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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.
1. A Certain little Child, when she was about four years old, had a conscientious sense of her duty towards her Parents, because the Commandment saith, Honour thy Father and thy Mother: And though she had little advantage of education, she carried it with the greatest reverence to her Parents imaginable, so that she was no small credit as well as comfort, to them.
2. It was no unusual thing for her to weep if she saw her Parents troubled, though her self had not been the occasion of it.
3. When she came from School, she would with grief and abhorrency ⟨p. 40⟩say, that other Children had sinned against God by speaking grievous words, which were so bad that she durst not speak them again.
4. She would be often times admiring of Gods mercy for so much goodness to her rather than to others; that she saw some begging, others blind, some crooked, and that she wanted nothing that was good for her.