A46669:82
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.
2. He could not endure to be put to Bed without family duty, but would put his Parents upon duty, and would with much devotion kneel down, and with great patience and delight continue till duty was at an end, without the least expression of being weary; and he seemed never so well pleased, as when he was engaged in duty.
3. He could not be satisfied with Family-duty, but he would be oft upon his knees by himself in one corner or other.
4. He was much delighted in hearing the word of God either read or preached.
5. He loved to go to School that he might learn something of God, and would observe and take great notice of what he had read, and come home and speak of it with much affection; and he would rejoice in his book, and say to his Mother, O Mother, I have had a sweet lesson to day, will you please to give me leave to fetch my book that you may hear it?
5. He loved to go to School that he might learn something of God, and would observe and take great notice of what he had read, and come home and speak of it with much affection; and he would rejoyce in his book, and say to his Mother, O Mother, I have had a sweet lesson to day, will you please to give me leave to fetch my book that you may hear it?