A46669:97
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.
17. When he had committed any fault, he was easily convinced of it, and would get in some corner and secret place, and with tears beg pardon of God, and strength against such a sin. He had a friend that oft watched him, and listened at his Chamber-door, from whom I received this Narrative.
17. When he had committed any fault, he was easily convinced of it, and would get in some corner and secret place, and with tears beg pardon of God, and strength against such a sin. He had a friend that oft watched him, and listned at his Chamber-door, from whom I received this Narrative.
18. When he had been asked, whether he would commit such a sin again, he would never promise absolutely, because he said his heart ⟨p. 24⟩was naught; but he would weep, and say, he hoped by the grace of God he should not.
19. When he was left at home alone upon the Sabbath days, he would be sure not to spend any part of the day in Idleness and Play, but be busied in praying, Reading in the Bible, and getting of his Catechism.