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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.
Example VIII. Of a Child that was very serious at four years old, with an Account of his comfortable Death when he was twelve years and three weeks old.
1. John Sudlow was born of religious Parents in the County of Middlesex, whose great care was to instill spiritual Principles into him as soon as he was capable of understanding of them; whose Endeavours the Lord was pleased to crown with the desired success; so that (to use the expression of a holy man ⟨p. 2⟩concerning him) scarce more could be expected or desired from so little a one.
1. IOhn Sudlow was born of religious Parents in the County of Middlesex, whose great care was to instill spiritual Principles into him as soon as he was capable of understanding of them; whose Endeavours the Lord was pleased to crown with the desired success; so that (to use the expression of a holy man ⟨p. 2⟩concerning him) scarce more could be expected or desired from so little a one.
2. When he was scarce able to speak plain, he seemed to have a very great awe and reverence of God upon his spirit, and a strange sense of the things of another world, as might easily be perceived by those serious and admirable questions which he would be oft asking of those Christians that he thought he might be bold with.