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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.
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.
14. One asked what it was she fixed her eyes upon so eagerly: I warrant (saith one that was by) she seeth death a coming.
15. No (said she) it is glory that I see, 'tis that I fix mine eye upon.
16. One asked her what was glory like? She answered, I can't speak what, but I am going to it; will you go with me? I am going to glory, O that all of you were to go with me to that glory! with which words her Soul took wing, and went to the possession of that glory which she had some believing fight of before. She died when she was between 8 and 9 years old, about 1644.
16. One askt her what was glory like? She answered, I can't speak what, but I am going to it; will you go with me? I am going to glory, O that all of you were to go with me to that glory! with which words her Soul took wing, and went to the possession of that glory which she had some believing fight of before. She died when she was between 8 and 9 years old, about 1644.