. But that Adam and Evah lie buried in the ſame place, ſeeing there is no warrant for it in the holy Scriptures, I let it paſſe; becauſe whatſoeuer hath not authoritie of Scripture to proue it, may as eaſily be contemned as allowed. But Abrahams ſepulchre in Ieroms time was to be ſeen, being old and decayed.

THis City was not onely a Kings Seat, but a Prieſts alſo, being built not long after the Floud, and ſome ſeuen years before that City of the Egyptians called Zoan or Tanis, Numb. 13. and was placed vpon a goodly high mountaine very pleaſant and delectable. It taketh the name from Chabar, which ſignifieth to accompany; and from thence, Chebron, or Hebron, A pleaſant and delectable ſociety. It was a metropolitan city in the tribe of Iuda, and after called Kiriatharba, as it appeareth in Ioſhuah, 14. taking that name from Arba the chiefe Gouernour of that Citie. This man was one of the Anakims, and a very mighty Prince. Others there are that ſay, the city being diuided into foure parts was thereof called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 : for Arba ſignifies a quaternion, from the Rote Raba foure ſquare. It was firſt built by Heth, the ſonne of that curſed Canaan, whoſe poſterity (the Hittites) inhabited in it; and ſuch was their hoſpitalitie, that they entertained Abraham, being a ſtranger and traueller. Theſe people dweltHere alſo dwelt Siſai, Abiman, and Thalmas the ſons of Anak. there vntill Ioſhuahs time; and then one Hoham was King thereof, who with other Kings oppoſing the Children of Iſraell, was by them ſlain, and had their country waſted and deſtroyed. This town was after made a towne of refuge, and belonged to the inheritance of Caleb, and was together with Mamre in the tribe of Iuda, Ioſ. 20. Heere Dauid was firſt anointed King, and reigned therein for the ſpace of 7 yeares, 2 Sam. 5. But this town by the iniury of time and oppreſſion of the enemy is now become deſolate, only ſome few old reliques are to be ſeen, to ſhew there had bin a town there. Neuertheleſſe there is a town not far from it which retaineth the name, placed in a very fruitfull valley called Mamre to this day. Heere while it was vnder the juriſdiction of the Chriſtians, ſtood a Cathedral church, and a Biſhops See; but the Turks haue turned it into a Mosko, or one of their churches. Into this place they wil not ſuffer any Chriſtian to enter. The inhabitants take vpon them to ſhew vnto ſtrangers many things, as the vault or caue wherein Abraham was buried, the place where Cain killed Abel, the Well where Adam and Eva wept ſeuen years for the death of their ſon; with many ſuch like fables which are to no purpoſe, ſeeing they are not warrantable by Scripture.

Some bows ſhoot Eaſtward from this place is the field of Damaſcus, where the red earth lieth whereof they feigne man to be made. It is naturally tough, & may be wrought like wax or pitch. There is alſo that is white of the ſame kind, and this is conueyed to many places by the Saracens, and ſold at deare rates. They vſe it either for the teering of Sepulchres, or to mingle with ſalves and vnguents.

BEerazaba is a towne ſcituated vpon the vtmoſt bounds of the Holy land, forty miles from Ieruſalem Southweſtward, and is deriued from Berr and Shebuah, and ſignifieth the Wel of couenant: for Abraham hauing digged a Wel neere to this place, Abimelech King of Gerar entred into league with him, and his poſteritie Iſaac alſo renued this league in this place, as appears, Gen. 21. It is now called Gallim or Giblin by the Iewes. In S. Hieromes time it was a great towne.

VPon this Mount Abraham would haue offered his ſon Iſaac, and ſtood not far from Salem or mount Sion, where Melchiſedech dwelt. They were ſo neere, that Melchiſedech vpon the tower of Sion might eaſily ſee the Angell that ſpake with Abraham, when he renewed the couenant with him concerning his ſeed and poſteritie: and is deriued from Mor or Marar, which ſignifies bitter Myrrh, becauſe, as Gregorius ſaith, the Church is euer ſubiect to affliction, For all they that will ſerue God and liue religiouſly muſt ſuffer perſecution, Mat. 16. 2 Tim. 3. and Iarr, which ſignifies to feare.

LOt trauelled with Abraham from Vr in Chaldaea, to Haran in Meſopotamia, which is 336 miles, Gen. 12.

2 From Haran they trauelled to Sichem in the land of Canaan, being 400 miles.

3 From Sichem they trauelled through Morae, to the hil lying between Bethel and Hay, which is 24 miles.

4 From the hill between Bethel and Hay, they went into Egypt, which is 240 miles, Gen. 13.

5 From Egypt they went into the land of Canaan, to the hil lying between Bethel and Hay, where Abraham had dwelt before, which is 240 miles, Gen. 13.

6 From the hil between Bethel and Hay Lot ſeparated himſelfe from Abraham, and went to the towne of Sodom Eaſtward, which is 28 miles, Gen. 13.

7 In the town of Sodom Lot was taken priſoner, hee and all his houſhold, and led away to the town of Dan, which is 32 miles Gen. 14.

8 And when Abraham had deliuered him out of the hands of his enemies, & purſued them, he returned with him from Dan to Hobam in Phoenicia, lying on the left ſide of Damaſcus, being 80 miles.

9 From Phoenicia Abraham came again with Lot to Sodom, which is 160 miles.

10 Laſtly, when the Lord had determined to raine fire and brimſtone on Sodom, Lot according to his commandement went thence to Zoar a little town neere adioyning, where being drunk with Wine hee committed inceſt with both his daughters; but after comming to the knowledge of his offence, he was ſo ſore afflicted in his conſcience, that with extreme grief he died. Luther ſaith that Abraham tooke him to Hebron with him to comfort him, and that there he died. Hebron is 36 miles from Sodom.

So all the trauels of the Patriarch Lot were 1652 miles.

THe cities that were deſtroyed with fire and brimſtone from heauen were foure in number, that is, Sodom, Gomorah, Adama, and Zeboim, lying 24 miles from Ieruſalem South-eaſtward, where now the dead ſea runs. The fift was the city Bela, called alſo Zoar, which was ſpared for Lots ſake, & diſtant from Sodom two miles. This, Lot accounted but a little City; but there are that ſay it was a very ſpatious and princely place, neere to which his wife for her diſobedience was turned into a pillar of ſalt, and not far off he committed inceſt with his two daughters. And although Luther be of opinion, that that alſo within a while after was burnt, yet this cannot bee certainly prooued, eſpecially becauſe it remaineth euen to this day, ſcituated both in the antient place, and called by the antient name; vnleſſe ſome new City hath beene lately built in the ſame place, and is now called after that name, which I cannot thinke to be true. Sodamah ſignifieth a Myſterie; Gomorah, a Faggot of Thornes; Adamah, Red earth; Zeboim, Fertile and Pleaſant; Zoar, The burning of Baela; for in antient times it was called Baela. It is the receiued opinion, that the country wherein theſe fiue rich and opulent cities ſtood was called Pentapolis.

IN the very ſame place where theſe Cities were burnt and deſtroyed, there is at this day to be ſeene a Lake about 36 miles long, and in ſome places ſix, in others eight and 12 miles ouer. It boileth with pitch and brimſtone, and in ſome places paſſeth by the name of the ſalt ſea, and in others, the dead ſea, becauſe of the noiſome and venomous aire that riſeth out of it, inſomuch as the very birds that fly ouer it fall down dead, and if a beaſt doe but drink of it mixt with water, it makes him incurably ſick. It is of a wonderfull nature, for whatſoeuer heauy thing you fling into it will not ſinke, but ſwim vpon the top, be it either iron, lead, copper, or any other weighty matter. Of which Veſpaſian the emperor hauing notice, to make experience of what he had heard, made a journy of purpoſe to ſee it, and with him tooke certain condemned men who for their offences had deſerued death; theſe he manacled, and where he thought it to be deepeſt cauſed them to bee thrown in; but they roſe vp againe with ſuch violence as if ſome ſtorm or tempeſt had ſent them vp. The water thereof changeth three times a day, and ſhineth againſt the ſun with diuers colors, caſting out fire and great cakes of pitch much reſembling Bulls without heads, and of that quantity. This pitch is good for diuers things, as to calk ſhips, to lay vpon cables, and to vſe in medicins; wherefore ſuch as come to this ſea and know the nature of it, haue certain Skifs and inſtruments wherewith they draw theſe cakes of pitch to their ſhips, to which it cleaueth ſo faſt, it being naturally tough, that being brought to land they cannot get it off again but by the help of vrine. Vpon the banks thereof grow trees that beare fruit of diuers kinds, as apples and ſuch like; which are faire and pleaſant to the eie, but if you either touch or open them you ſhall finde nothing but duſt.

Brittenbacchus ſaith, In this place the Serpent Tyrus (whereof they vſe to make treacle) is found. It is a little ſerpent about half a cubit long, and a finger thick, being of diuers colours, and is ſo venomous, that where it biteth there is no remedy, vnleſſe by cutting off the member. The head of it is rough and hairy, and there ſeemeth to lie vpon the tongue of it, if it be angry, a fiery flame. The ſame Author ſaith, That a little from Zoar, betweene this Lake and the mountaines of Engedi, the pillar whereinto Lots wife was turned, is yet to be ſeen ſhining like ſalt. The furtheſt part of this ſea Northward lies 14 miles from Ieruſalem: toward the Eaſt the riuer Iordan runneth into it.

THeſe two Angels hauing ſpoken with Abraham in the valley of Mamre neere Hebron, forthwith went to Sodom ſome 40 miles diſtant from that place, where Lot hauing entertained them into his houſe, by their helpe was deliuered, together with his wife and two daughters, from that miſerable deſolation of the Sodomits.

LOt eſcaping this deſolation, and ſeeing a preſident of Gods iudgement fallen vpon his wife for her diſobedience, fearing that he ſhould not continue ſafe in Zoar, left that & turned aſide into the wilderneſſe, and continued there among the mountains, although the Lord had promiſed him ſafety in this town: wherfore continuing in a Caue in the Wilderneſſe, the eldeſt of his daughters loſing her husband in this deſtruction, ſuppoſing that all men had beene deſtroyed from off the earth, counſelled her ſiſter to commit inceſt with her father. Lot being now oppreſſed with care, by reaſon of the former calamities, gaue himſelf at the inticement of his daughters, to drinke Wine, inſomuch as with the exceſſe he became drunke: at which time not being himſelfe he begat by his two daughters two ſonnes: the eldeſt had a ſonne whom ſhee called Moab, which ſignifies The begotten of his Father; whereby the impudencie of this woman is laid open to the World, in that ſhe was not aſhamed of her ſinne. Of him came the Moabites, and dwelt vpon the North ſide of the lake Aſphaltides, ſome 32 miles from Ieruſalem. The yongeſt daughter had a ſon, which ſhe called Ben-ammy, that is, The ſon of my people; for although ſhe bare him with great ſhame, yet ſhe dwelt among the people of God. Of him came the Ammonites that dwelt beyond mount Gilead, threeſcore miles from Ieruſalem Northeaſtward.

THe firſt of them was called Amraphel King of Shinear or Babylon, the ſon of Ninus and Semiramis, as ſome thinke, and is called ſomtime by the name of Beroſus, ſometime Ninus. He kept his court at Babylon in Chaldea, which is 680 miles from Ieruſalem Eaſtward. This Ninus is called Amraphel, becauſe of the notable victories that he won, and the number of countries and prouinces he conquered.

The ſecond was Arioch or Arius his ſonne. He was thus called becauſe of his courage and crueltie in war; for Arioch ſignifies A mighty roaring Lion; Arius, Mars. This man during the life of his father was created king of Laſſir, that is, Aſſiria, for ſo it is called in the Chaldaean tongue; the chiefe city whereof is Nineueh, and lies from Ieruſalem Northeaſtward ſix hundred eighty foure miles.

The third was Keder-laomer King of the Elamites in Perſia, 1200 miles from Ieruſalem toward the Eaſt. This Prince had a great command in that country. Keder ſignifies an Ornament or Crowne; Laomer, Well deſeruing.

The fourth was Thideall King of the Nations. Hee kept his court in Damaſcus, the Metropolis of Aſſyria, ſome 160 miles from Ieruſalem Northward. Thideal ſignifieth An exalted Lord; of Alah, that is, To be lifted vp.

Theſe foure kings were confederats, and bent their expedition principally againſt Aſtaroth and Kiriathaim, which they tooke, and ſpoyled all the Countrey round about with fire and ſword: and their Armies being retyred from the ſpoyle, met in the vally of Siddim (where now the dead Sea runneth) and there pitched their tents. In this place after a cruel and ſharp war, they conquered the fiue Kings of that beautifull and pleaſant ſoile of Pentapolis, (for ſo it was called becauſe of thoſe fiue cities that were in it) where among others they tooke Lot captiue with all his ſubſtance.

AStoroth ſeemes to be the city of Venus, becauſe the citiſens thereof worſhipped her: for Aſtoroth is a goddeſſe of the Sidonians, and is compounded of Aſh, which ſignifies a company of ſtars, and Tor, placed in order. The Syrians call Venus Aſhtoroth. This towne lay in the land of Gilead, and belonged to the halfe tribe of Manaſſe beyond Iordan, 56 miles from Ieruſalem North-Eaſtward. In this city the foure Kings of the Eaſt conquered the gyants of Karnaim, that were mighty princes and commanders there, when they made war againſt that and Kiriathaim. Not far from hence alſo in the land of Ham there dwelt certaine Gyants called Zuſim, of Zus and Hamah, which ſignifies to ſtir vp commotion. Theſe were very great ſtrong and ſtately people, and had the command of all the Countries thereabouts, which they held in great feare, and were conquered by the foure Kings.

KIriathaim was a City in the tribe of Reubin beyond Iorden, Ioſ. 13. 22 miles from Ieruſalem toward the Eaſt, and ſo called becauſe it was diuided into many parts and diuiſions. The heathens corruptly cal it Carthage. The Hebrews deriue it from Kiriath, which ſignifies a city, and Emah, Terror. Here dwelt the Emims, a graue and fearfull people; for ſo their name ſignifies.

THis Citie tooke the name from a Palme tree, or a Palme banke. Of this kinde of wood the Iſraelites made their arrowes, and therefore deriue it from Charar, which ſignifieth to ſhoot; and Thamar, a Palme Tree. This City ſtandeth vpon the banke of the dead ſea, twenty miles from Ieruſalem North-Eaſt, vpon a very fruitfull ſoile, where was found plenty of Palm trees and pretious balſam: and by ſome called Engedi, or the Lambes Well; being deriued from Ein and Gedi, which ſignifieth Fontem haeduli lactantis, that is, The Wel of a ſucking lambe or goat. Not far from hence ſtood the Caue where Dauid cut off the outward lap of King Sauls garment, 1 Sam. 24.

THis valley ſtood there where now the dead ſea runneth, and took that name from the fertilitie of the ſoile, and ſeems to haue ſome affinity with the Hebrew word Sadel, which ſignifies a field, partly arable, partly paſture and medow, furniſhed with trees, herbs, and orchards. In this place ſtood diuers Wels of Bitume, from whence the inhabitants fetcht caement to build their houſes with; but after for their wickednes (which was ſo great, as it appeareth in Gen. 18. that the cry thereof aſcended into heauen) the Lord did grieuouſly puniſh them, firſt with war, by which the inhabitants were deſtroied: and after that, with fire and brimſtone from heauen; ſo that (as is aforeſaid) this goodly vally is nothing but a ſtinking lake.

AFter Sara had preferred Hagar to that high grace as to make her equal with her ſelfe, ſhee growing proud thereof, contemned her Miſtreſſe, and in recompence of that fauour carried her ſelfe very preſumptuouſly towards her; which Sarah ſeeking to reſtraine, offered to her ſonne hard meaſure; which Abraham (vpon her complaint) winked at: Whereupon Hagar, partly oppreſt with griefe, partly with enuy, priuily ſtole away from her miſtreſſe, and went from the valley of Mamre neer Hebron, to the Well of life ſixteene miles Southward, Geneſis 16. and it is to be thought that her journey tended towards Egypt, which was her natiue countrey. For this Well lay directly in the way as they went downe into Egypt. This flight of Hagar without doubt did greatly trouble Abrahams houſe, and put him and his wife into a great ſorrow and feare, leſt ſhe ſhould deſtroy her ſelf and the infant, or fall into ſome other danger. Wherefore that God might make euident the exceeding care he had of them, he ſent an angel vnto Hagar, and willed her to returne vnto her maſter: which Angel ſome think was the ſon of God, for he was called by the name of Iehovah, Gen. 16. which name was not communicated to any created Angell. Whereupon Hagar, according to his commadement, went backe againe to her miſtreſſe Sarah into the valley of Mamre, 16 miles, Gen. 16.

From Hebron Hagar went with her miſtreſſe to that kingly city Gerar, 6 miles, Gen. 20.

At Gerar ſhe and her ſonne Iſmael were put out of her maſters houſe, and going in the way that leadeth into Egypt, they loſt themſelues in the wildernes of Beerſaba, after they had trauelled 12 miles from Gerar: where oppreſt with want both of water and other neceſſaries, ſhe feinted and her ſon alſo; wherefore ſhe layd him vnder a tree, and about a bowes ſhoot off ſate down and wept, expecting nothing but death. As ſhee was in this miſerie, God heard the voice of the childe, and ſent an Angell vnto her ſaying, Feare not, for I will make of thy childe a great Nation. And God opened her eies, and lo, cloſe by her there was a Well, ſo ſhe went and filled her bottle, and gaue her boy drinke. At this time Iſmael was 15 yeres of age; So God bleſſed the child, and he became an Archer, and liued in the wilderneſſe.

From thence ſhe and her ſon went into the wildernes of Pharan, 80 miles, where Iſmael maried an Egyptian, Gen. 21. So all the trauels of Hagar the Egyptian maid were 132 miles.

THis Wel lieth betweene Bared and Kades-Bernea, 10 miles from Ieruſalem towards the South. Some call it the Well of the Liuing and Seeing, becauſe God did there look mercifully vpon Hagar when ſhee fled from her miſtreſſe. Here Iſaac dwelt and had his two ſonnes Eſau and Iacob, Geneſis 26. Afterwards it was called the Well of the liuing God, and ſeemeth myſtically to repreſent Baptiſme, the lavor of grace and regeneration by the operation and ſpecial working of the Spirit: for the Church (like Hagar with her ſon Iſmael) trauelling through the wilderneſſe of this world, is preſt with a multitude of ſins; and ſeeing her owne miſerie, finds no remedie but by faith in Chriſt Ieſus, to be deliuered from ſo heauy a burthen: wherefore they ioyning together in praier, craue the mercifull audience and gratious aſſiſtance of God, That it would pleaſe him of his goodneſſe to refreſh them with the water of life, the doctrine of grace, that ſo they may bee made capable of eternal glory. For Hagar ſignifies a Pilgrim, and Iſmael, a godly and good man whom the Lord heareth: Who trauelling together with his mother the Church in this world, fighteth againſt the enemies thereof, and ſhooteth the arrows of faith againſt all infernal and cruell beaſts. For Schamah ſignifies, Hee hath heard; and El, The almighty God, who mercifully heareth the feruent prayers and petitions of the Iuſt; according to that of S. Iames, cap. 5.15.

Iſmael was born An. mundi 2035. Abraham being then 86 years of age. He was circumciſed at 13, he went from his father at 15; he was at Abrahams funeral being 89 yeares of age: he died when he was 137 yeares of age, fifty yeares after the death of Abraham, and left behinde him twelue ſonnes as Iacob did, which were the Princes of their families, as was his. Of which the Apoſtle Paul hath an excellent Allegorie; Abraham had two ſons, one by the bond-woman, another by the free-woman: he that was of the bond woman was according to the fleſh, but he that was of the free woman was by promiſe. By which things another thing is meant; for the one, which is Agar of mount Sinai, gendereth vnto bondage: for Agar or Sinai is a mountaine in Arabia, and anſwereth to Ieruſalem that now is; and ſhee is in bondage with her Children: but Ieruſalem which is aboue is free, for it is written, Reioyce thou Barren, &c. Wherefore we are no more of the bond woman (which is the Law) but of the Free, not by our owne works or righteouſneſſe, but by fairh in Chriſt, who maketh vs heirs of that heauenly Ieruſalem.

AFter Eleazer had ſworne to his maſter to take a wife for his ſon Iſaac of the generation of his fathers, he went from the valley of Mamre neere Hebron, to Haran a City of Meſopotamia, 468 miles off, and there made a Contract with Rebecc • the daughter of Bethuel, and ſiſter of Laban, whom he tooke along with him and returned to his maſter. So that his journey to and againe was 944 miles. Theſe things hapned in the yeare of the world 2089, and before Chriſt 1879, Iſaac then being forty yeres of age.

This Eleazer was Steward of Abrahams houſe, and borne at Damaſcus the chiefe City of Syria. Hee was ſo called, becauſe God was his helpe: Eleazer being a compound word of El and Ezaer, which ſignifies Almighty God the helper. From whence we may perceiue that God is the keeper of the poore, and a ready helper in time of tribulation; according to that in the Pſalmes, All they that know thee truſt in thee; becauſe thou, O Lord, heareſt their prayers, and bringeſt them out of trouble.

Rebeccha, as it ſhould ſeeme, tooke her name from the expectation of Eternall life▪ for Rebechan in Hebrew doth denote ſuch a woman, which expecteth a free deliuerie frrom all calamitie, and an inheritance of eternall life. Therefore Rebeccha is a notable type of the Church of God, which is the Spouſe of Chriſt, ſhadowed in Iſaac; as ſhall hereafter be more plainely manifeſted.

ISaac being young, went with his father Abraham from Berzeba to mount Moriah, where his father would haue offered him vnto God, as the Lord commanded him, which is fortie miles, Genſ. 22.

2 From thence with his father hee returned againe to Berzeba, which is forty miles.

3 From Berzeba he trauelled with his father to Hebron, by the plaine of Mamre, which is 16 miles.

4 From the plaine of Mamre Iſaac trauelled Southward, to the fountain of life, which is 16 miles, & there he dwelt, Gen. 24.

5 From thence he returned backe again to his fathers burial, who was laid in that double caue in Mamre, which is 16 miles.

6 From thence he returned backe againe to the Well of life, where he dwelt; 16 miles.

7 From the Fountaine of life, hee went to Gerar, which is 8 miles; where Abimelech ſeeing the beauty of his wife Rebeccha, would haue rauiſht her, and for feare ſhe told him that ſhe was his ſiſter, Gen. 26.

8 From Gerar Iſaac went Weſtward to the valley of Gerar which is 8 miles, and there he cauſed the Well to be digged vp againe, which the inhabitants had ſtopped vp, Gen. 26.

9 From thence he went to Beerſaba, which is foure miles; where the ſame night the Lord appeared vnto him, and ſaid, I am the God of thy father Abraham, feare not, for I am with thee and will bleſse and multiply thy ſeed for my ſeruant Abrahams ſake, Gen. 26.

10 From Beerſaba he returned againe to Hebron by the plain of Mamre, which is 16 miles: here Abraham, Sarah, and Rebeccha, died, and were buried, Gen. 35. So all the trauels of the Patriarch Iſaac, were one hundred forty eight miles.

THe name of Iſaac is deriued from laughter: for Zakah in Hebrew is as much as quod riſit is in Latine, which ſignifieth that he laughed; and from hence Zechock ſignifies a Laughter, and Iſaac, mirth, or one that reioyceth with mirth. This name was giuen to him by God before his natiuitie, Gen. 17.18. There were ſeuen that were named by God before their natiuitie, viz. Iſhmael Gen. 16. Iſaac, Gen. 17. Cores or Cyrus King of the Perſians, Eſa 44. Sampſon, Iudg. 13. Ioſia King of Iuda, 1. Kings 13. Iohn Baptiſt, and Ieſus Chriſt the ſonne of God, Luke 1. of whom Iſaae was a notable type. For Chriſt is our true rejoicing, the laughter, mirth, and delight of the whole Church of God. Abraham vpon the day of the natiuitie of Iſaac made a great feaſt, to which, no doubt, he called many godly men, and perhaps ſome of the Patriarchs: for there was then liuing Sarag, Arphaxad, Salah, Heber, Thamar, and Sem, the ſonne of Noah, who alſo had a certaine knowledge of Gods promiſe to Abraham, and that of the ſeed of Iſaac ſhould come the Sauiour of the world.

And as Abraham when hee would haue offered his ſonne vnto the Lord, carried the fire and the ſword; but Iſaac the wood vpon which he ſhould be ſlaine and burned (O miſerable ſight, eſpecially to a father, to ſee his onely ſonne and heire, which was miraculouſly begotten, euen then when he was without hope of iſſue, burnt to aſhes before his face? this was on mount Moria • a little from Salem or Ieruſalem) euen ſo our Sauiour Chriſt, fo • the ſinnes that man commits and carries about him, bore vpon his ſhoulders the woodden croſſe whereupon he was offered an • acceptable ſacrifice to his father, that ſo by his mediation and ſatisfaction we might receiue pardon for them: And this was likewiſe done vpon mount Caluarie, a little from Ieruſalem. And as the Lord prouided another ſacrifice for Abraham, that ſo hee might ſaue his ſonne, which was, a Ramme tied and intangled in thornes: ſo God prouided a ſacrifice for the ſaluation of the world euen Ieſus Chriſt our mediatour, who is that immaculate and pretious Lambe of God; whoſe head being crowned with thornes, and hanging vpon the croſſe, by his precious death opened vnto vs the doore of eternall life, and made vs capable of euerlaſting happineſſe, Iohn 19. 1 Peter 1. Such was the loue of Abraham, a father vnto God; ſuch the loue of God, a father vnto man: that they ſpared not their only ſonnes, the one typically to repreſent the other. The other, that is, the only begotten ſonne of God, to dye effectually for Abraham, Iſaac, and all mankinde, Ioh. 3. Gen. 22.

FRom Beerſaba Iacob went to Bethel, which is 48 miles and there hee ſaw a Ladder that reached downe from heauen, whereby the Angels aſcended and deſcended Geneſ. 28.

2 From Bethel he went to Haran in Meſopotamia, which is 432 miles; where he married Leah and Raehel, Gen. 28.

3 From Haran in Meſopotamia hee went to mount Gilead, which is 380 miles: and when Laban purſued him (at the commandement of the Lord) he made a league with him, Gen. 31.

4 From mount Gilead hee went to Mahanaim, which is 16 miles, and there he met with the Angels of God, Gen. 31.

5 From Mahanaim he paſſed the water and went to Penuel, which is foure miles, and there wreſtled with the Angel of God, Gen. 32.

6 From Penuel hee went to Succoth, where hee pitched his Tents, 2 miles, Gen. 33.

7 From Succoth hee paſſed the riuer of Iordan, and went to Sichem, not far from Salem (about eight miles) where his daughter Dinah was rauiſhed, Gen. 33.

8 From thence he went to Bethel, which is eight and twenty miles, Gen. 31.

9 From Bethel he went to Bethlehem Euphrata, which is twelue miles; in which way Rachel died, and was buried not farre from Bethlehem; then Iacob went forward, and ſet vp his Tents neere to the Tower of Eder, a mile from Bethlehem towards the South, Gen. 35.

10 From Bethlehem Euphrata and the Tower of Eder, he returned againe to the valley of Mamre neere Hebron, to his father Iſaac, which is 20 miles, Gen. 35.

11 From Hebron hee went to Beerſaba, which is 16 miles, Gen. 38.

12 From Beerſaba, he went to the Towne of Ony a little off Aegypt in the land of Goſſen, which is 168 miles, where Ioſeph his ſonne gaue him honourable entertainement, Gen. 46.

13 From Ony he went to the citieThis was the chiefe Citie of Aegypt. Zoan, which is alſo called Tanis, 28 miles, where he was preſented to K. Pharaoh, Gen. 47.

14 From Tanis he returned to Ony, which is 28 miles, and there he dwelt and dyed in the land of Goſſen, Gen. 49.

IAcob ſignifies, a ſupplanter, and was a type of Chriſt, who is that ſupplanter of Sathan, and by his death hath broken his head in pieces. Againe, he is the type of a Chriſtian man: For as he wreſtling with the Angell, obtained a bleſſing; ſo euery good man continually ſtriuing with perſeuerance in prayer, ſhall at length obtaine an euerlaſting bleſſing: for, for this cauſe was Iacob called Iſrael, that is, the Prince of God, in that he preuailed with God: ſo all thoſe that beleeue in Chriſt, are called Princes of the kingdome of heauen: becauſe by his mediation they haue preuailed with God, and are made partakers of eternall life.

Iacob had two wiues, Leah and Rachel; Leah ſignifies, wearied, and was a type of the old Moſaicall Church: for that was oppreſſed and wearied with the lawes of Moſes, and brought forth Prieſts, Leuites, Kings, and warlike Princes, by which the people of the Iewes became oppreſſed and wearied by extreame labors, and at length were miſerably extinguiſhed: for as it is in the 15 of the Acts of the Apoſtles, The law of Moſes was an intollerable and troubleſome burthen. But Rachel ſignifies a Sheepe, and is a type and ſigne of the Church of God in the New Teſtament, as Chriſt himſelfe ſpeaketh in the tenth of Iohn, My ſheepe heare my voice and follow me, and I will giue them eternall life.

Sheepe are naturally patient and peaceable; ſo all ſuch as are of Chriſts Church, ſeeke after patience and peace. Leah was nothing ſo faire, but much more fruitfull: Rachel was nothing ſo fruitfull, but a great deale fairer. Leah was the mother of Benjamin which ſignifieth ſorrow: Rachel of Ioſeph, who was a type of Chriſt.

MOunt Sier where Eſau and his poſteritie dwelt, is forty miles from Ieruſalem towards the South, and was ſo called of Sier, the King or Lord thereof, of whom came the Horrites; who being driuen thence by the fourteene ſonnes of Eſau, into Arabia the ſtony, where they continued, Gen. 36. It was called Edom of Eſau, and then, Idumaea, Gen. 25. and the inhabitants thereof Edomites, or Idumaeans.

ESau ſignifies a Factor, and was ſo called from rednes: The enemies of the church colouring themſelues red with the blood of the godly: For as Rebecca had in her wombe two ſonnes, that is, Eſau and Iacob; one elected, the other reprobated: ſo in the Church there are found two ſorts of people, good and euill; ſome are wicked and impious, contemners of Gods word, and perſecuters of the Church; as after, the poſterity of Eſau was. But there are others that are the faithfull children of God, that hope through the mediation of our bleſſed Sauiour, to be made heires of euerlaſting happineſſe, and be crowned with him in his kingdome with the crowne of Glory. So that here the ſaying of our Sauiour may be verified; the firſt ſhall be laſt, and the laſt ſhall be firſt. for Eſau was the eldeſt, yet loſt his birthwrite; and Iacob was the youngeſt, yet got the bleſſing.

IVda trauelled from Sichem, where Iacob dwelt, and went to the towne of Odulla, ſome forty and foure miles, where he was married to the daughter of one Chananei whoſe name was Schuah which ſigninifies, A happy Sauiour, by her he had two children in that place, viz. Ger and Onan.

From thence hee went to Timnah to ſheare his ſheepe, ſix miles: and as hee turned aſide out of the way, hee committed inceſt with his daughter in law, Thamer, when ſhee was about 26 yeares of age.

Afterward hee went twice with his brethren into Aegypt, to buy corne at Zoan, where Ioſeph at that time was; for the famine was very great round about. So that reckoning his journey twice two and againe, it amounted to eight hundred twentie and two miles; for Zoan was 208 miles from Hebron where Iacob and his ſonnes dwelt.

Laſtly, he returned againe with his father and his brother into Aegypt, two hundred and eight miles. Theſe things happened in the yeare of the world 1239. and before Chriſt 1729.

IOſeph was a type of Chriſt diuers waies: for as Ioſephs coat being of diuers colours, was dipped in the bloud of Goates, ſo Chriſt being very God, taking vpon him the humane nature, and ſprinkled with the bloud of his ſtripes and wounds (being the lambe of God ſlaine for the ſinnes of the world) was alſo made changeable and of diuers colours. Againe, as Ioſeph was ſent by Iacob to ſeeke his brethren: ſo Chriſt was ſent by God his father to ſeeke the loſt ſheepe of Iſrael, which according to the fleſh, were his brethren, Mat. 15. And as the brethren of Ioſeph were ſo great enemies to him, that it was not poſſible for them to diſſemble their hatred towards him, but that both in words and deeds, they muſt needs expreſſe their bitterneſſe, (enuie being the common companion of vertue) ſo the Iewes, the brethen of Chriſt, to whom the knees of all things both in heauen, in hell, and in earth bow, perſecuting him with taunts, mockes, and ſtripes, yea, vnto death, becauſe he profeſſed himſelfe to be a good man, and the ſonne of the euerliuing God.

And as the Iſmalites and Midianites, to whom Ioſeph was ſold by Iudah, was of the ſtocke of Ioſeph, the one being deriued from Iſmael the ſonne of Abraham by his maid Hagar, the other of Midian the ſonne of his ſecond wife Keturah: So Chriſt was ſold by Iudas his diſciple, to the Iewes his kindred according to the fleſh, if you reſpect the nation. The difference was in the price; Ioſeph the type being ſold but for twenty pieces of ſiluer, Chriſt the ſubſtance ſold at thirtie.

The end of the booke of Geneſis.

THere are many which thinke that this Prophet Balaam was of the poſteritie of Nahor the brother of Abraham, and an inhabitant of the city of Charan in Meſopotamia, Gen. 11. Ioſephus ſaith he dwelt neere to Euphrates: and S. Ierom, in a Citie called Phatura, of which there is mention, Num. 22. and ſignifies an obſcure Prophet, or oracle which interpreteth. For Pathar with the Hebrewes, is the ſame that He hath interpreted, is with vs.

Wherefore this Prophet trauelled from Pithora or Phatura in Meſopotamia, to Abel or the plaine of Vines, where his Aſſe ſpake, Num. 22. which is 400 miles.

From thence he went to the land of the Moabites, 40 miles; where in the mount of Peor he bleſſed the children of Iſrael.

So all the trauels of this Prophet were 440 miles.

THere is often mention of this place in the Scripture; & for the fertilitie of the countrey, and plenty of ſweet Wines, there was a beautifull city built, called Abel, of the Vines; ſome 56 miles from Ieruſalem South-Eaſtward; and was placed iuſt in the way as they went from Meſopotamia into the country of the Moabites. Whereby it appeareth, that neere to this place the Aſſe ſpake to Balaam, Numb. 22. In S. Ieroms time there was found a little Village ſo called, where there was great plenty of Vines. Here Ieptha ouercame the Ammorites, and made a great ſlaughter, Iud. 11.

IOSHVAH and Caleb trauelled with Moſes from Raemſis out of Aegypt through the Red ſea, and came to Kades-Barnea, 26 miles.

From Cades-Barnea they were ſent forth with other Spie • to the land of Canaan, Num. 13. and went out of the wilderneſſ • of Zin and Paran, and came to the towne of Rechob in Galile • 140 miles.

From thence they went to the towne of Hamath in Syria which was after called Antiochia, 188 miles.

From Hamath or Antiochia they returned againe to Hebron 304 miles, where vpon the ſide of the riuer Eſcol they cut off • bunch of grapes, with the ſtalke, which was as much as both the • could beare vpon their ſhoulders, Num. 13.

From Hebron they returned againe to Kades-Barnea, twent • miles. There all the people murmured againſt Moſes, Num. 1 • Heereby it is to be ſeene, that the Spies in forty dayes trauelle • 648 miles in the land of Canaan, that is, euery day 16 miles and little more.

After that, Ioſhuah and Caleb trauelled with Moſes and the chi • dren of Iſrael to Ezeon-Gabir, and from thence to the towne o • Iahza, 464 miles.

From Iahza they paſt through two kingdoms to mount Lib • nus, 80 miles.

From mount Libanus they returned againe into the Land o • Sittim, that lay by the hill Piſgah in the field of the Moabite • 80 miles.

From the land of Sittim they paſt through the riuer of Iord •• and came to Gilgal, 6 miles, where Ioſhuah pitched his Campe, Num. 21. Ioſ. 4.5.

From Gilgal he went to Iericho, 2 miles: there he aſſailed the towne with the ſound of baſons, and won it, Ioſ. 6.

From Iericho he went to Ai, being 4 miles, and took and burnt the whole towne, Ioſ. 7.8.

From Ai he returned to Gilgal, 4 miles, and there vpon the hil of Ebal he built an altar vnto the Lord, and there were the bleſſings and curſings pronounced, Ioſ. 8. Deut. 27.

From Gilgal hee went to Gibeon, twelue miles. There the Sunne ſtood ſtill during the battaile againſt the three Kings, Ioſhuah 10.

From Gibeon he went to Ajalon, 2 miles, here the Moon ſtood ſtill, Ioſ. 10.

From Ajalon he went to Aſeka, 4 miles: there it hailed vpon the enemies that fled before Iſrael, Ioſ. 10.

From Aſeka Ioſhuah returned againe into the Camp at Gilgal, 20 miles, Ioſ. 10.

From Gilgal hee went to Makeda, where hee hanged the fiue Kings, Ioſ. 10.

From Makeda he went to Libna, 2 miles, and tooke the towne, Ioſ. 10.

From Libna he went to Lachis, 8 miles.

From Lachis he went to Eglon, 8 miles.

From Eglon he went to Hebron, which is ſixteene miles, Ioſhuah 10.

From Hebron he went to Debir, a mile, Ioſ. 10.

After that, Ioſhuah with one continued War won all that part of Iudaea which lay towards the South, bordering Eaſtward vpon the Dead Sea, Southward vpon Cades-Barnea, Weſtward vpon Aſdod and Gaza, and Northward vpon Gibeon and Gilgal: This circuit of land containeth about one hundred fifty and ſixe miles.

From Gilgal Ioſhuah went out with his army about 22 miles, to the riuer of Merom, where he ſlew the reſt of the Kings of the Canaanites in a memorable battell, Ioſ. 11.

From the riuer of Merom Ioſhuah chaſed his enemies and followed them to Sidon, which was 612 miles, Ioſ. 11.

From Sidon he went again to Hazor, 32 miles, which town he burnt, Ioſ. 11.

After that, Ioſhuah at one time won all the townes in the Holy land which lay Northward in the lands of Samaria and Galilea, from Gibeon to mount Libanus, and from the riuer of Iordan to the great ſea, called Mare Mediterranean; which countries in circuit contain 280 miles.

After that, Ioſhuah returned again to his camp at Gilgal, which lay 72 miles from the towne of Hazor, where he made a diuiſion of the land amongſt the children of Iſrael, Ioſ. 14, 15.

From Gilgal he went to Shilo, 12 miles, where he made an end of diuiding the land, Ioſ. 18.

From Shilo he went to Timnah Sera, eight miles, and there he dwelt; for the children of Iſrael gaue him that town for his own inheritance, Ioſ. 19.

From Timnah Sera, Ioſhuah not long before hee died came to Sichem, forty miles. There he aſſembled all the tribes of Iſrael, Ioſ. 24.

From Sichem he returned againe to Timnah Sera, 40 miles, where he died and was buried, Ioſ. 24.

So all the trauels of Prince Ioſhuah were 2392 miles.

IOſhuah and Ieſus is all one in ſignification, that is, Sauour, or a Defender; and did typically repreſent our Sauior Chriſt; that as this Ioſhuah brought the children of Iſrael through Iordan into the land of Canaan, ſo Ieſus Chriſt the true Ioſhuah and Sauiour of the world; through that Iordan of Baptiſme bringeth vs into that place of Promiſe, Eternall life.

THis Maid was accounted the faireſt in all Iſrael, for which cauſe ſhe was brought to Ieruſalem for King Dauid, that ſhe might lie with him in his old age to procure heat: ſhe was born at Sunem, a town ſome 44 miles from Ieruſalem, 1 Reg. 1. Of Sunem you may read before in the trauels of Dauid & Saul.

SOlomon the ſon of Dauid King of Iſrael entred vpon the full gouernment of the kingdome of Iſrael, An. mundi 2931. and before Chriſt 1037. when he was about 20 yeares old. After, he went from Ieruſalem to Gilgal, 4 miles, and there offered vpon the altar which Moſes had made, 1000 burnt offerings, 1 Reg. 3. 2 Chr. 1.

From thence he went backe to Ieruſalem, which was 4 miles, and built a Temple to the Lord in mount Moriah, 1 Reg. 6. This was begun about the fourth yere of his reign, and 480 yeres after the children of Iſrael came out of Egypt, in the moneth Ziph, which anſwereth to our May. So that the Temple began to bee built in Anno mundi 2934. and before Chriſt 1034. To the building whereof Hiram King of Tyre ſent Cedar trees from Mount Libanus, 120 miles, to Ieruſalem, 1 Reg. 5. 2 Chr. 2. This Temple Solomon within plaited ouer with pure gold, and ſet with pretious ſtones, and finiſhed it in the month of Nouember, about the eleuenth yeare of his reigne, 1 Reg. 6. The dedication whereof was about the twelfth yeare of his reigne, and in the 32 yeare of his age, Anno Mundi, 2942, and before Chriſt, 1026. The Temple being finiſhed, he began to build his owne houſe, which was 13 yeares a building, and was finiſhed about the 44 yeare of his age, and in the 24 of his reign, 1 Reg. 7.8.

After 20 years, in which time he had finiſhed the houſe of the Lord, and his own houſe in Mount Sion; that he might manifeſt his thankfulneſſe to the King of Tyre, he went to Cabul a city in the tribe of Aſhur, ſome 80 miles Northward, where hee gaue to the aforeſaid Hiram 20 towns or cities, with al the country round about: wherefore King Hiram called this Cabul, that is, Diſpleaſant and dirty, 2 Reg. 9. You may reade of Cabul, Ioſ. 19.

From thence he returned to Ieruſalem, 88 miles.

From thence he went to Hazor, and reſtored the city, which was 44 miles.

From thence he returned to Ieruſalem, 44 miles.

From thence he went to Megiddo, which is not farre from Ieſreel in the tribe of Manaſſes, 44 miles from Ieruſalem toward the North. This city Solomon fortified, 1 Reg. 9. and Ioſiah King of Iuda a long time after was there wounded to death, 2 Reg. 9.

From Megiddo he returned to Ieruſalem, 44 miles.

After that Pharaoh King of Egypt had conquered Gaſer, and deſtroyed it with fire, hee gaue it to his Daughter the Wife of Solomon, who rebuilt it. This towne was ſcituated in the tribe of Ephraim, 28 miles from Ieruſalem Northward, 1 Reg. 9.

From Gaſer Solomon returned backe again to Ieruſalem, being 28 miles.

From thence he went to the higher Bethoron, which he fortified; and ſtood twenty eight miles from Ieruſalem Northward; 2 Chr. 8.

From thence he went to the lower Bethoron, 16 miles from the vpper toward the South, 1 Reg. 9. 2 Chr. 8.

From the lower Bethoron hee went to Ieruſalem, which was 8 miles.

After, Solomon built the city Belath, which was 12 miles from Ieruſalem Northweſtward, 1 Reg. 9. 2 Chr. 8.

From thence he returned back to Ieruſalem, 12 miles, and it is very like that Solomon often viſited thoſe towns that he had built and reſtored.

From Ieruſalem he went to Hemath (afterward called Antiochia) which was 320 miles, and compaſſed it about with a wall, fortified it, and afterward conſtrained all the kingdomes thereabout to be obedient to his gouernment, 2 Chr. 8.

From thence he went with great ſtate into the kingdom of Zoba, which is 600 miles, and fortified all the great cities & caſtles of that country, that with the greater facility they might oppoſe the inuaſions of neighbouring countries.

From thence hee returned to that famous city Thamar, which was alſo called the city of the Palmes, 400 miles: this he rebuilt and fortified, 1 Reg. 9. 2 Chr. 8.

From thence he went to Ieruſalem, which is 388 miles.

From thence hee went to Ezeongaber neere the Red ſea in the countrey of Idumaea, where he built a company of ſtately ſhips, and ſent them to India to fetch gold, which was 176 miles from Ieruſalem Southward, 1 Reg. 9.

From thence he returned to Ieruſalem, which is 176 miles. But of his great proſperitie and aboundance of riches he grew proud, (for he excelled all the Kings neere him) and gaue himſelfe to vnlawfull pleaſures; he tooke vnto him 300 Concubines, and 70 wiues, by whoſe perſuaſion he began to worſhip the gods of the Gentiles, which idolatry was euill in the ſight of the Lord. And after he had reigned forty yeares (which was about the ſixtieth of his age) he died, and was buried by his father Dauid in Mount Sion the city of Dauid, An. mundi 2770, and before Chriſt 998.

So all the trauels of Solomon were 2544 miles.

Of Gazer you may reade before in the trauels of Dauid.

SOLOMON is as much as Frederick in high-Dutch, which ſignifieth a Peace-maker; being deriued of the Hebrew word Schelomoh, or Schalom, to bring glad tydings of peace. Typically repreſenting Chriſt the Prince of peace, who hath reconciled vs with his heauenly Father, and merited an eternall place of peace and happineſſe for all ſuch as truſt in him, Eſay 9. And as Solomon built vp the Temple of the Lord with great majeſtie and glorie; ſo Chriſt hath built vp that heauenly Temple the Church of God, and adorned it with the gifts and graces of his holy Spirit, in this world, that ſo it might be capable of eternall glory in the world to come, 2 Cor. 6.

THis Navy of Solomons went vnto Ophir, that is India, which was accounted from the Mart town 4800 miles.

From India they returned backe again, 4800 miles: ſo all their trauels were 9600 miles.

This journy was finiſhed in 3 yeares to and again; ſo that euerie yeare they went 3200 miles, and brought home plenty of gold ſiluer, pretious ſtones, Ebony, &c.

MOſes called this country Havilah, Gen. 2. and Ioſ. li. Antiq. 8. c. 7. Ophir: which name (ſaith he) it took of two brothers ſo called, which inhabited and gouerned that country all along the riuer Ganges. But more modern writers deriue it from Indus a riuer paſſing through it. It is a ſpatious and fruitfull country, pleaſant to inhabit; and as Pomponius ſaith, hath in it 5000 cities, being diuided into two parts, the outward and inward.

FRom Saba in Ethiopia ſhe came to Ieruſalem, 964 miles.

From Ieruſalem ſhe returned backe again, which was 964 miles.

So all her trauels were 1928 miles.

SAba is a metropolitan city in Ethiopia, lying beyond Egypt, 846 miles from Ieruſalem towards the South: and tooke the name from a certain pretious ſtone called Achates, wherin might plainly be diſcerned in certain diſtinct colors, the riſing of fountains, the chanels of riuers, high mountains, and ſomtimes of chariots and horſes drawing them. It is reported, That Pyrrhus King of the Epirots had one of them, wherein was liuely repreſented the nine Muſes, and Apollo playing on the Viol, portrayed by naturall ſtaines and colours, ſo artificially, as if they had bin don by ſome curious workman. Of this ſtone you may reade more in Pliny, li. 37. ca. 1.10. It was firſt found in Achates a riuer of Sicilia, whence it tooke the name. Afterward in India and Phrygia, and of the Hebrewes was called Schaeba or Saba. In this city that Queen dwelt who came to heare Solomons wiſedom, and gaue him for a preſent 120 talents of pure gold, which at 3 pounds an ounce comes to 270000 pounds ſterling. Afterwards Cambyſes King of Perſia ouercame it and all the country round about it, and after his ſiſters name called it Meroës. It is a ſtately city to this day, ſcituated in a plain country, and compaſſed about with the riuer Nilus like an Iſland, being now called Elſaba, hauing ſome affinitie to the antient name Saba.

The Inhabitants of this towne goe naked, all but their priuy parts, which they couer either with Silke, Cotton, or ſome more coſtly matter; and are of a blacke colour, which as ſome thinke, hapneth by reaſon of the extreme heat. The land alſo is maruellouſly ſcortched, and turned in many places to ſand and duſt. So that the country is thereby wonderfull barren.

About Meroes or Saba, which is made fruitful by the inundation of Nilus, there is found plenty of ſalt, braſſe, yron, and ſome pretious ſtones. Their ſheep, goats, oxen, and other cattell are of leſſe ſtature than in other Countries. Their dogs are very fierce and cruell.

In times paſt there were mighty princes that had the gouernement and command of it, and the Country round about it. But after (as Pliny ſaith, lib. 6. cap. 29.) it was in the juriſdiction and gouernment of Queenes, who for their noble reſolutions & courage were called Candaces. One of which name in Tiberius the Emperours time was famous, both for the extent of her dominions (in which ſhe exceeded all the reſt of her predeceſſors) as alſo in regard of her manly preſence and noble ſpirit. The Eunuch which Philip baptiſed, Acts 8. was Treaſurer or Chamberlain to this Queene: and it is to be thought, By him the doctrine of the Goſpell of Chriſt was firſt made knowne in Saba, and in the countrey of Aethiopia; which afterwards was more largely propagated and diſperſed by the Evangeliſt S. Mathew, who taught there.

This city lieth to the longitude of 61 degrees and 30 ſcruples, & in the eleuation of the Pole Artick to the latitude 16 degrees and 25 ſcruples. So that it ſeemes the inhabitants haue two winters & two ſummers, or rather a continual ſummer, becauſe their winter is much hotter than our ſummer. But when the Sunne attaineth to the 15 degree of Taurus and Leo, and in the Dog daies, it then lies perpendicular ouer that country, and neither their bodies nor houſes giue any ſhadowes.

In the 61 of Eſay it is ſaid, They ſhall come from Saba, and bring gold & frankincenſe to praiſe the Lord. From whence ſome ſome haue concluded, That thoſe wiſe men which came vnto the childe Ieſus, and brought Gold, Frankincenſe, and Myrrh, were Aethiopians, and came thence. But this agreeth not well with the words of Mathew, ca. 2. where it is written, That the wiſe men came out of the Eaſt, that is, from the riſing of the Sun, to Ieruſalem. For Saba, according to our Sauiors words, Mat. 12. lieth towards the South; for he ſaith, The Queen of the South (that is, of Saba) ſhall come forth in the day of Iudgement againſt this generation, and condemne it, for ſhe came from the end of the world to heare the wiſedome of Solomon, &c. But if Saba lie vpon the South, as here it plainely appeareth, then it muſt needs follow they came not thence, but rather from Perſia, which from Ieruſalem lies Eaſtward. For at Suſa the metropolis of that country, there was an Academy for the whole kingdom; in which were chiefly ſtudied Diuinity, the Mathematickes, and Hiſtory. So that it is likely, by their Art they might attain to the knowledge of this diuine Myſterie, and from thence come to Ieruſalem, which was 520 miles Eaſtward. Therfore this place of the Prophet Eſay is rather to be referred to the propagation of the church through the whole world, where ſome of euery nation ſhall bring preſents vnto the Lord.

There is alſo another Saba in Arabia Foelix, ſo called from Zaeba the ſon of Chus, the ſon of Cham, the ſonne of Noah; and it is diſtant from Ieruſalem 1248 miles toward the Southeaſt. In Hebrew it ſignifies the city of Drunkenneſſe, or of Mirth; but with the Syrians, Antiquitie. Some would haue it in the Arabian tongue to ſignifie a Myſterie. But S. Ierom interprets it, To ſound their conuerſion. It is the metropolitan City of Arabia Foelix, and by Strabo, lib. 6. called Meriaba, being ſcituated in a high and pleaſant mountain full of fruitfull trees.

There inhabiteth in it the King of that countrey (a mightie Prince) his Gouernors, and moſt of ſuch as haue authority vnder him. The land is called the Kingdome of the Sabaeans, but generally, Arabia Foelix, becauſe of the fertilitie of the place; for it yeeldeth twice euery yeare great plenty of Frankincenſe, Myrrh, Cinnamon, Balſam, and other odoriferous herbs. The tree out of which this Myrrh commeth is fiue cubits high, hairy, and full of prickles, and when you cut the barke there commeth forth a bitter gumme, wherewith if you anoint a dead body, it will continue long without rotting. The frankincenſe alſo that is found there, droppeth from Cedar trees like a glewie ſubſtance, and ſo congealeth into a Gum. This happeneth twice euery yeare, and according vnto the ſeaſon it changeth colour: in the Spring it is red, in the Summer white. This is the beſt Frankincenſe in all Arabia Foelix. Through the whole country there is a very delectable ſmell, by reaſon of the Myrrh, Frankincenſe and Cinnamon that is found in it; inſomuch that if the winde blowes amongſt the trees it carrieth the ſmell vnto the red ſea, and they that ſaile can eaſily diſcerne the ſweetneſſe of the aire. There is gold alſo found there, very fine and pure, inſomuch as for the goodneſſe of it, it is called Arabian gold. The Phoenix is found there, of which there is but one in the world. Pliny, lib. 9. cap. 35. deſcribes her to be as big as an Eagle, with a liſt of feathers like gold about her necke, the reſt are of a purple colour; therefore from Phoenicea and the purple colour of her wings ſhee is called Phoenix. Shee hath a tuft of feathers vpon her head like vnto a crowne. Shee liueth 660 yeares, at the end of which time ſhe buildeth her a neſt of Caſſia, Cinnamon, Calamus, and other pretious Gummes and herbs, which the Sun by the extremitie of the heate and the wauing of her wings fires; and ſhe taking delight in the ſweetneſſe of the ſauor, houers ſo long ouer it, that ſhe burnes her ſelfe in her owne neſt. Within a while after, out of the marrow of her bones, and the aſhes of her body, there groweth a worme, which by little and little increaſeth to ſome bigneſſe, and after to a purple bird. Then her wings extend themſelues to a full greatneſſe, till ſuch time as ſhe commeth to be a perfect Phoenix.

This Bird doth liuely repreſent our Sauiour Chriſt, who only and alone is the true Meſſiah, and through whom we muſt expect euerlaſting life, who in the fulneſſe of time offered himſelf a Sacrifice vpon the Croſſe, ſuſtaining the puniſhment for ſin at the time of his Paſſion, putting on a purple robe, being all be ſprinkled with his owne bloud, Ioh. 19. And as the Phoenix is burnt in her owne neſt, ſo likewiſe was hee conſumed in the fire of Gods wrath, according to that in the 22 Pſal. My heart is become like melting wax in the middeſt of my body. And as the Phoenix of it ſelfe begetteth another of the ſame kinde; ſo Chriſt by the power of his Deitie raiſed vp his body from the duſt of the earth, and aſcended vp into heauen a glorious body, to ſit at the right hand of his father in that euerlaſting Kingdome of glory.

Thus (gentle Reader) I thought fit to deſcribe vnto you theſe two townes, that when you ſhall reade of them in the holy Scripture (the one being in Aethiopia towards the South, the other in Arabia Foelix, and called Seba) you might diſcerne the one from the other: of both which there is mention in the 72 Pſalme, The Kings of the Sea and of the Iſles ſhall bring preſents; the Kings of Saba, and Seba, ſhall giue gifts.

MEmphis is a great city in Egypt, where commonly the kings of that country keepe their Courts; and lyeth from Ieruſalem 244 miles South-weſtward. This citie was built a little before the floud, but repaired and enlarged by a king called Ogdoo, who in loue of his daughter (after her name) called it Memphis. You may reade of it in the ninth of Hoſea, called there by the name of Moph; for thus he ſaith, The people of Iſrael are gone out of the land of Ephraim, becauſe of their Idolatrie, into Aegypt: but Aegypt ſhall gather them vp, & Moph (that is, Memphis) ſhall bury them. Moph, or Mapheth in this place ſignifieth, A prodigious wonder: but the reſt of the Prophets call it Noph, for the fertilitie & pleaſantnes of the country, as you may reade, Eſa. 19. The Princes of the Zoan are become fooliſh, and the Princes of Noph (or of Memphis) are deceiued. See alſo Ierem. 2.44.46. Ezech. 30. in which places you may find it called after this name. Zoan is the citie Tanis, where Moſes wrought all his miracles: But Noph, or Moph, is this Memphis; a beautifull towne, large and ſpacious, ſcituated in the ſtrongeſt and profitableſt place in Aegypt; diuided into two parts by the riuer Nilus, ſo that any kind of commodities or merchandiſe might with eaſe bee brouht thither by water: for which cauſe the kings of that countrie (for the moſt part) kept their abiding there. Strabo ſaith lib. 17. That vpon the Eaſt part of this citie there ſtandeth a Tower or Caſtle called Babylon, built by certaine Babylonians, who leauing their owne countrey, by the permiſſions of the kings of Egipt dwelt there: in after times there was placed a garriſon in it, one of the three which were for the defence of Aegypt, and by Ptolomy was called Babilon, through both which, viz. Memphis and Babilon, Nilus paſſed; the one ſtanding vpon the Eaſt ſide, the other vpon the Weſt. Zoan or Tanis ſtood about ſome foure miles from this towne, and was a faire & ſpacious citie alſo, ſcituated towards the South vpon the Eaſt ſide of Nilus, to which the kings of that country often reſorted, and Heliopolis, anothet faire citie, ſtood ſome ſix miles off that towards the Northeaſt. All theſe foure townes were ſo wonderfully inhabited (by reaſon of their pleaſant & profitable ſcituation) that in proceſſe of time they become all one citie; and in this age is called Alcaire, containing in circuit 60 miles: ſo that it ſeemeth to ſpectators to be like a country repleniſhed with nothing but fair houſes, goodly churches, & ſtrong towers; exceeding all the reſt of the cities of Egypt, aſwell for the beautifulneſſe of the place, as the extent and largeneſſe of it. It is reported, that in the yeare of our Lord 1476, there was ſuch an extreme peſtilence in it, that there died 20000 a day, from whence may be gathered, how infinitely it is peopled. Neere to this towne ſtood the Pyramides, which are held to he one of the wonders of the World (as Strabo ſaith, lib. 17.) the height of one of them was 625 foot, and ſquare on each ſide 883 foot; it was twentie yeares a building, a hundred thouſand workemen emploied about it: whence it may be eaſily gathered, how hard and difficult it was in thoſe times to get ſtone (it being for the moſt part brought from Arabia) and at what an exceſſiue charge they were that ſet vp them.

This Citie is deſcribed in the Trauels of Solomon.

WHen Dauid conquered Idumaea, Hadad the King of that country with ſome few of his courtiers, being then but young, fled from Midian to Paran the Metropolitan Citie of Arabia Petraea, which was 84 miles, 1 Reg. 11.

But becauſe he thought himſelfe ſcarce ſafe in that place, he fled thence to Cheopes, that impious and tyrannicall King of Aegypt that built the greateſt of the three Pyramides at Memphis. He (hating King Dauid) gaue him kinde entertainment, aſſigned him a part of the Kingdome of Aegypt to dwell in, and after married him with his ſiſter Tachpenes, by whom he had a ſonne called Genubath, who was brought vp in Pharaohs, or King Chopes court, where he continued all the life of Dauid, being 27 yeares; which was 120 miles.

Dauid being dead, he returned into his own kingdome of Idumaea, which was 200 miles.

From thence hee went to Damaſcus, which was 240 miles, where he was created King of the Syrians by Reſon and other fugitiues, which had conſpired againſt Solomon, by which meanes he grieuouſly troubled that Kingdome, and became an vtter enemie to the Iſraelites all the life of Solomon. And of him is the originall and ſtocke of the Kings of Syria. So all the trauels of Hadad were 644 miles.

Of Midian and Paran you may reade before: in the one dwelt Iethro, Moſes father in law; in the other Iſhmael, that being the chiefe city of his dominions, as you may reade, Gen. 21. Ex. 2.

AFter Dauid had conquered Hadad Ezer king of Zoba, Reſon his chiefe captaine gathered vp his diſperſed ſouldiers of his army, and fled from him to Damaſcus, which was 120 miles, and beſieged it: the Citizens whereof (when neither Dauid nor Solomon could ſuppreſſe his rebellion) entertained him for their King, which principalitie he held.

THis man was the ſonne of Nebat, and borne at a towne called Zared, not far from Bethlehem Ephrata; ſome eight miles from Ieruſalem: from whence hee came to Solomon, who made him captaine, that he might collect the tribute of Manaſſes and Ephraim, 1 Reg. 11. which was eight miles.

From Ieruſalem as he went to Shilo (which was foure miles) he met the Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite, who told him that he ſhould be King of Iſrael, 1 Reg. 11.

From thence he went to Memphis in Aegipt, which was 224 miles, (becauſe Solomon ſought his life) where he remained with Seſak king of Aegypt, all the life of Solomon. Euſebius calleth this King Oſochores, who that ſame yeare ſucceeded Macrenius (Solomons father in law) in that gouernment.

From thence hee returned to the towne of Sichem in Iſrael, which was 280 miles, where the Iſraelites made him chiefe captaine, againſt Rehoboam, Solomons ſonne. Wherefore Ieroboam the ſonne of Nebat, began to raigne ouer Iſrael, An. mundi, 2971, and before Chriſt, 997, and raigned 22 yeares, 1 Reg. 12. His firſt ſeat was at Sichem, which he repaired and enlarged.

From Sichem (in the firſt yeare of his raigne) hee went to Penuell, and there ſet vp many faire buildings, which was twelue miles, 1 Reg. 12.

From Penuel he went 24 miles to the towne of Bethel, where he cauſed a golden Calfe to be ſet vp, for the people to worſhip.

From thence he went to Thirza, which is 16 miles. This citie he built, and there kept his court, 1 Reg. 14.

From thence he went to the mount Zemaraim, which is mount Ephraim, 18 miles; where he had a great battell with Abia king of Iuda, and loſt 500000 of his ſouldiers, all choſen men of Iſrael, 2 Chr. 13. verſe 17.

Hauing loſt this battell, with all poſſible ſpeed that he could, went thence to Thirza, which is 18 miles: there the Lord ſtrucke him with a grieuous diſeaſe that hee died miſerably, 1 Reg. 14. 2 Chr. 13. So all the Trauels of Ieroboam firſt King of Iſrael were 623 miles.

SHee went from Thirzo to Zilo, which was about 24 miles; there ſhe asked counſell of Ahijam the Prophet, concerning her ſon Abia, for he was ſicke: but he told her heauie tidings, 1 Reg. 14.7.

Wherefore being penſiue and troubled in her mind, ſhe returned backe againe to her husband to Thirzo, which was 24 miles, 1 Reg. 14. So theſe two journies were 48 miles.

THis man of God (as Ioſephus writeth, lib. Ant. 8.) came from Ieruſalem to Bethel, which was eight miles; and was called by the name of Iadon, which ſignifieth, the Iudge of the Lord. When he came thither, he reproued Ieroboam with an extraordinary ſpirit: of whom you may reade more, 1 Reg. 13. But being deceiued, as he was returning a Lyon met him in the way, where he was ſlaine, and after buried in a ſepulchre in Bethel.

NAdab, or Bonifacias ſucceeded his father Ieroboam in the Kingdome of Iſrael, and was annointed while hee was yet liuing; a liberall and free-hearted Prince. Hee began to raigne in the ſecond yeare of Aſa King of Iuda, Anno mundi 2992, and before Chriſt 977. Hee raigned during the life of his father a yeare and ſomewhat more: but when hee had raigned two yeares, hee went from Thirza with a great army, to the citie of Gibithon, which was 36 miles: this towne he beſieged very ſtraitly, but at length was ſlaine by one of his captaines called Baeſa; ſo he loſt both his life and kingdome in that place, 1 Reg. 15.

THis was a citie of the Leuites in the Tribe of Dan, not farre from Ekron in the land of the Philiſtines, 16 miles from Ieruſalem towards the Weſt, and ſignifieth, a Royall or loftie gift.

BAeſa is as much to ſay, as, An induſtrous and promt man in doing any thing. This may hauing ſlaine his Maſter Nadab neere vnto Gibithon, vſurped vpon the Kingdome of Iſrael about the end of the third yearo of Aſa King of Iuda, and began his raigne Anno mundi 2992, before Chriſt, 974, and raigned ouer Iſrael almoſt 24 yeares, two of which he raigned with his ſonne, 1 Reg. 15. He went from Gibithon to Thirza, 36 miles, where hee vtterly rooted out the whole ſtocke and family of Ieroboam. After, falling into Idolatrie he was ſharply reprehended for it by Iehu the Prophet the ſon of Hanani; of whom you may reade more, 1 Reg. 15.

From Thirza he went to Ramah, which is 16 miles, this towne he built and fortified it very ſtrongly, 2 Chr. 29.

But when he heard that Benhadad King of Syria had inuaded Iſrael, hee left his building at Ramah, and with all poſſible ſpeed that hee could went to Thirza, where hee died and was buried, 1 Reg. 15. 2 Chr. 16.

So all the Trauels of Baeſa were 68 miles.

Of this Citie you may reade before.

SImri ſignifieth a ſinger, and was a captain ouer king Elahs chariots; hee raigned 7 daies in Thirza, in which time he put to death and vtterly rooted out all the poſteritie of Baaſha: and then Omri beſieged the Citie ſo ſtraitly that he had no hope to eſcape; wherefore he ſet the citie and pallace on fire, in which he alſo periſhed, 1 Reg. 15. 16.

OMri ſignifieth, a ſouldier, or one that deſerueth his pay. He was made King by the Iſraelites in his tent, while he was at wars neere to Gibithon: from whence he went to Thirza, which was 36 miles, and beſieged the ſame vpon the very day that Simri had put the poſteritie of Baaſha to the ſword, and took it. He began to raigne in Thirza Anno mundi 3017, and before Chriſt, 951, and raigned ouer Iſrael 12 yeres, the firſt ſix of which was in Thirza, the latter ſix in Samaria, 1 Reg. 16.

From Thirza he went to mount Semer, ſix miles, there Omri built Samaria, and made it the ſeat of his kingdome. He went thither about the ſeuenth yeare of his raigne, 1 Reg. 16. So theſe two journies were 42 miles.

AFter the death of Omri King of Iſrael, when Ahab his ſonne began to raigne, Hiel a very rich man in the town of Bethel (that hee might leaue behind him an eternall memorie of his name) went to Iericho which had bin formerly deſtroied by Ioſhuah the ſon of Nun, & had lien waſt for the ſpace of 536 yeres, where contrary to the commandement of the Lord, and curſe of Ioſhuah, he cauſed the ſaid citie to be rebuilt, (ſuch was the impious ſecuritie and incredulitie of this man) but the Lord was angry with him, and he ſtrooke all his children that they died. The eldeſt ſon called Abiram, at the laying of the foundation, and his yongeſt ſonne called Segub, at the hanging on of the gates, Ioſ. 6. 1 Reg. 16.

AHab went from Samaria to the hill Carmel, where Elias put to death the Prieſts of Baal, which was about 32 miles, 1 Reg. 18.

From thence he went to Iezreel, which is ſixteene miles, there he told his wife how Elias had put the prieſts of Baal to the ſword, 1 Reg. 18.

From Iezreel he went againe to Samaria, 18 miles, where being preſt with a hard ſiege by Benhadad King of Syria, he broke out of the citie for his better ſafety, and by Gods great prouidence and aſſiſtance he aſſailed the Syrians, put a great multitude of them to the ſword, the reſt fled, and hee went away with a noble victory, as the Prophet of the Lord had formerly told him, 1 Reg. 20.

From Samaria he went with his army to Napheck, which was 14 miles, where he renewed a ſecond battell, and therein had good ſucceſſe, ſo that hee tooke Benhadad aliue, and put to the ſword, 100000 Syrians.

In this place the Prophet of the Lord reproued him for his ingratitude and obſtinacie; wherefore Ahab being angry, he went from Apheck to Samaria, which was eight miles, 1 Reg. 20.

From Samaria he went io Ieſreel, 16 miles, where that perfidious Queene Ieſabel cauſed Naboth to be put to death, and tooke poſſeſſion of his Vineyard, 1 Reg. 21.

From Iezreel he went to Ramoth Giliad, 24 miles; and there in a fight that hee had againſt the Syrians was ſo ſore-wounded with an arrow, that hee was conſtrained to leaue the battell, 1 Reg. 22.

And as he went backe againe to Samaria, which was 24 miles, he dyed of his wound. Of this man you may reade more, 1 Reg. 21. 22.

So all the Trauels of Ahab were 152 miles.

IEhoram ſucceeded his brother Ahazia in the kingdome of Iſrael; who began his raigne in the 18 yeare of Ioſaphat King of Iudah, and as Ioſephus ſaith, li. Ant. 9. about the fifth yeare of his raigne, went from Samaria to Ieruſalem, which was 32 miles. There he told Ioſaphat how the king of Moab had rebelled againſt him, therefore deſired him to goe along with him to the war, 2 Reg. 3. Then Iehoram and Ioſaphat, and the King of Edom, went from Ieruſalem, and compaſſed about through the wilderneſſe of Idumaea, by the ſpace of ſeuen daies: ſo that they and their army for want of water, had almoſt periſhed: but at the prayers of the Prophet Eliſha, they were miraculouſly preſerued. At length they came to Petra the Metropolitan Citie of the Moabites, and is diſtant from Ieruſalem 172 miles, which they tooke, and conſumed it with fire and ſword, 2 Reg. 3.

From the citie of Petra, Iehoram King of Iſrael, returned backe to Samaria, which was 104 miles: where within a while afrer, he was ſo ſorely beſieged by Benhadad, king of Syria, that the famine grew very great within the towne, inſomuch as a certaine woman eate her owne childe, 2 Reg. 6.

From Samaria, he went to Ramoth in Gilead, with his armie, which is 24 miles, where he was ouercome by Aſahel King of the Syrians, and wounded euen to the death, 2 Reg. 8.

From the fight of Ramoth Gilead, he was carried in his chariot backe to Iezreel, which was 24 miles, where he lay to be cured of his hurts. But Iehu one of his chiefe Captaines, rebelled againſt him, and as hee was in his Charriot, ſhot an arrow, and wounded him the ſecond time, whereof he died in the field of Naboth the Iezrelite, 2 Reg. 9. So all the Trauels of Iehoram were 356 miles.

IEHV ſignifies, A conſtant man in himſelfe, and was the ſonne of Ioſaphat, the ſonne of Nimſchi, hee was annointed King of Iſrael in the caſtle at Ramoth in Gilead, by Eliſha, Anno mundi, 3063, and before Chriſt, 905: hee raigned 28 yeares, 2 Reg. 9.

From Ramoth in Gilead, in his Chariot he went to Iezreel, which was 24 miles; where in the field of Naboth the Iezrelite he killed Iehoram with an arrow. And when he came to the gates of the citie, he cauſed Iezabel to be throwne from a tower, whom he trampled vnder his horſe feet: And after in that ſame place ſhee was eaten vp with dogs. Then hee ſent meſſengers to Samaria, commanding the Samaritans, that they ſhould put to death the 70 ſonnes of Ahab, which they immediately did, and ſent their heads vnto him in baskets, 2 Reg. 10.

From Iezreel he went to Samaria, which is 16 miles. In that journey he cauſed to be ſlaine by his miniſters, the 42 brothers of Ahaziah king of Iuda, neere to the well which was beſide the houſe where ſheepe was ſhorne. And when he came to Samaria, he cauſed all the poſterity of Ahab to be vtterly deſtroied and rooted out. And to conclude the tragedy, by a cunning policie, put to death all the prieſts of Baal, 2 Reg. 10. So all the trauels of Iehu, were 40 miles.

IOas ſucceeded his father Iehoahas, and while he was yet liuing was annointed King of Iſrael, in the 37 yeare of Ioas King of Iudah, and raigned two yeares with his father, after his death 15: ſo all the raigne of Ioas, was 17 yeares. This man was a great ſouldier, and went from Samaria with an army againſt the Citie of Apheck, which was 14 miles: there he ſmote the Syrians, and in three ſeuerall battels carried away the victory: recouering the Cities which his father Iehoahas had loſt, according to the prophecie of Eliſha, 2 Reg. 17.

From Apheck he returned to Samaria, which was foureteene miles.

From thence he went with his army to Bethſemes, in the land of Iuda, where in a ſharpe and cruell war, he conquered Amaſia, and tooke him aliue, 2 Reg. 14. which was 32 miles.

From Bethſemes, hee went to Ieruſalem, and carried the King thereof with him captiue, which was 4 miles. He woon the citie, and broke downe the Walls of it, from the gate of Ephraim till you come to the Angle gate, foure hundred cubits in length, 2 Reg. 14.

From the Citie of Ieruſalem, Ioas the conquerer returned to Samaria, with the ſpoile of the temple, and of the Kings houſe, with many captiues, and a great prey, which was 32 miles: where at the end of the ſeuenteenth yeare of his raigne, he died, and was buried. In this mans time, Eliſha the Prophet died, 2 Reg. 13. 14.

So all the trauels of Ioas were 96 miles.

Of this Citie you may reade before.

THis Ieroboam ſucceeded his father Ioas in the Kingdome of Iſrael, and began his raigne Anno mundi, 3123, and before Chriſt, 845, which according to the text of the Bible, happened about the 15 yeare of Amaſia King of Iuda, and hee raigned 41 yeares, 2 Reg. 14. He kept his court at Samaria, where the Prophet Ionas told him, that he ſhould recouer not only the townes and cities of the land of Iſrael that had beene loſt, but alſo the cities of Hemeth and Damaſcus: Wherefore he gathered a great army out of the citie of Samaria, and went thence vnto Hemeth or Antiochia in Syria, which was 248 miles. This Citie he conquered, and all the countrey thereabout; ſo that he recouered all the ancient Townes and Cities that belonged to Dauid and Saul, euen from Hemeth in Syria, to Soba in Armenia, with all the Cities, Townes, Caſtles, and Countries, neer adjoyning to them, 2 Reg. 14.

From Hemeth or Antiochia, he went to Damaſcus, which is 140 miles. This citie he alſo tooke, and all the countrie of Syria round about, he made tributary to him, 2 Reg. 14.

From Damaſcus he went to the Red ſea, euen 320 miles: and alſo recouered all the South part, which in times paſt belonged vnto the kingdome of Iſrael, 2 Reg. 14.

After this, he returned to Samaria his owne countrey, which was 192 miles: where, in the 41 yeare of his raigne, he died, and was there buried. After his death, the kingdome of Iſrael was oppreſſed with tyranny, vntill it was deſtroied by forreine nations: and for the ſpace of 12 yeares there was no King that ſucceeded him. In the raigne of this king (a little before his death) there hapned an horrible earthquake; of which you may reade Amos 1. which without doubt did foreſhew ſome eminent changes that ſhould happen in that kingdome, as did afterward, Zac. 41.

So all the trauels of Ieroboam, (the ſecond of that name) were 900 miles.

TWelue yeares after the death of Ieroboam, Zachariah his ſon began his raigne in Iſrael, in the 38 yeare of Azaria king of Iuda, which was Anno mundi, 3975, and before Chriſt, 793: he raigned ſix moneths, and then was miſerably ſlaine by Sallum his friend, 2 Reg. 15. Ioſeph. lib. Antiq. 9.

SAllum began to raigne after he had ſlaine Zachariah, in the 39 yeare of Azariah King of Iuda: and when hee had raigned ſcarce a moneth, he was ſlaine by Menahem, loſing his life and kingdome together, 2 Reg. 15.

MEnahem was borne in Thirza, in the Tribe of Iuda; who began to raigne in the ſame yeare that he ſlew Sallum: hee raigned ten yeares, 2 Reg. 10.

From Thirza he went to Samaria with his army, which was ſix miles: where (hauing ſlaine Sallum his Lord and King) he vſurpt vpon the kingdome, 2 Reg. 15.

From thence he went to Thipſa; which is ſix miles. This towne he cruelly deſtroied with fire and ſword, and all the townes thereabout, becauſe they refuſed to open their gates vnto him.

From Thipſa this cruell tyrant went backe again to Samaria, 6 miles, where he grieuouſly afflicted the children of Iſrael tenne yeares. Wherefore the Lord being offended with him for his exceeding crueltie, ſtirred vp Phul Belochus King of Aſſyria, who came from Babylon to Samaria, beeing 624 miles, and put King Menahem to ſuch an exceeding great ſtreight, that hee was conſtrained to buy and procure his peace withWhat this was in our money you may read after in the quantity of monies. 1000 talents: which mony being receiued, he ſuffered him to enioy his kingdom, and returned backe vnto Babylon with all his army, 2 Reg. 15.

So all the trauels of King Menahem were 18 miles.

THis was a towne neere to that kingly city Thirza, ſcituated in the tribe of Manaſſes, 24 miles from Ieruſalem Northward. But becauſe the inhabitants thereof denied to open their gates to this cruell tyrant Menahem, therefore he vtterly deſtroied it euen to the ground. Thipſa ſignifieth, The Paſchal Lambe, or a Paſſeouer; being deriued of Paſach, He paſſed by.

PEkahia reigned two yeares after his fathers death; at the end of which term he was ſlain by Pekah the ſon of Remalia, who ſucceeded him in the gouernment. Ioſeph. lib. Antiq. 9. ſaith, That this murther was done at a banquet.

PEkah the ſon of Remalia began to reig •• in Samaria, Anno mundi 3189, and before Chriſt 779. in the 52 yeare of Azariah King of Iudah, and reigned ouer Iſrael 20 yeres, 2 Reg. 15. 16.

From the city of Samaria he went with Reſin King of Syria to Ieruſalem, which was 32 miles, and beſieged it, but could not take it: neuertheleſſe he ouercame Ahaz King of Iuda in a great battell, and put to the ſword in one day aboue 12000 ſouldiers that bare armor. In this war were taken 200000 women, children and maids, all which hee carried Captiues to Samaria, 2 Reg. 16. 2 Chr. 28.

From Ieruſalem hee returned to Samaria with a great bootie, which was 32 miles, and at the command of Obed the Prophet ſet at libertie all his captiues. After, about the end of the 20 yeare of his reign, he was ſlain by Hoſea his chiefe captain, who ſucceeded him in the gouernment, 2 Reg. 15.

So all the trauels of Pekah were 64 miles.

HOſea began to reign in the fourth yere of Ahas king of Iuda, Anno mundi 3209, and before Chriſt 759. He kept Court at Samaria, and was a cruell and wicked King. Wherefore God ſtirred vp Salmanaſſer Emperour of the Aſſyrians, who about the end of the 7 yeare of his reigne came to Samaria and beſieged it for the ſpace of 3 yeares: at the end of the third yeare with great labor he won it and all the country round about; ſo that he tooke King Hoſea priſoner, and led him together with a great multitude of the Iewes (amongſt which were Gabriel and Raphel the friends of Toby the elder) thence to Niniveh captiues, beeing 652 miles. From Niniveh he ſent them to a place called Rages in Medea, being 752 miles, and in that country peopled many towns & cities with them; ſo that there were many of the Iſraelites led into captiuitie aboue 1396 miles, for ſo many miles is Rages and the Cities of the Medes from Ieruſalem Northeaſtward.

This captiuitie of the ten Tribes hapned An. mundi 3227, and before Chriſt 741.

OF the cities of Rages and Niniveh you may reade in the trauels of Toby and the Angell Gabriel.

BEnhadad King of Syria went from Damaſcus the chiefe city of his kingdome, and came to Samaria and ſtreightly beſieged it in the time of Ahab King of Iſrael, 1 Reg. 20. being 132 miles.

From thence (being ouercome and put to flight by Ahab) he returned backe againe to Damaſcus, which was 132 miles.

The ſecond time he came from thence, and inuaded the land of Iſrael euen vnto the city of Apheck, 124 miles, which hee beſieged. But Ahab King of Iſrael ouercame him in a great battell, and put 100000 Syrians to the ſword; and when the reſt of the multitude would haue fled into the city, the ruines of a wall fell vpon them, ſo that there died 27000. This put King Benhadad into ſuch a feare, that hee was conſtrained to fly from one chamber to another to hide himſelfe; but at loſt was taken, and (not without the great wrath and indignation of God) by that wicked king Ahab pardoned and ſet at liberty, 2 Reg. 20.

Wherefore he went thence backe vnto Damaſcus, which was 124 miles.

Within three years after he brought a great army againſt Ramoth in Gilead, which is 104 miles from Damaſcus South-eaſtward. Here he won of Ahab a great battell, in which Ahab was ſlain with an arrow, 1 Reg. 22.

From thence he returned back to Damaſcus, which was about 104 miles.

After that, he came again from Damaſcus into the land of Iſrael with a great army, 120 miles; where he counſelled with his Captains and men of war, ſaying, Here and there will we incamp our ſelues. But the Prophet Eliſha diſcouered their purpoſes, 2 Reg. 6.

Out of the land of Iſrael he returned to Damaſcus, which was 120 miles.

From thence he returned again with his army to Samaria, being 132 miles; which the ſecond time he beſieged ſo ſtraightly, that an aſſes head was worth 80 pieces of ſiluer. But yet the Lord at the feruent prayers of Elizeus the Prophet, ſtrook ſuch a feare and anguiſh among the enemies, that Benhadad and his army were conſtrained to fly, 2 Reg. 6.

Being ſore troubled becauſe he was thus put to flight, he went to Damaſcus, which was 132 miles, and there within a while after died of grief, 2 Reg. 9.

So all the trauels of King Benhadad were 1224 miles.

HEe went from Damaſcus (where Elizeus told him that hee ſhould ſucceed his Lord and Maſter Benhadad in the kingdome, to Ramoth Gilead with his Army, which was 104 miles. There he ouercame Iehoram king of Iſrael in a great battel, 2 Reg. cap. 8.

From thence he returned to Damaſcus, 104 miles.

After he went from Damaſcus to the city Aroer, which was 132 miles.

From thence he went through the land of Giliad into the kingdom of Baſan, vntil he came to mount Libanus, which is accounted 80 miles, and conquered all that part. 2 Reg. 10.

After he returned into his own kingdom to Damaſcus, which is 320 miles.

Within a while after, he went againe from Damaſcus with his army to Gath, which is reckoned 188 miles. This city he won.

From Gath he went to Ieruſalem, 32 miles, which he beſieged ſo ſtreightly, that Ioas King of Iudah was conſtrained to giue him great aboundance of gold to raiſe his ſiege and be gon, 2 Reg. 12.

From Ieruſalem he went back to Damaſcus, which was about 160 miles.

The laſt journey that he went againſt the Iſraelites, was when he beſieged Samaria, at which time he won many cities & towns round about in the countrey, and made them tributaries to him, 2 Reg. 13. which was 132 miles.

Hauing finiſhed this expedition he returned back to Damaſcus, 132 miles, and there died and was buried.

So all the trauels of Haſael King of Syria were 1384 miles.

The cities of Aroer and Gath are deſcribed before; therefore I ſhall not need to ſpeake of them again in this place.

THis Benhadad was the ſon of Haſael, and ſucceeded him in the gouernment. He went from the city Damaſcus with a great army to Apheck, which is 104 miles. This King was three times one after another ouerthrowne by Ioab King of Iſrael, & loſt all thoſe cities which Haſael his father had formerly conquered, 2 Reg. 13.

From Apheck he returned to Damaſcus, 104 miles, and there died. So both journies were 208 miles.

RESIN King of Syria went from Damaſcus, and ioyning his Army with that of Pekah King of Iſrael, they went to Ieruſalem and ſtreightly beſieged Ahab King of Iudah, 2 Reg. 16. which was 160 miles. At this time (which was in the yeare of the world 3206, and before Chriſt 762, the Prophet Eſay ca. 7. foretold of the birth of our Sauior Chriſt, ſaying, Behold, a Virgin being great ſhal bring forth a child, and ſhall call his name EMANVEL.

From thence he brought his army through Idumaea to Elath a city of the Red ſea, ſome 160 miles from Ieruſalem towards the South, and 16 miles from Ezeongaber Northward. This city Reſin won, and thruſt the Iewes out of it.

From Elath hee went to Damaſcus, 280 miles, where hee was ſlain by Tiglath Phulaſſer that mighty King of the Aſſyrians, who carried a great multitude of the inhabitants of Damaſcus into the countrey of Syrene, where they endured a miſerable exile, 2 Reg. 16.

So all the trauels of King Reſin were 600 miles.

REhoboam the ſonne of Solomon ſucceeded his father in the Kingdome, and began his reign Anno mundi 2971, and before Chriſt 977. who by reaſon of his extreme crueltie and threats (following the counſell of his yong Courtiers, rather than of his graue Senators) the ſame yeare loſt 10 of the Tribes, that fell from him and rebelled againſt him; ſo that he reigned ouer Iudah and Benjamin 17 yeares, 1 Reg. 11. 14.

A little after the death of Solomon he went to Sichem, 32 miles, where he was anointed and crowned King. But the people perceiuing that hee carried himſelfe very proudly and arrogantly, deſired him that he would eaſe him of the burden formerly impoſed vpon them by his father: (for Solomon had ſet a certaine Taxe on euery man, becauſe hee was at extraordinarie charges as long as the temple was building) but he little regarding their requeſt told them that his little finger ſhould be heauier than the whole burthen of his father: wherefore they diſliking his ſpeech, fel all from him, except Benjamin and Iudah.

Wherefore the King ſhunning the fury of the people, with all poſſible ſpeed went from Sichem to Ieruſalem back again, being 32 miles. Then he fortified all the chiefe cities of Iuda and Benjamin, 2 Chr. 11.

So all the trauels of Rehoboam were 64 miles.

But he principally fortified 14 cities in the tribe of Iuda, that with the more ſafetie he might oppoſe his enemy Ieroboam King of Iſrael, viz. Bethlehem, Etam, Thecoa, Bethzura, Adullam, Gath Mareſa, Ziph, Adoraijm, Lachis, Aſeca, Zarea, Ajalon, & Hebron: moſt of which townes, and the memorable actions don in them, are deſcribed in the former part of this Treatiſe. I will therefore ſpeake only of ſuch townes as haue not as yet bin mentioned.

ABijah or Abia ſignifies, The Father of the ſea. Hee began to reign in the 18 yeare of Ieroboam his Aduerſary, An. mundi 2988, before Chriſt 980, and reigned ouer Iſrael 3 yeres, 1 Reg. 15. 2 Chr. 17.

He went from Ieruſalem to the mount Zemeraim, 8 miles. After that hee went to Bethel, and conquered all the countrey from thence to Ephron, which was 36 miles.

From Ephron hee returned to Ieruſalem, 44 miles: there hee tooke vnto him 14 wiues, and begat 20 ſonnes and 16 daughters, 2 Chron. 13.

ASa ſignifies a Phyſitian. He began to reigne about the end of the 21 yeare of Ieroboam King of Iſrael, An. mundi 2990. before Chriſt 978. He gouerned Iudah with great commendations 41 yeares.

He went from Ieruſalem to Mareſa, 16 miles, where in the valley of Zephatha hee ouercame the Ethiopians in a memorable battell, 2 Chr. 14. From thence he purſued the Ethiopians to Gerar, being 22 miles and recouered many cities which the Ethiopians dwelt in. 2 Chr. ca. 14.

From Gerar he went to Ieruſalem, which was 32 miles, and offered to the Lord of the ſpoiles that hee had taken, 700 Oxen, and 7000 ſheepe, 2 Chr. 15.

Theſe trauels of King Aſa make 70 miles.

SAerah or Saerach ſignifieth A noble and puiſſant Lord. This was a mighty and warlike Prince, who gouerned Lybia and Aethiopia; the King of which countrey at this day wee call Presbyter Iohn, or rather Petro Iohannes; who holdeth his Court in a faire and goodly city called Hamarich, the Metropolitan of all Aethiopia, and extendeth his gouernment beyond Meroes in Affrica. Many (though ignorantly) ſuppoſe he is a Prieſt, becauſe he is called Presbyter, though indeed he is not ſo, but rather a puiſſant and mighty Emperor. But to return to Saerah or Saerach, who in hope to extend his Empire into theſe parts, went with a great army out of Ethiopia, to the valley of Zephatha in Iuda, to fight with Aſa King of Iudah, 1200 miles; but loſt the day, and returned with great ſhame, 2 Chr. 15.

It ſeemeth that this King was the mightieſt of all his predeceſſors, and a Prince of no vulgar eſtimation, becauſe of the multitude and great aboundance of ſoldiers which he brought in his army; for it is reported that there were 1000000 that bore armor and 300 chariots; but this great army was diſperſed, and moſt of them died miſerably: as did that great army of Xerxes, which conſiſted of 1700000. From whence it may be concluded, That it is not the ſtrength of man which deliuereth him, but the Lord.

IOram ſignifies, The Exalted of the Lord. He was crowned king (his father yet liuing) at ſuch time as he made his expedition againſt Meſa King of the Moabites, which hapned about the fift yere of Iehoram King of Iſrael, An. mundi 3055, before Chriſt 913. He reigned with his father Iehoſaphat 2 yeares, and after his deceaſe ſix. So Ioram reigned 8 yeares ouer Iudah, and when hee was forty yeares old died miſerably, 2 Reg. 8. 9.

About the beginning of the ſecond yeare of this Kings reign, (which was the ſixt of Iehoram King of Iſrael) Elias the Prophet was taken vp into heauen. About the beginning of his reigne he went from Ieruſalem to Mount Seir, which was 28 miles Southward; where he vſed ſuch extreme cruelty toward the Edomites, which at this time were his ſubiects, that of a ſudden they fell from him, and choſe them a King of their own, 2 Reg. 8.

From the Mountain of Seir he returned to Ieruſalem which is 28 miles, and there cruelly put to death his owne brothers. But God ſtirred vp againſt him the Philiſtines and Arabians, who broke into Iuda, and deſtroyed it with fire and ſword. They alſo went to Ieruſalem, and tooke thence all his ſubſtance and riches, put his children to the ſword, all but Ioachas, which alſo called Ahaziah or Ochorias; & caried away his wiues captiue into Arabia Foelix, which is neer vnto Ethiopia, 1200 miles. Then the Lord ſtrooke him with an extreme paine in his bowels, of which after two yeares he died, and was buried without any funerall pomp or honorable reſpect, neere to the Kings tower. A man vnworthy to be buried in the ſepulchre of the reſt of the Kings, becauſe hee ſo much degenerated from Dauid his predeceſſor, 2 Reg. 8. 2 Chr. 28.

So all the trauels of Ioram were 56 miles.

AHaziah (which alſo was called Iehoachas) ſucceeded his Father Ioram in the gouernment of Iudah, & began his reign in the 12 yeare of Iehoram King of Iſrael, Ann. mundi 3062. and before Chriſt 906, and reigned one yeare, 1 Reg. 8. He went from Ieruſalem to Ramoth in Gilead, which is accounted 48 miles: There he went to battell with Iehoram King of Iſrael againſt the Syrians, 2 Reg. 8. 2 Chr. 22.

From Ramoth in Gilead he returned to Ieruſalem, forty eight miles.

Within a while after he went backe again to viſit his kinſman Iehoram King of Iſrael, to Ieſreel, for hee was wounded in the battell againſt Haſael, and lay there to be cured: which was forty and eight miles.

With Iehoram he went to meet Iehu the Captaine of the Hoſt, who ſhot an Arrow and wounded Iehoram, that hee died in the field of Naboth the Ieſreelite. Wherefore Ahaziah to ſaue his life fled with all poſſible ſpeed, taking his way to the Kings garden that ſtood cloſe by the vineyard of Naboth the Ieſreelite, not farre from the City and Tower of Iezreel. But Iehu followed him ſo cloſe, that he wounded him as he aſcended vp vnto a place called GVR, which ſignifieth, A Lions Whelpe; neere vnto the Towne which is called Iiblea. Wherefore Ahaziah feeling himſelfe hurt, he went to Megiddo, foure miles from Ieſreel, and neere to Apheck vpon the Weſt. There, as Ioſephus ſaith, Lib. Antiq. 9.) hee cauſed his wounds to be ſearched and bound vp. This citie of Megiddo is 48 miles from Ieruſalem Northward.

From Megiddo hee went to Samaria, which was 14 miles: there he lay hid for a while, flying from one place to another, to ſaue himſelfe, 2 Chron. 22.

But being found out he was carried backe to the citie of Megiddo, which was 14 miles; and at the commandement of Iehu, was there ſlaine, 1 Reg. 8.

From Megiddo his carkaſſe was carried to Ieruſalem, which was 48 miles, and there buried, 2 Reg. 8. 2 Chron. 22. So all the Trauels of Ahaziah King of Iudah, were 224 miles.

AThalia was ſiſter to Ahab and daughter to Omri, married to Ioram ſonne of that good King Iehoſaphat, when he was but 17 yeares of age: and after the death of Azahiah (who was ſlaine about the 23 yeres of age) ſhe vſurped vpon the kingdome of Iſrael (anno mundi, 3063, before Chriſt, 905,) and raigned with great tyranny almoſt 7 yeares: So ſoone as ſhe had obtained the gouernment, ſhe cruelly and miſerably put to death all the children of Ahaziah, and all thoſe that were next heire to the Kingdome; onely Ioas, who was ſaued by the policie of Iehoſhabeath ſiſter to Ahaſiah, that ſtole him from among the reſt of the Kings ſonnes, and put him to nourſe in her bed-chamber: and hee was with them in the houſe of God ſix yeares, all which time Athalia raigned ouer the land. And in the ſeuenth yeare, Iehoiada waxed bold and proclamed Ioas King, as being next heire to the crowne, and annointed him in the temple; who after Athalia was ſlaine ſucceeded in the gouernment, 2 Reg. 11. 4. 2 Chron. 22.