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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

God the Father but he appointeth Jesus Christ who for his dignity and Righteousness is found alone worthy to offer up our prayers before the Throne of Gods Majesty He alone is our Mediator He alone is our Advocate He alone is our Intercessor as the holy Scripture abundantly testifieth Whatsoever we ask of God the Father in the name of this our Mediator Advocate and Intercessor so that it be agreeable to the will of God we may be sure to obtain it as that self truth testifieth saying Verily verily I say unto you Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he shall give it you Ask and ye shall receive that your joy may be full After divers other vain words which I gladly pass over the Popish Sanctifier concludeth with these words And the blessing of God Almighty ✚ the Father and ✚ the Son and ✚ the Holy Ghost descend and come down upon this Creature of Wine that it may be to so many as take of it a remedy against all peril of Body and Soul and a foretasting to Everlasting Life Amen What an wholsom Conclusion this is who seeth not But what care the Papists what they say so that it may advance their own idle inventions although it obscure the Glory of God and Merits of Christs death never so greatly The defence both of Body and Soul against all evil cometh from God alone and not from an hallowed Cup of Wine The Lord saith David is my stony rock and my defence my Saviour my God and my might in whom I will trust my Buckler the horn also of my Salvation and my refuge I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised so shall I be safe from mine Enemies c. And as touching Everlasting Life we have before heard that it is the free gift of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. To have a foretasting of this Everlasting Life there is no other way but by Faith only as it is written He that believeth on the Son hath Everlasting Life but he that believeth not on the Son shall not see Life but the wrath of God abideth upon him The hallowing of Cheese and Butter IN the Benediction of Cheese and Butter the Sanctifier useth these words Vouchsafe O Lord God Almighty ✚ to bless and ✚ sanctifie these Creatures Cheese and Butter which thou hast vouchsafed to bring out of the fat of Beasts and grant we beseech thee that so many of thy faithful People as shall eat thereof may be replenished with all Heavenly benediction and with the holiness of thy Grace At the beginning God blessed all his Creatures and beholding them he saw that they were wonderfully good This his blessing abideth still upon his Creatures so firm and constant that they need no mans blessing much less a Papists And these things which he hath prepared to be received of the faithful with thanksgiving he hath already so sanctified and made pure by his Word that they have no need of a new sanctification Notwithstanding the Papists after their old manner go forth to abuse the good Creatures of God and to think those unclean which God hath purified and therefore they new bless and sanctifie them Moreover they desire of God that so many as eat of this their hallowed Cheese and Butter may be filled with all Heavenly blessing and with the holiness of Gods grace Great must the virtue of this hallowed Cheese and Butter be seeing it bringeth to the Eaters thereof abundance of all Heavenly blessing and the holiness of Gods grace But the Papists may ask these things twice of God before they obtain them once All Heavenly blessing and the grace of God comes not by eating sanctified Cheese and Butter but they be freely given of God to the faithful for his Son Jesus Christs sake as is above said The hallowing of new baken Bread that lately came out of the Oven IN hallowing the new baken Bread the Papists use these words O Lord holy Father Almighty everlasting God vouchsafe ✚ to bless this Bread with thy holy and Spiritual benediction that it may be to all men health of mind and Body and a defence against all Diseases and against all the crafty assaults of their Enemies As in all other his benedictions so likewise in this the sacrificing Papist beggeth of God that he will vouchsafe to bless the new Bread yea and that unto this end that it may be unto all men he meaneth so many as shall eat of it health of mind and Body and a defence against all Diseases and against all the crafty assaults of their Enemies Here the Papist layeth on load and beggeth much because he may seem to obtain somewhat But if this his request were granted of God as it is most certainly denied then should we neither have need of the Corporal Physician for the health of the Body nor yet of the Spiritual Physician that is to say Christ for the Salvation of the Soul For both these things are gotten by eating this new sanctified Bread But how false and slight Merchandize these false Merchants bring forth and utter to the simple Idiots and unlearned People the learned know For as touching the health of the body who knoweth not that although the sick Person have his gorge crammed full of this hallowed new baken Bread yet is he never the nearer to health but remaineth still sick and diseased And as touching the health and salvation of the Soul to whom is it unknown that Christ alone is the Author thereof Thou shalt call his name said the Angel to Joseph Jesus that is to say a Saviour For he shall save his People from their sins Likewise saith St. Peter There is Salvation in none other Neither is there any other name given to men under Heaven wherein they must be saved And our Saviour Christ himself saith by the Prophet I am the Lord there is no Saviour besides me A God that saveth there is none but I alone Vain therefore is the salvation that is looked for through Popish Ceremonies And cursed is he that maketh flesh his arm and suffereth his heart to depart and go away from the Lord. For the Lord shall destroy all them that run a whore-hunting from God after vile and strange Idols which are nothing else than the idle inventions of idle and wicked men Again As concerning defence against all Diseases and against all the crafty assaults of our Enemies either corporal or spiritual we are well assured that it cometh only from God He only with his mighty hand and outstretched arm defendeth his People from all evils both bodily and ghostly And as he defendeth us from all sicknesses diseases and all other misfortunes so likewise doth he only preserve and keep us from all such as go about to molest and trouble us either in body or in soul So far is it off that these benefits come unto us from a piece of new baken Bread sanctified by a Popish Priest

new Fruit of Apples and such like Fruits of the Earth as Pears Plumbs Peaches c. that the Devil with all his wicked Army being dispatched those Creatures may be received unto the Consecration both of Body and Soul And afterward he concludeth on this manner and saith O Lord ✚ bless this new Fruit of the Trees that they which eat of it may be whole in Body and holy in Soul The Papists are but slender Musicians for like the Cuckow they sing always one Song Whatsoever virtue might and power they attribute to one Ceremony the same for the most part do they give unto all There is no Ceremony which after their Conjuration hath not power to drive away the Devil to put away Diseases to bring health to the Body and salvation to the Soul In so great admiration have these Apes their little ones although never so deformed and evil favoured But whilst this their Doctrin is received and believed the bounteous liberality of God is unknown and unthanked And the benefits of his Son's Passion and Death not a little obscured and blotted God destroy the Kingdom of Antichrist yea and that shortly The hallowing of Wine THe Papists are very busie-bodies and love to meddle with all kind of matters that they may seem able to do somewhat in all things It is not sufficient that they have to do with Water Salt Bread Candles Palms Boughs Fire Ashes Incense Myrrh Pascal Pascal Lamb Eggs Herbs Milk Honey Apples c. except they also meddle with Wine it being a Liquor wherein they greatly delight and therefore they daily use to sacrifice unto the great god Bacchus that they may be made the more meet to serve Lady Venus This Creature of Wine is not so pure in their sight but it hath also need of their sanctification and hallowing of their benediction and blessing And therefore they pray the Lord Jesus Christ who at a Marriage of Cana in Galilee turned Water into Wine that he would vouchsafe to bless and sanctifie this Creature of Wine that all that tast of it may be replenished and filled with the riches of his blessing If the Prayer which the Papists here make were heard and granted it were very profitable that the People should always be tipling this new sanctified Wine that by this means they might be replenished with the riches of Christs blessing But as their Prayer is not grounded on Gods Word nor framed according to his Will so is it neither heard nor granted And therefore they pray in vain promising the simple People Mountains performing Molehills We are not enriched with Gods blessing for drinking the hallowed Wine but for Christs sake for Christs dignity and worthiness for Christs merits and deserts as the Apostle saith Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who hath blessed us with all manner of Spiritual blessings in Heavenly things by Christ What wickedness then is this of the Papists to attribute that to a Cup of bewitched Wine that is only the gift of God In thy Seed said God to Abraham speaking of Christ shall all the Nations of the Earth be blessed as St. Paul expoundeth it in his Epistle to the Galatians It is appointed moreover That on the Feast of St. John the Evangelist the Wine especially should be blessed and hallowed for what cause I know not except it be on that time of the year that men use to drink more largely and to be more merry than any other time of the year Now for the perfect furniture of this matter it is commanded that first of all the Mass-monger shall say the beginning of St. Johns Gospel In principo erat verbum c. That once done he must pray on this manner By these words of the holy Gospel and by the merits of John the Apostle and Evangelist vouchsafe O Lord to bless and consecrate this Cup of Wine with thy right hand ✚ and grant that all that believe in the drink of this Cup may be blessed and defended And as St. John drinking poyson out of the Cup was not hurt so they that drink this day of this Cup in the honor of Thee and blessed St. John may be delivered through the merits of the same St. John from all sickness and poyson and be absolved both in Body and Soul from all faults The Papist in this his Prayer Conjureth God to bless and sanctifie his Cup of Wine by the words of the holy Gospel and by the merits of St. John the Evangelist as though God were so indebted and bound unto them that he could do no otherwise than grant his request But as touching the words of the Gospel Where have the Papists learned thus to abuse them Where have they read that the words of the Gospel should help unto the hallowing and sanctifying of Wine The Papists play here with this piece of St. Johns Gospel as the simple People in the time of darkness were wont to do with hanging St. Johns Gospel as they call it about their necks upon St. Audries lace thinking themselves safe from all danger both Bodily and Ghostly and free from all Devils and wicked Spirits But this is to abuse and not to use the words of the Gospel The Gospel is a joyful Message wherein is contained most present consolation and ready comfort for all Sinners that repent in Faith freely offered of God the Father for his Son Christs sake to all that believe and embrace it And this Gospel helpeth not because it is read but because it is believed as St. Paul the Apostle saith The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the power of God to save so many as believe For Man and his Salvation was the Gospel written and not for Wine and for Wines satisfaction As St. John himself testifieth saying These are written that ye might believe that Jesus is Christ the Son of God and that in believing ye might have Life through his name And as concerning the merits of St. John the Evangelist Where have the Papists learned to lay them before the Majesty of God as things of such purity and excellency that for the worthiness of them he is bound to grant their desire seeing it is written That all our righteousnesses are as a menstruous Cloth Seeing also that before God not the Angels in Heaven are clean much less man who is Earth Ashes Dust and Dung What St. John thought of his merits may easily be perceived by these words If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us But if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness If we say we have no sin we make him a liar and his word is not in us Here St. John putteth himself in the number of Sinners so far is he from cracking and boasting of his good deeds and merits And in the Chapter following he saith If any man sin we have an advocate with

Papists steal away the glory of our Salvation from Christ and give it to Creatures Is Christ's ear so stopped that it can no more hear Is Christ's hand so shortned that it can no more help Ah cursed is that Man that putteth his trust in any Creature and suffereth his heart to depart from the Lord. Moreover They give such virtue to their bewitched Salt that it is able to drive away Devils and unclean Spirits wheresoever and whensoever it be sprinkled O blasphemous Priests When Christ sent forth his Disciples into the World to Preach the Gospel he said that they should cast out Devils by his Name that is to say by his power and might He saith not by the sprinkling of holy Water And St. Paul exhorteth us to put on the shield of Faith and with that to quench the fiery darts of Satan so likewise doth St. Peter saying Be ye sober and watch for your adversary the Devil goeth about like a roaring Lyon seeking whom he may devour whom see that ye resist with a strong faith In the History of the Gospel we read that Christ drove away the Devil with the word of God And in another place of the Gospel he speaketh of a certain kind of Devils which are not cast out but by Prayer and Fasting Thus are we taught in the Word of God that by the Name of Christ by Faith by the holy Scripture by Prayer and Fasting the Devil is expell'd and put out But that he is driven away by holy Water we find in no place And in the Prayer that followeth the Popish Conjurer desireth of God that the conjured and bewitched Salt may be unto all such as receive it salvation of mind and body so that whatsoever shall be touched or sprinkled by it may be void of all uncleanness and of every assault of spiritual wickedness Here singeth the conjuring Papist one and the same song as before so likewise here he goeth about to bring salvation both of mind and body to the People from his bewitched Salt when as we have heard all salvation cometh from God alone through faith in the blood of Christ as St. Paul saith By grace are you saved through faith yea and that not of your selves It is the gift of God and cometh not of works because no man should rejoyce If salvation come not unto us through those good Works which we work at the appointment of God but is the free gift of God alone as the same Apostle saith also in another place Everlasting life is the gift God through Jesus Christ our Lord With what face than do our Popish sacrificers attribute the virtue of salvation to a beggerly Ceremony invented by the idle brain of some enemy of God and no where commanded but rather condemned in the holy Scripture as our Saviour Christ saith in the Gospel They worship me in vain teaching Doctrins which are the Commandments of men And whereas the Mass-monger prayeth That whatsoever be touched or sprinkled by it may be void of all uncleanness we shall understand that it is God alone which through Faith purifieth and cleanseth us both in body and soul Therefore David prayeth unto God saying A clean heart create thou in me O God and a right spirit renew thou in my innermost parts And God himself by the Prophet saith I will pour upon you clean water and ye shall be cleansed from all your iniquities yea from all your Idols will I cleanse you And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you c. This clean Water which God promiseth here to pour upon his People is not the conjured Water of the Papists seasoned with Salt but it is the holy Ghost which by Faith is received of the true Christians And are not these the words of blessed St. Luke By faith hath he purified and cleansed their hearts As touching the avoiding of every assault of spiritual wickedness whereby is understood the work of Satan and of his infernal Army imployed unto the destruction of the faithful We have before heard that neither Salt nor Water nor any thing of like condition altho' never so much blessed crossed exorcised conjured and bewitched is of such force that they may be able to resist and so quench the fiery darts of Satan By the Name of Christ by Faith by the Word of God by Prayer and Fasting is this brought to pass so that by this means we obtain and get glorious Victories over all Spiritual Wickedness as it is written O Hell I will be thy destruction O Hell where is thy victory God be thanked which hath given us the Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ Moreover As they handle the Salt so do they likewise the Water They bless they sanctifie they exorcise they conjure they charge they command they charm they bewitch the Water speaking unto it as a thing having life on this manner I conjure thee thou Creature of Water in the Name of God the Father Almighty ✚ and in the Name of Jesus Christ ✚ his Son our Lord and in the virtue of ✚ the holy Ghost that thou be a conjured Water to expel all Power of the Enemy and that thou maist be able to root out and utterly to displace the Enemy himself with his Apostatick Angels by the virtue of the same our Lord Jesu Christ who shall come to judge the quick and the dead and the World thro' fire As before in the Conjuration of the Salt the Exorcist and Conjurer went about by charming to make it of sufficient virtue to expel and drive away Satan and all his Ministers so likewise doth he here in the exorcising of the Water But how wickedly and foolishly he doth this we have before sufficiently heard In the Prayer unto God that followeth immediately after the Conjurer is more mad and as one out of his wits he prayeth God that his bewitched Water may be of such virtue and strength that whatsoever this Water shall sprinkle in houses or places of the faithful may be void of all uncleanness and delivered from harm That no noisom spirit remain there nor no corrupt air but that they may avoid all the laying in wait of the privy Enemy and that if there be any thing that is contrary to the health and quietness of the Inhabitants it may through the sprinkling of this Water depart away c. And in the Prayer which he maketh after he hath mingled the Water and Salt together he beseecheth God that wheresoever this Water thus conjured be sprinkled all noisomness of the unclean spirit may be cast out and the terror of the venimous serpent expelled far away and the presence of the holy Ghost may vouchsafe to be present And in the next Prayer following he desireth of God that he will grant by the sprinkling of this bewitched Water health of mind safety of body conservation of health security of hope and strength of faith Who seeth not how this Popish Exorcist

and wicked Conjurer goeth about by this heathenish Ceremony to obscure the glory of Christ and his death while he goeth about to attribute that to the idle invention of Man which is only given to the faithful of God alone through the Lord Christ his dearly beloved and only begotten Son For what can Christ bring unto us but free deliverance from Satan and his Ministers freedom from all sin and uncleanness health of body and mind quietness of Conscience security of hope strength of faith and in fine everlasting Life All these things bring the bewitched Water by the Doctrin of the Papists to them that be sprinkled with it And is this any other thing than to make Christ Jack out of Office and to place a new Saviour in his stead Wo unto thee thou Pope and thou Devil Ah thou Antichrist who in thy Antichristian Doctrin teachest thy Captives and Bond-slaves to seek salvation in this thy beggarly Ceremony and to say these words when they take this thy conjured and bewitched Water Aqua benedicta sit mihi Salus Vita that is to say This blessed or rather bewitched Water be unto me Salvation and Life O blasphemy passing all blasphemies Water utterly abused to bring Salvation and everlasting Life O damnable Doctrin Salvation cometh by none but by him alone who is the Saviour of the World even the Lord Jesus who only and alone saveth his People from their sins as St. Peter saith There is Salvation in none other but in the Lord Jesus Neither is there any other Name given unto Men wherein they may be saved but only the Name of the Lord Jesus And as concerning everlasting Life saith not the Lord Christ of himself in this manner I am the resurrection and the life he that believeth in me although he were dead yet shall he live and every one that liveth and believeth in me he shall never die Again he saith I am the way the truth and the life no man cometh unto the Father but by me Likewise saith St. John Baptist of this Christ the Lord He that believeth on the Son of God hath everlasting life but he that believeth not on the Son of God hath not life but the wrath and vengeance of God abideth upon him He saith not He that sprinkleth himself with holy Water hath everlasting Life but he that believeth on the Son of God hath everlasting Life Neither saith he He that sprinkleth not himself with holy Water hath not Life but the wrath of God abideth upon him but he saith He that believeth not on the Son of God hath not life c. And St. John the Evangelist speaking of Christ saith This is the true God and everlasting life And are not these the words of blessed St. Paul Everlasting life is the gift of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. He saith not Through the sprinkling of holy Water Hence it evidently appears how greatly the wicked Papists in times past and still do in some places have abused the simple Christians while by this and such other like Ceremonies they have taught the People to seek Salvation both of Body and Soul Victory over Satan and all his infernal Army quietness of Conscience freedom from all Sin and Uncleanness security of Hope corroboration and strength of Faith and in fine what not Is not this to deny the Lord that bought them Is not this to make Merchandise of the People Is not this to tread the blood of Christ under foot and to count it of no force God destroy thee and thy Kingdom O Antichrist that the glory alone may be the Lord's But let us behold more of their wicked Exorcisms and Conjurations Of HOLY BREAD AS the Papists teach their Captives to seek salvation both of body and soul in their conjured Water so likewise do they in their bewitched Bread for in the Exorcising or Conjuring thereof they use these words Bless ✚ thou O Lord this Creature of Bread as thou didst bless the five Loaves in the Wilderness that as many as tast of it may receive health both of Body and Soul Here have we the very same sour and stinking leaven of the Papistical Pharisees that we had before The crafty Conjurer and subtle Sorcerer to cloak his wicked doings putteth Christ in remembrance how he blessed five Loaves in the wilderness when he fed five Thousand People as we read in the Gospel And he meaneth by blessing nothing else than the wagging of the two fore-fingers of the right hand as the manner of the Popish Bishops is to bless the People and to make them never the better But Christ's blessing was Prayer and Thanksgiving to his heavenly Father for the benefits which he bountifully doth daily bestow upon his Creatures but especially upon Mankind And methinks that the Prayer of the Popish Priest is very large in that he desireth of God that as many as tast of that conjured Bread may receive health both of Body and Soul What if Mag Pie or Jack Daw or Philip Sparrow should chance to eat of it as it may happen hath it not been known that the little god of the Altar hath been eaten and devoured of Mother Mouse and Will. Worm should they also through the tasting and eating thereof receive health and salvation both of body and soul A foul and a great oversight The almighty God ordained this his Creature of Bread for the sustentation and preservation of the body and the Papists utterly abusing it transpose it unto the salvation both of body and soul and teach us to seek health both of body and mind in this beggarly Ceremony being an idle invention of their most idle brain When we are sufficiently taught in the holy Scriptures That all our Salvation cometh from God through Faith in Christ and not from holy Bread and holy Water But the Papists have another Blessing of Bread which is this O Lord holy Father almighty eternal God vouchsafe ✚ to bless this Bread with thy holy spiritual Benediction that unto all those which receive it it may be salvation of mind and body and a safeguard against all Diseases and all laying wait of the Enemy In this Prayer we have not only that the Popish holy Bread bringeth salvation of mind and body unto all those which receive it but also that it is a safeguard against all Diseases and a defence against all layings in wait of the Enemy Will any Man be free from the Pox the Piles a Feaver or any other kind of Disease let him eat holy Bread and by the Doctrin of the Pope he shall be free from all evil Maladies If this were true as it is most false it were a very ready way and of little charge to cure Diseases And by this means also should we not only chase away all Infirmities out of the Country but also be free from the torments of Chyrurgions and the heavy Counsels of Physicians and from the Charges of them both This is therefore