1709 Locupletissimus Thesaurus CURIOUS TREASURY OF BENEDICTIONS, EXORCISMS, CHARMS.

Treasure richest continent and various Selections Blessings, conspiracy, exorcisms, completeness, Rite, administration of the sacraments and other pastoral functions for the benefit of Christ, and more convenient use of all the priests, secular than religious care.

Regarding exorcisms, Clement XI objected to some in current use: "Some of the formulas, in fact, were coarsely vituperative in the highest degree. The demons were addressed as infernal beasts, vile filth of hell, stinking dung and other contemptuous epithets, and were threatened that their meat and drink should be fire, hail, snow, ice, Sulphur, pitch, absinth, rosin, lead, the venom of serpents.

Contains a widely ranging series of benedictions and rites: "Gelasius de Cilia, in the curious Treasury of benedictions, exorcisms, charms, etc., gives several in which the titulus in introduced; for instance in the exorcism of the Charta, or written charm, efficacious against demons and specters, which commenced with a cross placed, like the little crucifix on the cross found at Clare.

In the Benediction against Tempests we find the sentence - 'Jesus Nazarenus Rex Judeorum, - Titulus triumphalis benedicat et custodiat nos ab omnibus malis;' and in the solemn Exorcism of persons bewitched ('contra omnia malefica') the demon was adjured 'per triumphalem titulum,' which is directed to be written on the forehead of the sufferer.

Locupletissimus Thesaurus: continens Varias and selectissimas Benedictiones, Conjurationes, Exorcismos, Absolutiones, Ritus, Administrationem Sacramentorum, aliorumque Munerum Pastoralium, Ad Utilitatem Christi Fidelium, and commodiorem usum Parochorum, omniumque Sacerdotum, tam Saecularium, quam Religiosorum Curam habentium.