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 Bethania.

THis city was a type of the Church, which is alwaies subject to the Crosse, and exposed to euery calamitie; and therefore is called Bethania, that is, The house of sorrow and affliction: be∣ing deriued of Baith, an House; and Oni, Affliction. According to the prophecie of our Sauiour, who foretold of the afflictions and tribulations that should fall vpon his Church, You shall mourn, but you shall be comforted, and your griefe shall be turned into ioy. It was di∣stant from Ierusalem almost two miles towards the South-East. Borchardus the Monke obserueth, That close by a Well about a stones cast out of this Towne, there is shewed the place where Martha met our Sauiour Christ when he came to Bethania, and a little after called her sister to meet him, Iohn cap. 11. There is al∣so shewne in this Towne the house of Simon the Leper, where •• certaine woman hauing an Alabaster boxe of pretious Ointment

poured it on our Sauiors head, not without the great indignation of his Disciples, Matth. 26. There is also to be seene the house of Martha, to which our Sauiour did oftentimes resort, Luk. 10. Ioh. 11. & 12. and in that place there is at this day a Church built in honour of those two sisters, which were the sisters of Lazarus. There is also seen the sepulchre out of which Lazarus was raised from death to life, Ioh. 11. which stands close by the said Church, and ouer it is built a chappell of Marble, very decent and come∣ly. The Saracens hold this Chappell in great estimation. You cannot see the citie of Ierusalem from Bethania because of the mount of Oliues, but as soon as you ascend a little hill in the way as you got hence to Ierusalem, you may discerne mount Sion and a part of the city: then when you are discended from that hill, the citie is againe hidden. After that vpon the left side of the mount of Oliues, some stones cast from Bethpage, you doe leaue a small village standing vnder the mountaine of Offence, where Solomon in times past committed Idolatry. From this village the Asse and the Colt was brought vnto Christ. Not farre from thence, vpon the South side as you goe vpon the Mount of Oliues, you come vnto the place where Christ mounted vpon the Asse, as we reade, Matth. 21. And a little after you may see the whole citie of Ieru∣salem, with Solomons Temple, and the Church of the holy sepul∣chre, with many other holy places. Then as you descend from the top of the mount of Oliues, you may see the place where the multitude cryed, Hosanna, blessed be he that commeth in the name of the Lord. And in this discent also our Sauiour Christ wept ouer Ierusalem, saying, O Ierusalem, Ierusalem, how often would I haue ga∣thered thee vnder my wings as a Hen gathereth her Chickens, but thou wouldest not?