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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.
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⟩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 numbred; 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.
23. She came then to speak particularly concerning the Plague, Doth not (said she) the Pestilence come from God; why else doth the Scripture say, shall there be evil in the City which I have not sent? What do those people mean, which say the Pestilence comes from the Air? Is not the Lord the Creator and Ruler of the Air, and are not the Elements under his Government? Or if they say it comes from the Earth, hath he not the same power and influence upon that too? What talk they of a Ship that came from Africa; have we not read long ⟨p. 35⟩ago together out of