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Title: [14 Feb y 1813 + Church Ch.6]

Description: 14 Feb y 1813 +

Church Ch.6

8 Abstract

Part 5.

The forcibly deceptive process includes the

upon it .

Persuasion producible

by the free deceptive

process. without

coercion. Hell &

heaven the instruments

Without the aid of any temporal coercive authority,

by force borrowed from the religious sanction, it is not individual

power may suffice out of the power of the individual to produce persuasion by

what may be termed the free deceptive process freely deceptive exercise. or process

of free deception. In the hands of time is whence while zeal is strong and

knowledge is weak, for the production of persuasion by this process hell flames and heavenly joy, are instruments of

experienced potency.

Where coercion

is employed, it is

the forced deceptive

process

When coercive authority enters the field, and puts brings

its force into in action as above, the process which it employs

may be termed the process of forced deception or forcibly

deceptive or deceptitious process (a)

(a) Note in a separate page.

While the forcibly

deceptive process is carried

on freely deceptive

do is carried

on at the same

time by other hands

spite of coercion

indigenous persuasion

and its adoptive

following it breaks out.

And authority

is against all being

thus pitted against

authority, the

hater of insincerity

frequently

the coercive deception,

and takes

to the self deceptive

process.

When the forcibly-deceptitious process has been carried goes on by one set of hands

on, the freely deceptive process is by another set of

hands naturally and consciously carried on along in conjunction with it.

By the forcibly deceptitious process the production of a quantity

of adoptive persuasion on the subject and on the side

desired is as above, . but on the other hand, spite of

whatsoever force may have been applied by the coercive

authority for the suppression of it, indigenous persuasion on

the side opposite to the authoritative side will here and

there have broken out:- indigenous persuasion, by which

with a probability in some measure proportioned to the rectitude correctness

of such indigenous persuasion a quantity mass of adoptive

persuasion operating on the same side

will also have been produced. Here then will be authority

against authority: reason against reason: argument against

argument. Pressed between the forcibly-produced and the freely

produced arguments, the mind which in any way finds itself

called upon to make a declaration on the side expressed

by force, will be apt to feel a sort of pain proportioned

in its intensity to any laws which it may happen have happened to have

contracted for the virtue of sincerity, to any aversion hatred which it may

have happened to it to have contracted for the opposite vice. To For rid

rid ridding itself as far as

may be from this uneasiness,

it has will find but

one response, viz. in the

freely- deceptive process

the above described

in this case in respect

of the person by whom

it is employed distinguishable by the name of the self-deceptive process.

JB_005_241_001.xml

Title: [16 Feb y 1813 Church II Topics Ch]

Description: 16 Feb y 1813

Church II Topics Ch 6

6

In this case however

intellectual authority

is indispensable -

All the mind can

do is to factor on

the affirmative to

the exclusion of

the disaffirmative

proportions. The

nature of the case

admits not of indigenous

and so must

be of the adoptive kind.

In this case to produce to the production of any such

persuasion the intervention of authority - intellectual authority

is seems indispensible. Towards the production of persuasion, all

that the power of the will can do, is contained in the [freely]

self-deceptive process: viz in the exclusion of putting an exclusion upon all considerations

operating in disaffirmance of the proposition in question,

coupled with joined to the fastening the attention upon all such as

operate in affirmance of it. Such persuasion

if produced can not but be either of the indigenous or

of the adoptive kind. But of any considerations tending to produce a persuasion of the indigenous kind the nature

of the case does not admitt. remain therefore such

considerations and such alone of which the tendency of

which is to produce a persuasion of the adoptive kind.

and but these con but under the name of authority —

intellectual authority — all these such considerations are stand

included.

That two & two

make more or less

than 4 could not

receive belief

by my efforts of

human nature, - But

by authority this or

any other may be

made to receive credence

and accordingly propositions

of the same nature

have received as

sincere belief as if

compatible with

the deceptive process

That two and two are either more or less than

four is a proposition in favour of which, upon the spot, and without the help of intellectual authority all the terms

found to all the to which human nature is

exposed susceptible would not suffice to produce credence. But, by means

of authority this proposition is as capable of being made

to receive credence as any other and accordingly, [as every

body knows] propositions of exactly the same complection

have been made to receive not only pretended, but, accordingly

to all probability, as founded deduced from the observations

above mentioned, a sort of secure and real evidence: credence as secure as is compatible with the employment

of the self-deceptive process above mentioned.

JB_005_237_001.xml

Title: [16 Feb y 1813 Church II Topics Ch]

Description: 16 Feb y 1813

Church II Topics Ch.6. Declaration

(2)

If the attention had

been permitted to

apply itself to the

forming an indigenous

persuasion, the truth

would have prevailed,

But by the will the

attention is called off.

In this case, if for to the purpose of forming an indigenous,

the attention had been permitted suffer to apply itself

to the subject purpose to it, the proposition could not have failed

to have been viewed in its true colours.

But, in virtue of the power which the will has over it, the attention was altogether called off, and not permitted so to

apply itself.

Considered at different

times, in

the case of the

same individual

the process may

be freely & forcibly

deceptious. In

the course of time

by the agglutinative

& exclusive processes

persuasion may be

produced. Force

may cause this

process to be applied

but the process itself

is freely deceptious

Considered at different times, though even when in the instance with reference

of the same individual, it may be true to say of

the same process may be termed a forcibly deceptious

and a freely deceptious process. Upon the spot -

within any such compass as that of

a minute for example - as an hour, or even a

day, it is not of in the nature of force that persuasion

- real persuasion should be produced by it. But give

it time - a week for example, a month or a twelvemonth

for example, a month, or even a week - and persuasion

real persuasion - persuasion by no means altogether

divested of sincerity may be produced by it. How? - by

the freely-deceptitious process - the exclusive and agglutinative process - which in that interval has found had time to

operate, and with effect. The effect immediate effect of which the force is productive

is to cause that other process to be applied. but is itself

when applied this other process, in so far as it is deceptive, is freely deceptive.