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A30018	Itinerarium totius Sacræ Scripturæ, or, The travels of the holy patriarchs, prophets, judges, kings, our Saviour Christ and his apostles, as they are related in the Old and New Testaments with a description of the towns and places to which they travelled, and how many English miles they stood from Jerusalem : also, a short treatise of the weights, monies, and measures mentioned in the Scriptures, reduced to our English valuations, quantity, and weight / collected out of the works of Henry Bunting ; and done into English by R.B.; Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae, das ist, Ein Reisebuch uber die gantze Heilige Schrifft. English. 1682	Bünting, Heinrich, 1545-1606.; Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.	1682 (1682)	Wing B5362A; ESTC R37168	398,143	460

which Jacob travelled Of Bethel BEthel was a Town in the Tribe of Benjamin eight miles from Jerusalem towards the North and signifies The house of God In times past it was called Luz but Jacob seeing in that place the Vision of the Ladder with the Angels ascending and de●cending upon it and because there the Lord renewed the Covenant with him concerning his Seed and the coming of Christ he therefore called it Bethel Afterward Jeroboam having unlawfully usurp'd the Kingdom of Rehoboham caused a Calf to be set up there for which cause it was then called Bethaven which signifieth the house of Sin and abominable Offence Vatablus is of opinion that there are two Bethels one in the Tribe of Benjamin the other in the Tribe of Ephraim both not far from Hay but if this should be granted then these two Towns should stand within two miles one of the other which seemeth very absurd therefore I dare boldly affirm that there was but one Bethel which stood upon the borders of Benjamin and Ephraim both Tribes bordering upon the South-side of the Town of Luz Josh. 16. and 18. This Town of Bethel was at first in the Suburbs of Luz until the Division of the Tribes for then both these Tribes of Ephraim and Benjamin ending in that place so much increased this Town that they became both one City and so were called Bethel Ie. 28. and 25. Iosh. 7. and 18. From hence there is a two-fold Mystery to be apprehended the first of Jacob whose sleeping in this place upon a Stone caused this City or Town to be built and to retain the name of Bethel that is The house of God So whosoever seeks to have eternal Life must rest upon that corner stone Christ Jesus the Son of the everliving God and by faith be incorporated into the Church which is the House of God of which Christ the anointed of the Lord is both King and Priest for ever Secondly as Jacob resting upon this corner Stone saw the Angels ascending and descending from Heaven unto Earth so by this Incorporation into the body of the Church of which Christ is the Head by Faith and Baptism our Souls are made capable to ascend into that heavenly Tabernacle which he hath prepared for all those that believe according to that in John 14. I am the way the truth and the life no Man cometh unto the Father but by me only And whosoever is assured of this Ladder that reacheth from Heaven unto Earth may well say with Iacob Surely the Lord Jesus Christ is in this place here is nothing but the House of God and here is the Gate of Heaven as Christ himself testifieth in the tenth of Iohn I am the door and whosoever entreth not by me c. So that Christ is the Head of his Church the Ladder that ascendeth into Heaven and the door whereby we may enter into eternal Life Of Gilead THIS Land of Gilead was a Country that lay between Iordan and the Mountain of Gilead or rather between the Sea of Galilee and the 〈◊〉 ●ilead sixty miles from Ierusalem towards the South-east for the 〈…〉 beginning at Mount Gilead extended thence unto 〈…〉 and separated the Countrey of Israel beyond Iordan from 〈…〉 of the Ammonites But that part which lieth between the S●a 〈…〉 Ammon is properly called Gilead for when Iacob and Lab●n 〈…〉 either with other in the Mount Gilead they gathered a 〈…〉 Stones and making a Banquet eat together upon it Gen. 13. and 〈◊〉 thence that Mountain and all the Countrey thereabouts took the 〈◊〉 For Laban in the Syrian Tongue is called JEGAR SAHADUTA 〈◊〉 ●e●p of covenant But Iacob in the Hebrew Language called that 〈◊〉 together with all the Countrey thereabouts Gal●ed or Galaad the heap ●f te●timony for Gal signifieth a heap or grave and Galal he rolled or he thrust into a round heap From whence the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to roul and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a circle is derived Also Edah signifies testimony with the Hebrews being derived from Id which signifies testatus e● that is he beareth witness and from hence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 amongst the Grecians is derived which signifieth a witness This Land of Gilead was very fertile and pleasant being adorned with many Castles and strong Cities and in this Countrey the Prophet Eliah was taken up into Heaven in a fiery Chariot 1 Reg. 17. 2 Reg. 2. The Grecians call this Decapolin from ten Cities that are strongly built in that Countrey Marc. 7. Of Machanaim MAchanaim was a City of the Levites in the Tribe of G●d near to the floud of Iord●n and Iaboch forty four miles from Ierusalem toward the South-east and scituate in the Land of Gilead beyond Iordan being so called of the Patriarch Iacob because there he saw the Tents and Army of Angels which he understood to be his assistants against his Brother Esau whom he feared Gen. 31. For Chana signifieth Castrametatus est that is the Tents are measured out from whence Machanaim is the proper name of a place being derived from two Tents of Angels which appeared to Iacob that they might defend him in his Journey For the Angels of God compass them about that fear him Psalm 33. and therefore Iacob with great Joy brake out and said The Tents of God are here and called it Machanaim This was assigned to the Levites Iosh. 21. and here David was received when he fled from his Son Absalom 2 Sam. 17. Here Iacob wrestled with the Angel Gen. 32. Of Pnuel or Penuel THIS Town was upon the East-side of Iordan close by the mouth of the River Iaboch in the Tribe of Gad forty miles from Ierusalem towards the South-east and is derived from Panah and El which signifies He beheld the Almighty God face to face and for that cause he called it Penuel or Pnuel which is the face of God Gen. 32. The Tower of this Town was destroyed in Gideons time Iudg. 8. Of Succoth THIS is a Town beyond Iordan not far from Penuel in the Tribe of Gad 40 miles from Ierusalem towards the South-east Here Iacob set up his Tabernacles and continued for a while from whence it borrows the name For Sachach signifies a covering and from thence it is called Succha and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with the Greeks which signifies a shield covering defence or tabernacle Of this Town there is mention in Iosh. 13. 2 Chr. 4. Gideon caused the Inhabitants of this Town of Succoth to be torn to pieces with thorns Iudg. 8. Of Salem SAlem is a Town of the Sichamites lying towards the East side of the River Iordan and in the midst of the Tribe of Manasses forty miles from Ierusalem towards the North not far from Sichem where Dinah Iacob's Daughter was ravished Gen. 33. and 34. In Aenon near to this place Iohn Baptist baptized and signifies a City of Peace and Integrity Of Bethlem Euphrata THIS Town was distant from Ierusalem towards the

to this day is found a piece of the Stone which the Angel rolled from the Grave before the Resurrection the other part of the Stone howsoever it came there lyes upon Mount Sion But some think that the Armenians carried it thither because upon it they have built an Altar In this inner Cave there hangs nine Lamps to give light unto them that enter in by the East so that in the inner and outer Vault there standeth eighteen Lamps The Mount whereon Christ was crucified seemeth to stand upon a Rock of Stone whitish and something blushing It is distant from the Holy Sepulchre a hundred and thirty foot The place where the Cross stood was an hard Rock eighteen steps in the Ascent and answereth to nine and twenty feet The hole where the Cross stood is about the roundness of a mans head in Latitude and if a man might believe the Monks thereabouts they say also that in that place is to be seen the colour of our Saviours Blood even to this day Upon the left hand of this there stands an Altar made of Marble and over that a sumptuous Chappel paved and covered with polish'd Marble gilt and adorned with refulgent Gold the Walls whereof are very curiously wrought and gilded In the Church upon Mount Golgotha they also shew part of a Pillar naturally black speck'd with red Spots where they say Christ was whip'd and make the Vulgar believe that these Specks are the drops of Blood that fell from him The other part of this Column was carried to Constantinople as it was thought In this Church Godfrey first Christian King of Ierusalem and the rest of his Successors lie buried Of the Temple of Solomon as it is at this day THIS Temple lieth towards the East and was built by the Christians just in the same place where the former Temple stood at the time when the City was rebuilt and enlarged The body thereof is very high and spatious and built of polish'd Marble adorned with most exquisite and curious Workmanship very artificial and glorious both within and without insomuch that the polished Stones cast a singular beautiful and resplendent Lustre Above it is covered with Lead and was built up at the cost and labour of the Grecians in the Roof whereof the Turks place an half Moon as they usually do in all such Churches wherein they come and have Authority The Turks and Saracens have this Temple in great Reverence and Devotion they adorn it according to their Custom with divers artificial Pictures and Emblems They will suffer no Christians to enter into it nor any Jews upon pain of Death And if it happens that at any time they go into it they first wash themselves with Water very clean then put off their Hose and Shoos and so go bare-foot This Temple they call the holy Rock and in the body thereof there hangeth seven hundred Lamps which burn Night and Day In the midst hereof there standeth a certain little Rock every where indented with Iron near to which not any of the Saracens or Infidels dare to approach or touch although there come many very far to visit it for they believe that there were many memorable and worthy things done in that Rock they think that Melchisedeck the first Priest of the great God offered Bread and Wine upon it Genes 14. and that here the Patriarch Iacob saw the Ladder which reached from Heaven to Earth Gen. 28. which indeed hapned not in Ierusalem but in Bethel as the Scriptures witness Further they believe that upon this Stone David saw the Angel of the Lord standing with a shaken Sword when he struck the City with the Pestilence 2 Sam. 24. and that the Priests of the old Testament offered upon this stone their Sacrifices to the Lord which were devoured with Fire from Heaven All which things do utterly differ from holy Scripture The Jews also are of Opinion That the Prophet Ieremy about the time of the Captivity of Babylon in this Stone hid the Ark of the Covenant until such time as the Lord brought the People back again from the Captivity which is contrary 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 Turks say that Christ sate upon this stone when Simeon took him in his arms and blessed him Here also he sate in the midst of the Doctors when he was but twelve years 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 joyned to it And divers Circumstances of the Scripture do seem to make this evident because here Christ taught and here the People usually 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 paved with marble stone To this there is adjoyning a fair Church covered with Lead and was somtimes called Solomons Porch but after the Christians had won Ierusalem they gave it the Name of St. Maries The Turk keeps burning in this daily eight hundred Lamps and it is much greater than that of Solomons Temple The Sultan of Aegypt also about an hundred years before built a little Church or Moscho close by Solomons Temple wherein are continually burning eighty eight Lamps There is a Vault under the Temple of the blessed Virgin Mary of such an extraordinary Greatness that six hundred 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 Turks 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 sometime was the Ark of the Covenant Dan. 9. Mat. 24. and the Prophecy of Ieremy is fully finished cap. 19. This place shall be unclean like unto the place of Tophet where they did sacrifice to the Host of Heaven and unto other strange Gods Of other Buildings within the City of Aelia which is now called Jerusalem MOunt Sion is placed toward the South of Ierusalem where even at this day the Monks undertake to shew the Ruines of David's 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 manner that the Mountain of Sion with the Sepulchre of David fell down and were utterly defaced Further all true Historians do write That Adrian the Emperour did so much deface the City that he left not a stone standing upon 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 seek those

thence to Jerus●lem which was 680 miles and there restored the Judaical Government instituting Ecclesiastical Officers chief Priests Pr●nces and other Governours Of the Land of Caspia THE Land of Caspia signifieth the Land of Silver being derived of Kesaeph that is Silver It was so called because they used to dig Silver in that place see Lyra it was a Country near Babylon where the Priests and Levites were in Captivity and stood 680 miles from Jerusalem towards the East Of Nehemia IN the twentieth Year of Artaxerxes Longimanus which was Anno Mun. 3524 and before Christ 444. Nehemias went from Susan to Jerusalem which was 920 miles there he repaired the Walls and Gates in 52 days Neh. 1. 2. 6. When he had governed Judaea 12 years he returned back again to Susan to Artaxerxes Longimanus which was 920 miles Neh. 3. Afterward Artaxerxes about the end of his Reign suffered Nehemia to return back again to Ierusalem which was 920 miles Neh. 17. So these Journeys of Nehemia make 2760 miles Of this City Susan you may read before Of the Name and typical Signification of Nehemiah NEhemiah signifies The Consolation of God being derived of Nicham He hath comforted This Man was a Type of our Lord Jesus Christ for as Nehemias was a Comfort unto the dispersed Jews in that he was sent to restore them into their own Country and to rebuild Ierusalem so Christ our Comforter was sent by his Father from that everlasting Throne of Heaven to refresh and comfort us by his Doctrine and gather the dispersed Members of his Church into one Communion that he might bring them into that heavenly Ierusalem which he hath built and where he hath prepared a place for us The Travels of Serubbabel SErubbabel carried the People of Israel from Babylon to Ierusalem which was 680 miles in the first Year of Cyrus Emperour of Persia Anno Mundi 3433. before Christ 535. In the seventeenth year of his Government he went from Ierusalem to Susan 920 miles 3 Esd. 3. 4. From Susan he went to Babylon which was 242 miles 3 Esd. 4. From Babylon in the same Year he returned to Ierusalem 680 miles where the next Year after in the beginning of the second Month which answers to the 21 of May in the third year of Darius Ahasuerus Zerubbabel and Josua the chief Priests of the Jews began to build the Temple and finish'd it in the sixth year of the same King 1 Esd. 6. So all the Travels of Zerubbabel were 2280 miles The Book of ESTHER MORDOCHIVS was led Prisoner with Jechoniah to Babylon which was 680 miles From Babylon he went to Susan which was 252 miles there he brought up Esther his Brothers Daughter and taught her honest Discipline and the fear of God This Maid was very beautiful and comely wherefore at such time as Darius Ahasuerus the Son of Hystaspis had caused all the beautiful Virgins of his Empire to be brought before him that from amongst them he might chuse him a Wife Mordochius adorned this Virgin with goodly Apparel and she also went with them in whose Presence by his Instruction she behaved her self so well that the Emperour chose her from among the rest and made her his Queen she being at that time but a poor Maid and of small Ability They were married in Susan in the second year of his Empire An. Mun. 3454 and before Christ 514. From whence it is evident That Preferment cometh neither from the East nor from the West but from the Lord. So these two Journeys make nine hundred thirty two miles The Types and Allegories collected out of the Book of Esther MORDOCHIVS or Mordochai signifies bitter and contrite being derived of Marah He was bitter and Dachah sorrowful and contrite A fit resemblance of that true Mordochius Christ Jesus who for our Sins and Offences was constrained to drink of that bitter Cup of Afflictions the Necessities of this World suffering in his Body more than tolerable Torments as you may read in his Passion therefore justly called Mordochius that is bitter and contrite Ester and Al●a have both one signification that is a Virgin or one kept from the Bed of Man Therefore she was a notable Image of the Church who keepeth her self chaste and undefiled avoiding the Society of evil Men and although she seem to be desolate and forsaken in this World in respect of the wicked who flourish like a Flower and glory in Voluptuousness and Pleasure yet hath she her Mordochius her Spouse her dearly beloved which provides for her even Jesus Christ that immaculate Lamb which died for her Salvation and will cloath her in white put into her hand a regal Scepter crown her with Glory and set her with him in the Throne of eternal Happiness Ahasuerus signifies A noble Captain and typically represents God the Father for as the Emperour had the Command of 127 Provinces and in them did principally Rule so God our Heavenly Father is the Emperour and Governour of all Kingdoms and all Creatures both in Heaven and in Earth be obedient to his will he sitteth in that everlasting Palace of Heaven that place of Joy and that eternal Paradice from whence he looketh down to behold us miserable and distressed Creatures upon Earth of his merciful Goodness electing and chusing us to be Heirs of that eternal Kingdom and purifieth us with the Graces of his holy Spirit so that we might be made capable to sit with him in eternal Felicity The disdainful Queen Vasthy may be a fit Type and Effigies of this World not only in respect of her Pride but her excess in drinking taking her name from Schatha which signifies To Drink so this World liveth in all manner of Prodigality and Luxury and contemneth the Lord and King thereof that Almighty God which sitteth in the Heavens and therefore is justly thrown down from that eternal Kingdom whereas on the contrary humble Esther that is the Church is taken up into Dignity and crowned in that everlasting Kingdom of Heaven Haman signifies a Rebellious and Proud Man being derived of Haman He hath stirred up a Tumult typically representing the Devil whom God in the beginning made a good Angel exalted him in the Heavens and made him much more Glorious than others yet notwithstanding glorying in himself he contemned his Maker and nothing would content him but to become like unto him yea he desired to be worshipped of our Lord Jesus Christ Mat. 4. And as Haman endeavoured to overthrow not only all the People of the Iews but Queen Esther als● so the Devil doth not only endeavour to overthrow the whole Church but if it were possible the Head of the Church Christ Jesus Of that holy Man Job JOB was a holy and good man he dwelt in the Land of Vz so called of Vz the Son of Aram the Son of Sem as St. Jerom upon Genesis observeth This Vz was that great Man which built as was thought Damascus in Syria and all the Land which

left desolate and the Mountains are now become barren and overgrown with Brambles And that the Name thereof might utterly be forgotten and as it were rooted out of the Earth he set up a new Town 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 own Name Aelia In the place of the Temple he set up a Church in the honour of Jupiter and Venus Just in the place where the Holy Altar stood he erected his own Image upon a Marble Pillar which continued until St. Hierom's time At Bethlehem he erected the Image of Adonis and to that he consecrated a Church Upon the Gates of the City he cut Hogs in Marble in contempt of the Jews Then did he abjure them That they should not come within the Walls of the City not set Foot upon the ground near Jerusalem This being done as Dion saith he dedicated it to the honour of Jupiter Capitolinus and only made it free for Christians and such like to be in it This Town at this day we call Jerusalem although it be scituated in another place and called by another name Future Ages calling the Actions of precedent Times into question pull'd a great Contempt upon this Town and so much the rather because Infidelity and other Heathenish profaneness was cherish'd within this City So that that which a little before was set up in honour of the Emperour Aelianus is now grown into Contempt Wherefore Helena the Mother of Constantine the Great having command of that Empire to give some satisfaction to the Universality caused those prophane Temples and Idols to be abolished and in their places erected others Upon Mount Golgotha the Church called Golgothanus upon the Mount of Olives one in the place of the Ascension of Christ and Constantine her Son richly adorned the Sepulchre and over it built a stately Temple all of Polish't Marble richly gilt with Gold so that to this day it remains as the chief Ornament of the Town In this mans time the Jews with great boldness endeavoured to rebuild the Temple just in the place where it stood before at the commandment of the Emperour they were repelled and in recompence of their presumption had their Eares cut off and their Noses slit because they had Ears and would not hear neither obey the Commandment of our Saviour But as the Emperour was Religious and endeavoured to support Christianity so his Successor Iulianus was as full of Impiety and Prophaneness who that he might frustrate the Prophecy of our Saviour that Ierusalem should never be built again in contempt caused the Iews to assemble together and with all expedition restore it to its former glory giving the uttermost of his help to their endeavours But as they were seriously labouring in this Work of a sudden there came a great Earthquake and look what they had built was by that quite overturned then Fire came out of the Earth and from Heaven which destroyed both the Matter and the Workmen And that the Iews nor any Philosphers might impute it to a Natural Cause there was seen in the Heavens a Bloody Cross and ●pon their clothes Crosses shining like Stars which the Iews could by no means wipe off yet this little prevailed A second time they attempted and as before a second Earthquake hapned with a storm of Wind which came with such extream violence that all the stuff which they had heaped together for this purpose was utterly blown away and destroyed So that of force they were constrained to leave off and acknowledge that Christ whom their Forefathers had Crucified was the true Messiah Greg. Nazianzen and Hierom report That nevertheless the Iews even to this day although it cost them much money come yearly to the place where Ierusale● stood and upon the day of the Destruction thereof weep over it Such was their affection unto this City But these evils were purged with a sudden Invasion for no crying Injuries nor prophane Insolencies against God pass unpunished but that then or soon after a just revenge falls upon them for Cosro● Emperour of the Persians whose Impudency and Impiety was so great that he would be worshipped as a God about the year of our Lord 615 besieged this Town took it and put to death 90000 Christians carried the Patriarch thereof together with many others away Captive But Heraclius the Emperor to punish him for his Pride and Cruelty set upon Persia and with Fire and Sword destroyed the Country not far from Nineveh and went away with an honourable Victory Seroes also the only begotten Son of Cosroes but a little before Invading the Kingdom kill'd his own Father in Prison restored the Patriarch and the rest of the Captives which his Father had taken to Heraclius and about the seventh year after he had Warred upon Persia he returned to Aelia with great Pomp. Not long after in the year 637 Haumar the Chief Prince of the Saracens which was the third from Mahomet with a great Army afflicted Syria and Iudaea conquered their Countries and in his Victories used great Tyranny and cruelty Within two years after he won Aelia which had maintained a long and sharp Siege neither would Zacharias the Patriarch give it up till he was compelled thereto by extream Famin and soon after died with Grief Thus the Town continued for the space of 450 years in the hands of the Saracens Then in the year 1012 Caliphas Sultan of Egypt won it beat down the Walls destroyed the Temple which the Emperor Constantine had built and made havock of all things Presently upon this the Turks which came out of Sythia by the Caspian Mountains won the City and drave 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 Iews 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 again restored by the Emperor Constantine after the Destruction of Caliphas The Christians being weary of this Tribute and of the oppression of these Infidels became sutors to Pope Vrban the second of that name for their delivery who in the year 1094 assembled a councel at Clearemont in France and by the instigation of one Peter the Hermit stirred up the hearts of divers Christian Princes and Lords to make a Croysado so that 10000 brave and well mounted Souldiers went into the Holy Land and for a token of their War bore red Crosses upon their Arms. In the same year there was a great blazing Star seen in the West and after that followed a great Plague for the space of two years through the World this nevertheless hindred them not in their Design but that they went their intended Journey won the City of Aelia from the Saracens delivered the Christians from their Bondage and Tax and chose Godfrey of

of Sina It lieth 420 miles from Ierusalem towards the South In this place God appeared to Moses in a flame of Fire Exod. 3. And as Bernard Britenbach saith in this place there is a Chappel built called the Church of S. Mary in the Bush. In this Chappel there is a place shewed where God spake with Moses Ex. 3. but how true that I leave because there are many Churches built by Monks for no other purpose but to deceive Travellers and Pilgrims of their Mony Of Raemsis THIS is one of the strong Cities which the Israelites built for Pharaoh and is a Metropolitan City in the Land of Gossen 174 miles from Jerusalem towards the South-west and signifies Joy and Delight being derived of Raam and Sus that is to leap for joy Of Pihachiroth THIS was a certain Plain lying between two Hills neer to the Red Sea and was called Pinaehiroth which signifies a Mouth cut or carved out where the children of Israel pitched their Tents Here Pharaoh invaded them when they went out of Aegypt taking opportunity of the place for they having on either side of them a high Mountain before them the Red Sea and behind them a cruel and mighty Tyrant to the judgment of man had no means to escape But the Lord to express the mightiness of his Power and that the children of Israel might know who it was that delivered them made them a Passage and led them under the conduct of Moses through the Red Sea in that very place drowning their Enemies which had thought to make a prey of them A little from this place the Temple of the Idol Baal-zephon is to be seen Of the Red Sea THE Red Sea is 160 miles from Jerusalem Southward betwixt Arabia and Aegypt and as some are of opinion it taketh the name of the red Scales that grow therein wherefore in Scripture it is also called the Scaly Sea Some say it taketh the name from red Sand that lies upon the shore cast up by the Sea Others say that the redness thereof hapneth because of the shadow cast into the Water by the Mountains thereabout The Vulgar are of opinion that it is naturally red by reason of the Water but it is not so because it is like the water of of the Ocean clear and salt Strabo lib. 16. observeth that this Sea was so called from Erithraea and thence Mare Arithraeum because the word Erithraeum in Greek signifieth red or purple the Latines call it Mare rubrum and we the red Sea This Erithrae was Son to Perseus and Andromeda who sometimes dwelt in the Island of that Sea It is also called the Arabian Gulf running from the South to the West and by the Hebrews I am suph a Scaly Sea all which names are at this day used at the utmost bounds hereof are seen the admirable works of Pharaoh Meco who would have brought this Sea to the River Nilus that so he might have sailed thence into the Mediterranean Sea but this work he could not finish being opposed by the wise men of Egypt Here also grows certain Trees that are as red as Brasil wood Of the mystery of the Red Sea AS Moses led the Children of Israel through the Red Sea and delivered them from the Bondage and Captivity of the Kings of Aegypt so Jesus Christ the Son of God by his precious Blood has deliver●d us from the house of Bondage and the tyranny of Sathan and as Pharaoh and all his Host was there drowned so the Sin of Adam Death and the Devil in that Sea of Christs blood is utterly drowned and we delivered from the Pit of Hell Of Baal-Zephon THIS was an Idol erected by the Aegyptians near to the shore of the Red Sea and is called Baal-zephon that is the Lord of defence and watchfulness because as they thought he resisted Fugitive Servants as Fagius and other Hebrews observe being derived from Baal which signifies a Lord and Zapha that is that hath seen or to behold and see The Temple of this Idol stood close by the shoar of the Red Sea upon a high hill very curiously wrought so that the Children of Israel going through the same could not chuse but see it yet nevertheless they went securely when Pharaoh and all his Host were drowned notwithstanding that their God of Defence was so near them Of Marah THIS is a place in the Desart which took the name of bitterness distant from Ierusalem 160 miles towards the South-west Here Moses made the Water sweet by throwing in Wood The mystery whereof is when Adam and Evah had eaten of the forbidden Fruit they brought bitterness through all the World yea the bitterness of Sin and Death but God shewed unto Moses another Tree that is our Lord Jesus Christ who being thrown into the Waters of bitterness Afflictions Calamities Miseries yea and the Death of the Cross for our sakes and sins underwent the curse of the Law that so taking away the bitterness we might be made capable of that sweet and delectable place of Eternal Life Of Elim THIS was the sixth resting-place of the Israelites in the Desart 120 miles from Ierusalem toward the South-west and is derived from Aial which signifies a Hart a strong and swift Creature of which it seems there were great multitudes which resorted to this place to drink and from thence it is called Elim Here stood 12 Fountains and 70 Palm-trees Of Sin THIS was a thorny place in the Desart 156 miles from Ierusalem towards the South-west Here it rained down Quails and Manna from Heaven being a Type of our Saviour Jesus Christ that Heavenly Manna which raiseth us up unto Eternal Life Ioh. 6. and is derived of Manah which signifies to distribute and therefore Man or Mannah signifies a distributive Gift or Meat fallen from Heaven distributively Sin signifieth a thorny place from Zemeh which signifies a Bush for Christ flourisheth in the midst of his Enemies as a Lilly amongst thorns Can. 2. Psal. 10. Of Raphadim RAphadim was a place where the Children of Israel pitched their Tents in the Desart not far from Mount Sinai 132 miles from Ierusalem towards the South-west and signifieth a Grass bench strewed with sweet herbs and flowers being derived from Raphad which is as much as to say in our Language To make a Bed or place for one to lye down on Here Moses struck the Rock out of which Water issued Exod. 17. which was a Type of that Spiritual Rock Christ Jesus 1 Cor. 10. who being struck with the staff of the curse of the Law out of his precious wounds and side sent forth that Water of Life which runneth into Eternal happiness In this place the Children of Israel fought against the Amalekites and overcame them Ex. 17. and here Iethro came unto Moses where according to his counsel there were seventy Elders chosen over the People Ex. 18. This was a fruitful and pleasant place Of Mount Sinai SInai is 120 miles from Ierusalem towards the