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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

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

in the name of our only Mediator Christ Jesus To believe that our sins shall be forgiven us if we ask in Faith and in fine to take upon us a new life and above all things to take heed that we fall no more into a lewd life lest the last be worst than the first and so this common Proverb be verified of us The Sow being washed is returned to her wallowing in the mire and the Dog unto his vomit But afterward the Papist maketh it more plain and desireth of God that so many as shall sprinkle those Ashes upon them for the redemption of their sins may receive health of Body and Safeguard of Souls Here is a plain Doctrine of the Papists That by sprinkling those Ashes upon them they believe to have redemption of their sins What is Blasphemy if this be not Blasphemy What is it to work ignominy and dishonour to the precious bloud of Christ if this be not Who denieth the Lord that bought them if the Papists do it not Is it come to pass now that Ashes work the redemption of our sins We hitherto believed that Christ alone hath wrought our Redemption by his Passion and Death For so are we taught in the Word of God Christ saith St. Paul died for our sins and rose again for our justification Again there is one God and one Mediator the man Christ Jesus which gave himself a Ransom for all Likewise saith St. John The Blood of Jesus Christ purgeth us from all sin Also in another place Christ hath loved us and washed us from our sins by his Bloud and hath made us Kings and Priests to God his Father To him be praise and rule for ever Amen And as concerning health of Body and safeguard of Soul who knoweth that they come not from Ashes but from the Mighty God of Israel from whom every good and perfect Gift cometh as we have before heard Of him therefore must we ask whatsoever good thing we intend to obtain But we shall note also that in the prayer which followeth it is plainly declared That the Popes Captains suffer the Ashes to be laid upon their heads to this end That by that means they may deserve to have forgivness of their sins when notwithstanding we have before abundantly heard that forgivness of sins cometh only from God through Faith in the name of his Son Christ and not by reason of any work although commanded in the Law of God much less by any ceremony invented by man as it is written Be it known to you ye men and Brethren that through this man Christ is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins and that by him all that believe are justified from all things from which we could not be justified by the Law of Moses Again Why tempt ye God that ye would put a Yoke on the Disciples necks which neither our Fathers nor we we were able to bear But we believe that through the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved c. And in the Service after Salisbury use as they term it we read these words Grant that through the Invocation of thy holy name all they that bear these Ashes upon their heads for the obtaining of thy mercy may merit of thee to receive forgivness of all their Trespasses Are not these words all one in effect with the other which we heard before Verily there is neither barrel better herring Whether use we follow both rob Christ of his glory After these benedictions and sanctifications these Ashes must be sprinkled with Holy-Water to make up the matter Which thing dispatched certain Anthems must be sung and in the mean season the Ashes must be received of so many as are present First of all the Priest that shall say Mass must have the Ashes laid upon his head by another Priest if he be present But if there be no more Priests then must he kneel down meekly before the Altar and lay Ashes upon his own head Afterward must the other Ministers come if any be present and kneeling down before the Altar receive Ashes of the Priest They being served the Brethren and Sisters shall come bini bini two and two together like Fryers of one Cloyster and meekly kneeling upon their marrow bones before the Altar receive Ashes in like manner of the Priest And in distributing these Ashes the Priest must say to every one of them on this wise Memento homo quod cinis es ✚ here must the Priest make a Cross with the Ashes upon the top of the Crown if he be a Man but if a Woman upon her forehead in cinerem reverteris That is to say Remember man that thou art Ashes and into Ashes thou shalt return These Ashes in times past through the wicked Doctrine of the most wicked Papists have been counted of the common People to be of so great virtue that the receiving of them brought unto them Gods favour and a worthy preparation unto the forgiveness of their sins And contrariwise that without them neither Confession Contrition Pennance Absolution Fasting Prayer nor any other good work profited them any thing at all O lamentable blindness Of hallowing Incense Myrrhe and other Perfumes NOw that we have passed over Salt Water Bread Candles Boughs Flower Fire and Ashes we are at last come to our Perfumes as Incense Myrrhe c. Neither are they so sweet nor their savours so pleasant but that the Papists find fault in them so that they also have need of their Exorcisms Conjurations Sanctifications Benedictions Crossings and Blessings Therefore in falling in hand with that matter the Popish Priest beginneth to Conjure in this manner speaking to the Devil as one not unacquainted with his doings I Conjure thee thou most unclean Spirit and every phantasy of the Enemy in the Name of God the Father Almighty and in the name of Jesus Christ his Son and in the virtue of the Holy Ghost That thou with all thy false Subtilty and Wickedness go forth and depart from this Creature of Perfume or Incense that this Creature may be Sanctified ✚ in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that all they which taste touch or smell it may enjoy the virtue and help of the Holy Ghost so that wheresoever this Incense or Perfume shall be thou in no wise be bold to approach near there nor presume to trouble But what foul Spirit soever thou art thou with all thy crafty falshood flee and dapart far from thence being straitly charged by the name and virtue of God the Father Almighty and of his Son our Lord Jesus Christ who in the Holy Ghost shall come to judge the quick and the dead and thee thou traiterous Offendor and the World through Fire Amen Here is much work and little help The poor Devil is here so handled and so straightly Conjured that he knoweth not whither to turn him First of all this Conjurer rateth him beyond all measure and calleth him most unclean Spirit foul

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

they must sing these six Psalms Lauda anima mea Dominum Laudate Dominum quoniam bonus est Lauda Hierusalem Dominum Laudate Dominum de Coelis Cantate Domino Canticum novum Laus ejus in Eclesia Sanctorum Laudate Dominum in Sanctis ejus And while they sing these Psalms the Bishop or Suffragan must wash the Bell with the aforesaid hallowed Water and anoint it with holy Oyl and also rub it over with Salt which Salt must be hallowed in such sort as the use is upon the Sunday when they make holy Water Exorcizo te Creatura salis per Deum ✚ vivum per Deum ✚ qui te per Helizeum Prophetam c. After all these things be dispatched out of the way let him say this Prayer following The Prayer Let us Pray O God who by blessed Moses the Law-giver commandedst Trumpets of Silver to be made which while the Levites or Ministers of the Sacrifice did blow the People being admonished with the sound of their sweetness might be prepared to adore and worship thee Again Through whose noise the People being excited and stirred up unto battel might the more valiantly express and overcome the Weapons of their Enemies Grant that this Bell being ordained and prepared for thy Church may be sanctified and hallowed of the holy Ghost that by the sound thereof the faithful may be invited provoked and pricked forward unto the reward Grant also that when the melody of this Bell dath sound in the ears of the People the Devotion of Faith may increase in them and that all the lying in wait of the Enemy may be far put back again that the beating of the Hail the storm of Winds the violence of Tempests may be mitigated and asswaged Moreover That the fierce Thunderings and boysterous Storms may be measured that they do no harm nor hurt thy Creatures In fine Vanquish and throw down the Powers of the Air with the right hand of thy strength that they hearing this Bell may tremble and shake for fear and flee before the Banner of the holy Cross through our Lord Jesus Christ Then must the Bishop or Suffragan wipe the Bell with a Linen Towel and say this Psalm all the Clerks accompanying him Vox Domini super aquas Deus Majestatis intonuit Dominus super aquas multas Vox Domini in virtute Vox Domini in magnificentia Vox Domini confringentis Cedros c. unto the end of the Psalm with Gloria Patri and Sicut erat c. After these things the Bishop or Suffragan must anoint the outside of the Bell seven times with Oyl and Cream and four times within saying on this wise The Prayer Let us pray O Almighty and Everlasting God who before the Ark of the Covenant through the noise of the Trumpets madest the Walls of Stone to fall down wherewith the arms of thine Enemies were enclosed and encompassed round about vouchsafe to replenish this Bell with thy heavenly blessing that before the noise or sound thereof the fiery darts of the Enemy the striking of the Lightnings the violence of Stones the hurting of Tempests may be chaced far away That to the demand of the Prophet Wherefore didst thou flee O thou Sea And thou Flood of Jordan turn back with all thy Waves It may be answered The Earth was moved at the face of the Lord at the face of the God of Jacob Which turneth the hard Rock into Rivers of Water and the Flint-stones into watry streams Not unto us therefore O Lord not unto us but to thy Name give the glory of thy mercy and truth that when this present Bell as the other Vessels of thy Altar is touched with the holy Chrism and anointed with thy holy Oyl all they that come and draw near unto the sound thereof may be free from all temptations of the Enemies and continually follow the documents of the Catholique Faith through our Lord Jesus Christ Amen After this Prayer the Bishop or Suffragan shall take the Censer into his hand and cause Fire Incense Myrrh and such other sweet Perfumes to be put into it Then shall the Bell be lifted up and the Censers set under the Bell that all the fume and smoak of those sweet favours may go into the Bell. In the mean season shall they say this Anthem Deus in sancta via tua Deus magnus sicut Deus noster Then immediately shall they sing this Psalm Viderunt te aquae Deus Viderunt te aquae timuerunt c. with Gloria Patri Sicut erat c. Afterward the Bishop or Suffragan shall say Domine exaudi and Dominus vobiscum with this Prayer following The Prayer Let us Pray O Christ that Almighty Lord and Ruler which after thou hadst taken the Nature of Man upon thee and didst sleep in the Ship when a great Tempest arose marvelously troubling the Seas and being awake didst forthwith put away these cruel storms help for thy mercies sake the necessities of thy People Pour out the dew of the holy Ghost upon this Bell that before the sound thereof the Enemy may evermore flee away Christian People be invited and provoked unto Faith the Army of the Enemies may be made afraid the People that be called out by it may be made strong in the Lord and the holy Ghost being delighted with the sound thereof as with David's Harp may come down upon it And as when Samuel slew the Lamb and offered it up for a Sacrifice the King of the Eternal Empire through the noise of the weather that came down from Heaven did put to flight the Company of the Enemies so likewise grant thou that while the sound of this Bell passeth through the Clouds the hand of thy Angel may keep the Company or Assembly of thy Church and Congregation and thy everlasting protection save and defend the fruits of them that do believe with their souls and bodies who livest and reignest one God with the Father and the holy Ghost World without end Amen This done let the Bishop or Suffragan sprinkle the Bell with holy Water and all the People there present likewise Then the Godfathers and Godmothers laying their hands upon the Bell the Bishop or Suffragan shall say to them Name the Bell. The Godfathers and Godmothers shall give the Bell such a Name as they think good When the Bell is thus Christned the Bishop or Suffragan with the Godfathers and Godmothers shall put upon the new baptized Bell a Linen Vesture white and large And thus endeth the Christning of Bells But when the Bells thus baptized shall be brought unto Confirmation and to render an account or reason of their Faith I find not in all the Popish Books I have read But O God what a dishonour is this to thy holy Name What a corruption to thy blessed Doctrin What a mocking to thy holy Mysteries What an abuse of thy Creatures What a maintenance of Superstition and Idolatry What a deceiving of thy People A Blessing for sore Eyes taken out of an old Mass-Book very profitable for that Disease as teacheth Wilielmus de montibus matricis Ecclesiae Lincolniensis Cancellarius THe blessing for sore Eyes saith he necessity bringeth in and the devotion of them that ask it and it ought to be done on this manner First The Priest that singeth Mass after he hath received the body and blood of our Lord and after the first and second washing of his fingers shall cause his Parish-Clerk to pour into his Chalice the third ablution not of Wine but of Water And this Water must the Priest in his Chalice reserve and keep till Mass be done And when Mass is once done the Priest before he put off his sacerdotal Vestiments shall take of this Water and sprinkle it upon the sore Eyes and he shall say this Prayer following with Dominus vobiscum Et cum Spiritu tuo and with Oremus The Prayer O Lord Jesu Christ who openedst the Eyes of the man that was born blind keep the Eyes of this thy servant giving him sight clear sufficient meet and competent to serve thee withal by the virtue of this Sacrament and by this sign ✚ of thy holy Cross Here let the Priest cross the diseased person with the Chalice and with the Corporass Cloth And let him to handle the matter that with his Crossing he may cause some wind to go from the Chalice and Corporass Cloth into the sore Eyes while he saith In nomine Patris Filij Spiritus sancti Amen Then shall the Priest say the beginning of St. John's Gospel In principio erat Verbum c. These things done let the diseased person rise up kiss the Altar and offer something to the blessed Sacrament and so depart And undoubtedly with the help of God and of our blessed Lady he shall shortly have remedy of his Disease Probatum est A general Blessing for all things O Thou Creator and Consecrator of Mankind the giver of Spiritual Grace the granter of Everlasting Health O Lord send thy holy Spirit upon this Creature M. that it may profit them unto everlasting salvation which being armed with the virtue of heavenly defence do tast of it And ✚ the blessing of God the Father and the ✚ Son and the ✚ holy Ghost descend upon those Creatures and abide upon them for ever Here is Everlasting Salvation set forth again to be obtained by every Rag and Clout or whatsoever other vile thing is hallowed by the Popish Priest But since such blasphemous Baggage is sufficiently confuted before I will here end with this protestation That Christ alone is our Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption that as it is written He that rejoyceth should rejoyce in the Lord To whom be all Honour and Glory both now and for ever Amen FINIS