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 2, 2024.
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225 THE MONVMENT ABSOLOM,
* 1.1 is a marble
piller,* 1.2 with an Inscriptiō on the same, distant from
Ierusalem two furlonges: which Absolom beeing a∣liue
set vppe to himselfe for a monument in the kings
valley: where there is as yet to be seene a great heape
of stones, which daily is increased more and more.
For the Pagans and strangers passing by that way, vse
this for a custome, that euery man cast a stone at the
piller, and challenging as it were, according to the
lawe,* 1.3 his rebellion againste his father Dauid, they
cursse him with this malediction, Cursed be the Parri∣cide
Absalom, and accursed be all they for euer, which
vniustly do persecute their parents.* 1.4