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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64861	The compleat scholler; or, A relation of the life, and latter-end especially, of Caleb Vernon who dyed in the Lord on the 29th of the ninth month, 1665. Aged twelve years and six months. Commending to youth the most excellent knowledge of Christ Jesus the Lord.	Vernon, John, fl. 1666.	1666 (1666)	Wing V250B; ESTC R219857	45,377	107

the World c. found in God to feed upon especially upon the new Covenant in Christ's Blood and in the end he said God hath comforted me greatly with what hath been now spoke And going to rest chearfully intreated that company might not have recourse to him saying he would keep his strength now for the next day to enjoy the benefit of some Friends who intended Prayer in his Chamber and he had a good night On the twentieth he was comfortable in the morning and brake fast chearfully with his Father and a Friend returning thanks very graciously and then reverently attended in Prayer the most of that day being filled with the sence of the love of God and saying sometimes to his Mother fervently God loves me Mother and sometimes I love the Lord. But in the afternoon the Friends retired into another room that he might take rest but his little Sisters remaining in that room he called to the eldest of them being seven years old and said unto her Mary come hither have you got any good by being prayed for to day observing to her she had been particularly mentioned in prayer She answered I hope I have Said he Mary if you should dye now what do you think would become of you She said I do not know He replyed it is your great concern to follow God that so you may know with many other words inforcing it and it is observable that from that time she hath been serious so as never before and pondred his sayings in her heart At night his Father supped with him upon a small Bird and afterward he returned thanks a Physician coming in whilst he was speaking and looking in at the Beds feet with his hat on he enlarged his desires that God would strengthen him his poor creature that he might never be ashamed to confess him before men who-ever they were and desired his Parents might be helped to resign him up to God and that he might alwayes have refuge for rest unto Christ being earnest for Sion with sence of her low estate as he was almost in every prayer and that night he rested well Some Friends had thoughts on the advice Iam. 5. 14. compared with Mark 6. 13. wherewith his Father acquainted him and he desired time seriously to consider of it and the next day being the 21 of the ninth month he seemed yet more hopeful and then desired a dayes time longer to weigh it but being told a Friend that might be concerned about it would not be in Town after that day he then gave his thoughts by way of Query humbly Whether it should be administred when one was mending before being careful lest it should reflect on so solemn an Appointment for he felt himself now mending and therefore had the less clearness therein but if he grew worse he should have further thoughts of it And after he invited that Friend and his Father to Breakfast when he prayed and praised God to the great refreshment of their souls His Mother being gone down with his Father and he feeling some weakness desired then to rest but noise being made among the little ones to his disturbance and his Mother coming up heard him speak to the Maid and them with some trouble in these words The Word of the Lord saith To him that is in affliction pitty should be shewed by his Friends but you take the ready way to hurt me It is well for me I have such a tender Father and Mother or else it might be worse and complained a little of them to his Mother which he never did before and said his strength failed him but God would never fail him His Mother reproving the disturbers left him to rest which he did but awakening towards night exprest much admiration at the goodness of God to such an one as he and said his bodily strength was little he was upon the brink of the grave and his breath almost gone if he spake but a little but he knew if he should die he should be received into the Arms of the Lord. And after a little time grew pretty chearful and desiring to sit up in his bed called his Cousin and little Sisters about him who had partly occasioned the noise of his disturbance and with his own hand cut out some of his Jelly and gave unto them intending himself to sup with his Father but he being prevented of coming up to him he gave some of his small Bird also to them all and then spake to them when they had supped in these words O the sweetness of the Love of God did you experience it as I do you would esteem it more than all the pleasures you can enjoy And with vehemency to his Mother Servants Cousins and Sisters admiration said further O my dear Sisters I long to see you converted O the damned in Hell how would they improve it but it is too late O therefore whilst you have time before the evil day comes take hold of the Righteousness of Iesus Christ and make sure of the Love of God What will you do upon a sick bed without it O my dear Sisters my bowels yern for you I hope I am sure of the Love of God and if I dye this night I shall go to the Lord and be with him for ever O that you knew the sweetness of the Love of God as I do Christ will make you rare without compare And now I call to minde some of Mr. Chares Verses saith he whereof having many more in his memory he repeated to them these If comliness I want His Beauty I may have I shall be fair beyond compare Though cripled to my grave And if above it all To Christ I married be My living Springs O King of Kings Will still run fresh in thee His Mother then said And do you remember Child what he saith of young ●saacs Yea Mother said he and then ●urther repeated some of these concern●ng youth Young Isaacks who lift up their eyes And meditate in fields Young Jacobs who the Blessing prize This Age but seldom yeelds Few Samuels leaving youthful playes To Temple-work resign'd Few do as these in youthful dayes Their great Creator mind How precious Obadiahs be That feared God in youth How seldom Timothy's we see Vers'd in the Word of Truth Few Babes and Sucklings publish praise Th' Avengers rage to bind O then in these your youthful dayes Your great Creator mind Few tender-hearted Youths as was Josiah Iudahs King Hosannah in the high'st alas How seldom Children sing Youths rarely ask for Zions ways Th 'had rather pleasure find But O in these your youthful dayes Your great Creator mind What Children Pulse and Water choose Continually to eat Rather than Conscience should accuse For tasting Royal meat Should you not bow a King to please Though tortures were behind Oh then in these your youthful dayes Your great Creator mind Much more with affection

Justices for near two years more yet at last prevailed by slanders to be countenanced so by another in armes who took not such notice of the private malignity under pretence of Loyalty that the Chyrurgeon was encouraged as one of the chief in ransacking the said Vernons House and Closet which he had stored with Medicine for his Apothecary at pleasure with violence and dis-ingenuity incredible upon pretence of Armes where never was any and bruitishly frequented the house as he pleased sometimes in company sometimes alone in his drink venting his threats very absurdly to the great terror of the poor family The said Child being timerous and under a fit of sickness also at Ewel with more deep sence of sin having thus early to his care about his eternal estate the additional fears of unreasonable men so frequently was so exposed though naturally very chearful that his Father was enforced to remove the Family from thence to Newington with respect to their Schooling leaving them himself some weeks before The Child began therefore when his Father through these troubles left Ewel ●●rst in good earnest to approach to his ●eavenly father in private and to begin a ●orrespondency with his good friend Mr. R. D. in London wherein were Christian expressions in such wisdome and knowledge as made his friend question being the first he had written whether they could come from one so young being then ●ut Ten years old whereupon the said Mr. D. sent to him as followeth Dear Caleb I Received thine without date but not without serious desire of the best things and of ●hy beginning to be instructed in them which made thy Letter very acceptable and welcome to me being willing to hope that what comes under thy hand is not only notions in thy head but something of Truth in thy heart which I desire may be more and more really wrought in thee Thy Lines savour of an honest heart and seem to come from an older head than thy own yet being informed from such as I can credit that it was thy own writing I shall make no further inquiry than to have it confirmed from thy self in thy next to me whether indeed thou hadst not privately the help of any other before the writing of thine above mentioned unto me It is a large desire ex●ressed in thine to be filled with the Love of God and my hearts desire for thee is Th●● the Lord will fulfill that Petition for thee t●gether with that mentioned Ephes. 3. 1● 17 18 19. Which I desire thou mayest o● ten peruse ponder and be helped to pr● in the same Spirit of Truth The co●ing of Christ is hastening indeed as t●● Letter expresses 'T is but a little whi●● and he that shall come will come and will not tarry Heb. 10. 3● And it is a question worth all our inquir● who may abide the day of his coming Mal. 3● 12. Many there are that shall not and fe● there are that will be found blameless a●● harmless without rebuke at that day whic● yet is and shall be the portion of some Phil. 2● 15 16. I shall at present only desire thy answer unto two or three brief Questions following First What thou dost understand by th● coming of Christ Secondly What thou understandest b● his judging the Earth Thirdly What it is to be an outsid● Professor Fourthly What the Traditions of me● are Fifthly Whither the answer thou shal● return to the abovesaid questions be th● own apprehensions without any help from others A true and plaine answer to these things will be a further satisfaction about thy last Letter and I hope no disadvantage to thee ●ho by the serious thoughts of these things mayest be brought to a better understanding ●n them Thus with my dear love to thee and ●hy brother J. V. and Cousin Deborah and ●ll the rest desiring you may be all taught and ●nstructed in the truths of Christ as they are ●n him whom to know aright is eternal life John 17. I remain Thy assured Friend that desires thy Spiritual and temporal welfare R. D. London the 6 th of the 3 d Moneth 63. And in Answer received this following which he wrote immediately without study or prompting Ewell May 12 1663. Dear Sir I Received your kind Letter wherein you have desired me to write unto you an Answer to some certain Questions which you have hinted in your Letter which I shall answer as I hope the Spirit of Grace shall declare to me for I know and am assured that the Lord will declare his Spirit unto them that truly love him which indeed I may truly say I have not done but have erred against his word for which I have great cause to mourn for but I hope he may be my God who will be a God to them that truly seek after him in Spirit and in Truth who did put them words into my mouth which you desired me to send you word of and no body else But as for the coming of Christ I understand it to be two diverse wayes First His coming in the hearts of his People to purge and purify them Secondly His coming o● Earth when he shall set his People at liberty and shall destroy all Kingdomes that will n●● obey him and he shall set up himself a Kingdome Dan. 2. 44. And by his Iudgin● the Earth I understand when all both quic● and dead shall stand before his presence whe● he shall sever the bad from the good and sha●● say to them on his right hand COME Y● BLESSED OF MY FATHER But unto them on his left hand GO YE CURSED into Hell fire prepared for the Devil and his angels And to be an outsid● Professor I understand it to be one who make a shew of Christ but they be not so in thei● hearts And I understand the Traditions ●● men to be their following after the Lusts of the Devil rather than the Commands of God Which things I have not been told of I would desire you to excuse me for not dating my Letter and desire you would write unto me to unfold them to me more than I can do which I hope may be made of use unto my soul So I remain Your much obliged Friend CALEB VERNON ANd being removed to Newington and now no more exposed to such private hostility he went more chearfully to School and profited exceedingly in the Latine tongue making enterance also into the Greek that Summer but finding the opportunity of hearing the Word there uncertain in the Winter for the sake of it and his Fathers imployment in London the Family was removed thither where he was improved without more intermission to great proficiency in the Greek and Latine so as both his able Teachers as all with whom he was have said they never had any more apt of his age nor did any with whom he was see cause to use correction unto him who yet to his Parents trouble had lost much time by