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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.
16. She had a high valuation of ⟨p. 30⟩God, and could speak in David's language, whom have I in Heaven but thee, and there is none on earth that I can desire in comparison of thee. She was much lifted up above the fears of Death; what else was the meaning of such expressions as these? O how do I long! even as the Heart panteth after the water brooks, so my soul panteth after thee, O God, for God, the living God, when shall I come and appear before God.
17. She was a great hater of sin, and did with much grief and self-abhorrency reflect upon it; but that which lay most upon her heart was the Corruption of her Nature and Original Sin. How oft would she cry out in the words of the Psalmist, Behold I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me, and I was altogether born in sin: She could never lay her self low enough under a sense of that Original Sin which she brought with her into the world.
18. She spake many things very judiciously of the old man and putting it off, and of the new man and putting that on; which showed that she was no stranger to conversion, and that she in some measure understood what Mortification, Self-denial and taking up of her Cross, and following of Christ meant. That Scripture was much in her mouth, The sacrifices of God are a contrite heart; a broken and a contrite spirit, O God, thou wilt not despise. That brokenness of heart (said she) which is built upon and flows from faith, and that faith which is built upon Christ, who is the proper and alone Sacrifice for Sin. These are her own words.
18. She spake many things very judiciously of the old man and putting it off, and of the new man and putting that on; which shewed that she was no stranger to conversion, and that she in some measure understood what Mortification, Self-denial and taking up of her Cross, and following of Christ meant. That Scripture was much in her mouth, The sacrifices of God are a contrite heart; a broken and a contrite spirit, O God, thou wilt not despise. That brokenness of heart (said she) which is built upon and flows from faith, and that faith which is built upon Christ, who is the proper and alone Sacrifice for Sin. These are her own words.