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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…

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.

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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 1 John 2. it is said, Little Children love not the world, for the world passeth away.

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7. Away then all that is in the world, away with all my pleasant things in the world: away with my Dagger for where I go there is nothing to do with Daggers and Swords; men shall not fight there but praised God. Away with all my books; there shall I know sufficiently, and be learned in all things of true wisdom without books.

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8. His Father being touched to hear his child speak at this rate could not well tell what to say; but, my dear child, the Lord will be near thee and uphold thee.

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The book

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.