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A46661	Invisibles, realities, demonstrated in the holy life and triumphant death of Mr. John Janeway, Fellow of King's Collegde in Cambridge. By James Janeway, Minister of the Gospel	Janeway, James, 1636?-1674.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.; Borset, Samuel.	1674 (1674)	Wing J471; ESTC R217020	74,067	160

Hell it self in as much as the cause doth eminently contain all and more evil than the effect This is the spiritual death whereby we are dead in sin the fruit of the first curse Thou shalt die the death The souls life in this world is its being in God and living to God and injoyment of God and the souls eternal life will be so to know God as to be formed into his likeness and to be received into a full participation of and communion with God The souls death here is its being fallen off from God and its being carried into its self and its eternal death will be an utter separation from him Now mankind being thus fallen from God Christ is sent for this very end to bring man back again to God and then man is brought unto God when he is brought out of that state of self-love into that state whereby he gives up himself wholly to God Thus the soul being quickened by the spirit of God leaveth off living to its self which was its death and lives to God which is its life Here comes in the great duty of denying of our selves for Christs sake which indeed were no duty if there were nothing in us contrary to God This then is our duty not to seek our own things before the things of God to lay Gods glory as the foundation of all our actions and if there be any thing in us contrary to that to give it no leave to stand in competition with God Now were this deeply rooted in our hearts how would contention anger wrath and heart-burning and all things of this nature cease Such influence would the taking Gods part against self have into the quiet and peace of men that it cannot be without it We see how wisely God hath ordered things that the very act of mans being off from God should be the cause of confusion war and misery and what can be more just and equal than this that God who is the author of our being should be the end of our being O then that once our minds were again reduced to this frame To live wholly to God! O that we were wrought into a through prejudice against self which stands between us and true peace I beg of you to spare some time from the world and retire into privacie where you may apply this to your own soul My prayer to God for you out of the strong yearnings of my soul towards you is that he would make this effectual to its intended end for the inward peace of your soul for your comfortable walking with God in this life and that condition wherein the wisdom of God hath placed you I writ these lines with the strength of affection I feel fear grief compassion working strongly O pity me in the midst of all these whilest I cannot call to remembrance the cause of these without a flood of tears Fulfill therefore my joy in being of one mind yea if there be any consolation in Christ if any comfort in love if any-fellowship of the spirit if any bowels of mercy fulfill ye my joy and be like-minded having the same love being of one accord of one mind Phil. 2. 1 2. I leave you to the love and mercy of God and to the working of his spirit which alone is able to put life and power into these words Which that he would do is the earnest request and servent prayer of yours John Janeway Now upon a faithful perusal of this Letter it pleased the Lord to give a meek and more complying spirit and in a great measure it wrought its intended effect The noble design of this sweet peace-maker took so far as to produce an ingenious acknowledgement and sorrowful bewailing of the want of that self-denial humility meekness and love which doth so much become our sacred profession Upon the hearing of this good news how strangely was this good man transported Upon the receipt of a letter from the former friend which gave no small satisfaction hopes that his former indeavours were not in vain And that he might drive the nail to the head he speedily backs his for former Letter with a second which speaks these words Dear Friend MY soul is inlarged towards you and my affections work within me and yet give me leave now to lay aside those weak flames of natural affection and to kindle my soul with divine love Here there is no fear of running out too far while all is in Christ and for Christ O that now I could let out the strength of my soul not as to your self but as to God! O that my heart were more inlarged that it may be comprehensive of a more full true Christian love God is altogether lovely and to be loved for himself and we are so far dark ignorant and blind as we do not see and account him most amiable O let me have such discoveries of his excellency that my heart may pant thirst and break for its earnest longings after the richest participations of him that I may for ever be swallowed up of his love O that I may love him a thousand times more than I do That I may rejoyce in him and take the sweetest complacencie delight in him alone that I could let out my affections most where I see any thing of himself any beams of the image of his holiness and that beareth the impression of his spirit Had you visited me from the dead could my affections have moved more strongly or my rejoycings have been greater than they were at the receipt of those lines which I had from you wherein so much of Christ in you and the goodness of Christ to me did appear Fulfil my joy in the Lord refresh my bowels and let not my rejoycing be in vain If it hath pleased the Lord to make the imperfect weak indeavours of his unworthy servant any way subservient to his own glory in you it is that which I account my self unworthy of desire to receive it from him as a manifestation of the riches of his free goodness to my self knowing my self to be unworthy to be his instrument in the meanest service much more in so great a one as this is Hoping and perswading my self of the effectual vvork of my former letter I am incouraged to write again both because of my promise and your expectation and the vveighty nature of the subject that I vvas then upon vvhich vvas Love True Christian love which is a thing so comly so beautiful and sweet and of such vveighty power in all actions to make them divine excellent that there is no labour lost in indeavouring to get more of it even in those in vvhom it most aboundeth The Apostle 1 Thes 4. 9 10. Though he knew that they vvere taught of God to love one another and that they did it towards all the Brethren yet even them he beseeched to abound more and more in that grace of love The former principal

Samuel Borfet The Testimony of Mr. Marmaduke Tennant sometimes Minister of Tharfield in Hartfordshire an intimate acquaintance of Mr. John Janeways and one that was a constant visitor of him in his sickness and an eye and ear witness of the most substantial things in this insuing Narrative Christian Reader I Can assure thee from my own knowledge that this Mr. John Janeway was an excellent person in respect of his natural parts acquired gifts and divine graces wherewith his heavenly Father adorned him considering his age even far above the ordinary rate of the best sort of Scholars and Christians All which he exceedingly improved for the good of others especially in his neer Relations both in health and sickness even to the last hour of his life And when the immediate forerunners of death was upon him he so acted faith and composedly without the least shew of humane frailty as if with bodily eyes he saw the holy Angels standing before him ready to receive and carry his pretious soul into his Fathers glory Verily he was most lovely in his life and yet more lovely at his death the like I never beheld neither before nor since And I doubt not but the serious consideration of this narrative of his life and death will through Gods blessing beget a zealous imitation of this Saint indeed in every good Christian which reads the same which that it may do is the hearty prayer of thy friend in the Lord Jesus Marmaduke Tennant Minister of the Gospel Christian Reader WHen I seriously consider how much Atheism and impiety abounds and see how sensual delights are pursued and Religion in its power is rejected as a dull sad aud unpleasant thing when I see zeal decried as unnecessary and few acting in the things of God as if they were indeed matters of the highest consequence reality and substance the greatest profit and sweetest pleasure I could not but do what in me lies to rectifie these dismal mistakes and justifie wisdom from the imputation of folly and demonstrate even to sense the transcendent excellency and reality of Invisibles The prosecution of which design I could not more effectnally manage than by the presenting this insuing narrative to the world As for the truth of it if the solemn testimony of several Ministers which were eye and ear witnesses of the most substantial things here presented may be credited here thou hast three of them As for my self I think I had as great an advantage to acquaint my self with the secret practices of this pretious Saint as any one could well have besides my dearest intimacy and special observation and perusal of his papers I had a long account from his own mouth upon his death-bed of his secret and constant practice and his experiences And let me tell you the half is not told you For the treachery of my memory hath not a little injured thee and him Had this work been done exactly I am perswaded it might have been so singular use to the world In some places I could not justly word it in his phrase but I assure thee thou hast the matter and substance The weakness of the Relator is no small disadvantage to the subject but I might a little excuse this by telling thee that I think that none living had the same opportunity in all things to do this work as I had I might also tell you that some Reverend Learned and Holy men whose authority and request I could not deny put me upon it And I was not altogether without some hopes of drawing some to the love and liking of Religion that had not only been strangers to the life and power of it but it may be had entertained deep prejudices against it And of quickning of others that had lost their former vigour and encouraging some that were too ready to go on heavily and disponding If I may succeed in this I shall adore the goodness of God and praise him with the strength of my soul That I may be snbservient to the Lord in promoting the true intrest of Religion I beg thy fervant and constant prayers and that every one that readeth may imitate and experience all and so be filled with grace and peace is the prayer of yours in his dearest Lord James Janeway The CONTENTS Chap. 1. AN account of him from his Childhood to the seventeenth year of his Age. pag. 1. Chap. 2. Of his Conversion with visible proofs thereof p. 6. Chap. 3. His Carriage when Fellow of the Colledge at twenty years of Age. p. 16. Chap. 4. His particular addresses to his brethren for their souls good and the success thereof p. 21. Chap. 5. His great love to and frequency in the duty of prayers with rmarkable success p. 24. Chap. 6. His care of his Mother and other Relations after his Fathers death p. 29. Chap. 7. His return to Kings Colledge after his Fathers death His holy projects for Christ and Souls p. 37. Chap. 8. His departure from the Colledge to live in Dr. Cox's Family p. 38. Chap. 9. His retire into the Country and his first sickness p. 39. Chap. 10. His Exhortations to some of his friends p. 43. Chap. 11. His Temptations from Satan p. 45. Chap. 12. Ministers not to carry on low designs p. 60. Chap. 13. His Love and Compassion to Souls p. 67. Chap. 14. His trouble at the barrenness of Christians p. 71. Chap. 15. Two Letters to Cement Differences and cause Love among Christians p. 74. Chap. 16. An account of the latter part of his Life p. 91. Chap. 17. His last Sickness and Death p. 98. IF the Chapters appear not to be well divided nor their contents well collected let the Reader know that a friend of Mr. Janeway's not himself made the division of them T. P. Invisible Realities demonstrated in the Holy Life and Triumphant Death of Master John Janeway sometimes Fellow of Kings-Colledge Cambridge CHAP. I. An Account of him from his Childhood to the seventeenth year of his Age. MR. John Janeway was born Anno 1633. Octob. 27. of Religious Parents in Lylly in the County of Hertford He soon gave his Parents the hope of much comfort and the symptoms of something more than ordinary quickly appeared in him fo that some which saw this Child much feared that his life would be but short others hoped that God had some rare piece of work to do by or for this Child before he died he shewed that neither of them were much mistaken in their conjecture concerning him He soon out-ran his superiours for age in learning And it was thought by no incompetent Judges that for pregnacy of wit solidity of judgment the vastness of his intellectuals and the greatness of his memory that he had no superiours few equals considering his age and education He was initiated in the Latine tongue by his own Father afterward he was brought up for some time at Pauls School in London where he made a considerable proficiencie in Latine and