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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 XI. Of a Child that was greatly affected with the things of God, when She was very Young; with an exact Account of her admirable Carriage upon her Death-Bed.
1. Susanna Bioks was Born at Leiden in Holland, Jan. 24. 1650. of very Religious Parents, whose great care was •o instruct and Catechise this their Child▪ •nd to present her to the Ministers of •he place, to be publicly instructed and Catechised.
1. SUsanna Bioks was Born at Leiden in Holland, Jan. 24. 1650. of very Religious Parents, whose great care was •o instruct and Catechise this their Child▪ •nd to present her to the Ministers of •he place, to be publickly in••ructed and Catechised.
2. It pleased the Lord to bless Holy education, the good Example of her Paents, and Catechising, to the good of her oul, so that he soon had a true savour and relish of what she was taught, and made an admirable use of it in a time of need, as you shall hear afterwards.