N00759:302
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.
5 In the Month of August, 1664. wh•• the Pestilence raged so much in Holland this sweet Child was smitten, and as so•• as she felt her self very ill, she was sai• to break forth with abundance of sense ⟨p. 81⟩•nd feeling, in these following words: If •hy Law were not my delight, I should perish […] my affliction.
5 In the Month of August, 1664. wh•• the Pestilence raged so much in Hollan• this sweet Child was smitten, and as so•• as she felt her self very ill, she was sai• to break forth with abundance of sens• ⟨p. 81⟩•nd feeling, in these following words: If •hy Law were not my delight, I should perish 〈…〉 my affliction.
6 Her Father coming to her to encourage her in her sickness, said to her, be of •ood comfort my Child, for the Lord will be near to thee and us, under this •eavy and fore Trial, He will not forsake […] though He chasten us. Yea farther •said she) our Heavenly Father doth chasten us for our profit, that we may be partakers of His Holiness; no chastisement emeh for the present to be joyous, but grievous, but afterwards it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them which are exercised thereby. The Lord […] now chastening of me upon this sick bed, ut I hope He will bless it so to me, as […] use it to yield to me that blessed fruit, according to the riches of His mercies which […] not.