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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.
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.
23. She was not many days sick before she was marked; which she first saw her self, and was greatly rejoiced to think that she was marked out for the Lord, and was now going apace to Christ. She called to her Friends, and said, I am marked, but be not troubled, for I know I am marked for one of the Lords own. One asked her how she knew that? She answered, the Lord hath told me that I am one of his dear Children. And thus she spake with a holy confidence in the Lords love to her soul, and was not in the least daunted when she spake of her death; but seemed greatly delighted in the apprehension of her nearness to her Fathers house. And it was not