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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.
19. She loved to be much by her self, & would be greatly grieved if she were at any •ime deprived of a conveniency for secret ⟨p. 26⟩Duty; she could not live without constant Address to God in secret; and was not a little pleased when she could go into a corner to pray and weep.
20. She was much in praising God, & seldom or never complained of any thing but Sin.
21. She continued in this course of praying and praising of God, and great dutifulness and sweetness to her Parents, and those that taught her any thing, yet she did greatly encourage her Mother while she was a Widow, and desired that the absence of a Husband, might in some measure be made up by the dutifulness and holiness of a Child. She studied all the ways that could be to make her Mothers Life sweet.
21. She continued in this course of praying and praising of God, and great dutifulness and sweetness to her Parents, and those that taught her any thing, yet she did greatly encourage her Mother while she was a Widow, and desired that the absence of a Husband, might in some measure be made up by the dutifulness and holiness of a Child. She studied all the wayes that could be to make her Mothers Life sweet.