from Jerufalem, to the weft of it. It was afterwards made a CHAP. city, and Roman colony, and called Nicopolis.

VII.

3.

lilee, where

After this the difciples, according to our Lord's directions, went into Galilee, to a certain mountain, which he had par- of the ticularly appointed them to repair to, where our Lord appears mountinGa to them. This mountain is thought by fome to be the fame our Lord apwhereon he was transfigured, or mount Tabor; by others to peared to his Apostles afbe the fame with the mountain of Beatitudes, lying north of ter his refurthe fea of Galilee, a little beyond Capernaum, and mentioned above, chap. v. fect. 1.

rection.

4.

Our Lord

appears at the fea of

During the disciples ftay in Galilee, our Lord appears again to them at the fea of Tiberias or Galilee, otherwife called the lake of Gennefareth; which is already defcribed, Tiberias, chap. iv. fect. 8.

5. At several

not mentioned in the

ment.

Our Lord was feen at several other times, and therefore in all probability at feveral other places; for he was, as St. Paul other places informs us, feen of Cephas or Peter alone, then of the twelve; after that, of above five hundred brethren at once; after that, New Testaof James, the first bishop of Jerufalem; then of all the Apoftles, 1 Cor. xv. 5, 6. But the particular places, where he was thus feen, are not recorded in holy Writ, excepting those already mentioned, and the place where he made his last appearance, when he afcended, which remains therefore only to be spoken to.

6.

Of the place

whence our

ed up into heaven.

The Apostles then being returned out of Galilee to Jerufalem, and our Lord being there on the fortieth day after his refurrection affembled together with them, commanded them, that Lord afcendthey should not depart from Jerufalem, till they had received the promife of the Holy Ghoft. After which, having given them fuch inftructions as he thought good, he led them forth to mount Olivet, as far as to Bethany. Here he lift up his hands and blefied them. And it came to pafs while he blessed ther, and they beheld, he was parted from them, taken up and carried into heaven, a cloud receiving him out of their fight. And while they locked up stedfaftly towards heaven, as he went up, behold two men stood by them in white apparel, who faid, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This fame JESUS,

I.

PART JESUS, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have feen him go into heaven. The Apostles having heard this, adored JESUS; and forthwith returned from mount Olivet to Jerufalem, with great joy, that they had been ocular witneffes of his afcenfion up into heaven, as he had long fince promised them they one day should.

Mr. Maundrel fays, that the place now-a-days fhewn for the place of our Lord's afcenfion, is at the top of an hill on the mount Olivet; where was anciently a large church, built in honour of that glorious triumph. But all that now remains of it, is only an octagonal (or eight-angled) cupola, about eight yards in diameter, ftanding, as they fay, over the very place where were set the last footsteps of the Son of God here on earth. Within the cupola there is feen, in a hard stone, as they tell you, the print of one of his feet. Here was also the print of the other foot fome time fince; but it has been removed hence by the Turks into the great mofque on mount Moriah. The chapel of the Afcenfion the Turks have the cuftody of, and use it for a mosque.

About two furlongs from this place northward is the higheft part of mount Olivet, and upon that was anciently erected an high tower, in memory of the two angels that appeared to the Apostles immediately upon our Lord's ascension, saying, Men of Galilee, &c. Acts i. 10, II. from which the tower itself had the name given it of Men of Galilee! This ancient monument remained till about two years fince, when it was demolished by a Turk, who had bought the ground in which it ftood. But nevertheless you have ftill, from the natural height of the place, a large profpect of Jerufalem and the adjacent country.

And thus I have gone through the defcription of the several places honoured with our Saviour's prefence here on earth, and of all the other places or countries mentioned or referred to in the four Gospels.

A

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

OF THE

MOST REMARKABLE PASSAGES

OF

OUR SAVIOUR'S LIFE,

RECORDED IN THE FOUR GOSPELS:

Which ferves to fhew the Time of our Saviour's Journeyings, or in what Year of his Life they were performed.

VOL. II.