N00759:345
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.
47 After this, she turned to her Mother, with much affection, she said, Ah my dear & loving Mother; that which cometh from the heart, doth ordinarily go to the heart, once more come and kiss me before I leave you.
48 She was not a little concerned about the Souls of the rest of her Relations, & did particularly charge it upon her Father, to do what he could possibly to bring them up in the ways of God. O let my Sister be •rained up in the Scriptures, and Catechising, as I have been.
49▪ I formerly wept for my Sister, thinking that she would dye before me, and now she weepeth for me, and then she kissed her weeping Sister. Also she took her young little Sister in her Arms, a Child of Six Months old, and she kissed it with much affection, as if her very bowels had moved within her, and spoke with many ⟨p. 101⟩Heart-breaking words, both to her Parents and the Children.