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A token for children being an exact account of the conversion, holy and exemplary…
A token for children being an exact account of the conversion, holy and exemplary lives and joyful deaths of several young children / by James Janeway.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1676
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Mary A. When she was between four and five years old, was greatly affected in hearing the word of God, and became very solicitous about her Soul and everlasting condition, weeping bitterly to think what would become of her in another World, asking strange questions concerning God and Christ, and her own soul: so that this little Mary, before she was full five years old, seemed to mind the one thing needful, and to choose the better part, and sat at the feet of Christ many a time and oft with tears.
1. MAry A. When she was between four and five years old, was greatly affected in hearing the word of God, and became very solicitous about her Soul and everlasting condition, weeping bitterly to think what would become of her in another World, asking strange questions concerning God and Christ, and her own soul: so that this little Mary, before she was full five years old, seemed to mind the one thing needful, and to choose the better part, and sat at the feet of Christ many a time and oft with tears.
2. She was wont to be much in ⟨p. 28⟩secret duty, and many times come off from her knees with tears.
3. She would choose such times and places for secret duty, as might render her less observed by others, and did endeavour what possibly she could to conceal what she was doing when she was engaged in secret duty.
3. She would chuse such times and places for secret duty, as might render her less observed by others, and did endeavour what possibly she could to conceal what she was doing when she was engaged in secret duty.