“Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, ‘Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.’
Acts 17:22
“…when the accusers stood up, they… had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.”
Acts 25:18-19
“…why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances (touch not; taste not; handle not; which all are to perish with the using) after the commandments and doctrines of men?”
Col. 2:20-22
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Order of Contents
Articles 3
Book 1
Quote 1
Latin 3
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Articles
1600’s
Gillespie, George – pt. 3, ch. 1, ‘That the Ceremonies are Unlawful Because Superstitious, which is Particularly Instanced in Holy Days & Ministering the Sacraments in Private Places’ in English-Popish Ceremonies (1637)
Cawdrey, Daniel
‘Of Superstition’ in Diatribe triplex, or, A Threefold Exercitation concerning 1. Superstition, 2. Will-Worship, 3. Christmas Festival, with the Reverend & Learned Dr. Hammond (London: Wright, 1654)
Exercitation 1, ‘Of Superstition’ in The Account Audited & Discounted: or, a Vindication of the Threefold Diatribe, of: 1. Superstition, 2. Will-Worship, 3. Christmas Festival, Against Dr. Hammond’s Manifold Para-Diatribes Buy (London, 1658), pp. 62-143
Cawdrey was a Westminster divine.
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1700’s
De Moor, Bernard – Section 17, ‘Things Opposed to True Religion in General: Impiety & Superstition’ in A Continuous Commentary on John Marck’s Compendium of Didactic & Elenctic Christian Theology, vol. 1 Buy (Leiden, 1761-71), ch. 3, ‘On Religion’
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Book
1600’s
Crompton, William – A Remedy Against Superstition: or a Pastor’s Farewell to a Beloved Flock, in Some Preservatives Against Creature-Worship (1667) 175 pp. no ToC
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Quote
Daniel Cawdry
Diatribe triplex… (London: Wright, 1654), ‘Of Superstition,’ p. 6
“There may be therefore two heads of superstition.
§5. 1. Negative, when men abstain from some things under a notion of religion, or worship of God, which are not forbidden by God, but left free and indifferent: either not forbidden, or, if once they were, now [they are] antiquated, or outdated… And of this sort was that, Col. 2:21, ‘Touch not, taste not, handle not;’ which was superstitious negative will-worship.
§6. 2. Positive, when men of their own hearts and heads set up ways of religion, to worship God by, which He never commanded; and this (as was said) may be committed against any of the four first Commandments… Now this positive superstition may be exemplified in many particulars…”
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Latin
1600’s
Velthuysen, Lambert – A Tract on Idolatry & Superstition no ToC in All the Works of Lambert Velthuysen… part 1 (Rotterdam: Leers, 1680), pp. 371-524
van Mastricht, Peter – ch. 13,‘Of the Instituted Worship of God, & of Superstition’ in The Idea of Moral Theology, bk. 2, ‘Of Religion’, pp. 1238-40
9. Superstition 91
10. Some Addenda [to Superstition] 126
11. Historical Appendix: Theology of Sneezing [sometimes it was considered to be an omen] 132
12. Genuflection at the Name of Jesus & unto the Table, or Altar 139
13. Part 2 163
14. Part 3 179
15. Part 4 201
16. Part 5 214
37. Appendix to the Disputations on Superstition & Idolatry 532-39
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Related Pages
Expositions of the 2nd Commandment