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A token for children being an exact account of the conversion, holy and exemplary…

Name: A token for children being an exact account of the conversion, holy and exemplary…
Author: James Janeway

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.

James Janeway 1636?–1674London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1676

[18], 87 p. · 28k words · Wing J478 · ESTC R28739

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A TOKEN FOR CHILDREN. › Example 12: Example XII. Of the excellent carriage of a Child upon his death bed when but seven yea…

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:367p. 61–62¶3

3. Once when his Parents had ⟨p. 62⟩prayed with him, they asked him if they should once more send for the Physician? No (said he) I will have the Doctor no more; the Lord will help me: I know he will take me to himself, and then he shall help all.

:368p. 62¶4

4. Ah my dear child, said his Father, that grieveth my heart: Well (said the Child) Father let us pray, and the Lord shall be near for my helper.

:369p. 62¶5

5. When his Parents had prayed with him again, he said, come now dear Father and Mother and kiss me, I know that I shall die.

:370p. 62¶6

6. Farewell dear Father and Mother, Farewell dear sister, farewell all. Now shall I go to heaven unto God and Jesus Christ, and the holy angels: Father, know you not what is said by Jeremiah: Blessed is he who trusteth in the Lord: now I trust in him, and he will bless me. And in

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Title as printed

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.

Author

James Janeway 1636?–1674

Place

London

Bookseller

Dorman Newman

Year

1676

Size

[18], 87 p.

Words

28,175

Catalogue

Wing J478 · ESTC R28739

Text

EEBO-TCP A46669

Passages

430

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Example XIII. Of one that began to look towards Heaven, when he was very young, with many eminent passages of his life, and his joyful death, when he was eleven years and three quarters old.