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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.
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.
8. Then looking upon her sorrowful Parents, she said; It is said, Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee, and he will never suffer the righteous to be moved. Therefore, my dear father and mother, cast all your care upon him who causes all things to go well that do concern you.
9. Her mother said unto her, O my dear child, I have no small comfort from the Lord in thee, and the fruit of his grace whereby thou hast ⟨p. 27⟩been so much exercised unto godliness in reading the Word, in Prayer and gracious Discourse, to the edification of thy self and us. The Lord himself who gave thee to us, make up this loss, if it be his pleasure to take thee away from us.