No, more like these from our Lutheran Rite:I'm guessing that you're referring to the first three questions asked of baptismal candidates in our baptismal liturgy:
- Do you renounce Satan and all the spiritual forces of wickedness that rebel against God?
- Do you renounce the evil powers of this world which corrupt and destroy the creatures of God?
- Do you renounce all sinful desires that draw you from the love of God?
to which the answer is, in each case, "I renounce them".
I have found a diversity of opinions among Episcopalians, both lay and clergy, regarding whether these questions refer to nonhuman beings with agency (demons, traditionally viewed) or whether they are a personified description of human evil (demons as mythology). In my day-to-day life, it may not matter whether it's (say) a demon of Greed that's attacking me, or the plain human predisposition to greediness that's tempting me -- I renounce it all. But I acknowledge that it would make a difference if you're trying to decide whether to call in a psychiatrist or an exorcist.
The administrator says:
Depart thou unclean spirit, and give room to the Holy Spirit. Then he signs him/her with a cross on his forehead and breast, and says: Receive the sign of the holy cross both on thy forehead and breast.
And following the flood prayer;
I adjure thee, thou unclean spirit, by the Name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Holy Ghost that thou come out of and depart from this servant of Jesus Christ, N. — Amen.
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