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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 But when those Influences are withdrawn then they retire and are silent all the Winter Season and so the Sun Moon and Stars Psal 148.3 do Praise the Lord by the Influences of his own Vertue that is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

perfect day in this famous street of Bethania she hath many a close walk with God Pro. 3.17 and there findeth great pleasure and profit for all the ways of Wisdom are pleasantness and all her paths are peace So also godliness is profitable unto all things 2 Tim. 4.8 having the promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come It signifieth a likeness unto God being a conformity to his Will in matters of Worship 3. Jo. 11. Eph. 5.1 Ja. 1.17 and also in manner of life and so it is God's likeness Now he is altogether good and ever was so even from eternity and when he created the Creation Gen. 1.13 it was also good yea very good and Lucifer himself was the anointed Cherub Esa 20.14 and was perfect in all his ways in the day that he was created till iniquity was found in him Jude 6. it was first found in himself through his own default and there it had its proper begining 1 Jo. 3.8 and he introduced it into man and by man it entred into the World and now hath infected all Mankind Rom. 5.12 Ps 82.6 and the whole foundations of the Earth are out of course and sin hath spoiled and brought disorder into that Creation which at first was good so that evil is not of God for he made things like himself and that was pure and very good yet he made no Creatures immutable in that goodness as they stood in their own single Essences for then he had made gods and not creatures so that all things went out from him and therefore must needs be good for a good Tree cannot bring forth evil fruit So also it was according unto his unchangeable Decree Mat. 7.18 that the very principal of his Creatures Angels and Men should live in an absolute dependance upon him resigning their wills wholly unto him yielding most humble subjection unto the Sovereign Lord of the whole Creation that so through that resignation subjection and dependance they may be by him confirmed in that goodness Act. 17.28 Eph. 1.22 1 Cor. 2 8. in which they were first created so then God did not divide his Essence in the Creation of the most excellent creatures viz. Angels and Souls of Men Ja. 1.17 for then they must have been immutable in state and so could never have fallen but he produced a fruit Ja. 1.11 and left it in freedom of will not compelling it to any thing which lived by it self in that glory and purity in which God created it and did not resign its will to God as the Tree from whence it hath its being and nourishment and so like fruit fully ripe it fell because it was not made immutable and sunk into another change of state through its own default Thus the Creation lost its first and primitive glory and changed quite into another estate but the Creator is still the same even yesterday to day and for ever Jer. 4.23 and in the second Creation which produceth the new creature he maketh things good still and so like himself therefore those souls who are regenerated and made anew are regenerated into Christ's nature 1 Pet. 1.4.20.18 and formed in his Image quickned by his spirit nourished by his flesh and bloud that so it may be in the life of God and like him in all things Jo. 6.5 7. in which a Creature may be like its Creator and this is the true godliness Eph. 4.18 when the Souls of men are given up into the will of God to be holy as he is holy 1 Pet. 1.16 and to serve him with reverence and godly fear cleaving to the truth which is after godliness Heb. 12.28 Tit. 1.1 2 Cor. 1.12 walking in simplicity and godly sincerity in that quiet life which is in all godliness and honesty Such godly men God the Lord hath set apart for himself who though they are godly in Christ Jesus 1 Tim. 2.2 Ps 4.3 2 Tim. 3.12 oftentimes suffer Persecution Yet the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of all adversity and to put an end to those light afflictions 2 P. 2.9 2 Cor. 4.17 which for a few moments attend upon a godly life so that Godliness is a strong pillar in the house of Wisdom and therefore if that be wanting in the power thereof though the form remain untouch'd there must needs be a great breach and where this breach is 2 Tim. 3.5 the house will quickly fall Luk. 10.39 Mat. 11.19 Heb. 7.26 2 Pet. 2.22 therefore Bethania chuseth to sit at Jesus feet and to enter into his Yoke learning of him with that diligence who is holy harmless undefiled meek gentle lowly and every way vertuous a perfect pattern of true piety who did no evil neither was guile found in his mouth and hath left us an example that we should follow his steps and this godliness springeth up in the soul by vertue of the operation of one of the seven spirits of God viz. the spirit of holiness Rom. 1.3 whose Divine tincture changeth their nature into its own even as Wine by entring into Water maketh the Water talte of it self So also their whole life savoureth of the spirit and tasteth of the vertue and grace of God which appeareth in the Soul teaching us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts that the mind may be exercised in that godliness Tia 2.11 2 Tim. 4.7 by vertue of which the conversation may be as becometh the Gospel of our Lord Jesus In this street of Bethania standeth her place of Worship in which she performeth Divine service to the Holy God with great reverence and godly fear who is greatly to be feared in the Assembly of the Saints Heb. 12.28 Ps 89.7 and to be had in reverence of all that come about him CHAP. IX THE sixth Pillar in the House of Wisdom is Brotherly Kindness the which is also produced out of one of the seven Spirits before the Throne viz. the Spirit of Humility and is a very beautiful Street in Bethania in which she hath great communion by walking with God in the Brotherhood and fellowship of the Gospel 1 Pet. 2.17 Phil. 1.5 Heb. 2.11 Mat. 23.8 for as there is a very near relation between Christ and his Disciples even so there is also a Divine brotherhood between Christians and one another but there is a two fold brotherhood generally considered the first is natural wherein all mankind are of one blood and children of the first Adam Act. 17.26 and descended all out of his Loins and have all one kind of Soul 1 Cor. 15.48 and one manner of sensitive life and also one kind of humane flesh and have all equal interest in the Priviledges of Nature Jer. 38.16 1 Cor. 15.39 Psal 24.1 Rom. 5.18 John 2.2 Heb. 9.27 Acts 24.15 Chap. 17 31. Dan. 12.2 and are all equally involved in the Fall