A46669:423
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.
42. He answered, and said to his Mother, I am assured, dear Mother, that my sins are forgiven, and that I shall go to Heaven, for said he, here stood an Angel by me, that told me, I should quickly be in glory.
43. At this, his Mother burst forth into tears, O Mother, said he, did you but know what joy I feel, you would not weep, but rejoice. I tell you I am so full of comfort, ⟨p. 86⟩that I cant tell you how I am; O Mother I shall presently have my head in my Fathers bosom, and shall be there, where the Four and Twenty Elders cast down their Crowns and sing Hallelujah, Glory and Praise, to him that sits upon the Throne: and unto the Lamb for ever.
43. At this, his Mother burst forth into tears, O Mother, said he, did you but know what joy I feel, you would not weep, but rejoyce. I tell you I am so full of comfort, ⟨p. 86⟩that I cant tell you how I am; O Mother I shall presently have my head in my Fathers bosome, and shall be there, where the Four and Twenty Elders cast down their Crowns and sing Hallelujah, Glory and Praise, to him that sits upon the Throne: and unto the Lamb for ever.
44. Upon this, his speech began to fail him, but his Soul seemed still to be taken up with glory, and nothing now grieved him but the sorrow that he saw his Mother to be in for his death; a little to divert his Mother, he asked her, what she had to Supper, but presently in a kind of divine Rapture, he cried out, O what a sweet Supper have I making ready for me in glory,