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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.
56. Her Parents replied, Ah our dear Child! how sad is that to us, that we must part? She answered, I go to Heaven, and there we shall find one another again; I go to Jesus Christ.
57 Then she comforted her self to ⟨p. 104⟩think of her seeing her precious Brother and Sister again in Glory. I go to my Brother Jacob, who did so much Cry and Call upon God to the last moment of his breath: And to my little Sister who was but three years old when she died: Who, when we asked her whether she would Dye? Answered, Yes, if it be the Lord's will. I will go to my little Brother, if it be the Lord's will, or I will stay with my Mother, if it be the Lord's will. But I know that I shall Dye, and go to Heaven and to God. O see, how so small a Babe had so much give it to behave it self every way, and in all things so submissively to the will of God, as if it had no will of its own; but if it be the will of God, if it please God; nothing for her, but what the Will and Pleasure of God: And therefore, dear Father and Mother, give the Lord thanks for this His free & rich Grace, and then I shall the more gladly be gone. Be Gracious then, O Lord, unto me also, be Gracious to me. Wash me thoroughly from my Unrighteousness, and cleanse me from my Sin.
57 Then she comforted her self to ⟨p. 104⟩think of her seeing her precious Brother and Sister again in Glory. I go to my Brother Jacob, who did so much Cry and Call upon God to the last moment of his breath: And to my little Sister who was but three years old when she died: Who, when we asked her whether she would Dye? Answered, Yes, if it be the Lord's will. I will go to my little Brother, if it be the Lord's will, or I will stay with my Mother, if it be the Lord's will. But I know that I shall Dye, and go to Heaven and to God. O see, how so small a Babe had so much give it to behave it self every way, and in all things so submissively to the will of God, as if it had no will of its own; but if it be the will of God, if it please God; nothing for her, but what the Will and Pleasure of God: And therefore, dear Father and Mother, give the Lord thanks for this His free & rich Grace, and then I shall the more gladly be gone. Be Gracious then, O Lord, unto me also, be Gracious to me. Wash me thorowly from my Unrighteousness, and cleanse me from my Sin.