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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

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

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

now it kindleth and sets on fire but that it may also kindle make warm or lighten all things necessary for the use of men and that all things which shall be kindled or made warm of this Fire may be ✚ blessed and profitable to the health of all men c. Here we see of what great virtue this Fire which the Papist hath now consecrated sanctified and blessed is Verily of so great force that whatsoever be kindled or made warm by this Fire should straightway be profitable to the health of all men that is to say drive away all corrupt pestiferous and evil Airs and preserve the health of all them that receive any heat by it O the marvelous strength of this sanctified Fire Hence it was that in times past so soon as the Paschal was lighted every Woman of the Parish should strive who might come first to the Fire and carry home some part of it and kindle their Wood with it and so smoak and smother every part of the House therewith with this faith and persuasion That this perfuming of their House with the smoak of this Fire did not only drive away all wicked Spirits and pestiferous Airs out of their Houses with all kind of Diseases but also bring assurance of health to all the Inhabitants of the same for all the year after O vain Faith O foolish Pesuasion In another Prayer the Popish Priest beseecheth God That into whatsoever place this blessed and hallowed Fire be brought it may expel the wickedness of the Devils deceit and make the power of God's Majesty to be present even Jesus Christ our Lord. Is not the virtue power and force of this Fire wonderful and marvelous It doth not only drive away the Devil but it also bringeth Christ unto us But as touching the Devil we have before heard That it is neither Salt Water Bread Candles Boughs Palms Flowers c. that can drive him away but only the Name of Christ Faith Prayer God's Word and Fasting And as concerning Christ no man can come by him but only through the singular benefit and unspeakable Gift of God as our Saviour Christ himself saith No man cometh unto me except my Father which sent me draw him Foolish therefore vain and superstitious is the Doctrin of the Papists concerning this their sanctified and hallowed Fire Of Holy Ashes THese Ashes whereof we must now entreat are made of the hallowed Palms of the year past And the Mass-book saith That upon Ash-Wednesday when the Priest hath absolved the People c. then must there be made a Blessing of the Ashes without Dominus vobiscum and without Oremus by the Priest being turned toward the East and standing in the midst of the Quire before the Altar Notwithstanding the Roman use saith That the Priest shall say Dominus vobiscum and Oremus also so little do the holy Fathers agree among themselves After that the Popish Priest hath set himself in a comely order for the dispatching of this matter he beginneth on this manner and saith as we read in the Roman Manuale otherwise called the Benedictionale O Almighty and everlasting God spare them that fear be merciful to them that make supplication and vouchsafe cross to send thy holy Angel from Heaven which may bless ✚ and sanctifie these Ashes that they may be an wholsom Remedy to all that weekly call upon thy holy Name and accuse themselves for the Conscience of their Sins and lament their wickedness before the sight of thy divine Clemency or that meekly and humbly desire thy most excellent Majesty And grant through the invocation of thy holy Name that so many as shall sprinkle these Ashes upon them for the redemption of their sins may receive health of Body and safegard of Soul In this Petition the Priest requireth of God That he will send down his holy Angel from Heaven to bless and sanctifie those Ashes mistrusting as it may seem his own blessing and sanctifying as a thing of no great force and virtue But I believe that he may pray to God for this matter twice before it be granted him once Where hath this Papist learned That the Office of Angels is to hallow Ashes The holy Scriptures testifie That Angels at the appointment of God have many times come down from Heaven to the consolation and comfort of God's Elect and chosen People but that they at any time came down to hallow Ashes that is in no place read And how dare the Papist ask that of God for which he hath not one jot nor one tittle in the holy Scripture We are taught to ask according to the Will of God and not against the Will of God That is the Will of God which he hath manifested declared and opened in his Word All other things are fancies dreams and idle imaginations of men And as they are asked without yea contrary to the will of God so are they never granted of God And thus may we well think of this Petition of the Priest wherein he asketh That God would send down his holy Angel from Heaven to bless and sanctifie the Ashes Without doubt a worshipfull office more meet for the Angel of Antichrist than for the Angel of Christ The Office of Gods Angel and Ambassador is to execute Gods Will to do Gods message to such as he sendeth them to take care of Gods Elect to defend him from the violence of Satan to preserve them in the obedience of Gods Will to nourish Concord Peace Amitie Virtues good Studies Arts Policy c. and in fine at the day of Judgment to gather together Gods Elect into that Heavenly Kingdom and to commit the Reprobate unto Everlasting Fire Of this we read in the holy Scripture but that it is their Office to bless and hallow Ashes that read we not Therefore as the Popish Sacrificer doth evil to put the Angels of God to such an Office as is not allotted unto them by the holy Scripture so likewise do they wickedly require such a thing of God as is contrary to his Blessed Will God hath appointed his Angels to serve him and to attend upon his elect and chosen People for their Safeguard and not to sanctifie and hallow Ashes But let us see to what end this Papist would have Gods holy Angel come down from Heaven and hallow these Ashes verily saith he That they may be an wholsom remedy to all that meekly call upon thy holy name and accuse themselves for the conscience of their sins and lament their wickedness What wicked Doctrine is this of the Devil and the Pope to teach that their abused Ashes should be not only a remedy but also an wholsom remedy to such as have offended The holy Scripture teacheth far otherwise That plainly declareth that when we have sinned against the Lord our God the next and best remedy is to turn again unto him whom we have offended to repent us of our former wikedness to crave mercy at our Heavenly Fathers hand

TITUS OATES D.D. the first discoverer of the Popish Plott 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 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 TITVS OTES D. D. What Peace so long as the Whoredoms of thy Mother Jesebel and her Witchcrafts are so many 2 Kings 9.22 LONDON Printed for Thomas Parkhurst and Thomas Cockeril at the Bible and Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside and at the Three Legs in the Poultry near the Stocks-Market 1679. I DO Appoint Thomas Parkhurst and Thomas Cockeril to Print this my Book Intituled The Witch of ENDOR TITUS OTES To the Right Honourable ANTHONY EARL of SHAFTSBURY Baron Ashly of Wimbourne St. Gyles Lord Cooper of Pawlet My Lord I Confess the Obligations that your Lordship hath laid upon this Kingdom in general and upon my self in particular call for greater Acknowledgments than have yet been paid by the one or the other As for my self my Lord I have had nothing but Affronts and Afflictions and your Lordship hath vouchsafed to stoop to share with me in them and since your Lordship hath been pleased to own me in my Sorrows and Cares I am thereby incouraged to Address my self to your Honour for your Patronage and Protection This Book my Lord is another demonstration of Rome's detestable Practices under which we must again groan if we do not with one Consent oppose Popery to cut it off Root and Branch and use all lawful means to prevent its introduction into this our native Country We have again detected the Contrivances of the Romish Interest against our Religion and Liberties therefore my Lord I humbly conceive That those that appear for a Popish Successor are for Popery by wholesale let their Pretences be what they will against it by retail and would at once betray our Land to Rome's Tyranny and Witchcrafts and are content for the Gust of a sweet Morsel to sell all even God their King Religion and every thing that may conduce to the Peace Welfare and Advantage of King and Kingdom all which appears by their slighting nay opposing the kindness of God our Saviour in this great Discovery of their intended Malice against us and by their fawning and flattering with Jesebel whose Whoredoms and Witchcrafts are many they incourage and abet the devilish Interests both of Rome and France to the great Confusion of Prince and People by which means the Gospel of our Lord Christ is more affronted in the Houses of those that profess and call themselves Christians than by the Congregation of those Blasphemers who from a Principle of Ignorance do with the loudest Calumnies reproach it These my Lord are the Traytors whom Judgment doth follow in this World and Eternal vengeance in the next My Lord I am sure your good Lordship hath not been unacquainted how the People have been deceived by these false Prophets therefore once more I pray your Lordship still to continue your Zeal and Affection to the Protestant Cause and the Interest of your Country in which Harvest your Lordship heretofore hath been and now appears to be a true labourer not only in Word but by your Lordship's Care Diligence and unwearied Activity To this end God Almighty bless your Lordship with all Blessings both of Heaven and Earth Body and Soul so that both King and Kingdom may joy and rejoyce in you I shall say no more but protest I will in all good Conscience do my part I will appear more Loyal to my Prince than those who by their accustomed Oaths say they are so and will from my Heart and with all the skill I have oppose this Romish Dragon and all its Votaries I shall now humbly take leave to subscribe my self My Lord Your Lordship 's most humble and most obedient Servant TITUS OTES WHITEHALL Nov. 5. 1679. The Exorcisms or Conjurations of the Papists as they be set forth in their Agends Benedictionals Manuals Missals Journals Portasses c. which they use in their Churches concerning the hallowing of Water Salt Bread Candles Bowes 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. with Confutations of the same Of HOLY WATER IN the Exorcism or Conjuration of the Holy Water which is mingled together with Water and Salt the Papists speak first of all to the Salt which can neither speak nor hear nor have any sense in it on this manner I conjure thee thou Creature of Salt by the ✚ living God by the ✚ true God by the ✚ holy God even by the God which through Elisha the Prophet commanded thee to be cast into the Water that the barrenness of the Water might be healed to the intent that thou maist be made a conjured or bewitched Salt unto the salvation of them that believe and that unto all such as receive thee thou maist be health of soul and body and that from out of the place wherein thou shalt be sprinkled may flee away and depart all phantasie and wickedness or craftiness of the Devils subtilty and every unclean spirit may give place being conjured by him who shall come to judge both the quick and the dead and the World through fire Amen To speak nothing of the Papists Exorcisms or Conjurations which they most wickedly use in charming the good Creatures of God against the Doctrin of the holy Ghost persuading the simple Multitude that through these Benedictions Crossings Conjurings c. they be holier than when God at the beginning made them notwithstanding Moses writeth That God beheld all the things that he had made and they were excellently good What Christian heart can suffer such and so great Blasphemies that that Virtue and Power should be attributed to a Creature without life which is only due to the only begotten Son of the living God Is Salt now through their bewitchings become of such force might and strength that it brings Salvation to them that believe and health both of body and soul St. Peter saith There is Salvation in none other but in Jesus Christ Neither is there any Name under heaven given unto Men wherein they may be saved but only the Name of Jesus Is not Christ called Jesus that is to say a Saviour at the appointment of God the Father to declare That he alone saveth his People from their sins Doth not all the Scripture testifie That by Christ only and alone we are justified and saved yea and made inheritors of everlasting glory Why then do the blasphemous

Paul saith God hath blessed us with all spiritual blessing through Christ and not by bearing of Palms For he is the blessed seed of Abraham in whom all Nations of the earth are blessed that is to say favoured of God Whosoever therefore will get the blessing of God he must seek it in Christ and not in bearing of Palms In the third Prayer he beseecheth once again Almighty God to take so much pains as to bless those branches of Palms and other Trees that into what place soever they be brought all the Inhabitants of the same place may obtain his blessing so as all sickness being chased away his right hand may defend them whom it hath redeemed In this Prayer the sacrificing Papist doth not only crave of God through these branches and flowers his blessing but also that all the Inhabitants of those houses into which those branches and flowers shall be brought may be free from all sicknesses and diseases and preserved in health And here this marked Merchant marvelously setteth forth his Merchandise as things of great price and dignity of much virtue and force profitable not only for the salvation of the soul but also for the health of the body And here is the matter that maketh their Merchandise so plausible so acceptable and so greatly to be desired chasing away of diseases and who desireth not health of body especially when it costs nothing As though he should say Ye Ideots and leud People Why do ye consume and wast your selves your money your substance in running hither and thither for the safegard and health of your body Make haste and come hither Here is present remedy against sickness and a most precious preservative of health Take these Palms bear them in your hands wear them on your Caps pin them up at your Bed's-head and my body for yours health and wealth enough And verily this was the dotage of the simple people in times past through the false persuasion of these Popish Hypocrites even to look for all these Commodities appertaining to the body or soul through the virtue of those conjured Palms And therefore on Palm-sunday they did not only most joyfully carry them about in Procession but also at the time of the Gospel they made of the Bark of those Boughs certain knots which they did always carry about with them either in their Bosoms or else in their Caps And of the very Wood they made Crosses and some used to pin them upon their Caps some to set them at their Bed's-head with this faith and persuasion That by the virtue of those Knots and Crosses they should be preserved from all evil and obtain all good things Their Houses should be free from burning and spoiling They themselves should dwell safely and sleep sweetly free from all Diseases free from Thunder and Lightning c. But to whom is it unknown That every good and perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the Father of lights To this heavenly Father therefore must we resort when we lack any good thing appertaining either to the soul or body and not unto the hallowed Flowers and Palms or unto Knots and Crosses made of the same In the fourth Prayer the Sorcerer hath these words Vouchsafe to ✚ bless ✚ and sanctifie these Branches of Palms and other Trees and Flowers that whosoever in the service of thy virtue shall take any thing thereof being sanctified with the Benediction of Heaven may deserve to enjoy Remission of Sins and the Rewards of everlasting Life Here we see to what point at the last the Conjurer is come with his conjured stuff Verily even to this end That so many as take and carry about any portion of those Branches and Flowers may deserve to enjoy Remission of Sins and the Rewards of everlasting Life What will ye have more Ye have here remission of Sins ye have everlasting Life Is there any other thing behind O blasphemous Papists We are taught in the holy Scripture to seek remission of sins not from Palms and Flowers but from the hands of our heavenly Father through faith in the blood of Christ And as touching everlasting Life it is the frank and free gift of God to the faithful through Jesus Christ our Lord as the Apostle saith But Antichrist goeth on still to be Antichrist After these things the branches and flowers are sprinkled with holy Water and incensed solemnly because they should be holy and holy again This thing done the Priest and all the People take the Palms and boughs in their hands and away they go together for company about the Church-yard This Procession is so full of mysteries that not one Papist of a thousand understands them On Palm-sunday the flies are more affraid than they are all the year after But the Idolatry that is committed afterward with the Rood at their return into the Church is most damnable God destroy all Idols with their Idolatry Of Hallowing the Fire on Easter-Eve HEre followeth more work for the Tinker Now must he fall in hand with hallowing of the Fire For although the Fire by nature is of all the four Elements most subtil pure and most estranged from corruption yet when it comes into the Papists hands it is not so pure but it must be made more pure not so holy and good but it must be made more holy and good Therefore must he fall in hand with this matter also yea and that on this manner First of all The Fire once made the Priest must stand by the Fire turning himself Eastward Secondly The Deacon must stand on the Priests left hand and the Subdeacon on the left hand of the Deacon Thirdly One Taper-bearer must stand against the Priest and at the right hand of the Taper-bearer there must stand a Child holding the Book near to the Priest Fourthly Another Taper-bearer must stand behind the Priest and at the right hand of the same Taper-bearer must he stand that carrieth the holy Water near unto the Priest Fifthly In the last place behind all on the West-side must he stand that beareth the long Staff with the Taper Sixthly Beside the Fire namely on the South-side must he stand that shall cast Incense to take fire into the Censer after benediction Seventhly All these Ministers being turned toward the Priest the Quire in the mean season standing round about namely on the North-side there shall follow a blessing of the Fire solemnly the Priest saying thus Dominus vobiscum and Oremus Among all other things in the blessing and hallowing of the Fire the Popish Priest hath these words O Lord holy Father Almighty and everlasting God in thy Name and thy Son 's our Lord Jesus Christ and the holy Ghosts We ✚ bless this Fire and ✚ sanctifie it with the Wax and all the nourishments of the same and we mark it with the Sign ✚ of the Cross of thy most high Son Christ Jesus that whether it be kindled within or without not only that which

God the Father but he appointeth Jesus Christ who for his dignity and Righteousness is found alone worthy to offer up our prayers before the Throne of Gods Majesty He alone is our Mediator He alone is our Advocate He alone is our Intercessor as the holy Scripture abundantly testifieth Whatsoever we ask of God the Father in the name of this our Mediator Advocate and Intercessor so that it be agreeable to the will of God we may be sure to obtain it as that self truth testifieth saying Verily verily I say unto you Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he shall give it you Ask and ye shall receive that your joy may be full After divers other vain words which I gladly pass over the Popish Sanctifier concludeth with these words And the blessing of God Almighty ✚ the Father and ✚ the Son and ✚ the Holy Ghost descend and come down upon this Creature of Wine that it may be to so many as take of it a remedy against all peril of Body and Soul and a foretasting to Everlasting Life Amen What an wholsom Conclusion this is who seeth not But what care the Papists what they say so that it may advance their own idle inventions although it obscure the Glory of God and Merits of Christs death never so greatly The defence both of Body and Soul against all evil cometh from God alone and not from an hallowed Cup of Wine The Lord saith David is my stony rock and my defence my Saviour my God and my might in whom I will trust my Buckler the horn also of my Salvation and my refuge I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised so shall I be safe from mine Enemies c. And as touching Everlasting Life we have before heard that it is the free gift of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. To have a foretasting of this Everlasting Life there is no other way but by Faith only as it is written He that believeth on the Son hath Everlasting Life but he that believeth not on the Son shall not see Life but the wrath of God abideth upon him The hallowing of Cheese and Butter IN the Benediction of Cheese and Butter the Sanctifier useth these words Vouchsafe O Lord God Almighty ✚ to bless and ✚ sanctifie these Creatures Cheese and Butter which thou hast vouchsafed to bring out of the fat of Beasts and grant we beseech thee that so many of thy faithful People as shall eat thereof may be replenished with all Heavenly benediction and with the holiness of thy Grace At the beginning God blessed all his Creatures and beholding them he saw that they were wonderfully good This his blessing abideth still upon his Creatures so firm and constant that they need no mans blessing much less a Papists And these things which he hath prepared to be received of the faithful with thanksgiving he hath already so sanctified and made pure by his Word that they have no need of a new sanctification Notwithstanding the Papists after their old manner go forth to abuse the good Creatures of God and to think those unclean which God hath purified and therefore they new bless and sanctifie them Moreover they desire of God that so many as eat of this their hallowed Cheese and Butter may be filled with all Heavenly blessing and with the holiness of Gods grace Great must the virtue of this hallowed Cheese and Butter be seeing it bringeth to the Eaters thereof abundance of all Heavenly blessing and the holiness of Gods grace But the Papists may ask these things twice of God before they obtain them once All Heavenly blessing and the grace of God comes not by eating sanctified Cheese and Butter but they be freely given of God to the faithful for his Son Jesus Christs sake as is above said The hallowing of new baken Bread that lately came out of the Oven IN hallowing the new baken Bread the Papists use these words O Lord holy Father Almighty everlasting God vouchsafe ✚ to bless this Bread with thy holy and Spiritual benediction that it may be to all men health of mind and Body and a defence against all Diseases and against all the crafty assaults of their Enemies As in all other his benedictions so likewise in this the sacrificing Papist beggeth of God that he will vouchsafe to bless the new Bread yea and that unto this end that it may be unto all men he meaneth so many as shall eat of it health of mind and Body and a defence against all Diseases and against all the crafty assaults of their Enemies Here the Papist layeth on load and beggeth much because he may seem to obtain somewhat But if this his request were granted of God as it is most certainly denied then should we neither have need of the Corporal Physician for the health of the Body nor yet of the Spiritual Physician that is to say Christ for the Salvation of the Soul For both these things are gotten by eating this new sanctified Bread But how false and slight Merchandize these false Merchants bring forth and utter to the simple Idiots and unlearned People the learned know For as touching the health of the body who knoweth not that although the sick Person have his gorge crammed full of this hallowed new baken Bread yet is he never the nearer to health but remaineth still sick and diseased And as touching the health and salvation of the Soul to whom is it unknown that Christ alone is the Author thereof Thou shalt call his name said the Angel to Joseph Jesus that is to say a Saviour For he shall save his People from their sins Likewise saith St. Peter There is Salvation in none other Neither is there any other name given to men under Heaven wherein they must be saved And our Saviour Christ himself saith by the Prophet I am the Lord there is no Saviour besides me A God that saveth there is none but I alone Vain therefore is the salvation that is looked for through Popish Ceremonies And cursed is he that maketh flesh his arm and suffereth his heart to depart and go away from the Lord. For the Lord shall destroy all them that run a whore-hunting from God after vile and strange Idols which are nothing else than the idle inventions of idle and wicked men Again As concerning defence against all Diseases and against all the crafty assaults of our Enemies either corporal or spiritual we are well assured that it cometh only from God He only with his mighty hand and outstretched arm defendeth his People from all evils both bodily and ghostly And as he defendeth us from all sicknesses diseases and all other misfortunes so likewise doth he only preserve and keep us from all such as go about to molest and trouble us either in body or in soul So far is it off that these benefits come unto us from a piece of new baken Bread sanctified by a Popish Priest