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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

Mr. Janeway now begins to cast about how he might best improve what he did already know and turn all his studies into the right chanel grace did not take him off from but made him more diligent and spiritual in his study And now Christ was at the end and bottom of every thing how did he plot and contrive how he might most express his love and thankfulness to him who had brought him out of darkness into his marvellous light to this end he sent up and down packets of divine letters in which he did discourse so substantially and experimentally of the great things of God that it would not at all have unbecome some gray head to have owned what he did write He was not in a little like young Elihu whose words he used to excuse his freedom with persons of years whose souls he did dearly pity He said days should speak and multitude of years should teach wisdom but there is a spirit in a man and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding I am full of matter the spirit within me constraineth me behold my belly is as wine which hath no vent it is ready to burst like new bottles I will speak that I may be refreshed c. O then how sweet was the favour of his graces He could not but speak the things which he had seen and heard and even invite all the world to taste and see how good the Lord was He began first with his Relations begging and wooing of them to think of their precious and immortal souls and to lay in speedy provisions for a death-bed and eternity O with what compassion did he plead the cause of Christ with their souls what Pathetical expressions did he use what vehement expostulations how frequent how particular in his applications to them O with what gravity and majesty would he speak of the mysteries of the Gospel Read what his language was when he was between eighteen and nineteen years old in a Letter to an antient Minister that he stood related to who at that time walked very heavily His Letter Reverend Sir THere are two things the want of which I have had xperience of in your Family though not in every degree yet in that intenseness of degree wherein they ought to be which are the real power of Godliness and Religion and then that which is the fruit of the former that chearfulness delight spiritual joy and serenety of mind which is to be had in Religion and no where else and that not in Religion in its weakest degrees but in a real vigor power and life and in a more close constant walking with God from a tender sense of the worth of souls especially those of your family and knowing the duty which my relation to it doth lay upon me and having confidence of their will acceptance of it I have undertaken to open my thoughts unto them In most Families in England I fear there is neither the form nor the power of Godliness where there is no fear of God no regard of him no acting under him or in reference to him These are in my opinion twice dead nay not so much as having the dead carcase of Religion objects of pity they are and O how few are there that spend one passionate thought upon them Others there are who some way or other it may be from tradition from good Parents it may be from knowing the fashion of those in their rank it may be from the frequent inculcating of good instructions from Christian Friends or Godly Ministers or some strugling eruptions of Conscience have gotten the outward husk or shell of Religion without any kernel or solidity at all and this generation doth usually trust to this their Religion that it will bring them to a place like a sleeping place in Heaven or keep them out of Hell though they live without God in the World These are poor creatures too making haste to their own destruction and know it not yea thinking that they are in a fair way for Heaven O that there were never a Family to which we are related which gave too sad cause of fear that it were in such a case or neer such a case as this is A third sort of people there are and but few of these neither which have the reality of Religion but yet in much weakness coldness faintnefs dimness and intermission like Nilus's brood above half mud still beginning to have some life in their head a little in their heart but the feet of their affections and actions have little or no motion And where shall we find a Christian that is got any higher than this yea that doth in good earnest strive to get any higher Now there are higher attainments to be reached after there is a having our conversation in Heaven while we are upon Earth neither doth this consist in some weak disconrses about God Heaven and the things of Religion it consists not in the meer praying twice a day and in keeping the Sabbath in an usual manner in its order it consists not in a few thoughts of Religious objects comeing into the mind in a common way and as easily got as lost But true Religion raiseth the soul to longings hungrings and thirstings not without some enjoyments Religion in power is to act for God with strength vigor earnestness intenseness delight cheerfulness serenety and calmness of mind The fruits of the spirit are joy in the Holy Ghost and Peace fear disquiet and terrors are usually the introduction to a better state but they are not of the essentials of Religion yea the contrary frame of spirit is to be striven for To speak yet more plainly and to tell you Honoured Sir what fears and jealousies are with reverence to your self and tender affection to all your family I fear that you your self are subject to too many desponding melancholy thoughts The causes whereof give me leave with submission to guess at The first I think may be your reflecting on your entring upon the ministry without that reverence care holy zeal for God love to Christ and compassion to souls which is required of every one that undertakes that holy office it may be there was rather a respect to your own living in the world than of living to God in the world be it thus be it not as bad or be it worse the remedy is the same These have a wondring power in them which will be felt to be grievous when felt as they are in themselves but continual sorrow and sad thoughts do keep this wound open too long and are not available to the having of it cured Wounds indeed must be first opened that they may be cleansed they must be opened that their filth may be discovered in reference to a purging and healing but no longer than the balm of Gilead is to be applyed that they may be healed And when Christ is made use of aright he leaveth joy and comfort yet a constant

foretold that Doomsday should be upon such a day although he blamed their daring folly that would pretend to know that which was hid from the Angels themselves and that the Devil could not acquaint them with yet granting their supposition to be true what then said he What if the day of Judgmennt were come as it will most certainly come shortly If I were sure the day of Judgment were to begin within an hour I should be glad with all my heart If at this very instant I should hear such thunderings and see such lightnings as Israel did at Mount Sinai I am perswaded my very heart would leap for joy But this I am confident of through infinite mercy that the very meditation of that day hath even ravished my soul and the thought of the certainty and nearness of it is more refreshing to me than the comforts of the whole world Surely nothing can more revive my Spirits than to behold the blessed Jesus the joy life and beauty of my soul Would it not more rejoyce me than Josephs wagons did old Jacob I lately dreamed that the day of Judgment was come Methought I heard terrible cracks of thunder and saw dreadful lightnings the foundations of the earth did shake and the Heavens were roled together as a garment yea all things visible were in a flame methought I saw the graves opened and the earth and Sea giving up their dead methought I saw millions of Angels and Christ comming in the clouds Methought I beheld the antient of days sitting upon his Throne and all other Thrones cast down Methought I beheld him whose Garments were white as Snow and the hair of his head like pure Wool His Throne was like the firely flame and his wheels as burning fire a firey stream issued and came forth from him thousands of thousands ministred unto him and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him and the Judgment was set and the books were opened O but with what an extasie of joy was I surprized Methought it was the most heart-raising and soul-ravishing sight that ever my eyes beheld and then I cried out I have waited for thy salvation O God and so I mounted into the Air to meet my Lord in the Clouds This I record only to shew how far he was from being daunted at the thoughts of death or Judgement and to let other Christians know what is attainable in this life and what folly it is for us to take up with so little when our Lord is pleased to make such noble provisions for us and by a wise and diligent improvement of those means which God hath offered us we may have an entrance administred to us abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ O how comfortable how honourable and how profitable is this state These are your men that quit themselves like Christians This is true gallantry noble manhood real valour This was the condition of Mr. Janeway for about three years before he died I will not deny but that he had some clouds but he usually walked in a sweet even humble serenity of spirit and his refreshing joys were more considerable than his dispondings and though he daily questioned many actions yet did not question his state but had his heart fixed upon that rock that neither waves nor winds could shake His senses were still so spiritually exercised as that he could look up to Heaven as his Country and Inheritance and to God as his Father and to Christ as his Redeemer and that which is scarce to be heard of he counted it the highest act of patience to be willing to die and a very great pitch of self-denial to be contented to be in this world and to dwell on this side a full and eternal injoyment of that royal glorious One whom his soul was so much in love with In a word he had the most earnest desires to be dissolved and to be with Christ that I ever saw read or heard of since the Apostles times CHAP. XVII His last Sickness and Death AND now the time draws nigh wherein his longings shall be satisfied he is called to his last work and truly his deportment in it was honourable his carriage so eminently gracious so meek patient fruitful joyful and thankful that it made all his friends stand and wonder as being abundantly above their experience and reading and those Christians that saw him could not but admire God in him look upon him as one of the most singular instances of rich grace and even bless God that their eyes ever saw or their ears ever heard such things and had such a sensible demonstration of the reality of invisibles He falls into a deep Consumption His body is now shaken again and he falls into a deep Consumption but this messenger of God did not in the least damp him Spitting of blood was no ghastly thing to one that had his eye upon the blood of Jesus faint sweats did not daunt him that had always such reviving cordials at hand It 's matter of joy to him that he was now in some hopes of having his earnest desires satisfied After he had been a while sick a sudden dimness seized upon his eyes by and by his sight quite failed and there was such a visible alteration in him that he and others judged these things to be the symptoms of death approaching But when he was thus taken he was not in the least surprized but was lifted up with joy to think what a life he was going to looking upon death it self as one of his Fathers servants and his friend that was sent as a messenger to conduct him safely to his glorious palace When he felt his body ready to faint he called to his Mother and said Dear Mother I am dying but I beseech you be not troubled for I am through mercy quite above the fears of death it 's no great matter I have nothing troubles me but the apprehensions of your grief I am going to Him whom I love above life But it pleased the Lord to raise him again a little out of this fainting fit for his master had yet more work for him to do before he must receive his wages Although his outward man decayed apace yet he is renewed in the inward man day by day His graces were never more active and his experiences were never greater When one would have thought he should have been taken up with his distemper and that it had been enough for him to grapple with his pains then he quite forgets his weakness and is so swallowed up of the life to come that he had scarce leisure to think of his sickness For several weeks together I never heard the least word that savoured of any complaint or weariness under the hand of God except his eager desire to be with Christ be counted complaining and his haste to be in Heaven be called impatience Now 's the time when one might have seen Heaven and

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

great Events of his Word or a second part of the fulfilling of the Scripture The immortality of the Soul explained and proved by Scripture and Reason to which is added Faiths-triumph over the fears of death by Tho. Wadsworth A Treatise of the incomparableness of God in his Being Attributes Works and Word by George Swinnock M. A. A discourse of the original c. of the Cossacks The generation of Seekers or the right manner of the Saints addresses to the throne of Grace with an Exposition on the Lords-Prayer The administration of Cardinal Ximones A discourse of Family-instruction by Owen Stockton with directions for those that have suffered by the Fire An Essay to facilltate the Education of Youth by bringing down the rudiments of Grammar to the sense of seeing which ought to be improved by Syncresis by M. Lewis of Totenham An Artificial Vestibulum wherein the sense of Janua Linguarum is contained compiled into plain and short sentences in English for the great case of Masters and Expeditious progress of Scholars by M. Lewis Speculum Sherlockianum ot a Looking glass in which the admirers of Mr. Sherlock may behold the man as to his Acuracy Judgment Orthodoxy A discourse of Sins of Omission wherein is discovered their Nature Causes and Cure by George Swinnock Mr. Baxter's Reformed Pastor His Majesties Propriety in the British Seas vindicated Quakerism no Christianity or a through-Quaker no Christian proved by their Principles and confirmed by Scripture by J. Faldo Differences about Water-baptism no bar to Communion by Jo. Bunian The Dutch-dispensatory shewing the vertues qualities and properties of Simples the vertue and use of Compounds whereto is added the Compleat Herbalist Judg Dodaridge's laws of Nobility and Peerage Dinglys Spiritual Fast Solitude improved by Divine Meditation by Matth. Ranew A Murderer punished and pardoned or Tho. Savage his life and death with his Funeral sermon Small 8vo A defence against the fear of death by Zach. Crofton Gods Soveraignty displayed by William Gearing The godly mans Ark or a City of Refuge in the day of his distress in five Sermons with Mrs. Moors evidences for Heaven by Edmund Calamy The Almost-Christian discovered or the false-Professor tried and cast by M. Mead. The true bounds of Christian-freedom or a discourse shewing the extent and restraints of Christian-liberty by S. Bolton D. D. The sinfulness of Sin and fulness of Christ in two Sermons by Will. Bridg. A Plea for the godly or the Righteous mans Excellency The holy Eucharist or the Sacrament of the Lords Supper A Treatise of Self-denial All three by Tho. Watson The life and death of Tho. Wilson of Maidstone in Kent The life and death of Doctor Samuel Winter A Covert from the Storm or the fearful encouraged in the day of Trouble Worthy-walking press'd upon all that have heard the Call of the Gospel The Spirit of Prayer All three by Nath. Vincent The inseparable union between Christ and a Believer by Tho. Peck A discourse of Excuses setting forth the variety and vanity of them the sin and misery brought in by them by John Sheffield Invisible reality demonstrated in the holy life and triumphant death of Mr. J. Janeway The Saints encouragement to diligence in Christs service both by Mr. James Janeway A discourse concerning the Education of Children Convivium Coeleste a plain and familiar discourse concerning the Lords Supper both by R. Kidder The Saints perseverance asserted in its Positive-ground against Mr. Ives by Tho. Danson A Wedding-ring fit for the Finger by Will. Secker The Young-mans Call and Duty by Nich. Lockyer An Explanation of the shorter-Catechism of the Assembly of Divines by Tho. Lye The Childs Delight with Pictures by Tho. Lye The life and death of Tho Hall A Plea for the Non-Conformists tending to vindicate them from Schism by a Doctor in Divinity The flat opposition of Poperty to Scripture by J. N. Chaplain to a Person of Honour The Weavers Pocket-book or Weaving spiritualiz'd by J. C. D. D. Two disputations of Original-sin by Richard Baxter The History of Moderation The welcome Cominunicant The ready way to prevent sin by William Bagshaw The Little-peace-maker discovering foolish Pride the Make-bate Philadelphia or a Treatise of Brotherly-love by Mr. Gearing Reformation or Ruine being certain Sermons on Levit. 26. 23 24. by Tho. Hotchkis The Riches of Grace displayed to which is added the priviledg of Passive Obedience and 52 proposals in order to help on Heart-humiliation by Will. Bagshaw The parable of the great Supper opened in 17 Sermons by Jo. Crump A present for Teeming-women by J. Oliver Non-conformity without Controversie by Benj. Baxter The Christians daily Monitor by Josh Church A Treatise of Closet-prayer by Richard Mayo The Religious Family by Philip Lamb. A sober inquiry or Christs Reign with Saints a thousand years A discourse of the prodigious Abstinence of Martha Taylor A Memento to young and old by John Maynard The priviledg of the Saints on Earth above those in Heaven by William Hook Index biblicus multijugus or a Table of the holy Scripture wherein each of its Books Chapters and particular matters are distinguished and Epitomized The day of Grace with the conversion of a Sinner by Nath. Vencent The Greek Testament in 8 vo An easie and useful Grammar for the learning of the French tongue by Mr. Gosthead Gentleman Mr. Raworths work and reward of a Christian The Miners Monitor or advice to those that are employed about the Mines A Protestant Catechism for little Children A Scripture Catechism by Samuel Petto A Catechism according to the Church of England Grotius Catechism Brief of the Bibles-History The Fountain sealed by Dr. Sibbs Nero Tragidea Cottons None but Christ Cornelianum dolium The Christians earnest longing for Christs appearing preached at the Funeral of Mr. Noah Webb by Dan. Burgess Wilsons Catechism Elenchus motuum nuperorum in Anglia Cocains Poems Poor Robins Jests Croftons Foelix Scelus or Prospering-prophaneness provoking holy conference by Zech. Crofton Gramaticus Analyticus by the same Author Alexanders advice to his Son Artificial Embelishments H. Excellency of Christ set forth Gods Soveraignty displayed by Mr. William Gearing In small 12 s. The duty of Parents towards their Children A little Book for little Children A method and instruction for the Art of divine Meditation All three by Tho. White The considerations of Drexelius on Eternity The shadow of the Tree of Life by M. M. The Psalms of David newly translated more plain smooth and agreeable to the Text than any heretofore The Prisoners Prayers Mr. Henry Lakin's Life of Faith Awakening Call to Sinners Crumbs of Comfort or the Lord Bacons Prayers FINIS