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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.
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 ⟨p. 49⟩am more and more spent, and draw near my last hour.
46. Then she desired to be prayed with, and begged that the Lord would give her an easy passage.
46. Then she desired to be pray'd with, and begged that the Lord would give her an easie passage.
47. After this, she turned to her mother, and with much affection she said, Ah my dear and loving Mother; that which cometh from the heart doth ordinarily go to the heart, once more come and kiss me before I leave you.