A46669:413
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.
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.
34. He had an earnest desire, if it might be the Lords good pleasure, to give himself up to the Lord in the work of the Ministry, if he should live; and this out of a dear love to Christ, and Souls.