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OF SVPERSTITION.
Section 1.
IN a just and Methodicall order of Translation, the Discourse of Superstition should pre∣cede that of Will-worship; that being more generall, this last a Special under it. Which that we may discover, we shall (before we de∣bate it with the Doctor) enquire, and (as well as we can) resolve, what Superstition is; And this cannot so well be found, by searching into the Monuments of Heathen Authors, Latine or Greeke, (which is the Doctors way) from the Names and senses by them given; (they being apt to misleade themselves and us, in this search,) as by the judgement of Divines, the matter belonging to Religion, the chiefe and last of all Arts: They that never knew what true Religion meant, are all judges of Superstition, which is the worke and worker thereof, in the excessive part.
§. 2. Superstition, in the generall notion of it, is not unfitly defined, by the learned Schooleman,
A vice contrary to Religion, * 1.1 in the excesse,(as profanesse is the other