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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6. THE PARLOVR OF SION
was scituate about
the middest of mount Sion,* 1.1 being large, paued,* 1.2 and
verie faire:* 1.3 wherein Christ in his last supper did eate
the paschall Lambe with his disciples,* 1.4 washed their
feete, and instituted the sacrament of his most blessed
body and bloud.* 1.5 In the fame, on the day of his resur∣rection
(when he was entered,* 1.6 the dores being shut)
standing in the middest of his disciples, he shewed vn∣to
them the wounds of his side, of his hands and feete,
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and did eate before them: after that, breathing vpon
them,* 1.7 he gaue them the holy ghost, and therewithall
power to remit, and reteine the sinnes of all manner
persons. The eight day after this, here he offered vn∣to
Thomas the Apostle the prints and scarres of the
speare and nailes to see and feele.* 1.8 Here, after the Lords
ascension,* 1.9Matthias was by lot chosen into the Apo∣stleship
of Iudas the traitour. Here on the day of Pen∣tecost,
the holy Ghost came downe in a great sounde,
and in the forme of fierie toonges, lighted vppon one
hundred and twenty beleeuers: and at the first sermon
of Peter, three thousand Iewes were conuerted and
baptized. In this place Iames the Lordes brother sir∣named
Iust,* 1.10 was by the Apostles created the first Bi∣shop
of Ierusalem: and Stephen with six more, were
ordained Deacons. Heere the Apostles entered into
the first consultation, or councell, and set downe the
twelue Articles of Christian faith.