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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.
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,
45. But seeing all this did rather increase then allay his Mothers grief, he was more troubled, and asked her, what she meant, thus to offend God; know you not, that it is the hand of the Almighty. Humble your self under the mighty hand of ⟨p. 87⟩God, lay your self in the dust, and kiss the rod of God, and let me see you do it in token of your submission to the will of God, and bow before him. Upon which raising up himself a little, he gave a lowly bow, and spake no more: but went cheerfully and triumphingly to Rest, in the bosom of Jesus.
45. But seeing all this did rather increase then allay his Mothers grief, he was more troubled, and asked her, what she meant, thus to offend God; know you not, that it is the hand of the Almighty. Humble your self under the mighty hand of ⟨p. 87⟩God, lay your self in the dust, and kiss the rod of God, and let me see you do it in token of your submission to the will of God, and bow before him. Upon which raising up himself a little, he gave a lowly bow, and spake no more: but went chearfully and triumphingly to Rest, in the bosome of Jesus.
Hallelujah.