A46669:416
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.
35. He was (next to the Bible) most taken with reading of Reverend Mr. Baxters works, especially his Saints Everlasting Rest; and truly, the thoughts of that Rest, and Eternity; seemed to swallow up all other thoughts, and he lived in a constant preparation for it, and ⟨p. 83⟩looked more like one that was ripe for glory, then an inhabitant of this lower world.
36. When he was about eleven years and three quarters old, his Mothers house was visited with the Plague; his eldest sister was the first that was visited with this distemper, and when they were praying for her, he would sob and weep bitterly
37. As soon as he perceived that his Sister was dead, he said, the will of the Lord be done. Blessed be the Lord, dear Mother, said he, you must do as David did, after the Child was dead, he went and refreshed himself, and quietly submitted to the will of God.