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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.
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.
12. She had a very high esteem for the faithful Ministers of Christ, and much desired their company where she was; but knowing the hazards that such a visit might expose them and the Church to, she would by no means suffer that the Ministers should come near her person, but chose rather to throw her self upon the arms of the Lord, and to improve that knowledge she had in the Word, and her former experience, and the visits of private Christians, and those which the ⟨p. 29⟩Church had appointed in such cases to visit and comfort the sick.
12. She had a very high esteem for the faithful Ministers of Christ, and much desired their company where she was; but knowing the hazards that such a visit might expose them and the Church to, she would by no means suffer that the Ministers should come near her person, but chose rather to throw her self upon the armes of the Lord, and to improve that knowledge she had in the Word, and her former experience, and the visits of private Christians, and those which the