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

When one came to visit him, and told him, that he hoped it might please God to raise him again, and that he had seen many a weaker man restored to health, and that lived many a good year after: And do you think to please me (said he) by such discourse as this? No, Friend, you are much mistaken in me, if you think that the thoughts of life, and health, and the world, are pleasing to me. The world hath quite lost its excellency in my judgement. O how poor and contemptible a thing is it in all its glory, compared with the glory of that invisible world which I now live in the sight of! And as for life, Christ is my life, health and strength; and I know, I shall have another kind of life, when I leave this. I tell you it would incomparably more please me, if you should say to me, [You are no man of this world; you cannot possibly hold out long; before to morrow you will be in eternity]. I till you I do so long to be with Christ, that I could be contented to be cut a pieces, & to be put to ⟨p. 102⟩the most exquisite torments, so I might but die, and be with Christ. O, how sweet is Jesus! Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly. Death do thy worst! Death hath lost his terribleness. Death it is nothing. I say, Death is nothing (through grace) to me. I can as easily die as shut my eyes, or turn my head and sleep: I long to be with Christ; I long to die; that was still his note.

When one came to visit him, and told him, that he hoped it might please God to raise him again, and that he had seen many a weaker man restored to health, and that lived many a good year after: And do you think to please me (said he) by such discourse as this? No, Friend, you are much mistaken in me, if you think that the thoughts of life, and health, and the world, are pleasing to me. The world hath quite lost its excellency in my judgement. O how poor and contemptible a thing is it in all its glory, compared with the glory of that invisible world which I now live in the sight of! And as for life, Christ is my life, health and strength; and I know, I shall have another kind of life, when I leave this. I tell you it would incomparably more please me, if you should say to me, [You are no man of this world; you cannot possibly hold out long; before to morrow you will be in eternity]. I till you I do so long to be with Christ, that I could be contented to be cut apeices, & to be put to ⟨p. 102⟩the most exquisite torments, so I might but die, and be with Christ. O, how sweet is Jesus! Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly. Death do thy worst! Death hath lost his terribleness. Death it is nothing. I say, Death is nothing (through grace) to me. I can as easily die as shut my eyes, or turn my head and sleep: I long to be with Christ; I long to die; that was still his note.