N00759:322
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.
24▪ After this, having taken some little rest, she said, O now is the day for opening of the first question of the Catechism, and if we were there, we should hear, that whether in Death or Life a •eliever is Christs, who hath Redeemed us by His own precious Blood from the power of the Devil: and then she quoted▪ Rom. 14.7, 8. For none of us Liveth unto himself, and none of us Dieth to himself. For whether we Live we Live unto the Lord, and whether we Die we Die unto the Lord, whether then we Live or Die, we are the Lords. Then be comforted, for whether I live or die, I am the Lords. O why do you […] your selves thus! But what •hall I say▪ With weeping I came into the World, and with weeping I must go out again. O my dear Parents, better is the Day of my Death, than •he Day of my Birth.
24▪ After this, having taken some little rest, she said, O now is the day for opening of the first question of the Catechism, and if we were there, we should hear, that whether in Death or Life a •eliever is Christs, who hath Redeemed us by His own precious Blood from the power of the Devil: and then she quoted▪ Rom. 14.7, 8. For none of us Liveth unto himself, and none of us Dieth to himself. For whether we Live we Live unto the Lord, and whether we Die we Die unto the Lord, whether then we Live or Die, we are the Lords. Then be comforted, for whether I live or die, I am the Lords. O why do you 〈…〉 your selves thus! But what •hall I say▪ With weeping I came into the World, and with weeping I must go out again. O my dear Parents, better is the Day of my Death, than •he Day of my Birth.