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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.
A TOKEN FOR THE CHILDREN OF NEW-ENGLAND.
IF the Children of New-England should not with an Early Piety, se• themselves to Know and Serve the Lord JESUS CHRIST, the God of their Fathers, they will be Condemned, not only by the Examples of Pious Children in other parts of the world, the Published and Printed Accounts whereof have been brought over hither; but ⟨p. 4⟩there have been Exemplary Children in the midst of New-England it self, that will Rise up against them for their Condemnation. It would be a very profitable thing to our Children, and highly Acceptable to all the Godly Parents of the Children, if, in Imitation of the Excellent Ja•eway's, Token for Children, there were made a true Collection of Notable Things, Exemplified in the Lives and Deaths of many among us, whose Childhood hath been Signalized for what is Virtuous and Laudable.
IF the Children of New-England should not with an Early Piety, se• themselves to Know and Serve the Lord JESUS CHRIST, the God of their Fathers, they will be Condemned, not only by the Examples of Pious Children in other parts of the world, the Publish'd and Printed Acounts whereof have been brought over hither; but ⟨p. 4⟩there have been Exemplary Children in the midst of New-England it self, that will Rise up again•t them for their Condemnaation. It would be a very profitable thing to our Children, and highly Acceptable to all the Godly Parents of the Children, if, in Imitation of the Excellent Ja•eway's, Token for Children, there were made a true Collection of Notable Things, Exemplified in the Lives and Deaths of many among us, whose Childhood hath been Signalized for what is Vertuous and Laudable.