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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

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

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

prayeth God to put to his blessing that they may bring unto men health both of body and soul not only upon the Land but also upon the Water that is to say in every place that the sanctified Candle may be known to be a perfect Saviour in all places universally O abomination O blasphemy The mean to bring this matter to pass he allegeth to be the invocation of God's most holy Name as the Charmers Conjurers and Witches do likewise But lest that the invocation of God's most holy Name should not seem to suffice in this behalf as though there were an insufficiency in the same he straightway subjoineth and addeth the intercession of our Lady and the Prayers of all the Saints in Heaven But where hath the Papist learned in God's Book the Intercession of Saints Or where hath he any Scripture to shew that they Pray either for us or for the Candles God alone is to be invocated and called upon in the Name of our only alone Mediator yea and that according to his Will and not after the foolish fancies of Men. And as God alone is to be called upon in spirit and truth so likewise he alone heareth our Prayers and granteth our Petitions All other Invocations and Intercessions are but the idle inventions of Men sprung up of a blind Zeal without authority of God's Word and to say truth meer Idolatry After these and such like Benedictions and Prayers the Candles are sprinkled with holy Water and incensed that nothing should want unto the perfect salvation of them But whether this be false Worshiping or Conjuring or Idolatry or Superstition or Foolishness to incense dead Creatures and to make sweet Perfumes to them that smell nothing let others judge All these things I am sure are but apish toies devised only to blear the simple peoples eyes and to keep them still in blindness that they being occupied about such trifles may have no leisure to spy out the jugling of the Papists God confound Antichrist with his whole Generation These things being dispatched the Candles are lighted and every man taking his Candle and the Priest his with merry singing of Lumen ad revelationem gentium and Nunc Dimittis servum tuum domine Then the Priest holds up his Candle and all the People their Candles and about the Church-yard they go the Prior of Prickelingham and his Covent meerly singing and talking as merry as Pope John with all his College of Cardinals After Even-song the same day distribution is made of the Priest's Candle by the Priest to the People every one taking their Portion in a fair Napkin as a Relique and Jewel so holy so precious and of so incomparable virtue that they think themselves unworthy to touch it with their bare hands These pieces of the Candle they bear home and lay up daintily in their Coffers If any Thunder or Lightning or any other grievous Tempest arise then straightway they light their Candles with this faith and persuasion That that Candle being once lighted driveth away the Devil quieteth the Tempests and bringeth health and safegard to so many as are in the house Again When any sick person is like to depart then this Candle is also lighted and the sick man blessed therewith with this belief That if he be blessed with that holy Candle before he depart he shall be free from all the Assaults of the Devil and the sooner come unto everlasting joy Of Holy Boughs otherwise called Palms NOw as touching the Boughs Branches and Flowers which on Palm-sunday are exorcised conjured bewitched and charmed in the Churches of the Papists First of all before this matter be enterprised because all things should orderly be done the sacrificing Priest is commanded to array himself with a red Cope and then to stand upon the third step of the Altar turning him toward the South Secondly the Palms with the Flowers that shall serve for the Clerks shall be laid aside upon the Altar as for persons of a greater dignity and more excellency than the common sort of People Thirdly as touching the other Palms and Flowers which shall serve for the Laity they shall be laid on the step of the Altar on the South-side All these things set in most comely order at last the Sorcerer falleth to his business and saith I conjure thee thou Creature of Flowers and Branches 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 Therefore be thou rooted out and displaced from this Creature of Flowers and Branches all the strength of the adversary all thou Host of the Devil and all thou power of the Enemy even every assault of Devils That thou overtake not the footsteps of them that hast unto the Grace of God Through him that shall come to judge the quick and the dead and the World by fire Amen As we have before heard in the Conjurations of Salt and Water how busie the sacrificing Sorcerer was to dispatch the Devil and all his power out of the aforesaid Salt and Water through his wicked and divelish Incantations even so playeth he now with the poor Boughs and silly Flowers I conjure thee saith he But I beseech you where ever did Christ ordain the Ministers of the New Testament Conjurers Antichrist indeed hath his Conjurers Sorcerers Charmers Witches South-sayers Enchanters Sacrificers c. but Christ in his Ministry knoweth no such Therefore whereas the Popish Priests take upon them to Conjure they shew themselves to be not the Ministers of Christ but the Bond-slaves of Antichrist But what fault find they in the Branches and Flowers which are the good fair sweet and pleasant Creatures of God that they must be conjured We see in them the great Power and mighty Work of God These Boughs which not long before seemed to be dead are now green and flourishing The Flowers which of late were not are now most goodly and pleasant to behold Beholding them we are forced to praise God in his Creatures neither do we see any imperfection in those Creatures that they should need such Conjurations Hath the Devil entred into the Branches and Flowers since they were brought into the Popish Temples For before they were good and undefiled and needed no such Conjurations and Charms But what conjure they the Devil and all his power out of the Flowers and Branches But the holy Scripture saith God beheld all things that he had made and they were exceeding good Flowers Boughs Branches are the Creatures of God therefore are they good If good what place hath the Devil in them Can that which is good and the Devil dwell together What fellowship hath Christ with Belial Light with Darkness Righteousness with Unrighteousness But it is to be thought that whatsoever thing it be although never so good that cometh into the Popish Priests hands it is straightways defiled or else they would never use such Benedictions

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