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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

TITUS OATES D.D. the first discoverer of the Popish Plott 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 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 TITVS OTES D. D. What Peace so long as the Whoredoms of thy Mother Jesebel and her Witchcrafts are so many 2 Kings 9.22 LONDON Printed for Thomas Parkhurst and Thomas Cockeril at the Bible and Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside and at the Three Legs in the Poultry near the Stocks-Market 1679. I DO Appoint Thomas Parkhurst and Thomas Cockeril to Print this my Book Intituled The Witch of ENDOR TITUS OTES To the Right Honourable ANTHONY EARL of SHAFTSBURY Baron Ashly of Wimbourne St. Gyles Lord Cooper of Pawlet My Lord I Confess the Obligations that your Lordship hath laid upon this Kingdom in general and upon my self in particular call for greater Acknowledgments than have yet been paid by the one or the other As for my self my Lord I have had nothing but Affronts and Afflictions and your Lordship hath vouchsafed to stoop to share with me in them and since your Lordship hath been pleased to own me in my Sorrows and Cares I am thereby incouraged to Address my self to your Honour for your Patronage and Protection This Book my Lord is another demonstration of Rome's detestable Practices under which we must again groan if we do not with one Consent oppose Popery to cut it off Root and Branch and use all lawful means to prevent its introduction into this our native Country We have again detected the Contrivances of the Romish Interest against our Religion and Liberties therefore my Lord I humbly conceive That those that appear for a Popish Successor are for Popery by wholesale let their Pretences be what they will against it by retail and would at once betray our Land to Rome's Tyranny and Witchcrafts and are content for the Gust of a sweet Morsel to sell all even God their King Religion and every thing that may conduce to the Peace Welfare and Advantage of King and Kingdom all which appears by their slighting nay opposing the kindness of God our Saviour in this great Discovery of their intended Malice against us and by their fawning and flattering with Jesebel whose Whoredoms and Witchcrafts are many they incourage and abet the devilish Interests both of Rome and France to the great Confusion of Prince and People by which means the Gospel of our Lord Christ is more affronted in the Houses of those that profess and call themselves Christians than by the Congregation of those Blasphemers who from a Principle of Ignorance do with the loudest Calumnies reproach it These my Lord are the Traytors whom Judgment doth follow in this World and Eternal vengeance in the next My Lord I am sure your good Lordship hath not been unacquainted how the People have been deceived by these false Prophets therefore once more I pray your Lordship still to continue your Zeal and Affection to the Protestant Cause and the Interest of your Country in which Harvest your Lordship heretofore hath been and now appears to be a true labourer not only in Word but by your Lordship's Care Diligence and unwearied Activity To this end God Almighty bless your Lordship with all Blessings both of Heaven and Earth Body and Soul so that both King and Kingdom may joy and rejoyce in you I shall say no more but protest I will in all good Conscience do my part I will appear more Loyal to my Prince than those who by their accustomed Oaths say they are so and will from my Heart and with all the skill I have oppose this Romish Dragon and all its Votaries I shall now humbly take leave to subscribe my self My Lord Your Lordship 's most humble and most obedient Servant TITUS OTES WHITEHALL Nov. 5. 1679. The Exorcisms or Conjurations of the Papists as they be set forth in their Agends Benedictionals Manuals Missals Journals Portasses c. which they use in their Churches concerning the hallowing of Water Salt Bread Candles Bowes 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. with Confutations of the same Of HOLY WATER IN the Exorcism or Conjuration of the Holy Water which is mingled together with Water and Salt the Papists speak first of all to the Salt which can neither speak nor hear nor have any sense in it on this manner I conjure thee thou Creature of Salt by the ✚ living God by the ✚ true God by the ✚ holy God even by the God which through Elisha the Prophet commanded thee to be cast into the Water that the barrenness of the Water might be healed to the intent that thou maist be made a conjured or bewitched Salt unto the salvation of them that believe and that unto all such as receive thee thou maist be health of soul and body and that from out of the place wherein thou shalt be sprinkled may flee away and depart all phantasie and wickedness or craftiness of the Devils subtilty and every unclean spirit may give place being conjured by him who shall come to judge both the quick and the dead and the World through fire Amen To speak nothing of the Papists Exorcisms or Conjurations which they most wickedly use in charming the good Creatures of God against the Doctrin of the holy Ghost persuading the simple Multitude that through these Benedictions Crossings Conjurings c. they be holier than when God at the beginning made them notwithstanding Moses writeth That God beheld all the things that he had made and they were excellently good What Christian heart can suffer such and so great Blasphemies that that Virtue and Power should be attributed to a Creature without life which is only due to the only begotten Son of the living God Is Salt now through their bewitchings become of such force might and strength that it brings Salvation to them that believe and health both of body and soul St. Peter saith There is Salvation in none other but in Jesus Christ Neither is there any Name under heaven given unto Men wherein they may be saved but only the Name of Jesus Is not Christ called Jesus that is to say a Saviour at the appointment of God the Father to declare That he alone saveth his People from their sins Doth not all the Scripture testifie That by Christ only and alone we are justified and saved yea and made inheritors of everlasting glory Why then do the blasphemous

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

now it kindleth and sets on fire but that it may also kindle make warm or lighten all things necessary for the use of men and that all things which shall be kindled or made warm of this Fire may be ✚ blessed and profitable to the health of all men c. Here we see of what great virtue this Fire which the Papist hath now consecrated sanctified and blessed is Verily of so great force that whatsoever be kindled or made warm by this Fire should straightway be profitable to the health of all men that is to say drive away all corrupt pestiferous and evil Airs and preserve the health of all them that receive any heat by it O the marvelous strength of this sanctified Fire Hence it was that in times past so soon as the Paschal was lighted every Woman of the Parish should strive who might come first to the Fire and carry home some part of it and kindle their Wood with it and so smoak and smother every part of the House therewith with this faith and persuasion That this perfuming of their House with the smoak of this Fire did not only drive away all wicked Spirits and pestiferous Airs out of their Houses with all kind of Diseases but also bring assurance of health to all the Inhabitants of the same for all the year after O vain Faith O foolish Pesuasion In another Prayer the Popish Priest beseecheth God That into whatsoever place this blessed and hallowed Fire be brought it may expel the wickedness of the Devils deceit and make the power of God's Majesty to be present even Jesus Christ our Lord. Is not the virtue power and force of this Fire wonderful and marvelous It doth not only drive away the Devil but it also bringeth Christ unto us But as touching the Devil we have before heard That it is neither Salt Water Bread Candles Boughs Palms Flowers c. that can drive him away but only the Name of Christ Faith Prayer God's Word and Fasting And as concerning Christ no man can come by him but only through the singular benefit and unspeakable Gift of God as our Saviour Christ himself saith No man cometh unto me except my Father which sent me draw him Foolish therefore vain and superstitious is the Doctrin of the Papists concerning this their sanctified and hallowed Fire Of Holy Ashes THese Ashes whereof we must now entreat are made of the hallowed Palms of the year past And the Mass-book saith That upon Ash-Wednesday when the Priest hath absolved the People c. then must there be made a Blessing of the Ashes without Dominus vobiscum and without Oremus by the Priest being turned toward the East and standing in the midst of the Quire before the Altar Notwithstanding the Roman use saith That the Priest shall say Dominus vobiscum and Oremus also so little do the holy Fathers agree among themselves After that the Popish Priest hath set himself in a comely order for the dispatching of this matter he beginneth on this manner and saith as we read in the Roman Manuale otherwise called the Benedictionale O Almighty and everlasting God spare them that fear be merciful to them that make supplication and vouchsafe cross to send thy holy Angel from Heaven which may bless ✚ and sanctifie these Ashes that they may be an wholsom Remedy to all that weekly call upon thy holy Name and accuse themselves for the Conscience of their Sins and lament their wickedness before the sight of thy divine Clemency or that meekly and humbly desire thy most excellent Majesty And grant through the invocation of thy holy Name that so many as shall sprinkle these Ashes upon them for the redemption of their sins may receive health of Body and safegard of Soul In this Petition the Priest requireth of God That he will send down his holy Angel from Heaven to bless and sanctifie those Ashes mistrusting as it may seem his own blessing and sanctifying as a thing of no great force and virtue But I believe that he may pray to God for this matter twice before it be granted him once Where hath this Papist learned That the Office of Angels is to hallow Ashes The holy Scriptures testifie That Angels at the appointment of God have many times come down from Heaven to the consolation and comfort of God's Elect and chosen People but that they at any time came down to hallow Ashes that is in no place read And how dare the Papist ask that of God for which he hath not one jot nor one tittle in the holy Scripture We are taught to ask according to the Will of God and not against the Will of God That is the Will of God which he hath manifested declared and opened in his Word All other things are fancies dreams and idle imaginations of men And as they are asked without yea contrary to the will of God so are they never granted of God And thus may we well think of this Petition of the Priest wherein he asketh That God would send down his holy Angel from Heaven to bless and sanctifie the Ashes Without doubt a worshipfull office more meet for the Angel of Antichrist than for the Angel of Christ The Office of Gods Angel and Ambassador is to execute Gods Will to do Gods message to such as he sendeth them to take care of Gods Elect to defend him from the violence of Satan to preserve them in the obedience of Gods Will to nourish Concord Peace Amitie Virtues good Studies Arts Policy c. and in fine at the day of Judgment to gather together Gods Elect into that Heavenly Kingdom and to commit the Reprobate unto Everlasting Fire Of this we read in the holy Scripture but that it is their Office to bless and hallow Ashes that read we not Therefore as the Popish Sacrificer doth evil to put the Angels of God to such an Office as is not allotted unto them by the holy Scripture so likewise do they wickedly require such a thing of God as is contrary to his Blessed Will God hath appointed his Angels to serve him and to attend upon his elect and chosen People for their Safeguard and not to sanctifie and hallow Ashes But let us see to what end this Papist would have Gods holy Angel come down from Heaven and hallow these Ashes verily saith he That they may be an wholsom remedy to all that meekly call upon thy holy name and accuse themselves for the conscience of their sins and lament their wickedness What wicked Doctrine is this of the Devil and the Pope to teach that their abused Ashes should be not only a remedy but also an wholsom remedy to such as have offended The holy Scripture teacheth far otherwise That plainly declareth that when we have sinned against the Lord our God the next and best remedy is to turn again unto him whom we have offended to repent us of our former wikedness to crave mercy at our Heavenly Fathers hand