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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.
31. He would have a savoury word to say to every one that he conversed with, to put them in mind of the worth of Christ and their Souls; and their nearness to Eternity. Insomuch, that good people took no small pleasure in his company. The Taylor that made his cloths, would keep them the longer before he brought them home, that he might have the benefit of his spiritual and Christian society; and more frequent visits.
32. He bewailed the miserable condition of the generality of man-kind, (when he was about ten years old) that were utterly ⟨p. 82⟩estranged from God, though they called him Father, yet they were his Children only by Creation, and not by any likeness they had to God, or interest in him.
33. Thus he continued walking in the ways of God, engaged in reading, praying, hearing the Word of God, and spiritual discourse, discovering thereby his serious thoughts of Eternity.
33. Thus he continued walking in the ways of God, ingaged in reading, praying, hearing the Word of God, and spiritual discourse, discovering thereby his serious thoughts of Eternity.