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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

Soul and Edifieth it which is the only Design of Divinity in all its various Operations So then Singing of Psalms is used in Bethania For the Song of Hosannah was sung very near it Mat. 21.9 but it is used there as a Gift of the Holy Spirit peculiar only to him that hath it and not as an Ordinance of God which respecteth all Yet nevertheless Praising of God is an Ordinance of God according to the Principles of Nature proper to all Creatures and so all the Works of God do Praise him but do not Sing unto him except only when their Spirits are Elevated and then the Trees of the Wood sing out and clap their Hands Psal 145.10 Isa 24.7 Isa 55.13 when the Celestial Influences have quickened them in the Spring and Summer and their Voice is uttered in their Leaves Blossoms and Fruit. But when those Influences are withdrawn then they retire and are silent all the Winter Season and so the Sun Moon and Stars Psal 148.3 do Praise the Lord by the Influences of his own Vertue that is in them yea Dragons and all Deeps Fire Hail Snow Stormy Wind Mountains Trees Cedars Beafts Cattle Creeping Things Flying Fowls all these Psal 148.7 8 9 10. in their proper Nature Praise the Lord and Sing unto him in that Season when he putteth the Song into their Mouth Bethania's Walks WITH GOD. Now last of all having briefly hinted First At the Doctrine of Bethania And Secondly At some part of her Discipline and Order We hope now Lastly Briefly to lay down her Manner of Life and serious Walks with God and to what Place this Motion Tendeth CHAP. I. THe Conversation and Manner of Life in Bethania is very Divine and Heavenly Gen. 5.22 Chap. 6.9 being a serious Walk with God and a careful Imitation of the innocent and pure Life of Jesus so that as her Inhabitants are begotten by the immortal Seed of the Word of God and born of the Divine Spirit 1 Pet. 1.2 3. John 3.6 which Birth is from above even so their Conversation isin Heaven as the way of Life which is above to the wise Phil. 3.20 Prov. 15.24 Ephes 1.3 Col. 1.3 1 Pet. 1.4 to deliver from the Snares of Hell beneath in which place and State they are and shall be blessed with all Spiritual and Eternal Blessings in and by Christ Jesus And therefore their Affections are set on things above as things that are incorruptible and will never fade away The which being their Everlasting Treasure unto which they are begotten and born as right Heirs of the same even so their Hearts seriously incline towards that place where this Treasure is layed up for them Heb. 11.14 and their Life is framed here on Earth among men as becometh those who expect to live with God in Heaven among Angels and is such a life Phil. 1.27 which is proper and natural to the glorious Gospel of our Lord Jesus in which the Grace apeareth which teacheth us To deny all Vngodliness and Worldly Lusts and to live Righteously Soberly Tit. 2.12 14. and Godly in this present World looking for that blessed Hope and glorious Appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might Redeem us from all Iniquity and Purifie unto himself a peculiar People zealous of good Works that they might shew forth the Praises of him 1 Pet. 2.9 Phil. 2.15 2 Cor. 4.11 Chap. 2.14 Mark 3.45 who hath called them out of Darkness into his marvellous Light in which they shine as lights in the World and manifest the most pure Life of Jesus in their Mortal Flesh making manifest the Savour of his Knowledge in every place which Heavenly Off-spring are of near Affinity with most pure Jesus whose Divine Nature hath deeply Penetrated into their very Souls and changed the Properties thereof from Devilish and Beastial into Divine and Spiritual Tit. 3.3 1 Cor. 6.11 Rom. 8.28 John 3.1 2 Cor. 3.18 Ephes 2.19 Chap. 7.15 Heb. 12.13 Rev. 13.8 Gal. 4.25 and so he is but the first-born among these many Brethren as the glorious Son of God by Natural Generation and the Children of the same God with him by Divine Regeneration So that there is but one Nature Spirit Life and Image in Christ and Christians therefore they are called The Houshold of God and the Family in Heaven the General Assembly and Church of the first-born whose Names are written in the Book of Life of the Lamb stain from the Foundation of the World and so are Fellow-Citizens with the Saints in that Spiritual Jerusalem which is above and is the true Mother of all real Bethanians CHAP. II. BUT now forasmuch as Bethania is scituate on the Mount of Olives and the Earthly Jerusalem is beneath it yet scarce two Miles distant from it and the direct Motion of the true Followers of the Lamb being still upward ascending from a fleshly Glory in a visible Profession Mat. 5.3 into Poverty of Spirit and Resignation to Jesus Ephes 3.8 and so through that Estate into Spiritual and Eternal Riches we shall a little consider the walk of Saints and the walk of the World as they are both hastening apace into Endless Eternity And forasmuch as the Soveraign God in whose hands is all Power and at whose dispose all things must be hath appointed Heaven Earth and Hell these three places to be the Habitation of all Creatures in time and Eternity according to their proper State. Eccles 3.1 It is Earth only that is allotted to Time and Heaven and Hell to Eternity so that Earth stands between Heaven and Hell equally distant and there are three steps by which men ascend from Earth to Heaven and three steps by which they descend from it to Hell. Now Bethania chooseth the way of Life which is strait and narrow Mat. 7.13 and ascendeth upwards but Babel imbraceth the way of Death Job 21.13 Isa 5.14 Rev. 3.16 which is broad and pleasant and descendeth downwards and the Earthly Jerusalem not well liking either of these yet having but a Luke-warm Spirit settleth upon her Lees just between but at last must sink down with Babel like a Millstone Rev. 18.21 Isa 33.14 into the Bottomless deep of Gods Eternal Wrath which the Sinners in Sion as well as the Sinners in Babel shall not be able to escape Now these three steps by which Bethania ascendeth upwards she hath learned of Christ our Lord who himself hath travelled the same way and they are First Deny your selves Secondly Take up the Cross and Thirdly Mat. 16.24 John. 21.26 Follow me and then Where I am there shall also my Servant be But those three steps by which Babel descendeth towards her Infernal Den are wholly of another Nature as they are layed down by the Apostle Phil. 3.19 And are First Their God is their Belly Secondly Their Glory is their Shame and Thirdly Who mind

described are to be submitted unto and had in great Estimation as such who watch for Souls 1 Thoss 5.13 Heb. 13.17 who must also give an account thereof to Jesus the Prince of Shepherds Therefore Their Doctrine is to be belie●ed their Counsel to be regarded the Order to be observed and their Examples to be followed Matt. 9.37 38. Eph. 6.29 1 Pet. 2.1 Rev 1.20 Isa 62.6 who also are earnestly to be prayed for even for their increase in Number and Divine Excellencies That Bethania may have pleaty of Ministerial Bread and her little Children nourished with sincere Milk Her Star-light may be Glorious Her Vision Plain and the Gates of her City carefully watched against all the hurtful Spirits of Babel TWENTIETHLY And now forasmuch as we have already signified that the Holy Scriptures are the great and only Charter of Bethania by vertue of which she holdeth all her Priviledges and from whence she deriveth her whole Doctrine Together with her Discipline and Rules of Life We have also thought convenient to lay down in writing from whence she hath received this Divine and Ancient Charter First Then she believeth That there is an Essential and a Ministerial Word of God which Essential Word is that by which the Eternal and Invisible Deity doth utter his most Sacred Mind Heb. 1.1 Prov. 8.22 and reveal his Secret Counsels to his Creatures both Angels and Men. This Word is He who was with the Father before ever the World was made Jehn 17.5 John 1.12 Heb. 1.3 Col. 1.15 16 17. Psal 78.24 25. Mat. 4 4. Deut. 8.3 John 6.5 7. Chap. 14. Heb. 4.12 and by Him were all things made that were made Being the Word of His Eternal Power by which they are upheld and do consist He is the Food of Angels and immortal Souls of Holy Men by vertue of whom they live for-ever For in him is Life and this Life is the Light of Men This Word is Quick and Powerful and sharper than any Two-Edged Sword and pierceth into the deepest parts of the Soul dividing between the very Soul and Spirit the Joynts and Marrow and discerneth all the Thoughts and Intents of the Heart and there is no Creature that can be hid from his Sight Rev. 10.13 He will shortly be cloathed with a Vesture dipt in blood whose Name is called The Word of God This Word became Flesh and dwelt among us And we beheld his Glory the Glory of the only Begotten of the Father John 1.14 full of Grace and Truth From this Essential Word Mark. 4.35 springing immediately from the Eternal Deity proceedeth that Ministerial Word which Mortal Creatures are capable to hear Col. 3.16 Gal. 3.19 Acts 7.53 Heb. 2.2 Rev. 1.1 Gen. 18.19 which Ministerial Word was at first received by Angels and by them utered to Holy Men in ancient Times who carefully taught it to one another from Father to Son. And so the Gospel was Preached to Abraham long before the Scriptures were written Gal. 3.8 Heb. 4.4 Exo. 24 4 7 8. 1 Cor. 10.4 Chap. 5.7 This Word that was uttered at divers times and in divers manners by the Ministry of Angels was at last committed to Writing by famous Moses and so it lay hid in Types and Figures secretly couched in the Names of Men and things mentioned by him in those five Books which he hath written and these are they which we call the first part of Holy Scripture The which by the Spirit of Jesus were unvailed unto and by famous Prophets who wrote more clearer Visions out of Moses being Expounders of him then Moses himself before had discovered uttering many Divine Prophesies touching the Messiah Hab. 2.2 Neb. 8.8 Act. 10.43 who was the subject which all the Prophets pointed at or unto still making the Vision more plain and clear as they drew nearer the coming of Christ These also wrote fully of the State of those who kept and also of those who did transgress this Ministerial Word of God whose writings were designed also for our Learning and these are the second part of the Scripture Rom. 15.4 But at last John 1.14 1 John 4.14 Mat. 3.15 John 19.28 Mat. 5.18 Luke 1.2 Acts 1.1 2 Pet. 1.16 Mark 16.15 1 Pet. 1.12 Acts 26.18 1 Cor. 3.6 2 Pot. 3 16. The Essential Word was made Elesh and became visible and uttered himself by a humane Tongue to mortal Men and so fulfilled those things in clearness in his most Sacred Person which Moses and the Prophets had written of him The fulfilling of which together with his famous Sermons and mighty Miracles were written by those who were Eye-witnesses of what he did and taught whose Holy Apostles having received a Commission to preach the Gospel to every Creature were assisted thereunto by an infallible Spirit and so turned many Souls from Darkness to Light and Planted many famous Churches unto whom they sent certain Divine Epistles The which together with the Holy Evangelists makes the Third part of Scripture Rev. 22.18 and this altogether with the Mysterious Book of the Revelations is the Divine and Antient Charter of the little City Bethania which proceedeth first from the Eternal Deity by the Essential Word of his most mighty Power by whom it was committed to Angels and by them Ministred unto men and first written by Moses then Expounded by the Prophets fulfilled by Jesus further written and Exemplisied by the Apostles and Evangelists 2 Chron. 34.27 Acts 24.28 Psal 119.46 Rev. 12.17 Heb. 11.35 whose Authority maketh many impresses upon the Consciences of Mortals hath made Tyrants tremble and humble Souls to triumph hath remained firm and uncorrupted especially in its Essence in the midst of its very Enemies And they who have witnessed for it in all Ages have easily passed through inhumane Tortures it hath out-lived many Cities and all their firmest Charters and hath seen many Laws repealed that have been made against it Hath been frequenty pleaded for by the Inhabitants of Bethania Psal 19.110 Psal 119.72 Jer. 15 16. before high and mighty Mortals and is a marvellous Precious Jewel in the House of the Poor Discipline and Order Observed in BETHANIA Thus having briefly hinted at divers Points of Doctrine Held and Believed in the little City Bethania Of the Signification of which Word we have given an Account in our Epistle to the Reader and in our last Article have more plainly declared her Divine Charter And from whence also she hath received the same We hope now to give a Brief Description of the Discipline Order and Manner of Life Owned and Observed in the House of the Poor And FIRST THERE be Solmn Meetings for Divine Worship of the Holy God Heb. 10.28 and Instruction and Edification of Mortal Men seriously diligently and with great Reverence and Godly Fear Observed and highly Esteemed in Bethania Acts 20.7 1 Cor. 11.20 Heb. 12.28 Psal 89.7 1 Chron. 22.19 1 Cor. 7.22 Mat. 26.40