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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.
37. When she had a little refreshed her self with rest, she burst forth with abundance of joy and gladness of heart, with a holy triumph of faith saying out, Death is swallowed up of victory, O death where is thy sting? O grave where is thy victory? the sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law, but thanks be to God who hath given us the victory through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
38. That she might the better support her friends, she still insisted upon that which might take off some of their burden, by urging the necessity of death: We are from the ⟨p. 45⟩earth and to the earth we must return: is the mother of us all, the dust shall Dust turn to dust from whence it is, and the Spirit to God which gave it.
39. The She discoursed of the shortness of mans life. O what is the life of man! the days of man upon the earth are as the grass and the flowers of the field, so he flourisheth, the wind passeth over it and it is no more, and his place knows him no more.