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

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 ⟨p. 7⟩inquiries after every thing but that which is most needful to be known, Christ and Themselves, and that which sometimes was his gain, he now counted loss for Christ, yea doubtless he esteemed all things but as dung and dross in comparison of Christ, and desired to know nothing but Christ and him crucified. Not that he looked upon humane learning as useless: but when fixed below Christ, and not improved for Christ; he looked upon wisdom as folly, and learning as madness, and that which would make one more like the Devil, more fit for his service, and put a greater accent upon their misery in another world.

Now a mighty alteration might easily be descerned 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 tast so much sweetness in those kind of studies, which he did so greedily imploy himself in formerly. He now began to pity them which were curious in their ⟨p. 7⟩inquiries after every thing but that which is most needful to be known, Christ and Themselves, and that which sometimes was his gain, he now counted loss for Christ, yea doubtless he esteemed all things but as dung and dross in comparison of Christ, and desired to know nothing but Christ and him crucified. Not that he looked upon humane learning as useless: but when fixed below Christ, and not improved for Christ; he looked upon wisdom as folly, and learning as madness, and that which would make one more like the Devil, more fit for his service, and put a greater accent upon their misery in another world.