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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.
54. Behold now I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life that I now live in the flesh is by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I am saved, and that not of my self, it is the gift of God, not of works, that no man should boast.
55. My dear Parents, now we must shortly part, my speech faileth me, pray the Lord for a quiet close to my combat.
56. Her Parents replied, Ah our dear child how sad is that to us that we must part! She answered, I go to heaven, and there we shall find one another again, I go to Jesus Christ.
57. The she comforted her self to think of her seeing her precious brother and sister again in glory. ⟨p. 54⟩I go to my brother Jacob, who did so much cry and call upon God to the last moment of his breath: And to my little sister, who was but three years old when she died: who when we asked her whether she would die; answered, yes, if it be the Lords will. I will go to my little Brother, if it be the Lords will, or I will stay with my mother, if it be the Lords will. But I know that I shall die and go to heaven, and to God. O see, how so small a babe had so much given it to behave it self every way, and in all things so submissively to the will of God, as if it had no will of its own; but if it be the will of God, if it please God, nothing for her, but what was the will and pleasure of God: And therefore, dear Father and Mother, give the Lord thanks for this his free and rich grace, and then I shall the more gladly be gone. Be gracious then, O Lord, unto me also, be gracious