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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.
Example IX. Of a Child that was very eminent when she was between 5 and 6 years old, with some memorable passages of her life, who died about 1640.
1. Anne Lane was born of honest Parents in Colebrook in the County of Bucks, who was no sooner able to speak plain, and express any thing considerable of reason, but she began to act as if she was sanctified from the very womb.
1. ANne Lane was born of honest Parents in Colebrook in the County of Bucks, who was no sooner able to speak plain, and express any thing considerable of reason, but she began to act as if she was sanctified from the very womb.
2. She was very solicitous about her Soul, what would become of it when she should die, and where she should live for ever, and what she should do to be saved, when she was about five years old.
3. She was wont to be oft engaged in secret Prayer, and pouring out of her Soul in such a manner as is rarely to be heard of from one of her years.