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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.
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.
13 He was so greatly taken with his Catechism, that he was not content to learn it himself, but he would be putting others upon learning their Catechism, especially, those that were nearest to him; he would not be satisfied, till he had persuaded his Mothers Maids to learn it, and when they were at work, he would be still following them with some good question or other; so that the Child seemed to be taken up with the thoughts of his Soul, and Gods Honour, & the good of other Souls.
13 He was so greatly taken with his Catechism, that he was not content to learn it himself, but he would be putting others upon learning their Catechism, especially, those that were nearest to him; he would not be satisfied, till he had perswaded his Mothers Maids to learn it, and when they were at work, he would be still following them with some good question or other; so that the Child seemed to be taken up with the thoughts of his Soul, and Gods Honour, & the good of other Souls.