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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.
6. Thus he continued seeking after the knowledge of God and Christ, and practising holy Duties, till the sickness came into the house, with which the Child was smitten; at his first sickening, the poor Child was greatly amazed and afraid, and though his pains were great, and the distemper very tedious, yet the fence of his sin, and the thought of the miserable condition that he feared his Soul was still in, made his trouble ten times greater; he was in grievous agonies of Spirit, and his former sins s•ared him in the face, and made him tremble; the poison of Gods Arrows did even drink up his Spirits; the sense of Sin and Wrath was so great, that he could not tell what in the world to do; the weight of Gods Displeasure, and the thoughts of ⟨p. 46⟩lying under it to all Eternity, did ever break him to pieces, and he did Cry ou• very bitterly, What should he do? He was a miserable Sinner, and he feared that he should go to Hell; his Sins had been so great and s• many, that there was no hopes for him. He was not by far so much concerned for his Life, as for his Soul, what should become of that forever. Now the plague upon hi• Body seemed nothing to that which was i• his Soul.
6. Thus he continued seeking after the knowledge of God and Christ, and practising holy Duties, till the sickness came into the house, with which the Child was smitten; at his first sickning, the poor Child was greatly amazed and afraid, and though his pains were great, and the distemper very tedious, yet the fence of his sin, and the thought of the miserable condition that he feared his Soul was still in, made his trouble ten times greater; he was in grievous agonies of Spirit, and his former sins s•ared him in the face, and made him tremble; the poyson of Gods Arrows did even drink up his Spirits; the sence of Sin and Wrath was so great, that he could not tell what in the world to do; the weight of Gods Displeasure, and the thoughts of ⟨p. 46⟩lying under it to all Eternity, did ever break him to pieces, and he did Cry ou very bitterly, What should he do? He was a miserable Sinner, and he feared that he should go to Hell; his Sins had been so great and s many, that there was no hopes for him. He was not by far so much concerned for his Life, as for his Soul, what should become of that forever. Now the plague upon hi Body seemed nothing to that which was i his Soul.