Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	child_n	lord_n	praise_v	2,690	5	9.7618	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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 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