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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.
The sixth Example of a poor Child that was awakened when she was about five years old.
1. A Certain very poor Child that had a very bad Father, but it was to be hoped a very good Mother, was by the Providence of God brought to the sight of a godly friend of mine, who upon the first sight of the Child, had a great pity for him, and took an affection to him, and had a mind to bring him up for Christ:
2. At the first he did with great sweetness and kindness allure the Child, by which means it was not long before he got a deep interest in the heart of the Child, and he began to obey him with more readiness than Children usually do their Parents.
3. By this a Door was opened for a farther work, and he had a greater ⟨p. 51⟩advantage to instill spiritual Principles into the soul of the Child, which he was not wanting in, as the Lord gave opportunity, and the Child was capable of.