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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.
2. Do what your Father and Mother bids you, cheerfully; and take heed of doing any thing that they forbid you.
2. Do what your Father and Mother bids you, chearfully; and take heed of doing any thing that they forbid you.
3. Be diligent in reading the Scripture, and learning your Catechism; and what you do not understand, to be sure ask the meaning of.
4. Think a little sometimes by your self about God and Heaven, and your Soul, and what Christ came into the world for.
5. And if you have no great mind to do thus, but had rather be at play, then think, what is it that makes me that I do not care for good things is this like one of God's dear Children? I am afraid I am none of God's Child, I feel, I do not love to come unto him: O! What shall I do? Either I will be Gods Child or the Devils; O what shall I do? I would not be the Devils Child for any thing in the World.