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<HEAD>M^r^. JANEVVAY'S SAYINGS Not long before his DEATH.</HEAD>
<ITEM>1. TO di&s;parage Sin, and to incourage Ho|line&s;s is none of the lea&s;t Works of a Mini&s;ter of Chri&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. The Wicked may drink, roar, and &s;wagger, and &s;ell their precious Souls for a moments joy, and make light of Damnation, but let them know, <HI>for all the&s;e things God will bring them to Judgement,</HI> an eter|nity of intollerable &s;orrows mu&s;t pay for their &s;hort plea&s;ures.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. Hence it is that the &s;erious Chri&s;tian makes it his bu&s;ine&s;s to avoid this dreadful mi&s;ery; let the wicked plea&s;e them&s;elves in their &s;orrows, he knows 'tis but a little while, and all will be mended, and their minds changed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. He is willing to &s;tay for his happine&s;s and joys, till he come to another World; and he doth not envy the Wicked what they do enjoy, let them make the be&s;t of it.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. The un&s;een world, which mo&s;t forget, is al|ways in the Chri&s;tians eye, and if he may but live happily there, he pa&s;&s;eth not if he run through re|proaches, injuries, and a thou&s;and Deaths, to that glorious and endle&s;s Life.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6. This is the grand Rea&s;on of the Chri&s;tians pa|tience; this makes him judge it no folly, but the great|e&s;t wi&s;dom to keep the Commandements of God, and the Faith of Je&s;us.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7. Tho&s;e which live like Devils, are not like to dye like Saints, that count all their time lo&s;t, they do him no &s;ervice in, which make a je&s;t of Damning, and are as merry within a &s;tep of Hell, as if it and a Tavern were alike.</ITEM>
<ITEM>8. And yet how well are wicked men plea&s;ed and contented with their own condition, and laugh at the Godly, as if it were a dangerous and mad thing to go to Heaven, and the true&s;t happine&s;s to be mi&s;e|rable for ever?</ITEM>
<ITEM>9. The Devil him&s;elf may as well expect to &s;hake off his chains, and be re&s;tored to his lo&s;t glo|ry, as they: O be not deceived, as you &s;ow &s;o you mu&s;t reap.</ITEM>
<ITEM>10. God gives this world oftentimes to his greate&s;t Enemies; he gives glory in another World to none but his Friends and Children.</ITEM>
<ITEM>11. Nay, let me &s;peak it freely, they which gain this World with their negligence of Heaven, &s;hall at their death lo&s;e both.</ITEM>
<ITEM>12. Many that would be counted wi&s;e, drive a great Trade for that which is next to nothing, and that lay in no better provi&s;ions than gravel, clay, or dung, when they are bound for eternity.</ITEM>
<ITEM>13. They think they make a very wi&s;e bargain, when they &s;ell their Con&s;cience, God, and Heaven, for a little of that which &s;ome call riches.</ITEM>
<ITEM>14. O that I could but bring down the price of &s;ubluary things, and rai&s;e the things of that other World, to their true worth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>15. Think not meanly of Holine&s;s, it's the mo&s;t excellent thing, it is the greate&s;t Riches, and man's highe&s;t Dignity.</ITEM>
<ITEM>16. He that knows the worth of Chri&s;t, and the Nature of his own &s;oul, let him not envy tho&s;e that &s;well like bladders upon water for a moment, and <HI>God</HI> puffs them of, and where are they?</ITEM>
<ITEM>17. How can they look for Heaven when they dye, that thought it not worth their minding whil&s;t they lived?</ITEM>
<ITEM>18. What&s;oever men pur&s;ue below Chri&s;t, will yield them but little happine&s;s and comfort in a|nother World.</ITEM>
<ITEM>19. Not every one that wears Chri&s;t's Livery &s;hall have his wages.</ITEM>
<ITEM>20. How many &s;eeming Saints &s;hall gain nothing at Death, but a thorovv knowledge of their own folly?</ITEM>
<ITEM>21. O plea&s;e not your &s;elf with fancies, &s;ickne&s;s and death is coming, and then you will know better, the rea&s;on of my earne&s;t pleading with you in this matter.</ITEM>
<ITEM>22. He that hath not got more then ever any Hi|pocrite could attain, or &s;hall, will mi&s;s of Heaven.</ITEM>
<ITEM>23. The be&s;t of <HI>God</HI>'s Children are mo&s;t &s;u&s;pi|cious of them&s;elves, and afraid of their own deceit|ful hearts; and their great reque&s;t is, that <HI>God</HI> would deliver them from mi&s;takes in matters of everla&s;ting con&s;equence.</ITEM>
<ITEM>24. It's a common thing for VVicked men to carry their fal&s;e peace along vvith them to the grave.</ITEM>
<ITEM>25. Hovv many thou&s;ands are there that dye like Lambs, that are but Svvine, and have the Devils brand upon their fore-heads?</ITEM>
<ITEM>26. Many are caried very quietly to Hell, and fear nothing till they feel, and are not brought to their &s;en|ces, till un&s;peakable horror and angui&s;h doth it.</ITEM>
<ITEM>27. It hath not a little puzled &s;ome, as vvell as <HI>David,</HI> to &s;ee the vvicked dye quietly, and the godly to have a &s;trange death; but <HI>God</HI> vvill &s;hortly re&s;olve this Riddle.</ITEM>
<ITEM>28. That &s;oul vvhich hath &s;een the death of Sin, is a per&s;on fit for death.</ITEM>
<ITEM>29. That Man is like to be a gainer by Death, vvho contemns earth, and makes heaven his choice.</ITEM>
<ITEM>30. He that counts nothing vvorth the having, ex|cept Chri&s;t, and for Chri&s;t, cannot be mi&s;erable, vvhen he is lodged &s;afe in his imbraces.</ITEM>
<ITEM>31. <HI>God</HI> is oftentimes better, but never vvor&s;e than his vvord: the running Chri&s;tian &s;hall at la&s;t obtain the prize, and the crovvn he fights for he &s;hall vvear.</ITEM>
<ITEM>32. VVhat though the Ve&s;&s;el be to&s;t and broke? it &s;hall come &s;afe vvith its rich Lading, to the de&s;ired Harbour.</ITEM>
<ITEM>33. O you fooli&s;h vvorld, condemn not the&s;e &s;pi|ritual vvi&s;e Merchants, till you knovv vvhat their re|turns are, vvhen their burden is delivered.</ITEM>
<ITEM>34. He that is vvilling to dye for Chri&s;t, &s;hall live as long as Chri&s;t lives, in happine&s;s and re&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>35. Tho&s;e &s;ouls are out of gun-&s;hot, that are in|&s;trumental for the &s;haking the Kingdom of Satan, and vveakning the intere&s;t of Hell in the vvorld.</ITEM>
<ITEM>36. VVho vvould not be a <HI>Chri&s;tian</HI> in good ear|ne&s;t? &s;ure none but a mad-man or a fool.</ITEM>
<ITEM>37. The highe&s;t vvorldlings are belovv the mean|e&s;t and lovve&s;t child of <HI>God.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>38. <HI>Chri&s;tianity</HI> is a clear demon&s;tration of invi&s;i|bles, vvitne&s;s the many earne&s;ts of their Profe&s;&s;ion, vvhat vvarm refre&s;hing Rays of Divine love break in upon their &s;ouls, vvhat joy, vvhat experiments, and ble&s;&s;ed intercour&s;es have pa&s;t betvvixt <HI>God</HI> and &s;uch &s;ouls, the fire hath burnt, and of a &s;udden the &s;oul hath, e're it vvas avvare been carried above the vvorld.</ITEM>
<ITEM>39. The Spirit of truth vvill not vvitne&s;s to a lye, neither vvill goodne&s;s it &s;elf, put a cheat upon poor creatures.</ITEM>
<ITEM>40. <HI>Balaam</HI>'s vvi&s;h may throughly convince &s;in|ners, that Holine&s;s is no Madne&s;s, Piety no Fancy, and Religion no Delu&s;ion.</ITEM>
<ITEM>41. I am per&s;vvaded that all the Reprobates in Hell, vvill one day ju&s;tifie the children of <HI>God,</HI> for their &s;eriou&s;ne&s;s, and vvi&s;h a thou&s;and times, that they had had their Scornes; lo&s;&s;es, and torments.</ITEM>
<ITEM>42. Well then, our Enemies them&s;elves, being Judges, an <HI>I&s;raelite</HI> indeed, is a per&s;on of true worth; and without controver&s;ie, his e&s;tate is, and &s;hall be comfortable, ble&s;&s;ed, and glorious.</ITEM>
<ITEM>43. O Chri&s;tian, as long as God is true, you &s;hall not be deceived, as long as he is happy, you &s;hall not be mi&s;erable, you are well enough, go on re&s;olutely, 'tis but yet a little while, and you &s;hall &s;ee all this, and more than this a thou&s;and times.</ITEM>
<ITEM>44. Death will &s;hortly tare off <HI>Jo&s;hua</HI>'s rags, and pre&s;ent him before the Lord, without &s;pot or wrin|kle.</ITEM>
<ITEM>45. Sin indeed accompanies the wicked to ano|ther World, he re&s;ts from his plea&s;ures, and his wicked works follow him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>46. But it is far otherwi&s;e with the godly, &s;in was his burden, and death &s;hall unload him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>47. Sin &s;hall be confin'd to Hell, Heaven enter|tains no &s;uch deformity.</ITEM>
<ITEM>48. This Tyrant &s;hall no more in&s;lave any of Chri&s;ts Subjects.</ITEM>
<ITEM>49. The hou&s;e of <HI>Saul,</HI> and the hou&s;e of <HI>David</HI> &s;hall no longer contend, that &s;ad conflict between the fle&s;h and the Spirit, &s;hall then be determined by a full victory.</ITEM>
<ITEM>50. Death &s;ets the Soul out of the Devils reach.</ITEM>
<ITEM>51. This Angel hath nothing to do in Heaven, this Serpent &s;hall not come into the higher Paradi&s;e, nor Satan creep into this <HI>Eden.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>52. O happy day, when will it come when the Devil &s;hall be as unlike to tempt, as our hearts to clo&s;e?</ITEM>
<ITEM>53. When we are got once &s;afe to re&s;t, the Devil &s;hall as ea&s;ily &s;hake <HI>God</HI>'s throne, as our happine&s;s.</ITEM>
<ITEM>54. Death turns the key, and bolts and bars this enemy out; then, O then thou &s;halt &s;ee this <HI>Pharaoh</HI> ca&s;t dead on the &s;hore.</ITEM>
<ITEM>55. Chri&s;tian, expect not as long as any of that <HI>Caini&s;h</HI> generatian breath, that thou &s;hould&s;t be long &s;ecure.</ITEM>
<ITEM>56. What though the world &s;peak great words? thou &s;halt e're long ride in &s;tate to glory, and then let them do their wor&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>57. VVhen thou art in Heaven, they may cur&s;e and encrea&s;e their own mi&s;ery, but they &s;hall not in the lea&s;t dimini&s;h thy tranquility.</ITEM>
<ITEM>58. The beauty of this inferiour world vvill be darkned by the brightne&s;s of that light, vvhich Death leads thee into.</ITEM>
<ITEM>59. Death blovvs the du&s;t out of our eyes, it plucks off the vail, and &s;hevvs us quickly the glory of both VVorlds.</ITEM>
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<P>London, <HI>Printed by</HI> A. Pur&s;low, 1674.</P>
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