18 Jan y 1814

Jug. True

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Ch.1. Introd

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Applied to this or any other system of religion, truth of the religion—verity of the religion—these are abbreviated and as it were elliptical expressions; they require to be spread out.

The strictness of speech propositions alone are the subjects of which truth otherwise called verity is an attribute.

The thing and only thing of which in matters of religion; truth or verity is a property is the set of propositions which it has for its ground. These propositions are [...?] of some supposed matter of fact, which taking those propositions for true are considered as constituting a conclusive body of proof probative of the verity of whatsoever is requisite and necessary to be true. The following paragraph is crossed through in pencil.

Miracles and Prophecies—to one or other of these two heads may be referred whatsoever supposed matters of fact here in the present instance in a case such as the present been brought forward in the character of evidence probative of its verity.

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Truth of religion—verity of d o—are elliptical propositions.Of nothing but a proposition is verity, properly speaking an attribute.