A46669:139
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.
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.
5. She was many a time and often in one hole or other in tears upon her knees.
6. This poor little thing would be ready to counsel other little children how they ought to serve God, and putting them upon getting by themselves to pray; and hath been known when her friends have been abroad, to have been teaching Children to pray, especially upon the Lords Day.