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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.
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.
51. She had a very strong Faith in the doctrine of the Resurrection, and did greatly solace her Soul with excellent Scriptures, which do speak the happy state of Believers as soon as their Souls are separated from their Bodies, and what she ⟨p. 51⟩quoted out of the Scripture she did excellently and suitably apply to her own use, incomparably above the common reach of her sex and age. That in 1. Cor. 15.42. was a great support to her, The body is sown in corruption, but it shall be raised incorruptible, it is sown in dishonour, it shall be raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, but it shall be raised in power. And then she sweetly applies it, and takes in this cordial. Behold thus it is, and thus it shall be with my poor mortal flesh, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, because they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them. The righteous perish and no man layeth it to heart, and the upright are taken away, and no man regardeth it, that they are taken away from the evil to come, they shall enter into peace, they shall rest in their beds, every one who walked in their uprightness. Behold now Father I shall rest and sleep in that Bedchamber.