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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 XIII. Of one that began to look towards Heaven▪ when he was very Young, with many Eminent Passages of his Life, and his joyful Death, when he was Eleven Years and Three Quarters Old.
1. J••n Harvey was Born in London, in the Year 1654. his Father was a Dutch Merchant, he was piously Educated under his virtuous Mother, and soon began to suck in Divine Things with no small delight.
1. J••n Harvy was Born in London, in the Year 1654. his Father was a Dutch Merchant, he was piously Educated under his virtuous Mother, and soon began to suck in Divine Things with no small delight.
2 The first thing very observable in him was, that when he was two years and eight months old, he could speak as well as other Children do usually at five years old.