A46669:157
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.
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?
7. He would be much in reading the holy Scriptures.
8. He was desirous of more spiritual knowledge, and would be oft asking very serious and admirable questions.
8. He was desirous of more spiritual knowledg, and would be oft asking very serious and admirable questions.