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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

some accident of which Deut. 17.1 of this is meant in this place as the 8. verse sheweth And so here seemes to be a double fault taxed by the Spirit of God one in the people and the other in the Priests and so a double duty exacted of them the peoples fault was in bringing of polluted offerings and presenting them unto the Priests their duty was to have brought such as were sound entire and perfect the Priests fault was in receiving them at their hands and not reproving and prohibiting them his duty was to have instructed them what sacrifice they were to bring and to reject that which was uncleane and not according to the Law Now these sacrifices were to be cleane and pure and perfect ad typum capitis to shew the perfect purity of Christs humane nature 2 Cor. 5.21 1 Pet. 1.17 Secondly ad typum corporis to shew what they should be who are members of him and that offer these sacrifices unto God that they should be perfect to every good worke 2 Tim. 5. and Rom. 12.1 3. So that then besides that which hath been spoken for the sacrifice we may gather out of the peoples fault comparing outward things with inward the type with the truth that seeing God reasons on this sort if they who bring polluted offerings unto me contemne me then such as come polluted in themselves much more They who come to the publique service of God Doctrine and come to offer him any sacrifice must not be uncleane and polluted in their hearts and lives but must come with holinesse and purity for if their sacrifice must be such then themselves and the sacrifices were commanded to be such because they themselves ought to be such When God reproved Israel for it Isaiah 1. and 66.3 and Jerm 7.9 10. he sheweth what he required of them and of others to this purpose is Psal 4.4 5. Gen. 35.2 Joshua 24.16 19 23. Because God else will not accept their service for he first looks to their person Reas 1 and then their service Gen. 4.4 for the sacrifice doth not sanctifie the person but the person it as Haggai 2.13 14. Proverb 15.8 Because else that which God offers and gives to them Reas 2 is made hurtfull unto them not that God gives any evill but because they are evill that receive it As the Sacrament to Judas Christ gave not that which was evill nor did he being the Physitian give the poyson but Judas being wicked it became evill unto him for as the spyder and the adder turn good meat into poyson and as a corrupt stomacke abounding with choler and such like turneth the meat they eate into choler and the finer the meat is it is the sooner turned to corruption so is it in this thing Titus 1.15 Vnto the pure are all things pure but unto them that are defiled and unbeleeving is nothing pure but even their mindes and consciences are defiled To reprove all such as have no care to purge and purifie themselves before they come unto the house of God Vse 1 to his service that come without repentance without preparation full of their drunkennes whoredomes usuries adulteries and such like sinnes They are more guilty of contempt against the Lord then if they withdrew themselves altogether from his obedience and house A man having committed some offence against his Prince being summoned to appeare personally in his presence if he refuse to come at him and shun his sight may well be condemned of contumacy but not of contempt for he may do it out of fear and contempt and fear cannot stand together in one subject but if he shall confidently come appeare before him as if he had done no such thing or not offended him shew no sorrow for his offence make no promise of amendement nay shall rather stand in it with an impudent face avow it professe to persist in it this must needs be judged a grosse outragious contempt Now the place of Gods worship is his presence and he that commeth thither commeth to look God full in the face as Cain was cast out from the face of the Lord. Gen. 4.16 If he come nor he shall suffer as contnmax as rebellious and disobedient but he that commeth polluted with the filth of his sin unrepented of with a purpose to persist he shall be punished as a contemner They who refused to come were shut out but he that came in his old cloathes was bound hand and foot cast into utter darknes Math. 22. he that is willfully absent excluding himselfe from the society of the Saints in the time of grace shal be barred their company in the time of glory for ever but he that presumeth to appeare there with the guilt of his sinne on him shall have a farre greater portion in Hell fire he shall suffer as in case of contempt like an insolent rebell that bourdeth his Prince to his face in his owne Palace and in the mean time all their prayers are unaccepted yea they are turned into sinne to them they obtaine nothing of God more then he would give them though they never prayed with which he feeds them but for the slaughter yea and hence we profit not them by preaching but make them worse wee are not the savour of life unto them but of death by the word they are hardned in their sins by this two edged sword they are daily wounded because their sinnes are not wounded their persons are and the more fearefully because their wounds are not sensible yea by the Sacraments the Devill as upon Judas so upon them taketh more sure possession and raignes in them To teach every one to labour to be holy when he commeth to Gods house Vse 2 holines becomes it to put away iniquity and sin farre from him when God cals him cast of his patched cloak as did blinde Bartimaeus Mark 9. we deal so when we go before Princes as Joseph did Gen. 41.14 much more we ought to doe so with God Moses and Joshua were commanded to put off their shoes when they approached to God and were to stand upon holy ground we are hereby taught saith Ambrose Ep. 16. to shake off the dust and scoure off the soyle that our soules and lives gathered by fleshly occasions and worldly courses ere wee come to tread the Courts of Gods house There was a Laver of brasse Exod. 30.18 19. for Aaron and his sonnes to wash in before they offered any thing at the Altar to shew what we should doe being made the Lords Preists to this David alluded Psal 26.6 I will wash mine hands in innocency O Lord and compasse thine Altar And this ought we to doe that our prayers may be heard and be acceptable that our hearing and receiving of the Sacraments may be fruitfull unto us else Psal 66.18 If I regard wickednesse in mine heart the Lord will not heare me and we being corrupt this must needs be hurtfull unto us unlesse we

who will not now open their eyes when there is time and while the multitude of blessings they enjoy by Gods gracious government doth invite them to serve and feare him yea I say it shall be just and right that their eyes shall be opened by the multitude of torments which must continue for ever But of you who heare me this day let mee hope better things nay let mee see them If I be a Master God is a Master secondly by covenant specially in this place for he speakes to such as professe him and his worship and such as were in his Church and had made a covenant with him as his subjects he their God and Lord. Psal 50.5 Jer. 50.5 In the Church all ought to obey God Doctr. because of the covenant they have made with him being in that speciall manner his servants having covenanted with him that he should bee their God and they would be his people Psal 50.7.14 Jer. 3.4 5. Isaiah 48.1 2. Luke 6.46 Because if the former Reas 1 and for the former reason more for this when God hath taken them so nigh to himselfe in speciall place For if all subjects owe duty and obedience more they whom the King takes into his owne House and Court into his Chamber of presence So if all that are in the world bee the Lords Kingdome and ought to serve and obey him and are bound by his generall government and protection more those whom he hath taken into his Church his House his Court and his Chamber of presence and imployed them to some speciall service and office about his person as it were Because Reas 2 if they be covenant servants and that be professed then must they remember their conditions for without them no covenant is made and the condition on their parts is to serve and obey him and this very common honesty and servility requires of every servant Because God tooke them into covenant Reas 3 not as men doe commonly their servants then when they were able to doe him service and looke before they agree with them what service they are able to performe them but God saith Chrysostome farre otherwise he receives them into covenant when they are able to doe nothing and maintaines them long before they can doe any thing therefore reason they should doe him service when they are able A reproofe of many men Vse 1 who live more disobedient and rebellious in the Church then thousand heathens have done out of it who onely are Gods servants at large and yet doe they out goe them in many things in the outward service and subjection to God according to the law of nature he hath ingrafted into them Many sinnes thousands of them would have blushed to have heard tell of and been marvellous ashamed only to speake of them without detestation which these in the Church and for all their covenant shame not to doe and blush not to brag of them Questionlesse as the same sinnes are graater in the Church then out of it for ignorance excuseth à tanto though not à toto so the same and greater shall have greater punishment howsoever they may carry it out for a time Yea and howsoever some dream all in the Church must needs be saved though the multitude without be condemned yet they shall find as it is Math. 11.22 24. so it shall be easier for those heathen then for them lesser shall their torments be in Hell To instruct every man in the Church Vse 2 who is Gods covenant servant having made a covenant with him with the sacraments and by them that he ought to serve and obey him with all faithfulnesse and diligence So doe masters looke for from their covenant servants so will servants of any honesty doe with their masters So God expects so should they performe It is not the boasting of their baptisme and comming to the Lords Supper the renewing of their covenant that will be profitable unto them when they performe not their conditions to renounce the enemies of God and to serve him Nay it will be their shame greater reproach because while they boast of the covenant they shew themselves covenant breakers such as common honesty would blush at the sin of Gentiles who were given up to a reprobate sence Ro. 1.30 If any man imagine that these set him at liberty that is carnall liberty he marvellously deceives himselfe Truth it is that it is true liberty for the service of God is most true liberty but it is not their carnall liberty to doe as they list but to follow the command of God as the Centurions servants for they have their presse money or souldiers oath given unto them yea and being so nigh brought to him they owe more service for their more honour more obedience he that imagineth it is an easie life to be a Courtier to be imployed about the Kings person in his presence or bed chamber doth much deceive himselfe as ignorant of such things for though they have more honour more favour and obtaine many speciall suits for themselves and friends yet they have more labour more watching yea more diligence and industry is looked for from them and they usually performe so in this in the Church Gods Court there is more honour more comfort more suits obtained but more service required or at least more bonds of this service more reason they should performe it That Chrysost urgeth touching virginity of a woman a virgin and married may be here applyed that if there be any liberty to mind earthly things to follow the pleasures of the world and such things it is to those who are out of the Church not to those who are in it further then helps them to this service Where is my feare Wee have seen the reasons why this is due and why God doth chalenge it wee must now see the duty and this is servile feare feare in generall is but the expectation of an imminent evill this feare rises from the consideration of the power and justice of God And of this first a man ought to performe and give it to God Secondly the effects of it Of the differences were spoken before The servants of God howsoever they be servants even in the Church ought to feare him Doctr. that is to serve him and avoyd the evils he hath forbidden them for fear of his power and justice Jer. 5.22 and 10.7 Math. 10.28 Psal 33.8 2 Cor. 5.10 11. Rom. 11.20 Revelat. 15.4 Because he is able Reas 1 as he made them with a word and the whole world at first so to destroy them and bring them to nought with a word when they displease and provoke him Now in reason as naturall men as Tully said doe more regard what he can doe to them in whose power they are then what he will doe with them For being able he may when he will come upon them and destroy them but being willing and not able he cnnot at his will so in

give them honour and favour and riches and abundance though they never keepe condition with him Fools and blinde who know they cannot live except they eate not reap except they sow not recover health except they use physicke and the means appointed And yet thinke without performing the grand meanes and condition with God they shall have what he hath promised and so happily they may But as Israel had a King in Gods wrath and quails in his displeasure And as the Physitian gives his patient liberty to eate what he list when he is out of all hope and despaires of ever recovering him Many a man perswades himselfe that God will save him though he never was able to performe the condition of the Law neither ever endeavoured to performe the condition of the Gospell Truly this is not to beleeve but deceive himselfe with an opinion of faith he neither having the knowledge of the promises the ground of it nor workes the answerable fruits of it And so hath but a vaine foolish and dead faith But he shall know his folly when God shall manifest unto him that he is not bound to perform promise because he never kept condition To teach every man that hath any desire that God should performe covenant with him Vse 3 to endeavour to performe conditions with God * Cum dominus promittis ne dubites sed illa fac per quae tales attrahere poteris promissiones Chry. hom 25 ad popul Anti. He must first Week to know what they are God requires of him and then do them for without that he cannot do And his searching for knowledge must not onely be for the generall but for the particulars of his place what command is sent to him and then faithfully do it that Gods covenant may stand We must repent beleeve and obey the Gospell and Commandments of God For it is godlinesse that hath the promises and shall have the performance Let such a one remember 1 Tim. 4.8 and Prov. 21.21 Yea he may assure himselfe that if he apply himself to that which God requireth of him and he hath covenanted for he shall be sure to finde him that hath been a willing promiser a most faithfull performer For parum erat promissio etiam scripto se teneri voluit Aug. in Psal 119. And so no good thing that he hath promised shall faile but shall all be made good Joshua 22.15 My covenant with Levi. Here is the honour and dignity he had bestowed upon them having made a speciall agreement and covenant with them The Lord hath specially honoured his messengers and servants the Priests in the old Doctrine and the Ministers in the new Testament for he hath not onely made the generall covenant with them I will be their God they my people but hath made a particular and speciall agreement and covenant with them So here and Numb 8.13.14 Thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron and before his sons and offer them as a shake offering to the Lord. Thus thou shalt separate the Levites from among the children of Israel and the Levites shall be mine 1 Sam. 2.28 And I chose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my Priest to offer upon mine Altar and to burn Incense and to weare an Ephod before me and I gave unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel Joh. 15.15 2 Cor. 3.6 Because they are of his privy counsell and know his secret Reason 1 Amos 3.7 Surely the Lord God will doe nothing but he revealeth his secrets unto his servants the Prophets Privy counsellours are specially honoured and have a particular covenant made with them Because they are his messengers his embassadours Reason 2 2 Cor. 5.20 they are specially honoured and new sworne a new covenant No reason why the great and rich men of the world should contemne the ministry for their children as too base a thing Vse 1 and not fit for their sonnes when as God hath thus honoured it and taken them so neere unto himselfe In respect of which Amos who was beleeved to be the brother of Azariah the King of Judah thought it no base thing his sonne shoule be a Prophet neither Christ himselfe to be a preacher This may be a caveat for men to take heede how they abuse or injure the ministers who are so neere unto him Vse 2 and whom he hath thus honoured certainly they ought to honour him though it goe against the haire and stomacke with them as with Haman because he would have them honoured but if not but they abuse and disgrace them and use them as the Ammonites did Davids servants Let them take heede they stinke not in his nostrils for if Princes be tender hearted and stone affected with the injuries of their common subjects and will revenge them what will they doe for their counsellours their embassadours And yet meane men will now abuse them in words and contemne as farre as they can for the law of man if they sing not placentia if they teach crosse to their humours but their portion is with the Lord and so is theirs who so abuse them And one day they shall both know whether is better to reprove and lift up his voyce and spare not or to spare and reforme nothing It may comfort the minister against contempt when he is faithfull Vse 3 yet to be still so and bold remembring his honour God hath given him which is better then all the honour man can affoord And though men may thinke their faithfulnesse may hinder them from honour as Balaak said to Balaam Numb 24.11 Therefore now flee unto thy place I thought surely to promote thee to honour but loe the Lord hath kept thee back from honour yet it is not so for that is the true honour which God gives and will give and no man can take and they ought as it is 2 Cor. 3.12 seeing they have such hope to use boldnesse of speech This may teach what manner of men Ministers ought to be Vse 4 how sanctified of what puritie and integritie seeing God hath taken them to be so neer unto himselfe therefore ought they to be carefull that offer them to God and they that receive them when they offer and when they receive not for favour or money or kindred or any such thing A man will be marvellous carefull whom he commendeth but for a common servant to a mean man his friend more to a Prince most to be so nigh to him If the Steward of a house be permitted and trusted to admit such as are fit how carefull will he be If the President of a Princes Councell to take in such as are able men how vigilant and inquisitive will he be that they be such as be competent for the place So should it be in this the like care should be had and wo unto him that hath not And men that are in the place ought to looke marvellous