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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.
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.
3. She was wont to be oft ingaged 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.
4. I having occasion to lie at Colebrook sent for her Father, an old ⟨p. 15⟩Disciple, an Israelite indeed, and desired him to give me some account of his Experiences, and how the Lord first wrought upon him.
5. He gave me this answer, that he was of a child somewhat civil, honest, and as to man harmless, but was little acquainted with the power of Religion, till this sweet Child put him upon a thorough inquiry into the state of his Soul, and would still be begging of him, and pleading with him to redeem his time, and to act with life and vigour in the things of God, which was no small demonstration to him of the reality of invisibles, that a very Babe and suckling should speak so feelingly about the things of God, and be so greatly concerned not only about her own soul, but about her Fathers too, which was the occasion of his conversion, and the very thought of it was a quickening to him for thirty years, and he hopes never to wear off the Impressions of it from his spirit.