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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.
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.
11. She had a strange contempt of the World, and scorned those things which most are too much pleased with. She could not be brought to wear any Laces, or any thing that she thought superfluous.
12. She would be complaining to her parents, if she saw any thing in them that she judged would not be for the honour of Religion, or suitable to that condition which the providence of God had set them in, in the world.