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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.
Of his Conversion, with visible proofs thereof.
THE great work of Conversion, it was not carried on upon his soul, in that dreadful manner that it is upon some, that God intends to communicate much to, and make great use of; but the Lord was pleased, sweetly to unlock his heart, by the exemplary life, and Heavenly and powerful discourse, of a young man in the College, whose heart God had inflamed with love to his soul, he quickly made an attempt upon this hopeful young man, and the spirit of God did set home his counsels with such power, that they proved effectual, for his awakening; being accompanied with the Preaching of these two famous worthies, Dr. Hill, and Dr. Arrowsmith, together with the reading several parts of Mr. Baxters Saints Everlasting Rest.
THE great work of Conversion, it was not carried on upon his soul, in that dreadful manner that it is upon some, that God intends to communicate much to, and make great use of; but the Lord was pleased, sweetly to unlock his heart, by the exemplary life, and Heavenly and powerful discourse, of a young man in the Colledge, whose heart God had inflamed with love to his soul, he quickly made an attempt upon this hopeful young man, and the spirit of God did set home his counsels with such power, that they proved effectual, for his awakening; being accompanied with the Preaching of these two famous worthies, Dr. Hill, and Dr. Arrowsmith, together with the reading several parts of Mr. Baxters Saints Everlasting Rest.
Now a mighty alteration might easily be discerned in him, he quickly looks quite like another man. He is now so much taken up with things above the Moon and Stars, that he had little leisure to think of these things, only as they pointed higher. He began now not to taste so much sweetness in those kind of studies, which he did so greedily employ himself in formerly. He now began to pity them which were curious in their