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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.
19. When he perceived either his Brother or Sister pleased with their new clothes, he would with a great deal of gravity reprove their folly, and when his reproof signified little, he would bewail their vanity.
20. Once he had a new suit brought from the Tailors, which when he looked on, he found some ribbons at the knees, at which he was grieved: asking his Mother, whether those things would keep him warm. No, Child said his Mother, why then said he, do you suffer them to be put here, you are mistaken, if you think ⟨p. 76⟩such things please me; and I doubt some that are better then us, may want the money that this cost you to buy them bread.
21. He would entreat his Mother to have a care of gratifying a proud humour in his Brother and Sisters, he did tell them of the danger of pride, and how little reason they had to be proud of that which was their shame; for said he, if it had not been for sin we should have had no need of clothes.
21. He would intreat his Mother to have a care of gratifying a proud humour in his Brother and Sisters, he did tell them of the danger of pride, and how little reason they had to be proud of that which was their shame; for said he, if it had not been for sin we should have had no need of cloaths.