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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.
EXAMPLE V. Of the Pious Life, and Joyful Death, of a Child which Dyed when he was about Twelve years Old, 1632
1. Charles Bridgman had no sooner learned to speak, but he betook himself to Prayer.
1. CHarles Bridgman had no sooner learned to speak, but he betook himself to Prayer.
2. He was very prone to learn the things of God.
3. He would be sometimes teaching them their Duty that waited upon him.
4. He learned by heart many good things, before he was well fit to go to School: & when he was sent to School, he carried it so, that all that observed him, either did or might admire him. O the sweet Nature, the good Disposition, the sincere Religion which was in this Child!