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.

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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.
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Bünting, Heinrich, 1545-1606.
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London :: Printed by Adam Islip,
1636.
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Bible -- Geography -- To 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A17140.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.

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Of Naim.

NAim signifies Fruitfull and pleasant: it stood 48 miles from Ierusalem towards the North; and typically representeth the condition of this world. For the children of this world liue in all manner of pleasures and delights, neuer thinking of any sorrow til death seiseth on them; but then that ouerturns all, and those delights become loathsome vnto them. Notwithstanding this one comfort wee haue left vs, Hope in Christ Iesus; who as e raised the Widowes son (at the gates of this city) from death

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to life, will by his mighty power raise vs againe at the last day, from the bowels of the earth, and make vs partakers with him of an heauenly habitation. It stood in the land of Samaria; and in the tribe of Issacher about two miles off it, vpon the East side, stood mount Tabor; & a little from it vpon the South side stood mount Hermon the lesser; and extended it selfe thence vnto the sea of Galile, 16 miles. Of these two hils you may read, Psal. 89. And about 2 miles from Naim Westward Sunem is to be seene, to which the Prophet Elisaeus sometimes resorted, 2 Reg. 4.

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