SECT. I. The Maps too officious.
YOU will see in some Maps, the Syrophenician woman pictured making her sup∣plication to our Saviour for her possessed daughter, almost at the Gates of Sidon. But by what right, I fear the Authors will not tell me with solidity enough.
In one of Adrichomius's, the woman is pictured and no inscription added: but in the Dutch one of Doet, she is pictured with this Inscription, Hier badt de Cananeische Uron voor s••ine dochter, Here the Canaanitish Woman prayed for her daughter, Matth. XV. In that of Geilkirch, with these words written at it, Porta Sidonis, ante quam mulier Canaanaea filiae suae Doemoniacae a Domino salutem obtinuit: The Gate of Sidon, before which the Ca∣naanitish Woman obtained health for her daughter possessed with a Devil, Matth. XV.
Before the gate of Sidon (saith Borchard the Monk) Eastward, there is a Chappel built in the place, where the Canaanitish Woman prayed our Saviour for her Demoniacal daughter: concerning whom we read thus, Matth. XV. that going out of the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, she came to Jesus.
There are two things, which plainly disagree with that situation, and opinion.
I. That it is not credible, that Christ ever passed the bounds of the Land of Israel. For when he said of himself, I am not sent but to the lost sheep of Israel only: and to his Disciples, Go not into the way of the Gentiles: and, If these wonderful works had been done