A46669:112
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.
5. Her Mother being full of sorrow after the death of her Husband, this Child came to her Mother ⟨p. 29⟩and asked her why she wept so exceedingly? her Mother answered, she had cause enough to weep, because her Father was dead: No, dear Mother, said the Child, you have no cause to weep so much, for God is a good God still to you.
5. Her Mother being full of sorrow after the death of her Husband, this Child came to her Mother ⟨p. 29⟩and askt her why she wept so exceedingly? her Mother answered, she had cause enough to weep, because her Father was dead: No, dear Mother, said the Child, you have no cause to weep so much, for God is a good God still to you.
6. She was a dear lover of faithful Ministers. One time after she had been hearing of Mr. Whitaker, she said I love that name dearly for the sweet words that he speaks concerning Christ.
7. Her Book was her delight, and what she did read she loved to make her own, and cared not for passing over what she learned without extraordinary observations and understanding; and many times she was so strangely affected in reading of the Scriptures, that she would burst out into tears, and would hardly be pacified, so greatly was she taken with Christs sufferings, the zeal of Gods Servant, the danger of a ⟨p. 30⟩natural state.