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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.
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.
50 Her Father spake to one that was by, to take the poor little Child away from her, from the hazard of that fiery distemper, and bid his Daughter to give her from her, for he had already too much to bear. Well Father, said she, did not God preserve the three Children in the Fiery Furnace: And did you not teach me that Scripture, When thou passest through the Fire, thou shalt not be Burnt, neither shall the Flame kindle upon thee.
51 She had a very strong Faith in the Doctrine of the Resurrection, and did greatly solace her Soul with excellent Scriptures, which do speak the happy state of Believers, as soon as their Souls are separated from their Bodies, and what she quoted out of the Scripture, she did excellently and suitably apply to her own use, incomparably above the common reach of her Sex and Age. That in 1 Cor. 15.42. was a good support to her, The Body is sown in Corruption, but it shall be raised incorruptible; It is sown in dishonour, but it shall be raised in glory; It is sown in weakness, but it shall be raised in power. And then she sweetly ⟨p. 102⟩