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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_239_001.xml

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

Description: 16 Feb y 1813

Church II Topics Ch.6

A man being thus

thus urged to this

freely deceptive

process, as it is

by exertion his end

is to be attained, the

more exertion, the

more merit. But

the more clearly

false a proposition

is the more exertion

is

necessary to

produce belief in it.

By the conjunct mass of punishment and reward considered

as being so thus about to be applied, an interest a mass of interest has been created

[by which a man is has been led] or a mass of force, a matter by which

he is urged to do whatsoever depends upon

his will towards rendering his judgment to embrace

the persuasion proposed. Towards this end what is in his in the

power power of his will to do is to set to work to employ his exertion in the way and to apply in and to his understanding and judgment the above mentioned process

above described under the appellation of the freely-deceptive

process. But sure it is by such that the

object, if it at all be attained will be attained, hence [+]

in so far as reward

is the species of inducement

looked to

the more strenuous the exertion the greater or more certain

will the prospect of reward naturally appears to be.

In so far as depends upon exertion, the probability of

success being as the magnitude or intensity of the exertion,

hence the idea of merit will attach itself not only to

success but to the exertion upon which that success

depends. But supposing success attained — attained

by exertion, the more plainly the falsity of the

proposition is - in other words the greater the degree in which

to an eye by which it were permitted to be viewed will

to the purpose of forming an indigenous persuasion in

relation to it, the falsity of it would be made manifest,

the greater will naturally have been necessary to be employed, and

employed accordingly in the production of it.

The more palpably

absurd any proposition

the more exertion necessary

to believe it. Merit

& reward being as the

the exertion are as the

absurdity

The more palpably absurd any proposition is the

greater the exertion necessary to produce by means of the

freely-deceptive or self-deceptive process a persuasion of the

verity of it the merit, being as the exertion is as the

absurdity, and the reward being as the merit is also as the absurdity

For Thus For thus Thus the absurdity

of the proposition

is the increase of the

exertion employed

in producing

a persuasion of its verity.

of the verity of it.

JB_005_236_001.xml

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

Description: 16 Feb y 1813 +

Church II Topics Ch.6. declaration

14 §1. Abstract

Part 5. Power over

(1)

By what has been

said it has been

shown that when

a body of authority

has been collected

(no matter how) credence

may be obtained

not only to unintelligible

but to

what did a man

suffer himself to

examine it would

clearly appear

false.

By From what has been said, it has been it is rendered, it is supposed

sufficiently tolerably evident, how it is that, [when, a com

no matter by what means, a competent body of authority —

intellectual authority - has been collected,] credence

may be obtained for any one imaginable proposition

as well as any other: - obtained not only

for a proposition, of to the terms of which [+]

[+] as in the case of an

unknown language

[+] as in the case of

a point-blank contradiction

in terms

the person individual proposed believer to be persuaded

neither does answer or so much as concerns

himself able to to annex any meaning, but to a proposition,

the falsity of which, were he to permitt suffer himself

to attend to it with a view the purpose of forming an indigenous

persuasion concerning in relation to it, would have been impressed upon

his mind by the strongest and clearest perception

possible:—

The

A process which is

in part forcibly

decepti ous may be

in another part, freely

deceptious - In the

first place coercion

is employed in the

second place intellectual

authority

or of persuasion

to which, real authority

is not necessary.

that in this case the same process which in

one part viz. the first former part of its operation is forcibly deceptious, may

in another part, viz the latter part of its operation, be

freely deceptious. In the first former part coercive authority

is the instrument that operates: and the product

is declaration of persuasion: in the latter part

the instrument that operates is intellectual authority;

that is composed of the such appearance or semblance of that persuasion

the declaration of which hath, as above,

been produced.

[+] to the production

of which no not any

real persuasion of

either kind, indigenous

or adoptive is necessary;

necessary to it? - no,

nor yet compatible with

it in so far as force

is the instrument by

which the declaraton

has been produced.