_The true Notion_ of Superstition _well express’d by_ Δεισιδαιμονία,
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 most 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 Freedome of
Soul._
Superstition, _though it looks upon God as an angry Deity, yet it counts
him easily pleas’d with flattering Worship._
_Apprehensions of a Deity and Guilt meeting together are apt to excite
Fear._
_Hypocrites to spare their Sins seek out waies to compound with God._
_Servile and Superstitious Fear is encreased 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 alwaies appear in the same Form, but passes from
one Form to another, and sometimes shrouds it self under Forms seemingly
Spiritual and more refined._