N00759:195
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.
2. But this Sin and Misery was but a stronger Motive to that Gracious man to pity him, & to do all that possibly he could to pluck this Fire-brand out of the Fire, & it was not long before the Lord was pleased to let him understand, that He had a design of everlasting kindness upon the Soul of this poor Child; for no sooner had this good Man taken this Creature into his house, but he prays for him, and labours with all his might to convince him of his miserable condition by Nature, and to teach him something of God, the worth of his own Soul, and that Eternity of Glory or Misery that he was born to: And Blessed be Free Grace, it was not long before the Lord was pleased to let him understand, that it was Himself which put it into his heart to take in this Child, that he might bring him up for Christ. The Lord soon struck in with his Godly Instructions, so that an amazing Change was seen in the Child, in a few weeks space he was soon convinced of the evil of his ways; no more News now of his calling of Names, Swearing, or Cursing; no more taking of the Lords Name in vain; now he is civil and respective; and such a strange alteration ⟨p. 44⟩was wrought in the […], that all the Parish that r•ng […] his […] before, was now rea•• to talk of his Reformation; […] company, his talk, his employment is now changed, and he is like another Creature; so that the Glory of Gods Free Grace began already to shine in him.
2. But this Sin and Misery was but a stronger Motive to that Gracious man to pity him, & to do all that possibly he could to pluck this Fire-brand out of the Fire, & it was not long before the Lord was pleased to let him understand, that He had a design of everlasting kindness upon the Soul of this poor Child; for no sooner had this good Man taken this Creature into his house, but he prays for him, and labours with all his might to convince him of his miserable condition by Nature, and to teach him something of God, the worth of his own Soul, and that Eternity of Glory or Misery that he was born to: And Blessed be Free Grace, it was not long before the Lord was pleased to let him understand, that it was Himself which put it into his heart to take in this Child, that he might bring him up for Christ. The Lord soon struck in with his Godly Instructions, so that an amazing Change was seen in the Child, in a few weeks space he was soon convinced of the evil of his ways; no more News now of his calling of Names, Swearing, or Cursing; no more taking of the Lords Name in vain; now he is civil and respective; and such a strange alteration