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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.
EXAMPLE I. Of one eminently converted between Eight and Nine years old, with an account of her Life and Death.
MRS. Sarah Howley, when she was between eight and nine years old, was carried by her ⟨p. 2⟩Friends to hear a Sermon, where the Minister Preached upon Matthew 11.30. My yoke is easy, and my burden is light: In the applying of which Scripture, this Child was mightily awakened, and made deeply sensible of the condition of her Soul, and her need of a Christ; she wept bitterly to think what a case she was in; and went home and got by her self into a Chamber, and upon her knees she wept and cried to the Lord, as well as she could, which might easily be perceived by her eyes and countenance.
MRS. Sarah Howley, when she was between eight and nine years old, was carried by her ⟨p. 2⟩Friends to hear a Sermon, where the Minister Preached upon Matthew 11.30. My yoak is easie, and my burden is light: In the applying of which Scripture, this Child was mightily awakened, and made deeply sensible of the condition of her Soul, and her need of a Christ; she wept bitterly to think what a case she was in; and went home and got by her self into a Chamber, and upon her knees she wept and cryed to the Lord, as well as she could, which might easily be perceived by her eyes and countenance.
2. She was not contented at this, but she got her little Brother and Sister into a Chamber with her, and told them of their condition by nature, and wept over them, and prayed with them and for them.