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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.
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.
40. She further urged the sin and sorrow that did attend us in this life, and the longer we live the more we sin, now the Lord will free me from that sin and sorrow. We know not the thoughts of God, yet we do know so much, that they are mercy and peace, and to give an expected end. But what shall I say, my life shall not continue long, I feel much weakness, O Lord look upon me graciously, have pity upon my weak distressed heart. I am oppressed, undertake for me, that ⟨p. 46⟩I may stand fast and overcome.
40. She further urged the sin and sorrow that did attend us in this life, and the longer we live the more we sin, now the Lord will free me from that sin and sorrow. We know not the thoughts of God, yet we do know so much, that they are mercy and peace, and to give an expected end. But what shall I say, my life shall not continue long, I feel much weakness, O Lord look upon me graciously, have pitie upon my weak distressed heart. I am oppressed, undertake for me, that