N00759:313
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.
16 She had a high valuation of God▪ and could speak in David's Language, […] have I in Heaven but thee, and there is […] on Earth that I can desire in comparison […] thee. She was much lifted up above […] fear• of Death; what else was the meaning of such expressions as these? O […] ⟨p. 85⟩do I long! even as the heart panteth after the water-brooks, so my Soul panteth after thee, O God, for the living God, when shall I come and appear before God.
16 She had a high valuation of God▪ and could speak in David's Language, 〈…〉 have I in Heaven but thee, and there is 〈…〉 on Earth that I can desire in comparison 〈…〉 thee. She was much lifted up above 〈…〉 fear• of Death; what else was the mea••ing of such expressions as these? O 〈…〉 ⟨p. 85⟩do I long! even as the heart panteth after the water-brooks, so my Soul panteth after thee, O God, for the living God, when shall I come and appear before God.
17 She was a great hater of Sin, and did with much grief and self-abhorrency reflect upon it; but that which lay most upon her heart, was the Corruption of her Nature and Original Sin. How oft would she Cry out in the words of the Psalmist, Behold I was Shapen in Iniquity, and in Sin did my Mother Conceive me: and I was altogether Born in Sin. She could •ever lay her self low enough under a sense of that Original Sin which she brought with her into the world.