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servant of yours, and lead him to the grace of your baptism. ¶ Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Therefore, cursed devil, recognize your sentence and give honor to the living and true God, give honor to Jesus Christ His Son, and to the Holy Spirit, and depart from this servant of God. The priest shall say: "Nementz kind" original: "Nimm das Kind" (Take the child)
¶ Because God and our Lord Jesus Christ has deigned by His gift to call him to His grace and blessing and the fountain of baptism, and this sign of the holy small red cross symbol cross which we Here he shall make a cross on the child's forehead with his thumb give to his forehead, you, cursed devil, shall never dare to violate. ¶ Through Him who shall come, etc.
Hear, cursed Satan, adjured by the name of the eternal God and of our Savior His Son, depart, conquered by your own envy, trembling and groaning. Let there be nothing in common between you and the servant of God who is already thinking of celestial things, who is about to renounce you and your world, and who is to live in blessed immortality. Give honor to the coming Holy Spirit, who, descending from the highest arch of heaven, shall purify the breast, that is, the temple sanctified to God, from your disturbed deceits by the divine fountain.