344 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. the county of Barnstaple.* Mr. Robinson's church at Leyden was the first INDEPENDENT church since the reformation. His WORKS.-1.A. Justification of Separation from the Church of England, against Bernard, 1610.-2. Remarks on Mr. Smyth's Con- fession of Faith, 1614.-3. A Treatise on Communion, 1614.- 4. People's Plea for the Exercise of Prophesie, 1618.-5. Apologia justa et necessaria Christianorum, mque contumeliose an communitze dictorum Brownistarum ac Barrowistartun, 1619.-This was trans- lated in 1644.-6. An Appendix to Mr. Perkins's Six Principles of the Christian Religion, 1641.-He probably wrote some others. RiCHARD Srocx, A. M.-This worthy divine was born in the city of York, and educated in St. John's college, Cambridge; where, on account of his great ingenuity, industry and progress in learning, he was much beloved by the famous Dr. Whitaker. Leaving the university, he be.: came domestic chaplain first to SirAnthony Cope, of Ashby in Northamptonshire,+ then to Lady Lane, of Bourton-on- the-Water in Gloucestershire. Afterwards, he became assistant to Mr. Thomas Edmunds, vicar of Alhallows, Bread-street, London ; where his labours were particularly acceptable and useful. He continued for sixteen years to assist Mr. Edmunds, at whose death he accepted the pastoral charge, and continued sixteen years more, even to the end of his days. His labours were made a signal blessing to the people. Great numbers were converted, comforted, and established under his ministry. Hewas the means of bringing many persons to a saving knowledge of the truth, who afterwards became celebrated ministers of the gospel. Though many ministers preached to others, and not to themselves, Mr. Stock practised what he preached. His life was one uniform practical comment upon his doctrine. He was much beloved, revered and honoured; and always faithful and courageous in reproving sin. Mr. Sock having in his younger years preached at Paul's cro.s, he spoke with considerable freedom against 4. Morton's Memorial, p. 63.-Morse's American Geog. p. 156, 157.- Morse and Parish's New England, p. 30. + Sir Anthony Cope signalized himself in the cause of religious liberty, and was a constant friend to the persecuted nonconformists. He was burgess for Banbury in Oxfordshire ; and, in the parliament of 1586, he offered a bill to the horse of commons, to abolish all the penal and dis, graeeful laws against the puritans, to net aside the Book of CommonPrayer, and to adopt a fresh one, not liable to so many exceptions. The bill was warmly supported by several able statesmen, but was rejected by the superiority of the court party.-MS. Chropology, vol. ii. p. 377. (4.)
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