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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.
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.
52. Then she quoted Job 19.25, 26, 27. I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter end upon the earth, and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God, whom I shall see for my self, and my eyes shall behold, and net another, though my reins be consumed within me. Behold now Father, this very skin which you see, and this very flesh which you see, shall be raised up again; and these very eyes which now are so dim, shall on that day see and behold my dear and precious Redeemer; albeit the worms eat up my flesh, yet with these eyes shall I behold God, even I my self, and not another for me.