apprehensions of God beget in man a nobleness and freedom of soul.
Superstition, though it looks upon God as an angry Deity, yet counts
Him easily pleased with flattering worship. Apprehensions of a
Deity and guilt meeting together are apt to excite fear. Hypocrites,
to spare their sins, seek out ways to compound with God. Servile
and superstitious fear is increased by ignorance of the certain causes
of terrible effects in nature, &c., as also by frightful apparitions of
ghosts and spectres. A further consideration of superstition, as a
composition of fear and flattery. A fuller definition of superstition,
according to the sense of the ancients. Superstition does not al-
ways appear in the same form, but passes from one form to another,
and sometimes shrouds itself under forms seemingly spiritual and
more refined
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