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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.
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 ⟨p. 37⟩long before she was filled with joy unspeakable in believing.
23. She was not many days sick before she was marked; which she first saw her self, and was greatly rejoyced 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 ⟨p. 37⟩long before she was filled with joy unspeakable in believing.
24. When she just lay a dying, her Mother came to her and told her she was sorry that she had reproved and corrected so good a child so oft. O Mother, said she, speak not thus, I bless God, now I am dying, for your reproofs and corrections too; for it may be, I might have gone to Hell, if it had not been for your reproofs and corrections.