N00759:364
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.
66 My end is now very near, now • shall put on white Raiment, & be clothed before the Lamb, that spotless Lamb, and with His spotless Righteousness. Now are the Angels making ready to carry my Soul before the Throne of God. These […] they who are come out of great Tribulation, who have washed their Robes, and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb.
66 My end is now very near, now • shall put on white Raiment, & be cloathed before the Lamb, that spotless Lamb, and with His spotless Righteousness. Now are the Angels makink ready to carry my Soul before the Throne of God. These 〈…〉 they who are come out of great Tribulatio•, who have washed their Robes, and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb.
67 She spoke this with a Dying voice▪ but full of Spirit, and of the Power of Faith.
68 Her lively assurance she further uttered in the words of the Apostle, We know that if this earthly house of our Tabernacle be dissolved, we have one which is built of God, which is Eternal in the Heavens; for in this, we sigh for our house, which is in Heaven, that we may be Clothed therewith.
68 Her lively assurance she further uttered in the words of the Apo••le, We know that if this earthly house of our Tabernacle be dissolved, we have one which is built of God, which is Eternal in the Heavens; for in this, we sigh for our house, which is in Heaven, that we may be Cloathed therewith.