A46669:287

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:284–299 of 430

: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

9. After this, that Christian friend asked her how she did now? She answered with a great deal of joy, that ⟨p. 21⟩now she blessed the Lord, she loved the Lord Jesus dearly, she felt she did love him. O, said she, I love him dearly.

9. After this, that Christian friend askt her how she did now? She answered with a great deal of joy, that ⟨p. 21⟩now she blessed the Lord, she loved the Lord Jesus dearly, she felt she did love him. O, said she, I love him dearly.

:286p. 21¶10

10. Why, saith her friend, did you not say yesterday, that you did not love the Lord, and that you could not? What did you mean to speak so strangely? Sure (said she) it was Satan that did put it into my mind: But now I love him, O blessed be God for the Lord Jesus Christ.

:287p. 21¶11

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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.