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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.
33 Thus he continued walking in the ways of God, engaged in reading, praying, hearing the Word of God, and Spiritual discourse, discovering thereby his serious thoughts of Eternity.
33 Thus he continued walking in the ways of God, ingaged in reading, praying, hearing the Word of God, and Spiritual discourse, discovering thereby his serious thoughts of Eternity.
34 He had an earnest desire, if it might be the Lords good pleasure, to give himself up to the Lord in the work of the Ministry, if he should live; and this out of a dear love to Christ, and Souls.
35 He was next to the Bible most, taken with reading of Reverend Mr. Baxter's works, especially his Saints Everlasting Rest; and truly, the thoughts of that Rest, and Eternity, seemed to swallow up all other thoughts; and he lived in a constant preparation for it, and looked more like one that was ripe for Glory, than an inhabitant of this lower World.