1 Jan 1813 (D)

Church II Ch 6

1 §. 1. Abstract

Part IV. {

Suspended by 3 o?

1

That which by

its instruments

- reward & punishment

power can not do

with certainty is to operate belief

or disbelief

That which, operating by its appropriate instruments

viz. punishment and reward, power can ill do - is -

in a given individual in relation to a given proposition in a direct and immediate

way, and without danger of failure with certainty entire certainty, to produce

belief or disbelief.

or 2

Applied to a large

assemblage of persons

some poits to a

great extent it

can accomplish.

with a near approach

to certainty:

viz.

But That which it can do, and when applied

to any large assemblage of individuals two three points

there are which with but too near an approach

to certainty it is able to accomplish; - and accordingly

to a vast extent has been found to accomplish

or 3

1. Applied to this

or that individual

to produce declaration

of belief by

which in so far as

belief does not exist

an act of mendacity

is committed.

1. One is - [when applied by its the application made of it to this or that individual]

to produce and that at any given moment — the very moment at which it is applied a declaration of belief:

a declaration by which, as in so far as the belief

the existence of which is thus declared, does not exist has no existence

an act of falshood - an act of insincerity, in

the shape of mendacity is committed.

Another is — by means of the instrumentality of the false declaration

of belief, true or false thus extorted from or purchased of A, to produce

on the part of B. C. D in relation and so forth

in relation to that some proportion whatever it be

in belief persuasion of a certain sort, and thence upon occa

as often as occasion calls, declaration of belief

which an act insincere