A briefe description of Hierusalem and of the suburbs therof, as it florished in the time of Christ Whereto is annexed a short commentarie concerning those places which were made famous by the Passion of Christ, and by the actes of holye men, confirmed by certeine principall histories of antiquity. Verie profitable for Christians to read, for the understanding of the Sacred Scriptures and Iosephus his Historie. Hereunto also is appertaining a liuely and beawtifull mappe of Hierusalem, with arithmeticall directions, correspondent to the numbers of this booke. Translated out of Latin into English by Thomas Tymme minister.
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A briefe description of Hierusalem and of the suburbs therof, as it florished in the time of Christ Whereto is annexed a short commentarie concerning those places which were made famous by the Passion of Christ, and by the actes of holye men, confirmed by certeine principall histories of antiquity. Verie profitable for Christians to read, for the understanding of the Sacred Scriptures and Iosephus his Historie. Hereunto also is appertaining a liuely and beawtifull mappe of Hierusalem, with arithmeticall directions, correspondent to the numbers of this booke. Translated out of Latin into English by Thomas Tymme minister.
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Adrichem, Christiaan van, 1533-1585.
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London :: Printed by Peter Short for Thomas Wright,
1595.
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"A briefe description of Hierusalem and of the suburbs therof, as it florished in the time of Christ Whereto is annexed a short commentarie concerning those places which were made famous by the Passion of Christ, and by the actes of holye men, confirmed by certeine principall histories of antiquity. Verie profitable for Christians to read, for the understanding of the Sacred Scriptures and Iosephus his Historie. Hereunto also is appertaining a liuely and beawtifull mappe of Hierusalem, with arithmeticall directions, correspondent to the numbers of this booke. Translated out of Latin into English by Thomas Tymme minister." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A05059.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2024.
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191 THE MOVNT OLIVET
; or mounte of Oliues, so
called by reason of the great plenty of oliues which
grew there: called also in Greeke Elaeon, which other∣wise
also is named the famous, and holy mountaine.
It was situate on the east side of Ierusalem. It was se∣perated
from the high cittie, the valley of Cedron ly∣ing
betwen, distant from the cittie a Saboth daies ior∣ney,
according to the Scripture: but according to Io∣sephus,* 1.1
it was distant fiue furlonges: who also addeth
that the top of the hill was six furlongs from the citty.* 1.2
For it was of so greate hight,* 1.3 that from the same, not
only almost all the streetes of Ierusalem but also the
dead sea,* 1.4 might easily be seene. And besides the oliues
it abounded with palmes,* 1.5 pines, mirtells, and other
fruitful trees.
In the toppe of this hill, the holy king Dauid fleeing
from the face of his sonne Absolom, weping, and bare∣footed
worshipped God.* 1.6 In this mountaine also his
sonne Salomon forgetting all godlinesse,* 1.7 erected a
temple to Astaroth the Idole of the Sidonians,* 1.8 right
ouer against the temple of Ierusalem (from whence e∣uery
one that committed Idolatry mighte beeseene.)
The which also with all other places dedicated to I∣dols,
Iosias vtterly destroied.
Christ often times came vp into this mountaine,
both for quietnesse sake and also to pray,* 1.9 tarieng there
all the night.* 1.10 Also from the top of this mount, he as∣cended
into heauen,* 1.11 in the presence of his disciples
standing there and behoulding him, after he had bles∣sed
them.