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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.

[ Earlier:281–296 of 430

:281p. 20¶5

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.

:282p. 20¶6

6. She was advised to beg of God a heart to love him: She answered, she was afraid it was too late.

:283p. 20¶7

7. Being asked again whether she was not sorry that she could not love God: She answered, yes, but was still afraid it was too late.

:284p. 20¶8

8. Upon this, seeing her in such a desponding condition, a dear friend of hers spent the next day in Fasting and prayer for her.

:285p. 20–21¶9

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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.