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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.
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, ⟨p. 28⟩but after a little time awaking again, her father asked her how it was with her? She made no direct answer, but asked what day it was? her father said it was the Lords day. Well then, said she, have you given up my name to be remembered in the public Prayers of the Church: Her father told her he had. I have learnt, said she, that the effectual fervent Prayer of the righteous availeth much.
11. Being weary with much speaking she desired to rest a while, ⟨p. 28⟩but after a little time awaking again, her father asked her how it was with her? She made no direct answer, but asked what day it was? her father said it was the Lords day. Well then, said she, have you given up my name to be remembred in the publick Prayers of the Church: Her father told her he had. I have learnt, said she, that the effectual fervent Prayer of the righteous availeth much.