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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.
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.
4. She was greatly afraid of hypocrisy, and of doing any thing to be seen of men, and to get commendation and praise; and when she hath heard one of her Brothers saying, that he had been by himself at prayer, she rebuked him sharply, and told him how little such prayers were like to profit him, and that was little to his praise to pray like a hypocrite, and to be glad that any should know what he had been doing.
4. She was greatly afraid of hypocrisie, and of doing any thing to be seen of men, and to get commendation and praise; and when she hath heard one of her Brothers saying, that he had been by himself at prayer, she rebuked him sharply, and told him how little such prayers were like to profit him, and that was little to his praise to pray like a hypocrite, and to be glad that any should know what he had been doing.