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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 IX. Of a Child that was very Eminent, when she was between Five and Six Years Old, with some Memorable Passages of her Life, who Died about 1640.
1 Anne Lane was Born of honest Parents in Colebrook, in the County of Bucks, who was no sooner able to speak ⟨p. 72⟩plain, and express any thing considerable of reason, but she began to act as if she were Sanctified from the very Womb.
1 ANne Lane was Born of honest Parents in Colebrook, in the County of Bucks, who was no sooner able to speak ⟨p. 72⟩plain, and express any thing considerable of reason, but she began to act as if she were Sanctified from the very Womb.
2. She was very solicitous about her Soul, what would bec•me of it when she should die, and where •he should live for•ever, and what she should do to be saved, when she was about Five Years old.