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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.
30 She was not forgetful of the car• and love of her Master and Mistress which taught her to read and work, but she desired that thanks might also be particularly given to them. Indeed she thought she could never be thankful enough both to God and Man for that kindness that she had experience of: But again and again, she desired to be sure to thank the ministers that instructed her, either by Catechising or Preaching.
30 She was not forgetful of the car• and love of her Master and Mistress which taught her to read and work, but she desired that thanks might also be particularly given to them. Indeed she thought she could never be thankful enough both to God and Man for that kindness that she had experience of: But again and again, she desired to be sure to thank the •inisters that instructed her, either by Catechising or Preaching.
31 After some rest, her Father asked her again how she did, and began to express somewhat of that satisfaction and joy that he had taken in her former diligence, in her reading the Scriptures and writing, and her dutifulness, and that great progress that she had made in the things of God, upon which she humbly and sweetly desired to own God and His kindness in her Godly Education, and said, that she esteemed her Holy Education under such Parents and Ministers as a greater portion than ten thousand Guilders, for thereby I have learned to comfort my self out of the Word of God, which the world besides could never have afforded.
31 After some rest, her Father ask'd her again how she did, and began to express somewhat of that satisfaction and joy that he had taken in her former diligence, in her reading the Scriptures and writing, and her dutifulness, and that great progress that she had made in the things of God, upon which she humbly and sweetly desired to own God and His kindness in her Godly Education, and said, that she esteemed her Holy Education under such Parents and Ministers as a greater portion than ten thousand Gilders, for thereby I have learned to comfort my self out of the Word of God, which the world besides could never have afforded.