A46669:114
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.
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.
8. She would complain oftentimes of the corruption of her nature, of the hardness of her heart, that she could repent no more thoroughly, and be no more humble and grieved for her sins against a good God; and when she did thus complain, it was with abundance of tears.
8. She would complain oftentimes of the corruption of her nature, of the hardness of her heart, that she could repent no more thorowly, and be no more humble and grieved for her sins against a good God; and when she did thus complain, it was with abundance of tears.
9. She was greatly concerned for the souls of others, and grieved to think of the miserable condition that they were in; upon this account, when she could handsomely, she would be putting in some pretty sweet word for Christ; but above all, she would do what she could to draw the hearts of her brethren and sisters after Christ; and there was no small hopes, that her example and good counsel did prevail with some of them when they were very young to get into corners to pray, to ask very gracious ⟨p. 31⟩