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.