A token for children being an exact account of the conversion, holy and exemplary…

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.

5. In the month of August, 1664. When the Pestilence raged so much in Holland, this sweet Child was smitten, and as soon as she felt herself very ill, she was said to break forth with abundance of sense and feeling in these following words: If thy Law were not my delight, I should perish in my affliction.

6. Her Father coming to her to encourage her in her sickness, said to her, be of good comfort my Child for the Lord will be near to thee and us, under this heavy and sore Trial, he will not forsake us though he chasten us. Yea, father (said she) our heavenly Father doth Chasten us for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness; no chastisement seemeth for the present to be joyous, but grievous, but afterwards ⟨p. 26⟩it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them which are exercised thereby. The Lord is now chastening of me upon this sick bed, but I hope he will bless it so to me as to cause it to yield to me that blessed fruit, according to the riches of his mercies which fail not.