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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.
7. She was grieved if she saw any that conversed with her father if they were unprofitable, unsavoury or long in their discourse of common things.
8. Her own Language was the Language of Canaan: how solidly, profitably and spiritually would she talk? so that she made good people take great delight in her company, and justly drew the admiration of all that knew her.
9. She could not endure the company of common children, nor play, but was quite above all those things which most Children are taken with; her business was to be ⟨p. 17⟩reading, praying, discoursing, about the things of God, and any kind of business that her age and strength was capable of, idle she would not be by any means.
10. It was the greatest Recreation to her to hear any good people talking about God, Christ, their Souls, the Scriptures, or any thing that concerned another life.