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26 Novr 1813 7
Church
II Doctrine
Ch. Recantation
3 3
Whatsoever in any circumstances it may be worth —
— and in these surely it must be worth something if
in any — I have in my favour the opinion — a man will say to himself the authority
of these my persecutors. Had they in their own
opinion had truth on their side they would for the propagation
of that opinion had the trusted to the force of
truth: and the more manifest that truth had been, the
less need would they have had for seeking support
to their opinion in a sort of instrument, the incapacity
of which to affo add to make apply give to any opinion proposition to
which it is happens to it to be applied any the smallest degree of probability,
is so compleatly incontestable.
The less is the probative force of a mans opinion
when directed against others another the greater will it naturally
be when directed against himself. Coming Issuing from the most
Consider whether
this be so?
untrustworthy source, confessional self-condemning evidence
is more trustworthy satisfactory, than it is in the power of evidence
issuing from any other even the most trustworthy source
to be.
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