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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

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

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

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

thy Love and be multiplied into the length of days Then let holy Water be sprinkled upon the Ring and all is well Who can otherwise than laugh at the folly of these foolish Papists who not being content to shew their fondness in certain trifling matters must desire God to send his blessing on a poor Ring What kind of Prayers are these unto God Are they worthy of Gods Majesty Is this to ask according to the will of God God ought not to be called upon in vain and trifling matters but in grave and weighty Causes in affairs that appertain unto his glory and to the salvation of our Souls The very Heathen in times past would have been ashamed to offer up their Prayers to their false Gods for such foolish and childish things And to say the truth this kind of praying is nothing else than a plain mocking of God The Papists might with as good a Conscience pray to God to make the weathercock of Pauls a Preacher for this Prayer would please God assoon as the other But let us see to what end the Papist desireth God to send his blessing upon the Ring It is saith he That she which shall wear it may be armed with the virtue of Heavenly defence and that it may profit her to eternal salvation Here be two goodly matters if they might be obtained But where hath God promised that the wearing of a Ring hallowed by a Popish Priest should bring to the wearer the vertue of Heavenly defence and everlasting salvation What if an Heathen Woman and an Idolatress should wear this sanctified Ring should she also enjoy these two Commodities For the words are general That she which shall wear it c. But to be short we shall note that the vertue of Heavenly defence cometh not by the wearing of a Ring but by the mighty protection of God wherewith both by his Grace and Spirit and by the Ministery of his Angels he defended his Elect and chosen People as it is written The poor crieth and the Lord heareth him and delivereth him out of all his troubles The Angel of the Lord pitcheth his Tent round about them that fear him and delivereth them And as touching eternal Salvation who knoweth not that it is the free gift of God given to the faithful for Christ Jesus sake Therefore to ascribe these heavenly Treasures to the wearing of a poor Ring doth not a little obscure the Grace of God and the Merits of Christ's Death and Passion The Hallowing of the Pilgrims Wallet and Staff THe Pilgrims that intend to go on Pilgrimage either to St. Peter and Paul at Rome or to St. James of Compostella or to any other Saints must first of all be blessed of the Priest in this manner First the Pilgrims must come devoutly unto the Church and make their Confession humbly to the Priest and gladly receive of him Penance and Absolution Afterward they shall come into the Chancel reverently prostrating themselves and lying flat upon the ground before the Altar Then the Priest shall say these Psalms Miserere Deus misereatur Qui habitat Nunc dimittis with Kyrie eleyson Christe eleyson Kyrie eleyson Pater noster Ave c. After these things shall follow the hallowing of the Pilgrims Wallet and Staff In the hallowing of this Staff amongst many other words the Popish Priest hath these O Lord Jesu Christ we humbly call upon thee that thou wilt vouchsafe to ✚ bless this Wallet and Staff that whosoever for the love of thy Name doth endeavour himself to take the same by his side as an Armour of humility and to hang it about their necks or to carry it in their hands and so going on Pilgrimage having meek Devotion for a Companion of their Journey to seek the helps of Saints they being preserved with the defence of thy right hand may merit to come to the joys of the eternal vision Here is more work for the Tinker A new Master a new and hang up the old as the Porters cry in Sturbridge-Fair Here is a sudden fall even out of the Hall into the Kitchin as they use to say Our Papist is suddenly come from his golden Rings to Scrips Wallets and Staves and now he sanctifieth and blesseth them yea and that so much the more because they are but vile Pedlary Ware and serve only for Rome-runners and Pilgrimage-gadders In this his Consecration he humbly beseecheth God to bless the Wallet and the Staff Without doubt God is not a little bound to the Papists For as they are busie-bodies themselves so will they not suffer God to be unoccupied The Epicures fain that God is idle in Heaven and taketh no care of his Creatures but suffereth all things to go which way they will Fortune and not God's Providence bearing rule The Papists therefore as it may seem fearing that God should fall into idleness and forget his Creatures appoint him to work But what work I pray ye Verily to hallow and bless Water Salt Bread Candles Palms Fire Ashes Incense Pascal Pascal Lamb Eggs Herbs Milk Honey Apples Wine Cheese Butter new baken Bread Flesh Font and I know not how many things besides And now at the last they appoint him to consecrate bless and sanctifie vile beggerly Wallets and Staves for Rome-runners and Pilgrimage-gadders Is not God much bound to these Papists that appoint him so vile an Office And is not God worthy to tender these their requests And are not these requests of the Papists meet to be granted But let us see why the Papists are so desirous that God should bless these Wallets and Scrips these Staves and Sticks Because say they that whosoever endeavours to take the same Wallet and Staff by his side or to hang it about his neck or to carry it in his hand and so go on Pilgrimage to seek the helps of Saints may merit to come to the joys of the eternal vision Is not here a good work in hand think you Ought not God even of duty to put to his helping hand and to put this good deed forward An idle lend lasie Lubber is determined to wander and gad abroad with his Wallet and Staff and to live of the sweat of folks hands and God must be a Cloak of his idleness Is it not well appointed Why do they not also appoint God to bless the Pilgrims Breeches Hose Shoes c. For he hath as much need of all these things in his Journey as of the Wallet and the Staff except he hath made a vow to go his Pilgrimage breechless and bare-arsed bare-legged and bare-footed as many do And what other thing is it to go on Pilgrimage to seek the helps of Saints than to play the Idolaters and to run away from God that fountain and well-spring of all goodness and to commit Whoredom I mean Idolatry with Creatures which of themselves were never able to help themselves and to beg of them that they cannot give Is it any other thing

Papists steal away the glory of our Salvation from Christ and give it to Creatures Is Christ's ear so stopped that it can no more hear Is Christ's hand so shortned that it can no more help Ah cursed is that Man that putteth his trust in any Creature and suffereth his heart to depart from the Lord. Moreover They give such virtue to their bewitched Salt that it is able to drive away Devils and unclean Spirits wheresoever and whensoever it be sprinkled O blasphemous Priests When Christ sent forth his Disciples into the World to Preach the Gospel he said that they should cast out Devils by his Name that is to say by his power and might He saith not by the sprinkling of holy Water And St. Paul exhorteth us to put on the shield of Faith and with that to quench the fiery darts of Satan so likewise doth St. Peter saying Be ye sober and watch for your adversary the Devil goeth about like a roaring Lyon seeking whom he may devour whom see that ye resist with a strong faith In the History of the Gospel we read that Christ drove away the Devil with the word of God And in another place of the Gospel he speaketh of a certain kind of Devils which are not cast out but by Prayer and Fasting Thus are we taught in the Word of God that by the Name of Christ by Faith by the holy Scripture by Prayer and Fasting the Devil is expell'd and put out But that he is driven away by holy Water we find in no place And in the Prayer that followeth the Popish Conjurer desireth of God that the conjured and bewitched Salt may be unto all such as receive it salvation of mind and body so that whatsoever shall be touched or sprinkled by it may be void of all uncleanness and of every assault of spiritual wickedness Here singeth the conjuring Papist one and the same song as before so likewise here he goeth about to bring salvation both of mind and body to the People from his bewitched Salt when as we have heard all salvation cometh from God alone through faith in the blood of Christ as St. Paul saith By grace are you saved through faith yea and that not of your selves It is the gift of God and cometh not of works because no man should rejoyce If salvation come not unto us through those good Works which we work at the appointment of God but is the free gift of God alone as the same Apostle saith also in another place Everlasting life is the gift God through Jesus Christ our Lord With what face than do our Popish sacrificers attribute the virtue of salvation to a beggerly Ceremony invented by the idle brain of some enemy of God and no where commanded but rather condemned in the holy Scripture as our Saviour Christ saith in the Gospel They worship me in vain teaching Doctrins which are the Commandments of men And whereas the Mass-monger prayeth That whatsoever be touched or sprinkled by it may be void of all uncleanness we shall understand that it is God alone which through Faith purifieth and cleanseth us both in body and soul Therefore David prayeth unto God saying A clean heart create thou in me O God and a right spirit renew thou in my innermost parts And God himself by the Prophet saith I will pour upon you clean water and ye shall be cleansed from all your iniquities yea from all your Idols will I cleanse you And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you c. This clean Water which God promiseth here to pour upon his People is not the conjured Water of the Papists seasoned with Salt but it is the holy Ghost which by Faith is received of the true Christians And are not these the words of blessed St. Luke By faith hath he purified and cleansed their hearts As touching the avoiding of every assault of spiritual wickedness whereby is understood the work of Satan and of his infernal Army imployed unto the destruction of the faithful We have before heard that neither Salt nor Water nor any thing of like condition altho' never so much blessed crossed exorcised conjured and bewitched is of such force that they may be able to resist and so quench the fiery darts of Satan By the Name of Christ by Faith by the Word of God by Prayer and Fasting is this brought to pass so that by this means we obtain and get glorious Victories over all Spiritual Wickedness as it is written O Hell I will be thy destruction O Hell where is thy victory God be thanked which hath given us the Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ Moreover As they handle the Salt so do they likewise the Water They bless they sanctifie they exorcise they conjure they charge they command they charm they bewitch the Water speaking unto it as a thing having life on this manner I conjure thee thou Creature of Water in the Name of God the Father Almighty ✚ and in the Name of Jesus Christ ✚ his Son our Lord and in the virtue of ✚ the holy Ghost that thou be a conjured Water to expel all Power of the Enemy and that thou maist be able to root out and utterly to displace the Enemy himself with his Apostatick Angels by the virtue of the same our Lord Jesu Christ who shall come to judge the quick and the dead and the World thro' fire As before in the Conjuration of the Salt the Exorcist and Conjurer went about by charming to make it of sufficient virtue to expel and drive away Satan and all his Ministers so likewise doth he here in the exorcising of the Water But how wickedly and foolishly he doth this we have before sufficiently heard In the Prayer unto God that followeth immediately after the Conjurer is more mad and as one out of his wits he prayeth God that his bewitched Water may be of such virtue and strength that whatsoever this Water shall sprinkle in houses or places of the faithful may be void of all uncleanness and delivered from harm That no noisom spirit remain there nor no corrupt air but that they may avoid all the laying in wait of the privy Enemy and that if there be any thing that is contrary to the health and quietness of the Inhabitants it may through the sprinkling of this Water depart away c. And in the Prayer which he maketh after he hath mingled the Water and Salt together he beseecheth God that wheresoever this Water thus conjured be sprinkled all noisomness of the unclean spirit may be cast out and the terror of the venimous serpent expelled far away and the presence of the holy Ghost may vouchsafe to be present And in the next Prayer following he desireth of God that he will grant by the sprinkling of this bewitched Water health of mind safety of body conservation of health security of hope and strength of faith Who seeth not how this Popish Exorcist

a false fancy of the Papists to teach the simple and ignorant People to believe that by eating this their Bread they shall be free from all Diseases Hence it hath come to pass in times past that many would carry home part of the holy Bread in their Napkin and put it in their Pottage believing that that part of the holy Bread which they did eat dry in the Church should stand instead of their Table Bread all the week after if they should chance to die Again that that part which they carried home and did put in their Pottage should preserve them from all Sickness and Diseases O blindness rather worthy to be lamented than to be laughed at And whereas they attribute to their holy Bread power to deliver the receivers thereof from all lying in wait of the Enemies who knoweth not what a slender defence a morsel of bread is against our Enemies whether we respect the spiritual or the corporal Satan is a mighty Prince and in working mischief is more subtle and more crafty than to be resisted with a morsel of bread The same may we say of our bodily adversaries A Man of credit dead some years since saith That when he was a Child he knew certain old women in his Country which always carried about them certain pieces of holy Bread in the Ears of their Caps being certainly persuaded and assuredly believing that carying that Bread about with them they should easily avoid the danger of evil Spirits and be free from the wicked Arts of their Enemies so that no harm should chance to them that day neither spiritually nor corporally The younger sort of Women and Maids for the like purposes carried the holy Bread about their Necks with St. John's Gospel sown in a piece of Silk or Velvet hanging upon St. Audries Lace which as they said was very profitable for the pain in the Throat and a present Remedy against the Chin-Cough Thus the subtle Papists deceived the simple People and made them plain ridden fools But let us behold more of their Conjurations Of HOLY CANDLES IN the hallowing of Candles upon Candlemas-day the Priest being arraied with his Priestly Apparel and turning himself to the South among other things in his first Prayer desireth God that his Candles which he hath there in hand may receive such a strength and blessing through the token of the holy Cross that in what place soever they be lighted or set the Devil may avoid out of those habitations and tremble for fear and fly away discouraged and presume no more to disquiet them that serve him Is not this a wonderful Prayer and well framed according to the Will of God Is not this a new kind of saving health that Candles blessed of a Popish Priest without the Commandment of God being lighted or set in a place should drive away the Devil and make him to tremble for fear as one altogether discouraged or dismaied c. yea and that by vertue of the sign of the Cross If the Cross whereon Christ died were then present it could give no such strength as the Papists require much less can the Sign thereof The Devil feareth as much the Sign of the Cross as he feareth the turning the Weathercock of Paul's when the wind bloweth The Name of Christ and constant Faith in the same expelleth Satan and not the Sign of the Cross Afterward in the same Prayer he beseecheth God That he will send down his holy Angel Raphael that he which plucked out and put away from Tobias and Sarah the pestilent and noisom Devil which troubled them may by the sanctification and hallowing of the Candles tread Satan down and chace him away out of all the Houses of them that honour God out of the Churches out of the Mansions out of the Beds out of the Refectories and out of all places wherein such as serve God do dwell and rest do sleep and watch do walk and stand and that that malignant Spirit may no more be bold to trouble or to make them afraid whom thou hast defended with the holy Unction of thy holy Chrism Here this blesser and sanctifier prayeth God to send down the Angel Raphael to dispatch the Devil out of the way that he trouble us no more not considering whether God hath in the mean season appointed him to any other service The Angels are not appointed by God to wait upon Candles at the request of sinful men but are ordained of God to attend upon his elect and chosen People as St. Paul writeth And it is not a little to be marvelled at that the Popish Priest is so without all shame that he would have the Angel of God do all these things through the hallowing and sanctification of the Candle as though there were more virtue and strength in a Wax Candle than in an Angel of God which by the power of God hath not only expelled many Devils but hath also in one night slain many thousands of People But the Papists are like to an Ape which liketh no kind of Beasts but her own Whelps thinking them most fair most well-favoured most amiable c. when notwithstanding who knoweth not what deformed things they are After this manner play the Papists they like no kind of Justification and Sanctification that God hath appointed in his holy Word but whatsoever they devise of their own-authority without the authority of God's Word that they extol and magnifie above the Stars That justifieth that sanctifieth that saveth And to bring this thing to pass they abuse the good Creatures of God by taking upon them to make them more holy and better than ever God made them which is an Antichristian presumption After these things as a man out of his wits the Popish blesser turneth him to the Candles and saith I bless ✚ thee O thou Creature of Wax in the Name of the holy Trinity that thou be in all places a chacing away of the Devil and an utter destruction and rooting out of all his Companions c. Here doth the Popish Priest attribute Power to the Wax for to chace away the Devil and all his Companions But I marvel why the Hemp whereof the Wiek is made is not also spoken unto and bless'd as well as the Wax seeing that that also is part of the Candle It is to be thought that the Papists had rather twice deal with Wax than once with Hemp for fear of hanging In the second Prayer after that the Priest himself hath blessed the Candles as a man remembring his duty he beseecheth God That he also will vouchsafe to bless those Candles prepared unto the uses of Men and health of Bodies and Souls as well on the Land as in the Waters yea and that by the invocation of his holy Name and by the intercession of his holy Mother and by the Prayers of all the Saints To make this Merchandise saleworthy he is not content with his own blessing of the Candles but he also

prayeth God to put to his blessing that they may bring unto men health both of body and soul not only upon the Land but also upon the Water that is to say in every place that the sanctified Candle may be known to be a perfect Saviour in all places universally O abomination O blasphemy The mean to bring this matter to pass he allegeth to be the invocation of God's most holy Name as the Charmers Conjurers and Witches do likewise But lest that the invocation of God's most holy Name should not seem to suffice in this behalf as though there were an insufficiency in the same he straightway subjoineth and addeth the intercession of our Lady and the Prayers of all the Saints in Heaven But where hath the Papist learned in God's Book the Intercession of Saints Or where hath he any Scripture to shew that they Pray either for us or for the Candles God alone is to be invocated and called upon in the Name of our only alone Mediator yea and that according to his Will and not after the foolish fancies of Men. And as God alone is to be called upon in spirit and truth so likewise he alone heareth our Prayers and granteth our Petitions All other Invocations and Intercessions are but the idle inventions of Men sprung up of a blind Zeal without authority of God's Word and to say truth meer Idolatry After these and such like Benedictions and Prayers the Candles are sprinkled with holy Water and incensed that nothing should want unto the perfect salvation of them But whether this be false Worshiping or Conjuring or Idolatry or Superstition or Foolishness to incense dead Creatures and to make sweet Perfumes to them that smell nothing let others judge All these things I am sure are but apish toies devised only to blear the simple peoples eyes and to keep them still in blindness that they being occupied about such trifles may have no leisure to spy out the jugling of the Papists God confound Antichrist with his whole Generation These things being dispatched the Candles are lighted and every man taking his Candle and the Priest his with merry singing of Lumen ad revelationem gentium and Nunc Dimittis servum tuum domine Then the Priest holds up his Candle and all the People their Candles and about the Church-yard they go the Prior of Prickelingham and his Covent meerly singing and talking as merry as Pope John with all his College of Cardinals After Even-song the same day distribution is made of the Priest's Candle by the Priest to the People every one taking their Portion in a fair Napkin as a Relique and Jewel so holy so precious and of so incomparable virtue that they think themselves unworthy to touch it with their bare hands These pieces of the Candle they bear home and lay up daintily in their Coffers If any Thunder or Lightning or any other grievous Tempest arise then straightway they light their Candles with this faith and persuasion That that Candle being once lighted driveth away the Devil quieteth the Tempests and bringeth health and safegard to so many as are in the house Again When any sick person is like to depart then this Candle is also lighted and the sick man blessed therewith with this belief That if he be blessed with that holy Candle before he depart he shall be free from all the Assaults of the Devil and the sooner come unto everlasting joy Of Holy Boughs otherwise called Palms NOw as touching the Boughs Branches and Flowers which on Palm-sunday are exorcised conjured bewitched and charmed in the Churches of the Papists First of all before this matter be enterprised because all things should orderly be done the sacrificing Priest is commanded to array himself with a red Cope and then to stand upon the third step of the Altar turning him toward the South Secondly the Palms with the Flowers that shall serve for the Clerks shall be laid aside upon the Altar as for persons of a greater dignity and more excellency than the common sort of People Thirdly as touching the other Palms and Flowers which shall serve for the Laity they shall be laid on the step of the Altar on the South-side All these things set in most comely order at last the Sorcerer falleth to his business and saith I conjure thee thou Creature of Flowers and Branches in the Name ✚ of God the Father Almighty and in the Name ✚ of Jesus Christ his Son our Lord and in the virtue ✚ of the holy Ghost Therefore be thou rooted out and displaced from this Creature of Flowers and Branches all the strength of the adversary all thou Host of the Devil and all thou power of the Enemy even every assault of Devils That thou overtake not the footsteps of them that hast unto the Grace of God Through him that shall come to judge the quick and the dead and the World by fire Amen As we have before heard in the Conjurations of Salt and Water how busie the sacrificing Sorcerer was to dispatch the Devil and all his power out of the aforesaid Salt and Water through his wicked and divelish Incantations even so playeth he now with the poor Boughs and silly Flowers I conjure thee saith he But I beseech you where ever did Christ ordain the Ministers of the New Testament Conjurers Antichrist indeed hath his Conjurers Sorcerers Charmers Witches South-sayers Enchanters Sacrificers c. but Christ in his Ministry knoweth no such Therefore whereas the Popish Priests take upon them to Conjure they shew themselves to be not the Ministers of Christ but the Bond-slaves of Antichrist But what fault find they in the Branches and Flowers which are the good fair sweet and pleasant Creatures of God that they must be conjured We see in them the great Power and mighty Work of God These Boughs which not long before seemed to be dead are now green and flourishing The Flowers which of late were not are now most goodly and pleasant to behold Beholding them we are forced to praise God in his Creatures neither do we see any imperfection in those Creatures that they should need such Conjurations Hath the Devil entred into the Branches and Flowers since they were brought into the Popish Temples For before they were good and undefiled and needed no such Conjurations and Charms But what conjure they the Devil and all his power out of the Flowers and Branches But the holy Scripture saith God beheld all things that he had made and they were exceeding good Flowers Boughs Branches are the Creatures of God therefore are they good If good what place hath the Devil in them Can that which is good and the Devil dwell together What fellowship hath Christ with Belial Light with Darkness Righteousness with Unrighteousness But it is to be thought that whatsoever thing it be although never so good that cometh into the Popish Priests hands it is straightways defiled or else they would never use such Benedictions

Life Verily if this Doctrine were true it were a very easie thing to enter into Heaven We should not need to Pray nor Fast nor give Alms nor to do any other good work but only to eat and drink and to be merry according to the old saying Dum sumus in mundo vivamus corde jucundo But our Saviour Christ teaches us far otherwise saying Enter in at the strait Gate for wide is the Gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which go in thereat But strait is the Gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto Life and few there be that find it The Apostle saith That by many tribulations we must enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Of merits and deserts we have before spoken And as touching Everlasting life we are taught by the holy Apostle that it is the free gift of God through Jesus Christ our Lord to whom be glory for ever The hallowing of the Font. THe hallowing of the Font solemnly is used in the Popish Churches twice in the Year that is to say on Easter-Even and Whitsunday-Even At other times secretly if necessity requireth they use also to have it but not with so great solemnity and pomp Now that this matter may be done formally it is appointed that at both these times the Priest shall furnish himself after the best manner put on his Surplice his Stole and his Cope He must also have one with him that shall bear the Tar-box otherwise called the Chrismatory wrapped in a Towel another to carry the Censer a third to bear the Ship and two more to carry the two Candlesticks burning to light him that he stumble not by the way besides the whole Quire All these being set in a most seemly order they take their Journey out of the Chancel unto the Font merrily singing the Kyrie and calling upon a number of Saints as Angels and Archangels Patriarches and Prophets Apostles and Evangelists Martyrs Widows and Virgins with all the company both of he Saints and she Saints with Omnes Sancti orate pro nobis desiring them to take so much pains for them as to pray for them When they have once done with the Saints they return unto God and desire him to be favourable unto them and to grant them their Petitions which be divers and many Among all that he will vouchsafe to keep the Apostolick Lord that is to say the Pope and all the Ecclesiastical Degree in holy Religion They pray also for the Bishop of the Diocess But as touching either King or Queen they are past over with silence These things dispatched out of the way with a Pater noster and a Credo the Priest falleth in hand with the consecration or hallowing of the Mass and desireth God to command that all unclean Spirits may depart out of that Water and that all the wickedness of the Devils deceit may stand far off c. That it may be an holy and an innocent Creature free from all invasion of the Enemy and purged through the departure of all wickedness Again That it be a living Fountain a Water that regenerateth and begetteth a-new purifying Water c. And while he is singing these things it is appointed in the Book that besides divers others to the number of six he make two solemn Crosses in that Water with his right hand dividing the water in the manner of a Cross After these things he speaketh to the Water on this manner Wherefore I bless ✚ thee thou Creature of Water by ✚ the living God by ✚ the true God by ✚ the holy God who at the beginning separated thee from the dry Land whose Spirit moveth upon thee which commanded thee to flow out of Paradise and in four Flouds to water the whole Earth c. Here must the Priest make the third Cross in the Water after the manner before appointed Then goeth he forth again to speak to the Water on this wise I ✚ bless thee by Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord who in Cana of Galilee by his wonderful power turned thee into Wine who walked on foot upon thee and was baptized in thee of John in Jordan Who brought thee forth out of his side with Blood also and commanded his Disciples that they that believe should be baptized in thee saying Go teach all Nations Baptizing them in the name of ✚ the Father and of ✚ the Son and of ✚ the Holy Ghost Here must the Priest cease his singing and read these words O Almighty God be thou mercifully present with us that keep these Commandments Lovingly breath Here must the Priest breath into the Font three times in the manner of a Cross Bless thou ✚ these simple waters with thy mouth that besides the natural cleansing which they may shew in washing the bodies they may also be of strength to purifie the minds Here the Priest is commanded to take the burning Candle and to drop of it into the Font after the manner of a ✚ and holding the Candle still in the Font to sing with a lusty and couragious voice on this manner O let the virtue of the Holy Ghost descend and come down into this fulness of the Fountain and make all the substance of this Water fruitful with the effect and power of regenerating or begetting a-new Here must the Priest divide the Water with the Candle and afterwards pluck it out and give it again to the Minister After these things he must breath thrice into the Font and so after a few words he maketh an end of singing When he hath once done the Consecration and Blessing of the Font he is commanded to put Oyl into the Water making a ✚ of the Oyl with the Bullion which is in the Vessel of the Oyl otherwise call'd the Chrifmatory saying on this manner The commixtion or mingling together of the Oyntment of Oyl and of the Water of Baptism In the Name of ✚ the Father and of ✚ the Son and of ✚ the holy Ghost This thing being dispatched out of the way the Priest must put Cream into the Font making a cross of the Cream with the Bullion that is in the Vessel of Cream and say This Font be made fruitful and sanctified with this healthful Cream to all that be born a new of it In the Name of ✚ the Father and of ✚ the Son and of ✚ the holy Ghost These things thus finished the Priest with all his Trinkets and Complices must return into the Quire merrily singing Rex Sanctorum c. Then also for joy and glee must all the Bells be rung that are either in the Steeple Church or Chancel And thus endeth the sanctifying and hallowing of the Font according to the Pope's appointment Here hath been much ado about a thing of nothing I mean about the Consecration of the Font. But what needeth all this reckoning To what end hath the Popish Priest been so busie with his Exorcisms and Conjurations with his

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

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