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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

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.

the Father Jesus Christ the Righteous And He it is that obtaineth mercy for our sins Here St. John likewise layeth not forth his own merits and deserts before the Judgment Seat of God but the righteousness of Christ that pure and undefiled Lamb that taketh away the sins of the World For whose sake also God is well pleased with man The merits both of St. John and of all the Saints are the mercies of God as it is written which crowneth in mercy and loving kindness When ye have done saith Christ all that ye ought to do say we are unprofitable Servants there is no difference all have sinned and want the Glory of God Again the Papist prayeth That so many as drink of that hallowed Wine may be blessed defended delivered from all sickness and poyson and in fine be absolved both in Body and Soul from all sins and faults yea and that by the merits of St. John the Evangelist Of St. Johns merits we have before heard But that the hallowed Wine should give to so many as drink of it Gods blessing Gods defence deliverance from all sickness and poyson and at the last absolution from all sins and faults it is more than any man may be bold justly to look for at a Cup of Wine It is God that blesseth and defendeth us his People It is God that delivereth his Servants from all evil and noisom things It is God that forgiveth sin and saveth both Body and Soul as the Psalmist saith Salvation cometh from the Lord and his blessing is upon his People If this new sanctified Wine being drunk in the honor of St. John the Evangelist be of such force and strength that it saveth the drinkers thereof from poysoning How cometh it to pass that that Wine which is Consecrate in the Blood of Christ yea which is the natural Blood of Christ as the Papist teach could not keep and defend Pope Victor the third of that name from poysoning which as Chronicles record was poysoned at Mass by drinking that mystical Wine out of the Chalice And as touching the absolution of sins I marvel greatly that the Papists would so overshoot themselves that they would desire of God that so many as drink of that Wine might be absolved and delivered from all their sins Verily this thing doth not a little diminish their Authority If men might be absolved from their sins by drinking a Cup of Wine what should be come then of Ego absolvo te Then also were all the confessional pens dispatched and gone yea then should the holy Fathers Indulgences and Pardons a paena a culpa toties quoties be utterly neglected and nothing at all regarded I wonder they were so uncircumspect in this matter where most circumspection ought to have been had But this we know and are fully perswaded that neither drinking of the hallowed Wine nor the Pope himself can forgive us our sins but God alone as it is written No man can forgive sins but God alone And as God himself saith by the Prophet I am he yea I am he indeed which putteth away thy sins and that for my own sake and I will remember thy wickedness no more In another Prayer the sanctifying Papist beseecheth God ✚ to bless this Creature of Wine that whosoever tastes of it may obtain Everlasting Life through the intercession of St. John Here we may say to the Papists as the Fletcher saith to his bolt Flie and be nought Here is de malo inpejus venite adoremus as Skelton saith It was very nought that we heard before in hallowing the Wine but this of all nought is most nought For now we are come to this point that the drinking of this hallowed Wine bringeth Everlasting Life when notwithstanding the Apostle saith Everlasting Life is the Gift of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. And Christ himself saith I am the way the truth and the life No man cometh unto the Father but by me Again I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly For I am the Resurrection and Life He that believeth on me though he were dead yet shall he live and whosoever liveth and believeth on me shall never dye St. Paul saith If Righteousness come by the Law then died Christ in vain What is meant by Righteousness in this place but the grace favour and mercy of God remission of sins the gift of the Holy Ghost quietness of Conscience and in fine Everlasting Life Now saith the Apostle None of all these things come by the Law that is to say by those works of the Law which not man but God hath prescribed and appointed For if they did it should truly follow that Christ died in vain But Christ died not in vain therefore Righteousness and Everlasting Life cometh not by works as it is written No Flesh shall be justified by the Works of the Law If therefore our Justification and Salvation come not by those works which God hath appointed shall we obtain so noble and excellent benefits at the hand of God through drinking of Wine lately blessed by an unblessed Papist Everlasting Life is the gift of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Moreover This sacrificing Sorcerer desireth of God that these things may be brought to pass so much the sooner through the intercession of St. John A new kind of Intercession Is it to be thought that St. John being now a glorified Saint in Heaven and following the Lamb whither-soever he goeth hath so much idle leisure as to attend upon such trifling suits and requests What other thing were it to crave of God that all such as drink of that new hallowed Wine might obtain Everlasting Life by the means thereof than to spit in Christs face to set Christ at nought to contemn and utterly despise the inestimable merits of his Passion and Death and in all points to deny him to be a Saviour For whosoever seeketh any part of his Salvation at any Creature either in Heaven or in Earth except only at the hand of Christ he hath utterly forsaken the Lord Jesu and his saving health Far therefore be it from so holy an Apostle to attempt such wickedness And whereas the Papists make him an Intercessor unto God I know not for what trifles we shall understand that we are not taught by any part or parcel of the holy Scripture that the Saints departed do make any intercession for us that live in this World Neither is it probable by the Word of God that they either pray for us or that they hear our prayers as the Prophet Isaiah saith Thou art our Father For Abraham knoweth us not neither is Israel acquainted with us But thou Lord art our Father and Redeemer and thy name is everlasting When we will obtain any thing at the hand of God St. John setteth not forth himself nor any of his fellow Apostles no nor yet the Virgin Mary to be our Mediator Advocate or Intercessor unto