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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

could hear It was the Judgment of some that were with him that his heart was not only habitual but actually set on God all the day long and nothing of humane frailty that could be thought a sin did appear for some time except it vvere his passionate desire to die and difficulty to bring himself to be vvilling to stay below Heaven He vvas wont every evening to take his leave of his friends hoping not to see them till the morning of the Resurrection and he desired that they would be sure to make sure of a comfortable meeting at our Fathers house in that other World I cannot relate the twentieth part of that vvhich deserved to be vvritten in letters of Gold And one that vvas one of the vveakest said that he did verily believe that if we had been exact in our taking his sentences and observing his daily experiences he could not imagine a Book could be published of greater use to the World next the Bible it self One rare passage I can't omit vvhich vvas this that vvhen Ministers or Christians came to him he would beg of them to spend all the time that they had vvith him in Praise O help me to praise God I have now nothing else to do from this time to Eternity but to praise and love God I have what my soul desires upon Earth I can't tell what to pray for but what I have gratiously given in The wants that are capable of supplying in this World are supplyed I want but one thing and that is Aspeedy life to Heaven I expect no more here I can't desire more I can't hear more O praise praise praise that infinite boundless love that hath to a wonder looked upon my soul and done more for me than thousands of his dear children O bless the Lord O my soul and all that is within me bless his holy name O help me help me O my friends to praise and admire him that hath done such astonishing wonders for my soul he hath pardoned all my sins he hath filled me with his goodness he hath given me grace and glory and no good thing hath he withheld from me Come help me with praises all 's too little come help me O ye glorious and mighty Angels who are so well skilled in this heavenly work of praise Praise him all ye creatures upon the Earth let every thing that hath being help me to praise him Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Praise is now my work and I shall be engaged in this sweet imployment for ever Bring the Bible turn to Davids Psalms and let us sing a Psalm of praise Come let 's lift up our voice in the praise of the most high I will sing with you as long as my breath doth last and when I have none I shall do it better And then turning to some of his friends that were weeping he desired them rather to rejoyce than weep upon his account It may justly seem a wonder how he could speak so much as he did when he was so weak but the joy of the Lord did strengthen him In his sickness the scriptures that he took much delight in were the fourteenth fifteenth sixteenth and seventeenth of John The fifty fourth of Isay was very refreshing also to him he would repeat that word with everlasting mercies will I gather with abundance of joy He commended the study of the Promises to Believers and desired that they would be sure to make good their claim to them and then they might come to the Wells of Consolation and drink thereof their fill According to his desire most of the time that was spent with him was spent in Praise and he would still be calling out More Praise still O help me to praise him I have now nothing else to do I have done with Prayer and all other Ordinances I have almost done conversing with mortals I shall presently be beholding Christ hinself that dyed for me and loved me and washed me in his Blood I shall before a few hours are over be in Eternity singing the Song of Moses and the Song of the Lamb. I shall presently stand upon Mount Zion with an innumerable company of Angels and the Spirits of the just made perfect and Jesus the mediator of the New Covenant I shall hear the voice of much people and be one amongst them which shall say Hallelujah Salvation Glory Honour and power unto the Lord our God and again we shall say Hallelujah And yet a very little while and I shall sing unto the Lamb a Song of Praise saying Worthy art thou to receive Praise who wert slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy Blood out of every Kindred and Tongue and People and Nation and hast made us unto our God Kings and Priests and we shall reign with thee for ever and ever Methinks I stand as it were with one foot in Heaven and the other upon Earth methinks I here the melody of Heaven and by Faith I see the Angels waiting to carry my Soul to the bosom of Jesus and I shall be for ever with the Lord in Glory And who can choose but rejoyce in all this In several times he spake in this Language and repeated many of these words often over and over again with far greater affection than can be well worded And I solemnly profess that what is here written is no Hyperbole and that the twentieth part of what was observable in him is not Recorded and though we can't word it exactly as he did yet you have the substance and many things in his own words with little or no variation The day before his Death he looked somewhat earnestly upon his Brother James who stood by him very sad of whom he Judged that he was putting up some Ejaculations to God upon his account I thank thee dear Brother for thy love said he thou art now praying for me and I know thou lovest me dearly but Christ loveth me ten thousand times more than thou dost Come and Kiss me dear Brother before I Die And so with his cold dying Lips he Kissed him and said I shall go before and I hope thou shalt follow after to Glory Though he was almost always praising God and exhorting them that were about him to mind their everlasting concerns and secure an interest in Christ and though he slept but very little for some nights yet he was not in the least impaired in his intellectuals but his actions were all decent and becoming a man and his Discourse to a spiritual understanding highly rational solid divine And so he continued to the last minute of his breath A few hours before his Death he called all his relations and Brethren together that he might give them one solemn Warning more and bless them and Pray for them as his Breath and Strength would give him leave Which he did with abundance of authority affection and spirituallity which take briefly as it follows First He thanked his dear Mother for her tender love to him

and sealed the pardon He hath healed my wounds and caused the bones which he had broken to rejoyce O help me to bless the Lord he hath put a new Song into my mouth O bless the Lord for his infinite goodness and rich mercy O now I can die it is nothing I bless God I can die I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ You may well think that his Sons heart was not a little refreshed to hear such words and see such a sight and to meet the Messenger that he had sent to Heaven returned back again so speedily He counted himself a sharer with his Father in this mercy and it was upon a double account welcome as it did so wonderfully satisfie his Father and as it was so immediate and clear an Answer of his own prayers as if God had from Heaven said unto him thy tears and prayers are heard for thy Father thou hast like a Prince prevailed with God thou hast got the blessing thy fervent prayers have been effectual go down and see else Upon this this precious young man broke forth into praises and even into another extasie of joy that God should deal so familiarly with him and the Father and Son together were so full of joy light life love and praise that there was a little Heaven in the place He could not then but express himself in this manner O blessed and for ever blessed be God for his infinite grace O who would not pray unto God! verily he is a God that heareth prayers and that my soul knows right well And then he told his joyful Father how much he was affected with his former despondings and what he had been praying for just before with all the earnestness he could for his soul and how the Lord had immediately answered him His Father hearing this and perceiving that his former comforts came in in a way of prayer and his own childs prayer too was the more refreshed and was the more confirmed that it was from the Spirit of God and no delusion And immediately his Son standing by he fell into another fit of triumphing joy his weak body being almost ready to sink under that great weight of Glory that did shine in so powerfully upon his Soul He could then say now let thy servant depart in peace for mine eyes have seen thy Salvation He could now walk through the valley of the shadow of death and fear no evil O how sweet a thing is it to have ones interest in Christ cleared how comfortable to have our calling and election made sure How lovely is the sight of a smiling Jesus when one is dying How refreshing is it when heart and flesh and all are failing to have God for the strength of our heart and our portion for ever O did the foolish unexperienced world but know what these things mean did they but understand what it is to be solaced with the believing views of Glory to have their senses spiritually exercised could they but taste and see how good the Lord is it would soon cause them to disrelish their low and bruitish pleasures and look upon all worldly joys as infinitely short of one glimpse of Gods love After this his Reverent Father had a sweet calm upon his spirits and went in the strength of that provision that rich Grace laid in till he came within the Gates of the New Jerusalem having all his Graces greatly improved and shewed so much humility love to and admiring of God contempt of the World such prizing of Christ such patienee as few Christians arrive to especially his Faith by which with extraordinary confidence he cast his Widow and eleven Fatherless Children upon the care of that God who had fed them with this Manna in his Wilderness state The benefit of which Faith all his Children none of which were in his life-time provided for have since to admiration experienced And it is scarce to be imagined how helpful this his precious Son John Janeway was to his Father by his heavenly discourse humble advice and prayers After a four moneths conflict with a gainful Consumption and Hectick Fever his Honoured Father sweetly slept in Jesus CHAP. VI. His care of Mother and other Relations after his Fathers death AFter the death of his Father he did what he could to supply his absence doing the part of Husband Son Brother so that he was no small comfort to his poor Mother in her disconsolate state and all the rest of his Relations that had any sense of God upon their spirits To one of which he thus addressed himself upon the death of a sweet Child Daily observations and every mans experience gives sufficient testimony to it that afflictions of what kind soever by how much the seldomer they are the more grievous they seem We have of a long time sailed in the Rivers of Blessings which God hath plentifully poured forth among us now if we come where the Waves of affliction do but a little more than ordinarily arise we begin to have our souls almost carried down with fears and griefs yea the natural man if not counter-powred by the Spirit of God will be ready to entertain murmuring and repining thoughts against God himself Whereas if all our life had been a Pilgrimage full of sorrows and afflictions as we deserved and had but rarely been intermingled with comforts we should have been more fitted to bear afflictions Thus it is naturally but we ought to counter-work against the stream of nature by a new principle wrought in us and whatsoever Nature doth err in Grace is to rectifie And they upon whom Grace is bestowed ought to set Grace on work For wherefore is Grace bestowed unless that it should act in us It hath pleased the Lord to make a breach in your Family There where the knot is fast tyed when it is disunited the change becomes greater and the grief is the more inlarged So that herein you who are most moved are most to be excused and comforted The strength of a Mothers affections I believe none but Mothers know and greatest affections when they are disturbed breed the greatest grief But when afflictions come upon us what will be our duty Shall we then give our selves up to be carried away with the grieving passions Shall we because of one affliction cause our souls to walk in sadness all our days and drive away all the light of comfort from our eyes by causing our souls to be obscured under the shades of melancholy Shall we quarrel with our Maker and call the wise Righteous Judge to our Bar Doth he not punish us less than we deserve Is there not Mercy and Truth in all his Dispensations Shall we by continual sorrow add affliction to affliction and so become our own Tormentors Are we not rather under afflictions to see if any way we may find a glimpse of Gods love shining in towards us and so to raise up our souls nearer God Is there not

and desired that she might be in travail to see Christ formed in the souls of the rest of her Children and see of the travail of her soul and meet them with joy in that great day Then He charged all his Brethren and Sisters in general as they would answer it before God that they should carry it dutiful to their dear Mother As for his eldest Brother William at whose house he lay sick his prayer vvas that he might be swallowed up of Christ and Love to souls and be more and more exemplary in his life and successful in his Ministry and finish his course vvith joy His next Brothers name vvas Andrew a Citizen of London who was with him and saw him in this triumphing state but his necessary business calling him away he could not then be by yet he vvas not forgot but he was thus blessed The God of Heaven remember my poor Brother at London The Lord make him truly rich in giving him the Pearl of great price and make him a Fellow-Citizen with the Saints and of the House-hold of God the Lord deliver him from the sins of that City may the world be kept out of his heart and Christ dwell there O that he may be as his name is a strong man and that I may meet him with Joy Then he called his next Brother whose name was James whom he hoped God had made him a spiritual Father to to whom he thus addressed himself Brother James I hope the Lord hath given thee a goodly heritage the lines are fallen to thee in pleasant places the Lord is thy portion I hope the Lord hath shewed thee the worth of a Christ Hold on dear Brother Christ Heaven and Glory are worth striving for The Lord give thee more abundance of his grace Then His next Brother Abraham was called to whom he spake to this purpose The blessing of the God of Abraham rest upon thee the Lord make thee a Father of many spiritual Children His fifth Brother was Joseph whom he blessed in this manner Let him bless thee O Joseph that blessed him that was separated from his Brothren O that his everlasting Arms may take hold on thee It is enough if yet thou mayest live in his sight My heart hath been working towards thee poor Joseph and I am not without hopes that the Arms of the Almighty will mbrace thee The God of thy Father bless thee with the blessings of Heaven above The next was his Sister Mary to whom he spoke thus Poor Sister Mary thy body is weak and thy daies will be filled with bitterness thy name is Marah the Lord sweeten all with his Grace and Peace and give thee health in thy Soul Be patient and make sure of Christ and all is well Then His other Sister whose name was Sarah was called whom he thus blessed Sister Sarah thy body is strong and healthful O that thy Soul may be so too The Lord make thee first a wise Virgin and then a Mother in Israel a pattren of Modesty Humility and Holiness Then another Brother Jacob was called whom he blessed after this manner The Lord make thee an Israelite indeed in whom there in no guile O that thou maist learn to wrestle with God and like a Prince maist prevail and not go without the blessing Then he prayed for his youngest Brother Benjamin who was then but an Infant Poor little Benjamin O that the Father of the Fatherless would take care of thee poor Child that thou which never sawest thy Father upon Earth maiest see him with joy in Heaven the Lord be thy Father and Portion maist thou prove the Son of thy Mothers right Hand and the joy of her Age O that none of us all may be found amongst the unconverted in the day of Judgment O that every one of us may appear with our Honoured Father and dear Mother before Christ with joy that they may say Lord here are we and the Children which thou hast gratiously given us O that we may live to God here and live with him hereafter And now my dear Mother Brethren and Sisters Farewel I leave you for a while and I commend you to God and to the word of his grace which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified And now dear Lord my work is done I have finished my Course I have fought the good Fight and henceforth there remaineth for me a Crown of Righteousness Now come dear Lord Jesus come quickly Then that Godly Minister came to give him his last visit and to do the office of an inferiour Angel to help to convey this blessed soul to Glory who was now even upon Mount Pisga and had a full sight of that goodly Land at a little distance When this Minister spake to him his heart was in a mighty flame of Love and Joy which drew tears of Joy from that pretious Minister being almost amazed to hear a man just a dying talk as if he had been with Jesus and came from the immediate presence of God ` O the smiles that were then in his Face and the unspeakable Joy that was in his Heart one might have read Grace and Glory in such a mans Countenance O the praise the triumphant praises that he put up And every one must speak praise about him or else they did make some jar in his Harmony And indeed most did as well as they could help him in praise So that I never heard nor knew more praises given to God in one Room than in his Chamber A little before he died in the Prayer or rather Praises he was so wrapped up with admiration and joy that he could scarce forbear shouting for joy In the conclusion of the Duty with abundance of Faith and fervency he said aloud Amen Amen! And now his desires shall soon be satisfied He seeth Death coming apace to do his office his jaws are loosened more and more and quiver greatly his Hands and Feet are as cold as clay and a cold sweat is upon him but O how glad was he when he felt his Spirit just agoing Never was Death more welcom to any mortal I think Though the pangs of Death where strong yet that far-more-exceeding and Eternal weight of Glory made him indure those bitter paines with much patience and courage In the extremity of his pains he desired his eldest Brother to lay him a little lower and to take away one Pillow from him that he might die with the more ease His Brother replied that he durst not for a world do any thing that might hasten his Death a moment Then he was vvell satisfied and did sweetly resign himself up vvholly to Gods disposal and after a few minutes vvith a sudden motion gathering up all his strength he gave himself a little turne on one side and in the twinkling of an eye departed to the Lord sleeping in Jesus And now blessed soul thy longings are satisfied and thou

O my soul vvhat vvilt thou canst thou thus unworthily sleight this admirable and astonishing condescention of God to thee Seems it a small matter that the great Jehovah should deal thus familiarly with his Worm and wilt thou pass this over as a common mercy What meanest thou O my soul that thou dost not constantly adore and praise this rare strong and unspeakable Love Is it true O my soul doth God deal familiarly with man and are his humble zealous and constant love praise and service too good for God Why art not thou O my soul swallowed up every moment with this free unparalell'd everlasting Love And then he breaks out again into another triumphant Extasie of praise and joy and expressed a little of that which was unexpressible in some such words as these Stand astonished ye Heavens and wonder O ye Angels at this infinite grace Was ever any under Heaven more beholding to free grace than I Doth God use to do thus with his creatures Admire him for over and ever O ye redeemed ones O those joys the tast of which I have Those everlasting joys which are at his right hand for evermore Eternity Eternity it self is too short to praise this God in O bless the Lord with me come let us shout for joy and boast in the God of our Salvation O help me to praise the Lord for his mercy indureth for ever One of his brethren that had formerly been wrought upon by his holy exhortations and example praying with him and seeing of him as he apprehended near his Dissolution desired that the Lord would be pleased to continue those astonishing and soul supporting comforts to the last moment of his breath and that he might go from one Heaven to another from grace and joy imperfect to perfect grace and glory and when his work was done here give him if it were his will the most easie and triumphant passage to rest and that he might have an abundant entrance administred into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ At the end of the Duty he burst out into a wonderful Passion of joy Sure that was joy unspeakable and full of glory O what an Amen did he speak Amen Amen Amen Hallelujah It would have made any Christians heart to leap to have seen and heard what some saw and heard at that time and I question not but that it will somewhat affect them to hear and read it though it be scarce possible to speak the half of what was admirable in him for it being so much beyond president it did even astonish and amaze those of us that were about him that our relation must fall hugely short of what was real I verily believe that it exceeds the highest Rhetorick to set out to the life what this heavenly creature did then deliver I say again I want words to speak and so did he for he saw things unutterable But yet so much he spake as justly drew the admiration of all that saw him and I heard an old experienced Christian and Minister say it again and again That He never saw nor read nor heard the like Neither could we ever expect to see the glories of Heaven more demonstrated to sense in this World He talked as if he had been in the third Heavens and broke out into such words as these O He is come He is come O how sweet How glorious is the blessed Jesus How shall I do to speak the thousandth part of his praises O for words to set out a little of that excellency But it is unexpressible O how excellent glorious and lovely is the precious Jesus He is sweet He is altogether lovely And now I am sick of Love he hath ravished my soul with his beauty I shall die sick of Love O my friends stand by and wonder come look upon a dying man and wonder I cannot my self but stand and wonder Was there ever a greater kindness was there ever sensibler manifestations of rich Grace O why me Lord why me Sure this is akin to Heaven and if I were never to enjoy any more than this it were well worth all the torments that men and Devils could invent to come thorow yea even a Hell to such transcendent joys as these If this be dying dying is sweet Let no true Christian ever be afraid of dying O Death is sweet to me This Bed is soft Christs Arms and Kisses his Smiles and Visits sure they would turn Hell into Heaven O that you did but see and feel what I do Come and behold a dying man more chearful than you ever saw any healthful man in the midst of his sweetest enjoyments O Sirs Worldly pleasures are pitiful poor sorry things compared with one glimps of this glory which shines in so strongly into my Soul O why should any of you be so sad when I am so glad This this is the hour that I have waited for About eight and forty hours before his Death his eyes were dim and his sight much failed his Jaws shook and trembled and his Feet were cold and all the symtoms of Death were upon him and his extream parts were already almost dead and senseless and yet even then his joys were if possible greater still He had so many fits of joy unspeakable that he seemed to be in one continued act of Seraphick Love and praise He spake like one that was just entring into the gates of the new Jerusalem the greatest part of him was now in Heaven not a word drop'd from his mouth but it breathed Christ and Heaven O what incouments did he give to them which did stand by to follow hard after God and to follow Christ in a humble believing zealous course of life and adding one degree of grace to another and using all diligence to make their Calling and Ele●●ion sure and that then they also should find that they should have a glorious passage into a blessed Eternity But most of his work vvas Praise a hundred times admiring of the bottomless love of God to him O vvhy me Lord vvhy me And then he vvould give instructions to them that 〈◊〉 to see him He vvas scarce ever silent because the Love of Christ and Souls did constrain him There vvas so much work done for Christ in his last hours that I am ready to think he did as much in an hour as some do in a year Every particular person had a faithful affectionate vvarning And that good Minister that vvas so much vvith him used this as an argument to perswade him to be vvilling to live a little longer and to be patient to tarry Gods leisure sure God hath somthing for thee to do that is yet undone some vvord of exhortation to some poor soul that you have forgot The truth of it is he vvas so filled vvith the love of Christ that he could scarce bear absence from Him a moment He knew that he should be capable of bearing of greater Glory above than he