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16 Feby 1813 Church II Topics Ch 6 (3)
Thus it may be seen
that & how, a proposition
more apparently false obtains
may obtain firmer credence than
one less apparently so.
By the same considerations it has been or may be rendered
apparent, that and how it is that — a proposition
the falsity of which [+]
would, to any eye
by which it should be
permitted to be viewed
to the purpose of forming
in relation to it a
persuasion of the indigenous
kind, to
(is) in a greater degree manifest,
shall be made to obtain a stronger persuasion in affirmance of its verity)
than a proposition the falsity of which would, as above
be in a lesser degree manifest.
This case is where
the instruments of
good & the forcible
process consists in
masses of good a
eventual rewards
& punishment.
This is the case The case here in question is that
in which, with or without the intervention and assistance of a body
of intellectual authority produced by means of it
produced by its operation on others, the f instrument by
which the f an operation a process of the forcibly deceptive kind
is performed carried in, consists of a boundless mass of evil good
opera considered regarded as operatives in the character of an
eventual punishment, in conjunction with a boundless
mass of good operating in the character of reward
an eventual reward.
Thus merit is
attached to the
reward producing
belief - demerit
& guilt to the contrary.
This being in some
measure the
of the words.
Such is the case where, in the of him the being
free at whose hands the punishment or the reward eventual punishment or reward
is expected the idea of merit is attached considered
as attached to the act of embracing the persuasion
in question, or that of demerit — in other words
guilt to the act of embracing the opposite persuasion one:
For this in so far as it has any is the import attached
respectively to those words: merit, a probable source
of reward: demerit, a probable source of punishment.
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