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spirit_n	flesh_n	fulfil_v	walk_v	7,124	5	7.8550	4	false

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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

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

Antichrist's Chaplain The hallowing of Flesh IN hallowing and blessing Flesh the Popish Priest useth divers Prayers In the first he hath these words We beseech thee that thou wilt vouchsafe to ✚ bless and to ✚ sanctifie this Flesh that it may be to all that eat of it strength of body and pureness of mind In the second Prayer he sayeth thus Vouchsafe O Lord God Almighty to ✚ bless and to ✚ sanctifie these Creatures of clean Flesh that whosoever among thy faithful People shall eat them may be replenished with all heavenly benediction and healthful grace In the third Prayer he hath these words We meekly beseech thee that thou wilt vouchsafe to ✚ bless and to ✚ sanctifie this Flesh of four-footed Beasts and Birds that it may be to all us that receive it the blessing of the soul and the defence of the body and a most sure stablishment to all the bowels In the fourth Prayer he speaketh on this manner We humbly beseech thee O Almighty God That thou wilt vouchsafe to bless and sanctifie ✚ these Creatures which are the Flesh of clean Birds that whosoever shall eat of them may he replenished with the abundance of thy blessing and deserve to come unto the pastures of everlasting life In the first of these Prayers after the Massing-Priest hath beseeched God to bless and sanctifie that Flesh there present as though the blessing he gave to all his Creatures at the beginning were now worn out or else so old that it needeth to be renewed he desireth also That it may be to all that eat of it strength of body and pureness of mind The Meat received and well digested of an hungry stomach bringeth through God's blessing to the body of the eater strength no man doubteth but that it bringeth pureness of mind to such as eat it is very strange nay it is directly against the Word of God In the Old Law the Jews at the Commandment of God did both offer and eat divers kinds of Beasts and Fowls yet read we not that they were made holy and purified thereby When Noah after the Floud built an Altar unto the Lord and took of every Beast and of every clean Fowl and offered Sacrifices on the Altar the Scripture saith That the Lord smelled a sweet savour It is not said That the offering of that Flesh purified and cleansed the minds of Noah and his Family Meats are ordained of God not to purifie the mind but to comfort and cherish the body The minds and hearts of the faithful are purified by Faith and not by corruptible Meats which perish and come to nought Spiritual Diseases are cured with Spiritual Medicines and not with gross and outward Emplaisters The evil and wicked affections of the mind are more privy and subtil Diseases than can be healed with eating a piece of flesh Vain therefore is this their Prayer unto God in this behalf The holy Apostle saith That such Offerings as were offered in the old Law at the commandment of God could not purifie the Consciences of men but of necessity it behoved Christ to offer himself a sweet smelling sacrifice that by the virtue thereof both body and soul of the faithful believer might be purged and purified And is it to be thought that flesh eaten is able to cleanse the minds of the eaters O new Divinity In the second part he desireth God That whosoever among the faithful people shall eat those Creatures of clean flesh may be replenished with all heavenly benediction and healthful grace To be replenished and filled with all heavenly benediction and healthful grace cometh not by eating of flesh although never so clean and never so oft purified cleansed sanctified blessed and hallowed of the Popish Priest These benefits are obtained only at the hand of God through faith in the seed of Abraham that is to say Christ in whom all Nations are blessed as we have before heard In the third Prayer he humbly beseecheth God to bless and sanctifie the flesh of four-footed Beasts and Birds that it may be to all them that receive it the blessing of the soul and the defence of the body c. What blessing the soul hath I speak of the inward Man of the spirit which is born only of God or can have by eating flesh I see not But that the soul is many times accombred through the abuse of flesh superfluity banqueting surfeting and rioting daily experience doth sufficiently declare In consideration whereof St. Paul giving himself to abstinence saith I chastise my body and bring it unto bondage If the holy Apostle had known that he might have received the blessing of the soul by eating he would not have given himself so much to abstinence and fasting Meats are ordained saith St. Paul for the belly he saith not for the soul and the belly for meats but God shall destroy both it and them Again he saith The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the holy Ghost For he that in these things serveth Christ pleaseth God and is commended of men And where he prayeth That the meat may be the defence of the body and a most sure stablishment to all parts of the same he prayeth not indiscreetly For who knoweth not That good meat is a good defence against hunger and against certain diseases of the body But if he meaneth any other defence that by eating that hallowed meat he should be defended from his Enemies either bodily or ghostly he utterly deceiveth both himself and the people For this defence cometh to the faithful from God alone who hath numbred all the hairs of their heads keepeth all their bones so that none of them shall be broken and sendeth his Angel to pitch his Tent in the midst of them that fear him that he may deliver them from all danger and peril and defend them against all their Enemies In the fourth Prayer the Sacrificer goeth forth to disclose and utter his madness and beseecheth God that whosoever shall eat the Flesh of the clean Birds there sanctified and blessed may be replenished with the abundance of his blessing and deserve to come unto the Pastures of everlasting life St. Paul saith Meat maketh us not acceptable to God Neither if we eat are we the better nor if we eat not are we the worse Again The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink but Righteousness and Peace and joy in the Holy Ghost As the meat that entreth into the mouth doth not defile a man so likewise doth it not sanctifie nor justifie man so far is it from replenishing and filling us with the abundance of Gods blessing And as touching that they which eat of this hallowed Flesh should thereby deserve to come unto the Pastures of Everlasting Life Who seeth not that this is a new kind of Divinity Where was it ever read or heard before that men by eating Flesh hallowed of a Papist should deserve to come unto Everlasting