A46669:391
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.
10. When he was at play with other Children, he would be often times putting in some word to keep them from naughty talk, or wicked actions, and if any did take the Lords name in vain, or do any thing that was not becoming of a good Child, they should soon hear of it ⟨p. 70⟩with a witness; nay once hearing a boy speak very profanely, and that after two or three admonitions, he would not forbear nor go out of his company neither, he was so transported with zeal, that he could not forbear falling upon him to beat him; but his Mother chiding of him for it, he said, that he could not endure to hear the name of God so abused by a wretched boy. This is observed not to vindicate the act, but to take notice of his zeal.
10. When he was at play with other Children, he would be often times putting in some word to keep them from naughty talk, or wicked actions, and if any did take the Lords name in vain, or do any thing that was not becoming of a good Child, they should soon hear of it ⟨p. 70⟩with a witness; nay once hearing a boy speak very profanely, and that after two or three admonitions, he would not forbear nor go out of his company neither, he was so transported with zeal, that he could not forbear falling upon him to beat him; but his Mother chiding of him for it, he said, that he could not indure to hear the name of God so abused by a wretched boy. This is observed not to vindicate the act, but to take notice of his zeal.
11. He was a Child that took great delight in the Company of good men, and especially, Ministers and Scholars; and if he had any leisure time, he would improve it by visiting of such, whose discourse might make him wiser and better; and when he was in their society, to be sure, his talk was more like a Christian and Scholar, then a Child.
11. He was a Child that took great delight in the Company of good men, and especially, Ministers and Schollers; and if he had any leisure time, he would improve it by visiting of such, whose discourse might make him wiser and better; and when he was in their society, to be sure, his talk was more like a Christian and Scholler, then a Child.