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

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.

9. He could not endure to read any thing over slightly, but whatsoever he read he dwelt upon it, laboured to understand it throughly, and remember it; and what he could not understand he would oft ask his Father or Mother the meaning of.

10. When any Christian friends have been discoursing with his Father, if they began to talk any thing about Religion, to be sure they should have his company, and of his own accord he would leave all to hear any thing of Christ, and creep as close to them as he could, and listen as affectionately though it were for an hour or two: He was scarce ever known to express ⟨p. 6⟩