NEW JERSEY HEAVEN UPON EARTH; OR, JESUS THE BEST FRIEND OF MAN. BY JAMES JANEWAY, AUTHOR OF "A TOKEN FOR CHILDREN," ETO. WITH HISTORY OF THE JANEWAY FAMILY, BY THE REV. F. A. COX, D.D., LL.D., HACKNEY. NEW YORK: ROBERT CARTER, 58 CANAL STREET, AND PITTSBURG, 56 MARKET STREET. 1848. INTRODUCTORY ESSAY ON THE FAMILY OF THE JANEWAYS AND THE TIMES IN WHICH THEY LIVED. AY TAB REV. F. A. COX, D.D. LL.D. THE family of the Janeways is greatly distinguished in the annals of nonconformity for the number of its members who were devoted to the Christian ministry. Nearly all of them were eminent on account of their piety, zeal, and usefulness; and though we have reason to regret the scantiness of the materials which furnish information respecting their lives and habits, enough has been spared by time to supply a few interesting details, and to suggest important lessons to posterity. Of such men the fragments should be gathered, that nothing be lost. The father of the more celebrated individuals, to whom we refer, was William Janeway, originally of Lilley, in Hertfordshire, but afterwards a resident in the village of Aspeden, or, as it is now called, Harpenden, to which place he removed about the year 1644. At length he became minister of Kelshall, where, after a severe spiritual conflict, he died in holy triumph, leaving a widow and eleven children. As we have not the means of tracing the particulars of his life and labours, a valuable page from the record of his dying hours, in the biography of his son John, may be introduced with advantage, and will be appreciated by the pious reader. Being under dark apprehensions of mind in his last illness, he expressed himself in the following manner to his son:"Oh, John! this passing into eternity is a great thing; this dying is a solemn business, and enough to make any one's heart ache, that hath not his pardon sealed and his evidences for 78898 |