JERUSALEM'. 319 
with that afforded by the eade at the tomb of chap. 
•^ * VII. 
Theseus, in the Isle of Scyra, when Cimon the '■ y > 
y^ihenian sought the bones of the son o^ yEgeus*. 
It is time to quit these degrading fallacies ; 
to break from our Monkish instructors; and, 
instead of viewing Jerusalem as pilgrims, to 
examine it by the light of History, with the 
Bible in our hands. We shall thus find many 
interesting objects of contemplation. If Mount Plan for 
Calvary have sunk beneath the overwhelming of the city, 
influence of superstition, studiously endeavour- 
ing, during so many ages, to modify and to 
disfigure it; if the situation of Mount Sion 
yet remain to be ascertained'; the Mount of 
Olives, undisguised by fanatical labours, exhibits 
the appearance it presented in all the periods 
of its history. From its elevated summit 
almost all the principal features of the city 
may be discerned ; and the changes that eighteen 
situation of our Saviour's cross, contrived at last to produce three 
crosses. This caused a woful dilemma, as it was not easy to ascertain 
which of those three belonged to our Saviour. Macariiis, bishop of 
Jerusalem, soon decided this point, by touching the body of a woman 
who had " an incurable disorder" with these crosses. Her miraculous 
cure made known" the true cross." See Sandi/s,p. 169. Land. 1637. 
., (4) Plutarch, in Thes. 
(5) See Reland. Palast. lUust. torn. II. pp. 845, 846, et scq. Traj. 
Bat. 1714. 
VOL. IV. X 
