Itinerarium totius Sacræ Scripturæ. Or, the trauels of the holy patriarchs, prophets, iudges, kings, our sauiour Christ, and his Apostles, as they are related in the Old and New Testaments. With a description of the townes and places to which they trauelled, and how many English miles they stood from Ierusalem. Also a short treatise of the weights, monies, and measures mentioned in the Scriptures, reduced to our English valuations, quantitie, and weight. Collected out of the workes of Henry Bunting, and done into English by R.B.

Of Capernaum.

THis city was so called from the pleasant and comfortable scituation of it. In the Hebrew text Mathew cals it Caphar∣nacum, i. The town of comfort; being deriued of Nocham, i. Con∣solation. In this town our Sauior dwelt after he had left Naza∣reth, and in it wrought many miracles, as the healing of the sick, casting out of diuels, and such like, whereof you may read, Mat. 8. Mark 1. Luke 5.7. Iohn 4. It stood in the land of Genesareth, vpon the West and North side of Iordan, in an angle of land ioyning to the sea of Galile, 56 miles from Ierusalem Northward, in the tribe of Issacher; and as it is thought by some, iust in the middest of the twelue tribes. Mat. 9. calls it the city of our Sauior. And that Christ was no stranger, but an inhabitant of this city, it is manifest, Mat. 17. where Christ when he gaue tribute to the ma∣gistrats of this city) asked Peter saying, Of whom doe the Kings of the earth take tribute? Peter said, Of strangers: Then, quoth hee, the children are free; yet neuerthelesse, &c. From whence may be gathe∣red that he was no stranger, but an inhabitant in Capernaum. It had vpon the Northside of it the three Tribes, Nepthalim, Aser, and Zabulon; vpon the South, Benjamin, Iuda, Dan, and Sime∣on; vpon the West, Issacher, Ephraim, and the halfe Tribe of Ma∣nasses;

and vpon the East, Reuben, Gad, and the other halfe tribe of Manasses: so that our Sauior Christ dwelt in the midst of the 12 tribes of Israel. Furthermore, it was a goodly market towne, and had as well relation to Tyrus and Sidon (two townes of the Gentiles within 44 miles of it) as to Ierusalem: from whence may be verified that saying of Esa. ca. 8.9. The land of Zebulon and Nepthalim, neere the way of the sea beyond Iordan, and Galile of the Gen∣tiles; a people which sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death, saw a great Light. This town is therfore instly called the city of Com∣fort and Consolation; since our Sauior Christ dwelt there, who with his doctrine and preaching refreshed & comforted all such as were afflicted with the burthen of their sins. But the great men that were inhabitants of this City had more respect to their pri∣uat profit, than to the doctrine & miracles that Christ wrought among them; from whence it came to passe that they did as it were neglect and contemne that good which God had offered vn∣to them: which made our Sauior say, And thou Capernaum, which seemest to be exalted vp vnto heauen, shalt be cast down into hell: for if the miracles had been done in Sodom and Gomorah, which haue been done in thee, they had continued vntill this day. Verily verily I say vnto you, It shall be easier for Sodom and Gomorah in the day of Iudgment, than for thee, Mat. 11. For there was no such benefit offered to any Citie, neither such honours and dignities, as were to Capernaum, our Sauior himselfe dwelling there. Wherefore for their ingratitude and impiety the city hath diuers times bin wasted and destroied, as well by the Romanes as other nations; so that at this day this glorious city is become so desolate, that there is scarce 8 houses standing, and they also like small sheds.