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

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.

12. One day after School time was over, he gave Mr. Andrew ⟨p. 71⟩Kant. (one of the Ministers of Aberdeen) a visit, and asked him several solid questions, but the good man asked him some questions out of his Catechism: and finding him not so ready in the answers as he should have been, did a little reprove him, and told him, that he must be sure to get his Catechism perfectly by heart; the Child took the reproof very well, and went home and fell very hot upon his Catechism, and never left, till he got it by heart, and not only so, but he would be enquiring into the sense and meaning of it.

13. He was so greatly taken with his Catechism, that he was not content to learn it himself but he would be putting others upon learning their Catechism, especially, those that were nearest to him; he could not be satisfied, till he had persuaded his Mothers Maids to learn it, and when they were at work, he would be still following them with