N00759:447
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.
It was also Observed and Admired, that when he was abroad at the Public Worship, in the time of his Weakness, he would stand the whole time of the Long exercises, and be so affectionately attentive, that one might see every Sentence uttered in those Exercises, make some impression ⟨p. 8⟩upon him. The best Christians in the place professed themselves, made ashamed by the Fervency of this Young Disciple ▪ And in Days of Public Humiliations, or Thanksgivings, kept with regard unto the general Circumstances of the Country, he would bear his part, with such a sense of the Public Troubles or Mercies, as argued more than a common measure of a Public Spirit in him.
It was also Observed and Admired, that when he was abroad at the Publick Worship, in the time of his Weakness, he would stand the whole time of the Long exercises, and be so affectionately attentive, that one might see every Sentence uttered in those Exercises, make some impression ⟨p. 8⟩upon him. The best Christians in the place prosessed themselves, made ashamed by the Fervency of this Young Disciple ▪ And in Days of Publick Humiliations, or Thanksgivings, kept with regard unto the general Circumstances of the Countrey, he would bear his part, with such a sense of the Publick Troubles or Mercies, as argued more than a common measure of a Publick Spirit in him.
The Minister of the Place, visiting of him, after Sickness had confined him, found him, in an extreme dejection of Soul; his very Body Shook, through his Fear, left the Day of Grace were over with him; yet justifying of God, though he should be forever cast among the Damned. But yet his Fear• were accompanied with Hopes in the All-sufficient merits of the Blessed Jesus: in which Hopes he continued using all the Means of Grace, according to his Capacity, and Lamenting after those whereof he was not Capable.