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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 X. Of a Child that was awakened when she was between seven and eight years old, with some account of her last hours and triumphant Death.
1. Tabitha Alder was the Daughter of a holy and Reverend Minister in Kent, who lived near Gravesend. She was much instructed in the holy Scriptures and her Catechism by her Father and Mother, but there appeared nothing extraordinary in her till she was between seven and eight years old.
1. TAbitha Alder was the Daughter of a holy and Reverend Minister in Kent, who lived near Gravesend. She was much instructed in the holy Scriptures and her Catechism by her Father and Mother, but there appeared nothing extraordinary in her till she was between seven and eight years old.
2. About which time, when she was sick, one asked her what she thought would become of her if she should die? She answered, that she was greatly afraid that she should go to hell.
3. Being asked why she was afraid she should go to hell? She answered, because she feared that she did not love God.