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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.
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 inferior Angel, to help to convey this blessed soul to Glory who was now even upon Mount Pisgah, 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 precious 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.
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.