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.

The Trauels of the Egyptian maid Hagar.

AFter Sara had preferred Hagar to that high grace as to make her equal with her selfe, shee growing proud thereof, con∣temned her Mistresse, and in recompence of that fauour carried her selfe very presumptuously towards her; which Sarah seeking to restraine, offered to her sonne hard measure; which Abraham (vpon her complaint) winked at: Whereupon Hagar, partly op∣prest with griefe, partly with enuy, priuily stole away from her mistresse, and went from the valley of Mamre neer Hebron, to the Well of life sixteene miles Southward, Genesis 16. and it is to be thought that her journey tended towards Egypt, which was her natiue countrey. For this Well lay directly in the way as they went downe into Egypt. This flight of Hagar without doubt did greatly trouble Abrahams house, and put him and his wife into a

great sorrow and feare, lest she should destroy her self and the in∣fant, or fall into some other danger. Wherefore that God might make euident the exceeding care he had of them, he sent an angel vnto Hagar, and willed her to returne vnto her master: which An∣gel some think was the son of God, for he was called by the name of Iehovah, Gen. 16. which name was not communicated to any created Angell. Whereupon Hagar, according to his commade∣ment, went backe againe to her mistresse Sarah into the valley of Mamre, 16 miles, Gen. 16.

From Hebron Hagar went with her mistresse to that kingly ci∣ty Gerar, 6 miles, Gen. 20.

At Gerar she and her sonne Ismael were put out of her masters house, and going in the way that leadeth into Egypt, they lost themselues in the wildernes of Beersaba, after they had trauelled 12 miles from Gerar: where opprest with want both of water and other necessaries, she feinted and her son also; wherefore she layd him vnder a tree, and about a bowes shoot off sate down and wept, expecting nothing but death. As shee was in this miserie, God heard the voice of the childe, and sent an Angell vnto her saying, Feare not, for I will make of thy childe a great Nation. And God opened her eies, and lo, close by her there was a Well, so she went and filled her bot∣tle, and gaue her boy drinke. At this time Ismael was 15 yeres of age; So God blessed the child, and he became an Archer, and liued in the wildernesse.

From thence she and her son went into the wildernes of Pha∣ran, 80 miles, where Ismael maried an Egyptian, Gen. 21. So all the trauels of Hagar the Egyptian maid were 132 miles.