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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
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11. She was a Child of a strange tenderness and compassion to all, full of bowels and pity: whom she could not help, •he ⟨p. 24⟩would be ready to weep over; especially if she saw her Mother at any time troubled▪ she would quickly make her sorrows he• own, and weep for her, and with her.
12. When her Mother had been somewhat solicitous about any worldly thing, she would, if she could possibly, put her off from her care one way or other. One time she told her, O Mother, Grace is better than that, (meaning something her Mother wanted,) I had rather have Grace and the Love of Christ, than any thing in the world.
13. This Child was often musing and busied in the thoughts of her Everlasting Work; witness that strange question, O what are they doing, which are already i• Heaven? And she seemed to be hugely desirous to be among them that were praising, loving, delighting in God, and serving of Him without Sin. Her Language was so strange about Spiritual matters, that she made many excellent Christians to stand amazed, as judging it scarce to be paralleled.
13. This Child was often musing and busied in the thoughts of her Everlasting Work; witness that strange question, O what are they doing, which are already i• Heaven? And she seemed to be hugely desirous to be among them that were praising, loving, delighting in God, and serving of Him without Sin. Her Language was so strange about Spiritual matters, that she made many excellent Christians to stand amazed, as judging it scarce to be parallell'd.