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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.
20. She was much in praising God, and seldom or never complained of any thing but sin.
21. She continued in this course of praying and praising of God, and great dutifulness and sweetness to her Parents, and those that taught her any thing; yea, she did greatly encourage her Mother while she was a Widow, and desired that the absence of a Husband might in some measure be made up by the dutifulness and holiness of a Child. She studied all the ways that could be to make her Mothers life sweet.
21. She continued in this course of praying and praising of God, and great dutifulness and sweetness to her Parents, and those that taught her any thing; yea, she did greatly encourage her Mother while she was a Widow, and desired that the absence of a Husband might in some measure be made up by the dutifulness and holiness of a Child. She studied all the ways that could be to make her Mothers life sweer.
22. When she was between Eleven and Twelve years old, she sickned, in which she carried it with admirable patience and sweetness, and did what she could with Scripture ⟨p. 36⟩arguments to support and encourage her Relations to part with her that was going to Glory, and to prepare themselves to meet her in a blessed Eternity.