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But, putting aside for the present the other religious services with
which God is worshipped, certainly no man would dare to say that
sacrifice is due to any but God. Many parts, indeed, of divine
worship are unduly used in showing honor to men, whether through an
excessive humility or pernicious flattery; yet, while this is done,
those persons who are thus worshipped and venerated, or even adored,
are reckoned no more than human; and who ever thought of sacrificing
save to one whom he knew, supposed, or feigned to be a god? And how
ancient a part of God's worship sacrifice is, those two brothers,
Cain and Abel, sufficiently show, of whom God rejected the elder's
sacrifice, and looked favorably on the younger's.
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