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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.
18. He would go to his Father and Mother with great tenderness and compassion (being far from telling of tales) and beg of them to take more care of the Souls of his brethren and Sisters, and to take heed least they should go on in a sinful Christless state, and prove their sorrow and shame, and go to Hell when they die, and be ruined for ever.
19. He was exceedingly affected with hearing of the Word of God preached, and could not be satisfied except he could carry home much of the substance of what he heard; to this end he quickly got to learn Short-hand, and would give a very pretty account of any sermon that he heard.
20. He was much engaged in secret Duty, and in reading the ⟨p. 10⟩Scriptures; to be sure morning and evening he would be by himself, and was, no question wrestling with God.
21. He would get choice Scriptures by heart, and was very perfect at his Catechism.