N00759:156
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.
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!
5. When he was at School, what was it that he desired to learn, but Christ, and Him Crucified.
6. So Religious and Savoury were his Words, his Actions so upright, his Devotion so hearty, his Fear of God so great, that many were re••y to say, as they did ⟨p. 33⟩of John; What manner of Child shall this be?
7. He would be much in reading the Holy Scriptures.