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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.
19. Afterwards she desired to rest, and when she had slumbered a while, she said, O dear father and Mother, how weak do I feel my self! My dear Child (said her father) God will in his tender mercy strengthen thee in thy weakness. ⟨p. 32⟩Yea father (said she) that is my confidence: For it is said, The bruised reed he will not break, and the smoking flax he will not quench.
19. Afterwards she desired to rest, and when she had slumbred a while, she said, O dear father and Mother, how weak do I feel my self! My dear Child (said her father) God will in his tender mercy strengthen thee in thy weakness. ⟨p. 32⟩Yea father (said she) that is my confidence: For it is said, The bruised reed he will not break, and the smoking flax he will not quench.
20. Then she discoursed excellently of the nature of Faith, and desired that the eleventh of the Hebrews should be read unto her; at the reading of which she cried out, O what a steadfast loyal faith was that of Abraham, which made him willing to offer up his own and only Son! Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
20. Then she discoursed excellently of the nature of Faith, and desired that the eleventh of the Hebrews should be read unto her; at the reading of which she cryed out, O what a stedfast loyal faith was that of Abraham, which made him willing to offer up his own and only Son! Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.