N00759:391
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.
7 He was a Child that was Extraordinary inquisitive, & full of good questions, and very careful to observe and remember what he heard.
8 He had a great Hatred of whatsoever he knew to be displeasing to God, and was so greatly Concerned for the Honour of God, that he would take on bitterly, if that any gross Sins were committed before him. And he had a deep sense of the worth of Souls, and was not a little grieved when he saw any do that which he knew was dangerous to their Souls.
9 One day seeing one of his near Relations come into his Fathers House distempered with Drink as he thought, he quickly went very Seriously to him and Wept over him, that he should so Offend God, and Hazard his Soul, and begged of him to spend his Time better than in Drinking and Gaming; and this he did, without any instruction from his Parents, but from an inward Principle of Grace, and love to God and Souls, as it is verily believed.