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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 VII. Of a Notorious Wicked Child, who was taken up from Begging, and admirably Converted; with an account of his holy Life and joyful Death, when he was Nine years Old.
1. A Very poor Child, of the Parish of Newington-Butts, came begging to the door of a dear Christian Friend of mine, i• a very lamentable case, so filthy and nasty, that he would even have turned ones stomach to have looked on him: But it pleased God to raise in the heart of my Friend, a great pity & tenderness toward▪ this poor Child, so that in Charity he took him out of the streets, whose Parents were unknown, who had nothing at all in him to ⟨p. 42⟩commend him to any ones Charity, but his misery. My Friend eyeing the Glory of God, and the good of the Immortal Soul of this wretched Creature, discharged the Parish of the Child, and took him as his own, designing to bring him up for the Lord Christ. A Noble piece of Charity▪ And that which did make the kindness far the greater, was, that there seemed to be very little hopes of doing any good upon this Child, for he was a very Monster of wickedness, and a thousand times more miserable and vile by his Sin, than by his Poverty. He was running to Hell as soon as he could go, and was old in naughtiness when he was young in years; and one shall scarce hear of one so like the Devil in his Infancy, as this poor Child was. What Sin was there (that his age was capable of) that he did not commit? What by the Corruption of his Nature, and the abominable Example of little Beggar-boys, he was arrived to a strange pitch of Impiety. He would call filthy Names, take Gods Name in vain, Curse and Swear, and do almost all kind of Mischief; and as to any thing of God, worse than an Heathen.
1. A Very poor Child, of the Parish of Newington-But•s, came begging to the door of a dear Christian Friend of mine, i• a very lamentable case, so filthy and nasty, that he would even have turned ones stomack to have looked on him: But it pleased God to raise in the heart of my Friend, a great pitty & tenderness toward this poor Child, so that in Charity he took him out of the streets, whose Parents were unknown, who had nothing at all in him to