The Manner of the Priest Whipping out the Devil  
London Printed for Thomas Malthus at the Sun in the Poultry. 1683.  
A Whip for the Devil; OR, THE Roman Conjurer.  
DISCOVERING The intolerable Folly, Profaneness, and Superstition of the Papists, in endeavouring to cast the Devil out of the Bodies of Men and Women by Him possessed.  
Containing an Account of  

1. Several Documents and Rules to be observed by a Popish Exorcist.  
2. The Conjurer's Rubric.  
3. Their several inward and outward Remedies for Expelling Evil Spirits.  
4. Their Methods of making Holy Water for that Use.  
5. Their Methods of Clearing Houses Haunted by Evil Spirits, etc.   
All faithfully Collected from their own Authors, with pleasant Notes and Observations intermixed.  
LONDON, Printed for Tho. Malthus at the Sun in the Poultry. 1683.   

A WHIP FOR THE DEVIL.  

Several Documents requisite for a Popish Exorciser of the Devil.  
Right Worshipful and dearly Beloved,  
YOu have all heard of the cunning of Satan, and how that by his extraordinary craft he has and does not only daily insinuate into the Affections of men, but that he actually possesses the very bodies of several Mortals, and turning the Soul out of her Office, makes use of all the passions and senses of the party possessed at his own arbitrary will and pleasure. You are also to understand that there is no Religion in the World which the Devil so much affects as that of the Papists. For among them you shall frequently hear of several in whose bodies Belzebub takes up his Lodging without paying any Rent; and yet so unruly, that many times you would think he would throw the whole house out at window. On the other side the Papists are the only persons in the World among whom there are several who, by long study and industry, have found out ways and means to ferret him out of his Buroughs without the tedious formality of a Lease of Ejectment. These People are called Exorcisers, such as by the virtue of Charms and Prayers and hard Words so terrify the Devils nestling within the bodies of Mortals, that he is forced to cry, Beso los manos and march off: Nay, many times he is so put to't, that he cannot stay to compliment. Now though it be a thing well known that the Devil is generally hated, and as true that it is an easy thing to find a stick to beat a dog, yet is it not so easy to find a Rod to whip the Devil. But we have found one out at length by the help of Monsieur Jerome Mengus (unhappy was the day for poor Satan that ever he was born) which if mwn will but apply themselves to make use of, it is impossible that from hence forward the Devil should live a quiet hour in the World. He than that intends to have the Devil at his beck, must be so and so qualified. You'll say how? Why I'll tell ye, if you'll have a little patience.  

Lessons and Documents to be followed by him that intends to be an Exorciser of Evil Spirits.  

The first Document.  
WHoever he be that desires gently, neatly, and after the true manner to tread upon the necks of the Infernal Spirits, must abstain from all unlawful, vain and superstitious Actions. For as Hornets never hurt Hornets, nor Serpents sting Serpents, so one Devil will never hurt another. Therefore an Exorciser must be a man of a pure conscience, make frequent Confession of his sins, and by as frequent Repentance make his peace with Heaven. For the Exorciser's sins being forgiven through repentance, are concealed from the Devil, whereby he is utterly disabled from casting them in his Master's dish; so that when he commands him to be silent, the Devil must of necessity hold his tongue. But above all things it behoves an Exorciser to be very humble, for the Devil cannot endure so much as the smell of Humility. What sort of smell humility has, I cannot so well tell; but the Devil has, it seems, a very quick Nose, and you must take Father Mengoes word for it. Neither is it improbable but that there may be some smells which the Devil cannot endure; for we find that when that Devil of a disease called the Mother afflicts a Woman, she is presently brought to herself again by holding Assa foetida and stinking Feathers to her Nose: and so it is not unlikely but that Humility may have a certain smell which the Devil's pride is not able to suffer.   

The second Document.  
AN Exorcist ought to be very diligent to discern whether the Party be really possessed by the Devil or no, and whether it be not a fallacy. For it would be a very great blur to the Credit of an Exorciser to be baffled in his attempt for want of Judgement. Not only the Friends of the Party, but the Devil himself would laugh at him for his pains. Now an Exorcist shall certainly know whether the Party be possessed or no, if he hears him speak and understand those things which it would be otherwise impossible for the person afflicted to understand or discourse without the Devil's Instruction. Another way to try this Experiment is by touching the party with some Religious Relic, or by reading Holy words out of the Four Evangelists to the party concerned. Thus a Demoniac being brought to the Bishop of Angers, in France, he caused the Wenches Coats to be taken up to her bare knee, and then pulling a Key out of his pocket, laid it upon her naked skin. You cannot imagine how the poor Wench screamed, and roared, drew her mouth a one side, and foamed and fumed, so soon as she perceived the cold Key upon her flesh. Then the Bishop pulled out of his pocket a piece of Petronius Arbiter, and read to the Demoniac these words, There was a certain Ephesian Matron. But then the Devil was ten thousand times madder than before, the Wench raved and tore, and stamped and stared, and it was a million to six pence, but that the Devil had split her into two parts, as he took his leave; he flew away in such a violent rage, as if he had resolved to demolish the Tenement of which he could not keep the Possession. So that if you can privately and without the party's knowledge do it, 'tis a most excellent way to tie some holy Relic or a piece of paper full of Godly Names, to some part of the Demoniac's body: For then if the party be troubled and tormented with strange Convulsions, or utter furious and raging Expressions, 'tis a sign of a Diabolical Presence. But you are to observe, for the sake of those who detract from this Art, that the Devils entering into humane bodies, very rarely speak Latin: first, because the Devil is too polite to speak the Language of the Beast: secondly, because it would lay him too open to discovery, if he should use any other than the natural Instruments of those whom he possesses. And therefore the Devil possessing an illiterate Idiot never speaks Latin; or if he possess an Italian, he never speaks French, unless the party were known to speak both Languages before, in regard the Tongue being habituated to one sort of Language, becomes more pliable in its motion to the Devils occasions. Neither indeed will they speak either Hebrew or Greek, as being Languages altogether out of use, unless it be among the Learned; and the Devil is too cunning to come under their clutches.   

The third Document.  
THirdly, an Exorcist may attack the Devil possessing humane bodies by outward means, as Holy Water, Incense, Sulphur, Rue, and by several other Brewages and Doses, which however must be first exorcised and blessed. 'Tis true, we cannot say that musical Sounds, or Herbs, or any other material Substances have any natural efficacy totally to expel the vexations of the Devil, but they may very much prevail to mitigate the extremity of the trouble. For all limited Causes produce Effects more or less intense according to the matter more or less disposed and fitted for the Operation. And so the Devil may be said to have more power over a melancholy person, than over a jolly brisk Compotator, who needs no other Devil to plague him than the Wine itself, when it gets the upper hand of his Reason. And to show you that great things may be done by ordinary means, Father Mengo tells you the story out of Tobit, of the Devil's being sent packing by the stench of a Fish's liver broiled upon the coals. Which was the reason that Pope Alexander the First, and He was no small Fool, commands all the Popish Priests to consecrate those exterior means, and bless them for the use of the people. Upon which foundation he built a world of Superstitions imposed upon the Vulgar. For if the Prophet cured the barrenness of the water by throwing Salt among it, how much more may it be thought that the charming of outward means may prevail against the snares and subtleties of the Devil? For the same reason he recommends the use of Music, not doubting but that sometimes it may happen to make the Devil dance. And was not he a rare Fellow in Titus' Army, that sent several Devils away with Fleas in their Ears by means of a stone which he carried in his Ring? Or what may we think of that other who sent Satan a woolgathering by the force of a Root of a certain Herb which he put up the Demoniac's Fundament in the nature of Suppository?  
But there is yet another reason why an Exorcist ought to make use of exterior means. For it is one of the greatest additions to the punishment of the Devils, that they are made subject to the virtual Operations of sensible Things: and that being a Spirit, he is forced to be under the command and power of corporeal and fading substances. Therefore saith Raymund Lul, make use of Physic and Antipharmacons to dislodge the Devil. Which however are of greater force, if you mix in the said Medicines the Root of the Herb Hypericon. For such is the virtue of the seed of that Herb, that being burnt, it raises a smoke so offensive to the Devil's nose, that it makes him sneeze ten millions of times in less than a quarter of an hour; which must of necessity be a great vexation to him. Nevertheless Father Mengo will not allow these exterior things to have that extraordinary virtue, unless they be first consecrated with the Exorcisms of the Roman Church. For then the Devil looks upon those things as done a purpose to disgrace and reproach him, and then 'tis no wonder if he take them in snuff. And therefore it is the duty of an Exorcist to apply those things to the party grieved, and to provoke the Devil with ill language and opprobrious and affrontive expostulations. All which things the Devil, being as proud as Lucifer, can by no means brook, as being done in derision and contempt of him. And therefore he is forced to pack up his Awls, and be gone, as being buffeted on the one side with holy Exorcisms, and laden on the other side with nothing but scorn and affront. So that whoever they be that have a mind to see the Devil look like a Dog that had stole a Pudding, must go this way to work.   

The fourth Document.  
IN the fourth place it behoves an Exorcist not to ask the Devil any impertinent Questions. You may ask him his Name, and how many there are abroad of his Gang, what reason he had to enter the party; at what hour he has a mind to be spoken with, by what person or what Saint he has most mind to be expelled; what enemies he has in Heaven, and what friends in Hell, and what words those are which will plague him most? You may also ask him, whether he be a Whig, a Tory, or a Trimmer? To what Regiment of Devils he belongs, and who's his Colonel; whether he be constrained to enter into the Party, or whether it be his own voluntary act? These you'll say are all very material Questions; but how if the Devil should refuse to answer? Why then the Exorcist were a fool to ask him. But the Exorcist knows better things by his own experience: for if the Devil refuse to answer, the Exorcist deals with him as they do in Chancery, that is, he prosecutes him to a Commission of Rebellion, and commands Lucifer, Virtute Dei, to punish him in Hell for his refractory disobedience: and to give Orders to the Chief of the Squadron in the Body possessed forthwith to withdraw with all his Associates under several pains and penalties that shall come thereon. For though I said before that the Devils would not hurt one another, because it was convenient to say so; yet now because it is convenient to say otherwise, I say the Devils have variances and animosities, and differences and quarrels among themselves, and will hurt one another; and the lesser Devil must needs go, when the greater Dévil drives.   

The fifth Document.  
IN the next place the Exorciser must be careful that he stand to his Pantofles, and that when he has laid any command upon the Devil, he never bate him an Ace, though the Devil should happen to be so rash, as to deny his Jurisdiction, and contemn his Authority for some time. For that would give the Devil an occasion to grow malapert and slight his Exorcism. But then cause the Party to make a Confession of some one Article of the Roman Catholic Faith, and at the same time let him knock his head against the ground three times: yet not so hard neither as to knock out his brains: for then the Devil would laugh indeed, and run away to rights with the party's Soul instead of his body. The Exorcist is also to be very cautious in the application of exterior things to the Demoniac, such as are the Relics of Saints, the wood of the Cross, and the like: for the Devils are so crafty, that very often they feign themselves to be afraid of those things, which many times prove not to be real Relics, which is a great disparagement to the credit and honour of the Sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church, which have done wonders.  
Nor are all Devils alike; for some are more desperate, and can brook affronts, reproaches and injuries with more resolution than others. Sometimes also divine power leaves it to the Devil's discretion whether he will depart at the first bidding or no, for several concealed reasons; and they are often excused for a time from yielding obedience to our Imperative Moods, because the means we use are not seasonable, or not proper. But then again, if after long perseverance the Devil remain obdurate and dally and play the fool against the positive command of Holy Words and Applications, than the Exorcist is to make use of Goads and Spurs, which are Exorcisms and Charms, by which the Devils are tormented in their spiritual Entities, as men are pained in their corporeal bodies with Whips and Scourges. You'll say this is a sort of nonsense— I can't help that— 'Tis such as Father Mengo dedicates to no less a person than a Cardinal— and which Father Mengo looked upon to be as good sense as any was in the World, or else he spent his time very ill to clothe his work in such good competent Latin as he has done. But you must understand, that Conjurers deal in Mysteries, which for want of knowledge, are esteemed nonsense. There's the Conjurer that hangs out his face against Ludgate-Church— Why— discourse that Mysterious Mortal, that has the Devil in a string, a whole year together, and if you hear him talk three words of sense together of his own Art which he professes, and can make it out, you may win many a fair wager. And therefore pray be not such Enemies to Nonsense, especially when it treats of Mysterious Matters.   

The Sixth Document.  
WHat opinion others may have of the Popish Eucharist is left to their consideration; but Father Minorite Friar Mengo, advises it should be frequently given those that are possessed with the Devil, Nay, saith he, it was never forbidden by our Forefathers to the Spirits of Wickedness; to whom they rather thought it was to be administered every day, for that being taken by a Demoniac, it drove him from roosting in his body, and made his Mansion too hot for him, by burning him with a certain kind of Fire. And so the Abbot Andronicus was cured. For the Devil will insult over his Landlord, if he once find him denied the Heavenly Remedy, and will attack him with greater violence, and swagger like a Hector when he finds him deprived of his Spiritual Physic. If you object, That no person is to receive unworthily, which Demoniacs cannot do, because they want the use of their reason, St. Thomas Aquinas replies, That men may be said to have lost their reason in a twofold sense (for take a Jesuit without a Salvo and hang him) he may be said to have lost his reason that has but a weak use of it: and thus they are said not to see who see but weakly. Others are said to have lost the use of reason; as being born Idiots. As to the first, if it appear that they have any devotion for the Eucharist, it may be given them. As to the second, they are denied the Privilege. In another place the same St. Thomas, like a good man, advises the giving the Eucharist to Demoniacs, unless they are possessed for any crime by them committed. But then there arises another Question, whether they may be said to be possessed who want their reason? For the Devils in them if they want reason, that keep company every day with the Devil, who was ever so far from being counted a fool, that he was always thought to be fuperiour in Reason to Thomas Aquinas himself, though one of the nicest Splitters of a distinction in the World. And then again, it behoves the Exorcist to charm and give his Benediction to the Eucharist, as well as to all other things which are to be applied to the Demoniac, his Victuals, his Drink, his Pottages, Unctions, and the like, and all other things requisite to conjure the Devil out of humane Bodies. Moreover the Exorcist is to make diligent Inquisition in the Bed-cloaths, in the Mats under the Bed, over the Tester, behind the door, and in every corner of the house for all the instruments of mischief and diabolical Treachery that he can find, and presently to throw them into the fire. Nay, it would do well for the party to change his Bed, nay his clothes, nay his very House, and remove to another habitation; for it would put the Devil to his Trumpets to find out the meaning of such sudden alterations. It would be to him just like the finding out of a Plot (for the Devil knows himself always guilty) and unsettle him in all his Methods of proceeding.   

The Seventh Document.  
BY no means the Exorcist must make use of unknown names, as being of dangerous consequence so to do, according to the Opinion of St. chrysostom. And therefore Father Mengo is careful to give a List of the most necessary, to the end the well-minded Exorcist may proceed the more boldly and securely in his Conjurations: and therefore take 'em in their order.  
El Elion Jah Elohim Esereheieh Tetragrammaton Sabaot Adonai Sadai Hagios Ischyros Athanatos Soter Jehovah Homoousion Eheieh.  
Moreover the Exorcist is to make use of certain Billets or Notes containing these or some other holy Names or Words, and apply them to the parties under the Devil's Oppression, but with respect however to the following Conditions.  
First, That those holy Words do not contain any thing which pertains to the Invocation of Devils either Express or Tacit.  
Secondly, That the Exorcisms do not contain any unknown Names, for the avoiding of Superstition; that is to say, the Popish Conjurers do forbid all persons whatever to make use of the Names of the Indian Pagods, or any of the Mahometan Saints; nor of the Pinner of Wakefield, nor of the Names of Adam Bell, Climm of the Clough, or William of Cloudeslee, and yet these were Fellows that would have fought with the Devil himself. But because the Devil was not so well acquainted with them, as not being in the Popish Legend, therefore it would be a great piece of Superstition to make use of their Names. But you may make use of the Names of Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, Bell and the Dragon, Mars, Neptune, Mercury, St. George, and all your Gaming Ordinary Oaths; of which the Devil cannot be so much the Devil of a Dunce as to be ignorant, because they are so frequently in use.  
Thirdly, Great care must be taken, lest the matter of the Words contain any thing of falsehood; for that would frustrate the expectation of the Operator. For the Devil would never be afraid of a Lie, who is the Father of them himself. Which is the reason that Old women fail so often in their Charms, because they are stuffed so full of idle vanities and sottish impertinencies.  
Fourthly, All foolish Characters and Figures are to be avoided, unless it be the figure of the Cross. And the same caution is to be given against Images made by Astrologers (for Astrologers are no Popes) and artificial Rings, Annulets and Stones: for your true Exorcisers would have none to deal with the Devil but themselves.  
Fifthly, Let the Exorciser beware of putting any confidence in the manner of writing, or any other such like impertinent Vanity, nothing to the purpose, for that would be altogether superstitious; so careful are the Popish Priests, the most superstitious of men toward God, of being superstitious to the Devil.  
Sixthly, That in the rehearsal and pronunciation of Holy words and sentences respect be only had to the words themselves and their true meaning. Great reverence is also to be given to the Power of God, from whom a good effect is to be expected; and next to the Relics of the Saints, which next to God, chiefly conduce toward a happy success against the Devil. For as the Devil is known by his cloven foot, a true Papist is known by his blending Piety and Superstition together. Which conditions being observed, it is lawful to exorcise Demoniacs, and kick the Devil about like a Football.   

The eighth Document.  
AN Exorcist ought to make it his business to understand the subtleties of Devils entering into humane Bodies, that he may be the better able to deal with them at their own weapons. Know then that most Devils, having taken up their Quarters, love to lie very private, and to keep themselves either from speaking or trembling, for fear of being discovered, or that he may seem to the Priest to be the more stout and undaunted; yet if he be by the power of Sacred words constrained to tremble, he is careful however of speaking according to the mind of the party possessed. Or if he be compelled to speak from within, he is very cautious of speaking through the mouth of the Demoniac. And therefore it behoves the Priest to admonish the Party to tell him truly what the Devil mutters in his belly; and frequently to adjure the Devil to answer to Interrogatories. But when after a great deal of do he is at length brought to speak outwardly, than he does all he can to divert the Demoniac from hearing or understanding the words which are read. He also strives to disturb the attention and devotion of the Priest, either with bawdy discourse, crying, scolding, or acting the Tumbler. And therefore it behoves the Priest, well knowing his Tricks, to command him to desist from this or from that action, and to leave his babooning. Sometimes if it happens to be a young Woman that is to be exorcised, he feigns himself sick, and then the Woman desires the Priest to touch her face, or handle her breasts, to feel harder, yet harder, on purpose to put voluptuous fancies into the Priest's mind; sometimes at the Devil's instigation she desires the Priest to ease her Torments, but laying his cheek to hers, or his lips to hers, merely, wicked Devil as he is, to debauch an honest virtuous Priest of the Church of Rome. And therefore it behoves a Romish Priest to be chaste of his Eyes, chaste of his hands, and indeed of every member, especially when he meets with the Devil & a Woman together. Sometimes the damned Devil plays at Bopeep with the Priest; so that when the Priest asks him the name of the Principal Devil of the Company, he tells him his own, and conceals the names of his Companions, which as he pretends he dares not name, because they are bawdy or beastly, which you will; which may be sometimes true, but is ten times oftener false. So that the Priest knows not where to have the Devil. But he is well enough served to expect Truth from a common Lyar.  
Therefore when the Priest finds himself thus abused by one, let him command him to stand by, and call another to his Catechism, commanding him to speak, and not be afraid of the other, and commanding the other not to disturb him. If neither by this means the Priest can find out the truth, then let the Priest be as jocose as the Devil is surly, and call the rest coram nobis by contemptible names; as, You Tom-Fool, you Hell-Baker, you Sirrah, Hell-Cook, and the like; for this will make 'em open their jaws, or the Devil's in 'em.  
Sometimes when the Devil finds the Priest too hard for him, he sends for his Accomplices, either to animate him, or assist him with their presence; a common thing for one friend to cheer up another in distress. In this case the Priest must make it his business to know what Enemies his Antagonist hath either in Heaven or Hell, and then to invoke his Enemies the Saints; to conjure up his Enemies the Devils; and lay his commands upon the Devils his Friends.  
Sometimes the Devil is so wearied with talking to the Priest, that he endeavours to sneak out of the mouth of the party possessed, to rest himself either in the party's heart or under his neck. And then it behoves the Priest to fetch him back with a Sisarara, and keep him waking above board. To this purpose these words are very prevalent, Ecce Crucem Domini, (for though the Devil be unwilling to speak Latin, yet he understands Latin very well) making the sign of the Cross at the same time upon the head or forehead of the party. Or else let the Priest utter these words, Usque quo, Domine, obliviscêris me? Commanding the Devil to make an answer, which many times, without any other Exorcism, works a very good effect.  
Sometimes when a poor Soul thinks he is rid of his troublesome Guests, there are some that will stay behind in a corner, as it were to keep possession, and let in the rest at their return. To avoid this Shame, it behoves the Priest to lay his commands upon the Corporal of the Gang, to take all his Tribe along with him. It behoves also the party freed to fortify all the avenues of his body with the Padlocks of Prayer and Fasting for many months together; and if he be a married person, let him persuade his wife to continency, till he hath made all fast, according to the Proverb, Fast bind, fast find. But if the woman be of another temper, let her not act for lust's sake, and then she may do it with the Priest himself; for the Devil will never come near him.  
In Conjuration, when the Priest begins to perceive the Serpent tremble under his consecrated hand, let him presently demand his name, and the names of his Companions, the time and cause of his Entrance, as before; and write every thing down in a piece of paper, that if the Devil should afterwards grow obstinate, he may burn the said paper with consecrated Fire. For these are great affronts to the Devil, as being done to his disgrace, and putting him in mind of Hell. When the Priest hath drawn the Devil to a Confession, let him cause him to ratify it, by putting his paw to it, if he can. When he hath so done, and that he finds the Devil ready to march, jet the Priest be sure not to give him leave, till he hath got an absolute promise from him, to take all his ragged Regiment with him, and never to return again. Above all things, let the Priest be careful never to let the Devil rest a quiet minute, but be sure to worry him with continual importunity, reading, and imperious Commands; and let him never enter into disputes with him, or fall to talk of stories with him, especially amorous; for by that means the Priest wastes his Spirits, and the Devil recovers his strength.   

The ninth Document.  
IN the ninth place, let the Priest beware of exorcising the Devil in private Houses, but in the Church, or some other place dedicated to God or some Saint. For such are the Houses of Prayer. But in private Houses the Priest will meet with Women, whose company is to be avoided with all care imaginable by all Exorcisers, lest they fall into the snare of the Devil.  
As for the time, the work of Exorcising may be performed upon any day; but the better day, the better deed; therefore Our Lady-day, Christmas-day, Easter-day, Whitsunday, the several Holy days dedicated to the Apostles, and their Eves are most proper. And for the time of the day, betimes in the morning after early Matins.  
Thus you see as cunning as the Devil is, he may meet with his match: Set a Knave to catch a Knave, is a Proverb will never be out of date. Were it not better then for the Devil to turn Lutheran, than thus to lie at the lash of these merciless Exorcisers, who command him with such petty Formalities? If it may not rather be thought that he gives way now and then to these little pieces of Superstition, that they may the more easily delude greater numbers.     

The Conjurer's Rubric.  

The First Exorcism.  
AND now the Exorciser, being thus instructed, has no more to do but to prepare himself by Confession of his sins, three days fasting, and humbling himself before God. Which done, he shall go to the Church, with the party possessed, and there being clad in all the Formalities of his Order and Degree, and kneeling before the Holy Altar, he shall make the sign of the Cross upon his Forehead, his Mouth, and his Breast, and then say as follows.  
Let the sign of the Cross 
Christ says, Ye shall cast out Devils in my Name: But the Pope says, in the name of the Cross and the Virgin Mary.  be upon my Forehead; the Word of Christ in my Mouth; the Arms of Christ in my Breast. By the sign of the Cross defend us, O Lord, from our enemies. Let the power of the Father strengthen me; the wisdom of the Son teach me; and the love of the Holy Spirit enlighten me. Blessed be the day and hour wherein our Lord Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin MARY. In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, Amen. May the Virgin MARY with her holy Offspring bless us.  
Then shall the Priest 
If there be occasion, you may use the same signatures upon the Buttocks and Privities.  sign the party possessed with the sign of the Cross upon the Forehead, Breast and Mouth, saying,  
The power of the Father comfort thee; the wisdom of the Son teach thee; the love of the Holy Ghost enlighten thee. Blessed be the day and hour wherein our Lord Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary. In the Name of the Father, the Son, and Holy Ghost, Amen. After this say the whole Consiteor quite thorough, and give Confession to the possessed party and the standers by, saying, Be merciful, etc. Indulgence and Absolution, etc. These you are to understand are parts of the Mass.  
Then pronounce the following Commands.  
I command you, O Devils, who came to the assistance of those Devils that vex this Creature of God, in the Name of the Sacred Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, and under the penalty of Excommunication, and under the penalty 
Orpheus went a much more gentle way to work, and sped better.  of being plunged into the Lake of Fire and Sulphur, and of being condemned to the Lake of Fire and Sulphur for a thousand years, that you give no farther aid or assistance to those Devils that vex the body of this Creature of God, but that you depart immediately to the places appointed for you by God. Behold the Cross of the Lord; fly Mankind's enemies hence, the Lion of the Tribe of Juda, the Root of David has overcome. I also command you, O Devils, who vex this Creature of God, that departing from his body, you leave him free without any harm or detriment either to his body or Soul. Also I command all your Enemies in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, that they compel you to yield obedience to my Orders and Commands. And under the same penalties I command you, that you neither say or do any thing which may displease either those who are present or absent, but what shall be demanded by me. In the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.  
Then the Priest binding 
You must know the strong scent of a Monk's Body is very offensive to the Devil.  his Stole to the neck of the possessed party, shall say,  
O all you most abominable Spirits and Rebels to God, I conjure, adjure, call to, call forth, compel, constrain, defy, and duel ye in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and by the most powerful Name of God, Eloi, in whatever part of this man ye are, I exorcise Thee, and adjure You, O unclean Spirits, and command Ye by the authority which belongs to me, by the power of God, and the most wise Creator who created all things, and keeps you under his Power, from which you are not able to fly, that ye take immediate notice of the words and power of my Conjuration, and that you confess yourselves vanquished by the command laid upon ye, that ye do not now presume to depart 
For the Devil must now do Penance for his presumption.  from this Creature of God and Image of Christ, without absolute leave given by my command, and that you be thereby bound and chained; seeing that as the Saints of God bound the Devils in chains, so I bind you with that same Stole of gladsomness. In the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.  
Before, he bid him be gone, now he commands him to stay— What? must he neither stay nor go? No marry must he— there's something more to be done, that will make him remember possessing of Mankind, as long as he lives; as thus.  
Then the Priest putting his hands upon the Head of the Demoniac, shall say,  
Let the power of the Devil be extinguished in Thee— by the imposition of our hands yea, by the Invocation of all the Saints, Archangels, Angels, Patriarches, Prophets, Apostles, Martyrs, Confessors, Virgins, and all the Saints together. Amen.  
Behold the Conjurers Posse Comitatus.— And must the Devil stay till it be raised upon him? There's no remedy— He is bound with three knots, and all the Devils in Hell can't help him.— Well go on then.  
Then shall the Priest 
What's a Workman without his Tools?  say the following words, signing the Demoniac with the sign of the Cross upon the Forehead; which he shall always observe wherever he meets with a Cross.  
El, Elohim, Eloa, Eheye, Tetragrammaton, Adonai, Sadai, Sabaoth, Soter, Emmanuel, Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End, Hagios, Ischyros, Otheos', Athanatos, Agla, Jehova, Homoousion, Jah, Messias, Esereheieh: Christ overcomes, Christ reigns, Christ commands; the uncreated Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. By the sign of the Cross defend us, O Lord, from our enemies.  
Now don't you think the Devil begins to have it on both sides his ears? There's ne'er a one of these words but pricks him to the heart with ten thousand needles a piece.— But there's no avoiding the three knots for all this. A most unparallelled piece of folly, to think that these Sacred words could not hold the Devil without the three knots of a Friars Cool! neither must the Devil think to escape so, for all his haste. For after all this done;  
The Priest shall say some part of the Gospel's undermentioned, always moving his hands over the Demoniac's Head.  
The first Gospel is taken out of the Gospel of St. John, beginning at the first verse, to the 14th. Which being concluded, the people standing by shall answer, Praise be to thee, O Christ. Then shall the Exorcist rejoin after this manner, By these Evangelical sayings, let the power of the Devil be extinguished in thee (such a one) and the Divine power be infused into thee. Amen.  
Which is to be observed at the end of every Gospel.  
After this let the whole Creed be said quite thorough: which done, say these words, Behold the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, fly hence Mankind's Enemies, the Lion of the Tribe of Juda, the Root of Jesse has overcome.  
Then must be said another Gospel out of the 16. Chap. of St. John, beginning at the 25 th' verse, and ending at the 30 th'.  
Verily, verily I say unto ye, whatsoever ye shall ask the Father, etc.  
At the conclusion of which repeat again, Behold the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, fly Mankind's Enemies, the Lion of Juda, the Root of David has overcome. After this read the whole Psalm, beginning, Miserere mei Dues, than another Ecce Crucem, etc. and then say as follows.  
God be my aid; the Lord hasten to my defence. Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek my soul. Let them be turned back and be ashamed that seek my destruction. Let them be ashamed that say to me, Aha, Aha. Let them be glad and rejoice in thee, all they that seek thee, and let them say, Let the Lord be magnified, who seek thy salvation. I am poor and needy, help me, O God. Thou art my helper and defender, O Lord, lest I die. Glory be to the Father, etc. Then this single verse. Remember not, Lord, our offences, nor those of our forefathers, nor take vengeance of our sins.  
Thus the World may see how the Pearls of divine Writ are wasted upon the swinish Trumpery of Papistical Exorcism. For no man of reason will ever believe, that the Devil is to be frighted by these words or sentences, first defiled by the very breath, and then uttered from the mouths of Monks and Friars, either sillily or knavishly superstitious. Gospels, and pieces of Psalms, and hard Names, and what is looked upon as the most powerful Ingredient, the sign of the Cross! 'Tis a very odd kind of Jumblement; but alas, the Devil will swallow an hundred of these Bolus' without choking. However if this won't serve, here's more. For after all the foregoing Formality,  
The Priest in a kneeling posture must say the following Litany in behalf of the Demoniac.  
Kyrie Eleyson  
Christ Eleyson  
Christ hear us, etc.  
Holy Mary pray for him.  
Holy Mother of God, pray, etc.  
Holy Virgin of Virgins, pray, etc.  
S. Michael 
How came these Arch-Angels to be Sainted, who never had any need of it?   
S. Gabriel  
S. Raphael, pray, etc.  
All the holy Angels and Archangels, pray etc.  
All the Orders of blessed Saints, pray, etc.  
S. John Baptist  
S. Joseph, pray, etc.  
All Saints, Patriarches, and Prophets, pray, etc.  
S. Peter  
S. Paul  
S. Andrew, pray, etc.  
S. James  
S. John  
S. Thomas  
S. Philip  
S. James  
S. Bartholomew  
S. Matthew  
S. Simon  
S. Thaddens, pray, etc.  
S. Mathias  
S. Barnaby  
S. Luke  
S. Mark  

* 'Tis good to be sure: first some, then all; that is, both all and some.  All the Holy Apostles and Evangelists, pray, etc.  
All the Holy Innocents', pray, etc.  
S. Stephen  
S. Laurence, pray, etc.  
S. Vincent  
S. Cyprian  
S. Fabian  
S. Sebastian  
S. John and Paul, pray, etc.  
S. Cosmas and Damian, pray, etc.  
S. Gervasius and Protasius, pray, etc.  

* From particulars to universals is no good Logic.  All the Holy Martyrs, pray for him.  
S. Sylvester  
S. Gregory  
S. Ambrose  
S. Austin, pray, etc.  
S. Geminian  
S. Martin  
S. Nicholas  
S. Lewis  
S. Bonaventure, pray, 
Well thought of in good sooth: for the Devil sure will never deny his choicest acquaintance a small courtesit.  etc.  
All Saints, Popes, and Confessors, pray for him.  
All the Holy Doctors, pray, etc.  
S. Benedict.  

* Because he was disinherited by his father for theft.  S. Francis  

* For thou wert the Devil of an Impostor.  S. Dominic, pray, etc.  

* For thou wert the Devil's Shepherd, and keptest his Hogs.  S. Anthony  
S. Bernardine  
S. Bernard, pray, etc.  
All the Holy Priests and Levites, pray etc.  
All the Holy Monks and 
i e. All Knaves and Fools.  Hermit's, pray etc.  
S. Anne  
S. Mary Magdalen  
S. Agnes  
S. Lucy  
S. Cecilia  
S. Agatha  
S. Catherine  

* She was St. Francis' concubine, and run away with him.  S. Clara  
S. Elizabeth  
S. Anastasia, pray, etc.  
All Holy Virgins and Widows, pray, etc.  
All He Saints and She 
Had this been said at first, all the rest might have been left out.  Saints intercede for him.  
From all Evil,  
Good Lord, deliver him.  
From all Sin,  
From thy Anger,  
From sudden Death,  
From the snares of the Devil,  
From Malice, Hatred, and all ill Will,  
From Lightning and Tempest,  
O Lord, deliver him.  
By the Mystery of thy Holy Incarnation,  
We sinners beseech thee, etc.  
That thou wouldst give him peace and comfort.  
That thou wouldst look upon him with the eyes of thy pity.  
That thou wouldst behold his trouble and affliction.  
That thou wouldst bless and preserve this thy servant.  
That thou wouldst free him from the trouble of the Devil.  
That thou wouldst free him from the vexations of Evil Spirits.  
We humbly beseech thee.  
Behold the Cross ✚ of the Lord, etc.  
Hoyda! what's all this for? They that have business with great Personages make all the friends they can. And therefore you must not blame the Conjurer for making all the friends in Heaven he can for the poor Demoniac. 'Tis good to have a strong party, especially when you deal with the Devil. But why must they pray first singly, than all together; why so many petitions, when one would have served? For that one petition to free a man from all his sins, will assuredly secure him from the Devil. Oh, Sir, you forget that among the Papists all things are done with Decency and Formality. Besides, the more Cost the more Worship, the more the Ceremony, the more the amusement; the more the amusement, the more the Veneration; and the greater the show, the greater the pay. But this is not all yet, there are more Prayers, more Conjurations behind still: for so the Conjurer's Rubric goes on.  
Then follows the Prayer. LOrd Jesus Christ, who for the Redemption of the World didst vouchsafe to be scorned by the Jews, and to be betrayed by Judas with a kiss, and as a Lamb to be led to the slaughter, to be accused by false witnesses, and to be nailed to the Cross; to be despised and spit upon, and crowned with Thorns, to be mocked with Gall and Vinegar, to be wounded with a Lance, and crucified between two Thiefs, by these thy most holy Sufferings, which I most unworthy and miserable sinner lay hold of, and by thy holy Cross I beseech thee, that thou wouldst not look upon my sins, nor the sins of this thy Creature— but according to the multitude of thy Mercy free him from the Devil that vexes him. And grant to me thy unworthy servant power, that I may expel the Evil Spirits that vex him, to the bottom of the Abyss, by virtue of thy most holy Words.  
Then follows, Ecce Crucem, etc. Then again, The Cross is good, the Cross is worthy; the wood above all woods. By the sign of this Cross all Evil is repelled. Then a little scrap of Rhyme,  

Lest they seduce the mind,  
Get Fantomes all behind.   
For no stone must be left unturned against the Devil, whether Rhyme or Reason, Sense or Nonsense. Then, Ecce Crucem Domini, etc. Then an Ejaculation or two, as thus:  
Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come unto thee. Bow down thine ear to the voice of my supplication. Be my tower of defence against all evil spirits. Let them be as the wheel, or as chaff before the wind.  
Then follows another Prayer. OMnipotent Lord God, the Author of invincible Power, King of an insuperable Empire, always magnificently triumphing, who dost potently suppress the power of hostile Domination; who didst expel Lucifer and his Angels from Heaven for their pride and rebellion, who desirest not the death of a sinner, nor the destruction of those that die, be merciful to this thy Creature N— not regarding his sins, but thy own clemency, and free him from all the snares of Evil Spirits wherein he is daily entangled, and from all trouble and vexation wherewith he is infested, and as thou didst free Mary Magdalen from seven unclean Spirits, and the daughter of the Canaanite from the vexation of the Devil, so now vouchsafe to free thy Creature N— from all those Evil Spirits that infest him, and as thou didst free Ionas from the Whale's belly, Susanna from false accusation, and the Three Children from the fiery Furnace, Daniel from the Lion's den, and Joseph from Pharaoh's prison, so now vouchsafe to free this thy Creature N— redeemed with the Blood of thy Son, and washed with the Water of Baptism, from all vexation of Evil Spirits and Devils. And as thou didst give power to thy Apostles over Evil Spirits to cast them out of the bodies of men, so now grant to thy unworthy servant, regenerate by Baptism, and consecrated to thy Holy Name, by the gift of thy Grace, to put to flight all malignant Spirits possessing this poor Creature N— by virtue of thy Power and the Invocation of thy Holy Name. Amen.  
Then, Ecce Crucem, etc. Then another short Prayer. OMnipotent Eternal God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, we thy Suppliants beseech thee, that thou wouldst command these Evil Spirits that possess thy servant N— to depart and be gone, and to free him, because he believes in his true Saviour our Lord Jesus Christ, thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with thee world without end. Amen.  
Then, Ecce Crucem, etc. again.  
All's well that ends well, says the Proverb: but it does not thence follow, that all's well that begins well. These Conjurers borrow their first Positions from very good Prayers; but then they do so blind 'em with their superstitious admiration of the Cross, that it utterly spoils all again. There's nothing to be done without the Cross— The Cross is all in all— The Cross is this, and the Cross is that— as if the Cross were more to be adored than the person who was crucified upon the Wood Ecce Crucem is the burden of their Song, and the Chorus to their Prayers. And then again, what an impertinent Dunce was this Conjurer, to pray so zealously to God and the Cross to command the Devil's departure, when he knew how hard he had tied his Nose to the Grindstone with his Cool in three knots? and had commanded him not to stir till he himself should give him leave? But stay a little; their Devilships have not been whipped about the Pig-market enough yet, and therefore the Conjurer proceeds.  
Here the Priest rises from his Prayers, and before he begins to adjure the Devils, he must Exorcise the Party possessed after this manner.   

The EXORCISM.  
I Exorcise thee N— in the Name of the Father Omnipotent, and in the Name of Jesus Christ his Son, and in the power of the Holy Ghost, that thou become a clean, holy, and purified Vessel from all spot of iniquity, and from all Witchcrafts, Incantations, Contracts, Signatures, and Actions done and committed in or about thy body. Farther also, I the unworthy servant of God, though a sinner, by the Authority to me committed in the Name of the said Omnipotent God the Father, and his Son Jesus Christ, and in the power of the Holy Ghost, dissolve all those Ties, Ligatures, and evil Actions, and command thee, most accursed Devil, that thou presume no longer to have power in this body from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head, but that thou depart with all thy Witchcrafts and Incantations. And all this through him that shall come to judge the quick and the dead and the world by fire. Amen.  
Then must be said this Prayer. GOD of pity and compassion, who according to the multitude of thy mercy's correctest whom thou lovest, we invoke thee, O Lord, that thou wouldst be pleased to grant thy Grace to thy Servant N— who suffers weakness of his members in his body: and that what is corrupted by earthly frailty, or disordered by diabolical fraud, thou wouldst unite to the Body of thy Church. Pity his cries, have pity on his tears, and admit him to the Sacrament of thy Reconciliation, having no other confidence than in thy mercy through Jesus Christ.  
A very good Prayer, were it upon a better occasion, and not accompanied with the following piece of Superstition.  
For now the party possessed must be washed with a shower of Holy Water, and then follows the ensuing Exorcism.  
I Exorcise thee N— weak in body, yet regenerate by the Water of Baptism, by the living God, by the true God, by the holy God, by the God who redeemed thee with his most precious Blood, that thou become a man exorcised, that all fancy and fraud of diabolical wickedness may depart from thee, and every adjured unclean Spirit: through him who shall come to judge the quick and the dead.  
Then this short Ejaculation.  
O God, who governest thy handy work with a pious care, incline thine ear to our supplications, and look upon thy servant N— labouring under extreme weakness of body: Visit him and afford him the healing relief of thy salvation and heavenly grace, through Christ our Lord.  
Here ends the last Scene of the fourth Act, and 'tis greatly to be feared the Devil will be vengeance-weary before the Play be done. 'Tis no matter for that, he'll be the more glad to be gone; 'twas done to that intent and purpose. And yet one would think the Devil should laugh in his sleeve to see how his Adversary does and undoes: For in his Incantations he assumes a power committed to him already to remove the vexation, and arbitrarily commands the removal. In his prayers he desires that to be done, which he declares he had power to do before. Nor does the Priest complain of any limited Commission neither. This therefore must certainly be a very great comfort to the Devil under his affliction of Three Knots. For you may be sure that the Devil listens, like a Sow in the Beans, to every word that is said, and if there be any hole to creep out of his misery, he'll never strain a point of Courtesy with the Priest. But till the Exorcist has quite done, he knows not what to think on't. Only he's sure there's a dismal storm coming, by the great bundle of Hyssop in the Holy Water Basin.  
And now the first Act being begun, the Priest spares for no Holy Water, which he plentifully bestows upon the Party possessed: The shower being over, and the Devil's courage, as he thinks, being sufficiently cooled, the Exorcist full of hope and faith, falls briskly to work, that is, to conjure all the Devils remaining in the Demoniac's Body, after this bold manner.  
HEar, unclean Spirit 
He's mistaken that takes these for Compliments.  and infamous Devil, I admonish thee, I exorcise thee, and command thee, O Tempter, vain, harebrained, false, heretical, wicked, drunkard, mad man, thrown from the grace of God and Christ. By him I exorcise thee who for our sakes descended to Earth, who was named by the Angels, incarnate by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, and growing in years and wisdom, in the twelfth year of his Age disputed with high understanding in the midst of the greatest Doctors. I conjure thee by him who was baptised by John the Baptist in the River of Jordan, tempted by the 
Note, That Tautology may be used in Conjuring.  Devil, sold and betrayed by Judas his Disciple, fed with Gall, made to drink Vinegar, crowned with Thorns, despoiled of his garments, upon which they cast lots. I conjure 
A thick-skulled Devil that knew not what he meant without all these repetitions.  thee by him who was crucified, dead and buried, and rose from the dead the third day, ascended into Heaven, and sits at the right hand of God the Father, from whence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead, and the World by fire, that thou immediately go forth and fly from this Vessel and Creature of God, without any damage to him, or hurt to me or any of the standers by. I exorcise thee by him, of whom the Angel Gabriel declared that he should be born of the Virgin's womb, and John saluted in the womb of Elizabeth, and by him I conjure thee to answer me to all and every such questions which I shall ask thee, and that 
This seems to be in order to some Indictment.  thou answer me the truth, what is thy Master's and thy own name, and whether thou be'st in this body or without it; whether thou art alone, or one or more Legions with thee.  
Here the Exorcist 
Quaere, Whether the Devil be bound to accuse himself?  ought to examine the name of the Devil Possessor, what Companions he has, under what Order of Devils he is, for what cause he possessed the Party, whether he be bound there by any Art of Witchcraft; how that tye may be dissolved; how long he had lived there; by what Saint or person he may be expelled, who are his greatest enemies in Heaven, and who in Hell? and what signs he will give of his departure? Then command him that he do no harm to the Patient, and that from thence forward he never presume to return. But let the Exorcist be prudent and circumspect in his Interrogatories, lest he be deceived. Rather let him endeavour to free the poor man from his vexation, than stand prating with the Devil. At last having sufficiently examined the Spirit, if he neither depart, nor answer, or whether he do or no; he shall prosecute his Conjuration.   

The Conjuration.  
THou therefore, O 
What need he ask the Devil his name, when he knows him so well?  Homicide, Reprobate, Son of Perdition, I conjure thee by his sign that appeared in the Heavens, which the Shepherds saw, and the Wisemen adored; by him whom Angels and Archangels praise, that thou presently depart from that Vessel and Creature of Christ, that thou go to the bottom of the Sea, or 
It seems there are worse places than Hell.  into some old Trees, or into some Deserts where no Christians inhabit, and where the Lightning from Heaven may consume thee. May the Son, and Holy Ghost, and true Majesty of God compel thee to go forth. I conjure thee, wicked Devil, by him whose Name is Jesus of Nazareth, that thou presently depart at the first word of the Lord from this Servant of God, I conjure thee by him, at whose Birth the Holy Angels sang, Glory be to God, etc. Whom the Wisemen coming from the East adored, offering to him Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh. I conjure thee by him at whose Birth a Star appeared in Heaven, of whom Isaiah prophesied, saying, A Star shall arise in Jacob: and 
He supposes the Devil well read in Scripture, and as good an Expositor as himself.  by him whom the mute Animals knew, as it is written, The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib. I conjure thee by him whom Herod would have slain, but could not; and for whom the holy Innocents' were martyred, with whose blood the holy Jerusalem is adorned. I conjure thee by him who fled with his mother into Egypt, and at Canaan in Galilee turnedwater 
He is very careful to rub up the Devil's memory.  into wine; whom Pilate crowned with a Crown of Thorns; whom 
* That perhaps was more than the Devil knew.  Longinus pierced with a Lance, and who upon the Cross cried out, Eli, Eli, Lammasabachtani. I conjure thee by him who was found in the Temple disputing with the Doctors; was crucified upon the Cross between two Thiefs, and in the midst of the Air. And by him who after his Resurrection stood in the midst of his Disciples, saying, Peace be unto you, fear not, 'tis I. I conjure thee by him who died and was buried, who descended 
This is Conjurer's Theology.  into Hell, and delivered his own from the Devil, particularly Adam the first Man, and rose again the third day, and forty days after ascended into Heaven. May he eject thee, and compel thee to depart this body, and the joints of the members of this Creature of God N— He that cast thee from Heaven, let him compel thee to declare the name of thy Master, and whether thou art alone or not, or whether any Legion be with thee. I conjure thee by him that built Paradise, encompassing it in 
He takes the Devil for a Nicodemus; otherwise a word to the Wise had been sufficient.  with the four Rivers, Gyon, Physion, Tigris and Euphrates, whom thou wouldst have tempted, saying, If thou art the Son of God, command these stones to be made bread; and then showing him all the Kingdoms of the World wentest on, All these will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. I conjure thee by him, who gave thee for his answer, Hence Satan, thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, but him only shalt thou serve.  
Here are so many Notes and Marks given by the Conjurer what he means, that one would think the Devil should have no excuse. But for fear the Devil should have been lulled asleep with so much vain Repetition and Tautology, he is resolved to rouse him again with   

Another Conjuration.  
WIcked Devil, ancient 
It seems there's nothing to be done with the Devil by fair means, or good words.  Serpent, I conjure thee by the most holy and inexplicable Name of God Tetragrammaton. I conjure thee by the Name of God Alpha and Omega. I conjure thee, O Devil, by the Name of God Adonai, which is great and admirable, 
For the Devil takes no Lease, and is not therefore bound to leave the Tenement in repair, unless you can force him this way.  that thou forthwith depart without any hurt or terror to this Creature of God, without any harm to any person, and without any spoil or damage to his Body at thy Exit. I conjure thee by the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and by the Spiritual Unction of him who is God three in one. I conjure thee, O Devil, by Her who gave suck to Christ, and bore him in her Womb, that thou abide no longer within this Creature. I conjure thee by St. Michael the Archangel, who threw thee headlong from Heaven, when he fought with the Dragon, and overcame him, that thou forsake the place where now thou art, and fly to some Desert, or to the deep 
* Whither should the Devil be sent but to the Devil?  Abyss of Hell. I conjure thee, O Devil, by the Archangel Gabriel, who brought Tidings to the blessed Virgin Mary of the Incarnation of Christ; When he said, Ave Mary full of Grace, blessed art thou among women, that thou no sooner hearest these words but that thou forthwith 
As being more effectual in his opinion than Father, Son and Holy Ghost.  depart, without harm to any person, out of this Creature of God N— I conjure thee by the Holy Angel Raphael, who preserved Tobias and Sarrha, and freed them from the Devil, who bound the Devil to an Ass in such a manner, that he could do no hurt, that thou forthwith depart out of this Creature N— never more to return or do him any farther injury. I conjure thee, O Devil, by all the Holy Angels and Archangels, Thrones, Dominions, Principalities, Powers, Cherubims and Seraphims, who never cease to cry aloud, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord of Sabaoth.  
This was some terrible Devil certainly, that such a powerful Host must be assembled together to assist the Trinity in his Expulsion, when Michael had fought with him singly hand to hand, and been too hard for him too. Only from hence we may infer, That the Popish Conjuring, Exorcising Priests never stand upon a piece of Blasphemy, when it may serve their turn to deceive the people.  
Oh, but now comes a Thunderbolt from whence the Devil can expect nothing but ruin. For when the Popish Priests have said as much as need to be said, and much more than is necessary, yet they love to say more still. Now therefore Monsieur Diable, lie at your close Guard.   

The Conjuration.  
AGain I conjure thee, accursed Devil, by all the Prayers of the Patriarches, by the Merits of the Prophets, the Testimonies of the Apostles, the Conquests of the Martyrs, the Faith of the Confessors, the Supplications of the holy Virgins, and by the Intercession of all the 
* Who ever were or ever shall be.  Saints both Male and Female, that you forthwith depart from this Creature of God N— I also conjure thee by 
* This is news, Gentlemen!  St. Abel, who was the first among the Martyrs. By St. Enoch, who walked with God, and was translated out of the world. By St. Noah, who was preserved in the Flood for his Righteousness. By the Faith of Abraham, who first believed 
If that be true, how came Abel, Enoch and Noah to be Saints?  in God. By St. Isaac, who through Faith, was obedient to his Father till death, and was the Type of Christ to be offered for the sins of the World. And by the happy Jacob, who saw the Angel of God coming to his assistance. I also conjure thee, O Devil, by the Holy Moses, who spoke with God face to face, And by the Holy Prophets, Amos, Micah, Oseah, Joel, Abdias, Abacock, Ionas, Sophoniah, Aggi, Malachi, Zachariah, Esdras, Jeremy, Isaiah, Ezechiel, David, and I also conjure thee by all those other Prophets, that thou answer me the naked truth to whatever questions I shall put to thee, and that thou in no wise refuse to give obedience to whatever I shall command. I conjure thee by Micah the Prophet, who prophesied that Christ should be born in Bethlehem of Juda, saying, And thou Bethlehem, etc. I conjure thee by the Prophet Joel, who prohesied that the Sun and Moon should be darkened at the Death and Passion of our Saviour, saying, The Sun shall be turned into darkness, and the Moon into blood. I conjure thee by the happy Jacob, who prophesied of the death of Christ, saying, Into their council let not my soul come, nor my glory enter into the assembly of them, because they slew a man in their fury. I conjure thee by the Holy Prophet Zachary, who prophesied of Christ's Temptation, saying, I saw Joshua the High Priest, and Satan stood at his right hand, and the Lord said, The Lord rebuke thee, Satan, who hath chosen Jerusalem. I conjure thee by the holy Prophet David, who prophesied that Christ was to be betrayed by Judas his Disciple, thus, The man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who eat of my bread, hath supplanted me. Again, I conjure thee by the holy Zachary, who prophesied of the Selling of Christ: And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of the thing appraised, as they praised it to the children of Israel, and gave them for the Potter's field. I conjure thee, O Devil, by the blessed Prophet Isaiah, who prophesied of the Coming of Christ, in these words, A Virgin shall conceive a Son, and his Name shall be called Emmanuel. I conjure thee by the Prophet Habacuck, who was carried by the Angel to feed Daniel in the Lions Den. Again, I conjure thee by the Prophet Ionas, who was three days in the Whale's Belly, and afterwards preached to the Ninevites. I again conjure thee, O Devil, by the Prophet Elisha, who was carried up to Heaven in a fiery Chariot; who prayed that it might not rain, and it did not, and then prayed that it might rain, and it did. I again conjure thee, O Devil, by the chosen Prophet Daniel, who interpreted the King's Dreams, and was delivered out of the Lion's Den. I conjure thee by the holy Prophet Malachi, who prophesied of the Coming of Christ: I will come near you in judgement, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, the adulterers, and false swearers, and those that oppress the hireling in his wages. I conjure thee by the Three Children that were delivered out of the fiery Furnace. I conjure thee by the Twelve Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by all his holy Disciples. And by the blessed Peter, Prince of the Apostles, that thou depart 
* Conjurer's never desire a Quarter's warning.  forthwith out of this Servant of God, and that thou leavest all his members safe and sound, as thou foundst them, and that thou answer me the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth to all such Questions as shallbe by me demanded, and that then by the Merits of all the He Saints and She Saints, that at my command thou depart without delay from this Servant of God, without presuming to give molestation, vexation or trouble to any person whatsoever, and betake thyself to the internal Abyss, thence never to return till the day of Judgement.  
This done, repeat the old Ecce Crucem, etc. behold the Cross of God; fly Mankind's Adversaries, the Lion of the Tribe of Juda, the Root of David has overcome.  
In this last Exorcism the Exorcist, you see, not only makes use of all the Saints from the beginning of the World to his own time, and as it were plays them against the Devil at the stake, but gives the Evil Spirit particular Reasons why he ought to obey them more than others. Only one would think that the Exorcist forgot himself, in leaving out one particular Saint, who perhaps would have been more terrible to him than all the rest, that is to say, St. Dunstan; and the reason is, not because he was delivered from the Lion's Den, but because he took the Devil by the Nose with a red-hot pair of tongues. He forgot also to add to those words Ecce Crucem, etc. Ecce Forcipes, etc. However believing he has pretty well teaz'd his Satanical patience, the Exorcist grows bold, and falls to examine the Devil so strictly about the Interrogatories abovementioned, that the severest Justice of Peace of 'em all in Quorum, could not act more haughtily; particularly he demands of him sourly what he intends to do, whether he intends to be gone or no, and when? Or if not, what course he intends to take? But to this the Devil answers him only with a Bow; and therefore he proceeds after the following manner.   

The EXORCISM.  
OLD Serpent, I conjure thee by the Judge of the quick and the dead, by the Creator of the World, and him that has power to cast thee headlong into Gehennah, that thou depart from this same Servant of God, who flies for succour to the Church, and that thou make haste to be gone. I adjure thee, not by my own weakness, but by the power of the Holy Ghost, to depart from this same Servant of God, whom Christ created in his likeness. Give way not to me, but to the Minister of Christ. His power enforces thee, who being fixed to the Cross, subdued thee under his feet. Tremble at his power who recovered the Souls of the Just from the Infernal Wail. Let the body of man be a terror to thee, and be afraid of the Image of God. Make therefore no longer resistance, but depart with speed from this man; since it has pleased God to make him his Habitation: and do not think me to be contemned, because thou knowest me to be a Sinner. The Holy Ghost commands thee. The Faith of the Apostles, Peter and Paul, and the rest of the Apostles commands thee. The Blood of the Martyrs commands thee. The Sacrament of the Cross commands thee. The Word made flesh commands thee. Avoid Transgressor, out Seducer, full of deceit and fraud, the Enemy of Truth. Give way, most cruel Devil, give way, impious Devil, give way to Christ, who has despoiled thee, and destroyed thy Kingdom, who vanquished thee, and bound thee in chains, and cast thee into utter darkness, there to be tormented eternally with all thy Angels. Darest thou mutter? Darest thou rashly delay? Guilty before God, whose Statutes thou hast transgressed: Guilty before Christ his Son, whom thou didst boldly presume to tempt and crucify: Guilty before all Mankind, whom thy persuasions alured to taste the Fruit of death. I conjure thee therefore, accursed Dragon, in the Name of the immaculate Lamb, who walks upon the Asp and Basilisk, and treads upon the Lion and the Dragon, to depart from this man and from the Church of God. Tremble and fly, dreading his Name, at which the Infernal Spirits tremble, to whom the Powers of Heaven are subjected, and whom the Cherubims and Seraphims incessantly praise. Obey Jesus of Nazareth, who when thou contemnedst his Disciple, cast thee raging and tearing out of the Man, in whose presence, when thou wert cast out, thou durst not so much as touch the Herd of Swine without his leave. Therefore now thus conjured, depart from this man whom he has form. 'Tis a dangerous thing to resist Christ. 'Tis a dangerous thing to wince against the pricks. For the longer thou delayest, the greater will be thy punishment; for thou contemnest not Man, but the Lord of the quick and the dead, who shall come to judge the quick and the dead, and the World by fire. Amen.  
Now Monsieur Devil, will ye go or stay? Does not your heart ache? If you delay a minute longer, here's one little tickling Touch for ye more.   

The CONJURATION.  
AGain and again I conjure thee, O Devil, by him who gave power to his Disciples to give light to the blind, to cleanse the leprosy, to raise the dead, and cure all diseases. I conjure thee by him who restored the first man by the wood of the Cross, who gave sight to the blind, and raised up Lazarus from the grave, who cured all diseases, and destroyed the Magical fictions of Jannes and Jambres, and by this Exorcism, and by all the former Conjurations, and holy Words and Offices which are celebrated over the World, by all these I command thee, wherever thou art, or wert, that thou vanish away forthwith like smoke, and that thou retire to some Desert or to the deep Abyss, without doing harm to any one, and that thou never more return. In the Name of the Father, etc. Ecce Crucem, etc. Amen.  
This Sparring Blow has done the business. Exit Diabolus, Exit Exorcista. And thus the Popish Vulgar are abused by a company of idle Drones, who having nothing else to do in their Sties of Laziness and Superstition, make it their business by such figments as these to maintain their Credit among the Ignorant. Neither is the Devil such a Fool, to be against his own profit: for by this means he seduces thousands, and increases his Harvest. Else Reason could never believe the Devil to be such a Sot, to be led by the Nose by his own Servants. He himself knows too well how to play the Hypocrite, and cannot be thought to be afraid of godly Words and pious Sentences, who makes use of them so often. But for Sport's sake, let us see a little more of their Trumpery. For this is certain, the more you see, the worse you'll like.    

Most Efficacious REMEDIES For the Expelling EVIL SPIRITS. And for the clearing Bodies possessed from Incantations and Sorceries, with their Benedictions.  

The Method how to make Holy Water.  
THE Priest being habited in his Sacerdotal Ornaments, or with his Stole, must say these words.  
Vers. Our help is in the Name of the Lord.  
Resp. Who made Heaven and Earth.   

The Exorcism of Salt.  
I Exorcise thee, O thou Creature Salt, bythe living God, by the true God, by the holy God, by the God who commanded thee to be thrown into the Water by Elisha the Prophet, that thou mayst become Salt Exorcised to the Salvation of Believers, and mayst be to all that take thee, health of body and soul; and to 
This is the reason, that Witches at their Feasts never use Salt, for fear it should be Exorcised.  the end that all wickedness and subtlety of Diabolical fraud, and every unciean Spirit, conjured by him that shall come to judge the quick and the dead, may avoid the place wherever thou shalt be strewed.   

The Prayer.  
OMnipotent Eternal God, we humbly implore thy infinite Clemency and Goodness, that thou wouldst be pleased to bless and sanctify this Creature Salt, which thou hast given to the Use of Mankind, that it may be health of body and mind to all that take it, and that whatever is touched or strewed with it, may be free from all uncleanness, and corruption mortal or spiritual.  
What would not our Butchers give for this Salt to preserve their Meat that lies upon their hands in Summer; not a Fly would dare to blow upon their Stalls.   

The Exorcism of Water.  
I Exorcise thee, O Creature Water, in the Name, etc. that thou mayst become Water exorcised to expel all Power of the Enemy, and to root out and supplant the Enemy himself with all his Apostate Angels, through the Power of Him who shall come to judge the quick and the dead.   

The Prayer.  
THou who hast made Water the substance of some of our Sacraments, be propitious to our Invocations, and to this Element prepared by many purifications, that this Water may be effectual to the casting out of Devils, and expelling noxious diseases, and that in whatever Houses or places it shall be sprinkled, they may be free from all uncleanness, from all harm, from all corrupt and pestilent Air, from all the snares of the lurking Enemy; and that nothing offensive or that may disturb the quiet and health of the Inhabitants may presume to approach the sprinklings of this Water.  
Let the Operators have a care; here's a Plot upon the Queen of Hungary's Rosemary flowers, and all the Booksellers Scurvygrass Glasses. Quaere, whether the French disease be a Devil or no; if it be, here's a present Expulsion to cure the Patient.  
The Salt and the Water thus far prepared, the Salt must be put into the Water in the form of a Cross, and so both mixed together, of each q. s. the Priest at the same time saying,  
Versicle. The Lord be with you.  
Respons. And with thy Spirit.  
After which must be said the following Prayer.  
THou who suppressest the power of Satanical dominion, who subduest the fury of the roaring Lion, we trembling and suppliant implore and beseech thee to look upon these thy Creatures of Salt and Water thus mixed together, and to sanctify them with the dew of thy pity, that wherever they shall be sprinkled, they may be prevalently efficacious to expel all unclean Spirits and Terror of the venomous Serpent.  
A surpassing piece of Magic, which if it will not prevail against the Devil, may be of excellent use to expel Worms out of young Children. Therefore put it up in a clean Vessel, and reserve it for use.  
A most Approved Benediction of Oil against all sorts of Incantations, Sorceries, Diabolical Ligaments and Contracts, and of all evil Operations of the Devil upon the Body of Man. Which Receipt is by some ascribed to St. Cyprian. As also the manner of using the said Oil.  
The Priest must have a large Vessel of Oil ready, and then putting on his Sacerdotal Robes, it behoves him to bless it in this manner.  
In the Name, etc. Amen.  
Vers. Our help is in the Lord.  
Resp. Who made Heaven and Earth.  
Vers. Lord show us thy Mercy.  
Resp. And grant us thy Salvation.  
Vers. Lord be thou our Helper.  
Resp. And for the Glory of thy Name preserve us.  
Vers. Let not the Enemy prevail against us.  
Resp. Nor let the Son of Iniquity approach to hurt us.  
Vers. Lord, show thy mercy to us.  
Resp. As we do put our trust in thee.  
Why but two Ejaculations apiece for Water and Salt, and ten for the Consecration of Oil? The reason's plain; Oil is ten times more worthy than Water, and will stick ten times longer upon the Devil's Skirts: therefore Oil requires ten times more devotion than Water: and it is requisite that there should be a distinction and difference in the Formalities of pious Cheats.   

The EXORCISM.  
I Exorcise thee, unclean Spirit, every assault of Satan, and every evil Apparition, in the Name, etc. that ye depart from this Oil, that it may be an efficacious spiritual Diet-drink to cleanse and cure the Infirm, to the end the Holy Spirit may dwell in them through God the Father and his most beloved Son, Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead, and the World by fire. Amen.   

The Prayer.  
O God send down thy Holy Spirit upon this Oil which thou hast produced from green wood for the refreshment of mind and body, that through thy blessing it may be, to whoever touches it, the preservation of mind and body, by evacuating all melancholy humours, all pains, all infirmities and distempers of mind and body, with which thou hast therefore anointed Kings, Prophets and Martyrs; let it be blessed in the Bowels of thy Servants in the Name, etc. who liveth and reigneth, etc.  
Now what is this Oil a Quart? In truth I can't tell; dear enough you may be sure: for you see 'tis got into Hucksters hands.  
Here the Priest having send for the Demoniac, let him lay his hands upon the Party possessed, and then adjure the Devil in this manner.   

The Adjuration.  
I Adjure thee, O Satan, and all Evil Spirits by the Name of the living, true and holy God, by the Name and Merits of the Virgin Mary, by the Power of all the Celestial Spirits, and the Nine Celestial Hierarchies, to thy confusion and the augmentation of thy torments to be increased an hundred-fold from day to day to the last day of Judgement, if thou dost not depart, accursed Satan, from this same Servant of God. By him that shall come to judge the quick and the dead, etc.   

The Conjuration.  
AGain I conjure thee, O Satan, to remove out of this same person both thy own, and all malignant Fascination, Sorceries, infirmities and pains of body and mind by the words of the foregoing Adjuration: cursed be thy name, O Satan; and thy works accursed and 
The Fox never thrives better than when he is cursed.  confounded to Eternity. Cursed be thou by the Omnipotent God, and by me through the power committed to me not only in Baptism, and the administration of other Sacraments, but also by the administration of the real Body and Blood of Christ, by the authority of the blessed Apostles, Peter and Paul; and if ye prove rebellious, contumacious and disobedient, I conjure against thee and against ye all, all the infernal Spirits to drag ye forth by head and ears, and as Dathan and Abiram were swallowed up in the earth, so to bind ye fast in the bottomless Pit until the last day.  
This said, read a piece of the Gospel of St. Mark, Chap. 16. from ver. 14. to the end. Then say this Adjuration.  
I Conjure ye, O unclean Spirits, by him that is, was and shall be, who created and redeemed us with his Blood, by his Cross, Passion, Death, Burial and Resurrection, who is here and every where, and who promised that where two or three were gathered together, he would be in the midst of them, that ye presently depart hence with all your foul Practices, evil Deeds and Sorceries, never never to return more.  
Vers. Our help is in the Name of the Lord.  
Resp. Who made Heaven and Earth.  
Vers. Arise, O Christ, to help us.  
Resp. And deliver us for thy Name's sake.  
Observe by the way the Civility of these Exorcists; they suffer the Devils to depart with all their Bag and Baggage, and never go about to distrain for Rent.  
Then follows a short Prayer.  
O Immense Power, O individual Trinity, we Christians beseech thee to extend thy power and mercy toward this thy Creature, and through thy mercy to deliver him from every unclean Spirit. Amen.  
There is no wonder to be made, that these Popish Priests are so daring in their attempts upon the Devil, when they are so impudent as to dally so vainly, nonsensically and triflingly, with the Names and Attributes of God Himself.  
After this the Priest proceeds to bless the Oil as follows.  
THE most Imperial Majesty bless thee, O Creature Oil, the Royal Divinity protect thee, the immense Trinity defend thee, the Power of the Father govern thee, the Wisdom of the Son enliven thee. The Cross of Christ preserve thee, the Twelve Apostles keep thee, the Holy Martyrs help thee, the Holy Confessors bless thee, all the holy Priests of the Old and New Testament exorcise and sanctify thee. The Holy Angels, Archangels, Thrones, Dominions, Powers, Hierarchies, Cherubims and Seraphims defend thee. The Holy Trinity defend thee, and endue thee with power and efficacy against all Diabolical Devices and Sorceries, that through Thee I may be able to destroy and eradicate out of the Souls and bodies of men all Incantations, Sorceries, Contracts, Devices and evil Works of the Devil. Amen.  
Say you, now, let the Devil have a care of this Oil— but I say no— for this Oil can never be so pure as these Exorcists would pretend, that had such a foul deal of ridiculous folly and tinsel piety bestowed upon it. Had the Exorcist blessed the same Quantity of the Quintessence of Aqua fortis after the same manner and form, there might have been something in it: But the nature of Oil is to smooth and supple, not to eradicate and destroy; neither is it to be thought that all the Nonsense in the World can ever bless it out of its Nature. Well then, because you Heretics are so hard to be pleased;  
Here are other Benedictions of Oil as well for the Patient to drink, as wherewith to be anointed.  
Vers. Our help is in the Name of the Lord.  
Resp. Who made Heaven and Earth, and all that is therein.   

The EXORCISM.  
I Exorcise thee by the living, true, holy God, O Creature Oil, to the end that all the power of the Adversary, all the Hosts of the Devil, and all the Temptations of Satan may be by thee destroyed, and that thou mayst prove to all that make use of thee a remedy to expel Satan and all his works, with all the Devices, Contracts, Sorceries and Incantations of his Ministers.  
Then follows the Prayer attendant.  THat whoever shall drink or anoint themselves with this Oil, may enjoy a remedy against all the Assaults, Machinations and all the Works of the Devil whatsoever.  

The second Exorcism.  
I Exorcise thee, O Creature Oil, in the Name, etc. that through this Invocation of the Holy Trinity all the power of the Adversary, all the inveterate malice of the Devil, and his violent assaults, and every wild and noxious Fantome may be destroyed and eradicated, and all the venomous qualities of Satan removed from this Oil, that whoever drink of it, or anoint themselves with it, may be delivered from all the Machinations of the Devil, etc.  
With the same Ceremonies the Priest also blesses a certain Quantity of unleavened Bread, which for its lightness is given to the infirm person before he drink the Oil.  
After the usual scraps of the Litany recited, and several Prayers to God to infuse a Devil-frighting power into the Bread, the Dough is sprinkled with Holy Water; which done, the following short Prayer ensues.  COme, Holy Ghost, and bless and sanctify this Bread, that it may be delivered from the works of Satan and his Ministers, etc. 
However the Exorcist must take special care how he gives this Oil, or any other potable Remedy without the Physicians advice; for that the Tempers and Complexions of the Patients being various, both these and other remedies are to be variously applied, seeing one man's meat is another's poison; and thus the Divinity-Quacks help the Quacks in Physic, lest the one should peach the tother.  
The manner of taking the foresaid Oil and blessed Bread, as also of anointing the Patient with the said Oil.  
These Benedictions being ended, let him that has the care of the Patient observe this Method.  
Take one or two pound of Veal, or other Flesh in season, and let it boil in Water without Salt till it be well boiled. Then take six or eight ounces of the Bread blessed with either of the forerecited Benedictions, and two ounces of the foresaid Oil. Incorporate all these together, and give the whole to the Patient in the morning for his Breakfast, and let the Patient eat a slice or two of dry Holy Bread with it. It will nourish the Patient, but make the Devil spew his heart out. In giving this Dose to the Patient, the Priest shall say as follows:  
Receive this Holy Bread to the destruction of Satan, and all his works of mischief in thee done.  
This may be also recommended to the Rat-catcher's at the Exchange for the destruction of Vermin in Ships and Merchants Cellars. If Women lay but a piece of this Holy Bread in their Blankets, it will destroy all their Fleas.  
The Patient must observe this Diet for eight or ten days, and every day anoint the party with the foresaid Oil upon the Eyes, the Forehead, the Ears, the Breast and Heart, the pulses of the Wrists, the Hands, the pulses of the Feet, and Feet themselves: and as the Priest anoints the several parts aforesaid, let him repeat the following words.  
I anoint thee N— with this blessed Oil, and by this Unction absolve thee from all the Sorceries, Incantations, Contracts, Signatures and Machinations on thee practised by Diabolical Art. In the Name, etc.  
Another Benediction of Oil to anoint persons infested by the Devil, and the way of making the said Ointment.  
Take Rue,  
Sage, of each three handfuls.  
Dill,  
Ashes of Olive-wood,  
Holy Water, of each a sufficient quantity  
Boil all these in Oil; then bless them with the following Benediction.  
Vers. Our help, etc.  
Resp. Who made Heaven and Earth.   

The EXORCISM.  
I Exorcise thee, O unclean Spirit, by the living, true and holy God, who made Heaven and Earth, the Sea, and all that therein is, to the end that all the Power of the Adversary, all the Armies of the Devil, all the assaults and Apparitions of the Enemy may be utterly rooted out, and made to fly from this creature composed of Oil and the Herbs that are in it, that it may be a burning fire to consume all the snares of the Enemy, and that whoever shall be anointed with this Oil, may enjoy health and sincerity; and that all Evil Spirits and Diabolical Visions may be separated from him.  
Then anoint the Patient, as hath been already shown.  
A way to free any person from all manner of Sorceries operated in the body of man by the Devil.  
First of all, it behoves the Exorcist to observe in what part of the infested Body the pain lies. For generally Demoniacs are chiefly tormented in three parts, the Belly, Stomach and Heart. If the pain lie in any lower part of the body, give him the Holy Oil of the first Benediction, as hath been already shown. And every day that the party drinks the foresaid Oil, he ought to be exorcised for three or four hours together. But if the pain lie in the Stomach or Heart, then give him the following Medicine.  
Take White Ellebore,  
St. Johns-wort, of each an ounce and an half.  
Sugar of Roses,  
Frankincese, of each a dram.  
One would think this were a Bolus rather for a possessed Horse, than a possessed Man.  
Boil all these together in a pint of the best white Wine, to the consumption of one half; afterwards the Priest having strained, blessed and exorcised the remainder with an Adjutorium nostrum, etc. give it the Patient at a convenient hour, twice a day for three days, if need require. And every day notwithstanding the Patients vomiting, let the Patient be confessed and exorcised for three or four hours together.   

A Medicine for persons possessed by the Devil.  
Take Broom-flowers,  
St. Johns-wort,  
Horehound,  
Ivy and  
Rue, of each two ounces.  
Make a Decoction in water to the consumption of half; then let the Priest strain it, and bless the remainder, with an Adjutorium nostrum, and give it the Patient at a convenient hour.  
Then let the Priest pray with the Patient in this manner.  
Vouchsafe, etc. to bless this Medicine, and to pour upon it thy most plentiful blessing, that by the virtue and efficacy which thou shalt give unto it, it may be able to vex, tease, torment the Devil infesting and vexing this thy Servant, and being delivered from the troubles of Satan, to preserve him so delivered through thy goodness. Amen.  
Then let him be well sprinkled with Holy Water. For it is a greater trouble to the Devil to sleep in a wet skin, than in any other skin; he cares not so much whether his skin be whole or no, as that it be dry.   

A Benediction of Water to expel the Devil and all his Works.  
The EXORCISM.  
I Exorcise thee, O Water, by the four Rivers that watered Paradise, by him that purified Nahman from his Leprosy; I exorcise thee by him that turned water into Wine; I exorcise thee by all the Sacraments of the Holy Church; I exorcise thee by the Virgin Mary and the Milk of the same Virgin, and by all the Angels, Archangels, etc. that thou mayst become holy and healthful, and a burning fire, to destroy the Devil and all his works, and all the snares of Satan, etc.  
Then blow three times upon the Water, saying, I puff and blow ye, all ye Legions of Satan. In the Name, etc.   

The Benediction of Rue.  
Vers. Our help is in the Lord.  
Resp. Who made Heaven and Earth.  
Vers. The Lord be with you.  
Resp. And with thy Spirit.  
Then pray, That wherever it be laid, it may have power to terrify and put the Devil to flight, and that whoever be fumed with it, may be free from all assaults of the Devil, etc.   

The Benediction of Fire to burn the Instruments of Sorcery.  
Vers. Our help is in the Name of the Lord.  
Resp. Who made Heaven and Earth.  
Then say, I bless, exorcise and conjure thee, O Creature Fire, by him who causes the Earth to tremble, that thou dost not fail to be my aid against these Infernal Thiefs and Robbers, to crucify, asflict and torment them an hundred times more than all the Sulphur in Hell.  
Then sprinkle the Fire with Holy Water, but not so as to put it out, and cast the Devils Tools into it, saying,  
Let God arise, and let his Enemies be scattered.   

The Benediction of an Incense to fume Demoniacs.  
Vers. Our help, etc.  
Resp. Who made, etc.  
Vers. The Lord be with you.  
Resp. And with thy Spirit.   

The Pomander.  
Take Galbanum,  
Sulphur, of each three drams.  
Roots of Assa foetida,  
Birthwort,  
St. Johns-wort and  
Rue, of each three drams.  
Let all these be blest and conjured with the following Conjuration.  
I exorcise & conjure thee, O Creature called Incense, by all the holy Names of God, that thou mayst become an exorcised, blessed and consecrated Fumigation to the Salvation of Us and all faithful Christians, and a perpetual punishment to all Evil Spirits, and a fire to torment and burn them beyond the Sulphur of Hell-fire, etc.  
What merciless Fellows these Exorcists are, to desire a more heavy punishment for the Devil than God has thought fit to ordain them?  
Then throw the Pomander into the fire, and hold the Demoniac's Nose over the smoke whether he will or no.  
Certainly it had been much better to have made a Pomander to fright the Devil of Gelsomy-flowers and Orange-flowers, Lignum Aloes, and such like; for he is so used to ill smells, that he cares not a f— t for 'em. Besides, if the Devil has no head, as they say he has not, than he has no Nose; and then what will all the nasty scents in the world signify. If ill smells operate so strongly upon the Devil, these Exorcists were extremely overseen, that they did not set down a Form for the Benediction and Exorcising a House of Office, and for setting the Demoniac up to the neck in the consecrated Ordure for three or four days together. But Bernardus non videt omnia. 'Tis easy to add to invention, but not to invent.  
A Benediction of Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh, against the Devils called Incubi and Succubuses, and against the assaults of Evil Spirits.  
First, be sure to have the Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh ready. Then bless them as follows.  
Vers. Our help is in the Lord.  
Resp. Who made, etc.  
Then read the Psalm, Lord, give thy Judgements to the King, quite through.  
Then cry, Lord, have mercy upon us.  
Then sing the following Anthem, And the Wisemen, who were three Kings, opening their Treasure, offered Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh.  
Then say, Kyrie Eleyson, Christ Eleyson, Pater noster.  
Vers. And lead us not into Temptation.  
Resp. But deliver us from Evil.  
Vers. Lord, show us thy Mercy.  
Resp. And grant us thy Salvation.  
Vers. Hear our Prayer.  
Resp. And let our Cry come unto thee.  
Vers. The Lord be with you.  
Resp. And with thy Spirit.   

The first Prayer.  OMnipotent and Eternal God, we humbly pray thee, that as thou didst receive these Creatures, Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh, offered to thee by the Three Kings, as to the King of Kings, true God and Man; so thou wilt vouchsafe to bless, consecreate and sanctify, and pour thy benediction upon these Creatures, that whoever shall carry them about their bodies, may be delivered from all danger of body and mind. Amen.  

The second Prayer.  
THerefore bless, O Lord, these Creatures, Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh, that as thou wert pleased to excite the three blessed Wisemen, Giaspar, Balthasar 
Now, Gentlemen, you have the Christian Names of the Wisemen; but for their Surnames we are still in the dark.  and Melchior, who offered these Creatures devoutly to adore thee, and illuminate them in the knowledge of thy Mysteries, and to preserve from snares and dangers, so that thou wouldst be pleased to illuminate with thy light, to inflame with the love of thee, and to preserve from all diabolical dangers, snares, injuries and calamities, those that shall make use of these thy Creatures, Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh.  
This Benediction being finished, when any person shall happen to be infested with any Incubus or Succubus Devil, let him put these three things together, mixed with a little Rue, blessed as before, into a little Bag, and hang them about his Neck, being first sprinkled with Holy Water, and wear them with fear and reverence. He may also lay four other little Bags at the four corners of his Bed, and the Devil will never trouble him.  
This was a notable Invention, but the success of it seems very dubitable; for if it be true that the Devil is the God of Riches, wherever the Devil finds any of his own Treasure, he'll certainly be there to guard it. And it is as preposterous to think that the Devil should be afraid of that which sends so many to Hell, or be scared with one of his greatest Temptations. It may be indeed, had it been the same Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh, which the Wisemen offered, there might have been something in the case. And how the Popish Priests and Exorcists came to be without it, or at least some Relics of it, seems wonderful strange; seeing they have in every hole so many Nails and Bones, Napkins and Pillowbears, and pieces of Petticoats of the Virgin Mary, and the ancient Saints. Those Relics would have spared 'em the labour of these Consecrations and Exorcising. But they can spare nails and bones, when they cannot spare so much Gold to lie by in thousands of boxes at thousands of places, having other occasions for it. But the mischief is, that none but Fools offer them Gold, therefore there must be a way found out to make as many Fools as they can; and among the rest, this Enchantment of Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh unfortunately happens to be one. Otherwise if there were any thing of efficacy in this Exorcism of Gold, the Devil might be thought to be the greatest Fool of all, to run away from the Gold, and let these Shammaking Exorcists run away with it.   

A present Remedy against all Molestations and Plague of the Devil either in Men, cattle or Houses.  
Take a piece of Paper, and Exorcise it thus.  
I Exorcise thee, O Paper, by the words of the triumphant Title of Christ, and by all those other words which are spoken of the Creator of all Creatures, who is able to endue thee with that virtue, that all things which are written upon thee, may be effectual to eternal Salvation, that all fallacies and malice of the Devil may go out of thee, and all the virtue and efficacy aforesaid may enter into thee. In the Name, etc.  
Then sprinkle it with Holy Water, then write upon in the form of a Cross these words.  
Which Word was made flesh, and 
INRI  dwelled among us, being born of the Virgin Mary, through his most ineffable goodness and mercy. By the Intercession therefore of the same Virgin Mary, and of the Angels, and all the Saints, especially the Apostles, and his Evangelists John, Matthew, Mark and Luke, that they would vouchsafe to free me from all vexation of the Devil and all his Angels.  
Then take Exorcised Salt, Wax of a consecrated Candle, especially at Easter, and Rue blessed with its proper Benediction, being all sprinkled with Holy Water, and put these Ingredients all together into the said Paper, and hang it about the neck of the Patient, or upon the place affected. Probatum est.  
There may be something in this; for Paper is a miraculous Utensile: being well prepared by an Observator, it expels the Devil of Whiggism, a villainous sly Devil; and being charmed by a Pacqueteer, it claws away the Devil of Torism, a ranting roaring Devil; being marked only with four and twenty Letters, variously transprosed, it sets all the world in a flame, and yet never burns itself. Therefore 'tis no wonder the Devil is afraid of paper. Only the Exorciser was mistaken in this, that instead of a Cross, he should have directed the figure of a Printing-press to have been put upon it. For by the help of a Printing-press, Paper works Miracles. The Devil dares no more come near a Stationer's Heaps, or a Printers Workhouse, than some men dare put their Noses into a Cheesemongers Shop. But to put a Cross upon Paper signifies nothing. The Knight's Templars wore Crosses, that were themselves Devils Incarnate. And Women, when they grow to be She Devils, prove the greatest Crosses in the world to their Husbands. Therefore let this Exorcism be mended according to direction, and it may chance to do.   

The Benediction of a House haunted with Spirits.  
Before the Priest enter the House, let him say the following Prayer.  
OMnipotent and Eternal God, who hast bequeathed that favour to thy Priests, that what is done worthily and perfectly by them, is looked upon as done by thee; vouchsafe to visit in the same manner as we shall visit, and to bless as we shall bless, and to extend thy right hand of Power to what we shall do, and through the Merits of thy Saints to be upon our entrance a terror to the Devil, and to permit our footsteps to be the entrance of the footsteps of peace.  
A Prayer to be said when you come to the place haunted.  
GIve ear, O Lord, to our supplications, and enlighten this house with the eyes of thy goodness, and let thy blessing descend upon the inhabitants thereof, that abiding with safety in this habitation, they may be thy habitation also.  
Or thus.  
WE beseech thee, O Lord, bless this building with all the rooms and buildings, that health, holiness, virtue, humility, 
These are dear blessings to the poor, for 'tis a very poor blessing indeed that is not worth half a Crown.  goodness, charity, fullness of the Law and Obedience to God may be therein. Let this blessing be upon this place, and upon all that dwell therein.  
Or thus.  
HEar us, O holy Father, Omnipotent and Eternal god, that whatever Evil Spirits or mischievous Devils be in this house, they may be expelled through the Authority of thy Name.  
Then rehearse the several Psalms. In my affliction I cried, etc. I lifted up my eyes to the mountains. To thee I lifted up my eyes. Concluding with a Gloria Patri; then water the House, and sprinkle the People with Holy Water. Then say, Kyrie Eleyson, etc. Pater noster. And lead us not into temptation. Resp. But deliver us from evil.  
Vers. Lord, hear our prayer.  
Resp. And let our cry come unto thee.  
Vers. The Lord be with us.  
Resp. And with thy Spirit.  
Then pray.  
MErcifully, O Lord, enter into this thy House, that no malice or wickedness of the Devil may reign therein.  
Then throwing Holy Water about the House, as before, repeat the following Psalms. They who trust in the Lord. Unless the Lord build the house. Blessed are they that fear the Lord. Then Kyrse Eleyson, etc. and what follows, as before.  
Then cast the Holy Water, as before, and read the following Psalms. Out of the deep, etc. Remember David, Lord, etc. Behold how good and joyful, etc. Then Kyrie Eleyson, etc. and what follows, as above.  
This profusion of Holy Water is done out of a belief, that Devils are Cats, as Cats are supposed to be Devils, and that neither can endure to wet their feet. I will not trouble myself whether Cats be Devils or Devils Cats; but sure it can never be, that the Devil should be so terribly afraid of Holy Water, when he stands in so much need of a Cooler. Men that are not half so hot as he, nor come out of half so hot a place, drink Snow in their Wine, and shall the Devil be afraid of a little cold water?  
Afterwards read the following Gospels in the principal parts of the House.  
When Christ was born in Bethlehem of Juda the Wisemen came from, etc. And this other. At that time the Angel gabriel, etc. And: In that time Jesus went to Jericho, and behold, a man whose name was Zacheus, etc.  
Afterwards bless the Incense after this manner.  
By the Intercession of the blessed Archangel St. Michael, who stands at the Altar of Incense, and of all his Elect, vouchsafe, O God, to bless this Incense, and accept it as an Odour of sweetness.  
Vers. Lord, be merciful unto us.  
Resp. And show us thy salvation.  
Vers. Lord, hear our prayer.  
Resp. And let our cry come unto thee.  
Vers. The Lord be with you.  
Resp. And with thy Spirit.  
Then sign the House and all that dwell in it, saying at the same time  
Lord, set the sign of Security upon this House, and suffer not the destroying Angel to enter in. In the Name, etc.  
Thus you shall find in Homer and Ovid's Art of Wooing, that the Heathens consecrated their Carousing Bowls with Sulphur, and the Old women charmed the young people's Beds with Sulphur and Eggs. If a man had committed any Villainy or Murder, he was purified by washing his hands in the blood of a Pig. And for the lustration or purification of any place, they used to fume the said place with the smoke of burnt Brimstone, at what time it was the custom to cast a quantity of Salt into a Vessel of Water, and with an Olive-branch or any other convenient bough, to sprinkle the room or field with the said water, as now the Priest's water haunted Houses with Holy Water; which sprinkling was to be done three times together. Thus you find in Ovid's Metamorphosis, that Juno returning from Earth to Heaven, being the Devil of a Scold, was sprinkled three times with water by the Rainbow, to fetch the Devil out of her, before Jupiter would admit her into his presence, fearing a Peal in his Ears. They also said several Prayers likewise at the same time, as our Priests do. For so says Ovid, He sprinkled his Locks with Laurel dipped in water, and then poured forth his earnest prayers with usual zeal. And thus Heathens taught our Popish Priest to purify haunted Houses, and charm the Devil.    

A Most terrible Thundering EXORCISM TO Expel the Devil not only out of Men but Women.  
Which if a Man could be assured of, were worth its weight in Gold.  

THE Exorcist coming to eject the Devil, must in the first place sign himself with the sign of the Cross, and say,  
In the Name of the Father, etc.  
Then let him go to the Party possessed, and sprinkle him with Holy Water, saying at the same time: Through the 
* One would think a Flail should do better, for there is no sense against a Flail.  Sprinkling of this Water with the help of God, let the Evil Spirit depart from thee, and let the power of the Holy Ghost enter and remain with thee; for now is the Judgement of this World; now shall the Prince of this World be cast forth. In the Name, etc.  
Pointing to the Body of Christ in the Cup or in the Shrine, the Priest must say these words,  
O wicked Spirit, here is true Piety; 
* The Exorcist might have had more manners than to tell the Devil such a notorious lie to his face.  Here is he who suffered for our Salvation. Now, faith he, shall the Prince of this World be cast forth. This is that Body which was taken from the Body of the Virgin, which was stretched out upon the Cross, which lay in the Grave; which rose from Death, and which ascended into Heaven in the sight of his Disciples; by the terrible Power of this Majesty, I command thee, wicked Devil, to depart from this Image of God, to fly from it, and never more to molest it.  
But the Devil's a true Jailor, he seldom takes notice of the first Ha— Cor— And therefore the Exorcist must fall to his Prayers, and say,  
Vers. Our help is in the Lord.  
Resp. Who made Heaven and Earth.  
Vers. Lord, show us thy mercy.  
Resp. And grant us thy Salvation.  
Vers. Lord, hear our cries.  
Resp. And let our cry come unto thee.   

Then follow the Prayers.  
O Eternal and Omnipotent God, who mad'st Heaven and Earth and all that therein is, save and deliver this thy Servant from these Evil Spirits, and from all Diabolical Power, that all men may know, how great is thy mercy, and how infinite is thy power.   

The second Prayer.  
LOrd Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, free this thy Servant from all his languish, and from all the disturbances of Ghosts and Evil Spirits, through thy most holy compassion. The God Sabaoth, the God Emmanuel, the God Elohim, the God Agla free and deliver him by virtue of the Prayers and Merits of the blessed Virgin Mary thy Mother, and of all the Saints; and by virtue of the Intercession of the blessed Michael the Archangel, and all the Angels; of St. John Baptist and the holy Apostles, Peter, Paul, Andrew, James, John, Thomas, James, Philip, Bartholomew, Simon, Thaddeus, Barnaby, and all the rest of the He-Saints and She-Saints; by the Mediation of the Cherubims and Seraphims who continually praise thee, saying, Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of Sabaoth. Father Omnipotent, who desirest the Salvation of all Mankind, and that they should attain to the knowledge of thee, be merciful to this thy Servant a Sinner, and hear my prayer which I now pour out before thee in the behalf of this poor Creature who is molested by the Devil, and flies to thy compassion.  
Here the Exorcist rising up, and laying his hand upon the Head of the Demoniac, shall proceed and say,  
Let all power of the Devil be extinguished in thee through the Imposition of our Hands, as also by virtue of our Invocation of all the Saints, Angels, Archangels, Patriarches, Prophets, Apostles, Martyrs, Confessors and Holy Virgins.  
Then read the following words out of St. Matthew.  
In those days Jesus was led by the Spirit into the Wilderness to be tempted, etc. Then,  
Vers. The Lord be with you.  
Resp. And with thy Spirit.  
Then Pray.  
VIsit, O Lord, we beseech thee, this Habitation and Creature of thine, and remove far away from him all the snares and assaults of the Devil. Let thy Angels, Michael, Raphael and Gabriel dwell therein, to preserve it in peace and from all unclean Spirits; and let thy blessing be always upon us.  
Let the Exorcist here begin to conjure the Devils abiding in the body to depart. But let him take heed of answering to any words of theirs without urgent necessity. For that they being subtle and deceiving Spirits, will seek all ways to entrap the Exorcist, and hinder the progress of his Art, and many time ignominiously threaten the Exorcist, and command him to let them alone; therefore let the Exorcist boldly proceed and say,   

The Conjuration.  
I Conjure ye, O accursed Devils, abiding in this body, from whatever part of the world ye come, to whom Power is given by God over this Creature of God— and all you Ethereal Powers, and Infernal Spirits, and all you general and special sorts of evil Demons, of whatsoever kind ye are, or whether sent from the East, or from any other point of the Compass, I conjure ye all, I say, by the Power of God the Father, by the Wisdom of God the Son, and the virtual Efficacy of God the Son, by virtue of the Authority granted me by our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who was crucified, Son of the most Potent Creator, who made all things out of nothing, that ye may not have any power of keeping silence, or of abiding or remaining in this Creature of God— But I constrain and command you, whether ye will or no, that laying aside all fallacy, fraud or deceit, you declare unto me your Names, and through the Merits of the Virgin Mary, 
Men go when the Devil drives, and the Devil must go when worse than himself drives. Ergo this Exorcism signifies nothing, or the Popish Exorcists are worse than the Devil.  and all the Saints, I discharge all you unclean and wicked Spirits from this Body, and send you to the lowest depths of the profound Abyss. Therefore be gone accursed into everlasting fire prepared for ye, and all your Companions. And if ye rebel, or prove contumacious and disobedient, I again by the same Authority conjure, constrain and command all the Devils your Enemies, all the Princes in Hell, and all the Infernal Spirits, to come and punish and torment, and moreover to carry ye away in the Name of Jesus to the aforesaid place of infernal Torture, and there to chain you fast by these most holy Names of God, El, Elion, Eloa, Sabaoth, Elohim, Eserejeh, Adonai, Jehova, Jah, Tetragrammaton, Sadai, Messias, Hagios, Ischyros, Ho Theos, Athanatos, Soter, Emmanuel, Agla, and Jesus, who is Alpha and Omega, send ye headlong into the deepest depth of the Abyss, to the end that from henceforth ye may have no power to abide, remain or inhabit in this Creature of God, etc. and Image of Christ, nor that you take up or possess this place or any other place, through the virtue and by the virtue of the aforesaid Names. And let the Angel Michael 
* And thus you see what a fine employment these Exorcists have found out for the Archangels to be the Devil's Jailers.  bind ye in the depth of the Abyss.  
This done, read the following words out of Luke. And he was casting out a Devil, etc. concluding with a Laus tibi, Christ. Then go on with the following words of St. Matthew. Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the Wilderness, etc. Then pray again after this manner.  
OMnipotent Lord God, who didft create all things by thy Word, who wert from the beginning before any Images were made, or Prayers ever said. Preserve us and confirm the work which thou hast wrought in us. Stretch forth unto us thy right hand, and preserve and defend us thy unworthy Servants from all adversity, and send thy Angels from Heaven to preserve, strengthen, help and corroborate us and this thy Creature, and to render us more stout and courageous by virtue of thy Names of Jehova, Agla, El, Adonai, Sadai, Tetragrammaton, Elohim. Most holy and merciful God, be thou our Protector and Defender, and our buckler of defence. For thou art God alone, and there is no other besides thee.  
Upon the strength of which Prayer follows a swinging Conjuration.  
I Conjure you, O Devils and unclean Spirits, from all parts of the World, to whom power has been given to hurt this Creature of God, etc. and all you Aereal Spirits and Powers, Infernal Princes, and all you special and general sorts of Devils of what sort or condition soever, sent from the South, or any other point of the Compass, by the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and by virtue of the Function and Authority by which I act from crucified Christ Jesus of Nazareth, Son of the living God, and most potent Creator, who created me and you, and all the Creatures of nothing; by all this, I say, I conjure ye, O Devils, that ye pretend to have no farther power or authority to stay or abide in this Creature, etc. For that I sentence ye by virtue of the Sentence given by the most high Creator, I constrain, compel and 
These Exorcists are like to succeed, when they put the Devil upon impossibilities.  command ye, that laying aside all fraud, fallacy and deceit, you tell me directly your Names, that we may be able to find out and know your Names certainly, truly and without any hesitation or Equivocation. And by the same authority and by virtue of the same Sentence, I discharge you from this Body, and send every one of you Devils aforesaid 
As if the Devil did not know his time better than they could tell him.  to the bottom of the Abyss into eternal fire. And therefore go ye cursed into eternal fire prepared for you and your servants, for that by virtue of these most holy Names I send you to the bottom of the Abyss. Hell, Heloim, Eloa, Sabaoth, Elion, Esereheje, Adonai, Jehova, Jah, Tetragrammaton, Sadai, Messias, Hagios, Ischyros, Otheos', Athanatos, Soter, Emmanuel, Agla, Jesus, Alpha and Omega, I send you to the bottom of the Abyss into eternal Fire, that ye may not have any longer power or pretence of 
* The Parson said, the Devil was a Lawyer from the beginning, and therefore several words of the same signification are very proper.  staying, abiding or inhabiting in this Creature of God and Image of Christ, nor in this place, nor in any other place, nor in any other Creature, by and through the virtue of the Names abovewrit: And let the Angel Gabriel bind ye in the depth of the Abyss, by virtue of the Holy Paith of Adonai, and by Alpha and Omega, till the Day of Judgement, and may the Power of the most high Triumpher Jesus Christ afflict ye. In the Name, etc.  
By this terrible Writ the Devil stands outlawed for Felony after Judgement, and any Man, Angel or Archangel may knock him o' the head where e'er they meet him; however the Devil hangs an Arse yet, and therefore you must go on and read the following words of the Gospel out of St. John. In the beginning was the Word, etc. Then the following Prayer.  
LOrd Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, have mercy upon me, and do not, with the rest of the wicked, destroy my Soul. Powerful Helion, mereiful Helion, God of Fear, God of Hosts, God of Mercy. Lord Eternal, Adonai, wonderful ineffable God. Omnipotent Love, Sadai, Virtue never failing, provident over all things, Benignity of a Saviour and Creator, Alpha and Omega, God most high and compassionate, God that requirest the prayers of sinners, Sacrifice of Praise, in most suppliant manner we implore thee with our prayers to hear us, deliver and save us thy most unworthy Creatures by thy mighty Power and Holiness, and by thy Name which is above all names. O thou our Redeemer, who camest into this world, born of our Redeemer, we beseech thee to help and assist this thy unworthy Servant whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious Blood. Into thy hands I recommend my Spirit and my Body this day, now and ever, and at all hours and moments, preserve me thy vain and sinful Servant and this thy Creature, that we may return thee thanks in the midst of thy Church.   

The Conjuration follows.  
I Conjure ye all you unclean Spirits coming from all the four corners of the World, to whom power has been given to hurt this Creature— and all you Ethereal Powers and Infernal Princes, and all you particular and general Spirits and Devils of whatsoever quality or condition. Again, I conjure and exorcise you, all ye wicket and malicious Devil's abovenamed, and all others whatsoever, in whatsoever part of the World, I shut ye up in the Earth, I tie ye up in the Air, I bind ye up in the Wind, I imprison ye in the Fire, and chain ye in the Water, and in the caverns of the Rocks. I command ye from the caverns of the Mountains, from the tops of the Hills, from the Abyss, from all places under Heaven, by the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and by virtue of that Authority granted to me by his Son Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who was crucified, and who created me and you and all other creatures. I say by all these Charms I charge ye at your peril not to pretend in the least to any power of abiding or remaining in this Creature of God: For that I sentence ye by virtue of the Sentence pronounced by the most high Creator, and also charge and command you, that laying aside all fraud, covin and deceit, whether ye will or no, you declare and tell us your Names 
And who were their Godfathers and Godmothers.  truly and faithfully. And by the same Sentence I send ye to the deepest Abyss of Hell, into Eternal Fire. And therefore, O wicked Devil, tell me thine and thy Master's Name.  
Here the Exorcist may interrogate the Devil touching his Name, his Associates, and whatever else concerns the delivery of the Demoniac from the Devil that possesses him, going on with his Conjuration in this manner.  
THerefore be gone, accursed Devils, into fire everlasting prepared for you and your Angels. For by these Sacred Names of God, I dissolve and discharge ye from this body, and by virtue of these words and sacred Names, I send ye to the bottom of the Abyss into eternal Fire. Hell, Heloim, Eloa, Sabaoth, Helion, Esereheje, Adonai, Jehova, Jah, Tetragrammaton, Sadai, Messias, Hagios, Ischyros, Otheos', Athanatos, Soter, Emmanuel, Agla, Jesus, Alpha & Omega, Beginning and Ending, Root of Jesse, Lion of the Tribe of Juda. Let all these send thee to the bottom of the Abyss, that hereafter ye may have no power of lying, abiding or staying in this Creature of God and Image of Christ 
* The Popish Priests are very punctual with the Devil, well knowing what belongs to Equivocation. , nor in this place, nor in any other place by virtue of the Names aforesaid. And may the Angel Raphael bind ye in the bottom of the Abyss, and there may ye be bound and tormented till the day of Judgement. In the Name, etc.  
This Warrant is very peremptory and very large in extent, and besides, the Mittimus' are very severe: But the Devil knows when he has got a good Lodging, and therefore there is something more yet to be done. The Exorcist after all this, must read a Gospel out of St. Mark. At that time as the eleven Disciples were sat at meat, etc. If after all this the Devil will neither hear nor obey willingly, take fire and Brimstone, and hold the Demoniac's Nose over the smoke whether he will or no. Till the Devil has 
* For an ordinary Subpoena would signify nothing.  answered truly and 
† He must be the Devil of a man that knows when the Devil speaks truth.  certainly to all the Interrogatories put to him. Whereto to constrain him, the Exorcist must prosecute him with the following Conjuration, which is in nature of a Commission of Rebellion.  
A Gain I conjure ye, wicked Devils abovementioned, Rebels against God, to whom power has been given over this Body, that ye presently depart. I conjure ye & charge ye by all the 
* These are some amorous Devils, or rather Smell-smock Spirits, and who knows how these Ladies may have obliged 'em?  Holy Virgins and chaste Women. I conjure ye and charge ye by St. Mary, Magdalen, St. Catherine, St. Agnes, St. Lucy, St. Agatha, St. Margaret, St. Ursula and her Society or Sisterhood, and the rest of the holy Virgins, Widows and chaste Women, that ye depart immediately.  
A most powerful Charm I promise ye. For should all these Women set up their clacks together, 'tis impossible the Devil should ever be able to endure such a Curtain Lecture. But because these Exorcists never know when to have done, therefore this same Conjurer must fall to his Prayers again. For the Devil's resolved not to stir before Quarter day.   

The Prayer.  
OMnipotent God, 
This is like the Lease of Ejectment left at the House of Tenant in possession.  to whom all the Creatures which thou hast created are obedient, who didst cast down the Angels of Satan for their Pride, we beseech thee through Jesus Christ thy Son, who sitteth at thy right hand, who shall come to judge the quick and the dead, and the world by fire, who is Alpha and Omega, the 
Excellent Varnish for a holy Cheat.  first and the last, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, El, Ischyros, Messias, and by these holy Names and by all others I invoke thee, and implore by the Nativity of thy Son, by him that carried the Cross, by his Baptism and Passion, by his Resurrection and Ascension, by the Wounds in his Body, by his Death and Burial, by the blessed Virgin Mary, by the Angels, Archangels, Principalities, Powers, Thrones, by all the Patriarches, Prophets, Apostles, all He-Saints and She-Saints. By all these we entreat, implore, beseech and pray thee to hear our praises and our prayers, that thou wouldst be pleased to give me thy Servant power over the Angels of Satan which were cast from Heaven and deceive Mankind, that I may be able to make them speak, to bind, shackle and expel them, and force them to fulfil my Commands immediately, without muttering at my words, but that they may obey me to day, to morrow, and in all places and at all times, more especially by virtue of the Sacred Names and Powers above-written, to be able to constrain this Devil, or these very Devils that now possess this thy poor Creature— to speak and tell me the truth as to what I shall demand of him; and for so doing I will praise, magnify, laud and adore thy Name.   

The Conjuration.  
I Conjure ye, O Devils 
For you must know this is a damned obstinate Devil.  and unclean Spirits, in all parts of the world, to whom power has been given to hurt this Creature, and all you Ethereal Powers and Infernal Princes inhabiting within this Creature of God, of whatsoever quality or condition you be, from 
The Devil must now needs be in a peck of troubles, having no place left to bestow himself.  the South part of the World, or from any other part of the Earth, I exterminate ye from the Earth, I bind ye from the Fire, I banish ye from the Winds, from the Water, from the Caverns of the Rocks, I command ye from the Mountains, from the Abysses, from Hell, and from all places under Heaven. In the Name, etc. And by the Authority committed to me by Jesus of Nazareth, I charge you to pretend to no farther power of lying or abiding in this Creature; and therefore I sentence ye by the Sentence pronounced by the most high Creator, I command ye likewise, that all fraud, fallacy and deceit being laid aside, you tell us didirectly your Names; 
You must always allow of Nonsense and Contradiction in Exorcisms. For the Devil is no stranger to sense; but he abhors Nonsense and flies it.  and by the same Sentence I discharge you out of this Body, and send you to the Infernal. Therefore depart accursed Spirits into Eternal Fire prepared for you and the rest of your Companions. For by the virtue of those most holy Names, by those most holy Names themselves I send ye to the bottom of the Abyss: El, Elohim, Eloa, Sabaoth, Helion, Esereheie, Adonai, Jehova, Jah, Tetragrammaton, Sadai, Messias, Agla, Ischyros, Otheos', Athanatos, Soter, Emmanuel, Hagios, Jesus, Christus, Alpha and Omega, I send ye to the bottom of the Abyss, and tie ye up from having any farther power over this Creature of God, and that you neither possess that place nor any other, by virtue of the abovementioned Names; and by him that sits on the Throne; by whose Power I condemn ye to the eternal Burnings in fire everlasting, and there I chain ye till the day of Judgement.  
Now, Gentlemen, do not you think we should have a brave time on't, could these Exorcists but do as they say? Alas, we should not have a Devil of any sort or size stirring at this side the great Lake. But, alas, there are some of opinion, That if the Devil would go with a good Fee in his hand either to the Fleet or King's Bench, and take Counsel, he would there find that none of these Exorcisms would stand good in Law; or if they did, he would there find such cunning pieces of Ingenuity, as would make him too hard for all the Exorcists in the World. And indeed the Devil had need of good advice and good friends, considering what follows.   

The second Conjuration.  
AGain I conjure ye, O Devils abovementioned, Rebels against God, by the Virgin Mary Mother of Christ, by her Nativity, by her Conception, by her most holy Milk, which was sucked by him who is called Alpha and Omega, by her Merits and by all the most blessed Names of the Virgin, as Virgin, Flower, Cloud, God-bearing Queen, Empress, Lady, Aurora, Handmaid, Fountain, Well, Moon, Sun, Portal, House, Blessed, Glory, most Benign, Pious, Court, Bramble, Ladder, Star, Tower, Assister, Ark, Bride-chamber, Pearl, Tabernacle, Friend, Vail, FairMother, beautiful Soul, blessed Rose, Mary the Spouse. By all these Names abovementioned I command and send ye, and throw ye down headlong into the Lake of Brimstone and Fire, and thither perpetually condemn ye. And the foresaid Virgin Mary, and all the hoIy Virgins and chaste Women rejoice with Christ in Heaven, so by virtue of his Passion I enjoin ye to depart for ever from this Creature; otherwise by all the aforesaid Names and words, and by all the aforesaid words and things I condemn ye ipso facto without mercy to all the Damnation and Torments before expressed as Rebels to God.  
The Papists affirm, That when this Sentence was proclaimed in Hell, there was such a horrid roaring and bellowing among the Devils, that it was heard over all the Land of the Antipodes, even as far as Ethiopia. But you must know, that when the Priest pronounced this Sentence, he laid his Book upon the Head of the Demoniac, and holding forth a Crucifix to the Devil, said these words,  
BY the Prayers of this Book, and by all their Efficacy, by all the Miracles and words of our Saviour, by all the Prayers which are made in Heaven and Earth. By all the Powers in Heaven, and by all the virtue of the most holy Names of God, I command ye to retire from hence, and that you do not dare to do what we command ye, otherwise we will cast ye headlong into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone to be burnt alive. Therefore in whatsoever part of this Body ye are, whether within or without, come and behold the Sign of the Cross consecrated by our great Creator Jesus Christ; for by virtue of that you are bound to obey us. And therefore by virtue of that we constrain ye to appear before Us whether ye will or no; for the words of God 
They'll make the Devil believe the Moon's made of green Cheese by and by.  which proceed out of our mouth are most burning fires, which shall burn ye eternally; and this is the Cross at which all the World trembles, and every Creature quakes for fear, and you are Rebels to ours and your own Creator. Be ye therefore accursed and excommunicated, in eternal Torment, and may ye never rest at any time, if ye do not presently obey these Commands of mine laid upon ye by the Power of Christ, and the words which are said of him who causes all the World to tremble.   

A fair Sentence to be pronounced against the Devil possessing Man or Woman.  
BEing as it were the Vicar of the Supreme Judge by virtue of the Power delivered to me by Him, I thus declare, pronounce and command, That without delay, and all excuses set aside, you forsake this Creature whom you have so long molested, and leave him to enjoy his former health, and that you never hereafter adventure to trouble him again. I also, by the Authority aforesaid, enjoin and command Lucifer, Belzebub and Satan, and all the Infernal Furies, That presently and without delay they throw themselves headlong into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone, and that without any impartiality, they bind and torment one another till the day of Judgement. And because ye rebelled against your Creator, and 
* That was unpardonable.  against Us; and neglected the words and sayings of the Virgin Mary, the holy Apostles and Evangelists, Martyrs and Confessors, etc. I therefore condemn ye to Infernal Punishment, and to those Fires that shall torment ye far from the presence of God, and which shall burn ye at the Command of him who liveth for ever.  
Here let the Exorcist again show the Devil the Sign of the Cross, conjuring him by that Sign, and by the aforesaid Names of God, that he presently depart; but if he demur to the Sentence, and plead, That by certain Incantations, Charms and Bonds he is not to abandon the Party possessed, then let the Exorcist give the Devil another Black-Sanctus in this manner.  
I Conjure, adjure, exorcise and discharge all you Evil Spirits before mentioned, who are bound by any prevailing Charm upon this Creature, that by virtue of the aforesaid Powers, Miracles, Graces, and Powers of God and of his holy Image the Crucifix, and of all the Names of God, and by these Conjurations, Prayers, Bonds and Exorcisms, which have power in the Name of Christ to damn, constrain and exercise ye, and by the Power and Favour of God and that most terrible Day, which 
Let her alone till that day comes, quoth the Welshman.  shall one day bind ye to Eternity, in the deep Lake of the Abyss, forthwith speedily to depart out of this Body without any hurt or detriment either to Body or Soul.  
The Popish Legends tell us, That when the mighty Lucifer heard this piece of multum in parvo, he was taken with such a griping in the Guts, that he scummered for fifteen months together. And it had certainly thrown him into a Fever, but that one of his great Counsellors cured him with a comfortable piece of advice. For said that Machiavilian of a Devil, Your Highness, you know, has a general and unquestionable Licence to ramble about the World like a roaring Lion: Give Exemplifications of this Licence to all your Officers that you send to the Earth, and let them show the Exorcists those Exemplifications, when the Exorcisers show them the Sign of the Cross, and then let them bid the Exorcisers kiss their backsides. This Counsel wonderfully pleased Lucifer, who advanced his Admonisher for his advice, and by that means it is reported, That the lesser Devils have disappointed many a Bucket of Holy Water.  
The Oath which is to be given to the Devil to extort from him the truth of all things appertaining to the Delivery of the Demoniac.  
The Exorcist may give the following Oath to the Devil possessing the body of Man, at any time of the performance of this or any other Exorcism, as he shall see cause, and may use all ways to sist and probe the Devil to find out the Truth, as well by fair as foul means; as well by mildness as threatening language.  
I Swear and promise to thee the Priest and Minister of Christ, to observe all things, which thou shalt command me on the part of God and our Lord Jesus Christ, which shall appertain to the delivery of this Creature. And if I fail in performance of any thing which I promise, I invoke the Omnipotent God, who is highly offended against me, in revenge of this my Perjury, to send his holy Angels potent in Battle, to cast me forth from this Body. I also invoke the mighty Lucifer with all the Princes and Potentates of Hell, to use their utmost indignation against me, and to carry me into the deepest and most tormenting place in all Hell, there to use their utmost Cruelty toward me.  
But suppose the Devil should be forsworn for all this? Then you'll say— Try him by a Jury of God Dammees and the Devil confound me's— They'll never find him, if it be but to save their Bacon hereafter. Certainly the Popish Exorcisers believe the Devils to be Creatures as silly and as nonsensical as the poor simple people whom themselves delude. As if they had lent the Jesuits all their stock of Equivocations, and not reserved so much as one for themselves in point of an Oath or a strict Examination. But you'll say, A man may as soon believe the Devil as believe a Jesuit. Seeing therefore the Papists do believe in the Jesuits, why should they not believe in the Devil? Yes— and sooner too—. Then why may not a Popish Exorciser give the Devil his Oath? I am convinced— pray go on, Sir.  
Now because it happens, that several parties possessed cannot be delivered from the unclean Spirits that possess them at the first, second or third time; therefore the Priest having at length with much ado, as he believes, put an end to his Conjuration, may command the Spirits which are departed out of the Body by virtue of a certain Precept, as follows.   

A Precept to all Unclean Spirits departed out of Bodies possessed.  
I Command you, all 
The Devil had certainly obeyed this Command, but that he knew the Priest had lain with a Wench three times the night before.  unclean Spirits, who are departed out of this Body, in the Name, etc. that ye take upon ye no farther Power or Authority of showing yourselves to this Creature of God, or of imposing upon him any delusion, or of offending or hurting him either in Body or Soul, or of returning back, or of sending any other Devils to possess or molest the same person, but that ye be forced, by virtue of this Precept, to go quietly and without murmuring to your Infernal Habitations, or to the places appointed for You by God, where you may be able to hurt no Creature either rational or irrational. Behold the Cross, etc. Fly Devils with a Witness.  
If the Party possessed be not delivered, and yet the Priest is constrained upon earnest business to leave off before he has finished his Conjuration, then command all the unclean Spirits remaining in the Body, and not only command, but see it done, that they depart out of the principal parts of the Body, as the Head, Breast and Stomach, and to descend to the inferior parts of the Body, as the 
* With your good leave the Devil cannot leave the Heart nor the lower part of the Belly, till the Surgeon washes him with a Syringe, and then he is forced to run for't. So that the Exorcist need do no more than get him down to the lower part of the Belly, and there leave him to the Surgeon his Deputy.  Nails of the Feet, and beware that thou permit them not to return upwards again, but when thou hast got them down, then lay thy Commands upon them, as follows.   

A Command to be given to Spirits remaining in the Body, when the Conjurer has not time to finish his Conjuration.  
I Command Ye, all you unclean Spirits, that possess this Body, in the Name, etc. under pain of being plunged over head and ears into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone for a thousand years presently after your departure out of this Body, (from whence we are resolved to pull ye by head and shoulders) that you remain no longer in the Head or other members of this body, but that ye remove to the utmost and lowermost parts, till ye be called upon by me or some other Exorcist, or that ye be permitted by God to ascend to your own Consusion; and the Salvation of the Parties Soul, but that you permit this person to eat, drink, sleep, and do all those things which are necessary for life. To which purpose I bind ye to your good behaviour till I come again.  
I do not like this way of commanding the Devil by halves; for if you expel him to the lower parts, he presently turns to the Stone or the Gout, that a man had better harbour the Great Lucifer, or Master Tormenter of Mankind himself, than any of those his small Officers. And indeed what trust can be given to Exorcism, or how can we be made believe that these Exorcisers can eject a Grand Devil, when they cannot move so much as the Gout or the Stone or the Spleen, which are but petty Torments to the Saucer-eyed Satan himself.  
Here it is to be noted, That if the Devil in any Exorcism make answer and say, That he is the Soul of any person deceased, you are not to believe him, because it is a Heresy; but urge him to tell his proper Name which he had from the beginning when he was expelled out of Heaven. Ask him also of what Order and Quality he is of, and the Name of his Superior, and for what cause he entered into the body of such or such a party, and conjure him not to depart without leave, and to give notice of his departure, and cause him also to leave his habitation in the same condition as when the party was first baptised.  
There is great reason that the Exorcist should know the Devils proper Name; for otherwise the Devil might bring his Action against the Exorciser for suing him in a wrong Name. But why should the Devil be so loath to for sake this or that single habitation of a pitiful poor man's Body, when so many Monasteries, Colleges, Friaries, Nunneries, nay the Popes own Palace, and the very College of Cardinals are all so much at his devotion, that he may take up there what Lodgings he pleases and be welcome? And it were to be wished, that it were not the Popish Exorcisers' fault that the Devil has so much power over men as he has. For he is forced to seek for shelter among men, because they will not let him be any where else. The Air must not hold him, though he be Prince of it. Thence they thus expel him.   

The Air Conjured.  
I Conjure and exorcise thee, O Air, in the Name, etc. by him that commands the Winds and the Sea, by all the Angels and Archangels, etc. by the whole Court of Heaven, etc. not to entertain in any place this accursed, wicked and malicious Transgressor of a Devil, nor any of his Confederates, but to refuse, reject and turn him out of doors, as the Virgin Mary rejected all contamination of sin.  
They exterminate him from the Earth, and will not let him have so much as a rotten Nutshell to rest in.   

The Earth Exorcised.  
I Exorcise thee, O Earth, in the Name, etc. and by all the Prayers and heavenly solicitations which are daily made in thee and upon thee, not to give any harbour or entertainment to this wicked Spirits, nor to any of his Accomplices, etc.  
They will not suffer him to live in the water, nor to have so much as the benefit of a Menows belly.   

The Water Exorcised.  
I Exorcise ye, O Waters, both great and small, by the power of Moses' Rod, by the water that issued from the side of Christ, by the Virgin Mary, by all the Angels and Archangels, etc. by all the Prophets, Patriarches, Doctors, Saints and holy Hermits, not to harbour or entertain the wicked Spirit, or any that belong to him, but to chase him from all your boundless Territories with all the zeal imaginable, as the Devils were cast out of Mary Magdalen.  
They expel him out of the Fire, so that there is never a Glass-house in the World dares to admit him.   

The Fire Exorcised.  
I Conjure thee, O Element of Fire, in whatever place or part of the World thou art, by him that appeared to Moses in the burning Bush, by him that freed the Three Children out of the fiery Furnace, and by all the Sacred Holocausts which were made by thee, and by all the Angels and Archangels, etc. not to entertain this Evil Spirit, nor any of his Confederates, but to send him with all speed (upon the receipt and sight of these Presents) to the infernal dismal Lake of ever burning. Flames, and that you do not let him stir from thence till the day of Judgement. Again, I exorcise all things that live in thee or by thee to the same effect, etc.  
But now having thus chased the Devil out of all the four Elements, they command Lucifer to take him into custody, and give him no Quarter, as if they were the sole Commanders of that Infernal Bridewell.   

Hell Exorcised.  
O Hell, and thou Fire Infernal, all you infornal Torments, and all you infernal Devils, hear, harken and understand the words of my mouth. I conjure ye by him who raised Lazarus, after he had been three days dead, when the Devil trembled, and all his Ministers were in a Pannic fear. O Hell and Fire Infernal, etc. I conjure ye by his Power that subdued ye to his Dominion, that ye obey us in all things, and fulfil our Commands in whatever we shall impose upon ye. O Hell, the Holy Trinity commands thee to obey us. The whole Host of Angels and Archangels, etc. commands thee. I conjure thee therefore, O Hell, and ye infernal Fires and Torments, and all you Devils, of what quality or condition soever ye be, by him that broke down your Gates, and took from ye all the 
He should have added, by Theseus and Hercules that Clapperclawed your Dog Cerberus.  Holy Fathers, by the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist, and by the terrible day of Judgement, and by all the words by which you infernal Fires, and Devils infernal may be constrained, compelled and forced. I conjure thee, O Lucifer, Prince of Hell, not to let this wicked Spirit rest any where in quiet, but to send thy special Warrant for him and all his Accomplices with all speed, and when thou hast him in thy clutches, to cast him into the burning Lake, where I conjure you, O infernal Torments, to plague him a thousand thousand times more than according to the usual rate of Tormenting.  
Thus the World may see what sorts of Whips and Scourges the Papists pretend to have for the Devil; what a Power they challenge to have over him; and how unmercifully they exercise it, while, to show their Authority, they command one Devil to punish another, not for any misdemeanours committed one among another, but for doing his Duty and his Office, which is to do Mankind as much mischief as he can. And this Authority they assume from the Repetition of holy Names, and the Cooperations of Saints, some of which were as ignominious as the Devil himself, the assistance of the Cross and Holy Water dabling. Whereas there never was any such power given them, which the Devil well knows, and therefore 'tis no wonder he gives no more credit to their counterfeit Warrants. To display therefore to the full the Folly, Superstition and Ignorance of these Exorcists, let us consider what true Divinity says concerning these Exorcisms; first, when they began, and secondly, whether they are still to be retained and made use of among Christians.  
As to the first, we do not find in all the Old Testament any mention made of Exorcisms to cast out Devils. And Adjuration or charging by an Oath we find in the fifth of Numbers, by which the Woman was not adjured by the Priest, to the end he might cast out Devils out of her, only he wished her good or evil, as she had behaved herself in the point of Chastity or Uncleanness, upon which he charged her with an Oath, and either absolved or cursed her. Joshua also adjured Achan, not to cast out the Devil out of him, but to make him confess the concealment of the Spoils. Some are of Opinion however, That David exorcised Saul, which is not to be believed. For he only played upon his Harp before him, and the Songs he sang were only the Praises of God. But that he made no use of Exorcisms, may be confirmed from hence; first, for that he did not perfectly cure Saul, only when David played, Saul was refreshed, and the Evil Spirit departed for a time. Neither did David use any form of Conjuration, but only certain Musical Verses, which were delightful to the ear, and therefore not unfit to recreate the heavy Hypochondriacal humour of Saul.  
As for the Jews, it is plain there were certain Pretenders to Exorcism among them, as appears by the twelfth of Matthew. If I by Beelzebub cast out Devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? By which words, your sons, St. Jerome understands certain Exorcists, that ran about the Country conjuring unclean Spirits in the Name of God. But it does not hence follow, that the Pope has power to erect Colleges and Societies of Exorcists, as if it were in the power of man to bind and tie the Grace of God to Institutions and humane Elections.  
Afterwards Christ renewed this power of casting out Devils, and was himself the Head and Chief of those that did, and acted with great Command and Authority against Unclean Spirits. He also bequeathed this Gift to his Disciples, who nevertheless were not always obeyed by those Evil Spirits, as appears by the seventeenth of Matthew; and Christ tells them the reason why, because of their unbelief. How then can these Popish Priests and Exorcists presume to such a miraculous Gift, who give greater credit to fictitious Saints and Images, than to that Jesus in whose only Name they ought to perform that great work which they pretend to undertake?  
How long then this Gift of adjuring Evil Spirits remained in the Church is uncertain: Justin Martyr, who lived in the time of Antoninus Pius, affirms, That several Christians performed great Cures of this nature, which other Enchanters, Exorcists, and Charmers could not do; and Tertullian, that the same Gift of expelling Devils continued in the time of Severus, and numbers himself among the rest; but he adds withal, We cast out Devils, not for reward or hire, as the Popish Exorcists do, merely to pick the pockets of the deluded people.  
But though it be not so clear how long this great Gift continued in the Church, most certain it is, that Superstition and Profaneness soon trod upon the heels of primitive Piety, and the Devil tired and kerbed with the commands of entire Sanctity, soon found out a way to rid himself out of those bonds, and to be at more liberty. Therefore St. Austin tells us of a certain Roman Tribune in his time, that having his House haunted, was presented by his Friend with a piece of the Earth taken from the Grave where Christ was buried, and out of which he rose again, which the Tribune hung up in his Bedchamber, to terrify the Devil.  
Afterwards when the ancient Bishops and Parochial Priests were so far from correcting these Errors, that, as they call it (out of a good intention) they rather increased and added to them, they augmented to a prodigious number. And then it was that the mercenary Exorcisers minding more their profit than the good of the people, not only called upon Christ, but invoked an hundred sorts of Saints, not minding the saying of St. Paul. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? But the Popish Exorcisers call upon the Saints, in whom they believe, how then shall they call upon Christ in whom they do not believe while they adore the Saved before the Saviour.  
Others believed the mumbling of Ave Mary to be of special force against the Devil, whenas it is certain, that that Angelical Salutation was no Prayer, but an Angelical relation of the happy Tidings which he brought the Virgin; for so the following words, full of Grace, explain, denoting that God had at that time conferred his Grace upon her, and not that she is the Fountain of Grace, as the Papists would thence collect. Now there is a great difference between the person that confers the favour, and the person upon whom the favour is conferred. But now adays the Papists all implore the Virgin Mary, as expecting from her more favour and assistance than from Christ himself.  
Afterwards as Superstition increased, they fell to exorcising and consecrating Water, Salt, Herbs, Candles, and an hundred more such sort of things, and gave them to silly people to keep in their houses, as Preservatives against the Devil.  
But the Sign of the Cross outdid all, so that about the year 1098. when the Cestertian Order first begun to appear in the World, several Armies being seen in the Air near Worms for many nights and days together, and at such a certain time being observed to retire to a Mountain not far distant, and there to vanish, a certain Cestertian Monk of Limburgh was resolved to know their business. To which purpose he first fortified and armed himself and his Companions with the Sign of the Holy Cross, and so going to the Mountain when they appeared again, he conjured and adjured them in the Name of the holy Trinity so terribly, that one of the Troop made answer, That they were the Souls of Soldiers that had been slain in or near that place some time before. The Monk asked them, Whether they expected any assistance or succour from men. The Spirit answered, Yes, by their Fasting and Prayers, but more especially by the Oblation of the Body and Blood of Christ; and so saying, the whole Host cried out three times, Orate pro nobis, Pray for us.  
And thus you see the great Virtue of the holy Cross, and a Popish Tale to confirm it. And thousands there are at this day, who deceived by their Priests, most steadfastly believe, That if they do but sign their Foreheads with the Sign of the Cross, the Devil has no power to come near them, nor to hurt them.  
From whence it is apparent, That in the primitive Times, for the Confirmation of the Divine Truth of the Gospel, there was a heavenly Bequest to several holy Persons to excel in Miracles, who by the Imposition of hands did deliver many Demoniacs from the vexation of Evil Spirits. Which extraordinary Gift then ceased, when those other extraordinary Gifts that accompanied it, were at a period. So that the Herd of Popish Exorcisers that fill the World with their false Invocations and miraculous Operations of sanctified Water and Salt, are a mere Troop of Money-hunters, Impostors, Coney-catches, and Vagabonds. And their Whips for the Devil are no more to be valued than the Rods that excite the decayed Venery of old Lechers in common Brothel-houses.  
Men of sense among the Papists themselves deride 'em. And therefore you find in Erasmus' Colloquies Cardinal Pole himself making the greatest Fool in the world of a Country-Priest, and acting the Spirit himself to carry on the Sport. At length when the Cardinal and his Confederates had sufficiently fooled the silly Exorciser, they framed an Epistle curiously writ in such Paper as the Gold-beaters put their Gold in, wherein the freed Spirit sends Eternal health and thanks to his Deliverer, and having dated it from the Coelum Empyreum, in the Ides of September 1498. they laid it secretly upon the Altar for the Priest to find when he came next to say Mass. Which the Priest showed to all persons he met with, believing nothing more certain, but that it was brought him by an Angel from Heaven.  
And in regard Stories many times prevail above Arguments, it may not be amiss to insert two authentic Relations of two Demoniacs out of the Famous Thuanus, to show not only the Superstition, but the Knavery and Impiety of these pretended Devil-whippers.  
The first is of a certain Maid, Adriana Fraxinet, born of poor Parents not far from Amiens. This Maid, being looked upon as possessed by the Devil, was brought to Paris, and lodged in the Monastery of St. Victor, where she was showed for the rarities sake to vast concourses of people. Among the rest came Peter Cotton a Jesuit with a strong resolution to expel the Devil; the rather, because that being very inquisitive, he thought to pick out of the Devil an Answer to several Questions, of which he had no other hopes to be resolved. To this purpose he borrowed a Book of Exorcisms (such another Whip for the Devil as this may be supposed to be) and to help his memory, put into the Book a Catalogue of such Questions as his Curiosity led him to be informed of, written with his own hand in Latin. After he had performed the Ceremony of Exorcism, he delivered the Book back to his Friend, but imprudently forgot to take out his own paper. By which means the paper known to be his writing, was handed from one to another till it came to the hand of the Duke of Sully, who showed it to Henry the Fourth. Therein Cotton had made inquiry of the Devil, what God had permitted him to know concerning the present Pope? What about his own stay at Court? What he knew about the Conversion of Souls? What about the War with Spain and the Heretics? What course he should take to persuade most efficaciously? What course he should take to abstain from sin? To these he added several Questions in Learning. Whether Languages came from God? What was the most proper place in Scripture to prove Purgatory and the Invocation of Saints? What were those Sons of God that loved the Daughters of Men? How all the beasts were taken that were put into Noah's Ark? Who was King of the Angels? What number of the Angels fell? What hindered a firm Peace with the Spaniards? Which was the best way to convert the Queen of England, and overthrow the Turks? How long Heresy should endure? With several others of the same nature.  
These things many laughed at, and others bitterly Satyrized. For, said they, if Cotton were induced out of a love of Truth to ask these Questions, why did he inquire of the Father of Lies? Others taxed him for going about to be resolved in Scripture-doubts of the Devil who contemned it as Divine Writ. And the Devil finding that the Jesuit had more faith in him than in God, did not think him worth the trouble of his answering.  
Whence we may conclude, That if a silly Wench could so easily delude a topping Jesuit, it is not for the pitiful Herd of common prostituted Exorcists to master the Devil himself.  
The Story of Martha Brosser is yet much more remarkable. She was the daughter of James Brosser, born at Remorantin, in the County of Blois, who weary of his poor Trade of Weaving, took upon him the more lazy Trade of a juggling Mountebank, and taking along with him his daughter Martha, whom he feigned to be possessed with the Devil, began to practise his Tricks among the common people in the neighbouring Cities, with great concourses of people drawn together by the novelty of the thing. But being soon detected nearer home, he removed to Angers, where Charles Miro, Bishop of the City, before he would attempt any thing by way of Exorcism, sent for Martha, and caused her to sit down at his Table; at what time when he observed her to be nothing moved when he drank to her in Holy Water, which he told her was only common water; but that when he drank to her in common water, and told her it was Holy Water, she presently fell into Convulsions and Rave, he began shrewdly to suspect her; but for his better satisfaction, while Martha was in the midst of her Fits, the Pope calls out aloud for a Book of Exorcisms, which being brought him, he immediately repeated the first Verse in Virgil's Eneads, Arma virumque cano, etc. Which hard words Martha no sooner heard, but she began to tear and torment herself, as if the Devil had been in her indeed. Thereupon the Bishop being fully convinced of the Cheat, would have no more to say to her, but dismissed her, with this advice to her Father, to carry his daughter home again, and to forbear deluding the people any longer with his Impostures. But the Father having other designs in his head, would not be so easily admonished, but goes directly for Paris, where he lodges his daughter in the Monastery of St. Genoved, a place much resorted to for the Opinion of its Sanctity. There he had no sooner craved assistance of Sacred means for his daughter Martha, but the Capuchin Friars never standing to examine the condition, reputation or health of the Maid, fall to work, and while Martha flings and bounces to hear their Exorcisms, easily persuade the ignorant Vulgar, that she was possessed with the Devil. And now there was nothing talked of in Paris, but of Martha's being possessed with the Devil, when Monsieur Gonderino Bishop of the place, resolving to interpose his own Authority, sent the chiefest and most approved Physicians, Morescot, Albin, Riolan, Duret, and others to observe the strange Motions, Contortions, and Gesticulations which Martha made, who upon their return to the Bishop, unanimously declared, That there was nothing of Devil in her, many things counterfeited, and some few things which proceeded from her distemper of body; that her tongue was inflamed, and that something of wind more than ordinary grumbled in her left Hypochondrium. However, because she did not stir or cry out when Duret the Physician ran a needle into her hand between her Thumb and Forefinger, therefore the Devil was certainly in her, and Father Serafin the Friar falls asresh upon the Devil with new Exorcisms. Which Martha no sooner heard, but she began to roll her Eyes, lil out her Tongue, and screw her Body at a most dreadful rate: but when she heard the word, And he was made man, she gave a jump, as if she had had no bones in her body, and flew to the door of the Chapel where she was, at which Serafin the Exorciser cried out, Now if there be any that remains incredulous, let him venture his life, and stop the Devil if he can. Upon which Monsieur Marescot the Physician, not enduring the Imposture, ran after her, laid hold of her in spite of all her struggling, and made her stay. Which the Wench perceiving, to conceal the Imposture, pretended that the Devil was gone, and had left her. And the Exorcist, for his credit, confirmed the lie, saying, That she now was Martha herself, and that the Spirit was gone. to which Marescot replied, That then it was he that had frighted the Devil. Hereupon the Bishop for his farther satisfaction caused the Exorcisms to be repeated. At first she was nothing moved, finding Marescot ready to handle her without Mittens; but when she thought that he and the rest of the Physicians were gone, she threw herself upon her back, and fell to her wont pranks. But then the Physicians appearing again, they easily laid hold of her, and held struggling and striving to no purpose. However by these latter motions she brought over two of the Physicians to her Party, who now do think her really possessed. Thereupon other Physicians were called, neither Marescot, nor the other Dissenters being admitted, in whose presence, and in the presence of the Exorciser Ser afin, and Father Benedict, an English man, both Capuchins, Martha, besides the wont Gesticulations of her body, answered the Physicians in Greek and Latin, which she would not own that she understood before, and to the English man she answered in English; and thereupon they all pronounced her possessed with the Devil, and great Arguments followed on both sides. In the midst of these Contentions the King commands Martha to be delivered over to the Secular Magistrate, with Orders to such and such persons to observe her diligently with the help of Physicians and other able persons for forty days, and then to make their Report to the Parliament, who all attested, That they had observed nothing preternatur all in her. Upon this the Priests grew angry and complained in their Pulpits, that the Ecclesiastical Privileges were infringed by the King's Magistrates. Whereupon the Preachers are sent for and sound rattled. And at length a Decree was made, That Martha Brosser and James her Father should be conveyed back by the public Office to Ramorantin, the place of their Habitation; That Martha should be committed to the Custody of her Father, with this Injunction, That he should not permit her to wander out of the Town without permission of the Judge, under pain of Corporal punishment. Thus vanished the Fable of Martha, and thus it is apparent, That the Popish Priests must be either great Fools or very great Knaves to let a silly Wench give so much trouble to the greatest part of a Kingdom: And how little Credit there is to be given to these paltry Exorcisers, that are not able to discern a true Devil from a counterfeit.  
Let the Papists therefore tell us by what places of Scripture they will confirm these idle Ceremonies? Where Christ or his Apostles teach us to expel the Devil who is a Spirit, and consequently without a body, by corporeal means. Let them show us one real Example of any that have done it by this way or means. ●●r the Devil does but feign to give way to these Ceremonies; not that he fears them, but to the end he may graft the roots of Superstition more firmly in the minds of men. And therefore the best Whip for Martha Brosser had been such a Whip as they use at our Houses of Correction; and for the Exorciser of such a Devil, and such are most of your Popish Demoniacs, a good Cat a Ninetails to teach 'em a better way of Living, than by profaning the Name of God, and deluding the unwary and superstitious with their Impostures.    
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Charnock on the Attributes.  
Caryl on Job. In two Volumes.  
Memoires of the Dukes of Hamilton.  
Pools English Annotations on the Bible.  
Two Volumes.  
The Trials of the five Jesuits, Whitebread, Harcourt, Fenwick, Gavan, and Turner.  
Their last Speeches, with Animadversions on them.  
The Trials of Sir George Wakeman, William Marshal, William Rumly, and James Corker.  
The Trial of Richard Langhorne.  
Smith's Account of the Behaviour of 14 Popish Malefactors in Newgate.  
Mr. Prance's Narrative.  
Mr. William Boyses Narrative.  
Dr. Oates' Pope's Warehouse.  
A Discourse of the Peerage and Jurisdiction of the Lords Spiritual in Parliament.  
A Relation of the Ceremony of the Marriage of the King and Queen of Spain.  
Mr. Jennisons second Narrative.  
Blood's Life and Death.  
— His Narrative of the Plot.  
John Fitz-Gerralds Narrative of the Plot.  
A Vindication of Dr. Oats against L'Estrange.  
Naked Truth. The third Part.  
The Proceedings of the Students of Edenbourgh to burn the Pope.  
A modest Apology for the Students of Edenbourgh.  
The Lord Staffords Speech, with Animadversions.  
Sir William waller's Narrative of the Depositions of Captain Bury and Alderman Brooks of Dublin.  
Two great Questions determined concerning the Succession.  
Mr. Everards' Depositions of the Plot.  
— His Discourse on the present State of Europe.  
Mr. bedlow's Plot in a Play.   

Books in Quarto.  
Sir Henry Vanes Meditations.  
Crofftons' Catechism.  
Gales Court of the Gentiles. Third and fourth Parts.  
Caryl on Job. six and seventh Parts.  
Durham on the Canticles.  
— on the Commandments.  
Brooks Key. First and second Part.  
Cases Mount Pisgah.  
Firmins' Real Christian.  
Leybourns Penorganon.  
Alexander against the Quakers.  
Burroughs Gospel Remission.  
Baxter's Apology for the Nonconformists.  
The Quakers Spiritual Court proclaimed.  
A Warning to Souls to beware of Quakerism.  
Mr. William's Sermon on the Fifth of November.  
Mr. Blakes Sermon at Mr. Sharpes Funeral.  
An Answer to Mr. Reads Case.  
Mr. Nicholets' Sermon at Mr. Bernard's Funeral preached at Sea.  
A Call to the Shepherd of Israel.  
L'Estrange resuted with his own Arguments.  
A Disputation proving, That it is not convenient to grant unto Ministers Secular Jurisdiction, and to make them Lords and Statesmen in Parliament.  
The Obligation which lies upon Ministers to preach the Gospel to other places and Parishes besides their own, and in other places besides the Temple.  
The English Man's Right concerning Juries.  
History of the Seven Champions.  
Poor Robin's Perambulation from Saffron-Walden to London.   

Books in Large Octavo.  
Smiths Grammatica Quadrilinguis.  
The Doctrine of Devils.  
Mr. Naltons' Twenty Sermons.  
Fergusons' Interest of Reason in Religion.  
Heywoods' Life in God's Favour.  
Bonhome against Atheism.  
Tesmary's Rhetoric.  
Rythers Morning-seeker.  
Swincock's Sins of Omission.  
Blooms Description of Jamaica.  
Pollhill against Sherlock.  
The present State of Russia.  
Blaky's Sermons.  
Basil Valentine of Antimony.  
History of the Treaty at Nimeguen.  
Bunians Holy War.  
Conold of Schism.  
Homer Ala Mode, or the ninth Book of Homer's Iliads Burlesqued.  
Winchester Phrases.  
Dr. Manwarings Method and Means of enjoying Health, Vigour, and long Life.  
A Synopsis of Vocal Music.  
The young Clerks Guide Complete.  
Bruchers' Rudiments of the Latin Tongue.  
Dr. Bates' Sermon.  
A Synopsis of Quakerism.  
Quakers Canons.   

Small Octavos and Twelves.  
Clapham's Guide to the True Religion.  
Janewayes Legacy.  
Guthries' Interest in Christ.  
Vincent on the Assemblies Catechism.  
Simpsons' Dialogues.  
— Medela Medicorum.  
— Of Fevers.  
Dyers Cabinet of Jewels.  
Nesses' Christians Walk.  
— Antidote against Popery.  
Shirley of the Gout.  
Tachmas Prince of Persia, a Novel.  
Roberti Bayfield Exercitationes Anatomicae.  
History of the Life and Death of Moderation.  
Queen Mother's Life and Death.  
Ralphsons' Star of the Eastern Sages.  
Love's Empire, or the Amours of the French Comte, a Novel.  
Dutch Grammar.  
Dutch Dictionary.  
Helvici Colloquia.  
Cheyny's Call to Prayer.  
Life and Death of Mr. Tho. Wilson.  
Smiths Weaned Christian.  
Sir George downing's Disc. against the Dutch.  
All the Works of the Author of the Whole Duty of Man. In two Volumes.  
Dr. Robothams' Sermons.  
A Protestants Resolution, showing his Reasons why he will not be a Papist.  
The Adamite, or the insensible Jesuit. A new Novel.  
London's Jests, or a Collection of all the curious Jests, never before published.  
A Plea for Lay-Communion with the Church of England from the Writings of above 100 famous Nonconformists.  
Erastus, or the History of the seven wise Masters.   

Small Octavo.  
Friar Bacon.  
Crown Garland.  
Sir Laurence Lazy.  
Valentine and Orson.  
Vinegar and Mustard.  
The Crossing of Proverbs.  
The Wonders of the World.  
Venus' Turtle-doves.