N00759:366
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.
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.
69 There Father, you see that my Body is this Tabernacle, which now shall be broken down: my Soul shall now part ⟨p. 109⟩from it, and shall be taken up into that Heavenly Paradise, into that Heavenly Jerusalem. There shall I dwell and go no more out, but sit and sing, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God of Hosts, the Lord of Sabbath! Her last words were these: O Lord God, into thy Hands I Commit my Spirit, O Lord be Gracious, be Merciful to me a poor Sinner. —
And here she fell asleep.