N00759:137
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.
1. A Certain little Child, when she was about Four years old, had a Conscientious sense of her Duty towards her Parents, because the Commandment saith, Honour thy Father and thy Mother. And though she had little advantage of Education, she carried it with the greatest Reverence to her Parents imaginable, so that she was no small Credit, as well as Comfort to them.
1. A Certain little Child, when she was about Four years old, had a Conscientious sence of her Duty towards her Parents, because the Commandment saith, Honour thy Father and thy Mother. And though she had little advantage of Education, she carried it with the greatest Reverence to her Parents imaginable, so that she was no small Credit, as well as Comfort to them.
2. It was no usual thing for her to weep, if she saw her Parents troubled, though her self had not been the occasion of it.
3. When she came from school, she would with grief and abhorrency say, that other Children had sinned against God by speaking grievous words, which were so bad, that she durst not speak them again.