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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 VIII. Of a Child that was very Serious at Four Years Old, with an Account of his Comfortable Death, when he was Twelve Years and Three Weeks Old.
1. John Sudlow, was Born of Religious Parents, in the County of Middlesex, whose great care was to instil Spiritual Principles into him, as soon as he was capable of understanding of them; ⟨p. 62⟩whose Endeavours the Lord was pleased to Crown with the desired success: So that (to use the Expression of a Holy Man concerning him) Scarce more could be expected or desired from so little a one.
1. JOhn Sudlow, was Born of Religious Parents, in the County of Middlesex, whose great care was to instil Spiritual Principles into him, as soon as he was capable of understanding of them; ⟨p. 62⟩whose Endeavours the Lord was pleased to Crown with the desired success: So that (to use the Expression of a Holy Man concerning him) Scarce more could be expected or desired from so little a one.
2. When he was scarce able to speak plain, he seemed to have a very great awe and reverence of God upon his Spirit, and a strange sense of the things of another world, as might easily be perceived by those serious and admirable questions which he would be oft asking of those Christians that he thought he might be bold with.
2. When he was scarce able to speak plain, he seemed to have a very great awe and reverence of God upon his Spirit, and a strange sence of the things of another world, as might easily be perceived by those serious and admirable questions which he would be oft asking of those Christians that he thought he might be bold with.