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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.
CHAP. VI.
His care of Mother, and other Relations, after his Fathers death.
After the death of his Father, he did what he could to supply his absence, doing the part of Husband, Son, Brother: so that he was no small comfort to his poor Mother in her disconsolate state, and all the rest of his Relations that had any sense of God upon their ⟨p. 30⟩spirits. To one of which he thus addressed himself upon the death of a sweet Child.
AFter the death of his Father, he did what he could to supply his absence, doing the part of Husband, Son, Brother: so that he was no small comfort to his poor Mother in her disconsolate state, and all the rest of his Relations that had any sense of God upon their ⟨p. 30⟩spirits. To one of which he thus addressed himself upon the death of a sweet Child.
Daily observations, and every mans experience, gives sufficient testimony to it, that afflictions of what kind soever, by how much the seldomer they are, the more grievous they seem. We have of a long time sailed in the Rivers of Blessings which God hath plentifully poured forth among us; now if we come where the Waves of affliction do but a little more than ordinarily arise, we begin to have our souls almost carried down with fears and griefs; yea, the natural man, if not counter-poured by the Spirit of God, will be ready to entertain murmuring and repining thoughts against God himself. Whereas, if all our life had been a Pilgrimage full of sorrows and afflictions (as we deserved) and had but rarely been intermingled with comforts, we should have been more fitted to bear afflictions. Thus it is naturally: but we ought to counter-work against the stream of nature by a new principle wrought in us; and whatsoever Nature doth err in, Grace is to rectify: And they upon whom Grace is bestowed, ought to set Grace on work. For wherefore is Grace bestowed, unless that it should act in us: It hath pleased the Lord to make a breach in your Family. There where the knot is fast tied, when it is disunited, the change becomes greater, and the grief is the more enlarged.