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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

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

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.

in the name of our only Mediator Christ Jesus To believe that our sins shall be forgiven us if we ask in Faith and in fine to take upon us a new life and above all things to take heed that we fall no more into a lewd life lest the last be worst than the first and so this common Proverb be verified of us The Sow being washed is returned to her wallowing in the mire and the Dog unto his vomit But afterward the Papist maketh it more plain and desireth of God that so many as shall sprinkle those Ashes upon them for the redemption of their sins may receive health of Body and Safeguard of Souls Here is a plain Doctrine of the Papists That by sprinkling those Ashes upon them they believe to have redemption of their sins What is Blasphemy if this be not Blasphemy What is it to work ignominy and dishonour to the precious bloud of Christ if this be not Who denieth the Lord that bought them if the Papists do it not Is it come to pass now that Ashes work the redemption of our sins We hitherto believed that Christ alone hath wrought our Redemption by his Passion and Death For so are we taught in the Word of God Christ saith St. Paul died for our sins and rose again for our justification Again there is one God and one Mediator the man Christ Jesus which gave himself a Ransom for all Likewise saith St. John The Blood of Jesus Christ purgeth us from all sin Also in another place Christ hath loved us and washed us from our sins by his Bloud and hath made us Kings and Priests to God his Father To him be praise and rule for ever Amen And as concerning health of Body and safeguard of Soul who knoweth that they come not from Ashes but from the Mighty God of Israel from whom every good and perfect Gift cometh as we have before heard Of him therefore must we ask whatsoever good thing we intend to obtain But we shall note also that in the prayer which followeth it is plainly declared That the Popes Captains suffer the Ashes to be laid upon their heads to this end That by that means they may deserve to have forgivness of their sins when notwithstanding we have before abundantly heard that forgivness of sins cometh only from God through Faith in the name of his Son Christ and not by reason of any work although commanded in the Law of God much less by any ceremony invented by man as it is written Be it known to you ye men and Brethren that through this man Christ is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins and that by him all that believe are justified from all things from which we could not be justified by the Law of Moses Again Why tempt ye God that ye would put a Yoke on the Disciples necks which neither our Fathers nor we we were able to bear But we believe that through the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved c. And in the Service after Salisbury use as they term it we read these words Grant that through the Invocation of thy holy name all they that bear these Ashes upon their heads for the obtaining of thy mercy may merit of thee to receive forgivness of all their Trespasses Are not these words all one in effect with the other which we heard before Verily there is neither barrel better herring Whether use we follow both rob Christ of his glory After these benedictions and sanctifications these Ashes must be sprinkled with Holy-Water to make up the matter Which thing dispatched certain Anthems must be sung and in the mean season the Ashes must be received of so many as are present First of all the Priest that shall say Mass must have the Ashes laid upon his head by another Priest if he be present But if there be no more Priests then must he kneel down meekly before the Altar and lay Ashes upon his own head Afterward must the other Ministers come if any be present and kneeling down before the Altar receive Ashes of the Priest They being served the Brethren and Sisters shall come bini bini two and two together like Fryers of one Cloyster and meekly kneeling upon their marrow bones before the Altar receive Ashes in like manner of the Priest And in distributing these Ashes the Priest must say to every one of them on this wise Memento homo quod cinis es ✚ here must the Priest make a Cross with the Ashes upon the top of the Crown if he be a Man but if a Woman upon her forehead in cinerem reverteris That is to say Remember man that thou art Ashes and into Ashes thou shalt return These Ashes in times past through the wicked Doctrine of the most wicked Papists have been counted of the common People to be of so great virtue that the receiving of them brought unto them Gods favour and a worthy preparation unto the forgiveness of their sins And contrariwise that without them neither Confession Contrition Pennance Absolution Fasting Prayer nor any other good work profited them any thing at all O lamentable blindness Of hallowing Incense Myrrhe and other Perfumes NOw that we have passed over Salt Water Bread Candles Boughs Flower Fire and Ashes we are at last come to our Perfumes as Incense Myrrhe c. Neither are they so sweet nor their savours so pleasant but that the Papists find fault in them so that they also have need of their Exorcisms Conjurations Sanctifications Benedictions Crossings and Blessings Therefore in falling in hand with that matter the Popish Priest beginneth to Conjure in this manner speaking to the Devil as one not unacquainted with his doings I Conjure thee thou most unclean Spirit and every phantasy of the Enemy in the Name of God the Father Almighty and in the name of Jesus Christ his Son and in the virtue of the Holy Ghost That thou with all thy false Subtilty and Wickedness go forth and depart from this Creature of Perfume or Incense that this Creature may be Sanctified ✚ in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that all they which taste touch or smell it may enjoy the virtue and help of the Holy Ghost so that wheresoever this Incense or Perfume shall be thou in no wise be bold to approach near there nor presume to trouble But what foul Spirit soever thou art thou with all thy crafty falshood flee and dapart far from thence being straitly charged by the name and virtue of God the Father Almighty and of his Son our Lord Jesus Christ who in the Holy Ghost shall come to judge the quick and the dead and thee thou traiterous Offendor and the World through Fire Amen Here is much work and little help The poor Devil is here so handled and so straightly Conjured that he knoweth not whither to turn him First of all this Conjurer rateth him beyond all measure and calleth him most unclean Spirit foul

thy Love and be multiplied into the length of days Then let holy Water be sprinkled upon the Ring and all is well Who can otherwise than laugh at the folly of these foolish Papists who not being content to shew their fondness in certain trifling matters must desire God to send his blessing on a poor Ring What kind of Prayers are these unto God Are they worthy of Gods Majesty Is this to ask according to the will of God God ought not to be called upon in vain and trifling matters but in grave and weighty Causes in affairs that appertain unto his glory and to the salvation of our Souls The very Heathen in times past would have been ashamed to offer up their Prayers to their false Gods for such foolish and childish things And to say the truth this kind of praying is nothing else than a plain mocking of God The Papists might with as good a Conscience pray to God to make the weathercock of Pauls a Preacher for this Prayer would please God assoon as the other But let us see to what end the Papist desireth God to send his blessing upon the Ring It is saith he That she which shall wear it may be armed with the virtue of Heavenly defence and that it may profit her to eternal salvation Here be two goodly matters if they might be obtained But where hath God promised that the wearing of a Ring hallowed by a Popish Priest should bring to the wearer the vertue of Heavenly defence and everlasting salvation What if an Heathen Woman and an Idolatress should wear this sanctified Ring should she also enjoy these two Commodities For the words are general That she which shall wear it c. But to be short we shall note that the vertue of Heavenly defence cometh not by the wearing of a Ring but by the mighty protection of God wherewith both by his Grace and Spirit and by the Ministery of his Angels he defended his Elect and chosen People as it is written The poor crieth and the Lord heareth him and delivereth him out of all his troubles The Angel of the Lord pitcheth his Tent round about them that fear him and delivereth them And as touching eternal Salvation who knoweth not that it is the free gift of God given to the faithful for Christ Jesus sake Therefore to ascribe these heavenly Treasures to the wearing of a poor Ring doth not a little obscure the Grace of God and the Merits of Christ's Death and Passion The Hallowing of the Pilgrims Wallet and Staff THe Pilgrims that intend to go on Pilgrimage either to St. Peter and Paul at Rome or to St. James of Compostella or to any other Saints must first of all be blessed of the Priest in this manner First the Pilgrims must come devoutly unto the Church and make their Confession humbly to the Priest and gladly receive of him Penance and Absolution Afterward they shall come into the Chancel reverently prostrating themselves and lying flat upon the ground before the Altar Then the Priest shall say these Psalms Miserere Deus misereatur Qui habitat Nunc dimittis with Kyrie eleyson Christe eleyson Kyrie eleyson Pater noster Ave c. After these things shall follow the hallowing of the Pilgrims Wallet and Staff In the hallowing of this Staff amongst many other words the Popish Priest hath these O Lord Jesu Christ we humbly call upon thee that thou wilt vouchsafe to ✚ bless this Wallet and Staff that whosoever for the love of thy Name doth endeavour himself to take the same by his side as an Armour of humility and to hang it about their necks or to carry it in their hands and so going on Pilgrimage having meek Devotion for a Companion of their Journey to seek the helps of Saints they being preserved with the defence of thy right hand may merit to come to the joys of the eternal vision Here is more work for the Tinker A new Master a new and hang up the old as the Porters cry in Sturbridge-Fair Here is a sudden fall even out of the Hall into the Kitchin as they use to say Our Papist is suddenly come from his golden Rings to Scrips Wallets and Staves and now he sanctifieth and blesseth them yea and that so much the more because they are but vile Pedlary Ware and serve only for Rome-runners and Pilgrimage-gadders In this his Consecration he humbly beseecheth God to bless the Wallet and the Staff Without doubt God is not a little bound to the Papists For as they are busie-bodies themselves so will they not suffer God to be unoccupied The Epicures fain that God is idle in Heaven and taketh no care of his Creatures but suffereth all things to go which way they will Fortune and not God's Providence bearing rule The Papists therefore as it may seem fearing that God should fall into idleness and forget his Creatures appoint him to work But what work I pray ye Verily to hallow and bless Water Salt Bread Candles Palms Fire Ashes Incense Pascal Pascal Lamb Eggs Herbs Milk Honey Apples Wine Cheese Butter new baken Bread Flesh Font and I know not how many things besides And now at the last they appoint him to consecrate bless and sanctifie vile beggerly Wallets and Staves for Rome-runners and Pilgrimage-gadders Is not God much bound to these Papists that appoint him so vile an Office And is not God worthy to tender these their requests And are not these requests of the Papists meet to be granted But let us see why the Papists are so desirous that God should bless these Wallets and Scrips these Staves and Sticks Because say they that whosoever endeavours to take the same Wallet and Staff by his side or to hang it about his neck or to carry it in his hand and so go on Pilgrimage to seek the helps of Saints may merit to come to the joys of the eternal vision Is not here a good work in hand think you Ought not God even of duty to put to his helping hand and to put this good deed forward An idle lend lasie Lubber is determined to wander and gad abroad with his Wallet and Staff and to live of the sweat of folks hands and God must be a Cloak of his idleness Is it not well appointed Why do they not also appoint God to bless the Pilgrims Breeches Hose Shoes c. For he hath as much need of all these things in his Journey as of the Wallet and the Staff except he hath made a vow to go his Pilgrimage breechless and bare-arsed bare-legged and bare-footed as many do And what other thing is it to go on Pilgrimage to seek the helps of Saints than to play the Idolaters and to run away from God that fountain and well-spring of all goodness and to commit Whoredom I mean Idolatry with Creatures which of themselves were never able to help themselves and to beg of them that they cannot give Is it any other thing