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.
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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.
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London :: Printed for Tho. Malthus ...,
1683.
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Catholic Church -- Customs and practices.
Exorcism.
Superstition.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A65650.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2025.
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The Benediction of Fire to burn the In∣struments 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 Thieves and Robbers, to crucifie, asflict and torment them an hundred times more than all the Sulphur in Hell.
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Then sprinkle the Fire with Holy Wa∣ter, but not so as to put it out, and cast the Devils Tools into it, saying,
Let God arise, and let his Enemies be scat∣tered.
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