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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

Sanctifications and Consecrations with his Blessings and Crossings with his Gapings and Breathings with his Oylings and Creamings To make the Water more holy But who can make the Water more holy than God himself hath already made it To make the Sacrament of the more efficacy virtue and strength But Christ instituting the holy Mystery of Baptism maketh no mention of all these trifling Ceremonies which without all doubt he would have done if he had thought them necessary for the due administration of Baptism When John Baptist baptised in the Wilderness he used simple and natural Water without blessing or crossing So likewise did the Apostles of Christ as Philip when he baptised the Eunuch and others Many years also after Christ's ascension the holy Fathers of Christ's Church baptised with Water simply without any addition of such Consecrations and Blessings The more simple and the nearer to Christ's Institution their Administration of the Sacrament was the better was it allowed of all true Christians They knew not this pomp this pride this magnificence and this solemnity that is now used in Popish Churches The Devil and the Pope that Antichrist of Rome invented all those trifles and thrust them into the Church of Christ unto the great obscuring and utter defacing of the purity of Christ's holy and blessed Mysteries And notwithstanding into such ignorance and blindness are both the Priests and People come through the wicked traditions of men that if any of the least of these frivolous Ceremonies be left out they think the Baptism to be nothing worth and the Children not to be christned O lamentable blindness But let all true Christians persuade themselves that pure and simple Water coupled with the Word maketh the Sacrament of Baptism sufficient and perfect as St. Austin saith The Word is joyned to the Element and thereof is made a Sacrament As touching the Consecrations Blessings Crossings Gapings Breathings Oylings Creamings Perfumings and such other trifling Ceremonies they are the drousie dreams and foolish fancies of Hypocrites and therefore not to be regarded nor frequented but rather to be neglected and omitted as things nothing appertaining unto the substance and matter of Baptism But let us consider certain things used of the Papists in the Consecration of their Font. First the Priest desireth God to command that all unclean Spirits may depart out of that Water and that all the wickedness of the Devils deceit may stand far off c. There is no Creature that ever God made be it never so pure and clean but if it come once into the hands of these sacrificing Papists it is straight-ways not only unpure and unclean but also full of Devils and wicked Spirits When notwithstanding God at the beginning pronounced the Water as all his other Creatures to be very good and no evil in them yea the Lord our God so esteemeth this Creature of Water that by it he hath not only wrought many wonderful Miracles but also in his holy Scriptures compareth his holy and blessed Spirit to this Element of Water One also of the principal and chief Mysteries which he hath left to his holy Congregation for their comfort and to express therein his singular good will toward them is set forth in Water as an Element most apt to set forth our Regeneration and New Birth in Christ But the Papists as we have before heard find fault not only with the Water but with Salt Bread Wax Fire and what not But this their doing is well known to be nothing else than plain jugling St. John Baptist knew no Devil nor evil Spirit in the Water when he baptized in the Wilderness Christ's Apostles judged the Water pure and clean and the good Creature of God when they baptized Philip baptizing the Eunuch used the Water that was next at hand If Christ had known the Devil to be in the Element of Water he would never have made it a Sacrament of Regeneration St. Paul doth so greatly esteem this Mystery of Baptism which partly consists of Water and partly of the Word that he calleth it the Fountain of the new Birth and renewing of the holy Ghost And in his Epistle to the Ephesians he hath these words Christ loved the Congregation and gave himself for it to sanctifie it and cleansed it in the Fountain of Water through the Word to make it unto himself a glorious Congregation without spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that it should be holy and without blame Doth not our Saviour Christ say plainly That except a man be born of Water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God If Devils or wicked Spirits had been in the Water as the Papists dream the holy Ghost would never have beautified this Element of Water with such praises and commendations in the holy Scriptures And who knoweth not that of all the four Elements none is more necessary than Water neither have we any in more use God give us grace to use this and all other Creatures unto his glory with thanksgiving Amen Now let us see to what end the Papists would have the Devil and all wicked Spirits driven out of the Water It is forsooth that it may be an holy and an innocent Creature free from all invasion of the Enemy and purged from all wickedness And that it be a living Fountain a Water that regenerateth and begetteth a-new a purifying Water c. The Creature of Water is already Holy sanctified of him who is Holiness it self and therefore hath no need of the Popish sanctifications and hallowings It is also of it self innocent and harmless created of God for the use and commodity both of Man and Beast as all other Creatures of God are If at any time we be plagued either with Water or Fire or with any other Creature of God the fault is not in those good and innocent Creatures of God but in our selves who through our manifold wickedness provoke God unto anger as we may see in the Histories of the Flood and of the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah c. Whereas they desire of God that it may be a living Fountain a Water that regenerateth and begetteth a-new c. we grant that Baptism is an holy Sacrament but that the outward Water giveth life begetteth a-new and purifieth the heart we utterly deny It being not in the power of a lifeless Element to do this It is the work of the Holy Ghost alone as our Saviour saith It is the Spirit that quickeneth and maketh alive When Christ talked with Nicodemus of our regeneration and new birth he made mention not only of Water but of the Spirit also to declare that the chief worker of our regeneration and new birth is the Holy Ghost without whose Grace and secret Inspiration the outward washing profiteth nothing Judas Iscariot Simon Magus Ananias and Saphira with divers others were Baptized with the outward Baptism of Water and yet are they now damned Souls in Hell Fire

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

Solomon but the Lord giveth the Victory And the Psalmist saith There is no King that can be saved by the multitude of an Host neither is any man delivered by much strength The Papists according to the Doctrine of the holy Ghost should rather teach the People to seek for help against their Enemies at the hand of God by faithful and fervent Prayer than of Wallets Staffs Crosses Swords c. For the Name of the Lord as Solomon saith is a strong Tower unto that doth the righteous flee and findeth succour O blessed is that man saith David which hath set his hope in the Lord and hath not turned unto vanity Where God is Enemy nothing can prevail There is no wisdom no forecast no counsel can prevail against the Lord. But where God favoureth all things have good success as the Apostle saith If God be on our side who can be against us If we therefore desire to have victory over our Enemies and to enjoy quiet days on the Earth let us above all things study to have God our Friend and to be at peace with him and so shall all things prosper whatsoever we take in hand This shall come to pass if we will endeavour our selves to cast away all confidence in Creatures repose all our affiance in the Lord our God earnestly call upon his holy Name and train our Lives according to his blessed Word and Ordinance as God himself saith O that my People would have hearkned unto me For if Israel had walked in my ways I should soon have put down their Enemies and turned mine hand against their Adversaries The hallowing of Beads to say our Lady's Psalter on O Lord the large infuser and liberal impourer of all Blessings and the inspirator and inbreather of every good act who with thine own mouth commandedst that all the Ornaments of the Tabernacle of Witness should be made unto the Devotion of the People We with humble Prayer beeseech thee that thou wilt with thy benediction and blessing ✚ replenish these Beads outwardly pretending and shewing a face of holiness and appointed to pray devoutly unto the most blessed Virgin Mary the Mother of God and made and prepared to say the Psalter of the same most holy Virgin wherewith in times past by the hands of the Priests thou didst replenish and fulfil the Vessels and Ornaments of the Temple And grant that so many as will endeavour themselves in these Beads meekly to honour that most glorious Virgin or do determin upon these Beads in whatsoever place it be to say their Prayers before her Image or require her help may through her Prayers and Intercession after their departure from this present Life obtain Grace and Glory and purchase the favour of thy merciful goodness through our Lord Jesus Christ O Almighty God the alone and unspeakable and incomprehensible Creator and Maker by whose Word and Power all things are made through whose Gift we have received those things which we possess for the sustentation and comfort of our Life we with most humble and fervent Prayer beseech thee that thou wilt vouchsafe from the seat of thy Majesty with thy blessing ✚ and heavenly sanctification to replenish and fulfil these Beads which are apt and meet for the Devotion of thy faithful Servants that by this means thou mayest thankfully take and acceptably receive the gift of them that pray on these Beads O grant that the Prayers made upon these Beads may gladly be accepted in the sight of thy clemency and merciful goodness as the gifts of thy Servants Abraham and Melchisedec pleased thee that whosoever goeth about to garnish honour and glorifie with their holy Devotions the most blessed Mother of God Mary upon the Beads her Son our Lord Jesus Christ may recompense him great things for small things accept his Devotion forgive him his Sins replenish him with Faith nourish him with Favour defend him with Mercy destroy all adversity and give him all prosperity Grant also that in this World he may have the Doctrin of well-doing the study of Charity the effect of holy Love and that in the World to come he may obtain with the holy Angels everlasting Joy through our Lord Jesus Christ The Christning or Hallowing of Bells FIrst of all the Bishop or Suffragan shall put upon him a Surplice and a Stole about his Neck and having the Cross born before him he being accompanied with the Clergy and with the People shall go with all solemnity unto the place where the Mettal shall be shed whereof the Bell is to be made And while the Bell is casting that it may have right shape and afterward come unto Christendom the Bishop or Suffragan shall begin this Hymn Veni Creator with the Verse and Collect of the holy Ghost and all the Clergy shall proceed and sing forth merrily When the Bell is once cast and come to his perfect shape then shall the Bishop or Suffragan begin with a merry voice Te Deum laudamus and all the Clerks with one voice shall sing joyfully together the whole Hymn unto the end After that they shall sing Da pacem c. Then shall the Bishop or Suffragan say A Domino factum est istud And the Clerks shall answer Et est mirabile in oculis nostris Then shall the Prelate say Dominus vobiscum The Clerks answering Et cum Spiritu tuo Then shall he rehearse this Collect Actiones nostras c. That is to say We beseech thee O Lord prevent our doings by thine inspiration and persecute them with thy help that all our praying and working may alway begin of thee and being so begun may be finished by thee through Christ our Lord. Now may they hang up the Bell when they will But it must first be Blessed Hallowed and Consecrated after this manner that followeth The Blessing or Hallowing of the Water wherewith the Bell must be sprinkled ADjutorium nostrum c. sit Nomen Domini c. The Prayer Let us Pray O Lord ✚ bless this Water with thy heavenly blessing and let the virtue of the holy Ghost be put upon it that when this Bell which is prepared to call thy Children unto the Church be dipped in it wheresoever the noise and sound thereof shall be heard the power of the Enemies the imaginations of Phantasies the violence of boysterous Winds the hurt of Thundrings the calamity of Tempests and all stormy Spirits may depart and go far away Again That when the Children of the Christians shall hear the noise of this Bell the increase of Devotion may grow in them that they may make haste unto the bosom of the godly Mother he meaneth the Church may sing unto thee in the Congregation of the Saints bringing in the sound of a Trump praise melody through the Harp mirth through the Organs sweetness through the Tympan joy through the Cymbal So that with these their Services and Prayers they may allure unto thy holy Christ our Lord. Amen Afterward