N00759:300
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 a Child of great […] to her Parents, and of a very sweet, humble, spiritual Nature, and not only the truth, but the power and eminency of Religion did shine in her so clearly, that […] did not only comfort the hearts of her ⟨p. 80⟩Parents, but drew the admiration of […] that were witnesses of Gods works of lov• upon her, and may well be proposed as a pattern not only to Children, but to Persons of riper years.
3 She was a Child of great 〈…〉 to her Parents, and of a very sweet, humble, spiritual Nature, and not only the truth, but the power and eminency of Religion did shine in her so clearly, that 〈…〉 did not only comfort the hearts of her ⟨p. 80⟩Parents, but drew the admiration of 〈…〉 that were witnesses of Gods works of lov• upon her, and may well be proposed as a pattern not only to Children, but to Persons of riper years.
4 She continued in a course of Religions Duties for some considerable tim• so that her life was more excellent tha• most Christians, but in her last sickne•• she excelled her self, and her deportment was so admirable, that partly through wonder and astonishment, and partly through sorrow, many observable thing• were passed by without committing to P••per, which deserved to have been writte• in Letters of Gold: But take these which follow, as some of many which were ake from her dying Lips, and first publishe by Religious and Judicious Christians […] Dutch, afterward translated into Scotch and with a little alteration of the stil (for the benefit of English Children […] brought into this form by me.