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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.
27. About this time a Christian friend came in to visit her, who was not a little comforted when he heard and saw so much of the Grace of God living in a poor young thing which could not but so far affect him as to draw tears of joy and admiration from him, and her deportment was so teaching that he could not but acknowledge himself greatly Edified and Improved by her Carriage and Language.
28 That which was not the least observable in her, was the ardent affection […] ⟨p. 91⟩had for the Holy Scriptures and her Catechism, in which ••e was throughly Instructed by the Divines of the place where she lived, which she could not but own as one of the greatest mercies next the Lord Christ: O how did she bless God for her Catechism, and beg of her Father to go p•••icularly to those Ministers that had taken so much pains with her to instruct her in her Catechism, and to thank them from her, a Dying Child for their good Instructions, and to let them understand, •or their encouragement to go on in that work of Catechising, how refreshings those truths were now to her in the hour of her distress. O that sweet Catechising, said she, unto which I did always resort with gladness, and attended without weariness.
28 That which was not the least observable in her, was the ardent affection 〈…〉 ⟨p. 91⟩had for the Holy Scriptures and her Catechism, in which ••e was throughly Instructed by the Divines of the place where she lived, which she could not but own as one of the greatest mercies next the Lord Christ: O how did she bless God for her Catechism, and beg of her Father to go p•••icularly to those Ministers that had taken so much pains with her to instruct her in her Catechism, and to thank them from her, a Dying Child for their good Instructions, and to let them understand, or their encouragement to go on in that work of Catechising, how refreshings those truths were now to her in the hour of her distress. O that sweet Catechising, said she, unto which I did always resort with gladness, and attended without weariness.