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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.
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.
20. When other Children were playing, he would many a time and oft be praying.
21. One day a certain person was discoursing with him about the Nature, Offices, and Excellency of Christ, and that he alone can satisfy for our sins, and merit everlasting life for us, and about other of the great Mysteries of Redemption: he seemed savingly to understand them, and was greatly delighted with the discourse.