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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.
36 When he was about Eleven years and Three quarters old, his Mothers house was visited with the Plague; his eldest Sister was the first that was visited with ⟨p. 128⟩this distemper, and when they were praying for her, he would Sob and Weep bitterly.
36 When he was about Eleven years and Thre quarters old, his Mothers house was visited with the Plague; his eldest Sister was the first that was visited with ⟨p. 128⟩this distemper, and when they were praying for her, he would Sob and Weep bitterly.
37 As soon as he perceived that his Sister was Dead, he said, The Will of the Lord be done: Blessed be the Lord. Dear Mother, said he, you must do as David did, after the Child was Dead, he went and refreshed himself, and quietly submitted to the Will of God.
38 The rest of the Family held well for about Fourteen Days, which time he spent in Religious Duties, and preparing for his Death; but still his great Book was, The Saints Rest; which he read with exceeding curiosity, gathering many observations out of it in writing, for his own use. He wrote several Divine meditations of his own, upon several Subjects, but that which seemed most admirable, was a meditation upon the Excellency of Christ; he was never well but when he was more immediately engaged in the Service of God.