ABSTRACT
The true notion of superstition, well expressed by https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780429200434/38044c11-5c56-4ab6-ac5d-9a0db551a5ca/content/pg25_1.tif"/>, i, e. ‘an over-timorous and dreadful apprehension of the Deity.‘—A false opinion of the Deity the true cause and rise of superstition.—Superstition is 7)108t incident to such as converse not with the goodness of God, or are conscious to themselves of their own unlikeness to Him.—Right apprehensions of God beget in man a nobleness and freedom of soul.—Superstitixm, though it looks upon God as an angry Deity, yet it counts Him easily pleased with flattering worship.—Apprehensions of a Deity and guilt meeting together are apt to excite fear.—Hypocrites, to spa/re 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 doth not always appear in the same form, but passes from one form to another, and sometimes shrouds itself under forms seemingly spiritual and more refined.
