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A93917	A learned and very usefull commentary upon the whole prophesie of Malachy, by that late Reverend, Godly and Learned Divine, Mr. Richard Stock, sometime Rector of Alhallowes Breadstreet, London, and now according to the originall copy left by him, published for the common good. Whereunto is added, An exercitation vpon the same prophesie of Malachy / by Samuel Torshell.	Stock, Richard, 1569?-1626.; Torshell, Samuel, 1604-1650. Exercitation upon the prophecie of Malachy.	1641 (1641)	Wing S5692A; ESTC R184700	652,388	677

larger and the noblest kind of interpreting and Homilies sermons to the multitude in which kinde they were wont to undertake whole bookes as appeares by S. Chrysost Aug. and others But afterwards as the skill in Hebrew began by degrees after the Apostles time to be well nigh quite lost so when the Greeke sun did also set at length it came to passe that the Bible was scarce at all used Till about An. 800. it was read over in greatèr Churches once every yeer about which time Paul Warnenfrid usually called Paul the Deacon at the Command of Charlemain did inartificially divide out Epistles and Gospels and writ Postils on them which soone came to be only in use and all other parts of Scripture in a manner neglected After his time some wrote Commentaries but rarely as Aponius on the Canticles Claudius Sesellius on St. Luke Angelomus the Monk on the Kings and Canticles VValafridus Strabus Collector of the Ordinary glosse and Haimo on S. Pauls Epistles all of them much about Paul's time But afterwards much more rarely Paschasius Rabertus Abbot of Corbey wrote upon the Lamentations and Remigius Monke and afterwards Bishop of Auxerre on the Psalmes Canticles and Mathew about An. 880. Ambros Ansbertus a French Monke on the Canticles anno 890. Bruno Archbishop of Colein on the Pentateuch an 937. After him we finde none till Paul of Jenoa wrote on the Psalmes and Jeremy which was anno 1054. onely Bale mentions one Serlo a Monk of Dover a Commentator about anno 956. And till 1100. or thereabouts wee finde some as Oecumenius and the two Anselms of Luca and Canterbury and Stephanus Anglicus Rupert Bernard and Philip an Abbot in Heinalt a familiar friend of S. Bernards But when once Schoole Divinity got the Kingdome all studied that and laid the Scripture by Peter Comestor indeed had the Scripture by heart but his brother Lombard brought Aristotle into more request then St. Paul as the Sorbonne at Paris complained Then it was that preaching on the Scripture had gone altogether out of use had not Dominicke a Spaniard the founder of the Order of Preaching Friars about an 1200. commanded his disciples to reade the Scripture and carry nothing but the Bible with them when they went to Preach And yet by these pretended friends of the Scripture was the Scripture likewise trampled upon who preferred Dominick before St. Paul according to that Picture of them both in one table John Wolf lect memor Tom. 1. Cent. 13. ad an 1205. which John Wolfius tels us was not much after that time to be seen in Venice under St. Pauls was writ By him you may goe to Christ and under Dominicks Picture By him you may goe to Christ more easily And so things stood till these latter times when about the time of the Reformation the Bible was a booke scarcely so much as known when Melancthon reports he heard some preach upon texts taken out of Aristotles Ethicks and Andreas Carolostadius was eight yeeres Doctor when he began to read the Scripture and yet at the taking of his degree had been pronounced Sufficientissimus But that which I shall content my selfe with as an instance for all is that which is reported of Albert Archbishop of Ments who being at the Dyet at Ausbourg an 1530. and finding a Bible on the table and reading some leaves where by chance hee opened it said Truly I know not what booke this is but this I see that it makes all against us But when the knowledge of the tongues began to flourish then the study of Scripture revived for till a little before the Reformation there were few or none that cared for or indevoured any skill in the Greek much lesse in the Hebrew yea most were then of John Dullards minde who was Schoole-master to Ludovicus Vives and was wont to say unto him The better Grammarian thou provest Ludov. Viv. de caus Corrup l. 1. thou wilt bee the worse Philosopher and Divine we know what opposition Erasmus met withall in this cause and Arias Montanus for his paines in the Biblia Regia was accused of heresie before the Pope it seemes by his preface before the Bible they were Jesuits that so accused him so that hee was faine to write an Apology for himselfe Hist Conc. Trid. which he did in the Spanish tongue which is in Oxford Library Yet at length the Jesuits themselves and others of the Church of Rome were drawne to have a better opinion of this kind of learning and the learned party grew so strong that it came at least to a Consultation in the Councell of Trent about the examining of the vulgar Latine translation of the Bible by the Originals Friar Aloisius of Catanea took the confidence to give an high commendation to Cardinall Cajetan as the prime Divine of that and many ages who was wont to say That to understand the Latin text was not to understand Gods infallible word but the translators and therefore having himselfe no knowledge in the Originals hee imployed men to render the Scripture word for word unto him and so spent all his latter dayes which were eleven yeeres after his going Legate into Germany Vpon this relation Aloisius propounded the examination But there were too many to oppose so good a proposition They said it would be ten yeeres in doing that if they did it they should open a gap to the Lutherans and overthrow many Doctrines of the Roman Church which were grounded on the Latine translation Amama hath collected those particular errors in his Cens Vulg. Edit c. 1. pro leg and that if they should doe it the Inquisitors would not be able to proceed against the Lutherans who would bee alwaies readie to say It is not so in the Originall These were honest men and spoke plainely by whom we come to know what it was that hindred the worke Others were more fine and they said That it was to bee beleeved that the Latine Church was not lesse beloved of God then the Hebrew or Greeke Church who had an Authenticque Text and sure the Holy Ghost dictated the Latine Translation or if the Translator had not a propheticall spirit yet one very neere it But Isidorus Clarus a Brescian a Benedictine Abbot went against this unreasonable opinion and said much against it which the reader may finde in the judicious History of the Councell However the streame went to the approbation of the vulgar only the Cardinall Santa croce that he might comply fairely with those that voted for a correction told them that there were no errors of faith in it and yet yeelded that six might be deputed to frame a corrected Copie to print by But what correction was meant appeares by the preface before the Edition of Clement the eighth that it should be purged from the Errata of the Transcribers And they were long about this the preface tels us that Pius the IV. and V. laboured in it and selected Cardinals but

not mention it An observation that offers unto our thoughts The very great necessity of acquainting our selves with Gods Law the benefit of which I referre the Reader to find commended unto him in a learned and very fruitfull Treatise of Mr. H. Mason Hearing and Doing chap. 5. This point hath beene much beat upon by the Fathers in their Sermons or Homilies to the people in their Exhortations and Epistles to their private and deare friends Many of our men in handling the controversie about permitting the reading of the Scripture to the people have collected many and plentifull instances I spare them Only I would note the piety of some persons in their assiduous study of Gods Law It is a known History which they relate of Alphonsus King of Arragon Let mee adde what Herebert Rosweyd the Iesuit reports of Thomas a Kempis the devout Author of those books which are and deserve to be in every ones hand De Imitatione Christi That as he spent his houres in reading the holy Scripture so hee wrote out the whole Bible divided into foure Tomes fairely and legibly with his own hand And yet a great scholler too he was a man wedded to his book so much that this was his usuall saying and that which hee was wont to write in the beginning of his books In omnibus requiem quaesivi nusquam inveni nisi in angelo cum libello In een hoexken met een boexken I have sought content in all things but never found it unlesse with a booke in a nooke But his most delight was in the booke of God How much was his zeale beyond the temper of these times when many think it would hinder their schollership to read much or oft in the Bible which perhaps also is not to bee found in some well furnished studies The neglect of which and preferring the handmaids which yet are beautiful and they blind that doe not confesse so before the Mistresse hath been much complained of by many pious and learned men Who can be large or full enough in the praise of the Booke of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The soules food as Saint Athanasius calls it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Invariable rule of truth as Saint Iraeneus The Aphorismes of Christ The library of the Holy Ghost The circle of all divine arts The Divine Pandects The wisdome of the Crosse The cubit of the Sanctuary The touchstone of errour But I will take my selfe off lest it be said to me Who ever dispraised Hercules Only let me insert another instance for other kind of people for lay people for women Not the example of any of those glorious women found and mentioned in S. Hieroms Epistles famous and renowned for their piety this way but a moderne example of Maudlin the wife of D. Pareus of whom writing to Iohn Newerus Pastor of Saint Peters Church in Heidleburg to preach her funerall Sermon hee reports that after shee was married and more than forty yeares of age out of love to the holy Scriptures shee learnt to reade and tooke such delight in it and specially in the Psalmes that she got them almost all by heart So much for this point the necessity of which some think the Spirit of God would teach us by the great Zain in the word Zicru Recordamini in the Text in many Bibles See Iohn Buxtorf in Comment Masor cap. 14. 2. Hee takes occasion to prepare their expectation by prophecying againe of his forerunner the Baptist vers 5.6 we have 1. His comming vers 5. 2. His work or office vers 6. I. His comming vers 5. Behold I will send you Eliah the Prophet before the comming of the great and dreadfull day of the Lord. The interpretation of this place hath very much divided the Expositors Saint Hierom took it once for all the Prophets that should come but hee goes almost alone A farre greater party understand it of Eliah the Thisbite For so the Lxx. reade the very Text The Vatican and ordinary copies of the Lxx but not that which is in the King of Spaines Bible and so also the Arab. which usually followes the Lxx and some of the Fathers but not all whom Bellarmine alleageth for Origen Lactunt Hilary Hierom who are produced by him are examined by Dan. Chamier Panstrat Tom. 2. lib. 17. cap. 5. sect 17.18 and found to bring him no proofes Saint Chrys Theod. Saint Aug. and haply others of the Ancients being misled by the corrupt reading of the Lxx 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I send unto you Eliah the Thisbit But this is not in the Hebr. Text which the learned Popish Expositors know and yet they follow that of the Lxx for another purpose than the Ancients were aware of as it is sufficiently knowne to Divines in the Question of Antichrist Benedict Pererius De Antichristo Disput 10. against Ioh. Annius makes it one of his demonstrations that Mahomet is not Antichrist and so doth Bellarmine that the Bishop of Rome is not because Enoch and Eliah are not yet come and are to come in his time Doctor Sharp a learned man of ours De Antichrist part 1. cap. 31. doth hereupon take occasion to compare Bellarmine to a frantick woman whom he saith he knew that pretended great acquaintance with the Angell Gabriel and tells us That surely Elias was the carrier Mee thinks too lightly I reade nothing with pleasure that puts off a learned adversary with a scoffe but not without offence him who through his weaknesse doth magnifie all Bellarmines Arguments as surely the Suffolk Author of the Five Discourses Ann. 1635. did who in his Treatise of Antichrist useth no other I will not take this Text as a sufficient occasion to enter into the Question who That Antichrist should be Let the characters used by Saint Iohn and Saint Paul be impartially applyed and without ends and I suppose there will bee lesse controversie especially that of Saint Paul 2 Thess 2. For light unto which I referre the Reader unto Quirinus Reuterus his Supply to Zanchy who here through age and dimnesse of sight broke off which Reuterus undertooke at the request of Zanchy's Executors and said much to this point and with much approbation But to passe by the question it selfe whether the Pope be Antichrist which the interpretation of this place however it bee doth not conclude The Cardinals arguments that the Thisbite is prophecied of are not unanswerable Object 1. This day before which this Eliah is to come is the great and dreadfull day of the Lord. Therefore the day of the second comming of Christ for his first comming was an acceptable time and a day of salvation Answ 1. The Hebr may be rendred Before the day of the great and dreadfull Lord come And so the Chald. reades it 2. But granting it as wee reade it yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is not properly Terribile but Timendum to bee feared or dreaded Now feare is either from Terror or from Reverence so it is

A LEARNED AND VERY USEFVLL COMMENTARY VPON THE WHOLE PROPHESIE OF MALACHY BY That late Reverend Godly and Learned Divine Mr. RICHARD STOCK sometime Rector of Alhallowes Breadstreet London and now according to the Originall Copy left by him published for the common good Whereunto is added AN EXERCITATION VPON THE SAME PROPHESIE OF MALACHY By SAMUEL TORSHELL LONDON Printed by T.H. and R. H. for Samuel Enderbey and are to be sold at the Starre in Popes head alley 1641 Reador if euer Fame did fill thy eare withe name of Reuerent Stock behold him heere Not in this Shaddow onely but turne ore the Booke and venve this Stockès improued store There shalt find mix't with Graue Diuinitie a Prophets depe mysterious Prophecy then thanke his care whose goodness doth unlocke and publish to the world 〈◊〉 Rich a Stocke TO The ancient Friends and Hearers of the Author especially to the Right Worshipfull EDWARD RUDGE Alderman To the Worshipfull Captaine JOHN VEN Mr. WILLIAM KENDALL Mr. RICHARD ELLIS with the rest of the Inhabitants of the parrish of Alhallowes Breadstreet LONDON MY owne occasions together with some other difficulties and impediments have hitherto hindred a purpose that I had from the very first time that the papers of this worthy man were intrusted to me to communicate them to the World and to you But I have now done it and I hope it is not too late either to revive his memorie or your remembrance of those things you have heard from him I will not beleeve that you have forgotten or can forget a Pastor whom you did so much love and reverence For he was a burning and shining light John 5.35 and yee rejoiced in his light I have taken this paines to peruse his notes Heb. 11.4 that he againe though dead might still speake unto you and I doe endeavour that now after his decease you may have these things alwaies in your remembrance 2 Pet. 1.15 God was pleased to send you a rich treasure by his Ministerie 2 Cor. 4.7 but this treasure was brought unto you in an Earthen vessell and least haplie when that earthen vessell was broke by sicknesse and death and the shards throwne into the Earth you saved not the treasure I have now gathered some of it and kowing to whom it did belong have brought it back to Restore it unto you Now what remains Ephe. 4.21 but that you enjoy it use it let that be your care to be answerable to the Doctrine you have received to walke so as yee have learned Christ If so bee that yee have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in JESUS This is the onely thing that I have to say unto you that your conversation may tell the world you doe remember him Let him live in your lives That so even they who never knew him nor ever heard him preach a Sermon may see by your practise what and how hee preached And as yee have made a Monument for him in your Church set up one also in every one of your lives you shall thereby doe him a greater honor then that stone-work though otherwise a Commendable Testimonie of your love and respect can doe him Be yee your selves his Monument his Statue Phil. 4.1 his Trophee 1 Thes 2.19 and as the Philippians and Thessalonians were to St. Paul 2 Cor. 3.2 his Crown of glorying Be yee his Epistle known and read of all men Let all men see what he writ in you What precepts of Holinesse of Righteousnesse of Temperance Psal 45.1 hee wrote downe in your hearts when his tongue was the pen of a readie writer so long among you He was a Father I suppose unto manie of you I have heard some of you professe it 1 Cor. 4.15 though yee have ten thousand instructers in Christ yet have yee not many Fathers If in Jesus Christ hee hath begotten you through the Gospell bee followers of him imitate him so as that men may say of you when they see the grave and sober and godlie carriage of any of you he hath his fathers Counteinance he hath his fathers Gate He set a most faire Copy doe yee imitate the hand He did as his great Master Iohn 10.3.4 1 Tim. 4.12 he went before his flocke And was an example of beleivers in word in Conversation in Charity in Spirit in faith in purity In all things he shewed himselfe a patterne a stampe Tit. 2.7 that is the Apostles word such a stampe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as makes an Image of it in Coine or such a stamp as Printers use which leaves an Impression on the Paper be yee his Impression be yee his printed worke be yee the Commentary your selves and then yee need not buy it at the shops He was Typus Gregis be yee Antitypon Pastoris Goe through the world like good and current Coine with the right stampe Mat 22.20 Shew whose Superscription and Image you beare on one side Gods on the other side Cesars and both stampt upon you by your Pastor who was wont to Preach unto you those two points Holinesse and Obedience Shew that you suffered him while you sate under his Pulpit to enter deep into your hearts A deep stamp is long before it is worne out let it appeare that these fifteene yeeres since he dyed you have not forgotten the word of his exhortation They heare best Luke 11.28 that practice best If any of you be prophane and unholy if deceitfull and dishonest in your dealings if intemperate voluptuous and wanton yee might happily bee his Hearers and in the throng but none of his Disciples but such as listned with the other eare to your lusts But I am perswaded better things of you Heb. 6.9 and things that accompany salvation though I thus speake for I know your husbandman was skilfull and the seed good Math. 13.3 1 Pet. 1.23 Beare not therefore thorns and briars for such ground is rejected and nigh unto cursing whose end is to be burned but rather shew your selves to be the earth that hath drunk in the raine that came oft upon you and bring forth fruit that so you may receive a further blessing from God Unto whose blessing and most gracious protection I commend you and remaine Your servant in the Lord SAM TORSHELL To the READER THE holy Scriptures that had so many praises given unto them by the Antients were by them much read and studied who used also many waies of interpreting them wee finde their Commentaries that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 writings in which they set downe-heads for remembrances Interpretations that is Enarrations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as they called them or Examinations of the words Significations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Scholies that is Glosses which they writ at their leisures in their ordinary reading Metaphrases 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 delivering the text in other words Paraphrases a