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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.
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.
4 She continued in a course of Religi•ons 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 deportmen• was so admirable, that partly throug• wonder and astoni•hment, and partl• through sorrow, many observable thing• were pass'd by without commiting to P••per, which deserved to have been writte• in Letters of Gold: But take these whic• 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.