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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.
1. Take heed of what you know is naught; as lying, O that is a grievous fault indeed; and naughty words, and taking the Lords name in vain, and playing upon the Lords Day, and keeping bad company, and playing with ungodly Children: But, if you do go to School with such, tell them that God will not love them, but that the Devil will have them, if they continue to be so naught.
2. Do what your Father and Mother bids you, cheerfully; and take heed of doing any thing that they forbid you.
2. Do what your Father and Mother bids you, chearfully; and take heed of doing any thing that they forbid you.
3. Be diligent in reading the Scripture, and learning your Catechism; and what you do not understand, to be sure ask the meaning of.
4. Think a little sometimes by your self about God and Heaven, and your Soul, and where you shall go when you die, and what Christ came into the world for.