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 3, 2024.

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Of Lots two Daughters.

LOt escaping this desolation, and seeing a president of Gods iudgement fallen vpon his wife for her disobedience, fearing that he should not continue safe in Zoar, left that & turned aside into the wildernesse, and continued there among the mountains, although the Lord had promised him safety in this town: wher∣fore continuing in a Caue in the Wildernesse, the eldest of his daughters losing her husband in this destruction, supposing that all men had beene destroyed from off the earth, counselled her sister to commit incest with her father. Lot being now oppressed with care, by reason of the former calamities, gaue himself at the inticement of his daughters, to drinke Wine, insomuch as with the excesse he became drunke: at which time not being himselfe he begat by his two daughters two sonnes: the eldest had a sonne whom shee called Moab, which signifies The begotten of his Fa∣ther; whereby the impudencie of this woman is laid open to the World, in that she was not ashamed of her sinne. Of him came

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the Moabites, and dwelt vpon the North side of the lake Asphal∣tides, some 32 miles from Ierusalem. The yongest daughter had a son, which she called Ben-ammy, that is, The son of my people; for although she bare him with great shame, yet she dwelt among the people of God. Of him came the Ammonites that dwelt be∣yond mount Gilead, threescore miles from Ierusalem Northeast∣ward.

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