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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.
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.
18. Being asked whether he had rather live or dye, he answered, I desire to dye, that I may go to my Saviour.
19. His pains increasing upon him, one asked him whether he would rather still endure those pains, or forsake Christ? Alas, said he, I know not what to say, being but a Child, for these pains may stagger a strong man; But I will strive to endure the best that I can. Upon this he called to mind that Martyr Thomas Bilney; who ⟨p. 47⟩being in prison, the night before his burning put his finger into the candle, to know how he could endure the fire. O (said the Child) had I lived then, I would have run through the fire to have gone to Christ.
19. His pains encreasing upon him, one asked him whether he would rather still endure those pains, or forsake Christ? Alas, said he, I know not what to say, being but a Child, for these pains may stagger a strong man; But I will strive to endure the best that I can. Upon this he called to mind that Martyr Thomas Bilney; who ⟨p. 47⟩being in prison, the night before his burning put his finger into the candle, to know how he could endure the fire. O (said the Child) had I lived then, I would have run through the fire to have gone to Christ.