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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.
25. Some of her Neighbours coming to visit her, asked her if she would leave them? She answered them, if you serve the Lord, you shall come after me to glory.
26. A little before she died, she had a great conflict with Satan, and cried out, I am none of his; her Mother seeing her in trouble, asked her what was the matter? She answered, Satan did trouble me, but now I think God all is well, I ⟨p. 38⟩know I am none of his, but Christs.
27. After this, she had a great sense of Gods love, and a glorious sight, as if she had seen the very Heavens open, and the Angels come to receive her; by which her heart was filled with joy, and her tongue with praise.
28. Being desired by the standers by to give them a particular account of what she saw: she answered, you shall know hereafter; and so in an extafie of joy and holy triumph, she went to Heaven, when she was about Twelve years old. Hallelujah.