A Commentary Upon the Prophecy of Malachi
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Excerpt from A Commentary Upon the Prophecy of Malachi: By That Late Reverend, and Fuller Learned Divine, Richard Stock, Sometime Rector of Allhallows, Bread Street, London, Whereunto Is Added, an Exercitation Upon the Same Prophecy Richard Stock, by his surname gave a handle to just such verbal quip and jest as we have indicated. Upon his ´monument´ there was inscribed (besides others) these punning lines, by those who loved him dearly, the ´merchants of the city, who all but adored him,´ says Masson: - ´Thy livelesse trunk(0 Reverend Stock) Like Aaron´s rod, sprouts out again; And, after two full winters past, Yields blossoms and ripe fruit amaine. For why, this work of piety, Performed by some of thy flocke To thy dead corps and sacred urne, Is but the fruit of this old Stocke.´ A volume of his posthumous ´Sermons´ bears in like manner for its title, ´A Stock of Knowledge´ - none the less noticeable that the joke was perpetrated by the James Cranford who so ´vexed´ Richard Baxter. All which may be placed beside the grimmer humour of the Puritans in their denunciation of the ´Wren´s Nest,´ and the Kitchen as more loved than the Church´ - hitting therein Bishops Wren and Kitchen :a kind of wit to which even stately Sir John Harrington condescended.+ Sometimes the name is spelled with and sometimes without a final ´e,´ and in; Truth´s Champion´ - which, if it be his, is perhaps, though the smallest, the best of all his writings, - it appears as ´Stooks.´ In his ´Churches Lamentation for the Losse of the Godly,´ to wit, the young John Lord Harrington, he himself uses Stock´ in the title-page, and signs the ´Epistle Dedicatorie´ as ´Stocke.´ The name is also met with as ´Stoke´ and ´Stokes.´ ´Stoke´ occurs repeatedly in the Tower-Records of the age of John; and in 1370, a Richard de Stoke was Rector of Birdbroke (Middlesex), and another (if another?), without the de, was Rector of South Shobury, near Sheerness.§ A Robert Stock appears among the founders of New England,´ - a contemporary, but we know not if any relative. Richard Stock was born in the city of York, and is placed among its ´Worthies´ by Fuller, along with St Alcuinus, martyred Valentine Freese, his equally noble brother Edward Freese, and Bishop Thomas Morton; as more onward, Dr Nuttal adds, the Nonconformist brothers James and Thomas Calvert - the latter, author of ´Mel Coeli,´ a rich old quarto on Isaiah liii., which book-lovers covet in its rare occurrence, - and good Matthew Pool; and still more recently, John Flaxman, Dr Conyers Middleton, Archdeacon Nares, and Bishop Porteous. Master Richard´s age on entering the University, as we shall see, lets us know that he must have been born in 1568 or 1569. Of his parentage and outward circumstances, nothing has been transmitted. His portrait in Clarke´s well-known folio of ´Thirty-Two Lives,´ is that of a very noble-looking man, having the presence of one ´every inch a king;´ but we suspect he was sprung of ´the common people,´ though of a good Puritan ´stock,´ no doubt, as the after-selection of his College shewed. If York be now shorn of some of its grandeur, as contrasted with the proud aspirations of its famous proverb, - about which Fuller has so much characteristic -persiflage,- in the child-time of Richard Stock it was ´no mean city.´ Its noble Minster rose then as now into the azure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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