Stories of Boys and Girls Who Loved the Saviour: A Token for ChildrenJaneway, James
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Stories of Boys and Girls Who Loved the Saviour: A Token for Children
Janeway, James
Children -- Religious life -- Juvenile literature; Christian life -- Juvenile literature
10. After this she had a discovery of her approaching dissolution, which
was no small comfort to her: "Anon," said she, (with a holy triumph,) "I
shall be with Jesus. I am married to him: he is my husband: I am his
bride: I have given myself to him, and he hath given himself to me, and
I shall live with him for ever."
11. This language struck the hearers with astonishment. She still
continued in a kind of ecstasy of joy, admiring the excellence of
Christ, rejoicing in her interest in him, and longing to be with him.
12. After a while, some of her friends, who stood near her, observed a
more than ordinary earnestness and fixedness in her countenance; they
said one to another, "Look how earnestly she looks, surely she sees
something."
13. One asked her what it was that she fixed her eyes upon so eagerly?
"I warrant," says one, "she saw death coming."
14. "No," said she, "it is the glory that I saw, it is that on which my
eyes were fixed."
15. One demanded of her, what the glory was like? She replied, "I cannot
tell what, but I am going to it: will you go with me? I am going to
glory. O that you were all going with me to that glory!" With these
words her soul took wings, and went to the possession of that glory. She
died when she was between eight and nine years of age.
LITTLE JACOB'S FAITH.
JACOB BICKS was born in Leyden, in the year 1657. He was visited with
sickness upon the 6th of August, 1664. In his distemper he was very
sleepy till near his death, but when he did awake he was wont still to
fall a praying.
2. Once when his parents had prayed with him, they asked him if they
should once more send for the physician? "No," said he, "I will have the
doctor no more; the Lord will help me; I know he will take me to
himself."
3. When his parents had prayed with him, he said, "Come, now, dear
father and mother, and kiss me: I know that I shall die. Farewell, dear
father and mother; farewell, dear sister; farewell, all. Now shall I go
unto God and Jesus Christ, and the holy angels. Father, know you not
what is said by Jeremiah? 'Blessed is he who trusteth in the Lord.' Now
I trust in him, and he will bless me; and in 1 John ii, it is said,
'Little children, love not the world, for the world passeth away.'"
4. "Away then all that is in the world, away with all my pleasant things
in the world; away with my dagger, for where I go there is nothing to do
with daggers and swords; men shall not fight there, but praise God. Away
with all my books: there shall I learn true wisdom without books."
5. His father said, "My dear child, the Lord will be near thee, and
uphold thee."
6. "Yea, father," said he, "the Apostle Peter saith, 'God resisteth the
proud, but he giveth grace to the humble.' I humble myself under the
mighty hand of God, and he shall help me and lift me up."
7. "O, my dear child," said his father, "hast thou so strong faith?"
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