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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.
3. He would be sometimes teaching them their duty that waited upon him.
4. He learned by heart many good things before he was well fit to go to School: and when he was set to School, he carried it so, that all that observed him either did or might admire him. O the sweet nature, the good disposition, the sincere Religion which was in this Child!
5. When he was at School, what was it that he desired to learn, ⟨p. 44⟩but Christ and him crucified.
6. So religious and savoury were his words, his actions so upright, his devotion so hearty, his fear of God so great, that many were ready to say, as they did of John, What manner of Child shall this be?