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 years, eight months and six days after the building of it.

The first founder of it was a Canaantish prince called Melchizedeck, which in the Hebrew language signifies a just king; for such as he in an eminent manner. He first dedicated the city to God; erected a temple in it, and officiated in the quality of a priest. giving it one name of Jerusalem, which before was called Solyma.

When David the king of the Jews came afterwards to drive out the Canaanites, he planted his own people there: And in four hundred and seventy seven years and three months after this, it was laid waste by the Babylonians.

From the reign of David there, to the destruction of the city by Titus, it was one thousand one hundred seventy nine years; and two thousand one hundred and seventy seven from the foundation of it. But neither the antiquity, wealth, fame, nor the honour of the religion itself, was any security against the appointments of fate, and them which afterwards saw it could not believe that ever there had been such a city there, yet the dispised Jews begged leave to build part of the city, but after sixty five years, when they began to revolt. Then Elius Adrianus the Emperor slew many thousands of them: And when his fury was over, he took one part of the city without the wall mount Calvery and Christ's sepulchre, and made a spacious city, which he called after his own name, Amelia Capitolia, which was inhabited by all nations, but most by Christians for five hundred years, and in six hundred and thirty nine, it was taken by the Egyptians and Saracens, who held it four hundred years ; and in one thousand and thirty nine, it was regained by Godfrey Bollogn, who being elected king, refused to be crowned with a crown of gold where Christ was crowned with a crown of thorns: