Of the gates of Ierusalem.
IT had twelue gates to goe out and in: Vpon the East side lay fiue, the first of which was the Fountaine gate, which was so called of the Fountaine Siloah. And this stood close by the gate
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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- 1636.
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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 3, 2024.
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of mount Sion. In which Fountain, the man that was borne blind washt himselfe at the commandement of our Sauiour, and had his sight restored, Ioh. 9. and at this gate Christ came riding in vp∣on an Asse, when he came from Bethania, on Palme Sunday.
2 The Sheepe-gate, which was so called of the multitude of sheepe that were driuen in by it, to be offered in the Temple (for it stood hard by the temple.) Right before this gate stood mount Oliuet, some halfe an English mile and a furlong from Ierusalem, Eastward. By it stood the Garden called Gethsemane, where Christ was taken, and led into the citie through this gate; to be offered vp like an innocent sheepe, for the sinnes of the whole World.
3 The Dung-gate: this tooke the name from a dung-hill, because the raine water comming with great power through the Citie, washed nway the filth, and with great violence, carried it through this gate into the poole Cedron. Not far from this gate was the water gate, and stood a little within it.
4 The Valley-gate, which tooke the name of the valley Ieho∣saphat, and lay not farre from the other gate. Hereabouts also stood the Dragon gate.
5 The Horse-gate, and stood just in the joyning of the East and North part of the Citie: it tooke the name from the Kings horses, as appeareth, Ier. 31. Neh. 3.