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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.
11. But will you not quickly forget your promise? are you resolved by the strength of Christ to be a good child? Are you indeed? nay, but are you indeed? Consider: dear child, ⟨image 9⟩God calls you to remember your Creator in the days of your Youth; and he takes it kindly when little ones come to him, and he loves them dearly; and godly people, especially Parents, and Masters and Mistresses, they have no greater joy, than to see their Children walking in the way of truth.
11. But will you not quickly forget your promise? are you resolved by the strength of Christ to be a good child? Are you indeed? nay, but are you indeed? Consider: dear child, ⟨image 9⟩God calls you to remember your Creator in the dayes of your Youth; and he takes it kindly when little ones come to him, and he loves them dearly; and godly people, especially Parents, and Masters and Mistresses, they have no greater joy, than to see their Children walking in the way of truth.
Now tell me, my pretty dear Child, What will you do? shall I make you a Book? Shall I pray for you, and entreat you? Shall your Good Mother weep over you? And will not you make us all glad, by your turning quickly to the Lord? Shall Christ tell you that he will love you? And will not you love him? Will you strive to be like these Children? I am persuaded, that God intends to do good to the Souls of some little Children by these Papers, because he hath laid it so much upon my heart to pray for them, and over these Papers, and through mercy I have already experienced, that something of this nature hath not been in vain: I shall give a ⟨image 9⟩word of direction, and so leave you.
Now tell me, my pretty dear Child, What will you do? shall I make you a Book? Shall I pray for you, and entreat you? Shall your Good Mother weep over you? And will not you make us all glad, by your turning quickly to the Lord? Shall Christ tell you that he will love you? And will not you love him? Will you strive to be like these Children? I am perswaded, that God intends to do good to the Souls of some little Chidren by these Papers, because he hath laid it so much upon my heart to pray for them, and over these Papers, and thorow mercy I have already experienced, that something of this nature hath not been in vain: I shall give a