A46669:260
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.
26. These are some of his dying Expressions. — The Lord shall be my Physician, for he will cure both Soul and body.—Heaven is the best Hospital. —It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth good in his eyes. Again, —it is the Lord that taketh away my health, but I will say as Job did, Blessed be the name of the Lord. — If I should live longer, I should but sin against God. Looking upon his Father, he said, If the Lord would but lend me the least finger of his hand to lead me through the dark entry of Death, I will rejoice in him.
27. When a Minister came to him, amongst other things he spake ⟨p. 13⟩somewhat of life. He said, This is a wicked world, yet it is good to live with my Parents, but it is better to live in heaven. —
28. And hour and an half before his Death, the same Minister came again to visit him, and asked him, John, art thou not afraid to die: He answered, No, if the Lord will but comfort me in that hour. But said the Minister, How canst thou expect Comfort, seeing we deserve none? He answered, No, if I had my deserts I had been in hell long ago. But, replied the Minister, which way dost thou expect Comfort and Salvation, seeing thou art a Sinner. He answered, In Christ alone. — In whom, about an hour and an half after, he fell asleep, saying he would take a long sleep, charging them that were about him not to wake him.