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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.
48. She was not a little concerned about the souls of the rest of her relations, and did particularly charge it upon her father to do what he could possibly to bring them up in the ways of God. O let my sister be trained up in the Scriptures and Catechising, as I have been.
49. I formerly wept for my Sister, thinking that she should die before me, and now she weepeth for me, and then she kissed her weeping Sister. Also she took her young little Sister in her arms, a ⟨p. 50⟩Child of six months old, and she kissed it with much affection, as if her very bowels had moved within her, and spoke with many heart-breaking words both to her Parents and the children.
50. Her Father spake to one that was by to take the poor little Child away from her, from the hazard of that fiery distemper, and bid his daughter to give her from her, for he had already too much to bear. Well Father, said she, did not God preserve the three Children in the fiery furnace, and did not you teach me that Scripture, When thou passest through the Fire, thou shalt not be burnt, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
50. Her Father spake to one that was by to take the poor little Child away from her, from the hazard of that fiery distemper, and bid his daughter to give her from her, for he had already too much to bear. Well Father, said she, did not God preserve the three Children in the fiery furnace, and did not you teach me that Scripture, When thou passest thorow the Fire, thou shalt not be burnt, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.