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whole story, Gen. xxxiv. 20-23.
2. The hypocritical Pharisees were also of this religion; long
prayers were their pretence, but to get widows' houses was their
intent; and greater damnation was from God their judgment.
3. Judas the devil was also of this religion; he was religious
for the bag, that he might be possessed of what was therein; but
he was lost, cast away, and the very son of perdition.
4. Simon the witch was of this religion too; for he would have
had the Holy Ghost, that he might have got money therewith; and
his sentence from Peter's mouth was according.
5. Neither will it out of my mind, but that that man that takes
up religion for the world, will throw away religion for the
world; for so surely as Judas resigned the world in becoming
religious, so surely did he also sell religion and his Master
for the same. To answer the ques-
tion, therefore, affirmatively, as I perceive you have done, and
to accept of, as authentic, such answer, is both heathenish,
hypocritical, and devilish; and your reward will be according to
your works.
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