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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.
1. Were not these Children sweet Children, which feared God, and were dutiful to their Parents? Did not their Fathers and Mothers, and every body that fears God, love them, and praise them? What do you think is become of them, now they are dead and gone? Why, they are gone to Heaven, and are singing Hallelujahs with the Angels: They see glorious things, and having nothing but joy and pleasure, ⟨image 7⟩they shall never sin no more, they shall never be beat any more, they shall never be sick, or in pain any more.
2. And would not you have your Fathers love; your Mothers Commendation, your Masters good word? Would not you have God and Christ love you? And would you not fain go to Heaven when you die? And live with your godly Parents in Glory, and be happy for ever?
3. Whither do you think those Children go, when they dye, that will not do what they are bid, but play the Truant, and Lye, and speak naughty words, and break the Sabbath? Whither do such Children go, do you think? Why, I will tell you, they which Lye, must go to their Father the Devil into everlasting burning; they which never pray, God will pour out his wrath upon them; and when they beg and pray in Hell Fire, God will not forgive them, but there they must lye for ever.