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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.
60 When Prayers was ended, she called to her Father and Mother, and demanded of them, whether she had any time angered or grieved them, or done any ⟨p. 106⟩thing that did not become her? And begged of them to forgive her.
60 When Prayers was ended, she called to her Father and Mother, and demanded of them, whether she had any time angered or grieved them, or done any ⟨p. 106⟩thing that did not become her? And beg•ged of them to forgive her.
61 They answered her, that if a Children had carried themselves so to thei• Parents as she had done, there would b• less grief and sorrow on all hands tha• there is; and if any such thing hath escaped the•, we would forgive it withal ou• hearts, you have done as became a good Child.
62 Her heart being quieted with he• peace with God and her Parents, she bega• to dispose of her Books; particularly sh• entreated her Mother, to keep Mr. De Wit• Catechise Lectures, as long as she lived for her sake, and let my little Sister hav my other Book as my remembrance.