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

Read what his heart was in these following lines.

Distance of place cannot at all lessen that natural Bond whereby we are conjoined in blood, neither ought to lessen that of love. Nay, where true love is it cannot; for love towards you I can only say this, that I feel it better than I can express it; as it is wont to be with all affections: but love felt, and not expressed, is little worth: I therefore desire to make my love manifest in the best way I can. Let us look upon one another not as Brethren only, but as Members of the same Body whereof Christ is the Head. Happy day will that be wherein the Lord will discover that Union; let us therefore breathe and hunger after this, so that our closest knot may meet in Christ: if we are in Christ, and Christ in us, then we shall be one with one another. This I know, you cannot complain for want of instruction, God hath not been to us a dry Wilderness, or a barren heath; you have had Line upon Line, and Precept upon Precept; he hath planted you by the Rivers of Water; it is the Lord alone indeed who maketh fruitful, but yet we are not to stand still, and do nothing. There is a Crown worth seeking for; seek therefore, and that earnestly. O seek by continual prayer, keep your soul in a praying frame; this is a great and necessary duty, nay, a high and precious privilege. If thou canst say nothing, come and lay thy self in an humble manner before the Lord. You may believe me, for I have through mercy experienced what I say. There is more sweetness to be got in one glimpse of Gods love, than ⟨p. 19⟩in all that the world can afford. O do but try; O taste and see how good the Lord is. Get into a corner, and throw your self down before the Lord, and beg of God to make you sensible of your lost undone state by nature, and of the excellency and necessity of Christ. Say, Lord, give me a broken heart, soften, melt me: Any thing in the world, so I may be but enabled to value Christ, and be persuaded to accept of him, as he is tendered in the Gospel. O that I may be delivered from the wrath to come; O a blessing for me, even for me, and resolve not to be content till the Lord have in some measure answered you. O my bowels yearn towards you, my heart works: O that you did but know with what affection I write now to you, and what prayers and tears have been mingled with these lines! The Lord set these things home, and give you an heart to apply them to your self;