N00759:514
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.
'Suffer Your Little Children, so, 'Forbid them not, I say, 'Their Saviour to come unto; 'I'm He, and come they may.
'Acknowledge me a mighty King, 'That Heavenly Graces give; 'Infants to me, for Subjects bring; 'My Heaven does them receive.
Thus does our Blessed Shepherd call, Our Lambs into His Fold: Lord pour thy Blessings on them all, Blessings richer than Gold.
Oh! What a Glorious Grace is This, Which God through Christ will grant, That HE ours and our Children's is, In His Best Covenant.
Oh! What a Glorious Grace is This, Which God through Christ will grant, That HE ours and our Childrens is, In His Best Covenant.