The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

SECT. I. The Situation of the Probatica.

IT is commonly said that the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the Probatica, or the Sheep-gate, (for let us annex the word Gate to it out of Nehem. III. 1.) or at least Bethesda was neer the Temple. Consult the Commentators and they almost all agree in this opinion; with their good leave, let it not be amiss to interpose these two or three things.

I. That no part of the outward wall of the City (which this sheep-gate was) could be so neer the Temple, but that some part of the City must needs lye between. Betwixt the North gates and the Temple, Zion was situated. On the West was part of Zion and Millo. On the South Jerusalem, as it is distinguisht from Zion. On the East the East-street, whose Gate is not the sheep-gate, but the water-gate.

II. The 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the sheep-gate, according to Nehemiah's description, should be situated on the South-wall of the City not far from the corner that pointed South-East. So that a considerable part of Jerusalem lay betwixt the Temple and this Gate.

We have elswhere made it plain that Zion was situated on the North-part of the City, contrary to the mistake of the Tables, which place it on the South. Now therefore con∣sider to how great an extent the wall must run before it can come to any part of Zion; to wit, to the stairs that go down from the City of David, v. 15. which were on the West; and thence proceed to the Sepulchres of David, v. 16. till it come at length to

the water-gate and Ophel toward the East, v. 26. and thence to the corner neer which is the sheep-gate, v. 31, 32. and this will plainly evince that the description and progress in Nehemiah is first of the South-wall, from the sheep-gate to the West-corner; then of the West-wall, and so to the Northern and the Eastern, which makes it evident that the sheep-gate is on the South-wall, a little distant from the corner which looks South-East, which could not but be a considerable distance from the Temple, because no small part of Jeru∣salem as it was distinguisht from Zion, laid between.