N00759:206
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.
13. Being informed how willing and ready the Lord Christ was to accept of poor Sinners, upon their Repentance and Turning, and being counselled to venture himself upon Christ, for Mercy and Salvation, he said he would fain cast himself upon ⟨p. 48⟩Christ, but he could not but wonder how Christ should be willing to dye for su•• a vile wretch as he was, and he found i• one of the hardest things in the world to Believe.
14. But at last, it pleased the Lord to give him some small hopes that the• might be Mercy for him▪ for he had bee• the Chiefest of Sinners; and he was mad• to lay a little hold upon such promises, […] that, Come unto me, all ye that are weary an• heaven laden, and I will give you rest. Bu• O! how did this poor B•y admire and Ble•• God for the le•st Hopes! How highly di• he advance Rich and Free Grace, tha• should pity and pardon him! And at last he was full of Praise, and admiring of God so that, (to steak in the words of a Precious man, that was an eye and ear witness) to th• Praise and Glory of God be it spoken, the house at that day, for all the sickness in it, was […] little lower Heaven, so full of Joy an• Praise.