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A95762	The judgement of the late Arch-bishop of Armagh, and Primate of Ireland. Of Babylon (Rev. 18. 4.) being the present See of Rome. (With a sermon of Bishop Bedels upon the same words.) Of laying on of hands (Heb. 6. 2.) to be an ordained ministery. Of the old form of words in ordination. Of a set form of prayer. / Published and enlarged by Nicholas Bernard D.D. and preacher to the Honourable Society of Grayes-Inne, London. Unto which is added a character of Bishop Bedel, and an answer to Mr. Pierces fifth letter concerning the late primate.	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.; Bedell, William, 1571-1642.; Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661.	1659 (1659)	Wing U189; Thomason E1783_1; ESTC R209661	108,824	393

his Kingdome Rome shall be grown proud and secure so as to say I sit as a Queen and then by the ten Kings mentioned in the former Chapter who had given their Kingdomes unto her shall she be ruined and burnt c In this Exposition the revolt that he tells of from the Obedience of the See of Rome is a Fancy of his own and hath not the least ground in St. Iohns Vision That the revolt from the Faith whereof the Apostle Paul speaks 2 Thessalonians 2. is the very Apostacy of Antichrist the man of sinne and sonne of perdition 2 Thes 2.3 that Rome in Antichrists time shall be secure and account her self to sit as a Queen and then be destroyed by the ten Kings that formerly had served and obeyed her this is very true as being expresly so laid down in the 16. and 17. Vers of the former Chapter But that which befell the Iewes in the looking for the Kingdome of Christ when it was already among them happeneth to Viegas and those of his side They fondly look for Antichrist the last head of the beast whereupon the Babylonian Harlot sitteth above a thousand yeares after all the former and consider not that this beast is one Principality under divers forms of Government whereof five being fallen in Saint Johns time one then in being and the other to endure a short space To make this short space a thousand years or else to put in so many years of the Popes government over Rome before Antichrist come who shall forsooth revolt from his Obedience It seemes rather the dream of a waking man then to hold any likelyhood of Truth Howsoever it resteth even by Viegas consent notwithstanding his cunning combination of two states of Rome that under Paganisme and that under Antichrist with a thousand years between that Rome must have continued Christian for sundery Ages before her Desolation and for ought doth yet appear the present Monarchy which she claims to exercise over the Christian World is the Mystical Babylon out of which Gods People are called For the better clearing whereof let us consider the Description that is made of this Babylon by the Angels and our Saviour Christ himself more distinctly to see whether it doe agree to the present estate of Rome or no The Angel tells Iohn in the last Verse of the former Chapter The woman which thou sawest is the great City which reigneth over the Kings of the Earth and before Verse 5. upon her forehead is a name written Mysterie Babylon the great Touching this greatness I may spare my pains to speak much there is a learned Book of Iustus Lipsius which he intitles Admiranda marvells touching the greatness of Rome not long after in concurrence thereto there was another made by Thomas Stapleton our Countreyman Professour at Lovaine which he intitles Vere admiranda Marvels indeed touching the greatness of the Church of Rome wherein by comparison he indeavours to shew that for largeness of Extent strength and power over Princes themselves honour yielded unto it the greatness and magnificence of the Romane Church doth far surpass the Roman Empire These two books were both printed together and set forth at Rome against the year of Jubilee 1600. as if the Papacy laboured to carry in her forehead the name Great Babylon For the reigning over the Kings of the Earth by this great City which is another point of the Angels description It is true that heathen Rome had anciently in the borders and consines of the state sundry Kings that held their Kingdomes of her Such were the Herods Aretas and Agrippa mentioned in the New Testament but these were neither in number nor dignity nor in the absoluten ss of their subjection to be compared with those that the now Rome reigneth over And no great marvel if the Roman Emperour armed with thirty or fourty Legions had many Kings at command saith Stapleton but that the Pope being altogether unarmed should give Lawes to the Kings of the Earth and either advance them to their Kingdomes or depose them who would not account worthy of great marvel true but the Angel shewes us the true reason Verse 12. the ten hornes which thou sawest are ten Kings which have received no Kingdome as yet but receive power Verse 17. as Kings at once with the beast c. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his Will and to agree and to give their Kingdome unto the beast until the Word of God shall be fulfilled And consider I pray you here the manner how they have given their Kingdomes to the beast Vpon the Election of any new Pope they send a solemne Embassage to profess their Obedience to him And one of those which is extant in Print as great a Monarch as any the Christian World hath Offers himself and all his Kingdomes his Seas Firm lands Islands Armes Forces Treasures Ships Armies whatsoever he is whatsoever he hath whatsoever he is able to doe and falling down at the Popes feet as a most obsequious Sonne he acknowledgeth and confesseth him to be the true Vicar of Christ our Saviour on Earth the successour of Peter the Apostle in that See the head of the Vniversal Church the Provost Parent and Pastor of all Christians praying him and humbly beseeching him that he would receive all whatsoever he hath offered to the profit defence of the Church into his Protection and Patronage And these words c. are said with a gesture corespondent the Embassador falling down upon his knees let Lipsius if he can with all his reading in Story shew us such an Example of any King subject to old Pagan Rome It is true that Nero accounted it for his highest Glory to have set the Crown upon Tiridates the King of the Armenians head in the City of Rome with great state and pomp But let us see saith Stapleton If the Majesty of the Church of Rome hath not had an equal part of this glory yea and a greater and then he reckons how Pope Leo the third gave the Empire to Charles the great and how other Popes conferred to others a great many other Kingdomes One thing he forgets that neither Nero nor any other Emperour of old Rome ever Crowned any with his feet as Celestine the third did Henry the sixth nor caused him to hold their stirrops or kiss their feet much less set their feet upon their neckes as Pope Adrian the fourth and Alexander the third did to the Emperor Frederick And that we may not spend more time in proving that the present Papal Rome reigneth over the Kings of the Earth the Merchants of Babylon are now resolved That all the Kingdomes of the Earth are the Popes insomuch that the best Title that any Prince can have to his Crown is Dei Apostolicae sedis gratia by the grace of God and Apostolick See Lib. Rom. Pon● 5.1.2 6. Ab Alex 6. Cap. 7.8 And Cardinal Bellarmine recognizing his

duty we owe to the person we pray unto c. This saith that worthy and judicious Writer Mr. Hildersham I can but wonder upon what pretence such a man could be silenced as he wrot himselfe to the Primate Anno 1630. I conclude only with an exhortation to decency and a reverent comelinesse in our solemne meetings that devotion and prudence may kisse each other that while the soule is lifted up in prayer the body may be humbled and the whole man presented to God as an acceptable sacrifice that unity and uniformity in doctrine and worship may be found among us and that we may all be of one heart and one mind Consider what hath been said and the Lord give us understanding and moderation in all things A CHARACTER of Bishop Bedell late Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland UPon the occasion of publishing this Sermon of his on Revel 18.4 I have thought fit to give this exemplary character of him Somewhat of his life is already extant within that of Sir Henry Wottons the enlargement of which I leave to the prudence of others onely thus much in brief He was Fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge where he was one of the eight that commenced Batchellours of Divinity of that house in one yeare whereof Bishop Hall and Doctor Ward were two between whom and him there was a continuall intercourse of Letters to their last From that Colledge and Vniversity he had that Character given him of learning and prudence that he was chosen to go with the Embassadour Sir Henry Wotton unto Venice What the fruits of his some yeares being there produced upon Padre Paulo and other learned men sufficiently appears by the testimony given of him in a letter of the Embassadors hereunto annexed The Interdict of Venice wrot by the foresaid Authour he translated out of Italian into Latin for whose use he also translated the book of Common Prayer into Italian and made an English Grammar which I have seen writ with his own hand After his return from Venice were wrot those learned Letters of his to Mr. Wadesworth who at the same time going with the Embassadour into Spain had been withdrawn to the See of Rome whose temper and meeknesse of stile to an Apostate I wish were so far exemplary with some Writers among our selves as to abate that heat and bitternesse which hath broke forth in matters of lesse consequence At his Benefice of Horningesh-earth near St. Edm. Bury in Suffolk he continued long in great esteem sometimes chosen by the Diocesse to be a member of the Convocation Upon the death of Sir William Temple Provost of the Colledge in Dublin the late Primate wrot earnestly to him to accept of it being unanimously chosen by the Fellowes During his abode there he performed the duty of the Catechist preached a Lecture Sermon once a week in Christ Church He was not long Provost but he was promoted to be Bishop of Kilmore where I being then the Dean it gave me the occasion to be more known to him In relation to the Liturgie of the Church of England he gave this direction viz. to observe whatsoever was enjoyned in the Rubrick without addition or diminution not to be led by custome but by rule And in speciall he ordered that the whole Doxology to the blessed Trinity Glory be to the Father c. should be alwayes read by the Minister alone without the respond of the people and the like for the Psalms Te Deum c. with the rest appointed to be read between and after the Lessons though the custome had prevailed otherwise in most Churches The Communion Table was placed by him not at the East end but within the body of the Chancell and for other Innovations elsewhere introduced he observed them not His judgement being that those were as well Non-conformists who added of their own as those who came short of what was enjoyned as he that addes an inch to the measure disownes it for a rule as well as he that cuts an inch off He was a careful observer of the Lords Day both in the publick and private at one of the clock in the after-noon he had then the Book of Common-Prayer read in the Irish tongue in the Church for the benefit of the Irish at which he was constantly present himself who in that little space had obtained the knowledge of the language And as the New Testament had been long before translated into Irish so had he caused the Old Testam to be accordingly was almost ready for the press And Whereas Doctor Heylene hath censured the late Primate very liberally for his approbation of the Articles of Ireland he must take Bishop Bedell into the number also who was so much for them that I was present when at the examination of an * Mr. Thomas Price then Fellow of the Colledge of Dublin who afterwards suffered much in the same Diocesse by the Rebellion of I●eland and is yet living in Wales able Minister then to be ordained he did in the Church examin him in each or most of the Articles in a solemn meeting of the Clergy of that Diocesse for that end at least 2 full hours whereby our votes might be also given for his approbation At his Courts of Jurisdiction he frequently sate himself where he caused alwayes some of the Clergy if any were there to sit covered on each side of him with liberty to give their opinion in each case and at a sentence he asked their votes man by man In some degree reducing then his Episcopall to a Synodicall Government according to the Primates proposall by way of accommodation an 1641. It was his custome usually on the Lords dayes to preach upon those select portions of Scripture commonly called the Epistles and Gospels of the day At the Visitations he usually preached himselfe The Procurations were bestowed in defraying the charges of the Ministers and the rest given to some pious uses After dinner and supper a Chapter was constantly read at his Table and some time spent by him in opening some difficulties in it The publick Catechisme he had branched out into 52 parts whereof he appointed one to be constantly explain'd in the Afternoons in each Church within his Diocess He was very indulgent to the Irish Natives in the preferring and encouraging of them for the Ministery and yet such was their Ingratitude i. e. the Popish party that in that horrid rebellion 1641. they exempted him not from their rapine but seized upon his cattle pillaged his house ransack't and spoyled his Library put him into a Castle standing in a Lough called Lough-outre about a mile and a halfe from his house where he was imprisoned that winter And at length being permitted to come out died in a poor house of one who was an Irish-man and a Protestant and continued faithfull to him by whose means an Hebrew manuscript Bible of his which he brought from Venice was preserved and is now in Emmanuel

and all the kingdome of Antichrist c. This latter passage is only produced by Doctor Heylene as an evidence that the Pope is not declared to be Antichrist either here or any where else in the book of Articles or Homilies which how the force of it can be extended so farre beyond its own sphere doth not appeare For his principal argument that he finds here the Pope and Antichrist distinguished as much as the Devil and the Pope 'T is answered The destinction here is not between the Pope and Antichrist but between him and his Antichristian kingdom for the words are not the Pope the Divell and Antichrist but and all the kingdome of Antichrist That Universality all comprehending both head and members And if we should allow a Duumvirate in the Pope and Devill for the government of that kingdom one as the visible head the other as the invisible or the one him that reigneth the other by whom he receiveth power so to do Rev. 13.4 both might be thus owned without infringing the title of either Howsoever 't is not the arguings from such niceties in the placing of words which the book of Homilies are not strict in as might be shewed in several instances but the observation of the scope and drift of the place the comparing it with others the concurrance of the judgement of severall eminent Bishops afore-cited who cannot be imagined to declare against the doctrine of it will carry the sense of it accordingly with the judicious and unbiassed Reader and so much for the book of Homilies Unto which I might also adde the opinion of some learned men liveing and dying within the outward communion of the Church of Rome To instance onely in Padrio Paulo who wrote the History of the Councill of Trent After whose stabbing by an Emissarie from Rome many of the Clergy of Venice brake out into that application calling that See Impura insana superba meretrix pestis ac lues mortalium and her ruine to be expected according to Rvelat 18. Some of the verses are printed at the end of the Interdict writ by Padrio Paulo and translated out of Italian into Latin by Bishop Bedell who was often an ear-witnsse when he lived in those parts of divers learned men producing that of 2 Thes 2. the man of sin who exalts himself above all c. and shall sit in the Temple of God c. both as an argument that the Bishop of Rome is the person sitting and that those who are oppressed and tyrannised over by him are (u) Calvin Epist 104. Under the Papacy some Church remaineth a Church crazed forlorne mistaken yet some Church his reason is Antichrist must sit in the Temple of God which is cited by Mr. Hooker Instit Sect. 27. Gehazi a man though over-run with a Leprosy and to be shunned as unclean Antichristianismus est morbus in Christianismo the Church of God and from thence rejecting any application to Mahumet and fixing it upon the Bishop of Rome some questioning Is it he or shall we look for another others saying as the Jewes of the blind man This is one very like him but many This is he Which puts me in mind of the confident assertion of Cardinal Perron who affirms that whosoever maintaineth this wicked doctrine that Popes have no power to put Kings by their supreme thrones they teach men to beleeve that there hath not been any Church for many ages past and that indeed the Church is the very Synagogue of Antichrist and the Pope in good consequence to be the Antichrist which Oration the Cardinal himselfe addressed to King James upon a supposition it might have converted him See King James Preface to the defence of the right of Kings * The words of the Cardinal are these viz. by this Article i. e. that Kings are not deposable by the Pope we are cast headlong into a manifest heresie as binding us to confesse that for many ages past the Catholick Church hath been banished out of the whole world for if the Champions of the doctrine contrary to this Article do hold an impious detestable opinion contrary to Gods word then doubtless the Pope for so many hundred years expired hath not been the head of the Church but an heretick and the Antichrist p. 453. Now whereas both sides as you have heard are agreed upon the place to be Rome which checks the phansie of such as would apply it to Constantinople or to persons that never were at either I shall only confirm it out of one of the Popish Writers who hath quoted most of the rest to save the Reader any farther labour if he hath a mind to satisfie himself in it 't is Tyrinus the Jesuit in his Commentary upon the 17. Revelat. Where comparing the vision of the beast with 7 heads and 10 hornes cap. 13. with that of the 17. and granting it to be meant of the same like Pharaoh's dreames the seven eares of corne and the seven kine were both one then for the vision there he saith by the great harlot whose Mystical name is Babylon cannot possibly be meant of any other then Rome 't is plain saith he she sits upon (x) The usual stile of the Sybils 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Roma septicollis in Plutarch Varro a Festival among the Romans called dies septem montium Tertul. in his time calls the people of Rome the people of the seven hills Ipsam vernaculam septem collium plebem convenio Apol. l. 35. seven Mountains and raigns over the Kings of the earth which can agree to no other city besides And urgeth that place of Saint Peter 2 Peter 5.13 the Church which is at Babylon salutes you to be meant of Rome for as Bishop Andrewes observes (x) Ita avidè avent homines hii Petrum Romae alicubi in Scripturâ reperire potius ut Babylonem velint esse Romam ubi Petrus fuit quam ut Petrus Romae non fuerit Valde enim illorum interest ad caput fidei ut Petrus Romae credatur fuisse c. Tort. Torti p 183. rather then Peter should not be at Rome which they have slender or no proofes for out of Scripture but yet is of great consequence to the Papacy they will confesse it to be Babylon And though 2 Thes 2. he saith the Temple of God where the man of sinne sits is Jerusalem yet here his seat of Babylon must be Rome Produceth the expresse Testimonies of the Fathers for it Lactantius Tertullian Jerome Ambrose Augustine c. and saith he even our hereticks meaning the Protestant Writers for after the same way he calls heresie so worship we the God of our Fathers and in conclusion produceth most of his own associates the Writers of the Church of Rome Sixtus Senensis Bellarmine Bozius Zuarez Salmeran Alcazar unto which I may adde Baronius (y) Certissimum esse nomine Babylonis Romam urbem significari Anno 45. n. 18. 'T

Colledge Library in Cambridge He was buried acccording to his own appointment in the Church-yard of the Cathedral of Kilmore where he had caused his wife and son some years before to be buried His judgement being against burials in Churches as an abuse introduced by pride superstition I conclude only with this if the Moderation of this Bishop had been observed elsewhere I believe Episcopacy might have been kept upon its wheeles A Letter of Sir Henry Wottons to the late King in the behalf of Bishop Bedel when he was desired by the Archbishop of Armagh to accept of the Provostship of Dublin Colledge in Ireland which hath been lately published in the Life of Sir Henry Wotton May it please your most Gracious Majesty HAving been informed that certain persons have by the good wishes of the Arch-Bishop of Armagh been directed hither with a most humble Petition unto your Majesty that you will be pleased to make Mr. William Bedell now resident upon a small Benefice in Suffolk Governour of your Colledg at Dublin for the good of that society and my self being required to render unto your Majesty some testimony of the said William Bedell who was long my Chaplain at Venice in the time of my employment there I am bound in all conscience and truth so far as your Majesty will vouchsafe to accept my poore judgement to affirm of him that I think hardly a fitter man for that charge could have been propounded unto your Majesty in your whole Kingdom for singular erudition and piety Conformitie to the rites of the Church and Zeal to advance the Cause of God wherein his Travels abroad were not obscure in the time of the Excommunication of the Venetians For may it please your Majesty to know that this is the man whom Padro Paule took I may say into his very soule with whom he did communicate the inwardest thoughts of his heart from whom he professed to have received more knowledge in all Divinity both Scholastical and positive then from any that he had ever practiced in his dayes of which all the passages were well known to the King your Father of most blessed memory And so with your Majesties good favour I will end this needlesse office for the generall fame of his Learning his Life and Christian temper and those religious labours which himself hath dedicated to your Majesty do better describe him then I am able Your Majesties most humble and faithfull Servant H. WOTTON A Postscript Mr. Thomas Pierce hath in an Appendage to a late book of his printed five Letters wrot unto me by him in each of which I cannot but much acknowledge his respects to me To the four first I gave little else but brief returnes of the like to him which consisting chiefly either in the asserting of the nearnesse of his judgement to the Primates or the remotenesse of Mr. Barlees I did not conceive it fitting for me to interpose and where there was a professed full agreement it was no good office in me to make a difference Now for those the cause rendred of his not publishing them is good there being nothing as he saith needfull or of concernment in any one of them Only to the fifth of his wherein three Certificates are published as testimonies to confirm his former assertion of a late change of judgment in the Primate with other applicatory passages from thence I did return him a larger answer in this Letter following excepting some few circumstantiall alterations having then no imagination that either of them should have bin made publick And I have as little mind to it now only by the provocation of divers of my Friends who conceive the Primate suffers in the interpretation of many by the silence of it I have been compelled upon this occasion to put forth this brief defence of him without any offence to Mr. Pierce For his Appendage wherein his respects to me are rather encreased then lessened I have thought fit to clear one passage He saith I have spoken indiscriminately of Universal Grace and Vniversall Redemption and the place he quotes for it is out of my second Letter to Mr. Barlee p. 64. in these words viz. But that by an Vniversall Redemption should be understood an Vniversall Grace c. will not be attested to have heen affirmed by the Primate c. doth not this clearly imply a distinction to be made between them I am sure I then so intended it And therefore that which he addes immediately after viz. That there is a wide difference between them I do fully concurre with him in it Yet it seems to me that himself puts them together often indiscriminately as in the page before this thrice in one page 86. and p. 88. l. 32. as in his Philanth p. 15. and elsewhere And if I have in any other place done it as in the title of the Letter I was led to it by him In this we have no disagreement and I wish this following Letter may not occasion any which I am forced thus to publish as followeth Doctor Bernards Answer to Mr. Pierces Fifth Letter containing three Certificates produced by him to justifie a late change of judgsment in the Primate of Ireland SIR I Owe you many thanks for the labour you have taken in your last Letter of the 28. of January in transcribing the Certificates of those learned persons which supposing to have been rightly apprehended by them without any mistake of him yet favourably interpreted do not seem to me necessarily to argue what you have apprehended and concluded of the change of judgement in the Primate which I shall now ingenuously give you my sense of without any desire of further dispute or contention about it First for Doctor Waltons where he saith My Lord Primate did declare his utter dislike of the doctrine of absolute reprobation I conceive it may be understood of the Supralapsarian opinion which makes reprobation to be antecedent to the fall of Adam and not only as a Praeterition but a Predamnation for actuall sins That he held the universality of Christs death not onely in respect of sufficiency but also in regard of efficacy so that all men were by that made salvable for so much efficacy I do not deny differs not from that which his letter published doth testifie and that the reason why all men were not thereby saved was because they did not accept of salvation offered is also granted if it be according to his judgement rightly understood viz. of those to whom the Gospel is preached not of Pagans and Infidels That the grace of Conversion was not irresistable but that men did often resist and reject the same may well stand with my Lord Primates Judgement and no wayes opposite to this viz. That it is so effectual that by the decree of his election It is not resisted by the elect and therefore his dissent from Geneva as Doctor Walton certifies is to be understood of Beza not of

spiritual real conversion which he denies to any reprobate Now in this variety of senses you should have done better then thus to chuse the worse for the Primates judgement who was against the Total and final falling away of those who were effectually called truly regenerated and sanctified according to the 38 Article of Ireland And thus I have touched the principal materials in your Letter For that you say some have endeavoured to gain credit to their Calvinistical opinions by their unjust usurpation of the Primates name I could wish those hard expressions tending so much to the distaste of Calvin might be abated whom divers of the most eminent Writers and learned Fathers of our Church whom I suppose you reverence have had in great esteem and usually name him with honour I might quote divers as Arch-Bishop Whitgift Bishop Bilson Bishop Davenant Mr. Hooker Doctor Ward c. but Bishop Andrewes shall suffice who in his determination against usury a case wherein he dissented from Calvin yet thus writes of of him Calvino illustri viro nec unquam sine summi honoris praefatione nominando c. i. e. Calvin an excellent man never to be named without a Preface of the highest honour I wish that spirit of meeknesse and charity found in those old Bishops were doubled upon us in these dayes when we are as much if not more called unto it The contrary may possibly be gratefull to the See of Rome but I do not see what advantage it can be to us For his discipline you may take your liberty which may well be distinguished from his doctrines And for the Primate though I cannot say he was of his judgement in all points yet he had a due respect for him For that which you object again to me as you did in your third Letter viz. my acknowledgeing an enngagement to Mr. Barlee for his readinesse offered in his first Letter unto me to clear the Primate c. did not deserve a repetition being it was in my first to him when he was as much a stranger to me as I was to you only let me say thus much of him How far he had disagreed in his book from the Primates judgement I shall not now enquire but after the receipt of that tractate wherein he read what his was he wrot thus unto me Decemb. 21. 1657. viz. It is true there be some minutiae about which I am not satisfied and shall be glad to have an amicable conference with you However as to the rei summam I do so perfectly agree with the most venerable Primate as that I dare discharge you from all feares of ever having him exposed to my pen and censure c. which I doe the rather thus punctually repeat his words because in short you have mentioned it from me in your fourth Letter And when I had read you both meeting in the Primate I thought it my part to sit down in silence In a word you have with much industry viewed and reviewed the Primates judgement in that point which hath been published but I wish I did not find you making that use of it to endeavour to confirm your former assertion of a change in him in which I am not in the least shaken in mind by what hath passed between us but must still conceive contrary to your expectation in the beginning of your Letter there was a mistake wheresoever it lights which being so gentle an expression and which we are all subject unto I see no cause of any offence either to your self or Certifiers I shall entreat you to let the venerable name as you stile it of that good man rest in peace without any further strife of tongues or pens and let us leave his judgment to his works which do undoubtedly testifie of him and for any further dispute of this subject between us I wish this might be the last as it is the largest and that neither by this nor any other the least breach may be made between us as to love and friendship which upon all occasions shall ever ber readily manifested by Grayes-Inne Febr. 9. 1657. Your assured Friend and Servant N. BERNARD FINIS