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The first circumstance.

First therefore for the place where he was converted, it appeareth to be Jericho, a City not far distant from Jerusalem. It was sometime a notable City, till it was subverted and ruinated by the Lords Champion Joshua. ¹It was builded again in the days of Ahab, by Hiell the Bethelite, and remaineth at this day with the rest of that ⟨image 33⟩²holy land, under the Turkish Empire. Unto this Jericho, the Lord of heaven and earth vouchsafeth to come in the likeness of a servant. And as Joshua compassed Jericho seven times minding to destroy it, so Christ the true Joshua, resorted oftentimes to Jericho, minding to save it. But as in the destruction of Jericho, Joshua spared none but Rahab the harlot: so Jesus in his journey to Jericho, converted none but Zaccheus the Publican. When Joshua had conquered & razed Jericho, he sowed salt in it to make it barren, and cursed him that should attempt to build it up: yet in this barren soil Christ hath his spiritual harvest, and in this cursed City he hath a holy Temple, a blessed building. Samaria that wicked City affordeth many that believe in Christ. Joh. 4. 39. And out of Galilee, from whence they thought no good thing might come, John 1. verse 46. Christ called divers of his Apostles, and even in Jericho this cursed City, Christ ³hath a rich man that is to be saved. In every place Christ hath his chosen. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, Barbarian nor Scythian, bond nor free, but Christ is all in all, to all that call upon him,