Invisibles, realities, demonstrated in the holy life and triumphant death of Mr. John Janeway,…

Could Students but more imitate the labouring-man, and take just hours and opportunities for bodily labour (not playful walks and exercises, that never warm and purge the blood,) and did they eat and drink wisely, and live joyfully, and avoid ⟨image 6⟩colds, they might bestow the rest of their time in the hardest studies, with little hurt; (except here and there a melancholy or diseased man.) I doubt not but such narratives as this, will tempt many a slothful sensual Scholar, to indulge his sensuality as the wiser way; but at a dying hour he will find the difference. O what a comfort then is the review of a Holy, Heavenly well-spent life!

Could Students but more imitate the labouring-man, and take just hours and opportunities for bodily labour (not playful walks and exercises, that never warm and purge the blood,) and did they eat and drink wisely, and live joyfully, and avoid ⟨image 6⟩colds, they might bestow the rest of their time in the hardest studies, with little hurt; (except here and there a melanchly or diseased man.) I doubt not but such narratives as this, will tempt many a slothful sensual Scholar, to indulge his sensuality as the wiser way; but at a dying hour he will find the difference. O what a comfort then is the review of a Holy, Heavenly well-spent life!

I have oft thought what the Reason is that among the Papists, if the lives of their Saints be described in the highest strain, or their books have even unreasonable pretensions of devotion, even to the laying by of our understandings, or to a kind of Deification, (like Barbansons, Benedictus, de Benedictis, and divers others) it doth not offend men, but the vulgar themselves do glory in the sanctity of them. Whereas if with us a man rise higher in holiness, and in devote contemplation, yea or action, than others, he is presently the great eye-sore and obloquy of the world, I mean of the envious and ungodly part, which is too great. But the reason I perceive is, that among the Papists, to be a Religious man is to