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 Heliopolis, or the Citie of the Sunne.

THis City is called by the Prophet Esay Ca. 19. Irheri, which signifies The Citie of the Sunne, and is deriued of Ir and Che∣res which signifies The brighnesse of the Sunne, and is distant from Ierusalem 224 miles towards the Southwest, six miles and a halfe from Zoan or Tanis. This was a goodly Citie, and in times past the Kings of Aegypt haue in that place kept their Courts and places of residence. Here was a flourishing Academie, wherein was taught Astronomie, Cosmographie, and many other liberall

arts and sciences, with great care and diligence, but principally diuinitie (as Munster saith) being adorned with many benefits and priuiledges: for it was thought that the Patriarch Ioseph was the first founder of it, and taught there, Gen. 47. Here dwelt Dionisius the Areopagit, a studient of Athens, who at such time as our Sa∣uiour Christ was crucified, at noone day (the Moone then being in the full) seeing the Sunne totally darkened, said to this master Apollophan, Either the God of nature suffereth, or the fabricke of the world is dissolued. The said Dionisius was afterward conuerted by the Apostle Paul, in the citie of Athens.