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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.
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?
14. Another question he put was this; Whether had the greater glory Saints or Angels? It being answered, that Angels were the most excellent of Creatures, and its to be thought their nature is made capable of greater glory than mans. He said he was of another mind, and his reason was, because Angles were Servants, and Saints are Children; and that Christ never took upon him the nature of Angels, but he took upon him the nature of Saints, and by his being man he hath advanced human nature above the nature of Angels.
15. By this you may perceive the greatness of his parts, and the bent ⟨p. 8⟩of his thoughts, and thus he continued for several years together, labouring to get more and more spiritual knowledge, and to prepare for an endless life.