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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 X. Of a Child that was awakened when She was between Seven and Eight Years Old, with some Account of her last Hours, and Triumphant Death.
1. Tabitha Alder was the Daughter of a Holy and Reverend Minister in Kent, who lived near Gravesend. She was much instructed in the Holy Scriptures and her Catechism, by her Father and Mother, but there appeared nothing extraordinary in her, till she was between Seven and Eight Years old.
1. TAbitha Alder was the Daughter of a Holy and Reverend Minister in Kent, who lived near Gravesend. She was much instructed in the Holy Scriptures and her Catechism, by her Father and Mother, but there appeared nothing extraordinary in her, till she was between Seven and Eight Years old.
2. About which time, when she was sick, one asked her, what she thought would ⟨p. 76⟩become of her if s•e should Dye? She answered, That she was greatly afraid that she should go to Hell.