N00759:112
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.
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⟩and cared not for passing over what she learned, without extraordinary observation and understanding; and many times she was so ••rangely affected in reading of the Scriptures, that she would burst out into Tears, and would hardly be pacified▪ so greatly was she ta•en with Chri•s Sufferings, the zeal of Gods Servants, the danger of a Natural State.
8. She would complain oftentimes of the corruption of her Nature, of the hardness of her Heart, that she could Repent no more throughly, and be no more Humble and Grieved for her Sins against a good God; and when she did thus complain it was with abundance of Tears.