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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.
EXAMPLE VII. A Notable passage, transcribed from the Life of Mr. John Baily, as it was Related in a Sermon Preached on the Day of his Funeral, at Boston, N. E. 16. d. 10. m. 1697. By Mr. Cotton Mather; and afterwards Printed.
From a Child he did know the Holy Scriptures: Yea, From a Child he was wise unto Salvation. In his very Childhood he discovered the Fear of God, upon his young ⟨p. 28⟩Heart, and Prayer to God, was one of his Early Exercises.
FRom a Child he did know the Holy Scriptures: Yea, From a Child he was wise unto Salvation. In his very Childhood he discovered the Fear of God, upon his young ⟨p. 28⟩Heart, and Prayer to God, was one of his Early Exercises.
There was one very Remarkable effect of it. His Father was a man of a very Licentious Conversation; a Gamester, a Dancer, a very Lewd Company-keeper. The Mother of this Elect-Vessel, one day took him, while he was yet a Child, and calling the Family together, made him to Pray with them. His Father coming to understand, at what a rate the Child had Prayed with his Family, it smote the Soul of him, with a great Conviction, & proved the Beginning of his Conversion unto God. God left not off working on his Heart, until he proved One of the most Eminent Christians in all that Neighbour-hood. So he Lived, so he Dyed; a man of more than Ordinary Piety. And it was his manner sometimes to Retire unto those very places of his Lewdnesses, where, having that his little Son in his Company, he would pour out Floods of Tears, in Repenting Prayers before the Lord.