A46669:239
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.
6. When he was in coats, he would be still asking his maid serious questions, and praying her to teach him his Catechism or Scriptures, or some good thing; common Discourse he took no delight in, but did most eagerly desire to be sucking in of the knowledge of the things of God, Christ, his Soul, and another world.
7. He was hugely taken with the reading of the Book of Martyrs, and would be ready to leave his Dinner to go to his Book.
8. He was exceeding careful of redeeming and improving of time; scarce a moment of it, but he would give an excellent account of the expense of it; so that this Child ⟨p. 5⟩might have taught elder persons, and will questionless condemn their idle and unaccountable wasting of those precious hours in which they should, as this sweet Child, have been laying in provision for Eternity.
8. He was exceeding careful of redeeming and improving of time; scarce a moment of it, but he would give an excellent account of the expence of it; so that this Child ⟨p. 5⟩might have taught elder persons, and will questionless condemn their idle and unaccountable wasting of those precious hours in which they should, as this sweet Child, have been laying in provision for Eternity.