EXAMPLE IV. Of a Child that began to look towards Heaven, when she was about Four years old, with some observable Passages in her Life, and at her Death.
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EXAMPLE IV. Of a Child that began to look towards Heaven, when she was about Four years old, with some observable Passages in her Life, and at her Death.
1. A Certain little Child, when she was about Four years old, had a Conscientious sense of her Duty towards her Parents, because the Commandment saith, Honour thy Father and thy Mother. And though she had little advantage of Education, she carried it with the greatest Reverence to her Parents imaginable, so that she was no small Credit, as well as Comfort to them.
1. A Certain little Child, when she was about Four years old, had a Conscientious sence of her Duty towards her Parents, because the Commandment saith, Honour thy Father and thy Mother. And though she had little advantage of Education, she carried it with the greatest Reverence to her Parents imaginable, so that she was no small Credit, as well as Comfort to them.
2. It was no usual thing for her to weep, if she saw her Parents troubled, though her self had not been the occasion of it.
3. When she came from school, she would with grief and abhorrency say, that other Children had sinned against God by speaking grievous words, which were so bad, that she durst not speak them again.