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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.
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.
7. After this she spake to God with her eyes lift up to Heaven, saying, Be merciful to me, O Father, be merciful to me a sinner according to thy word.