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 But when those Influences are withdrawn then they retire and are silent all the Winter Season and so the Sun Moon and Stars Psal 148.3 do Praise the Lord by the Influences of his own Vertue that is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

turneth to them the other and if they Magisterially take away her Goods she asketh them not again But yet further There is nothing in the whole Charter of Bethania from first to last that may in the least warrant her to Swear upon such a Book wherein Swearing is so flatly forbidden therefore she concludeth that the Root of this whole matter was Planted first in Babel and from thence sprang up as a custome in the Earthly Jerusalem but Bethania is a little City that hath little or no Affinity with any of these FIFTEENTHLY When Persecution ariseth against Bethania Act 14.22 John 16.2 2 Tim. 3.12 Psal 137.7 Ecles 9.14 Acts 20.24 Psal 121.4 1 Pet. 5.7 as often times it cometh to pass for great Babel cannot endure this poor little City and therefore the great King cometh oft against it yet when he cometh sitting upon a Seat of Violence they take but little notice of him for the poor wise man who is the Keeper of this City hath wit enough to cicumvent the greatest designs of Humane or Iufernal Enemies and Furies therefore they cast their whole care upon him who they know greatly careth for their Souls and their great care is on the other hand when they are brought before the Judgment Seat of men to beware of men Mat. 10.17 Psal 125.5 Rev. 12.17 1 Tim. 3.15 Rev. 12.17 Heb. 10.34 least by them they should be intangled in the crooked Paths of Error And in the next place to maintain a constant Testimony unto the Manifest Truths of the Blessed Lamb that so Truth may not fall in the Streets for want of Suffering Pillars to uphold it Then as for their Lives they love them not unto Death Rom. 8.28 Luke 21.17 18. Mat. 10.29 Luke 22.3 5. Joh 2.6 Luke 13.32 who also suffer joyfully the spoyling of their fading Treasures steadfastly believing that all things shall work together for the best and that there shall not one Hair of their Head perish and seeing that a Sparrow cannot fall to the ground without their Heavenly Father and that the Power of Darkness hath but one Hour and so is limited both to Time and Measure Therefore if it be told them as it was told to Christ That a cruel Herod seeks to kill them Yet they are ready to answer and say with him Behold We must Work to day and to morrow Prov. 11.6 and in the Morning of Prosperity must sow our Seed and in the Evening of Adversity must not withold our Hands For they know the Truth is sometimes planted in Blood and the Sufferings of some Christians Phil. 1.12 Heb. 10.25 have been the Conversion of others So that a sharp Winter may and doth oftentimes produce a fruitful Harvest Therefore the manner of Trading in this City Dan. 11.14 Esth 4.16 greatly differeth from the manner of Trading in other Cities for the Earthly Jerusalem when she heareth of a storm of Violence letteth fall much of her Trading is Truth and Vertue but Bethania increaseth hers the more And when the Robbers begin to Exalt themselves to Establish the Vision then this City bringeth forth the best of her Wares Their Prayers now are most Fervent and their Sermons most Divine their manner of Life most Circumspect and their Faith very stedfast Cant. 8.6 their Hope reacheth furthest within the Vaile their Charity is now more strong than Death and all their Graces takes the deepest or firmest Root So the Innocent stirreth up against the Hypocrite the Righteous also holdeth on his way and he that hath Clean Hands shall grow stronger and stronger At last Bethania cometh out of her Tribulation having washed their Robes Rev. 7.14 and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb and so she enjoyeth a Life which Death can never approach unto and a Substance that no Thieves can steal away inheriting a joy Mat. 6.20 Isa 60.20 which shall never more be Ecclipsed with sorrow in the glorious Morning of Bethania SIXTEENTHLY The frequent Discourse in Bethania is for the most part very savoury 2 Cor. 2.14 Ephes 4.29 and their Words do generally that are the Inhabitants thereof stand for something and they are very careful of avoiding Superfluity of Speech knowing That of every idle Word that men shall speak Mat. 12.36 they must give an Account thereof in the Day of Judgment Therfore their Words are very much seasoned with Grace designed in Spiritual Things namely for the Edification of the Hearers and in Natural Things to Express the Conceptions of the Mind touching humane Affairs otherwise they are very much given to Silence being swift to hear slow to speak carefully keeping the Bridle upon the Tongue James 1.19 Psal 39.1 least that unruly Member run headlong into Disorder and so the Heart be quite deceived and all their Religion prove to be a meer Vanity For in the Multitude of Words there wanteth not Sin Prov. 10.16 and he that restraineth his Lips is wise And they consider that God hath given unto men two Eyes two Ears two Hands and two Feet yet but one Tongue that the Actions of all these might be twice as much as the Tongue shall speak Therefore when any of the Inhabitants of Bethania meet together Job 32.4 1 Cor. 14.29 2 Tim. 2.7 and there be some Divine Matter about to be uttered they all wait and hear in Silence carefully avoiding all Interruptions and if any thing be wanting that ought to have been spoken another supplyeth that Defect when the first hath left off speaking and so all things are done to good purpose in much Decency and Order Job 32.11 15 16. For to speak two or three at once either in Humane or Divine Matters is counted ridiculous and a meer Confusion proper only to Babel But if they have no Divine matter to Communicate 1 Cor. 14.40 nor yet any Natural Thing that is needful to be spoken then they retire themselves into some serious Exercises of the Soul and in the Multitude of such thoughts within them they meet with great Consolation from the Father of Spirits Psal 94.23 whose Heavenly Vertue is a quickning Influence to every true Bethanian SEVENTEENTHLY Laughter in Bethania is counted madness Eccles 2.2 Rom. 8.6 Luke 6.25 and like the crackling of Thorns under a pot being a Vanity that springeth up in a carnal Mind and it is frequently found among such kind of Persons who are hastening into Eternal Mournings For the Triumphing of the wicked is but very short Job 20.15 and the Joy of the Hypocrite but for a moment Therefore saith Jesus Woe to you that laugh now for ye shall mourn and weep This unseemly Vanity is none of the first Actions of innocent Age for some of the first Actions of a Child are to weep and after it hath lived about forty days in the World it then will begin to smile but it is a great while before it breaks out into plain

Laughter Therefore this meer Vanity is wholly of this World unto which depraved Nature inclines after it hath lived a little while in it And therefore when the Souls of men begin again to return out of this World into their first Estate some of their first Actions in which they are usually found are Sorrow Fear and Mourning 2 Cor. 7.11 and so that precious Seed Phil. 2.12 from whence Divine Vertue and Nature springs up in the Soul is known to be sown in Tears yet those that go forth of this World weeping bearing this precious Seed from whence Divine Vertue springs Psal 126.5 6. shall certainly enter the World to come Rejoycing in the glorious Reaping-time of the Effects of Vertue So Jesus our Saviour while in this World Isa 53.4 John 11.35 was a man of Sorrows and acquainted with Grief and oftentimes known to weep but never known to laugh at any time Even so all true Bethanians being instructed with the very same Spirit are usually found as mourning Doves of the Valley Ezek. 7.16 And though Jesus had not and Christians may not be supposed to have any true cause of Sorrow with Respect to themselves yet with Respect to others there is still now in them as there was heretofore in him Occasion enough for mourning And as for the Christians the Sins of their Youth and the Errors of their former Li●● Psal 28.7 together with the present Dangers that attend the Wilderness Passage maketh their Walks oftentimes a Vale of Tears Psal 84.6 Yet as Jesus our Saviour did sometimes rejoyce in Spirit Luke 10.21 and also gave forth true Tokens thereof to others even so the Poor in Spirit sometimes greatly rejoyce in the inward man especially when they can see the morning without Clouds 2 Sam. 23.4 and shew forth such Signs thereof by a chearful Countenance which will manifest to others that they are refreshed But forasmuch as their walking is in the Spirit and Laughter is a more fleshly Vanity Therefore a more sollid grave Countenance with a sober and discreet Behaviour in all Estates and Actions of the outward Life is of great Estimation and frequent use in Bethania EIGHTEENTHLY The Apparel in Bethania is very modest and for the most part 1 Tim. 2 9. 1 Pet. 3.4 5. is used in plain Necessity to cover the Secrets of fallen Nature and to fence it against the Influences of cold But the Fashions of the World are a great Abomination in the House of the Poor 1 Pet. 1.14 1 John 1.16 Isa 32.11 Chap. 3.18.19 29 21. Heb. 11.13 1 Pet. 2.11 and are more proper to the Mother of Harlots and the Faithly Jerusalem the Society of careless Daughters than that City whose Name is Bethania whose Inhabitants do well know that this World is not their Native Countrey but was at first the Kingdom of those Creatures that have no rational Spirit and that man when by reason of Sin he was thrust out of his own Kingdom which was Paradice was permitted to dwell in it a little while only as a Stranger and his first Garments were only Fig-leaves Gen. 3.7 Chap 3.21 but these were of his own making His second Garments were Coats made of Skins and these were of the Lords making which was partly to note unto him that as he was now fallen into the Kingdom of the Beasts even so their Habit did most become him but man was not contented with this Fashion therefore his roving fancy run through the whole Terrestial World Eccles 3.11 Prov. 17.24 Isa 2.7 Chap. 14.4 and of the Mines of the Earth he borrowed great store of Gold and and Silver and then gloryed in it as if it were his own proper Substance Then he went out also and borrowed the Fleeces of Beasts of which he made him Garments of divers Fashions and shod his Feet with their Skins extracting fine Linnen out of the Earth and procured Silk from the Silk-worms Bowels Of these things man made himself a shining Mortal and gloryeth in his borrowed Substance as if by right of Nature it had been his own when indeed it is no such matter for he is born wholly Naked and cometh into this World only as a Stranger and leaveth it again only possessed with a few Grave-Cloaths Job 1.21 but all the rest of his borrowed Substance is left behind yet there is one more Vanity and great Impiety Psal 49.51 Job 21.13 that seemed to spring among men in these our very times the which Bethania greatly Detesteth That whereas Women have one only Natural Ornament which is their Hair given them by Nature also for a Covering 1 Cor. 11.5 1 Cor. 6.9 Rev. 9.7 8. the which man borroweth now of them whereof he now maketh himself an Effeminate Monster much resembling those Locusts which ascended out of the Bottomless Pitt whose Faces were as the faces of Men but their Hair was as the Hair of Women And whereas other Creatures who know the Mysteries of their own Kingdom which is this World do by the meer instinct of Nature perform very ingenious Actions Prov. 30 28. Psal 104.17 as the Spider thereby to weave his curious Web the Bird to build his ingenious Nest the Bee to make his dainty Comb Man knoweth only little but what he getteth by Art or is given him by Revelation Job 11.12 Isa 28.26 Ephes 3.3 He knoweth not how to speak a Language till he hath learned it nor to prepare his Food or make his Garments nor yet to build himself an Habitation and with very great Difficulty and that but rarely neither he findeth out Physick to relieve himself against the Impediments of Nature Therefore Bethania most clearly perceiveth that man is only a stranger in this World because he is so naturally unskilful in the Affairs of it Job 14.2 and possesseth so little of the fulness thereof but such things for which things he is constrained to be beholding to other Creatures Therefore she casteth away the Pride and Vanity of Babel Jude 19. as also the sensual Delights of the earthly Jerusalem and betaketh her self to a sober Gal. 6.14 Heb. 11.26 Psal 45.18 2 Cor. 5.2 Dan. 2.3 Phil. 3.21 Heb. 9.28 modest self-denying kind of Life Embracing the Cross and Esteeming the Reproach of Christ greater Riches then all the Glory and Treasure of this present World Rejoycing greatly in that her Soul is beautified and inriched with the inward Ornaments and substantial Riches of Divine Vertue waiting therein to shine forth at last in her Glorious Paradisical Body when Jesus shall visit the second Time Poor Despised Bethania NINETEENTHLY Marriage is Honourable in Bethania Heb. 13.4 1 Cor. 7.40 Mat. 22.30 Gen. 1.27 and the Bed Undefiled yet Virginity is greatly preferred For this was the Estate of Angels in their first Creation and in that State they did perfectly remain In that Estate God Created man in the Beginning but