Hence we find that _in all countries in which the views and example of Luther were rigidly adhered to, as in Saxony, Wuertemburg, Hanover, Sweden, and other places_, a strong attachment to exorcism prevailed, which was often regarded _as the criterion of orthodoxy_." "Some Lutherans cherished exorcism with a kind of _passionate fondness_." "In the sixteenth century exorcism was alternately defended in one place and disapproved in another; and in the latter half of the eighteenth, attention was again directed to the subject partly by accidental circumstances, and partly also by the great changes in the department of theology.

The result has been that exorcism has been entirely abolished in different individual towns; and in several countries.

This, for example, was the case in Regensburg in 1781, in Hamburg in 1786, and since 1811, in all Sweden." "In other Protestant Lutheran Stales, it is still left to the choice of the parents, whether they will have their children baptised with or without exorcism." "The author (says Siegel) was himself placed in the unpleasant predicament in the year 1836," of having been requested to perform baptism with exorcism!! (_f_) _Dr.Sigismund J.Baumgarten_ of Halle, one of the most learned and profound divines that ever adorned the Lutheran church, who himself published one of the best and the most extensively circulated editions of the symbolical books in 1747, not only inserts the Directory for Baptism (which inculcates exorcism) among the symbolical books, but on p.

637 bears the following testimony: "The Directory for solemnizing marriage, as well as the following _Directory for Baptism_, are found in the _oldest Corp.

Doctrinae_, in the _Thuringian, Julian, Brandenburg_, and first DRESDEN EDITIONS, and also subsequently, in the Leipsic and Reineccian," p.