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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.
17 He was much above the vanities that most Children are taken with, and was indeed too much a man to live long.
18 He was very humble and modest, and did by no means affect fineness in apparel, but hated any thing more than necessaries, either in clothes or diet.
18 He was very humble and modest, and did by no means affect fineness in apparel, but hated any thing more than necessaries, either in cloaths or diet.
19 When he perceived either his Brother or Sisters pleased with their new Clothes, he would with a great deal of Gravity reprove their Folly, and when his reproof signified little, he would bewail their vanity.
19 When he perceived either his Brother or Sisters pleased with their new Cloathes, he would with a great deal of Gravi•y reprove their Folly, and when his reproof signified little, he would bewail their vanity.