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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

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

and wicked Conjurer goeth about by this heathenish Ceremony to obscure the glory of Christ and his death while he goeth about to attribute that to the idle invention of Man which is only given to the faithful of God alone through the Lord Christ his dearly beloved and only begotten Son For what can Christ bring unto us but free deliverance from Satan and his Ministers freedom from all sin and uncleanness health of body and mind quietness of Conscience security of hope strength of faith and in fine everlasting Life All these things bring the bewitched Water by the Doctrin of the Papists to them that be sprinkled with it And is this any other thing than to make Christ Jack out of Office and to place a new Saviour in his stead Wo unto thee thou Pope and thou Devil Ah thou Antichrist who in thy Antichristian Doctrin teachest thy Captives and Bond-slaves to seek salvation in this thy beggarly Ceremony and to say these words when they take this thy conjured and bewitched Water Aqua benedicta sit mihi Salus Vita that is to say This blessed or rather bewitched Water be unto me Salvation and Life O blasphemy passing all blasphemies Water utterly abused to bring Salvation and everlasting Life O damnable Doctrin Salvation cometh by none but by him alone who is the Saviour of the World even the Lord Jesus who only and alone saveth his People from their sins as St. Peter saith There is Salvation in none other but in the Lord Jesus Neither is there any other Name given unto Men wherein they may be saved but only the Name of the Lord Jesus And as concerning everlasting Life saith not the Lord Christ of himself in this manner I am the resurrection and the life he that believeth in me although he were dead yet shall he live and every one that liveth and believeth in me he shall never die Again he saith I am the way the truth and the life no man cometh unto the Father but by me Likewise saith St. John Baptist of this Christ the Lord He that believeth on the Son of God hath everlasting life but he that believeth not on the Son of God hath not life but the wrath and vengeance of God abideth upon him He saith not He that sprinkleth himself with holy Water hath everlasting Life but he that believeth on the Son of God hath everlasting Life Neither saith he He that sprinkleth not himself with holy Water hath not Life but the wrath of God abideth upon him but he saith He that believeth not on the Son of God hath not life c. And St. John the Evangelist speaking of Christ saith This is the true God and everlasting life And are not these the words of blessed St. Paul Everlasting life is the gift of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. He saith not Through the sprinkling of holy Water Hence it evidently appears how greatly the wicked Papists in times past and still do in some places have abused the simple Christians while by this and such other like Ceremonies they have taught the People to seek Salvation both of Body and Soul Victory over Satan and all his infernal Army quietness of Conscience freedom from all Sin and Uncleanness security of Hope corroboration and strength of Faith and in fine what not Is not this to deny the Lord that bought them Is not this to make Merchandise of the People Is not this to tread the blood of Christ under foot and to count it of no force God destroy thee and thy Kingdom O Antichrist that the glory alone may be the Lord's But let us behold more of their wicked Exorcisms and Conjurations Of HOLY BREAD AS the Papists teach their Captives to seek salvation both of body and soul in their conjured Water so likewise do they in their bewitched Bread for in the Exorcising or Conjuring thereof they use these words Bless ✚ thou O Lord this Creature of Bread as thou didst bless the five Loaves in the Wilderness that as many as tast of it may receive health both of Body and Soul Here have we the very same sour and stinking leaven of the Papistical Pharisees that we had before The crafty Conjurer and subtle Sorcerer to cloak his wicked doings putteth Christ in remembrance how he blessed five Loaves in the wilderness when he fed five Thousand People as we read in the Gospel And he meaneth by blessing nothing else than the wagging of the two fore-fingers of the right hand as the manner of the Popish Bishops is to bless the People and to make them never the better But Christ's blessing was Prayer and Thanksgiving to his heavenly Father for the benefits which he bountifully doth daily bestow upon his Creatures but especially upon Mankind And methinks that the Prayer of the Popish Priest is very large in that he desireth of God that as many as tast of that conjured Bread may receive health both of Body and Soul What if Mag Pie or Jack Daw or Philip Sparrow should chance to eat of it as it may happen hath it not been known that the little god of the Altar hath been eaten and devoured of Mother Mouse and Will. Worm should they also through the tasting and eating thereof receive health and salvation both of body and soul A foul and a great oversight The almighty God ordained this his Creature of Bread for the sustentation and preservation of the body and the Papists utterly abusing it transpose it unto the salvation both of body and soul and teach us to seek health both of body and mind in this beggarly Ceremony being an idle invention of their most idle brain When we are sufficiently taught in the holy Scriptures That all our Salvation cometh from God through Faith in Christ and not from holy Bread and holy Water But the Papists have another Blessing of Bread which is this O Lord holy Father almighty eternal God vouchsafe ✚ to bless this Bread with thy holy spiritual Benediction that unto all those which receive it it may be salvation of mind and body and a safeguard against all Diseases and all laying wait of the Enemy In this Prayer we have not only that the Popish holy Bread bringeth salvation of mind and body unto all those which receive it but also that it is a safeguard against all Diseases and a defence against all layings in wait of the Enemy Will any Man be free from the Pox the Piles a Feaver or any other kind of Disease let him eat holy Bread and by the Doctrin of the Pope he shall be free from all evil Maladies If this were true as it is most false it were a very ready way and of little charge to cure Diseases And by this means also should we not only chase away all Infirmities out of the Country but also be free from the torments of Chyrurgions and the heavy Counsels of Physicians and from the Charges of them both This is therefore

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

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

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