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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.
4. It was the great care of his Godly master, to strike in with those Convictions which the Lord had made, and to improve them all he could; and he was not a little glad to see that his labour was not in vain […] the Lord; he still experiences that the Lord doth carry on his own work mightily on the heart of the Child; he […] still more and more broken under a sense of his undone state by Nature; he is oft in tears, and bemoaning his lost and miserable Condition. When his Master did speak of the things of God, he listened earnestly, and took in with much greediness and affection what he was taught Seldom was there ⟨p. 45⟩any discourse about Soul-matters in his hearing, but he heard it as if it were for his life, and would weep greatly.
4. It was the great care of his Godly master, to strike in with those Convictions which the Lord had made, and to improve them all he could; and he was not a little glad to see that his labour was not in vain 〈…〉 the Lord; he still experiences that the Lord doth carry on his own work mightily on the heart of the Child; he 〈…〉 still more and more broken under a sence of his undone state by Nature; he is oft in tears, and bemoaning his lost and miserable Condition. When his Master did speak of the things of God, he listned earnestly, and took in with much greediness and affection what he was taught Seldom was there ⟨p. 45⟩any discourse about Soul-matters in his hearing, but he heard it as if it were for his life, and would weep greatly.
5. He would after his Master had been speaking to him, or others, of the things of God, go to him, and question with him about them, and beg of him to instruct & teach him further, and to tell him those things again, that he might remember and understand them better.