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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

Tribulations Therefore though this Scripture Heb. 6.2 mentions Baptisms yet Bethania believes Heb. 10.32 that according to Ephes 4.5 That there is but one Baptism of which these three are the several parts FOVRTEENTHLY The fourth thing is laying on of hands Heb. 5.12 which is believed in Bethania to be one of these first Principles of the Oracles of God Mat. 28.20 and therefore given by Christ to his true Ministers to be by them performed upon believing and baptised Souls Act. 8.14 Chap. 19.6 with which they use earnest Prayers and serious Supplications to the Soveraign God in whom is infinite fulness that those Souls may receive his holy Spirit and that Divinely assisting Grace 2 Cor. 12.9 1 Cor. 1.8 by which they may be instructed confirmed and enabled to walk and persevere to the end in that Divine Christianity in which they are now ingaged by holy Baptism This principle is to be asserted by all Christs true Ministers 1 Cor. 15.1 Act. 20.20 Verse 27. as their own indispensible Duty and by them to be performed as an highly excellent priviledge for believing and baptised Souls in Bethania FIFTEENTHLY The fifth thing is the Resurrection of the dead both of Just and Unjust Act. 24.15 Joh. 5.28 and is a Doctrine that in Bethania hath been earnestly contended for and is still of great estimation in the house of the Poor that as by the fall both Soul and Body lost their paradisical Estate and became dead unto it Even so God hath appointed a way by him who is the Resurrection and the Life John 11.25 John 5.5 to obtain it again and it is begun first in the Soul and that in this world who by the Voice of Christ in the Dispensation of Grace Tim. 5.6 Rom. 6.11 is raised up from a Death in Sin to a Life of Righteousness which is a true state of true Regeneration and Spiritual Resurrection 1 Pet. 1.23 Ephes 2.16 by which it recovers again the Divine Image 2 Col. 3.18 1 John 1.3 and so obtaineth communion with God the which by the Fall was utterly lost 2 Sam. 14.14 In which communion stands the Divine Joy which is a true paradisical state 1 Joh. 1.4 and first part of that Resurrection of Just men in which Bethania obtaineth great consolation Job 19.25 Sam. 26.19 Mat. 27.52 Rom. 8.11 1 Cor. 15.42 The second part is that of the Body which will be accomplished when Jesus shall appear the second time by whose Voice of Power in the dispensation of Glory he will bring it to pass that hath said John 6.39 Phil. 3.20 I will rise again at the last day in which these Eyes shall see God and these Vile Bodies of ours be made like the Glorious Body of Christ Rom. 6.19 So that these Members of our Bodies Job 17.14 1 Cor. 4.11 Psal 49.12 which were yielded in this World as Instruments of Righteousness unto the Glory of God although by reason of the Fall we are sunk down into a state of Corruption afflicted with Hunger Thirst Cold and Nakedness subject to Sickness Pains Persecutions Deformity and variety of Likeness like the Beasts and Fowls into whose Kingdom we now are fallen having lost our own Eccl. 3.19 1 Cor. 15.43 which at first was Paradise and therefore subject to Mortality and Death as they are yet this very Essence shall rise again but in a far more excellent Estate and become a glorious Body like the glorious Body of Christ Matt. 22.30 Gal. 3.28 in which Estate it will be neither Male nor Female neither Marry nor be given in Marriage nor be of variety of Form nor yet appear in the imperfections of old Age or Infancy but all Heaven-born Christians whose Souls are formed into the Image of Christ and also grown up into his Similitude and into the measure of his Stature in the inward man Even so in the Resurrrection Phil 3.21 Ephes 4.13 the Bodies of the Saints shall be all of one entire likkeness one with another fashioned in the likeness and raised up into the measure of the Stature of the Glorious Body of Christ and now become meet Companions for their Heaven-born Souls unto whom in their corruptible State before the Resurrection they were meer Prisons 2 Cor. 5.2 and in this united State of Body and Soul Rev. 19.7 the whole Catholick Church becomes Triumphant and is the glorious Bride the Lambs Wife Chap. 21.9 who being now Married unto him which is the highest degree of her Blessed Union Verse 7. she is therefore Instated in his Unspeakable Glory in which she lives and with whom she shines for evermore Blessed therefore are those Souls which shall at last obtain this glorious Resurrection of Just men Mat. 13.43 Rev. 20.6 about which the Faith of Bethania is firm and unshaken but as for Unjust men who will not hear the Voice of Christ in the Dispensation of Grace and come out of the Grave of Sin by the sweet awakening Call of Gods convincing Spirit Prov. 6.9 Joh. 16.8 Ephes 5.14 Joh. 8.44 these must arise from Death and the Grave by force in the dispensation of Vengeance and as their Souls have lived in a state of Sin unto the lusts and will of the Devil by reason of which they are deeply defiled with divers kinds of Impieties and so in the sacred Scriptures are rightly called Serpents Mat. 23.33 Chap. 7.6 Ver. 15. Luke 13.32 Job 20.5 Isa 14.12 Job 41.34 Vipers Dogs Swine Wolves Foxes and such like Even so in the Resurrection their now beautiful and stately Bodies in which they are proud and triumph like the Peacock with his flourishing Tail following the steps of Lucifer their Infernal King shall receive an ugly deformed monstrous shape suitable for such a Devilish Soul whose Image they received in this World 1 Cor. 15.38 Ephes 2.2 and in whose Spirit they walked while in this World therefore in that Image their Souls and Bodies must appear in the World to come and sink down in it into Gods Eternal Wrath in which as in unquenchable Fire maintained by the Breath of the Eternal God as a stream of Brimstone Isa 30.33 Mark 9.46 to make their Torments everlasting SIXTEENTHLY The sixth thing according to the Doctrine of Bethania Act. 17.31 Rom. 2.16 2 Cor. 5 10. is Eternal Judgment or a day wherein or in which God will Judge the Secrets of men by Jesus Christ before which Judgment Seat must all both good and bad appear and there receive according to the things done in the Body whether they be good or evil Mat. 12.37 in which time the Justification of Christian Souls shall be fully compleated who were Justified first from the Sin of their Nature Joh. 1.29 1 Joh. 2.2 by the meer Merits of Christ who as the Lamb of God taketh away the Sin of the World. Secondly from the Sin of their

and Unspotted Virgin Chap. 6.9 2 Cor. 11.2 Chap. 6.16 Psal 50.2 Isa 60.8 Verse 1. Psal 87.30 This ●s Christs Holy Temple wherein he dwells and walks and the Perfection of Beanty out of which he shineth So that those who are fleeing as Doves to his windows may clearly see That the Glory of the Lord is risen upon Her This is Spiritual Sion of whom many Glorious things might be spoken But we must come into Bethania and be poor in Spirit to hear them But Her third Estate is Glorious Rev. 21.23 Verse 16. and every way Perfect In which the Light of the Sun Moon and Stars are needless Her length breadth and height are now equal for Soul and Body both are got beyond all Corruption Verse 9. and arrived at fullness of endless Glory in which She is become the Lambs Beautiful Bride who in Her Spiritual Estate was only Espoused to Him and therefore is Exalted with Him upon a Throne of Glory Rev. 3.21 Chap. 19.7 Mal. 4.2 Isa 60.20 Nah. 3.4 and all the Heavenly Host rejoyceth at it Thus the Lamb who was before Her Sun of Righteousness is now become Her Sun of Glory and will never more be Ecclipsed from Her. But Bethania hath heard of a well-favoured Harlot Isa 4.1 Isa 33.14 Rev. 18.7 yet delights not to have any Acquaintance with her who though she derives her Name from Christ yet in Nature is far different from Him But she will at last appear in her own Estate being stripped and made bare and unclothed of all her Forms of Godliness and so these Sinners in the visible Sion shall be afraid Isa 27.4 John 15.6 and that Fearfulness shall surprise the seeming Christian who being a fruitless Fig-tree and but a well-favoured Harlot must together with the pricking Bramble and Defiled Strumpet be Fuel for Everlasting Burnings NINETEENTHLY The true Ministers of Christ and such as are approved in Bethania Euseb Eccl. Hist Lib. 3. Chap. 21. are men of passing pure lives be-dect with every kind of Vertue Divinely instructed out of the great Charter of Bethania Tit. 1.6 7 8 9. Jude 3. 1 Pet. 5.1 Verse 4. Luke 22.32 by the Holy Spirit of Jesus keeping close to those Principles upon which Christian Religion is founded carefully pursuing those Principles by which it is carried on and contending earnestly for those Principles by which it is compleated These being inferiour Shepherds are to be guided by Eupoimenos the Prince of Shepherds And so being first Converted themselves are carefully to strengthen their Brethren and diligently to feed the little Children John 21 15. that so as their Ears do hear and their Eyes do see even so also their Hands may handle the Word of Life going still before the Flock in the difficult Passages of every kind of Suffering 1 John 1.1 Jer. 50.8 Phil. 4.9 Cant. 1.8 James 5.10 Act. 20.19 2 Cor. 6.6 Acts 6.4 2 Cor. 6.5 Chap. 11.26 27 Acts 20.20 Tit. 2.15 Prov. 28.1 1 Thess 2.10 Mat. 10.16 2 Cor. 6.4 1 Cor. 4.1 1 Tim. 1.11 Mat. 5.12.14 2 Cor. 8.23 Acts 1.1 and leaving the Print of their Feet in the narrow Path of Self-Denial giving them good Examples of great Patience Deep Humility and Divine Purity given much to Prayer Fastings and Watchings Often contented to be in Weariness and Painfulness in their frequent Journeys or Journyings taking care of all the Churches teaching also from House to House that the Guilt of Souls may not be upon them Being bold and undaunted in Reproving Sin in high or low like Lyons that turn not aside for any And yet in Nature Meek and Tender like Lambs and the harmless Doves of the Valley carefully encouraging the least Spark of Vertue and in all things approving themselves as the Ministers of Christ as such who are put in trust with the Mysteries of the Gospel That they may be a Light unto the World a Salt of the Earth and a Glory in the Christian Churches that so as the great Shepherd their Master whose work was both to Do and Teach They also may say What ye have heard and seen in us That do and the God of Peace shall be with you walking as we have given you an exact Example Phil. 4.9 Phil. 3.20 For our Conversation ● in Heaven be therefore followers of us as we have followed our Lord Jesus And so as every one hath received a Ministerial Gift 1 Pet. 4.10 Mat. 19.28 having first made Experimental Tryal of the painful Passages of Divine Regeneration Isa 50.4 ● Tim. 2.18 he is to minister unto others with much freeness having the Learned Tongue of Divine Teachings that he may rightly divide the Word of Truth Luke 22.32 Mark. 10.21 1 Sam. 24.24 Heb. 10.38 2 Cor. 2.14 John 3.10 1 Cor. 8.1 Heb. 8.12 13 2 Cor. 11.3 2 King. 4.40 Heb. 8.7 Job 15.2 Zach. 11.17 Isa 2.16 and speak a Word in Season to weary Souls Taking their own Purse till it was wholly empty and so giving Examples to live by Faith on him the savour of whose Knowledge they carefully manifest in every place but such as know not by most true Experience the very Nature of Divine Regeneration though as great Masters in the fleshly Israel they eminently flourish in the Gifts of Knowledge are still unskilful in the Word of Rigteousness and great Strangers to the simplicity of the Gospel Therefore They make indeed a Pottage like the Sons of the Prophets but there is Death in it and it doth fill the Head with Notions and the Belly with the East-wind These therefore are but idol-Shepherds setting up the pleasant Pictures of their own Excellencies and thereby forming lifeless less Images of an outward Profession in the Souls of men where the living Image of God should stand such as these may build a fleshly Jerusalem and engrave upon it a confused Babel But Bethania who is poor in Spirit desires them not in her Divine Corporation Prov. 14.1 least as the foolish woman They should pull down many Houses with their hands and turn the little City Bethania into the great Contused Heap of Babel Isa 28.7 Prov. 20.1 Jude 19. Psal 14.4 being very apt to err through Wine and to be mocked by Strong Drink having their Sences Stupified by fullness of Dainty Meats and other Flesh-pleasing Enjoyments by reason whereof They forget the Law and pervert the Truth of Christ and lay that upon others which themselves will hardly touch with one of their Fingers Mat. 23.4 Therefore The Ministers of Bethania do drink but very little Wine 1 Tim. 5.23 and that chiefly for their Stomachs sake and in case of often Infirmities and scarce any Strong Drink at all but in case of great necessity and to revive the Spirit when it is ready to faint through weakness Prov. 31.6 according to the usual Order and Gustom carefully observed in the House of the Poor whose Ministers as before

another in this Spiritual state So Moses and Job though one circumcised and the other not by reason of which it was not Lawful for Job to eat the Passover nor for Moses to suffer him and therefore they could have no formal Communion one with another yet their Spiritual Communion was held firm together as their Souls were both Instated in the Divine Nature Acts 2.41.42 and though it be not Lawful for Persons Baptized and Unbaptized to have Communion one with another at the Lords Table because that is formal Communion and therefore they that would enjoy it in one part ought not to reject it in another yet so far as their Souls are Instated into the new Creature Life they have close Union with each other in this part of Communion of which we are now speaking Therefore the Baptized do keep their formal Communion at the Lords Table with baptized Persons only yet not reject from spiritual Union those who differ from them in that particular By reason of which Difference though there is not a perfect Agreement in all things 1 Cor. 19 1● yet there is maintained a friendly Distance which is carefully observed in Bethania TENTHLY Sympathy in Bethania is a certain Divine Quality which springeth up in the Souls of the Inhabitants thereof by reason of their close Union one with another 1 Cor. 12.25 Verse 26.27 And so it is that by which one Christian doth feel another's Estate Therefore if any serious Soul in the House of the Poor by the Violence of Temptation at any time be overthrown and the Iniquity of his heels doth overtake him though he flee away from it Psal 49.8 but yet cannot escape it Therefore is forced to fall by it And so by this his fall his Conscience become wounded his Spirit become sorely broken Psal 31.12 Psal 16.3 his Soul sorely terrified his Peace even wholly extinguished his Joy fearfully ecclipsed insomuch that his State is now become an heavy burden Gal. 6.2 too heavy for himself to bear Then by vertue of this Sympathy the Inhabitants of Bethania make this Estate their own And thus they bear one anothers burdens Rom. 12.15 and so fulfil the Law of Christ Mourning for them that Mourn Praying for them Comforting of them Administring all relief unto them being even restless in themselves until they see their Brethren again restored Yea This Sympathy is so great in the House of the Poor that we have known some who have made the State of others so much their own that they have offered unto God the very Comforts of their own Souls for them and that with very great seriousness and earnest Entreaties till at last the the Lord hath accepted thereof and relieved the Afflicted Party but withdrew his Soul-refreshing Influences from the Sympathizing Person leaving the Sympathizer in right poor and low Estate Insomuch that some Complaints have been made to God for the which he hath given a mild and gentle Rebuke By vertue of which there hath been a sinking into great Patience till the former State hath been recovered again Moreover by vertue of this Divine Sympathy they are Partakers of one anothers joy Prov. 14.10 Acts 4.35 Verse 24. the which no Stranger unto it can intermeddle withal And so they rejoyce with them that rejoyce and are comforted in each others relief Therefore Bethania appears as one entire single Body and all the Members thereof are concerned in each others Estate Now as it is so in Spiritual things even so it is in Natural things Therefore these three troublesome Words Mine Thine and Our Own are seldom the Native Language of the House of the Poor Neither yet doth this Sympathy stand between themselves alone but also between Jesus our Saviour Hos 11.8 Isa 63.9 Heb. 4.16 and the whole Society of Bethania So that his Bowels are turned in him towards them and in all their Afflictions he is afflicted and taketh Pity on the distressed and sendeth them Grace and Mercy from the Throne of Grace to help in time of need Zeph. 3.17 Mat. 25.36 Chap. 10.40 Psal 44.16 Jer. 13.17 Psal 119.136 And then when they are restored he doth rest in his Love towards them and joyeth over them with Singing And thus when they are visited he is visited and when they are rejected despised and neglected he looketh upon himself to be concerned in it Even so they also on the other hand when they hear his most Sacred Name Blasphemed or taken in Vain see his Truth despised his Mercies abused or any Dishonour brought unto him are greatly concerned in it and it is wounds in their own Souls and pierceth more deep therein then any thing they feel in themselves in any Case But this Sympathy between Christians and Christians and between Christ and them Ephes 1.10 Rev. 21.16 Ephes 4.16 Isa 61.3 Heb. 11.40 Rev. 21.9 ends not only here For in the fulness of times when all things shall be gathered together into one and the length breadth and height thereof become equal as one entirely Compacted and perfectly compleated Body Then in this Estate poor Bethania shall put off all her Garments of Mourning and be cloathed with Perfection of Glory and so become the Lambs most Beautiful Bride being now taken into Personal Union with himself who is therefore Instated in his whole entire Possessions Rev. 21.7 Mat. 20.10 insomuch that every one inheriteth all things For there shall be no Inequality in the Reward of the Labourers when Union and Sympathy is fully compleated in the Glorious Day of Bethania ELEVENTHLY Prayer in Bethania is a Divine Discourse between mortal Men Gen. 18.27 Heb. 12.18 Mat. 6.7 Psal 19.10 James 5.16 and the immortal God and therefore is performed by the Inhabitants thereof as all other Divine Exercises are with great Reverence and godly Fear It confisteth not so much of the Multitude of Words and Excellency of Speech as in the Strength and Fervency of Desire Therefore the Prayers of Divine Men Rom. 12.11 Mat. 26.39 Rom. 12.12 1 Thess 5.17 Acts 6.4 Luke 18.7 Eccles 5.1 and also of Jesus our Saviour was usually short in the Tongue but very fervent and lasting in the goings forth of the Soul. And in this sense the Christians were exhorted to Pray continually and without ceasing and after this manner the Elect of God do cry day and night unto him But this cannot possibly be done by a continued Speech and constant Exercise of the Tongue For then all other Actions must in a manner be wholly suspended and so one Duty would destroy another Besides we should thereby greatly weary the Lord with our Words Mal. 2.27 Isa 49.4 and also send our strength for nought Therefore as the Soul of man is a spiritual Essence it only is most meet in the out-going● of it self to make its Adresses to the Father of Spirits Therefore saith Paul I will Pray with the Spirit I will sing with