b Ibid. c. 17. Maria Matergratiae Mater misericordiae tu nos ab hoste c. Bellarmin tells us the Church Catholic in her Hymn to the Virgin Mary praies thus O Mary Mother of Grace Mother of Mercy Do thou defend us from the enimy and and receive us in the hour of death If we may judg of words by their signification doubtless this praier imports more then barely a desire of her assistance by her praiers Phil. Bellarmin in the same place gives you a general rule against such sinister constructions c Nos non agere de verbis at sensis verborum We dispute not of the words but of their sense Now the sense of our Church in all such petitions is that the Blessed Virgin and the Saints by their praiers and by their merits would procure these things for us Theoph. Altho this may be the sense of your Church yet it is not the signification of the words and methinks to avoid the just occasion of scandal given to your adversaries by them the occasion of errour and delusion given to your undiscerning votaries your Church should have exprest her self in more inoffensive and justifiable termes Bellarmine gives a 2 d instance in the Hymn of the Apostles he saith the Church praies thus d Quorum praecepto subditur salus languor omvium sanent aegros c. Let the Holy Apostles unto whose command both the welfare and languishings of all men are submited let them heal us who are morally sick and restore us unto a life of vertues If Command here must signify Intercession and supplication your Church would do well and wisely to set forth a new Dictionary to interpret words and sentences not after the common sense and signification of them but after the Roman glosse Mean while an impartial Judg must needs conclude these interpretations to be forc'd only to salve the inconveniencies and absurdities of such praiers and if your Church had design'd only to invocate the Saints in Heaven for their Intercession with God by their praiers she would have made use of more humble and suitable expressions but making the Intercession of Saints to consist as well in their merits as in their praiers calling upon them as well for their patronage as their Intercession This I say hath prepar'd the way for all those foremention'd presumtions and blasphemies in your addresses to them and Invocation of them If God be the Father of grace and mercy and Mary the Mother who would imagine otherwise but that these heavenly blessings flow originally and immediatly from them both Phil. It is obvious that the Blessed Virgin is call'd the Mother of mercy because she is the Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ who is the fountain of Grace and mercy Theoph. Your Doctors do not teach you so to understand it seeing they represent Christ as a severe Judge towards a poor sinner and Mary their Advocate for mercy You have heard how in the distribution of the Kingdom of Heaven the Province of Justice is allott'd to the Son and of Mercy to the Virgin Mother Your Florentin Archbishop tells us That upon the Assumtion of the Blessed Virgin into Heaven as your Doctors have carefully imprinted that belief in the hearts of the credulous people the whole person of the Virgin Mary both Body and Soul is taken up into Heaven I say we are told that when she was translated into Heaven the Seraphims attended upon her and earnestly sollicited her stay and society with their sublime Order But she deliberatly answer'd a Non est honum hominem esse solum It is not good the Man should be alone meaning her Son and that She must assist him in the Redemtion of Gods people by her Compassion and in their Glorification by her Intercession That when for the Iniquity of the world her Son should be ready to destory the Earth a second time with a floud she may appeare as the bow in the clouds to oppose his fury and mind him of his Covenant and promise These are the luxuriant fancies of your Archbishop suitable hereunto I read of b Vide Chemnit exam Trid. Concil p. 3. de Invoc Sanct. Pictures in your Temples representing Christ in his indignation casting darts and thunderbolts and the Blessed Virgin standing between his wrath and sinfull men and receiving the darts into her bosom Phil. Still you return to the fancies of private Doctors and Painters your promis'd more authentick proofs Theoph. What think you of that great promise made to uphold man immediatly after his fall concerning Christ the seed of the woman who should break the serpents head that is overcome the Devil and all infernal powers Your vulgar Translation which must be more authentick then the Original reads the Pronoun in the feminine c Ipsa conteret caput serpentis Gen. 3. She shall bruise his head instead of He shall bruise as the Hebrew and the Septuagint read it And hereupon your Doctors refer the promise unto the Virgin Mary as tho in all things she must have the preheminence Phil. Bellarmin shews how the vulgar Translation varies d Tom. 1. lib. 2. de Verbo Dei c. 12. He hath seen a Copy which reads it likewise in the masculine Theoph. What he hath searcht and found we know not but your Translation generally runs in the feminine And he acknowledgeth the Latin Fathers being misled by the vulgar Translation take it in the feminine And upon that same account your Doctors refer the Prophecyto the Virgin Phil. Bellarmin shews in the second place that he saw an Hebrew Copy which had the feminine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theoph. This observation is like the former upon some corrupt Copy against the general reading of the Hebrew Text. And he would leave the Scriptures altogether upon uncertainties that their Translation might not be lyable to reprehension Phil. He refers to Chrysostom a Father of the Greek Church who he saith reads it in the feminine Theoph. He doth so after his accustum'd manner to deceive his Reader For it is manifest the a Homil. 17. in Gen. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Father reads it in the masculine perhaps here also the Cardinal consulted some Latin Translation of Chrysostom which might serve his turn He makes some other inconsiderable pleas to justify the vulgar reading chiefly because of this modern reference unto Our Lady Whereas some Fathers of the Latin Church being ignorant of the Hebrew and the Greek follow the vulgar translation and yet as I can find never reflected upon the Virgin Mary in that promise only your new Doctors who many of them have knowledg of the Tongues sufficient to discern the error of the translation yet please them selves much therewith and make their advantage of the error to improve the honor of the Lady and make her the prime subject of that grand Prophecy By this way they may justify the petition of
Heaven upon the sons of men but thro the hands and conveyance of the Blessed Virgin Lay all this together and you will soon perceive how by a strange emulation of her Votaries the superstition is improv'd even into the highest degree of blasphemy Phil. Our Church is not concern'd in these follies of private persons and superstitious Votaries Theoph. You have past a just Censure upon them yet you will find they deriv'd their imaginations from others before them of great Autority in your Church You may turn Canisius the Jesuits Catechism set forth in a large Folio under the licence of Pope Pius the fift In his second chap. of the Lords Praier and the Angel Gabriel's Salutation quaest 18 among others he cites out of Damascen Bernard and Anselm these passages b Domina peccatoris orationem accipe To solum gaudii spem habentis c. O Lady receive the praier of a sinner who doth fervently love and worship thee as his only hope and joy and pledg of Salvation Shake off the burden of my sins and subdue temptations and guide me in holiness that by thy conduct I may obtain eternal bliss c Invituperabilem Deipara spem tuam c. Omnipotens auxtlium tuum I shall be sav'd under thine irreprovable hope having your protection as a brestplate and your omnipotent assistance Blessed Mother of God open unto us the Gate of mercy that trusting in thee we may not err and may be freed from all evil d Tu enimes salus generis humani For thou art the Salvation of Mankind e Omnem spem meam in Te repono Mater luminis I put my whole trust in thee ô Mother of Light This he cites out of Damascen Out of Bernard he brings these passages f Praecessit nos Regina nostra praecessit ut fiducialiter sequantur Dominam c. Our Quen is gon before receiv'd into her glory that we her servants may call after her Draw us that we may run after Thee because of the savour of thine Ointments Cant. 1. The Blessed Virgin ascending up on high even she will give gifts unto men For what should hinder seeing neither power nor a will is wanting She is the mercifull Queen of Heaven and the Mother of Gods only Son Let him forbear to magnify thy mercy who hath found thee wanting when he call'd upon thee O thou Blessed who can take the length and breadth and height and depth of thy mercy Out of Anselm this g Peripsam gratiam quâ Te De us omnipotens exaltavit omnia Tibi c. We beseech thee ô Lady by that grace whereby almighty God hath highly exalted thee and given to thee together with himself all things possible that Thou wouldst obtaine for us such fulness of grace which thou hast deserv'd to bring us to Glory Do thou only will our Salvation and we shall be sav'd help us therefore most benigne Lady and not remembring the multitude of our sins incline thy heart to pity us Again if your Church doth not approve how come your Superiors to licence such books why does your Sacred Colledg of Inquisitors strein at Gnats in other'd mens writings swallow these Camels If your Doctors did abhor such blasphemies they would expunge them they would bend their interests and their studies against them But the naked truth is That the Orders of the Franciscan's and the Jesuits most of them have so vehemently espous'd the honor of our Lady that nothing comes amiss to advance it and these having the greatest influence upon the Court of Rome have in a manner silenc'd all such as among your selves would have contradicted For Instance in that great Question about the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin in her Mothers womb the Dominicans were Orthodox and in the negative maintaining well That all who descended from the loins of Adam by natural generation were conceiv'd in sin infected with original corruption That only Christ was without sin and therefore his Blessed Mother was not free at least from original sin That if Christ was her God and Saviour as she acknowledges in the first verse of her Magnificat therefore she was a sinner For he was therefore call'd Jesus or Saviour because he should save his People from their sins But the other party effected that by power and interest which they could not make good by Argument by plurality of votes they prevail'd in the a Concil Trid. sess 5. Declarat tum haec sancta Synodus non esse suae c. Council of Trent That the Virgin Mother should not be included within the Canon of original sin but the Constitutions of Sixtus 4 tus the Pope should be observed The same faction had before prevail'd upon the Pope and Court to establish a Solemn Feast in memory of her Immaculate Conception they procur'd the Edict of Pope Xystus quartus that none should write or dispute against it and so the opinion of the Immaculate Conception is fairly made a Doctrine of the Church seeing the Feast is solemniz'd by the Authority of the Pope For Pope Sixtus an o 1476 publisheth his Bull b Vid. Bin. tom 8. pag. 1051 1052. to establish the Feast with great Indulgences to all such as should devoutly keep the Feast and be present at the solemn Offices and Services of it and seven years after he sets forth another Bull severely forbidding any one to speak or write against the Immaculate Conception and the Council of Trent Confirms that Decree of Xystus You see therefore how matters are carried by favour and affection under shew of piety devotion honour towards the Mother of God they have introduc'd heretical opinions and presumtious blasphemies whereof I have given some instances Phil. I pray forbear your railing keep close to the point of Saints Invocation and bring your exceptions against the public practise of the Church if any you have and trouble not your self and me with personal extravagancies and phancies Theoph. I thought a Popes Bull for the Celebration of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and the confirmation thereof by your darling Synod the famous Council of Trent had bin no personal extravagance Phil. What is that to the Invocation of Saints the Virgin Mother speak to the point or else conclude Theoph. Yes the Bull of Sixtus the fourth confirms much such extravagancies For in that Decree the Virgin Mary is stiled a Bin tom 8. p. 1051. Kegina Coeli Stella matutina via misericord c. Queen of Heaven the morning Star the way of mercy Mother of grace and the comforter of Mankind Phil. Leave these digressions speak to the point of Saints Invocation Theoph. I am perswaded as you do not approve so you cannot justify such passages and expressions and therefore you have not patience to hear of them but I will follow your direction and contract my observations within the public Offices and Breviaries
the Decree Ad eorum orationes opem auxiliumque confugere Phil. I have no reason to admit sinister constructions any farther then the words will necessarily force me Now the later terms may be Exegetical of the former and well transpos'd thus To fly to the aid and assistance of their Praiers And then tell me what have you gotten by this decree Theoph. Your practise will best interpret your Rule If the public praiers of your Church request more of the Saints in Heaven then the assistance only of their Praiers you may suppose your Church intended and understood and exprest more in her decree You shall find your Church often to supplicate That as well by the Merits as by the Intercession of the Saints God would be favourable unto them In the Hymnes above mentioned to the Virgin Mary she is call'd the Mother of Grace and mercy and Protection from our Ghostly Enemy is sought from her and reception into Glory So likewise in the hymne of the Apostles Grace and Vertue is desired of the Saints for such as languish in their Vices And that by the command of the Apostles as it is exprest and not by their Praiers And yet Bellarmin hath the confidence to interpret all these things according to the sense of the Church as he speaks That all these things are expected from their Praiers not from any other assistance You shall find several Popes in the Names of Peter and Paul promising great things unto Princes who shall engage in the defence and cause of the Church and threatning dreadfull Judgments from them upon such as are disobedient Pope Hadrian writing to the Emperor Constantine and Irene his Mother Congratulates their embracing the Faith of Peter and Paul Princes of the Apostles and promiseth a Binius Teme 5. p. 554. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. They shall protect the Empire make them Victorious and bring the Barbarous Nations under their feet On the contrary we find direful threats from these two Apostles Pope Pius the 4 th concludes his Bulls after this sort b Nulli hominum liceat bane c vid. Concil Trid. edit per Joan. Gallemaâ—t ad finem Let none presume to infringe this our Declaration If any shall attemt to do so let him know he shall incur the wrath of God Almighty and of his two blessed Apostles Peter and Paul These things are Obvious and I will not heap Quotations to prove them I will only give you an Account of one notable Letter to this effect which I mention'd in the beginning of this Conference and will now transcribe much of it for your sake and the Readers that ye may judge what your Popes opinion was of the power and Parronage of the Apostles and so by consequence of the other Saints c Bin. Tom. 5. p. 55. Pope Stephen the 3. being grievously streightened by Aystulphus King of Lombardy who with a Potent Army besieged Rome sends a Letter in the name of S t Peter unto Pipin and his two sons Charles and Carloman Kings of France It begins thus d Petrus Apost vecatus à Jesu Christo dei filio c. Peter call'd to be an Apostle by Jesus Christ the Son of God c. Grace Peace and Power c. To you most excellent men Pipin Charles and Carloman 3 Kings c. After the salutation he proceeds e Ego Petrus Apost dietus a Christo c. I Peter an Apostle being call'd by Christ and the good pleasure of the Divine Clemency and ordain'd by his power to enlighten the whole world f Quamobrem omnes c. Therefore all Men who fulfil my Preaching and command must believe That their sins by Gods precept are forgiven in this World and shall go into life Eternal without Blemish c. Therefore I Peter c Who have Adopted you for my Sons do exhort you to defend the City of Rome and my Sepulcher and Temple there against the Incursion of my Enemies g Pro certo confidite memet ipsum c. And know ye for certain that I my self will be present with you to assist you as tho I were present and visible in the Flesh for altho I am absent in the Flesh I am present in the Spirit Now our Lady the Mother of God the Thrones and Dominions and all the Host of Heaven with the Martyrs and confessors of Christ with all obligations possible do adjure you to assist my City and People of Rome with your utmost power and speed h Et ego Petrus in hac Vita c. And I Peter by way of recompence will become your Brother in this life and in the day of Gods strict Judgment prepare Mansions for you in the glorious Kingdom of God the reward of eternal recompence and the Infinite joies of Paradice Nay whatsoever Protections and assistance you will ask I will give you I therefore Conjure you by the most beloved living God that ye permit not my City to be sackt by the Lombards least your Souls and Bodies be likewise torn and tormented in everlasting Fire with the Devil and all his Pestilent Angels i Firmiss tenete quod ego c. Ye must firmly believe that heretofore when you Prai'd unto me I did help and give you Victory over your Enemies by the power of God when you were few in number in comparison of the Enemies of the Church k Ecce chariss fili c. He concludes Behold my dear sons I have warned you if you obey with speed it shall be your great reward and my suffrage shall help you in this life ye shall overcome your Enemies and live long and eat good things and afterwards ye shall inherit Eternal life But if ye make any delay know ye that by the authority of the holy and individual Trinity and by the Apostolical grace given unto me ye shall be alienated for the transgression of this my Exhortation from the Kingdom of God and from life Eternal Phil. I have had the Patience to hear you I pray let me now understand your design in these Instances Theoph. Your Popes are public Persons and you would have them thought to be guided by an infallible Spirit especially in their Buls Epistles and serious agitations not to err And you see what power they ascribe to the Saints departed not only of Interceding but Acting for us and against our enmies And partly from thence your Doctors have taken occasion to instruct the people to invoke them as Patrons and Protectors and Saviours out of trouble Now you have a rare art of Reduction if you can bring all this under the single head of Intercession that they effect these things only by their praiers to God and not by a delegacy of his power to them Phil. It comes all to one if by their praiers they obtain such power to save and to destroy Theoph. Take your suppositions for granted and the case is clear Mean while
of Heaven the Throne of God and Gate of Paradise hear the praiers of the poor and despise not the sighs of the miserable Let our groans and our desires be brought by thee into the sight of our Redeemer which by our misdeservings are cast out f Dele peccata relaxa facinera erige lapsos solve compeditos Blot out our transgressions release our sins raise the faln and loose such as are bound Let the branches of vices be cut off and the flowers of vertue planted g Placa precibus Judicem quem puerp genuisti Redemt c. Appease the Judg by thy praiers whom thou hast brought forth a Redeemer That as by thee he was made partaker of the humane nature so by thee he may make us partakers of the Divine Nature One passage more neer the close of the service I will produce The Catholic Church celebrates the holy memory of Mary Mother of God who stands in need for her salutary help without ceasing h Quoniam reverent quae Matri exhibetur Christo dofertur ideo totis desideriis c. Vt Matrem sentiamus piissimam et felium ejus Judicemisereniss And because the reverence towards the Mother redounds to Christ therefore with all the desire of our hert we will insist on her praises that the Mother may be favorable to us and the Son a serene Judg. Phil. You see most of these passages do proceed upon her praiers and intercession that she would interpose for us and present our supplications and sighs unto our Redeemer Theoph. But you shut your eies and not observe these absolute petitions which are put up to her and where any reference is made to Christ even there it much derogates from his mediation and intercession because it represents Christ as a Judg by her praiers and mediation to be appeas'd the blessed Virgin becoming our Intercessor unto Christ And so by the stamp of public Authority you see these extravagancies confirm'd which above you would not justify as being the fancies as you call'd them of private persons Now in confutation of such blasphemies the Holy Scriptures shew Christ to be our Advocate until the day of judgment not a juige A merciful and faithful High-Priest in things pertaining to God Hebr. 2. 17. Hebr. 4. 15. 16. For we have not High Priest which cannot be touched with a feeling of our infirmities but was in all points temted like as we are yet without sin Let us therefore come boldly saith the Apostle unto the Throne of grace that we may obtain mercy It is the design of Holy Scripture to make poor sinners come with confidence and comfort to Christ and to the Father It is the designe of your Church to discourage them with a sense of their unworthiness and to teach them to look upon Christ as a severe Judge that so they may fly to the Virgin Mother and to the Saints to be their Mediators and Intercessors Nothing is more opposite to the Covenant of Grace to the Love of God towards such as are reconcil'd in Christ to the tender compassion of our blessed Saviour and to the gracious promises and Invitations of the Gospel And upon this account I may pronounce your Doctrine of the Saints Invocation and Intercession to be a damnable doctrine destructive to the Souls of men Phil. Satis pro imperio Doubtless you think your self as infallible as we the Pope and you design to put Christs Vicar besides the Chair to place your self therein and magisterially declare against the doctrines of our Church Theoph. If our Declarations like the Pope's many times be against the Tenor of Holy Scriptures regard them not but if the word of God condems your practise that which your Church teacheth in her public Offices Wo unto them by whom offences come I have follow'd your prescription and have kept close to such instances as are approv'd among you by Councils and Popes and Missals of your Church and when you cannot refute the objection you scoff at the opponent But because this Conference hath bin spun out into a great length I will favor you and my self with the omission of many things and give you only one Instance more out of the same Ordinary and Missal according to the use of the Church of Sarum In the Office of S. Thomas the Martyr as you call him Archibishop of Canterbury Chancellor of England He was indeed a Martyr for the Pope standing so highly for his Authority in the justification of Appeals to Rome and not submitting the Clergy to the Laws of the Realm that he betrai'd his Native Cuntry to a sorreign Jurisdiction and became a rebel to the King and Kingdom Hereupon he was banish'd divers years and by the interest of his great Patron the Pope in neigboring Princes he created great vexation trouble unto his lawfull Prince King Henry the II d. After 7. years a reconciliation was made by the mediation of the Pope and other Princes between the King and him and he return'd into England the King abiding in his Territories in France Upon his return by the Popes Bull he Excommunicates the Arch-Bishop of York and those other Bishops who in his Banishment officiated in the Coronation of the Kings son Henry according to his Fathers command alleading that the priviledg of Coronation of Kings of England belong'd to him as Arch-Bishop of Canterbury This and other insolencies being soon related to King Henry in France he spake passionately against the proud Prelate and immediately four Commanders in his Camp went over into England entred the Bishops Palice and purfu'd him into the Chappel and there Inhumanly and Sacrilegiously murder'd him a See Gulielmus Nubrigenses his Hist. of England l. 2. c. 16. p. 25. c. Hereupon by the Pope he was Canoniz'd for a glorious Saint and Martyr and an b Baro. Martyr Rom. in 29. Decembris Annual feast was Instituted afterwards in memory of his Martyrdom upon the 29 th of December a solemn office and service there is appointed for the day as we find it in the missal wherein the Account is given that the first Solemnity of his Translation was kept in the Cathedral of Canterbury Henry the third being present and the Popes Legat Pandulphus the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury all the Prelates and Nobles in the Year 1220 Fifty Years after his Passion and that the Martyr Thomas of Becket honor'd his Translation with many Miracles c Caecis ad visum surdis ad Audit c. Restoring sight to the Blind Hearing to the Deaf Speech to the Dumb and Life to the Dead In the Office we have these Praiers O Jesus Christ by the Merits of Thomas Forgive us our Trespasses Again d T is per Thomae sanguin c. By the blood of Thomas shed upon thy score make us to follow where he 's gon before Another Petition there is to the Martyr himself in that Office e O Thomas give us help Strengthen those
Virgins Rosary after ten Ave Maries or Angelical Salurations b Ave Maria grarid plenae c. Hail Mary full of Grace the Lord is with thee Blessed art thou among Women and Blessed is Jesus the Fruit of thy Womb. Holy Mary Mother of God Pray for us sinners now and in the hour of our death Amen I say after ten Ave Maries follows one Pater noster or the Lords Praier and fifty Ave Maries and five Pater nosters make a Rosary so called because it is interwoven with Praiers and Salutations Pater noster's and Ave Maries as a Garland with Flowers Now out of great Devotion some will treble the Rosary and so make 150 Salutations which they call'd the Ladies Psalter until Bonaventure was so bold out of Davids Psalter to compose another and many Fraternities and Companies were erected in several Chaunteries to celebrate and rehearse those treble Rosaries saying 150 Ave Maries and 15 Pater Noster's in one Service and so they became highly guilty of the Heathenish Battology which our Blessed Savior forbad Matth. 6. And to make this great Devotion general and public Pope Gregory the 13 th appoints a Solemn c Festum Rosari Beatae Virg. Sub 2. majori officio ab omnibus c. Feast of the Rosary of the blessed Virgin to be celebrated by all in general and by every single person with the double greater Office and Solemnity You see the grand Superstition of this Office and the proportion ten to one between their rehearsing the Lords Praier and the Angels Salutation or the Ave Mary So are likewise your Letanies now stufft with the Names of all the Saints you can imagin to be in Heaven and with the Orders of Angels and the Name of God and of Christ hath scarce any room among them whereas we read the antient Letanies were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us The People of God in great Extremities of Earthquakes and Tempests and Plagues and calling earnestly upon God in these Forms until in the fifth Century was added the Trisagion Holy is the Lord holy is the strong holy is the d Sanctus Deus Sanctus Fortis Sanctus Immortalis Immortal e Bin. Tom. 3. Episi 3. Felitis Papae ad Petrum Fullonem p. 801. which Form whil'st the Church of God in Constantinople upon a great Earthquake running forth into the field called upon God for mercy was taught them from Heaven by a yong Child who was carried up out of their sight the Patriarch Proclus of Constantinople and all the People being Eye-witnesses and after an hour was let down into the midst of them and declared That he had heard the Angels sing that Hymn and that he was commanded to bring it down to them Phil. If all be Gospel that you say it sufficeth there needs no more Additions Theoph. Those things are well known and may be easily confirm'd by Testimonies But I am willing to give you respite and not multiply Arguments and Testimonies seeing you have acknowledged what hath bin said to be sufficient as I suppose to prove what I first design'd The Error of your Doctrine of the Invocation of Saints and the great Superstition and Idolatry in the practice And now good Sir give me your hand in assurance that you will pardon my Incivility to hold you so long in an unacceptable Discourse abroad mean while forgetting that respect and entertainment which is due to a worthy Friend who hath most courteously given me a Visit Will you please therefore to walk in and recreate yourself with other Divertisements and better Company and with such slender Provisions as we can make at present I hope you will be so kind to stay longer with us and give the Opportunity to make amends FINIS