To one of them he said, “My dear _Nanny_, don’t fret for me, for I am going to heaven: look up with an eye of faith, and you will see the holy angels waiting to be my convoy. My Lord Jesus is calling me, and I shall shortly be with him in paradise.” When he came to _Tyburn_, and saw among the spectators, the instrument, under God, of his conversion, he called out to him. “Now I know you and I shall soon meet together in glory. I am going thither, and I know you shall soon follow after. I know that I have been a vile sinner, undeserving the mercy of God: but I know also that God, for Christ’s sake, hath pardoned all my sins. Oh, this is a happy time indeed! Blessed be God I am not afraid to die. Now I experience what you so often told me about the children of God’s triumphing over the fears of death.”――――Then with a smile he said, “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; the strength of sin is the law. But blessed be God, who hath given me the victory over sin, and over death, through our Lord Jesus Christ.――Surely God’s mercies are unbounded: they extend to the chief of sinners: for since the grace of God hath reached me, what room is there for the vilest sinner to despair of pardon?” The last words he was heard to speak, was to a near relation. “My dear, don’t vex yourself for me; for I shall be in heaven in two or three minutes.” Prayers being ended, he committed his spirit into the hands of God, with a chearful countenance, being in the 20th year of his age. His body was taken care of by his friends, and on the _Sunday_ following, was decently interred in _Tindall_’s burial ground.――Mr. _H._ and another friend, performed the last office of prayer and praise over his grave, before a great concourse of people; where we must leave him to rest till the morning of the resurrection, when his body, sown in dishonour, shall be raised in glory. An EXTRACT Of the LIFE and DEATH of Mr. JOHN JANEWAY. CHAPTER I. _An account of him from his childhood, to the seventeenth year of his age._ MR. _John Janeway_ was born in the year ♦1633, _October 27_, in _Tylly_, in the county of _Hertford_. He soon gave his parents the hope of much comfort, and the symptoms of something more than ordinary appeared in him. For pregnancy of _wit_, solidity of _judgment_, and the greatness of his _memory_, he had no _superiors_, and few _equals_, considering his age and education. ♦ “63” replaced with “1633” per Errata He was initiated in the _Latin_ tongue by his _father_; afterwards he was brought up at St. _Paul_’s school in _London_, where he made a considerable proficiency in _Latin_ and _Greek_. When he was about eleven years old he took a great fancy to the _Hebrew tongue_.