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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.
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.
5. And if you have no great mind ⟨image 10⟩to do thus, but had rather be at play, then think what is it that makes me that I do not care for good thinks; is this like one of Gods dear Children? I am afraid I am none of God's Child, I feel I do not love to come to Him: O, what shall I do? Either I must be Gods Child or the Devils; O, what shall I do? I would not be the Devils Child for any thing in the world.
6. Then go to your Father or Mother, or some good body, and ask them what thou shalt do to be Gods Child; and tell them that thou art afraid, and that thou canst not be contented, till thou hast got the love of God.