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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.
14. His sentences were wise and weighty, and well might become some ancient Christian.
15. His sickness was a lingering disease, against which, to comfort him, one tells him of possessions that must fall to his portion; and what are they, said he? I had rather have the Kingdom of Heaven than a thousand such inheritances.
15. His sickness was a lingring disease, against which, to comfort him, one tells him of possessions that must fall to his portion; and what are they, said he? I had rather have the Kingdom of Heaven than a thousand such inheritances.
16. When he was sick, he seemed ⟨p. 46⟩much taken up with Heaven, and asked very serious questions about the nature of his soul.
17. After he was pretty well satisfied about that, he enquired how his soul might be saved; the answer being made, by the applying of Christs merits by faith; he was pleased with the answer, and was ready to give any one that should desire it, an account of his hope.