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A53579	The witch of Endor, or, The witchcrafts of the Roman Jesebel in which you have an account of the exorcisms or conjurations of the papists, as they be set forth in their agends, benedictionals, manuals, missals, journals, portasses, which they use in their churches concerning the hallowing of the water, salt, bread, candles, boughs, fire, ashes, incense, pascal lamb, eggs, herbs, milk, honey, apples, wine, cheese, butter, new baked bread, flesh, font, marrying ring, pilgrims wallet, staff, cross, sword, &c. : proposed and offered to the consideration of all sober Protestants / by Titus Otes.	Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.	1679 (1679)	Wing O62; ESTC R16959	54,855	50

Spirit and traiterous Offendor and chargeth him not in the name of Robinhood or little John nor yet in the name of Fryer Tuck and maid Marion but in the name of God the Father Almighty and in the name of Jesus Christ his Son and in the vertue of the Holy Ghost That he with all his false Subtilty and Wickedness and with all his crafty Falshood depart from that creature of Incense or Perfume There is no remedy but the Devil must now needs trudge being so straitly Conjured But it is marvellous that such Perfumes should make so sweet savours if the Devil were in them as the Popish Conjurer fancieth If one Devil be in so little portion of Incense what a number of Devils be there in all the Apothecaries Shops that are in Bucklersbury and elsewhere I wonder how they can sleep in the night season having so many Devils in their Houses If the Doctrine of the Papists be true it were high time yea and more than time that these Conjuring Priests were sent for and set a work to Conjure such unclean and foul Spirits yea and such traiterous Offenders lest they make havock of all Apothecaries and Grocers Houses and all others also wheresoever any Incense myrrhe or any other Perfume is If Incense were possessed with the Devil as the Papists teach I much marvel that the Holy Ghost would by the mouth of the Psalmist compare Prayer unto it Again if Incense were possessed with so foul and unclean Spirits it is much to be marvelled that it should have so sweet a savour seeing the Devil corrupteth all things that he possesseth But let us consider why this Papist taketh so great pains to Conjure the Devil out of the Incense Some urgent grave weighty and necessary cause moveth him thus to do otherwise he would never be so earnest in the matter Forsooth Sir and it please you The cause that moveth him to take all these pains in Conjuring and dispatching the Devil is that this Creature of Perfume or Incense may be sanctified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ yea and that unto this end That all they who taste touch or smell it may enjoy the virtue and help of the Holy Ghost so that wheresoever this Incense or Perfume shall be the Devil in no wise may be bold to approach near nor presume to make any hurly burly but that he with all his crafty Falshood fly and depart far from thence O notable Virtues O wonderful Works Of this Exorcism we learn that so many as taste touch or smell of this Perfume or Incense do enjoy the virtue and help of the Holy Ghost To taste that is to say to eat of Incense or any other Perfume is rare but to touch or to smell thereof is daily and common But that this should bring the virtue and help of the Holy Ghost is of all things most rare and almost incredible To have the Holy Ghost is the meer and only gift of God as he himself testifieth by the Prophet saying I will pour out my Spirit upon all Flesh and your Daughters shall Prophesie Again he saith I will pour clear Water upon you and ye shall be clean yea from all your uncleanness and from all your Idols shall I cleanse you A new heart also will I give you and a new Spirit will I put into you c. I will give my Spirit among you and cause you to walk in my Commandments to keep my Laws and fulfil them And our Saviour Christ saith If ye being evil can give good Gifts to your Children how much more shall your Heavenly Father give the Holy Ghost to them that ask it of him Again I will pray my Father and he shall give you another Comforter that he may abide with you for ever even the Spirit of truth whom the World cannot receive for it seeth him not neither hath it known him Here have we in manifest and plain words that the Holy Ghost is the gift of God only and that it cometh not unto us by Conjured Incense and and other bewitched Perfumes but by Prayer alone which God hath appointed the mean to obtain his blessed Spirit Moreover in this Exorcism or Conjuration the Exorcist or Conjurer attributeth so much to these bewitched Perfumes that they be able wheresoever they be kindled or set on Fire to drive away the Devil with all his Craft and Falshood This is an old jugling of the Papists so to esteem their Sorceries that they may be able to move Mountains yea to drive Devils away But we have before heard that the Devil is more mighty and of greater force and strength than that the smoak of a little Incense can be able to drive him away We have heard also that by Faith Prayer Fasting and by the Word of God Satan is expelled and put out and not by dumb Ceremonies For this purpose saith St. John hath the Son of God appeared even to dissolve loosen break and destroy the works of the Devil In the Prayers that follow the Sorcerer prayeth God that the Incense may be to his Servants or Handmaids a Defence and Safeguard that the Enemy the Devil enter not into their bowels nor have any entrance or seat in them Again That all Diseases and deceits of the Devil feeling the savour of this Incense may flee away so that the People be not hurt through the biting of the old Serpent but that it may expel and drive away all phantastical assaults of unclean Spirits and expel all Infirmities Sicknesses and Diseases and in fine health being restored smell to the Lord our God a most pleasant odour with perpetual sweetness The Papists sing always one manner of song that which only is due to the Creator they attribute to Creatures after they have once exorcised conjured or bewitched them But we have before abundantly heard That no man can be delivered from the assaults of Satan and other wicked Spirits and from sicknesses and diseases nor obtain any health but only by the power of Almighty God as it is written Neither Herb nor Emplaister hath healed them O Lord but thy Word which healeth all things And whereas they will have their Perfumes to be a sweet savour in the Nostrils of God we know that there is nothing that smelleth sweetly before God but the Sacrifice of Christ's death As the Apostle saith Christ loved us and gave himself for us an Offring and a Sacrifice of a sweet savour unto God Again By Christ do we offer up Sacrifice of praise always to God that is to say the fruit of those lips which confess his Name After these solemn Prayers the Exorcist devoutly looking upon his new bewitched stuff speaketh on this manner The blessing ✚ of God Almighty ✚ the Father ✚ the Son ✚ and the holy Ghost descend and come down upon this Creature of Incense Myrrh and Perfume and abide upon it alway Amen These things dispatched he putteth some of the new Perfumes in

Consecrations Sanctifications Conjurations c. But by whose power do they conjure the Devil and all his Host out of these Branches and Flowers Because they will make fair work and praise-worthy in the eyes of the simple they conjure the Devil not in their own name for that might seem too great a presumption but in the Name of God the Father and in the Name of Jesus Christ his Son and in the virtue of the holy Ghost And in thus doing they shew themselves right Conjurers and Sorcerers For of all such that is the property They must blasphemously abuse the Name of God while they apply it to such Incantations The Name of God is with all reverence to be called on in things lawful and not in things unlawful And such things are to be required of God as he commandeth us to ask and not such as we after our fleshly imagination fancy God likewise is to be honoured with such Works as he hath prescribed and not with such doings as blind Zeal deviseth As it is written That I command thee that do thou only neither put thou any thing thereto not yet pluck ought therefro Again Ye shall not do every one of you what you think good but what I command you that shall ye do Now where hath God at any time commanded his Ministers to conjure the Devil and all his Army out of Salt out of Water out of Boughs out of Flowers c. Or where hath he commanded that such Works should be done in his Name O Antichristian Arts After the Conjuration of the Flowers and Branches the Priest falleth to Prayer yea and that without Dominus vobiscum but only with Oremus and entreateth God that it will please him seeing the Devil and all his Host is conjured out to bless and sanctifie these Flowers branches slips of Palms or boughs of Trees which they offer before the presence of his glory that the devout people bearing them in their hands may merit and deserve to obtain the grace of his Benediction The Conjurer after that he hath conjured the Devil out of those Flowers and branches desireth God to sanctifie them and to make them holy as though the Workmanship of God expressed in them before were unholy and imperfect when notwithstanding we have before said that all the Creatures of God are exceeding good and therefore consequently good and perfect in their kind He saith moreover That they offer these Flowers and branches before the presence of God's glory But I would fain know where God hath commanded in the New Testament that such things should be offered unto him To offer the sacrifice of praise and to offer our bodies a lively and acceptable sacrifice unto God we are taught in the holy Scriptures but to offer to God Boughs Branches and Flowers that we read not Verily to offer up these things in sacrifice to God is none other thing than to set up an Idol of our own making and to bring strange fire before the Majesty of God But to what end would this crafty Conjurer have God to sanctifie these flowers and branches Verily that the people bearing them in their hands may merit and deserve to obtain the Grace of God's benediction Behold this Antichrist whereas before he so vilely judged of these branches and flowers that he thought them to be altogether unholy and unclean and therefore he fell to the conjuring of the Devil and all his Army out of them now he esteemeth them to be of so great price that the carrying them about in peoples hands deserveth the Grace of God's benediction that is to say God's favour remission of sins quietness of Conscience and in fine everlasting Life O new kind of meriting Is the wrath of God kindled against sin waxen so cold that the carrying about of a few flowers and branches is able to quench it Is remission of Sins quietness of Conscience everlasting Life c. so slender gifts and of no price that they may easily be obtained with carrying about a few Palmes or Willow-branches If great Oxen fat Calves mighty Bullocks young Doves tender Chickens being sacrificed and offered up unto God if Incense and other sweet perfumes offered unto the Almighty God of Israel which notwithstanding were done of the People of God at God's appointment could not bring these heavenly benefits to Mankind is it to be thought that the bearing of a few flowers and boughs in mens hands which are now conjured and turned to a superstitious use not commanded of God but invented of Man is able to bring this to pass No Ceremony commanded and ordained of God is able to justifie Man and shall Ceremonies devised by Man work Justification Nay moreover no Work that God hath commanded in his Moral Law otherwise called The Ten Commandments of Almighty God is able to justifie the doer thereof For no man doeth the works of the Law with such perfection as the Law requireth for as much as the Law is spiritual and we are carnal as our Saviour Christ saith Moses gave you a Law and none of you all fulfilleth it And shall works done at the prescription and appointment of man bring to pass a matter so weighty and of so great importance Verily our works even our best works are so imperfect and so estranged from all true righteousness that they are not without a cause resembled by the Prophet to a menstruous Cloth Enter not into judgment with thy servant O Lord saith the Psalmist for no man that liveth shall be found righteous in thy sight Again If thou O Lord shalt narrowly look upon our wickednesses O Lord who is able to abide it Are not these the words of the Apostle If Righteousness come by Works then died Christ in vain He speaketh not of Popish and Superstitious Works but of Works commanded of God And he saith plainly That those Works do not justifie that is to say do not bring God's favour remission of sins the gift of the holy Ghost quietness of Conscience and everlasting Life to the doers of them of their own dignity and worthiness of their own perfection and holiness but they be freely given to us of God the Father for his dear Son's sake Jesus Christ our Lord through faith in his blood So that every one of us may worthily say with St. Paul God forbid I should rejoyce in any thing but in the Cross that is to say in the Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ Where is Merit and Desert now then become which the Papists brag we shall obtain by carrying about their bewitched Flowers and Branches The Death of Christ is the alone Merit of the faithful whereof God alone for his mercy sake make us all partakers and shortly confound the Kingdom of Antichrist Amen In the second Prayer which orderly followeth the sorcering Papist beseecheth God That all they which shall bear those Branches of Palm and other Trees may be replenished with the gift of his Benediction St.