A token for children being an exact account of the conversion, holy and exemplary…

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.

6. Thus he continued seeking after the knowledge of God and Christ, and practising holy duties, till the sickness came into the house, with which the child was smitten; at his first sickening, the poor child was greatly amazed and afraid, and though his pains were great, and the distemper very tedious, yet the sense of his sin, and the thoughts of the miserable condition that he feared his soul was still in, made his trouble ten times greater; he was in grievous agonies of spirit, and ⟨image 42⟩his former sins stared him in the face, and made him tremble; the poison of Gods Arrows did even drink up his spirits; the sense of sin and wrath was so great, that he could not tell what in the world to do; the weight of Gods displeasure, and the thoughts of lying under it to all eternity, did even break him to pieces, and he did cry out very bitterly, what should he do? he was a miserable sinner, and he feared that he should go to Hell; his sins had been so great and so many that there was no hopes for him. He was not by far so much concerned for his life, as for his Soul, what would become of that for ever. Now the plague upon his body seemed nothing to that which was in his soul.

6. Thus he continued seeking after the knowledg of God and Christ, and practising holy duties, till the sickness came into the house, with which the child was smitten; at his first sickning, the poor child vvas greatly amazed and afraid, and though his pains were great, and the distemper very tedious, yet the sense of his sin, and the thoughts of the miserable condition that he feared his soul vvas still in, made his trouble ten times greater; he was in grievous agonies of spirit, and ⟨image 42⟩