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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.
2. It pleased the Lord to bless holy education, the good example of her Parents and catechising, to the good of her Soul, so that she soon had a true savour and relish of what she was taught, and made an admirable use of it in a time of need, as you shall hear afterwards.
3. She was a Child of great dutifulness to her Parents, and of a very sweet humble spiritual nature, ⟨image 64⟩and not only the truth, but the power and eminency of Religion did shine in her so clearly, that she did not only comfort the hearts of her Parents, but drew the admiration of all that were witnesses of Gods works of love upon her, and may well be proposed as a pattern not only to Children, but to persons of riper years,
4. She continued in a course of Religious Duties for some considerable time, so that her life was more excellent than most Christians, but in her last sickness she excelled her self, and her deportment was so admirable, that partly through wonder and astonishment, and partly through sorrow, many observable things were past by without committing to paper, which deserved to have been written in letters of gold: But take these which follow as some of many which were taken from her dying lips, and first published by religious and judicious Christians ⟨p. 25⟩in Dutch, afterward translated into Scotch, and with a little alteration of the stile (for the benefit of English Children) brought into this form by me.