378 The circulationofSuperf#ision, DIR ECT. LVIII. Take heed of Superflition , and ob/erve well the circular courfe o f zealot fuperftition, malignityrformality, andpeeva/b (ingulay rity andfchtfm, that you may not be mif- led by refpet of perlons. 1 mean , that Firs, dndifcrees zeal and devotion path been the 401 beginner of Superflition ; Secondly, trlalignïty in that age kath op- poled it for the e.íd'uthors fake ; Thirdly, in the next age thefame kind ofmen have adored the Authors and made thernfelves a Religion, of theformal part of thatfuper- ftition, andperfecnsed thole that would not own it. Fourthly, .And then thefame kind of men that firfl made it, do oppofe it in enmity to thofe who impofe andown it, and Euler anddivide the Church in difiike of that which was their own invention, T is marvellous to obferve,this partial dance I But Church- Hiflorymay convince the under-I Landing Reader, that fo it pathbeen,and fo it is; Eirft, the zeal of fome holyperfons doth at firfr break forth in fame lawful, and in force indifcreet and unwarrantable expreffions. Secondly, the ma lignant enemies of Godlinefs, hate and oppofe thole expre /Jioni for the fake of the perfons and the zeal expred.3.When they are dead,Godper- forming,
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