“The covenant which he made with God, about this time [during his college years], with great solemnity, and which was sealed and subscribed with his own name, still exists. It is a coincidence, that, as in a kind of postscript, he earnestly prays, that into whosever hands it might fall after his decease, it might be blessed to the conversion of the person, so the only member of his family, not in the communion of the church at his death, was the first to find, and the first to read it.

‘In this determination I have rested, though sometimes I wavered, which would create uneasiness. It was sometime in March or April, that one night I held high communion with God, and had a divine calm spread over my mind. There was peace and serenity within, and I feared nothing from without. As to my interest in Christ, my evidence was clear, and my hope of future glory good and well-founded. I believe it was shortly after this, when my examination in college commenced, (for his degree,) I was in a holy frame of mind, — my ideas were clear and distinct and my faculties strong. Again after this I had remarkable communion with God, in his sanctuary, while a sermon was preached on prayer. Then I saw my King Jesus, in his beauty — saw his sufficiency and willingness to save. I had ravishing views of his excellency in the gospel. When I came home from church, taking a book in my hand, I read therein, and found these words, ‘Even so come, Lord Jesus, come quickly.’ To these words I could then say — Amen. Such have been my experiences and exercises — such my foretastes of future happiness in the world of spirits. May 15th, I made a confession of my faith and was received into full communion with the Church.” — Thomas L. Janeway, Memoir of the Rev. Jacob J. Janeway, D.D. (1861), pp. 9-10