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James Janeway, English Puritan minister (1636-1674) was educated at Christ's College, Oxford. He was one of the ejected ministers of 1662. He was a very popular minister and his sermons were well-attended after 1672, but he also survived two assassination attempts on his life. He is perhaps best-known for two particular works: A Token for Children (Cotton Mather wrote a version called A Token for the Children of New England) and Heaven Upon Earth: Jesus, The Best Friend in the Worst Times. He was among the signers of the 1673 Puritan Preface to the Scottish Metrical Psalter. He suffered melancholy, but walked by faith and not by sight, and died at the age of 38 of tuberculosis.