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A62650	Two journeys to Jerusalem containing first, a strange and true account of the travels of two English pilgrims some years since, and what admirable accidents befel them in their journey to Jerusalem, Grand Cairo, Alexandria, &c. by H.T. Secondly the travels of fourteen Englishmen in 1669. from Scanderoon to Tripoly, Joppa, Ramah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jericho, the river Jordan, the Lake of Sodom and Gomorrah, and back again to Aleppo. By T.B. VVith the rare antiquities, monuments, and memorable places and things mentioned in holy Scripture: and an exact description of the old and new Jerusalem, &c. To which is added, a relation of the great council of the Jews assembled in the plains of Ajayday in Hungaria in 1650. to examine the Scriptures concerning Christ. By S.B. an Englishman there present. VVith an account of the vvonderful delusion of the Jews, by a counterfeit Messiah or false Christ at Smyrna, in 1666. and the event thereof. Lastly, the fatal and final extirpation and destruction of the Jews throughout	Timberlake, Henry, d. 1626.; Brett, Samuel.; R. B., 1632?-1725? Journey to Jerusalem.; T. B.	1692 (1692)	Wing T1277A; ESTC R219326	92,206	197

Land containeth Four Regions Idumea Judea Samaria and Galilee Idumea beginneth at Mount Cassius or as some will at the Lake Sirbon reaching to the Eastward of Judea The Chief Cities are Maresa Rhinocorura Rapha Antedon Ascalon Azotus and Gaza Maresa was the birth place of th● Prophet Micah Near unto this Town Juda● Macchabeus overthrew Gorgias Rhinocorura● Rapha and Antedon are Towns of no grea● note Of Ascalon Sir George Sandis writeth thus in his Travels That it is a place now of no great Reckoning more than that the Turk doth keep there a Garrison Venerable heretofore amongst the Heathen for the Temple of Dagon and the Birth of Semiram● begotten of the Goddess Decreta who enflamed with the love of a certain youth that Sacrificed unto her and having by him a Daughte● ashamed of her Incontinency put him away and Exposed the Child to the desarts and confounded with sorrow threw her self into a lake replenished with fish adjoyning to the City this Decreta is said to be that Dagon the Idol of the Agrotonites mentioned in the Scripture which signifieth the first of sorrow who had her Temple close by the Lake with her Image in the figure of a fish excepting the Face which resembled a Woman But the Infant nourished by Doves which brought her Milk from the pails of the Pastures after became the wife of Ninus and Queen of Assyria whereupon she was called Semiramis which signifieth a dove in the Syrian tongue in Memorial whereof the Babylonians did bear a Dove in their Ensign● confirmed by the Prophesie of Jeremiah who foretelling of the devastation of Judea adviseth them to flee from the Sword of the Dove Azotes where was a sumptuous Temple built to the Lieutenant to Demetrius eight miles beyond that stands Acharon or Ekron where Beelzebub was worshipped to whom Ahaziah sent to enquire of his health Lastly Gaza or Aza one of the five Principal Cities belonging to the Palestines called Philistines in Scripture Gaza signifieth strong and in the Persian language a Treasure so said to be called by Cambyses who Invading Egypt sent thither the riches Purchased in that War it was also called Constantia by the Emperour Constantine first famous for the Acts of Sampson who lived about the time of the Trojan Wars whose force and fortunes are said to have given to the Poets their Invention of Hercules who lived not long before him And it was afterwards famous for two Wounds there received by Alexander the great and was then counted the Chief of Syria Also there lyeth Joppa now Jafta a Famous Mart Town and a good Haven where Jonah took ship to fly to Tarsus where Peter raised Dorcas from death to life and where he lying in the House of one Simon a Tanner was in a vision taught the Conversion of the Gentiles This City they report to have been built before the Flood Here Reigned Cephcus the son of Phenix whose Daughter Andromeda was by Perseus delivered from a Sea Monster some of whose Bones the people had wont to shew to Strangers even till the Flourishing of the Romans Here lyeth Gath also the Country of the huge Giant Goliah Judea is the Chiefest part of Palestina and is of the same extent now as it was when it was the Kingdom of Judea and entertained the two great and Puissant Tribes of Juda and Benjamin It lyeth between the Midland Sea and Lacus Asphaltites or the Dead-Sea and betwixt Samaria and Idumea It took this name from the Tribe of Judah in which lyeth the once famous City Jerusalem Besides Jerusalem also there are in this Country divers others Town and famous Cities as Jericho Turris Stratonis afterward named Caesarea Hebron formerly now Arbea also Mambre and Carioth that is to say a Town of four Men the Birth-place of Judas Iscariot who betrayed our Saviour Jesus Christ Emaus and divers others and Beyon Jordan Markherus a Town with a strong Castle here stood the Towns of Sodom and Gomorrah which for their Sodomy and Abomination were consumed with Fire from Heaven and lye now buried in that cursed Lake Asphaltites so named of the Bitumen which it Vomiteth called also the Dead-Sea perhaps in that it nourisheth no living Creature or for his heavy Waters hardly to be moved with any Wind so extream Salt that whatsoever is thrown thereinto not easily Sinketh Vespasian for a trial caused divers to be cast in bound Hand and Foot who Floated Aloft as if supported by some Spirit They say that Birds Flying over it fall in as if Inchanted or Suffocated with the Poyson of the ascending Vapors Samaria lyeth in the midst between Judea and Galilea the Land is so called from the Metropolis Samaria Built by Omri King of Israel and now called Sebasta the Towns in ●t are Sichem afterwards Neapolis Capernaum Betzaida and Chorazin Galilea lyeth between Mount Labanus and Samaria and is divided into upper and lower Galilea upper Galilea bordered upon Tyrus called otherwise Galilea-Gentium or the Heathenish Galilea Lower Galilea lyeth near unto the Lake of Tiberius and to Nazareth In it are the Towns of Naim Cana Nazareth and Gadara The Holy Land is seated between two Seas and the River Jordan it hath within it many Navigable Lakes and Meers abounding with Fish the River Jordan is called by the Hebrews Jordan and runneth through the midst of this Country dividing it into two Parts St. Jerome Writeth that this River Springeth out of two Fountains not far distant one from the other the one called Jor the other Dan shooting out like two Horns which meeting together make the great River Jordan The Chief Mountains in the Holy Land are Mount Hermon lying in the East part thereof and Mount Tabor in the West both of them being very Great and High so that the other Hills about them are but Arms and Branches of them For the Mountains Ebal Betheron Mispa or Mospoa and Bethel are reckoned under Mount Hermon Gilboa Gerezin Saron and Mount-Carmel by the Sea side are counted under Mount Tabor There are also about Jerusalem Mount Sion Moriah Mount Olivet Mount Calvary and others with goodly Woods and Forrests full of all kind of Deer and many Wild Beasts In this Land especially in and about Jerusalem there were many Stately and Magnificent Buildings as Namely Mons Domus and the Castle of the Jebusites into which King David brought the Ark of the Lord where it remained till Solomons Temple was Finished The remainder and ruines of these Buildings are yet to be seen to this Day yea it is said that in the very place the Lord Christ Eat the Paschal Lamb with his Disciples There are also the Sepulchres of David and other Kings of Judah and the House of David which yet retaineth the Name of Davids Tower Upon Mount Moriah are to be seen some remainders of Mello Above all we must call to mind the most Excellent and Beautiful Temple of King Solomon upon which One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Men wrought Seven

other five Englishmen that met me in Ierusalem from Galilee came through them of whom I had this Description they received of me likewise the Description of my Journey through Palestine The place where Christ fasted 40 days and 40 nights called Quarranto is from Ierusalem as Chelmsford is from London The River Iordan the very nearest part thereof is from Ierusalem as Epping is from London Iericho the nearest part of the plain thereof is from Ierusalem as Lowton Hall Sr. Robert Wroths house is from London The Lake of Sodom and Gomorrah is from Ierusalem as Gravesend is from Lon-don The River Iordan runneth into the Lake and there is swall●wed up which is one of the greatest secrets in my mind in the World that a fresh water should run continually into this salt Lake and have no issue out but there is lost And the Lake continuing still so salt as no weight of any reasonable substance will sink into it but floateth upon it so that a Man or dead Beast will never go down And further note that what fifth soever was brought into it by the River Iordan or any other substance it swims continually upon the water and being tossed thereon by the Weather in time it becometh a congealed froth which being cast upon the Banks and there dryed by the extream heat of the Sun becomes black like Pitch which in that Country is called Bitumen whereof I have brought some with me from thence This Lake is about eight or nine Miles broad and about a 100 Miles long from the North where the River Iordan falleth into it to the South-ward and hath no farther issue The fields where the Angels brought Tydings to the Shepherds lye from Ierusalem as Greenwich from London Mount Olivet lyeth from Ierusalem as Bow from London Bethania is from Ierusalem as Black-wall from London Bethphage is from Ierusalem as Mile-end from London The Valley Gethsemany is from Ierusalem as Ratcliff Fields lye from London Brook Cedron is from Ierusalem as the Ditch without Algate from London Mount Sion is near adjoyning to Ierusalem as Southwark to London Thus have I described the City of Ierusalem as it is now built with all the notable places therein and near the same and the Country about it By which comparisons you may well understand the situation of most places near it And thereby you may perceive that it was but a small Country and a very little plat of ground which the Israelites possessed in the Land of Canaan and is now very barren For within fifteen Miles from Ierusalem it is wholly barren full of Rocks and stony And unless it be about the Plain of Iericho I know not any part of the Country at present fruitful What is hath been in time past I refer you to the Holy Scriptures My opinion is that when it was fruitful and a Land that flowed with Milk and Hony in those days God Blessed it and that then they followed his Commandments but now being inhabited by Infidels that prophane the name of Christ and live in a filthy and beastly manner God cursed it and it is made so barren that I could get no bread when I came near it For one night as I lodged short of Ierusalem at a place called in the Arabian Tongue Cuda Chenaleb I sent my Moor to a house not far from the place where we had pitched our Tents to get some bread and he brought word there was none to be had and that the man of that house did never ●at bread in all his life but only dryed Dates nor any of his houshold whereby you may partly perceive the barrenness of the Country at this day only as I suppose by the curse that God laid upon the same For they use the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah very much in that Country so that the poor Christians there are glad to marry their Daughters at twelve years of Age unto Christians lest the Turks should ravish them And to conclude there is not that sin in the World but it is used amongst those Infidels who now inhabit therein and yet it is called Terra Sancta and in the Arabian Tongue Cuthea which is the Holy Land bearing the name only and no more For all holiness is banished from thence by those Thieves filthy Turks and Infidels that inhabit the same Having my Certificate sealed by the Quadrian and a Letter delivered me to shew that I had washed my self in the River of Iordan I departed from Ierusalem in the company of the Moor that helpt to get me out of Prison leaving Edward Abbot Ieffery Kerbie Iohn Elkins Iasper Tymme and Mr. Bedle the Preacher whom I met there by chance behind me in Ierusalem and which grieved me most the Gentleman of Middleborough Mr. Iohn Burrel that I met with at Grand Cairo who had born me company thence to Ierusalem forsook me there and stayed with the other five Englishmen and so was I left alone to the mercy of my Moor that never left me till I came to Grand Cairo Now what happened to me in my Travelling from Ierusalem to Cairo and from thence to Alexandria where my ship lay I will hereafter declare Departing from Ierusalem we got safe to Rama and from thence to Ascalon and so to Gaza which lyeth upon the Borders of the Desarts of Arabia At one of those two places I hoped to have some passage by Water either to Alexandria or to Damietta but failing thereof I was in a maze and knew not whether I were best go back again to Ierusalem or put my self desperately into the hands of the Wild Arabians to be by them conducted to Grand Cairo One of those courses I must take there was no hope of passage and yet I hoped I should find it at Ioppa And for that cause stayed at Gaza and sent my Moor to Ioppa to seek for passage but there was none to be had At last considering with my self that my haste into Egypt was great for I had left my man Waldred in Cairo with my stock of 1200 l. and my ship lay in the Road of Ale●andria with sixty men in her and whether they would depart without me or no I knew not For when I went from them to go up to the River of Nilus to Cairo I had no intent to go for Ierusalem I was forced in this extremity to make away all the mony I had about me and to put my self into the hands of two wild Arabians who undertook to carry me and my Moor without whom I durst not go to the City of Cairo in four days if I would pay them 24 Sultans of Gold when I came to the Materia near Cairo and upon that Condition they would deliver me safely there otherwise would carry me Prisoner with them or cut my Throat And so agreeing with them by my Moor who sp●ke for me and withal warranted me to go safely swearing that he would not leave me by any means the two Wild