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13 Feby 1813 Church Note
Ch 6.
4 p 1. Abstract
Part 2. Persuasion

(a) By To <add>In</add> a pious mind, especially if not much exercised in
logical speculation, a degree of uneasiness will be apt to be
produced

9 (a)
Doctrine of chances
though commonly
employed to temporal
purposes
in insurance,
and even immoral
in gaming, employed
by Price
in defence of faith
in miracles.
(a) The subjects to which the doctrine of chances has been
wont to be applied being in almost all instances cases of a
worldly nature, for instance the business of insurance in
all its branches, and in some instances cases even of an immoral
sort complexion, as for instance where for the purpose
of high gaming play it is applied to games of
chance, — to a pious mind, especially if not much
exercised in in speculations belonging to any branch of the exact sciences, a degree
of uneasiness will be apt liable to be produced by the idea of
applying the sort of language here in question, to subjects of
so awful and important a nature, as many of those which
have been brought under the found or started found or
endeavoured to be brought within the field of faith.

But, not to look out for any others - by the late reverend
instant Minister of the Presbyterian non-established Church
the mathematical and political divine, D<hi rend="superscript">r Price</hi> - whose
piety, - whatsoever may have been thought of his politics -
was never by any person called in question -, the doctrine
of chances, with the appropriate language unavoidably connected
with it, is employed, in the defence and employed in and for the
purpose of the defence of religious faith, [viz. on the subject
of miracles,] in his ingenious and well-known tract on
Evidence and Miracles, presented in his "Four Dissertations
London 2d Feb. 1768.

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Date_1	1813-02-13	Marginal Summary Numbering	9a
Box	005	Main Headings	church of englandism
Folio number	206	Info in main headings field	church
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	john dickinson & c<…> 1809
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	a. levy
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	2623
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