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Invisibles, realities, demonstrated in the holy life and triumphant death of Mr. John Janeway,…
Invisibles, realities, demonstrated in the holy life and triumphant death of Mr. John Janeway, Fellow of King's College in Cambridge. By James Janeway, Minister of the GospelInvisibles, 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
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1674
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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 ⟨p. 114⟩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.