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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.
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.
14 He was a Conscientious observer of the Lord's day, spending all the time either in secret Prayer, or reading the Scriptures, and Good Books; Learning ⟨p. 119⟩of his Catechism, and Hearing of the Word of God, and public Duties; and was not only careful in the performance of these Duties himself, but was ready to put all that he knew upon a strict observation of the Lord's day, and was exceedingly grieved at the Profanation of it; one Lords day, a Servant of his Fathers going out of the house upon extraordinary occasion, to fetch some Beer, she took on so bitterly, that he could scarce be pacified, because that Holy Day was so abused (as he judged) in his Fathers house.
14 He was a Conscientious observer of the Lord's day, spending all the time either in secret Prayer, or reading the Scriptures, and Good Books; Learning ⟨p. 119⟩