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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.
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.
3 His Parents judging, that he was then a little too young to send out to School, let him have his liberty to Play a little about their Yard. But instead of playing, he found out a School of his own accord hard by home, and went to the ⟨p. 114⟩School-Mistress, and entreated her to teach him to read, and so he went for some time to School without the knowledge of his Parents, and made a very strange progress in his Learning, & was able to read distinctly, before most Children are able to know their Letters.
3 His Parents judging, that he was then a little too young to send out to School, let him have his liberty to Play a little about their Yard. But instead of playing, he found out a School of his own accord hard by home, and went to the ⟨p. 114⟩School-Mistress, and intreated her to teach him to read, and so he went for some time to School without the knowledge of his Parents, and made a very strange progress in his Learning, & was able to read distinctly, before most Children are able to know their Letters.
4 He was wont to ask many serious & weighty Questions, about matters which concerned his Soul and Eternity.