A Whip for the Devil, or, The Roman conjuror discovering the intolerable folly, prophaneness and superstition of the papists in endeavouring to cast the Devil out of the bodies of men and women by him possest ... / all faithfully collected from their own authors, with pleasant notes and observations intermixt.

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 Ge∣hennah, 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 en∣forces 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∣ings. Let the body of man be a terror to thee, and be afraid of the Image of God. Make therefore no longer resi∣stance, 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 Apo∣stles, Peter and Paul, and the rest of the Apostles commands thee. The Blood of the Martyrs commands thee. The Sa∣crament 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 transgrest: Guilty before Christ his Son, whom thou didst boldly presume to tempt and crucifie: Guilty before all Mankind, whom thy perswasions allured 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, dread∣ing his Name, at which the Infernal Spi∣rits 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. There∣fore now thus conjured, depart from this man whom he has formed. 'Tis a dan∣gerous thing to resist Christ. 'Tis a dan∣gerous thing to wince against the pricks. For the longer thou delayst, the greater will be thy punishment; for thou con∣temnest 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 ake? If you delay a minute longer, here's one little tickling Touch for ye more.