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1 Jan 1813 (D)
Church II Ch 6
1 §. 1. Abstract
Part IV. {
Suspended by 3o?
or 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
two 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 <add>the application made of it</add> 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: which
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 fal 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 for extorted from or purchased of A, to produce
on the part of B. C. D in relation and so forth but if of
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
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