A token for children being an exact account of the conversion, holy and exemplary…

21. Her Father and Mother hearing her excellent discourse, and seeing her admirable carriage, burst out into abundance of tears: upon which she pleaded with them to be patient and content with the hand of God. O (said she) why do you weep at this rate over me, seeing, I hope you have no reason to question, but if the Lord take me out of this miserable world it shall be well ⟨p. 33⟩with me to all eternity. You ought to be well satisfied, seeing it is said God is in heaven, and doth whatsoever pleaseth him: and do you not pray every day, that the Will of God may be done upon earth as it is in heaven. Now farther this is Gods will that I should lie upon this sick bed, and of this disease; shall we not be content when our Prayers are answered? Would not your extreme sorrow be murmuring against God, without whose good pleasure nothing comes to pass. Although I am struck with this sad disease, yet because it is the will of God, that doth silence me, and I will as long as I live pray that Gods will may be done and not mine.

22. Seeing her Parents still very much moved, she further argued with them from the Providence of God, which had a special hand in every common thing, much more in the disposal of the lives of men and women: Are not two Sparrows ⟨p. 34⟩sold for a farthing, and not one of them falls to the ground without our heavenly Father? Yea, the hairs of our head are all numbered; therefore fear not, you are of more value than many Sparrows. Adversity and Prosperity they are both good. Some things seem evil in our eyes, but the Lord turns all to the good of them which are his.

22. Seeing her Parents still very much moved, she further argued with them from the Providence of God, which had a special hand in every common thing, much more in the disposal of the lives of men and women: Are not two Sparrows ⟨p. 34⟩