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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.
35. After this she cried out, O how faint am I! but fearing least she should dishearten her mother, she said, while there is life there is hope: If it should please the Lord to recover me, how careful would I be to please you in my work and ⟨p. 43⟩learning, and whatsoever you should require of me.
35. After this she cryed out, O how faint am I! but fearing least she should dishearten her mother, she said, while there is life there is hope: If it should please the Lord to recover me, how careful would I be to please you in my work and ⟨p. 43⟩learning, and whatsoever you should require of me.
36. After this the Lord did again send her strength, and she laboured to spend it all for Christ in the awakening, edifying and comforting of those that were about her; but her chiefest endeavour was to support her dear Parents from extraordinary sorrow, and to comfort them out of the Scriptures, telling them that she knew that all things did work together for the good of them that did love God, even to those which are called according to his purpose; O God establish me with thy free Spirit! Who shall separate us from the love of Christ, I am persuaded that neither life nor death, nor angels, nor Principalities, nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other creature shall separate us from the love of God which is towards us in Christ Jesus our Lord. My sheep (saith Christ) hear my voice, ⟨p. 44⟩and I know them and they follow me and I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, and no man shall pluck them out of my hands. My Father who gave them me is greater than all, and none shall pull them out of my Fathers hands. Thus she seemed to attain a holy confidence in God, and an assurance of her state as to another world.