Mr. James Janeway's legacy to his friends containing twenty seven famous instances of Gods…

2. God doth not bring our deliverances and salvations until we be hopeless, because he will exercise his peoples graces: Therefore the Disciples were not saved until the ship was full, that their graces might be exercised. O now is a time for faith and patience to be exerted; there is nothing more pleasing unto God, then to see how poor Souls exercise their graces, when they are reduced into extremities; God hath a great revenue of glory arising to himself, out of the exercise of his own grace in the Souls of Believers. O how doth Faith act its part when mercy and deliverance is delayed! It was one of Luther's wonders, to believe for mercy that was long delayed. It is an high exercise of Faith, to look up to God long together, and nothing to come. To say ⟨p. 130⟩with the Prophet Jonah, ¹I will look again towards thy holy Temple. And with the Prophet Isaiah, ²Though he hide his face from the house of Jacob, I will wait upon him, and look for him. What though thou be as the Prophets Servant, who went down to the Sea to look, and he said, Master; ³there is nothing. But what then? doth he give over? O no, looks again; and the seventh look he saw the Cloud. So Faith in its exercise, will look again and again, and never give over, until it espy the mercy coming upon the wings of prayer. So might I add of Patience; O how doth it act its part while the deliverance tarries; it quietly waits for the salvation of God; saying, as David, ⁴My Soul waits for the Lord, more than they that watch for the morning. The Soul of the Believer possesses it self in patience until the mercy come.

2. God doth not bring our deliverances and salvations until we be hopeless, because he will exercise his peoples graces: Therefore the Disciples were not saved until the ship was full, that their graces might be exercised. O now is a time for faith and patience to be exerted; there is nothing more pleasing unto God, then to see how poor Souls exercise their graces, when they are reduced into extremities; God hath a great revenue of glory arising to himself, out of the exercise of his own grace in the Souls of Believers. O how doth Faith act its part when mercy and deliverance is delayed! It was one of Luther's wonders, to believe for mercy that was long delayed. It is an high exercise of Faith, to look up to God long together, and nothing to come. To say