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

What do you say to that word, Who is there among you that feareth the Lord, and that obeyeth the voice of his servant that walketh in darkness, and seeth no light, let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay himself upon his God? Though all earthly comforts were fled away, and though you could ⟨p. 32⟩see no light from any of these things below; yet if you look upward to God in Christ, there there is comfort to be found, there is light to be espied; yea, a great and glorious light; which if we can rightly discern, it would put out the light of all lower comforts, and cause them to be vilely accounted of. But alas! alas! those heavenly comforts, though they are in themselves so precious, and if really and sensibly felt, able to raise a mans Soul from Earth, yea from Hell, to the foretaste of Heaven it self; yet for want of a spiritual sense, they are by most of the world undervalued, slighted, and thought to be but fancies. Nay, let me speak freely, Christians themselves, and those that we have cause to hope are men of another world, and truly born again, yet for want of a spiritual quickness in this spiritual sight and sense, these comforts are too lowly and meanly esteemed of. It is a spiritual sense that enableth a Christian to behold a glorious lustre and beauty in Invisibles, and raiseth the Soul up to the Gate of Heaven it self; and when he is there, how can he choose but look down with a holy slighting and contempt upon the sweetest of all Earthly enjoyments? How can he choose but think all Creature-comforts but small, compared with one look of love from Christ? This heavenly comfort was that which David did so much desire: Lord, lift up the light of thy countenance upon me, was the language of ⟨p. 33⟩his soul, and when this was come, how was his heart enlarged? Thou hast put joy and gladness in my heart more than in the time when their Corn and Wine increased. He then that in afflictions would find comfort must strive to see spiritual comforts, to be the greatest, even that comfort which is from God, in the face of Jesus Christ; this, this will be a cordial, this will be as marrow and fatness to the soul. They that have interest in Christ, what need they be moved and discomfited with any worldly trouble? Is not Christ better than ten children? is not his loving-kindness better than life?

What do you say to that word, Who is there among you that feareth the Lord, and that obeyeth the voice of his servant that walketh in darkness, and seeth no light, let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay himself upon his God? Though all earthly comforts were fled away, and though you could