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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, Minister of the Gospel. : To which is added, A token, for the children of New England. Or, Some examples of children, in whom the fear of God was remarkably budding before they died; in several parts of New England. Preserved and published for the encouragement of piety in other children.
printed for Nicholas Boone, 1700
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
3. She would choose such times & places for secret Duty, as might render her less observed by others, and did endeavour ⟨p. 21⟩what possibly she could to conceal what she was doing, when she was engaged in secret Duty.
3. She wou'd chuse such times & places for secret Duty, as might render her less observed by others, and did endeavour ⟨p. 21⟩what possibly she could to conceal what she was doing, when she was engaged in secret Duty.
4. She was greatly afraid of Hypocrisy, and of doing any thing to be seen of men, and to get commendation and praise; and when she had heard one of her Brothers saying, That he had been by himself at prayer, she rebuked him sharply, and told him how little such prayers were like to profit him, and that was little to his praise, to pray like a Hypocrite, and to be glad that any should know what he had been doing.
4. She was greatly afraid of Hypocrisie, and of doing any thing to be seen of men, and to get commendation and praise; and when she had heard one of her Brothers saying, That he had been by himself at prayer, she rebuked him sharply, and told him how little such prayers were like to profit him, and that was little to his praise, to pray like a Hypocrite, and to be glad that any should know what he had been doing.
5. Her Mother being full of sorrow after the Death of her Husband, this Child came to her Mother, and asked her why she wept so exceedingly? Her Mother answered, She had cause enough to weep, because her Father was dead: No dear Mother, said the Child, you have no cause to weep so much; for God is a Good God still to you.