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14 Feby 1813 Church Note
II Topics Ch 6. Qualif.
**7 §.1. Abstract
Part 5. Power over

<Instance of sincerity disposed by perjury. (2)

Since as to a
majority of any class
of men - where it
is taken that
by wherever any sinister
interest acts on the
declarants, their
declaration amounts
to nothing. Ex. gr.
notorious & universal perjury
at Oxford. If
a man live in
habitual perjury
it is likely that
under the influence
of sinister interest
he should scruple
at a lie or a
bunch of lies.
Not so always [in certain circumstances] in the case of one class of men taken in
an indiscriminate majority of a class of men taken in
the aggregate. In support proof of their sincerity of the
sincerity of such their his declaration y subject to this or that
rare and casual exception, you may reckon and depend
upon each mans separate declaration repeated as often
as called for, as a matter of course. But a case
has been brought to light, + + See Swear not at all by which, wherever there be is any
considerable mass of sinister interest to the seductive action of which
the sincerity of the declarant stands exposed, (and in no case by coercive
authority is any such declaration called for, but by the
very circumstance of its being thus called for a sinister interest
is created and applied) the probative force of any such
corroborative declaration is shewn to amount to nothing.
In one of the two Universities by from which taken together all the
rulers and dignitaries as well as almost all the ecclesiastical members of the Church are supplied it perjury
viz. of that sort in that shape in which it is committed by the violation
of a promissory oath (which by all these consecrated persons is in
express terms acknowledged to be perjury) - is habitual and as well as
universal. It is at the same time public and notorious.
But, a man who in the face of the world scruples not
to live in a state of habitual perjury - falshood accompanied
and aggravated by the profanation violation of the deliberately
preformed the form formed engagement by the profanation
of the consecrated and solemn ceremony, what possibility probability is there
that he should feel less difficulty in the uttering giving utterance, especially
if it be under the impulse of the same sinister
interest - in the giving utterance especially of the
doing so be but the work of a moment, to a simple
fal lie or cluster of lies, unattended by any such aggravating
accompaniment? See further on [Ch], §1.

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