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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.

They had the Water but they had not the Spirit Their Bodies were outwardly washed but their Souls were not cleansed by the Holy Ghost their hypocrisie so deserving Now if the Water of Baptism by it self were of such virtue and power that it could give life purifie and beget a-new then should all false Christians and Hypocrites become the Children of God and Heirs to Everlasting Glory But it is truly said of St. Paul They that are led with the Spirit of God are the Sons of God If any man hath not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his Though the blessed Apostle calleth Baptism the Fountain of the new birth yet he immediately addeth the renewing of the Holy Ghost declaring hereby That although Baptism be the Fountain of the new birth that so many as be washed with that Water have put off Adam and be born a-new in Christ yet that our renovation cometh by the Holy Ghost He alone quickneth and maketh us alive in Christ Jesus He alone regenerateth and begetteth us a-new Without this outward washing many have been and are daily saved but without the inward washing of the Holy Ghost no man can be saved As St. Paul saith If any man hath not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his Not to the Water therefore ought the Papists to attribute the virtue and power of making alive in Christ of regenerating purifying c. but to the Holy Ghost whose Office alone it is to work all these good things in the hearts of Gods Elect and chosen People Moreover Whereas the Priest turneth him to the Water and saith I bless thee thou Creature of Water by the living God by the true God by the holy God c. Yea I bless thee by Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord c. Who seeth not his madness Will any man count him sober or in his right mind that shall speak to a thing without life This do the Popish Priests in the presence of God his blessed Angels and of his holy Congregation If this stuff had been spoken in a known tongue as it was uttered in a strange Language the People many years ago would have hissed those Antichristian Sacrificers out of their Temples and not have suffered themselves to be deluded and mocked by them But what needeth this Popish Priest to bless the Water by the living God by the true God by the holy God and by Jesus Christ the Son of God seeing that the blessed Trinity so many hundred years past hath already sufficiently and abundantly blessed the Waters O the vain dreams of men After these things the Priest in a Prayer whispered out by him desireth God to bless those Waters with his mouth Verily this is a new kind of blessing as blessing is commonly taken among us Men use and the Papists themselves also use to bless with their fingers and not with their mouth When the simple People see a Bishop riding gorgeously upon his Mule more like to Simon Magus than to Simon Peter they use to cry out My Lord your blessing My Lord your blessing for St. Charity thinking to receive some great benefit by that means both to their Body and Soul when notwithstanding in my Countrey the Bishops blessing would not go for Horse meat Doth the Bishop gape upon them or rather doth he lift up his hand and so bless them But wherefore would the Priest have God to bless those Waters Verily that besides the natural cleansing which they shew in washing the Bodies they may also be of strength to purifie the Minds That the natural property of Water is to cleanse the Body and all outward things no man that hath reason will deny But that Water although never so much Consecrated Sanctified and Blessed purifieth the mind Soul Spirit or inward Man neither reason nor Scripture doth allow For what is it to purifie the mind but to forgive sins to give the Holy Ghost to engraff new and spiritual motions to alter the whole man and to be cloathed with Holiness Righteousness and Truth This is not the work of any man in Earth nor yet of any Angel in Heaven much less of a Creature that is without all sense and feeling If the Water sanctified by Man purifieth the mind much more should the Man that sanctifieth the Water do the same But Man doeth it not neither is it done by the Water It is God alone by his holy Spirit that purifieth the mind and searcheth the reins and hearts Man is the Minister Water the thing ministred but God is he that worketh all as the Apostle saith Paul planteth Apollo watereth but God giveth the encrease Therefore neither he that planteth nor he that watereth is any thing worth but God which giveth the increase It is truly said of St. Cyprian Whether Judas or Paul Baptizeth Christ washeth and putteth away the sin St. Ambrose saith To forgive sins in Baptism and to give the Holy Ghost is the Office of God alone If therefore God giveth the effect of health there is no glory of man in this behalf For we know that the Holy Ghost is given of God without imposition or laying on of hands and that he who was not Baptized obtained remission of sins Hereto agreeth the saying of St. Austin As concerning the visible Ministery both good and bad do Baptize but he doth inwardly Baptize by them whose both the visible Baptism and invisible grace is Therefore both good and bad may Baptize but none can wash and purifie the Conscience but he only who is always good Hence it follows that the Papists teach false Doctrine when they hold that the Sacraments give grace purifie the mind wash the Conscience and change the whole man Indeed the Sacraments represent and preach these things to the outward man but it is God alone that giveth these things by his holy Spirit that he which rejoyceth might rejoyce in the Lord. Now as touching the foolish Ceremonies which the Popish Priest useth in the Consecration of the Font as making Crosses dropping Candle into the Font dividing the Water with Candle putting Oyl and Cream into the Water breathing into the Font and such like beggerly Trifles they are more worthy to be derided than confuted being indeed nothing else than childish Plays and apish Toys Thus much concerning the Popish consecrations of the Font. Of hallowing the Marrying-Ring FOr hallowing the Womans Ring at her Wedding this Prayer following is appointed to be said of the Priest Thou maker and Conserver of mankind Giver of Spiritual grace Granter of Eternal Salvation Lord send ✚ thy blessing upon this Ring that she which shall wear it may be armed with the virtue of Heavenly defence and that it may profit her to Eternal Salvation Another Prayer Hallow thou ✚ Lord this Ring which we bless ✚ in thy holy name that what Woman soever shall wear it may stand fast in thy Peace and continue in thy Will and live and grow and wax old in