N00759:289
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.
10 Why said her Friend, did you not say yesterday, that you did not love the Lord, and that you could not? What did you mean to speak so strangely? Sure (said she) it was Satan that did put into my mind: But now I love Him, O blessed be God for the Lord Jesus Christ.
11 After this, she had a discovery of her approaching Dissolution, which was no small comfort to her: Anon (said she, with a holy Triumph) I shall be with Jesus, I am Married to Him, He is my Husband, I am His Bride, I have given my self to Him, and He hath given Himself to me, and I shall live with Him for ever.
12 This strange language made the Hearers even stand astonished: But thus she continued for some little t•me, in a kind of ecstasy of joy, admiring the excellency of Chri••, rejoicing in her Interest in Him, and longing to be with Him.
12 This strange language made the Hearers even stand astonished: But thus she continued for some little t•me, in a kind of extasie of joy, admiring the excellency of Chri••, rejoycing in her Interest in Him, and longing to be with Him.