A46669:308
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.
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 ⟨p. 29⟩Church had appointed in such cases to visit and comfort the sick.
13. One of those which came to visit her, was of very great use to her to comfort her, and lift her up in some measure above the fears of death.
14. Though young, she was very much concerned for the interest of God and Religion, for Gospel Ministers, and for the Sins and the Decay of the power of Godliness in her own Country; which will further appear by what may follow.