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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.
27. His Sister was afraid of the darkness, and would sometimes cry, upon this account; he told her, she must fear God more, and she need then be afraid of nothing.
28. He would humbly put his ⟨p. 79⟩near Relations upon their duty, and minding the concerns of their Souls and Eternity, with more seriousness and life, and to have a care of doing that which was for the dishonour of God and the hazard of the Soul.
29. He was of a compassionate and charitable disposition, and very pitiful to the poor, or any that were in distress, but his greatest pity was to poor Souls; and as well as he could, he would be putting Children, Play-fellows, servants, neighbours, upon minding their poor souls.
30. One notable instance of his true charity, I cannot omit. A certain Turk was by the providence of God cast in the place where he lived, which this sweet Child hearing of had a great pity to his Soul, and studied how he might be any way instrumental to do it good, at last finding a man that understood the language