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 Mysia.

THis is a country of Asia the lesse, bordring vpon Helle spont and Troada; being diuided into two parts, that is, the grea∣ter and the lesse. That part that bordreth vpon Troada, is distant from Ierusalem 800 miles Northwestward: but that which is cal∣led Mysia the lesse, and bordring vpon Lydia, is 1028 miles from Ierusalem Northwestward. In this countrey stood Pergamus, to which Iohn wrote his Reuelation; Scepsis where one Neleus kept the bookes of Aristotle til Apollonius time, also Antandrus, Adra∣mitium, Tranoiapolis, and Apollinia, which stood close by the riuer Thyndaeus.

The inhabitants were men of a base condition, and contemned of the world, insomuch as they became a prouerbe, as often as a man would denote a thing of no estimation, they would say Vltimum esse Mysiorum, that is, It is worse than the Mysians, as it

appeareth in Cicero's oration for Flaccus. Yet notwithstanding, Paul and Iohn the Euangelist preached the doctrine and light of the Gospell to this poore and despised people, so that the Mysi∣ans, which were a contemptible and abhominable nation before all the world, were not so before God, for they were conuerted at the preaching of Iohn and Paul: From whence he saith, Not many wise according to the flesh, not many mightie, not many noble; but God hath chosen the foolish things of this world, that they might confute and ouerthrow the wise, &c. 1. Cor. 1.

In times past they were a great people, though of smal estima∣tion, for they had vnder their iurisdiction, Lydia, Caria, Perga∣mus, Thyatira, Sardis, Philidelphia, and Laodicea; to many of which Iohn wrote his Revelation. Also (as Herodotus saith, Lib. 7.) the Mysians and Teucrians, before the Trojan war, past into Eu∣rope, and there woon and held Thracia, Macedonia, and all the land to the Adriatick sea, &c.