A46669:197
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.
4. It was the great care of his godly Master to strike in with those convictions which the Lord had made, and to improve them all he could; and he was not a little glad to see that his labour was not in vain in the Lord; he still experiences that the Lord doth carry on his own work mightily upon the heart of the Child, he is still more and more broken under a sense of his undone state by nature; he is oft in tears and bemoaning his lost and miserable condition. When his Master did speak of the things of God, he listened earnestly, and took in with much greediness and affection what he was taught? Seldom was there any discourse about Soul matters ⟨p. 61⟩in his hearing, but he heard it as if it were for his life, and would weep greatly.
4. It was the great care of his godly Master to strike in with those convictions which the Lord had made, and to improve them all he could; and he was not a little glad to see that his labour was not in vain in the Lord; he still experiences that the Lord doth carry on his own work mightily upon the heart of the Child, he is still more and more broken under a sense of his undone state by nature; he is oft in tears and bemoaning his lost and miserable condition. When his Master did speak of the things of God, he listened earnestly, and took in with much greediness and affection what he was taught? Seldom was there any discourse about Soulmatters ⟨p. 61⟩in his hearing, but he heard it as if it were for his life, and would weep greatly.
5. He would after his Master had been speaking to him or others of the things of God, go to him, and question with him about them, and beg of him to instruct and teach him further, and to tell him those things again, that he might remember and understand them better.