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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.
EXAMPLE XII. Of the excellent Carriage of a Child upon his Death-Bed, when but Seven Year• Old.
1. Jacob Bicks, the Brother of Susanna Bicks, was Born in Leiden, in the Year 1657. and had Religious Education, under his Godly Parents, the which the Lord was pleased to sanctify to his Conversion, and by it lay in excellent Provisions to live upon in an hour of distress.
1. JAcob Bicks, the Brother of Susanna Bicks, was Born in Leiden, in the Year 1657. and had Religious Education, under his Godly Parents, the which the Lord was pleased to sanctify to his Conversion, and by it lay in excellent Provisions to live upon in an hour of distress.
2. This sweet little Child was visited of the Lord of a very sore sickness, upon the sixth of August 1664. three or four weeks before his Sister, of whose life and death we have given you some account already: In his distemper he was for the most part very sleepy and drowsy, till near his Death, but when he did awake, he was wont still to fall a praying.
2. This sweet little Child was visited of the Lord of a very sore sickness, upon the sixth of August 1664. three or four weeks before his Sister, of whose life and death we have given you some account already: In his distemper he was for the most part very sleepy and drousie, till near his Death, but when he did awake, he was wont still to fall a praying.