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

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.

3. The first thing that did most affect him, and made him endeavour to escape from the wrath to come, and to enquire what he should do to be saved, was the death of a little Brother; when he saw him without breath, and not able to speak or stir, and then carried out of doors, and put into a pit-hole, he was greatly concerned, and asked notable questions about him, but that which was most affecting of himself and others, was