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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.
This is observed not to Vindicate the Act, but to take notice of his Zeal.
11 He was a Child that took great delight in the Company of Good men, and • especially Ministers and Scholars; and if he had any leisure time, he would improve it by visiting of such, whose discourse▪ might make him wiser and better; and when he was in their Society, to be sure, his talk was more like a Christian & Scholar, than a Child.
12. One day after School-time was over, he gave Mr. Andrew Kant (one of the Ministers of Aberdeen) a visit, & asked him several solid Questions, but the Good man asked ⟨p. 118⟩him some questions out of his Catechism: And finding him not so ready in the answers as he should have been, did a little reprove him and told him, that he must be sure to get his Catechism perfectly▪ by heart; the Child took the reproof very well, and went home, and fell very hot upon his Catechism, and never left, till he got it by heart; and not only so, but he would be enquiring into the sense and meaning of it.
12. One day after School-time was over, he gave Mr. Andrew Kant (one of the Ministers of Aberdeen) a visit, & asked him several solid Questions, but the Good man asked ⟨p. 118⟩him some questions out of his Catechism: And finding him not so ready in the answers as he should have been, did a little reprove him and told him, that he must be sure to get his Catechism perfectly by heart; the Child took the reproof very well, and went home, and fell very hot upon his Catechism, and never left, till he got it by heart; and not only so, but he would be enquiring into the sence and meaning of it.