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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.
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.
10. Dear mother (said she) though I leave you and you me, yet God will never leave us; for it is […]. Can a woman forget her sucking Child, that she should not have compassion on the fruit of her womb, yet will not I forget thee, behold I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands. O comfortable words both for mother and children! Mark, dear Mother, how fast the Lord keeps and holdeth his people, that he doth even grave them upon the palms of his hands. Though I must part with you, and you with me, yet blessed be God, he will never part either from you or me.
10. Dear mother (said she) though I leave you and you me, yet God will never leave us; for it is 〈…〉. Can a woman forget her sucking Child, that she should not have compassion on the fruit of her womb, yet will not I forget thee, behold I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands. O comfortable words both for mother and children! Mark, dear Mother, how fast the Lord keepes and holdeth his people, that he doth even grave them upon the palms of his hands. Though I must part with you, and you with me, yet blessed be God, he will never part either from you or me.
11. Being weary with much speaking she desired to rest a while,