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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.
13. The first was this, when he was ⟨p. 66⟩reading by himself, in Dra•ton's Poems about Noah's Flood and the Ark, he asked, Who Built the Ark? It being answered, that it was likely that Noah hired men to help him to Build it: And would they (said he) Build an Ark to Save another, and not go into it themselves?
14. Another question he put was this▪ Whether had a greater Glory, Saints or Angels▪ It being answered, that Angels were the most Excellent of Creatures, and it's to b• thought, their Nature is made capable o• greater Glory than Mans. He said, he wa• of another mind, and his reason was, because Angels was Servants, and Saints are Children▪ and that Christ never took upon him the Nature of Angels, but he took upon him the Nature of Saints, and by his being MAN, H• hath advanced humane Nature above the Nature of Angels.
14. Another question he put was this▪ Whether had a greater Glory, Saints or Angels▪ It being answered, that Angels were the most Excellent of Creatures, and it's to b• thought, their Nature is made capable o• greater Glory than Mans. He said, he wa• of another mind, and his reason was, becaus• Angels was Servants, and Saints are Children and that Christ never took upon him the Nature of Angels, but he took upon him the Nature of Saints, and by his being MAN, H hath advanced humane Nature above the Nature of Angels.