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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.
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.
5. Her Mother being full of sorrow after the Death of her Husband, this Child came to her Mother, and ask'd 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.
6. She was a dear lover of faithful Ministers. One time after, she had been hearing of Mr. Whitaker, she said, I love that man dearly, for the sweet words that he speaks concerning Christ.
7. Her Book was her delight, and what she did read, she loved to make her own, ⟨p. 22⟩and cared not for passing over what she learned, without extraordinary observation and understanding; and many times she was so strangely affected in reading of the Scriptures, that she would burst out into Tears, and would hardly be pacified▪ so greatly was she taken with Chri•s Sufferings, the zeal of Gods Servants, the danger of a Natural State.
7. Her Book was her delight, and what she did read, she loved to make her own, ⟨p. 22⟩