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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.
26. After this, looking upon one ⟨p. 15⟩of her Fathers Servants, she said, What shall I do? What shall I do at that great day, when Christ shall say to me, Come thou Blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for thee? and shall say to the wicked, Go thou cursed into the Lake that burns for ever: What a grief is it to me to think that I shall see any of my friends that I knew upon Earth turned into that Lake that burns for ever! O that word for ever! Remember that for ever; I speak these words to you, but they are nothing, except God speak to you too. O pray, pray, pray, that God would give you grace! and then she prayed, O Lord finish thy work upon their Souls. It will be my comfort to see you in glory; but it will be your everlasting happiness.
30. Her Grandmother told her she spent her self too much; she said, I care not for that, if I could ⟨p. 16⟩do any Soul good. O with what vehemency, did she speak, as if her heart were in every word she spoke.
31. She was full of Divine Sentences, and almost all her discourse from the first to the last in the time of her sickness, was about her Soul, Christs sweetness, and the Souls of others, in a word, like a continued Sermon.