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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

spending any part thereof in waste for which cause the Inhabitants thereof are very much given to Diligence being exercised in maintaining good Works or honest Trades to such necessary uses by which they may not be rendered Unfruitful either in Church or State and so glorious Elohim moved himself in vast Eternity by vertue of which Motion the whole Creation was produced for it is written Gen. 1.2 And the Spirit of the Lord moved upon the Waters and so a moving and working God brought forth a moving and diligent Creation and so every thing therein except depraved from its natural state hath still some proper kind of Employment So the Sun Psal 19.5 6. Gen. 1.14 Moon and Stars in the Firmament of Heaven duly observe their Motion and Order and with great diligence exactly perform their daily and yearly courses Cant. 2.12 Psal 104.12 Ver. 17. The Fowls move and sing right Chearfully and swiftly in the open Air and painfully build their Nests provide their Food bring forth their Young and carefully feed them till they be able to help or feed themselves and then they seek their own Provisions Ver. 27. So also the Creatures on the Earth and in the Waters Universally observe and shew forth a natural diligence yea also in the Vegitable Kingdom among the Herbs Plants and Trees time and motion are carefully observed the Trees in their proper Season send forth their tender Leaves then their beautiful Blossoms and afterwards their desirable Fruit the which being once perfected in ripeness they deliver to whom they were dressed So also the Seed in the Field the Flowers in the Garden Heb. 6.7 Psal 104.14 are very diligent in their nature in the time that is allotted them until their Fruit and Glory is brought to full perfection But in Bethania there is far more diligence used then is among other Creatures Phil. 3.20 Col. 3.2 Gen. 15.24 Prov. 15.24 for when their Hands are busie upon the Earth their Hearts are more diligently employed in Heaven and while their Feet are walking among men below their Souls are walking with God above and herein they exceed all other Terestial Creatures whatsoever in that they can do many works at once 1 Cor. 7.29 Psal 55.6 Act. 22.16 1 The. 2.29 for they know that time is short and that their business requireth haste therefore they are constrained to labour night and day and have no time to spare for Idleness for this is accounted by them a Monster in nature and therefore they fly from it as Moses fled from his transformed Rod when it was turned from a Rod to a Serpent and though Sleep and Rest and Bodily Nourishment be all things very desirable and pleasing to nature yet they use as little of these as well they may and what they use of these needful things at any time their only design herein is to supply the necessities of nature and to assist it in the exercise of Humane and Divine Affairs But time though never so precious in it self is of little or no account at all in Babel for it is a City of Idleness and great Voluptuousness they live that they may eat not like Bethania Amos 6.4 who eats that they may live they spend their precious time in Fleshly Pleasures and call it Pastime and so live many of them as if they had not proceeded out of the Loyns of him Gen. 3.19 who in the Sweat of his Brows was to eat his Bread Rev. 11.18 Jam. 2.6 Jer. 8.20 These are they which consume the Creation destroy the Earth oppress the Poor and spend their precious time in Vanity till the Summer of time is past and the Harvest of Grace be ended who then will be forced to cry out too late And we are not saved but in Bethania Neh. 4.17 the City of Diligence there ye may see the Workmen building the Walls with a Tool in one Hand and a Weapon in the other working out their own Salvation with fear and great trembling every on pressing forwards to the mark that i● set before them Phil. 2.12 Chap 3.12 and exercised in that proper calling to which he is designed some as Porters at the Doors some a● Watchmen upon the Walls Mark. 13.34 Isa 62.6 Rev. 11.1 Isa 57.2 Rev. 14.14 Psal 126.6 others la●● bouring in the outward Court other again Worshiping in the Sanctuary and others Ministring before the Altar until all that is to be done in time is wholy finished and then Eternity opens it self and receives into her Bosome of everlasting Rest this Laborious and Painful City Bethania FOVRTEENTHLY There is no Swearing at all either Judicial or Prophane used in the little City Bethania for Jesus our Saviour in his most famous Sermon the which he Preached to his Hebrew Disciples Mat. 5.24 as he was with them in the Mount hath fully repealed that sometime a Lawful Custome and James a Disciple of Jesus in his Epistle also written to Hebrews among whom Swearing had been an usual Practise layeth a straight Injunction on them not to use it saying above all things My Brethren Swear not Jam. 5.12 neither by Heaven neither by the Earth neither by any other Oath but let your Yea be Yea and and your Nay Nay least ye fall into Condemnation so that as it was Lawful in old time to require an Eye for an Eye and a Tooth for a Tooth to hate their Enemies Mat. 5.28 Deut. 24.3 Heb. 1.19 Chap. 9.11 and to put away their Wives for other causes then for Fornication yet now in the more perfect and more glorious Dispensations all these things together with that of Swearing are quite Repealed and so those Oaths the which in time past were carefully to be performed are not now at all to be made and therefore those Judicial Oaths which in time past were unto men an end of strife Mat. 5.27 and are used by them still for that end yet it is not to be so among Christians for it is not said An Oath for Confirmation is unto us an end of stife nor that we verily Swear by the greater but it is said Men verily Swear by the greater and an Oath for Confirmation is to them an end of strife Heb. 6.16 Mat. 28.29 John 15.14 and Christians are not to follow the Examples of men but carefully to observe the Precepts of Christ And there is no City in the whole World that is more faithful in their Allegiance to Princes then Bethania nor that hath lived more Peaceable under their Government in any Age then she 1 Pet. 2.18 Ver. 17. Mat. 5.41 Ver. 39. so that if they Magisterially compel her to go with them a Mile she goeth with them twain and if they Magisterially smite her on the one Cheek Luk. 6.30 Deut. 6.13 Jer. 4.2 Mat. 5.34 35. Jam. 5.12 Mat. 28.16.17 18 19 20 21. Jer. 10 3. Prov. 4.14 15. Psal 1.1 Amos 5.5 she