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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.
Part 1 › Example 6: EXAMPLE VI. Of a poor Child that was awakened when she was about Five years Old.
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.
7. He took great delight in discoursing about the things of God; and when my Friend had been either praying or reading, expounding or repeating Sermons, he seemed very attentive, and ready to receive the truths of God, and would with incredible gravity, diligence and affection, wait till duties were ended, to the no small joy and admiration of them which observed him.
8. He would ask very excellent questions, and discourse about the condition of his Soul and Heavenly things, and seemed mightily concerned what should ⟨p. 39⟩become of his Soul when he should dye: so that his discourse made some Christians eve• to stand astonished.
9▪ He was greatly taken with the great kind•••s of Christ in dying for sinners, and and would be in tears at the mention of them: and seemed at a strange rate to be affected with the unspeakable Love of Christ.