If salvation could be had by fasting so many days, by bodily exercise and pains, by wearing a particular kind of clothing to be distinguished from others, or by long, bombastic, hypocritical prayers, or by extraordinary revelations from the clouds, then they would very readily obey, because they could share some honor themselves in performing these works, or boast of the extraordinary revelations.

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