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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.
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 ⟨p. 34⟩she was ready upon occasion to improve it.
16. One time a woman coming into the house in a great passion, spoke of her condition, as if none were like hers, and it would never be otherwise; the Child said, it were a strange thing to say when its night, it will never be day again.
17. At another time a near Relation of hers being in some straits made some complaint, to whom she said, I have heard Mr. Carter say, A man may go to Heaven without a Penny in his Purse; but not without Grace in his heart.
17. At another time a near Relation of hers being in some streights made some complaint, to whom she said, I have heard Mr. Carter say, A man may go to Heaven without a Penny in his Purse; but not without Grace in his heart.