Chapter 4.—That Sacrifice is Due
to the True God Only.
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.