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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.
13. This Child was often musing and busied in the thoughts of her everlasting Work; witness that strange question, O what are they ⟨p. 33⟩doing which are already in Heaven? And she seemed to be hugely desirous to be among them that were praising, loving, delighting in God, and serving of him without sin. Her language was so strange about spiritual matters, that she made many excellent Christians to stand amazed, as judging it scarce to be paralleled.
13. This Child was often musing and busied in the thoughts of her everlasting Work; witness that strange question, O what are they ⟨p. 33⟩doing which are already in Heaven? And she seemed to be hugely desirous to be among them that were praising, loving, delighting in God, and serving of him without sin. Her language was so strange about spiritual matters, that she made many excellent Christians to stand amazed, as judging it scarce to be paralell'd.
14. She took great delight in reading of the Scripture, and some part of it was more sweet to her than her appointed food; she would get several choice Scriptures by heart, and discourse of them savourly, and apply them suitably.
14. She took great delight in reading of the Scripture, and some part of it was more sweet to her than her appointed food; she would get several choice Scriptures by heart, and discourse of them savourly, and apply them sutably.
15. She was not altogether a stranger to other good Books, but would be reading of them with much affection; and where she might, she noted the Books particularly, observing what in the reading did most warm her heart, and