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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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11. After this she had a discovery of her approaching Dissolution, which was no small comfort to her. Anon (said she with a holy Triumph) I shall be with Jesus, I am married to him, he is my husband, I am his Bride, I have given my self to him, and he hath given himself to me, and I shall live with him for ever.

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12. This strange language made the hearers even stand astonished: but thus she continued for some little time in a kind of extafie of joy ⟨p. 22⟩admiring the excellency of Christ rejoicing in her interest in him, and longing to be with him.

12. This strange language made the hearers even stand astonished: but thus she continued for some little time in a kind of extafie of joy ⟨p. 22⟩admiring the excellency of Christ rejoycing in her interest in him, and longing to be with him.

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13. After a while some of her friends standing by her, observed a more than ordinary earnestness and fixedness in her countenance; they said one to another, look how earnestly she looks, sure she seeth something.

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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.