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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.
22. When she was between eleven and twelve years old, she sickned, in which she carried it with admirable patience and sweetness, and did what she could with Scripture Arguments, to support and encourage her Relations to part with her, that was going to Glory, and to prepare themselves to meet her in a Blessed Eternity.
23. She was not many days sick before ⟨p. 27⟩she was marked; which she first saw her self, and was greatly rejoiced to think that she was marked out for the Lord, and was now going apace to Christ. She called to her Friends, and said, I am marked, but be not troubled, for I know I am marked for one of the Lords own. One asked her, How she knew that? She answered, The Lord hath told me, that I am one of His dear Children. And thus she spake with a holy Confidence in the Lords Love to her Soul, and was not in the least daunted when she spake of her death; but seemed greatly delighted in the apprehension of her nearness to her Fathers House. And it was not long before she was filled with joy unspeakable in believing.
23. She was not many days sick before ⟨p. 27⟩she was marked; which she first saw her self, and was greatly rejoyced to think that she was marked out for the Lord, and was now going apace to Christ. She called to her Friends, and said, I am marked, but be not troubled, for I know I am marked for one of the Lords own. One asked her, How she knew that? She answered, The Lord hath told me, that I am one of His dear Children. And thus she spake with a holy Confidence in the Lords Love to her Soul, and was not in the least daunted when she spake of her death; but seemed greatly delighted in the apprehension of her nearness to her Fathers House. And it was not long before she was filled with joy unspeakable in believing.