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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Paul saith God hath blessed us with all spiritual blessing through Christ and not by bearing of Palms For he is the blessed seed of Abraham in whom all Nations of the earth are blessed that is to say favoured of God Whosoever therefore will get the blessing of God he must seek it in Christ and not in bearing of Palms In the third Prayer he beseecheth once again Almighty God to take so much pains as to bless those branches of Palms and other Trees that into what place soever they be brought all the Inhabitants of the same place may obtain his blessing so as all sickness being chased away his right hand may defend them whom it hath redeemed In this Prayer the sacrificing Papist doth not only crave of God through these branches and flowers his blessing but also that all the Inhabitants of those houses into which those branches and flowers shall be brought may be free from all sicknesses and diseases and preserved in health And here this marked Merchant marvelously setteth forth his Merchandise as things of great price and dignity of much virtue and force profitable not only for the salvation of the soul but also for the health of the body And here is the matter that maketh their Merchandise so plausible so acceptable and so greatly to be desired chasing away of diseases and who desireth not health of body especially when it costs nothing As though he should say Ye Ideots and leud People Why do ye consume and wast your selves your money your substance in running hither and thither for the safegard and health of your body Make haste and come hither Here is present remedy against sickness and a most precious preservative of health Take these Palms bear them in your hands wear them on your Caps pin them up at your Bed's-head and my body for yours health and wealth enough And verily this was the dotage of the simple people in times past through the false persuasion of these Popish Hypocrites even to look for all these Commodities appertaining to the body or soul through the virtue of those conjured Palms And therefore on Palm-sunday they did not only most joyfully carry them about in Procession but also at the time of the Gospel they made of the Bark of those Boughs certain knots which they did always carry about with them either in their Bosoms or else in their Caps And of the very Wood they made Crosses and some used to pin them upon their Caps some to set them at their Bed's-head with this faith and persuasion That by the virtue of those Knots and Crosses they should be preserved from all evil and obtain all good things Their Houses should be free from burning and spoiling They themselves should dwell safely and sleep sweetly free from all Diseases free from Thunder and Lightning c. But to whom is it unknown That every good and perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the Father of lights To this heavenly Father therefore must we resort when we lack any good thing appertaining either to the soul or body and not unto the hallowed Flowers and Palms or unto Knots and Crosses made of the same In the fourth Prayer the Sorcerer hath these words Vouchsafe to ✚ bless ✚ and sanctifie these Branches of Palms and other Trees and Flowers that whosoever in the service of thy virtue shall take any thing thereof being sanctified with the Benediction of Heaven may deserve to enjoy Remission of Sins and the Rewards of everlasting Life Here we see to what point at the last the Conjurer is come with his conjured stuff Verily even to this end That so many as take and carry about any portion of those Branches and Flowers may deserve to enjoy Remission of Sins and the Rewards of everlasting Life What will ye have more Ye have here remission of Sins ye have everlasting Life Is there any other thing behind O blasphemous Papists We are taught in the holy Scripture to seek remission of sins not from Palms and Flowers but from the hands of our heavenly Father through faith in the blood of Christ And as touching everlasting Life it is the frank and free gift of God to the faithful through Jesus Christ our Lord as the Apostle saith But Antichrist goeth on still to be Antichrist After these things the branches and flowers are sprinkled with holy Water and incensed solemnly because they should be holy and holy again This thing done the Priest and all the People take the Palms and boughs in their hands and away they go together for company about the Church-yard This Procession is so full of mysteries that not one Papist of a thousand understands them On Palm-sunday the flies are more affraid than they are all the year after But the Idolatry that is committed afterward with the Rood at their return into the Church is most damnable God destroy all Idols with their Idolatry Of Hallowing the Fire on Easter-Eve HEre followeth more work for the Tinker Now must he fall in hand with hallowing of the Fire For although the Fire by nature is of all the four Elements most subtil pure and most estranged from corruption yet when it comes into the Papists hands it is not so pure but it must be made more pure not so holy and good but it must be made more holy and good Therefore must he fall in hand with this matter also yea and that on this manner First of all The Fire once made the Priest must stand by the Fire turning himself Eastward Secondly The Deacon must stand on the Priests left hand and the Subdeacon on the left hand of the Deacon Thirdly One Taper-bearer must stand against the Priest and at the right hand of the Taper-bearer there must stand a Child holding the Book near to the Priest Fourthly Another Taper-bearer must stand behind the Priest and at the right hand of the same Taper-bearer must he stand that carrieth the holy Water near unto the Priest Fifthly In the last place behind all on the West-side must he stand that beareth the long Staff with the Taper Sixthly Beside the Fire namely on the South-side must he stand that shall cast Incense to take fire into the Censer after benediction Seventhly All these Ministers being turned toward the Priest the Quire in the mean season standing round about namely on the North-side there shall follow a blessing of the Fire solemnly the Priest saying thus Dominus vobiscum and Oremus Among all other things in the blessing and hallowing of the Fire the Popish Priest hath these words O Lord holy Father Almighty and everlasting God in thy Name and thy Son 's our Lord Jesus Christ and the holy Ghosts We ✚ bless this Fire and ✚ sanctifie it with the Wax and all the nourishments of the same and we mark it with the Sign ✚ of the Cross of thy most high Son Christ Jesus that whether it be kindled within or without not only that which

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.