We shall therefore a little further inquire into it, and what the Judgments of the soberest men anciently were of it; the rather that a learned Author of our own seems unwilling to own that Notion of it which we have hitherto out of _Plutarch_ and others contended for; who though he have freed it from that gloss which the late Ages have put upon it, yet he may seem to have too strictly confined it to a Cowardly Worship of the ancient Gentile Daemons, as if _Superstition and Polytheism_ were indeed the same thing, whereas _Polytheism_ or _Daemon-worship_ is but one branch of it, which was partly observed by the learned _Casaubon_ in his Notes upon that Chapter of _Theophrastus_ περὶ δεισιδαιμονίας, when it is described to be δειλία πρὸς τὸ δαιμόνιον, which he thus interprets, Theophrastus _voce_ δαιμόνιον _et Deos et Daemones complexus est, et quicquid divinitatis esse particeps malesana putavit antiquitas_. And in this sense it was truly observed by _Petronius Arbiter_, _Primus in orbe Deos fecit Timor_— The whole progeny of the ancient Daemons, at least in the Minds of the Vulgar, sprung out of _Fear_, and were supported by it: though notwithstanding, this Fear, when in a Being void of all true sense of Divine goodness, hath not escaped the censure of _Superstition_ in _Varro’s_ judgment, whose Maxim it was, as S. _Austin_ tells us, _Deum a religioso vereri, a superstitioso timeri_: which distinction _Servius_ seems to have made use of in his Comment upon _Virgil_, _Aeneid_ 6, where the Poet describing the torments of the wicked in hell, he runs out into an Allegoricall exposition of all, it may be too much in favour of _Lucretius_, whom he there magnifies. His words are these, _Ipse etiam Lucretius dicit per eos super quos jamjam casurus imminet lapis_, Superstitiosos _significare, qui inaniter semper verentur, et de Diis et Cœlo et locis superioribus male opinantur; nam_ Religiosi _sunt qui per reverentiam timent_. But that we may the more fully unfold the _Nature_ of this πάθος, and the effects of it, which are not alwaies of one sort, we shall first premise something concerning the Rise of it.