Mr. Janeway's sayings not long before his death.

Mr. JANEWAY'S SAYINGS Not long before his DEATH . 1. TO disparage Sin , and to incourage Holiness is none of the least Works of a Minister of Christ . 2. The Wicked may drink , roar , and swagger , and sell their precious Souls for a moments joy , and make light of Damnation , but let them know , for all these things God will bring them to Judgement , an eternity of intollerable sorrows must pay for their short pleasures . 3. Hence it is that the serious Christian makes it his business to avoid this dreadful misery ; let the wicked please themselves in their sorrows , he knows 't is but a little while , and all will be mended , and their minds changed . 4. He is willing to stay for his happiness and joys , till he come to another World ; and he doth not envy the Wicked what they do enjoy , let them make the best of it . 5. The unseen world , which most forget , is always in the Christians eye , and if he may but live happily there , he passeth not if he run through reproaches , injuries , and a thousand Deaths , to that glorious and endless Life . 6. This is the grand Reason of the Christians patience ; this makes him judge it no folly , but the greatest wisdom to keep the Commandements of God , and the Faith of Jesus . 7. Those which live like Devils , are not like to dye like Saints , that count all their time lost , they do him no service in , which make a jest of Damning , and are as merry within a step of Hell , as if it and a Tavern were alike . 8. And yet how well are wicked men pleased 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 truest happiness to be miserable for ever ? 9. The Devil himself may as well expect to shake off his chains , and be restored to his lost glory , as they : O be not deceived , as you sow so you must reap . 10. God gives this world oftentimes to his greatest Enemies ; he gives glory in another World to none but his Friends and Children . 11. Nay , let me speak it freely , they which gain this World with their negligence of Heaven , shall at their death lose both . 12. Many that would be counted wise , drive a great Trade for that which is next to nothing , and that lay in no better provisions than gravel , clay , or dung , when they are bound for eternity . 13. They think they make a very wise bargain , when they sell their Conscience , God , and Heaven , for a little of that which some call riches . 14. O that I could but bring down the price of subluary things , and raise the things of that other World , to their true worth . 15. Think not meanly of Holiness , it 's the most excellent thing , it is the greatest Riches , and man's highest Dignity . 16. He that knows the worth of Christ , and the Nature of his own soul , let him not envy those that swell like bladders upon water for a moment , and God puffs them of , and where are they ? 17. How can they look for Heaven when they dye , that thought it not worth their minding whilst they lived ? 18. Whatsoever men pursue below Christ , will yield them but little happiness and comfort in another World . 19. Not every one that wears Christ's Livery shall have his wages . 20. How many seeming Saints shall gain nothing at Death , but a thorow knowledge of their own folly ? 21. O please not your self with fancies , sickness and death is coming , and then you will know better , the reason of my earnest pleading with you in this matter . 22. He that hath not got more then ever any Hipocrite could attain , or shall , will miss of Heaven . 23. The best of God's Children are most suspicious of themselves , and afraid of their own deceitful hearts ; and their great request is , that God would deliver them from mistakes in matters of everlasting consequence . 24. It 's a common thing for Wicked men to carry their false peace along with them to the grave . 25. How many thousands are there that dye like Lambs , that are but Swine , and have the Devils brand upon their fore-heads ? 26. Many are caried very quietly to Hell , and fear nothing till they feel , and are not brought to their sences , till unspeakable horror and anguish doth it . 27. It hath not a little puzled some , as well as David , to see the wicked dye quietly , and the godly to have a strange death ; but God will shortly resolve this Riddle . 28. That soul which hath seen the death of Sin , is a person fit for death . 29. That Man is like to be a gainer by Death , who contemns earth , and makes heaven his choice . 30. He that counts nothing worth the having , except Christ , and for Christ , cannot be miserable , when he is lodged safe in his imbraces . 31. God is oftentimes better , but never worse than his word : the running Christian shall at last obtain the prize , and the crown he fights for he shall wear . 32. What though the Vessel be tost and broke ? it shall come safe with its rich Lading , to the desired Harbour . 33. O you foolish world , condemn not these spiritual wise Merchants , till you know what their returns are , when their burden is delivered . 34. He that is willing to dye for Christ , shall live as long as Christ lives , in happiness and rest . 35. Those souls are out of gun-shot , that are instrumental for the shaking the Kingdom of Satan , and weakning the interest of Hell in the world . 36. Who would not be a Christian in good earnest ? sure none but a mad-man or a fool . 37. The highest worldlings are below the meanest and lowest child of God . 38. Christianity is a clear demonstration of invisibles , witness the many earnests of their Profession , what warm refreshing Rays of Divine love break in upon their souls , what joy , what experiments , and blessed intercourses have past betwixt God and such souls , the fire hath burnt , and of a sudden the soul hath , e're it was aware been carried above the world . 39. The Spirit of truth will not witness to a lye , neither will goodness it self , put a cheat upon poor creatures . 40. Balaam's wish may throughly convince sinners , that Holiness is no Madness , Piety no Fancy , and Religion no Delusion . 41. I am perswaded that all the Reprobates in Hell , will one day justifie the children of God , for their seriousness , and wish a thousand times , that they had had their Scornes ; losses , and torments . 42. Well then , our Enemies themselves , being Judges , an Israelite indeed , is a person of true worth ; and without controversie , his estate is , and shall be comfortable , blessed , and glorious . 43. O Christian , as long as God is true , you shall not be deceived , as long as he is happy , you shall not be miserable , you are well enough , go on resolutely , 't is but yet a little while , and you shall see all this , and more than this a thousand times . 44. Death will shortly tare off Joshua's rags , and present him before the Lord , without spot or wrinkle . 45. Sin indeed accompanies the wicked to another World , he rests from his pleasures , and his wicked works follow him . 46. But it is far otherwise with the godly , sin was his burden , and death shall unload him . 47. Sin shall be confin'd to Hell , Heaven entertains no such deformity . 48. This Tyrant shall no more inslave any of Christs Subjects . 49. The house of Saul , and the house of David shall no longer contend , that sad conflict between the flesh and the Spirit , shall then be determined by a full victory . 50. Death sets the Soul out of the Devils reach . 51. This Angel hath nothing to do in Heaven , this Serpent shall not come into the higher Paradise , nor Satan creep into this Eden . 52. O happy day , when will it come when the Devil shall be as unlike to tempt , as our hearts to close ? 53. When we are got once safe to rest , the Devil shall as easily shake God's throne , as our happiness . 54. Death turns the key , and bolts and bars this enemy out ; then , O then thou shalt see this Pharaoh cast dead on the shore . 55. Christian , expect not as long as any of that Cainish generatian breath , that thou shouldst be long secure . 56. What though the world speak great words ? thou shalt e're long ride in state to glory , and then let them do their worst . 57. When thou art in Heaven , they may curse and encrease their own misery , but they shall not in the least diminish thy tranquility . 58. The beauty of this inferiour world will be darkned by the brightness of that light , which Death leads thee into . 59. Death blows the dust out of our eyes , it plucks off the vail , and shews us quickly the glory of both Worlds .