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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.
16. It was his practice to be much by himself in secret prayer, and he was careful to manage that work, so as that it might be as secret as possible it might be, but his frequency and constancy made it to be so easily observed, upon which, one time one having a great mind to know what this sweet babe prayed for, got into a place near him, and heard him very earnestly praying for the Church of God, desiring that the Kingdom of the Gospel might be spread over the whole world, and that the kingdom of grace might more and more come into the hearts of Gods people, and that the Kingdom of glory might be hastened. He was wont to continue half an hour, sometimes an hour, upon his knees together.
16. It was his practice to be much by himself in secret prayer, and he was careful to manage that work, so as that it might be as secret as possible it might be, but his frequency and constancy made it to be so easily observed, upon which, one time one having a great mind to know what this sweet babe prayed for, got into a place near him, and heard him very earnestly praying for the Church of God, desiring that the Kingdom of the Gospel might be spread over the whole world, and that the kingdom of grace might more and more come into the hearts of Gods people, and that the Kingdome of glory might be hastned. He was wont to connue half an hour, sometimes an hour, upon his knees together.
17. He was much above the vanities that most Children are taken with, and was indeed too much a man to live long.
18. He was very humble and modest, and did by no means affect fineness in apparel, but hated any thing more than necessaries either in cloths or diet.