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A55881	Antient Christianity revived being a description of the doctrine, discipline, and practice of the little city of Bethania : collected out of her great charter, the Holy Scriptures, and confirmed by the same for the satisfaction and benefit of the house of the poor / by one of her inhabitants who desireth to worship God after the way which some men call heresie.	Pardoe, William, d. 1692.	1688 (1688)	Wing P348; ESTC R27527	83,441	196

pure Image So then the World which lyeth in Wickedness 1 John 5.19 1 Cor. 1.12 by all its Wisdom knoweth not good For the Workers of Iniquity have no Knowledge and when the Sons of Ely became the Sons of Belial then they knew not the Lord Yea the Priests said not Psal 14.4 1 Sam. 2.11 Jer. 2.8 1 John 2.5 James 2.19 Where is the Lord And such as handled the Law knew him not Therefore he that saith He knoweth him and keepeth not his Commandments is a Lyar and the Truth is not in him so that to know God by a Speculative Knowledge signifieth little The Devil may be more Excellent herein then men But the saving Knowledge of God Job 42.5 which in Bethania is added to Vertue and it is an Experimental Knowledge by which he is known to be the only good Psal 73.26 Luke 10.42 2 Kings 4.9 John 14.21 Psal 73.24 Psal 121.8 and therefore is chosen to be the only Portion His Counsels are embraced as infallible his Way is chosen and greatly approved his Image is loved wherever it appears and Conformed unto with all possible Exactness Unto such as these he will manifest himself in his Wisdom to guide them in his Power to defend them in his Love to comfort them Cant. 1.2 Heb. 11.6 2 Pet. 3.18 Col. 4.5 Luke 12.5 2 John 1.2 in his Mercy to relieve them and in his Bounty to reward them so that as Persons grow in Grace and in the Knowledge of our Lord Jesus in this Experimental Knowledge it will enable them to walk in Wisdom with him to fear none but God to love nothing but for his sake Acts 20.24 Dan. 6.10 Lam. 1.16 Mat. 3.26 Acts 8.3 Psal 17.15 Cant. 3.4 to leave his Service for no Peril for they see him to be their only good and all things to be but empty without him Therefore Bethania entreth into the inside of Scriptures and looketh through all Ordinances and searcheth into the depth of whole Nature that she may know him who is her only good with whom her Soul is greatly satisfied and in whose Communion as her Soul is walking with him she enjoys unspeakable solace In this Street standeth the Schools of Learning and the Perfection of the Knowledge that is there attained to is for man to know himself and God. CHAP. VI. A Third Pillar in the House of Wisdom is Temperance and it is a famous street in Bethania it cometh from the Word which signifieth Strength Therefore when it dwelleth in the Soul every thing therein is subjected to Reason and Divinity Gal. 5.22 23. It is a Fruit of the Holy Spirit and a State wherein Heaven-born Souls walk with God it is meet to be observed in the Management of the Christian War he that striveth for Masteries is temperate in all things it is a Qualification that must be found in a Bishop and with great Diligence is to be added to Knowledge Sound Doctrine teacheth that Aged Men be sober grave temperate 1 Cor. 9.25 Tit. 1.8 2 Pet. 1.5 Tit. 2.2 Acts 24.25 sound in the Faith in Charity in Patience when Paul reasoned with Felix of Righteousness Temperance and Judgment to come that Doctrine made him tremble For Temperance is a great Enemy to Voluptuousness Where Temperance stands firm in the Soul as a stable Pillar Lust and Self-will are conquered for Temperance is to overcome our selves Tit. 1.7 and so all the Affections to Creatures as Creatures are Crucified in true Temperance and the Soul is kept in a quier Calm Gal. 6.14 Lam. 3.26 1 Thess 4.13 and is not discomposed either by Love or Fear Where Temperance is a ruling Principle joy and sorrow appear in a great Modesty When Temperance guides the Stern and stears the Course there is no Natural Object so delightful nor Cross so distasteful Gen. 22.16 Heb. 11.35 but it can freely leave the one and quietly bear the other Where Temperance is a constant Walk of the Soul Anger and Passion are meer strangers for Temperance is very Meek but Anger i● very Outragious Therefore saith Seneea Prov. 27. Chap. 25.2 Anger and Frenzy are but tu● several Ways of a mans losing 〈◊〉 Wit but the temperate man that ruleth his own Spirit hath that Evi● Passion in Subjection Prov. 16.2 1 Tim. 6.8 and so is better than he that taketh a City Temperance is contented with Food and Rayment though both but mean and maketh no Provision for the Flesh at all but only to supply the Necessities of Nature Rom. 13.14 but Lust and Envy are never satisfied who having obtain and one thing straitway desireth anoter and like the Horse-leach cry Give Give Prov. 30.1.5 Temperance manageth strife both with Men and Devils in great Sobrieties and to the one it saith The Lord forgive thee Luke 25.34 Isa 59.11 and to the other The Lord Rebuke thee But Railing and Immodesty spring from Lust and are never found in Temperance Temperance beareth an Ecclipse from God with great Submission and only mourneth like a Dove not roareth like a Bear so Jesus our Saviour in his great Agony ruied his Spirit with much Modesty saying If it be thy Will Luke 22.42 let this Cup pass from me Therefore Temperance is a pleasant Walk in Bethania and most of the discourse of her Spirit there is not my Will but thine be done and so the whole state of the Soul Act. 26.14 and all the Affections of the sensitive Life are ordered and composed by Temperance John 2.10 and in this Estate she walketh with God and findeth no Occasion of stumbling Isa 28.17 Thus Judgment being laid to the Line and Righteousness to the Plummet a Narrow Path is marked out by these to be a constant Walk of Bethania CHAP. VII THE Fourth Pillar in the House of Wisdom is Patience the which is also divided into three Parts The first of which Luke 21. Numb 12.3 Isa 28.16 is that by which we quietly endure Adversity The second is that by which we bear with great Provocations and Reproaches But the Third is accounted waiting for the Accomplishment of all Promises till their proper Season this is a long Street in Bethania and she hath many a walk with God therein whose mind being firmly fixed there her State is always comfortable and her Soul is kept in perfect Peace Isa 26.3 But as a curious piece of Work is formed out of Iron by Fire and Blows even so also Patience is wrought out by Suffering Rom. 5.3 as it is said Tribulation worketh Patience He that will turn a Withered Tree into shining Glass must first burn it to Ashes and as a Silver or Golden Vessel is made by melting in the Fire so Patience in the first Degree thereof springeth out of Afflictions and therefore he who will have it firmly Rooted in his Soul must dig deep therein for Patience will grow no where but there and

is like the Rainbow Gen. 9.13 never seen but in the Clouds that is no Patience which seemeth to be so when it hath nothing to endure therefore when Patience is begotten by Adversity then it begetteth Experience and at last a Deliverance out of them worketh Hope Rom. 5.45 and Hope encourageth the Soul against future Adversity and setleth it self in God and so the expectation of the Soul is not cut off neither is it exposed to shame Pro. 23.18 Jam. 1.4 Patience therefore is to have its perfect Work if we intend to have Experience and Hope for both these are formed by Patience in the Fire that the Soul may be entire and want nothing Patience taketh up the Cross willingly not like Simon of Cyrene Mat. 27.32 who was compelled to bear it and quietly endures the same Heb. 12.2 despising the shame and reproach thereof only sometimes these words may possibly be u●●ered viz. This is a Grief Jer. 10.9 but I must bear it Jesus our Saviour was condemned in Gabatha the Pavement a place of walking for the Feet but he suffered in Golgotha Joh. 19.16 the place of a Scull with a Crown of Thorns upon his Head and so Head and Hands Side and Feet were all concerned in the Cross yet Patience in him did quietly endure it but at last he went from Golgotha to the Grave thence again ascended to Mount Olivet Luke 24.50 Acts 1.12 Eph. 4.10 Heb. 12.2 Eph. 1.11 22. 1 Pet. 3.22 as if he would bid Bethania farewel and thence he proceeded in ascending and never left till he was gotten far above all Heavens where he sate down on the right hand of the Majesty on high Angels and Principalities being subject unto him So then Patience tho' its Root be in Adversity and may be troden under foot of Men and Devils Job 39.18 yet its Fruit groweth out of the reach of both and like the Ostrich despiseth the trampling Horse and all his furious Riders Patience proceedeth from one of the seven Spirits of God viz. The Spirit of Meekness and that 's the quality of a Lamb Isa 53.7 who though he be slain like a Swine both for Food yet he is not like a Swine in crying being wholly dumb and not opening his mouth while the Life is taken away Those who will follow Christ in good earnest must expect to have Self World and Hell all against them therefore they have need of Patience Luke 21.17 Heb. 10.36 Phil. 1.4 and that will help them upwards in the right-hand passage out of the reach of all these and at last set them in a quiet Repose in the quiet and perfect peace of Bethania But a second degree of Patience is long-suffering under great provocations and reproaches Rev. 5.6 so he that looks through the seven Eyes Rom. 9.22 which also are the seven Spirits endureth with much long-suffering the Vessels of wrath almost fitted for destruction therefore be would not destroy the Old World Gen. 6.3 Zach. 7.13 Gen. 15.16 till he had given them an hundred and twenty years warning in which he waited with the strivings of his Spirit which yet will not always strive with man till Mercy was out of date So also the Iniquity of the Amorites was four hundred years in ripening till at last Lev. 18.28 Deut. 32.19 the Land which they had defiled with their Iniquites spewed them out of its possession So also he waited upon the City Jerusalem 2. Chr. 36.16 Vers 15. because he had compassion upon his People and upon his dwelling place till by reason of the provokings of his Sons and Daughters wrath seized upon them at last when there was no remedy Patience in God is like a Dove with wings Isa 65.2 Nah. 1.3 Hos 5.4 always flying swiftly with the O●ive-Branch of Peace in his mouth still inviting provoking Souls to Mercy but Justice followeth it like a Snail yet those which it overtaketh 't will tear like a Lion. God is flow to Anger but when the Day of wrath is come who shall be able to stand Patience in Bethania standeth against many an Affront Rev. 7.6 and if he be smitten on the one cheek yet it will turn the other also it blesseth them that curseth it and prayeth for them that despitefully use it Acts 7.60 Stephen looked more at heaven whither also he committed his Spirit and from whence he called for Mercy for his enemies than at the Stones that flew about his ears So also James when he was thrown from the Pinacle of the Temple made more haste to his knees that he might pray for his Enemies than to his feet to fly from the Fuller's Club which while he was praying beat out his Brains The Reproach of Christ in Bethania is counted great Riches and she is content to go with him out of the Camp to bear it Heb. 13.13 she careth little for an evil Name seeing she hath obtained a divine Nature there is a time for the rebuke of Christians to be taken quite away Isa 25.8 but there must be a time first to bear it We got shame and reproach to our selves Isa 54.4 by sin and it must be endured a time by suffering Est 6.13 but when Sin is gone shame and reproach will quickly follow it it is time enough to be honoured in Heaven and that honour is eternal but the Honour obtained in this world beginneth to decline like that of Haman before it be come to full perfection therefore provocations and reproaches are but little minded nor yet credit and estimation lightly regarded 2 Cor. 6.8 and so good report and evil report are passed through much alike in the patient Spirit of Bethania But the Third Degree of Patience consisteth in the waiting the accomplishment of Promises Heb. 6.12 Prov. 13.12 and herein Patience is often exercised and though Hope deferred makes the Heart sick yet Patience is an effectual Medicine He that believeth maketh not haste Hab. 2.1 and the just shall live by his Faith therefore Patience sinketh into the Will of God as well for the obtaining of Mercies as for the removing of Afflictions and after it hath patiently waited it inheriteth the Promises C. 7.9 In this Street are the working-houses of Bethania and here she is often labouring in the Fire Mat. 20. and endureth the burden and heat of the Day nevertheless when she passeth through the Fire the Lord is with her Isa 43.2 visiting the Labourers in the Vineyard and in the form of the Fourth which is the Son of God he walketh with her in the midst of the burning fiery Furnace Dan. 3.28 and she with him in this Divine Principle of Patience CHAP. VIII THE fifth Pillar in the House of Wisdom is Godliness Prov. 4 18. and is also a glorious Path even the Path of the Just as a shining light shineth more unto the