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A token for children being an exact account of the conversion, holy and exemplary…

Name: A token for children being an exact account of the conversion, holy and exemplary…
Author: James Janeway

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.

James Janeway 1636?–1674London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1676

[18], 87 p. · 28k words · Wing J478 · ESTC R28739

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A TOKEN FOR CHILDREN. › Example 10: Example X. Of a Child that was awakened when she was between seven and eight years old,…

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.

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3. Being asked why she was afraid she should go to hell? She answered, because she feared that she did not love God.

3. Being askt why she was afraid she should go to hell? She answered, because she feared that she did not love God.

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4. Again being asked how she did know she did not love God; she replied, what have I done for God ever since I was born; and besides this, I have been taught, that he that loves God keeps his commandments but I have kept none of them all.

4. Again being askt how she did know she did not love God; she replyed, what have I done for God ever since I was born; and besides this, I have been taught, that he that loves God keeps his commandments but I have kept none of them all.

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5. Being further demanded if she would not fain love God? She answered, yes with all her heart, if she could, but she found it a hard thing to love one she did not see.

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The book

Title as printed

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.

Author

James Janeway 1636?–1674

Place

London

Bookseller

Dorman Newman

Year

1676

Size

[18], 87 p.

Words

28,175

Catalogue

Wing J478 · ESTC R28739

Text

EEBO-TCP A46669

Passages

430

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Example XI. Of a Child that was greatly affected with the things of God when she was very young, with an exact Account of her admirable Carriage upon her Death bed.