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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.
43. She comforted her self and her Father in that great Scripture Rom. 8.15, 16, 17. Ye have not received the Spirit of bondage again to fear but ye have received the spirit of adoption by which ye cry Abba, father. It is the spirit that witneseth with our spirits, that we are the children of God; and if Children, then are we heirs, heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ. You see thence father, that I shall be a fellow heir with Christ, who hath said, In my fathers house are many ⟨p. 48⟩mansions, if it were not so I would have told you, I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to my self, that where I am there ye may be also. O Lord take me to thy self. Behold, dear Mother, he hath prepared a place and dwelling for me.
44. Yea, my dear child, said her mother, he shall strengthen you with his holy Spirit, until he hath fitted and prepared you fully for that place which he hath prepared for you.
44. Yea, my dear child, said her mother, he shall strengthen you with his holy Spirit, untill he hath fitted and prepared you fully for that place which he hath prepared for you.
45. Yea Mother, it is said in the 84. Psalm, How lovely are thy Tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts, my soul doth thirst, and longeth for the Courts of the Lord: One day in thy Courts is better than a thousand; yea, I had rather be a Door keeper in the house of God than dwell in the tents of the wicked. Read that Psalm, dear Mother, therewith we may comfort one another. As for me, I