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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.
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.