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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.
11. He was very modest whilst any stranger was present, and was loth to ask them any questions, but as soon as they were gone, he would let his father know that there was little said or done but he observed it, and would reflect upon what was past in their discourse, and desire satisfaction in what he could not understand at present.
11. He was very modest whilest any stranger was present, and was loth to ask them any questions, but as soon as they were gone, he would let his father know that there was little said or done but he observed it, and would reflect upon what was past in their discourse, and desire satisfaction in what he could not understand at present.
12. He was a Boy of almost prodigious parts for his age, as will appear by his solid and rational questions; I shall mention but two of many.
13. The first was this, when he was reading by himself in Drayton's Poems about Noah's Flood and the Ark, he asked who built the Ark? it being answered that it was likely that Noah hired men to help him to build it: And would they (said he) build an Ark to save another, and not go into it themselves?
13. The first was this, when he was reading by himself in Draiton's Poems about Noah's Flood and the Ark, he askt who built the Ark? it being answered that it was likely that Noah hired men to help him to build it: And would they (said he) build an Ark to save another, and not go into it themselves?