N00759:239
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.
7. He was lingely taken with the reading of the Book of Martyrs, and would be ready to leave his Dinner to go to his Book.
8. He was exceeding careful of redeeming and improving of Time; scarce a moment of it, but he would give an excellent account of the expense of it; so that this Child might have taught elder Persons, and will questionless Condemn their idle and unaccountable wasting of those Precious hours in which they should (as this sweet Child▪) have been laying in provision for Eternity.
8. He was exceeding careful of redeeming and improving of Time; scarce a moment of it, but he would give an excellent account of the expence of it; so that this Child might have taught elder Persons, and will questionless Condemn their idle and unaccountable wasting of those Precious hours in which they should (as this sweet Child▪) have been laying in provision for Eternity.
9. He could not endure to read any thing over slightly, but whatsoever he read, he dwelt upon it, laboured to understand it throughly, and remember it; and what he could not understand, he would oft ask his Father or Mother the meaning of it.