N00759:60
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.
16. Her Mother asked her; what she should pray for, for her; she answered, That I may have a saving knowledge of Sin and Christ: and that I may have an assurance of Gods love to my Soul. Her Mother asked her why she did speak so little to the Minister that came to her? She answered that it was her duty with patience and silence to learn of them: and it was exceeding painful to her, to speak to any.
17. One time when she fell into a •it, she cried out, O I am a going, I am a going: ⟨p. 6⟩But what shall I do to be Saved? Sweet Lord Jesus, I will lye at thy feet; and if I perish, it shall be at the Fountain of thy mercy.
18. She was much afraid of presumption, and dreaded a mistake in the matters of her Soul, and would be often putting up ejaculations to God, to deliver her from deceiving her self. To instance in one: Great and Mighty God, give me Faith and true Faith, Lord, that I may not be a foolish Virgin, having a Lamp and no Oil.
18. She was much afraid of presumption, and dreaded a mistake in the matters of her Soul, and would be often putting up ejaculations to God, to deliver her from deceiving her self. To in•tance in one: Great and Mighty God, give me Faith and true Faith, Lord, that I may not be a foolish Virgin, having a Lamp and no Oyl.