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1 2| mixture of vanity, and of superstition. You shall read, in some 2 15| a received religion, or superstition, are by the adverse part 3 16| OF SUPERSTITION~It were better to have no 4 16| contumely; and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. 5 16| though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and 6 16| Caesar) were civil times. But superstition hath been the confusion 7 16| government. The master of superstition, is the people; and in all 8 16| is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; 9 16| the church. The causes of superstition are: pleasing and sensual 10 16| calamities and disasters. Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed 11 16| man, so the similitude of superstition to religion, makes it the 12 16| observances. There is a superstition in avoiding superstition, 13 16| superstition in avoiding superstition, when men think to do best, 14 16| they go furthest from the superstition, formerly received; therefore 15 38| forcible, as custom. Only superstition is now so well advanced,