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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.
Part 3 › Example 6: EXAMPLE VI An Extract of a Letter, from Southold, 23 d. 4 m. 1698.
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.
EXAMPLE VI An Extract of a Letter, from Southold, 23 d. 4 m. 1698.
I Have been requested, to give you this Account, from the Parents of a Gracious Child, who in all her Life did comport her self, to walk in the Lords Holy Fear, and gave a great Attention in Hearing the Word of God, and the Lord was pleased to ripen her for Himself, though she was but fifteen years, and four months old. Though she was Young, it pleased the Lord, to put a great fear and awe upon her Heart, of breaking the fifth Commandment. And when she was under the Dispensation of ⟨p. 24⟩God in Sickness, it pleased the Lord for to endue her with patience, to be willing to bear His Hand, with all meekness. She Confessed herself to be a great Sinner, and to have sinned against a Gracious God But the Lord vouchsafed her a strong Faith, to Believe, that He is a merciful God, & willing to Forgive Sins, and that He had Forgiven her Sins, in the Blood of our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ. And, therefore she was very willing to leave the world, and her Father and Mother, having Faith, that she was going to Christ. These were her own Expressions. When her Mother did ask her, if she was willing to Die, for she was too young to Die: She sometime before she dyed, said, she was not fit to Dye, but prayed unto the Lord, that He would please to […] her & make her, willing to Dy. Oh, said she, Death comes unaware, it comes like a Thie• •n the Night! The Lord granted her desire: For afterwards, when her Mother asked her, My Child are you willing to Die? Her answer was, That now she was willing to Die, and to leave a thousand worlds, and Father and Mother, and all to go to Christ. She desired, That ⟨p. 25⟩the Curtains might be drawn, that the light of this world might not deprive her from beholding the Brightness and the Glory of the other World. And when she see her Father and Mother weeping for her, she said, My dear Father and Mother, don't mourn for me; you might well mourn for me, if I were to go into utter Darkness; but I am going to God in Heaven. I long to be in the New Jerusalem, with the Lord Jesus Christ: And now I can Dye. And lying a while in an Agony, when she came out of that Agony, she said, Mother, did you not hear me Sing? I thought, I was in Heaven with the Lord Jesus Christ, & my Grand-Parents, and the Holy Angels, and heard such melodious Praises of God, as I never heard; and I was very sorry that I could not Sing like them.