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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.
MR. NATHANAEL MATHER, dyed Oct. 17. 1688. at the Age of Nineteen, •n Instance of more than common Learning and Virtue. On his Gravestone, at Salem, there are these words deservedly inscribed, The Ashes of an Hard Student, a Good Scholar, and a Great Christian.
MR. NATHANAEL MATHER, dyed Oct. 17. 1688. at the Age of Nineteen, •n Instance of more than common Learning and Vertue. On his Gravestone, at Sal•m, there are these words deservedly inscribed, The Ashes of an Hard Student, a Good Scholar, and a Great Christian.
He was one, who used an Extraordinary diligence, to obtain skill in the several Arts, that make an Accomplished Scholar; but he was more diligent in his Endeavours to become an Experienced Christian.
He did with much of Solemnity enter into Covenant with God, when he was about Fourteen years old, And afterwards he Renewed that solemn Action, in such a Form as this.