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Near the close of his life he evidently lived like a man quite weary of the world, almost in the immediate view of a better. His temper, his language, his deportment, all spoke him one of another world. His meditations were so intense, long, and frequent, that they ripened him apace for heaven. He fell into a deep consumption. When he felt his body ready to faint, he called to his mother, and said, "Dear mother, I am dying, but I beseech you be not troubled, for I am, through inercy, quite above the fears. of death. I have nothing that troubles me, but the apprehensions of your grief. I am going to him whom I love above life." His mother and his brethren standing by him, he said, "Dear mother, I beseech you earnestly, as ever I desired any thing of you in my life, that you would cheartully give me up to Christ. I beseech you do not hinder me, now I am going to rest and glory. I am afraid of your prayers lest they pull one way and mine another." And then turning to his brethren, he spake to them: " I charge you all, do not pray for my life any more. do me wrong if you do. O that glory, that unspeakable glory that I behold! My heart is full, my heart is full. Christ smiles, and I cannot choose but smile. Can you find in your heart to stop ine, who am now going to the complete and everlasting enjoyinent of Christ? Would you keep me from my crown? The arms of my blessed Saviour are open to embrace me. The angels stand ready to carry my soul into his bosom. O, did you but see what I see, you would all cry out with me, How long, dear Lord, how long! Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly! O, why are his chariot wheels so long a coming." A another time he spake thus: "Stand astonished, O ye heavens ; and wonder, O ye angels, at this infinite grace! Was ever any under heaven more beholden to free grace than I? O, bless the Lord with me! Come, let us shout for joy, and boast in the God of our salvation. O, help me to praise the Lord, for his mercy endureth for ever!" He talked as if he had been in the third heavens, and spake in such words as these: "O, he is come! he is come! O, how sweet, how glorious is the blessed Jesus! How shall I do to speak the thousandth part of his praises! O, for words to set out a little of that excellency! But it is inexpressible. O, how excellent,

excellent, glorious, and lovely is the precious Jesus! He is sweet. He is altogether lovely. And now I am sick of love, for he hath ravished my soul with his beauty. I shall die sick of love." About forty-eight hours before his death his eyes were dim, and his sight much failed, and every part had the symptoms of death upon it; yet even then, if possible, his joys were greater still. He spake like one entering into the gates of the new Jerusalem. Not a word dropped from his mouth, but it breathed of Christ and hea

Most of his work was praise; an hundred times admiring the boundless love of God to him. "O why me, Lord? Why me?" He took leave of his friends every evening, expecting to see them no more till the morning of the resurrection." Now (says the dying saint) I want but one thing, and that is, a speedy lift to heaven.”

"O help me, help me, to praise him, and admire him that hath done such astonishing wonders for my soul ! Come help me with praise; all is too little: come help me, all ye glorious and mighty angels, who are so well skilled in the heavenly work of praise. Praise is now my work, and I shall be engaged in that sweet employment for ever. Come, let us lift up our voice in praise. I shall presently behold Christ himself who loved me and died for me, and washed me in his blood. I shall in a few hours be in eternity, singing the song of Moses, and the song of the Lamb. I shall presently stand upon mount Sion with an innumerable company of angels, and the spirits of the just made perfect, and Jesus the mediator of the new covenant. I shall hear the voice of much people, and be one among them who say, "Hallelujah ; salvation, glory, and honour, and power unto the Lord our God!" And again, we say Hallelujah! Methinks I stand, as it were, one foot in heaven, and by faith I see the angels waiting to carry my soul to the bosom of Jesus, and I shall be for ever with the Lord in glory. And who can choose but rejoice in all this?"

The day before his death he looked earnestly upon his brother James, and said, "I thank thee, dear brother, for thy love thou art praying for me, and I know thou lovest ane dearly but Christ loveth me ten thousand times more than thou dost. Come and kiss me, dear brother, before I die." And with his cold dying lips he kissed him, and said, "I shall go before, and I hope thou shalt follow

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after to glory." A few hours before his death he called all his relations and brethren together, that he might bless them and pray for them, which he did with much affection, authority, and spirituality. Then the godly minister who had used to visit him, came to pay him his last visit, and to do the office of an angel, to help to convey his soul to glory. When he spake to him, his heart was in a mighty flame of love and joy, which drew tears from the holy man; being amazed to hear a dying man talk as if he had been with Jesus, and came from the immediate presence of God. O the smiles that were in his face, and the unspeak able joy that was in his heart! One might have read grace and glory in his countenance. O the praises, the trium, phant praises, he put up! A little before he died, in prayer, or rather praises, he was so full of admiration, that he could scarcely forbear shouting for joy. And at length, with abundance of faith and fervency, he said Amen, Amen." And now his desires were soon satisfied. Death was coming apace to do his last office. And after a few moments he turned himself on one side, and immediately fell asleep in Jesus, June 1657, aged twenty-four. He was buried in Kelshal church, Hertfordshire.

JEANES, HENRY, was the son of Christopher Jeanes, of Kingston, in Somersetshire, and was born at Aldersey in that county. He became a commoner at New Inn, Oxford, 1656, aged fifteen; where he closely applied to Logic and Metaphysics. After he had taken the degrees in arts, he removed to Hart Hall, took holy orders, and soon was cried up as a learned preacher in the university. In Aug. 1635, he was presented by sir J. Windham to the rectory of Beercrocomb and Capland, and soon after became vicar of Kingston, both in Somersetshire. Upon the change of the times, in 1641, he closed with the Presbyterians Dr. Calamy says, he was zealous for the impositions of the prelatical party, till reading the writings of the Puritan side, he found them misrepresented by their antagonists; and seeing a strength in their arguments, which he apprehended weak before he had weighed them, he heartily tell in with them, and strenuously defended their course. When Dr. Walter Raleigh was thrown out of Chedsey, he became rector of that church: where during Oliver Cromwell's time, he took into his family divers youths, designed for the university,

university, and read to them logic and philosophy, and had often set disputations among them, while himself mo derated. Wood says, "He was a most excellent philosopher, a noted metaphysician, and well grounded in polemical divinity." He died in the city of Wells, a few days before the fatal Bartholomew day, 1662, and was buried in the cathedral. One of his persuasion intended preaching on the occasion; but Dr. Pierce, bishop of the place, who esteemed Jeanes as a heretic, examined the sermon, lest there should be in it any commendation of him and his opinions.

He was author of, 1. "Treatise on Abstinence from all Appearance of Evil.”—2. “Want of Church Government no Warrant for a total Omission of the Lord's Supper." The rest of his works were chiefly controversial. "An Answer to Milton's Iconoclastes" was printed by one of the same name.

JELLINGER, CHRISTOPHER, was born at Wormes in the palatinate of the Rhine. He studied at Newhouse College, in the lower palatinate, and afterwards at Basil and at Leyden. He was forced to become a soldier in the German wars, and by that means lost all he had. He was once beset by the enemy's horse in a wood, and with difficulty saved his life. He afterwards farther pursued his studies at Geneva, from whence he was invited into England by Mr. White, of Dorchester. On coming to Exeter he was liberally entertained by the magistrates and citizens. Bishop Hall held much free conversation with him, and preached a sermon on purpose to stir up the people to a bountiful contribution for the support of him and another exile, which he encouraged by his own example. Mr. Jellinger first preached in French and Dutch, and by degrees learned to do it in English. At length he settled at Stonehouse, in Devonshire, and was afterwards put into the living of South Brent. After the Restoration, the marquis of Winchester offered to prefer him if he would conform, but he refused. His writings shew him not to have been a great man, but from his life which was pub. lished, he appears to have been a man of eminent piety; and Mr. Stancliffe, who was well, acquainted with him, speaks of him as such though Mr. Prince, a 'worthy neighbouring clergyman, in a letter to Mr. Calamy says, "That he was not much admired for his prudence or judgement,

judgement, and that he was not just to Mr. Gandy, the sequestered minister; a worthy man, who had a large family." He seems to have been of a melancholy disposition, and had some peculiarities in his conduct. Among other things, he would frequently rise at midnight to pray and sing psalms. When he left South Brent he removed to Marldon, not far from Totness; and at last settled at Kingsbridge. He continued to preach when he was very old; and died at Kingsbridge, at about eighty three years of age.

He was author of, 1. " Disputatio Theologica de Sacra Cœna."-2. The Rose of Sharon."--3. "Christ and his Saints, &c. a Discourse on Canticles."-4. "A Cluster of the sweetest Grapes; a Discourse of Assurance."-5. "Fifteen Conferences with Christ."-6. "A new and living Way of dying: on Heb. xi. 13.”—7. “ A new Canaan for the Saints' Delight," &c.-8. "Heaven won by Violence."-9. "The Spiritual Merchant." -10. "The invaluable Worth of Man's Soul."-11. "The Usurer cast; on Psalm xv. 5."—11. “ Usury stated and overthrown."-12, "Godliness epitomized."-13. Unio Sacra: or a Holy Union proposed to the divided Protestants."

JENKYN, WILLIAM, M. A. His grandfather was a gentleman of a considerable estate at Folkstone in Kent. He sent his eldest son (the father of Mr. Jenkyn) to Cambridge, designing him for some eminent church preferment. In consequence of being there cast under Mr. Perkins's ministry, he was brought to great seriousness, and embarked with the Puritans. His father discovering this upon his return, and disliking that sort of people, was pleased to disinherit him of the main body of his estate. Finding his company disagreeable to his father, he removed to Mr. Richard Rogers's of Wethersfield, an old Puritan minister, and there diligently prosecuted his studies. Being ordained, he was fixed as minister of Sudbury in Suffolk, where he was signally useful to many, by preaching and catechizing, and he adorned all by a holy conversation. Here he married the grand-daughter of Mr. John Rogers the Proto-martyr in the days of Mary, by whom he had this Mr. W. Jenkyn, who was born at Sudbury, 1612. His father died when he was very young. The grandfather beforementioned, then living at Folkstone, seemned ex tremely softened upon his son's death, and sent for his VOL. III.-No. 52. grandson,

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