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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

to bring forth sweet Figs that is good Works and many other comfortable Vertues that so men in their afflictions might be comforted As it is thought the Fig-tree that our Saviour Christ cursed because it wanted Fruit stood not far from Bethpage Mat. 21. Mark 11. Wherefore let us take heed that we be not like fruitless Fig-trees covered only like our Forefathers Adam and Eve with Leaves and bearing no fruit Gen. 3. lest so God's Curse fall upon us and we be thrust out of Eternal Happiness Mat. 3. Of the Castle from whence the Ass and the Colt were brought upon which our Saviour Christ rode to Jerusalem THIS Castle as Adamus Risnerus saith was a certain Hold compassed about with strong Walls and within beautified with a fair Palace supported with goodly Columns it stood not far from the Mount of Olives just in the dividing of the way as you go from Bethania to Ierusalem for there goes one way to the Fountain-Gate and another to the Valley of Gehinnon In the Hebrew Text it is called Tirah as you may read in Matthew which signifies not only a Castle but a firm and sure building with good decorum and order for Tor signifies a circular order It is credible that this Hold is a resting place and that the Ass and the Colt were tied in the way for this cause that if by chance any Travellers were weary by reason of the tediousness of their Journey they might hire them for certain hours to carry them over the Mount of Olives and so return them back again The Allegorical meaning of this Ass and the Colt according to the opinion of many learned men signifies the People of the Iews who were burthened with Moses's Laws and the Asses Colt signifies the rest of the Gentiles which were not charged with the burthen of Moses's Law but tied only to the Law of Nature So we also like Travellers and Strangers in this miserable World are tied to the Afflictions and Calamities thereof standing in two ways expecting the death of the Body and liberty of the Soul then our Saviour Christ cometh in Peace and looseth this Body of death as the Apostle saith Rom. 7. and bringeth us to that Heavenly Ierusalem eternal Joy according to that of St. Paul in the first of the Philippians I desire to be loosed and to be with our Lord Iesus Christ. Of the Mount of Olives ABout half a mile and a Furlong from Jerusalem towards the East stood the Mount of Olives very fruitful and pleasant bringing forth Olives Palms Figs Gossumtine and many other notable Fruits but principally Palms and Olives of which the Mountain taketh the Name It is said in Pliny lib. 16. cap. 19. that these Olive and Palm trees do never lose their Leaves and are green both Winter and Summer St. Austin calleth it The Mountain of Vnction because of the Fertility and pleasantness of it also The Mountain of Health because it bringeth forth Oyls and many other Plants necessary for Physick also The Mountain of Light first because it lieth upon the East so that the Sun shineth in the morning very pleasantly upon it and in the evening when it setteth the Beams thereof reflecting upon the Temple of Jerusalem casteth a beautiful light to this Mount secondly because it bringeth forth Oyl which is the nourishment and life of light thirdly because it was beautified with the gracious presence of our blessed Lord and Saviour Christ which is the Day-star and Light of the Church rising up on high to inlighten all those which shall be called unto eternal happiness For which cause it typically representeth the Church which is the light of the World wherein are found many Christians that bring forth pleasant Fruit good Works relieving the necessity of such as are in want comforting the afflicted and patiently supporting the Calamity and Misery of this World that so they might triumphantly rejoyce with Christ in that heavenly City of Jerusalem What things Zacharias hath spoken of this Mount in his last Chapter is to be understood of the preaching of the Gospel and propagation of the Church through all the World St. Jerom saith in his Epitaph upon St. Paul That upon this Hill the Jews commonly burnt the red Cow with the Ashes whereof the People of God being sprinkled they were purified and sanctified of which you may read Num. 19. Heb. 6. Hellen the Empress Mother to that godly Emperour Constantine the Great about the year of our Lord 332 caused a fair and beautiful Church to be built upon this Mount just in the place where our blessed Lord and Saviour Christ ascended up into Heaven It was built round all of white polished Marble upon the top thereof there is no Roof but a Window even as Christ should ascend through it as Eusebius saith in the Life of the Emperour Constantine the Great lib. 3. cap. 40. The same St. Jerom affirmeth in his Book Delocis Hebraicis He also saith That the Inhabitants of the Holy Land take upon them to shew in this Church the Impression of the Feet of our Saviour Christ which hapned as they say just at such time as he ascended up into Heaven out of which Travellers and Pilgrims take Sand to carry with them as an holy Relick though indeed it is verily to be thought that they were feet made in stone by antient Monks thereby to get Money from such as resorted thither upon Devotion for look how oft Pilgrims take thence the Sand they are presently filled again from whence may be gathered that there is no Sand naturally there Every man therefore ought to imbrace a nearer way to Salvation than to follow those Monkish Fables and to seek Christ in the Holy Scripture not upon the Mount of Olives or amongst Sand for since the Grave could not contain him the Mount of Olives cannot hold him who now sitteth at the right Hand of his Father in Power and eternal Glory but rather if we be desirous to see the Footsteps of Christ let us seek them in the Church which is dispers'd through the World wherein we are sufficiently taught how we should follow him The Palm is a famous Tree which bringeth forth Dates and is so called because upon the top the boughs are thick and round extending out like fingers from whence it is called Dactilus that is a finger Of Gethsamene THIS was a Village scituated at the foot of the Mountain of Olives in a pleasant and fruitful place Near unto this Village as Saint Augustine observeth there were many pleasant Gardens which gave forth very sweet and delectable savours unto which Place Christ and his Disciples did oftentimes resort as the Evangelist Luke cap 22. observeth It was so called from the pressing forth of Oyl for Gath or Geth signifies a Press and Schaemen Oyl In this place the heart of our Saviour Christ was so press'd with affliction that he sweat drops of Blood By which Blood the Sins of our Souls are washed

ITINERARIVM TOTIUS Sacrae Scripturae 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 Ierusalem 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 BVNTING and done into English by R. B. LONDON Printed by I. Harefinch for T. Basset at the George in Fleet-street near St. Dunstan's Church MDCLXXXII To the Right Honourable Sr. Hen. Mountague KNIGHT Lord Chief Justice of the KINGS Majesties BENCH IT is a true Saying of the Philosopher Right Honourable and my very good Lord That there is nothing wherein there is Life but it hath either Motion or Action and such is the condition of Man that a greater measure of both is imposed upon him to humble him than upon many other Creatures The whole course of his Life being compared unto a Pilgrimage in which state a man can presume upon no certain Continuance For as a Traveller that intendeth to finish his Journey stays not in his Inn but desires more to be upon his Way than in his Bed so it is with Man who cannot possess himself in rest from the time of his Birth until his Death and oftentimes is troubled with needless and unprofitable Labours to attain unto his Ends which got both they and he perish Let Alexander that great Emperour be a president of this who with much Labour having got a great Estate enjoyed it but a short time and you may read in this Treatise with what intolerable pains Antigonus Epiphanes endeavoured to establish his Kingdom to him and yet in the end purchased little but a lamentable Death There is none of the Patriarchs Princes Judges Kings Prophets Apostles or others mentioned in the Scriptures that could make evident in the whole course of their Life any better than a laborious and tedious Pilgrimage With what pains did Abraham wander from Chaldea into the Land of Canaan How was Moses tormented in the Wilderness almost to the loss of his Soul but absolutely never to come into the promised Land And for David how miserably lived he when he could not trust his own Friends This is the state of man and to say truth he differs in little beside Reason from other Creatures and that either lock'd up in silence or not express'd in some memorable Action makes him so much the more capable of Misery being only able to distinguish of Joy and Fear Now that these things may be the more apparent I have endeavoured to collect out of the Works of others this Treatise wherein is briefly described the Travels of all the Patriarchs Iudges Kings Prophets Princes c. together with the condition of Cities Countreys Islands and other memorable places as they are mentioned in the Old and New Testaments All which that I might express that Duty which hath a long time lain concealed I have wholly dedicated to your Lordships Service humbly intreating your favourable Acceptance of my Pains that so being shrouded under your Honour's Protection they may the better withstand the adverse Opinions of such as please to censure them At your Honour's Service R. B. The Preface to the Reader IT hath always been held a matter worth note gentle Reader even to the best Divines to have the Typographical description of the Towns and Places as they are mentioned in the Scriptures and so much the rather because by comparing the Actions of Men with the beginnings and endings of Cities they might the better understand the Prophets and perceive the wonderful Providence of God who by his Omnipotency so disposeth of Estates that such Cities and Nations which have been mighty and ruled upon the Earth with great Power notwithstanding on a sudden and by unexpected Events have been utterly subverted and overthrown Now that these things might be more apparent I have in as good and brief a method as I can gathered out of sundry Authors the particular Description of the Cities Towns and places as they are mentioned in the Scriptures where they stood under whose command at what time they grew mighty and how lost and decayed To this also I have added a particular Narration of the Travels of all the holy Patriarchs Prophets Princes Iudges Kings Emperours our blessed Saviour and his Apostles to what Towns they travelled what memorable Actions they did in those places with a short Chronology of the times that so by comparing this discourse with any Text of Scripture you may perceive the time when those Accidents happened All which things I am perswaded will prove no less pleasant than profitable and will give a great light to the understanding of the Bible But if you question with me How it is possible that I should come to the knowledge of those things considering that Babylon Niniveh Jerusalem and most of the Cities of the Holy-Land are long since wasted and decayed To this I answer therein consists the greatness of the Travel because I have been constrained to use the help of many Authors who amongst other long and learned discourses have here and there glanced at the Actions that were done in the Land of Judaea amongst which are Strabo Jerom de Locis Hebraicis Plinie Livie Plutarch and many others who have described in the Actions of the Persians Chaldeans Graecians and Romans the State of the Jews as it stood in those times with the Description of the Cities and Towns And Saint Jerom who lived in that Country took a great deal of pains to rectifie these imperfect discourses which more obscure Authors have laboured in and left to future ages that so those which would might by their diligence and care make them useful to inform their understanding both concerning the State of the. Jews and of the obscure meaning of some of the Prophecies Also the scituation and Destruction of Jerusalem a thing pleasant and profitable to know and no whit unworthy your consideration How all or the most part of the Towns Cities Countries Nations Islands Seas Desarts Mountaines and most memorable places are scituated from it how many miles English they stand distant what memorable actions have been done in them and for the most part where they stood and how they are at this day Besides to make this a perfect work you will find after the end of the Old Testament and before the beginning of the New the Discourse concerning the Weights Measures and Monies which are mentioned in the Scriptures reduced unto our Valuation how they were Current among the Jews how with other People Nations and Countries by which means that necessity of commutative Iustice for which Monies were principally invented will be apparent and by this meanes you shall perceive what equality there is and hath been used amongst Nations for

the Travels of Sampson were 240 miles The Description of the several Towns and Places to which Sampson travelled Of Zarea THIS is a City in the Tribes of Iuda and Dan near the River Soreck and taketh the Name from a Cole or Leprosie being derived of Sarag that is He was Leprous it stood eighteen miles from Ierusalem Westward Of Esthaol THis was a Town in the Tribe of Dan two miles from Zarea and stood near the River Soreck some twenty miles from Ierusalem towards the West and taketh the name from a Woman and Fortitude for Isca signifieth a Woman and El or Ol strong and powerful Here Sampsen was brought up In St. Ierom's time this was called Asto not far from whence Sampson lieth buried Of Timnah You may read of this in the Travels of Iudah Of Ascalon THis was a City of the Philistines scituated upon the shore of the Mediterranean Sea some thirty miles from Ierusalem Westward and to this day retaineth the figure of half a Circle it taketh the name from an ignominious Fire being derived of Esh and Kalon an ignominious light Of Gaza Of this Town you may read in the Travels of Ioshuah Of the River Soreck THis was a very pleasant River upon the Bank whereof grew great plenty of Vines and Palms from whence it seemeth to have taken the Name for Soreck in Hebrew signifieth a Myrtle Branch which bringeth forth a pleasant Berry whereof excellent Wine is made It takes the beginning at a Fountain in the Tribe of Iuda some twelve miles from Ierusalem towards the West where there is a very fertile Valley in which Dalilah that betrayed Sampson dwelt and from thence it runneth through the Land of the Philistines and falleth into the Mediterranean Sea Of the Rock Eta IN this Rock there was a Cave wherein Sampson dwelt as in a strong Tower it stood in the Tribe of Iuda near to the River Soreck twelve miles from Ierusalem toward the West and seemeth to take the Name from Fowls for before that Sampson inhabited there a multitude of Fowls bred upon it and therefore it was called Eta for Aith signifies a Fowl This Rock growing to decay was repaired again by Ieroboam that Idolatrous King of Israel Of Sampson SAmpson or Schimpson according to the Hebrew Text taking his Name from the Sun for Schaemas in Hebrew signifieth the Sun and seemeth to have some Affinity with Hercules which ●ignifieth The glory of the Air for what can be said to be the glory of the Air but the Light of the Sun without which it would become exceeding dark Wherefore as some think this Sampson was the true Hercules and those noble Exploits that he did the Graecians attributed to their Hercules The typical Signification of Sampson HE typically representeth Christ divers ways first in his Person he was a mighty Man secondly in his Profession he was a Nazarite thirdly in his Calling he was a Prince and Judge fourthly in his manner of living for he went from place to place to revenge himself upon the Enemies of God's People the Children of Israel and in his Death even so our Saviour Christ is that strong man who being mightier than the Devil hath dispossest him of his tyrannical Jurisdiction over the Souls of Mankind hath taken away those gates of Death by his Mercy opening unto us the door of Life that so being set at Liberty from that hellish Imprisonment we may be made Partakers of everlasting Happiness he was also a Nazarite even from his Mothers Womb born and bred there tying himself to a Vow of Bondage that we might be made free he is a Prince for ever and a Priest after the Order of Melchisedeck during the continuance of his Life in this Vail of Misery his chiefest Actions were to go from place to place to teach to do good and to rescue and relieve the poor distressed Members of the Church who lay miserably afflicted under the hands of Satan healing some relieving others and bringing a third sort into the state of Grace so that as Sampson delivered the Israelites from the Bondage of the Philistines Christ our Prince and Judge delivereth his from the Slavery of Satan by his Death saving more Souls than in his Life And thereby pulling down the strong Buildings the Temptations of Satan hath laid them level with the Ground that they shall never be restored again And lastly after this Life ended he shall be our Prince and Judge and bring us to that place of Promise prepared for us in his everlasting Kingdom The Travels of the Spies of the Danites SHortly after the Death of Sampson the Spies of the Danites went from Zarea and Esthaol to Mount Ephraim to the House of Michah which is twenty four miles Iudg. 18. From thence they went to Lais which is a hundred and four miles Iudg. 18. From thence they returned to Zarea and Esthaol which is 126 miles Iudg. 18. So all their Travels were 244 miles Of Lais. LAIS was a City scituated at the Foot of Mount Libanus some 104 miles from Ierusalem towards the North and was sometimes called Belenus this because it stood so far from Aid was quickly conquered by the Danites and by them utterly destroyed it signifieth a roaring or devouring Lyon But after being rebuilt by the Danites they called it Dan and the Canaanites Lesem Dan being derived of Laeschaem which signifieth a Lyon The Travels of the Danites THE Army of the Danites went from Zarea and Esthaol to Kiijath-jearim and there pitched their Tents which is sixteen miles Iud. 15. From thence they went to Mount Ephraim to the house of Micha and took his carved Image and his Levite from him which was eight miles Iudg. 15. From thence they went to Lais 104 miles So all the Travels were 128 miles Of Kirjath-jearim KIrjath-jearim was a City of the Levites in the Tribe of Iuda upon the Borders of the Tribe of Benjamin about a mile from Ierusalem Westward It sometime belonged to the Gibeonites Iosh. 9. and signifies a City of the Desart or Woods being derived from Kiriath which signifies a City and Iaar a Wood or Forrest Here stood the Ark of the Covenant after it had been in the Land of the Philistines seven months and stood in the house of Abinadab whose Son Eleazer because he was of the Family of the Levites by consent of the Children of Israel was consecrated Priest thereof to attend and keep it here it remained forty eight Years till David fetched it thence with great Joy 1 Sam. 7. 2 Sam. 6. 1 Chr. 14. Here Saul was anointed King by Samuel here the Company of the Prophets that is the Scholers of the Wise came down from the more eminent places where the Ark of God was with holy Songs and Instruments of Musick and the Spirit of the Lord came upon Saul and he sung and praised God with them They called this the Hill of God because the Ark of the Covenant stood in it 1 Sam.

forty five years old was invited to a Marriage in Cana a City of Galilee which stood eight miles from Galilee towards the North-West Iohn 2. Here our Saviour Christ wrought his first miracle by changing water into wine From Cana in Galilee she went with our Saviour to Capernaum a City of Galilee a little before the Feast of the Paschal Lamb which was twenty miles From Capernaum she returned back to Nazareth which was accounted twelve miles In the thirty second year of the age of our Saviour Christ which was the second of his Ministry Mary went from Nazareth back again to Capernaum where our Saviour Christ cast forth a Devil Mat. 12. Mark 3. which was 12 miles From thence she returned back again to Nazareth which was twelve miles for in this Town she dwelt whilst Iesus travelled from place to place teaching and preaching the Word of God Mark 6. And although she oftentimes went from Nazareth with him to many places continuing still in his company yet then especially when he was to sustain the wrath of God and punishment for the Sin of man which was in the thirty fourth year of his age In which year she would not forsake him till his death for she went from Galilee to Ierusalem with him which wa● sixty four miles a great Journey for one of her age being then forty eigh● years old And when our Saviour was crucified she stood close by the Cross with a heavy and pensive countenance bewailing the death of her Son Then was the Prophecy of old Simeon accomplished And a Sword shall pass through thy Soul But after by his Glorious Resurrection and Ascension she was revived and comforted From the Passion of Christ to the death of the blessed Virgin Mary was twelve years all which time she lived with Iohn the Evangelist in Ierusalem and then being fifty nine years of age dyed and was buried according to the opinion of Nicephorus and others in the Garden called Gethsamene So all her Travels were 3506 miles Now follows the description of the Towns and Places to which she travelled Of Nazareth THIS was a Town almost of no estimation scituated in a certain Mountain in Galilee the lower sixty four miles and something more from Ierusalem towards the North in the Tribe of Zabulon In this Town our Saviour Jesus Christ was brought up Luke 1. 2. Some say that it was nineteen or twenty miles from Ierusalem but they mistake themselves yet I will not dispute thereof but follow my Authors Iacobus Ziglerus and Tilmanus Stella There is not any mention made of it that is extant in the Old Testament It hath a two-fold derivation the one by Zain and the other by Zade If it be written by Zain it may have a two-fold signification since the exposition of this name doth depend upon the Verb Nazar which signifies to consecrate and keep from hence Nezaer a Garland of Flowers or a Crown set with pretious Stones c. such as Kings and High-Priests are accustomed to wear Also from the same word Nazar is derived Nazir and thence Nazaraeus which is as much as to say He is separated from the use of Wine and suffering his Hair to be un-cut as being dedicated to the Lord. Therefore our Saviour Christ is justly called a Nazarite Luke 2. For ●aezer first signifies a holy man who hath made a holy Vow unto the Lord Secondly it doth denote a Crown or wreath of Sincerity Exod. 29. 39. Thirdly a holy Ointment wherewith Kings and Priests were anointed Levit. 27. And fourthly this word Nezaer signifies a Princely Crown 2 Sam. 1. 2. Kings 11. Psal. 89. 132. So that Nazareth being derived of Nazar and Nazir may signifie both a Crown and a holy City Iudg. 13. but if Nazareth be written by Zade it signifies a flourishing plant or Graff according to that of Isay c. 11. But there shall come a rod forth of the stock of Ishai and a Graff shall grow out of his root and the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him The Inhabitants of this Town at this day shew certain Monuments and Reliques of what had happened in preceeding Ages as two Churches one built there where the Angel Gabriel saluted the Blessed Virgin and she conceived by the Spirit in which there stands three Altars hew'n out of a Rock and the other built as they say where the house of Ioseph and Mary stood because there our Saviour Christ was brought up Also they shew a Well where the Child Jesus drew Water and ministred to his Mother they also shew the vast Ruins of the Synagogue where our Saviour Christ expounded the sixty first Chapter of Isay for which cause they would have thrown him headlong down the Hill Luke 4. and many other things of which you may read in Borchardus the Monk In Saint Ierom's time some forty years before Christ Nazareth was a small Town called Nazarah Of the Mountains by which Mary passed when she went to visit her Cousin Elizabeth BEtween Nazareth and Ierusalem there standeth many high Hills as Mount Gilboa whereon King Saul killed himself Mount Gerisim and Hebal upon which Hills the Blessings and Cursings were pronounced Deut. 27. and Mount Ephraim upon which Ehud kill'd Eglon King of the Moabites Iudg. 13. Over this Mountain being very great and steep Mary travelled when she went to visit her Cousin Elizabeth Of Bethlehem THERE were two Cities called by this name the one Bethlem Iudah the other Bethlem Euphrata where our Saviour Christ was born and signifieth fruitful or the house of Bread It stood upon a Hill some six miles from Ierusalem towards the South The Inhabitants take upon them to shew the place where our Saviour Christ was born which stood upon the East side of the City close by the Wall thereof where as Eusebius saith Hellen the Mother of Constantine the Great caused to be built a fair and stately Church three hundred and twenty years afte● the Nativity of Christ. This Church was dedicated to St. Mary and remaineth to this day being had in great honour both amongst the Christians and the Turks and Saracens This Church is such a stately building that it is thought to exceed all the Churches of Christendom for Beauty and curious Workmanship It is two hundred twenty eight Foot long and eighty seven Foot wide being built all of Marble of divers colours and covered with Lead there are in it four rowes of Marble Pillars wonderful to look upon not only in regard of their number but of their greatness for there is fifty Pillars in every row The Body of this Church the Pillars from the bottom to the top the Walls and every part of it is beautified with lively Pictures adorned with divers Colours Silver Gold and curious Workmanship so as it is wonderful to behold The Pavement of it is of Marble polished and of divers colours so cunningly set in Works and with such variety that it is very delightful to such as look

away and we that are wounded are made whole as with a most precious Balsom Isa. 53. Hellen the Empress in an Orchard close by this Town set up a fair and beautiful Church over the Sepulchre of the Virgin Mary which she called by the name of the Mother of God Niceph. lib. 2. cap. 30. It is said that this Sepulchre remaineth to this day in this Church made of white polished Marble standing about eight and forty steps under ground being something wider than the Sepulchre of Christ in it there is two doors one to go in another to go out But whether this be the right Sepulchre of the blessed Virgin it concerneth us not since it appertaineth not to our Salvation neither is mentioned in the holy Scriptures but if any Man be desirous to be further satisfied in it let him read Nice●horus who makes mention of that and her Ascension both in my Opinion of like Credit because I suppose that Saint Luke who wrote the Acts of the Apostles and lived in those times would not have omitted so memorable an Action But to return to the Garden of Gethsamene About some fifty paces towards the East of this Sepulchre of the blessed Virgin close by the foot of the Mount of Olives stands a certain Chappel just in the place where sometimes the Town of Gethsamene stood Not far from this Chappel is shewn a certain hollow place under a Rock where the Inhabitants say our Saviour sweat drops of Blood They also shew a certain stone whereon the Angels stood which comforted our Saviour Descending thence about a stones cast they shew unto Pilgrims a place close by the Cave in the Mount of Olives where Peter James and John sat when our Saviour was in his Agony They also shew the place where Peter cut off Malchus Ear. There is to be seen a memorable Place where Judas betrayed our Saviour with a kiss when he delivered him to the Jews Not far off is to be seen the Place where the Jews fell backward when our Saviour ask'd them Whom seek ye Besides many other things if Borchardus may be credited as the Impression of his hair and head upon a stone and of his finger as if it had been in Wax upon a Rock and in the place where he prayed of his Hands and Knees which are so firm in stone that they cannot be defaced with any Instrument But there have been many in this place since these times which have seen none of these things from whence may be gathered that they have been idle delusions used by ancient Monks to get money from Pilgrims and Strangers and I have here remembred them that others knowing these may beware of the like Fallacies and Deceits purposely invented for Lucre's sake This Garden of Gethsamene is credibly thought to have been planted in former times by the Kings David and Solomon but increased and inlarged by other succeeding Princes that there they might recreate themselves and receive some content by the Fruits of the Earth But on the contrary that great King the anointed of the Lord our blessed Saviour in this place of Pleasure this Paradice of the Iews was constrain'd to undergo that almost unsupportable Passion to make us partakers of that heavenly Paradice and place of Pleasure Not far from hence is to be seen the place where Iudas hanged himself and a little from that the Field of Akeldama which was bought with the thirty Silverlings for which Iudas betrayed Christ. This Field by the appointment of the Empress of Hellen was compassed about with four Walls in the manner of a Tower upon the top whereof there are seven distinct doors like Windows by which the dead Bodies of Christians are let down into it it is fifty foot wide and seventy two long It standeth not far from the Valley of Hinnon towards the East and upon the South-side of Mount Sion in Ierusalem c. Of Kidron or Cedron THIS Brook was so called because of the blackness of the Water being derived of Kadar to wax black The Mountain whence it first riseth stands not far from Ierusalem towards the South from whence it runeth through the Valley of Jehosaphat which Valley being very fat and fertile changeth the colour of the Water and makes it look black and so through Jerusalem then passing towards the East over a cliff of Mount Olivet it falleth into the Lake Asphaltites When there falls any store of Rain the Channel is very full but in Summer it is oftentimes dry with the extremity of Heat Over this Brook David passed when he was persecuted by his Son Absolon 2 Sam. 16. and our Saviour Christ when hedrank of the River in the Way that is when he suffered upon the Cross for the Sin of Man according to that Saying of the Psalmist Psal. 69. save me O God because the Waters are entred even into my Soul Of Mount Calvary THIS Mountain according to the common Opinion was so called of dead Mens Skulls or the Skulls of such who were put to death for some capital Offence It stood upon the West-side of Jerusalem as you go out of the ancient Gate and is a part of Mount Gihon At this day it standeth within the City of Jerusalem together with the Sepulchre of our Saviour and upon it is built a fair Church which is joyned unto the Church of the holy Sepulchre being as it were a Quire unto it But it standeth somewhat lower It is built all of Marble and the inside is all polished and wrought very curiously It is also paved with the same Stone Within it is seen a piece of the Pillar of Stone to which they say Christ was tied when he was whipped in which Stone are to be seen certain red specks as if they had been drops of Bloud and these also they say were the Blood of Christ when he was scourged besides many other things of which you may read at the beginning of this Treatise in the description of Ierusalem as it is at this day The Description of the holy Sepulchre THE Sepulchre of Christ stood upon the West side of Ierusalem close by Mount Golgatha in the Garden of Ioseph of Arimathea for it was the custom of the Iews to build their Tombs or Sepulchres in their Orchards and Gardens and beautifie and adorn them with Lillies Roses and other Flowers on purpose to put them in mind of their Mortality according to that of David Psal. 103. The days of Man are like Grass as a Flower of the Field so flourisheth he for the Wind goeth over it and is gone and the Place thereof shall know it no more And for this cause the Iews but especially the Kings would be buried in their Gardens so Ioseph a good and just Man following this custom had hewed him out of a Rock a new Monument in which there had been no Man laid that so when he walked in the Garden to take the Air he might be put in mind of his Mortality