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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.
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.
1. John Harvey was born in London, in the year 1654. His Father was a Dutch Merchant, he was piously educated under his virtuous mother, and soon began to suck in divine things with no small delight.
1. Iohn Harvy was born in London, in the year 1654. His Father was a Dutch Merchant, he was piously educated under his virtuous mother, and soon began to suck in divine things with no small delight.
2. The first thing very observable in him was, that when he was two years and eight months old, he could speak as well as other children do usually at five years old.
3. His Parents judging that he was then a little to young to send out to school, let him have his ⟨p. 66⟩