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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

are Gods not certaine because men may doe it in hypocrisie being wrung from them by their extremities and do it in some sinister respect as did Indas and Pharaoh But on the contrary do men justifie themselves or extenuate their sinnes I say not only to men or to an enemy when it may be lawfull for a man to stand on his integrity and ever to cover his infirmities but to God to his Ministers as these here And as many men lie sicke and for ought they know upon their death beds and the Minister shall presse them with their former lives and their sinfulnesse and not their friends only seek to lessen them and speake of their orderly and good cariage and shew themselves to be discontented they should be disquieted with any such thing it is a very fearfull thing being a signe that in themselves they justifie themselves and thinke God deals but hardly with them and they have deserved no such thing but to these we may say as Christ to the Pharisees Luke 16.15 Ye are they which justifie your selves before men but God knoweth your hearts for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God This may let us see the necessity of the word of God as at all times Vse 2 so especially in time of affliction and judgements when men in their hypocrisie are naturally prone to justifie themselves because their sinne is dead and their conscience laid asleep But when the Law commeth it is quickned Rom. 7.9 Yea and not onely made living but strengthened 1. Cor. 15.56 So that it not only accuseth him in his conscience but presseth him amaine to accuse himself before Gods judgement seat whereas without it they will be so far from humbling themselves that they still will justifie themselves till they be consumed as drosse in the fire and with their drosse their sinne Therefore was it not for nothing that it was said Psal 94.12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastisest O Lord and teachest him in thy Law Because of verse 13. They shall escape when the other who want it shall perish And so the best time for Ministers to worke and the best opportunity is when the affliction is upon them Job 33.16 Then he openeth the cares of men even by their corrections which he hath sealed and they being as mettall heated and softened the hammer will best worke upon them and then may they be best bended and applied to good VERS XV. Therefore we count the proud blessed even they that work wickednesse are set up and they that tempt God yea they are delivered THerefore we accounted the proud blessed These had denied the providence of God and his government of the world by the small profit that came to such as had care to keepe his commandments and walke in his waies now they assay to deny it by the prosperity of such as transgresse and contemne him yea by this they would not onely disgrace piety but prefer iniquity before it For now they make the study and indeavour in impiety to be honest and profitable when of piety it was unfruitfull for the one neither brought honour nor profit to them who imbraced it the other brought both Therefore we account As some and now we or we also i. out of our owne experience we who have been diligent in our duties forward in piety followers of modesty imbracers of temperance and al other vertues have only got this by it that we cannot without envie speak of the happinesse and prosperity of those who have taken a cleane contrary course for our obediencè piety and humility hath made us but base and contemptible in the eies of men whereas others by their pride and arrogancy have gotten a name and renowne unto themselves Even they that work wickednesse are set up or are built up The meaning is they are increased in wealth and abundance They who had nothing while they lived in upright and just courses and could get nothing by plaine and honest dealing now that they are growne corrupt and fallen into wicked lewd courses and used cunning and deceit they have gained unspeakable wealth and from nothing are so risen that they are equall to any in wealth and dignity for this sense is by the phrase of the Scripture to be built up Psal 127.1 And they who tempt God they are delivered Not onely they who injure and oppresse men and commit wickednesse by fraud and deceit and such like but they who contemne God also are happy such as set light by his power and judgements and of set purpose committed and undertooke heinous sinnes to trie whether he was so just and severe a Judge and revenger as he was accounted to be and yet for all this boldnesse and contempt we see they go free without any punishment which if God were such a one as he is accounted a severe Judge and revenger of the injuries against men and indignities against himselfe he ought not to have overpast but to have shewed it in this And thus these wicked men thinke they have sufficiently proved that God hath not a care of the things done upon the earth Their second ground on which they deny Gods providence is the prosperity of the wicked or making him to love them Vide doctr 2. in verse ult C. 2. They that work wickednesse are set up Many wicked men prosper and increase in the world these men speak so here out of their observation as a truth though it be evilly applied and used against God as Iobs friends wrested many generall things against him which were true in the generall but corrupted in the application Oftentimes it falls out Doctrine that wicked men do increase and grow great in the world by their wicked means and impious crafts which is not true onely because these have said it but that it is so shewed us by others Psal 73.12 Loe these are the wicked yet prosper they alway and increase in riches Job 21.7 Wherefore do the wicked wax old and grow in wealth Jer. 12.1.2 O Lord if I dispute with thee thou art righteous yet let me talke with thee of thy judgements Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper Why are all they in wealth that rebelliously transgresse Thou hast planted them and they have taken roote they grow and bring forth fruit Thou art neer in their mouth and far from their reines Psal 17.14 Men of this world who have their portion in this life whose bellies thou fillest with thine hid treasure their children have enough and leave the rest of their substance for their children Because God doth use them to punish and correct his Reason 1 * Vtitur in salut em suorum irrationali insensibili c. Bern. degr lib. arbit for the good safety of his people he useth the irrationall and insensible creature as a labouring beast or an instrument which when the worke is done is of no further use he useth

not bee neglected Acts. 6.1 A place pertinently observed and used by the Widow of Iohn Knobbarus the Printer in her Epistle Dedicatory to the Bishop of Antwerp before the late Iesuite Bresserus his booke De Concscientia This care was continued by S. Paul 1. Tim. 5.3 and after by many Bishops a T is a Testimony of great honour and a character fit for a Bishop which Mathew of West minster gives to Gilbert Bishop of Chichester in K. Edward the firsts time that he was the Father of Orphans and the comforter of Widowes Yet at the last the Pontifician law grew streight and hard towards them wherein as Greg. Tholosan hath it Syntag. Iuris lib. 9. cap. 26. s 14. It was provided that the mony bequeathed for pious uses to the endowing and marrying of poore Women might in no case be bestowed upon Widowes marrying again though they were poore The fatherlesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is an Orphan a Pupill destitute of father or helpe See it clearely Lament 5.3 Wee are Iethomim Orphans and without father The Lxx here and constantly translate it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but in one place namely Psal 82.3 they render it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 poore The fatherlesse and the widow's are frequently joyned together in the same Texts and so they are in Gods care The ancient Church was tender of them thence it was that Brephotrophi as they were called were appointed for the charge of exposed infants whose fathers were not knowne and Orphanotrophi to see to the bringing up of other infants A practise worthily followed and imitated by the rare zeale and charity of our blessed King Edward the Sixth who upon occasion of the Bishop of Londons Sermon besides Bridewell and S. Thomas Hospitall disposed to other charitable uses was the glorious founder of Christs Hospitall for the reliefe of fatherlesse children It were easy to outvie the popish and to parallell the ancient times with examples of charity in this kind since the Reformation Among others that Honorable reverend Prelate D. Andrew's Lord Bishop of Winchester shines not more in his learned writings which yet make him famous in the gates then in his Legacies to the poore among which this was not the least commendable that he gave 5C 1 per Annum to the binding of poore Orphans to be apprentices A man deserving all the honor and right which those honorable and learned personages have done him who have gratified the English Church with the History of his life But I must take my selfe off from this argument remembring that these Excursions will haply be judged by some to bee too frequent and not proper for these short notes I confesse it yet who would not be large upon the least occasion given in the just commendations of those rare examples especially when so many on the contrary doe build up their estates and houses upon the ruines and distresses of Orphans and Pupills committed to their trust The sinne that is here threatned in the text and questionles a great sinne and provided against fully in the ancient law so that in the Institutions of Iustinian we have fourteen titles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lib. 1. Tit. 13 c. And Greg. Tholosan hath found enough to collect to make two bookes in his Syntagma lib. 12. and 13. with whom I leave the Reader Sixthly And against those that turne aside the stranger that is from his right as our last translation supplyes it even in the text The Geneva and Vulg. Against those that oppresse the stranger The Lxx. and the Chalde That pervert the judgement of the stranger See how it is exprest Exod. 23.6 Thou shalt wrest the judgement The stranger 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Is he that dwells where he was not borne or one that hath dwelt but a while where hee doth and so through want of friends and of acquaintance with the Law is more easy to bee wronged for whose defence therefore God provided by many Lawes See Exod. 22.21 and 23.9 Deut. 10.18.19 Levit. 19.33.34 Ierem 22.3 Ezek. 46.18 Zach. 7.10 Seventhly And against those that feare not me saith the Lord The particulars before mentioned are summed up in this which is the fountaine also and head of other sinnes and that against which the Lord will come neare in judgement As Primus in orbe deos fecit Timor and where the feare of God is it will command the heart and restraine from sinne so the little or no feare of God argues that men cherish little or no beliefe of God when according to the ingenious conceit of Nic. Caussin the Iesuite in his Table or picture of worldly policy Holy Court pt 2. The Statesman sect 2. In a Chamber hideously blacke the study of Lucifer the brave spirits of the time under the regency of Herod and Tiberius doe study to finde out the way How to believe in God no longer The truth is while most men instead of contending for the faith have but wrangled about the differences of Religions they are growne Irreligious and into a disposition unto Atheisme which how it may be discovered cured will bee worthy the labour of all such who are set over men for the cure of their soules Thus wee have seene the judgment threatned and against whom II. Verse 6 The certainty of the judgment verse 6. For I am the Lord I change not therefore yee sonnes of Iacob are not consumed Or as the Vulg. and Montan. and the Geneva read it I change not And yee sonnes of Iacob are not consumed It is the reason of what was before said and threatned you say I regard not to punish or reward but though I deferre a while yet I will come neare to judgement for I constantly love good and hate evill I change not So Cyril Theodor. Remig. Rupert Hugo Lyr. Vatabl c. For the latter clause of this 6th verse I shall with submission take leave to depart from our learned translators and reade not as they Therefore but as Montanus and as it is in the Hebrew And I change not And yee sonnes of Iacob are not consumed And that is And yet Though I threatned you and change not yet my patience is such that yee are spared and not yet consumed But I leave this place to such as can better search the Prophets mind for here I confesse I doe take off my owne unskilfull pen without cleare satisfaction in my selfe about the coherence of this verse especially this latter clause with the verses precedent The Reader may finde it somewhat otherwise exprest in Tarnovius And thus much of the 5th Contestation VI. The sixth Contestation Sixthly Vers 7 he contests with them for their impenitence verse 7. That they had sinned and continued in sin and yet would not be convinced 1. That they had continued in sinning against Gods lawes Even from the dayes of your fathers ye have gone away from mine ordinances and have not kept them He exprobrates their old and