A token for children. Being an exact account of the conversion, holy and exemplary…

Name: A token for children. Being an exact account of the conversion, holy and exemplary…
Author: James Janeway

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.

James Janeway 1636?–1674printed for Nicholas Boone, 1700

[12], 131, [1], 36 p. ; 15 cm. (12mo) · 34k words · Evans 914 · Wing J480

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EXAMPLE I. Of one eminently Converted between Eight and Nine years Old, with an account of her Life and Death.

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MRS. Sarah Howley, when she was between Eight and Nine years Old, was carried by her Friends to hear a Sermon, where the Minister Preached upon Matt. 11.•3. My Yoke is easy, and my Burden •s ⟨p. 2⟩light: in the applying of which Scripture, this Child was mightily awakened, and made deeply sensible of the Condition of her Soul, and her need of a Christ,? she wept bitterly to think what a case she was i•; and went home and got by her self into a Chamber, and upon her knees she wept and cried to the Lord, as well as she could, which might easily be perceived by her eyes and countenance

MRS. Sarah Howley, when she was between Eight and Nine years Old, was carried by her Friends to hear a Sermon, where the Minister Preached upon Matt. 11.•3. My Yoke is easy, and my Burden •s ⟨p. 2⟩light: in the applying of which Scripture, this Child was mightily awakned, and made deeply sensible of the Condition of her Soul, and her need of a Christ,? she wept bitterly to think what a case she was i•; and went home and got by her self into a Chamber, and upon her knees she wept and cryed to the Lord, as well as she could, which might easily be perceived by her eyes and countenance

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The book

Title as printed

Author

James Janeway 1636?–1674

Bookseller

Nicholas Boone

Year

1700

Size

[12], 131, [1], 36 p. ; 15 cm. (12mo)

Words

33,544

Catalogue

Evans 914 · Wing J480

Text

Evans-TCP N00759

Passages

553

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

EXAMPLE I. Of one eminently Converted between Eight and Nine years Old, with an account of her Life and Death.