N00759:267
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.
3. She was wont to be oft engaged i• secret Prayer, and pouring out of her Soul in such a manner, as is rarely to be heard of from one of her years.
3. She was wont to be oft ingaged i• secret Prayer, and pouring out of her Soul in such a manner, as is rarely to be heard of from one of her years.
4. I having occasion to lie at Colebrook, sent for her Father, an old Disciple, an Israelit• indeed, and desired him to give me some account of his Experiences, and how the Lord first wrought upon him?
5. He gave me this answer, That h• was of a […] somewhat Civil; Honest, and as to man […], but he was little acquainted with the Power of Religion, till this sweet Child put him upon a throw enquiry into the state of his Soul, and would s••ll be begging of him and pleading with him to redeem hi• Time, and to […] with life and vigour in the things of God, which was no small demonstration to him of the reality of […], that a very Babe and Suckling should speak so feelingly ⟨p. 73⟩about the things of God, and be so greatly concerned not only about her own Soul but about her Fathers too, which was the occasion of his Conversion, and the very thought of it was a quickening to him for Thirty Years, and he hopes never to wear off the Impressions of it from his Spirit.