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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.
14. He was exceeding importunate with God in duty, and would plead with God at a strange rate, and use such arguments in prayer that one would think it were impossible should ever enter into the heart of a Child; he would beg and expostulate and weep so, that sometimes it could not be kept from the ears of Neighbours; so that one of the next house was forced to cry out, the prayers and tears of that Child in the next house will sink me to Hell, because by it he did condemn his neglect of prayer, and his slight performance of it.
15. He was very fearful of wicked company, and would oft beg of ⟨p. 23⟩God to keep him from it, and that he might never be pleased in them that took delight in displeasing of God: And when he was at any time in the hearing of their wicked words, taking the Lords Name in vain, or swearing, or any filthy word, it would even make him tremble, and ready to go home and weep.
16. He abhorred lying with his Soul.