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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.
She said unto her Relations, Oh, don't set your Hearts upon the world, nor look for the Honours and Riches of this world, but seek first the Kingdom of Heaven! She would call upon her Father to go to Prayer at the Evening, and say, I cannot, I dare not go to sleep without it. She wished, That some Young People might come to her, to put 'em in mind, to ⟨p. 26⟩Consider their Latter End, and leave off their Pride. There came a Young maid to see her, and she said to her, with Tears in her Eyes, That she should not follow the Fashions of the world, and not put off Repentance to a sick-bed. Yea, she spake to all them that were about her, That they would not mind this world, but the other World. Her Mother asked her, If she was not afraid to lie in the Dust? But ••e was not thoughtful, what should become of her Body, believing her Soul should go to God. Mother, said she, I could not Sing here, but now I am going to Sing the Praises of God in Heaven. Looking on her Father, she said, Oh, Father, there is no God like our God, for […] is a God Pardoning Iniquity, Transgression, and Sin. She said, I wonder how you do, to love to live in such a Troublesome, Evil, and Sinful world: Don't you see how the Judgments of God, are all over the Earth. She often Cried out, O Lord Jesus, Come: Let thine Angels come, and carry me to the Bosom of Abraham!
She said unto her Relations, Oh, don't set your Hearts upon the world, nor look for the Honours and Riches of this world, but seek first the Kingdom of Heaven! She would call upon her Father to go to Prayer at the Evening, and say, I cannot, I dare not go to sleep without it. She wished, That some Young People might come to her, to put 'em in mind, to ⟨p. 26⟩Consider their Latter End, and leave off their Pride. There came a Young maid to see her, and she said to her, with Tears in her Eyes, That she should not follow the Fashions of the world, and not put off Repentance to a sick-bed. Yea, she spake to all them that were about her, That they would not mind this world, but the other World. Her Mother asked her, If she was not afraid to ly in the Dust? But ••e was not thoughtful, what should become of her Body, believing her Soul should go to God. Mother, said she, I could not Sing here, but now I am going to Sing the Praises of God in Heaven. Looking on her Father, she said, Oh, Father, there is no God like our God, for is a God Pardoning Iniquity, Transgression, and Sin. She said, I wonder how you do, to love to live in such a Troublesome, Evl, and Sinful world: Don't you see how the Judgments of God, are all over the Earth. She often Cried out, O Lord Jesus, Come: Let thine Angels come, and carry me to the Bosome of Abraham!