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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.
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.
5 His Mother being greatly troubled upon the Death of one of his Uncles, this Child came to his Mother and said, Mother, though my Uncle be Dead, doth not the Scripture say, he must Rise again: Yea, and I must Dye, & so must every Body, & it will not be long▪ before Christ will come to Judge the World, and then we shall see one another again, I pray Mother do not weep so much. This grave Counsel he gave his Mother, when he was not quite five years old, by which the sorrow for her Brother was turned into admiration at her Child, & she was made to sit silent and quiet under that smarting stroke.