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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52. THE MOVNTAINE MORIA,
the which in
another place is called the lande of vision,* 1.1 and the
mountaine of the temple,* 1.2 and the mountaine of the
daughter of Sion,* 1.3 lying neere vnto the easte wall of
the cittie,* 1.4 being very high, stoany, and very steepe
rounde about.* 1.5 In this mountaine Abraham being
ready to offer vp his sonne Isaac, in steede of him offe∣red
vp a Ramme which was taken, by the hornes in a
thicket. This was the very same mountaine which
Dauid bought of Streuna or Ornan the Iebusite for six
hundred sicles of goulde: and erecting an alter in his
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threshing flower, he offered a burnt offering vnto the
Lorde,* 1.6 which the fire from heauen consumed. After∣ward
in the same mountaine Salomon builded vnto
the Lorde a moste excellent Temple both for large∣nesse
and bewtie; whereof mention shalbe made here∣after.