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18 Feby. 1813 4
Church

II. Doctrine
Ch. 3. Persuasion, Subjects
§. P

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§.1. Abstract fitness
Part 5. Power over persuasion

1 1
The effect of the will
on persuasion, is not
certain or immediate.
No torments could
persuade the man
before whom it is
spread, that this paper
exists not. p.1

2 2
But it is as little to
be doubted, that the
effect on persuasion
by the will indubitably, is considerable.
p 1

3 3
To be shewn here the
precise mode of
producing this effect.
p.1

4 4
On a doubtful fact or
proposition, the mind
is assailed acted on on both
sides by reasons — which
when cloathed in
words, are termed
arguments. p.2

5 5
Except when self-command
is suspended
by affection &c the attention
is at the command of the will —
It may be abstracted
from any subject, or
fixed on it — with pertinacity
proportioned
to exertion. p.2

6 6
Suppose a man determined
to apply imbibe
this or that persuasion
on a dubious
point — Exclusion &
agglutination, the
necessary operations,
which act with joint
and well known efflficacy.
p.3.

7 7
Intellectual authority,
a convenient and
efficacious instrument
in the field of religion
as
1. it requires no conception
of the subject —
2. no exertion —
3. and is universally
applicable.

(a) A difficulty occurs by
the collision of opposite
authorities but this is
overcome by exclusion and
agglutination as above. p.4

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§.1. Abstract fitness
Part 5. Power

8 8
Every established mass
of doctrine has a body
of authority in its
favour, which begins
with its establishers,
and grows as it rolls
on, like an avalanche.
p.5.

9 9
Intellectual authority
unsupported by coercive
do is (especially in
matters of religion)
slow even on the side
of truth: authority
on the side of error,
antagonizes with
that on the side of
truth; — passion &
interest
with reason,
while the conflict is
complicated by indigenous
persuasion
arising from the
nature of the case.
p.6.

10 10
Coercive authority
smooths all difficulties,
and manufactures
with ease, not
only declarations
of persuasion, but
persuasion itself.
p.7

11 11
The description as
concise as the operation
prompt. p.7

12 12
By hope or fear, set
declarations of
credence quantum
suff (false or true,
no matter, as the
falsity can not be
proved. (a) p.7

13 13
By mass of declarations
you have a power
by which in proportion
to No & weight
of the authorities,
belief is produced
as certainly as grain
becomes flour in a
mill. p.7

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§.1. Abstract fitness
Part 5. Power

(a) 12(a)
Where declaration
of credence is false,
proof of falsity,
impossible, viz. in
the case of any individual
even though he should
have declared belief
in opposite propositions &c.
so long as there is an
interval between the
two declarations
p7

15
Secus as to a majority
of any classs of men —
where it is seen that
wherever any sinister
interest acts on the
declarants, their declaration
amounts
to nothing. Ex. gr.
notorious and universal
perjury at Oxford.
If a man live in habitual
perjury, is
it likely that, under
the influence of sinister
interest, he should
scruple at a lie, or a
bundle of lies? p.7

16
Persuasion producible
by free freely applied deceptive process
— without coercion — et
cetera Hell and heaven the
instruments.

17
Where coercion is
employed it is the
forced forcibly applied deception process.

18
While the forcibly forced
deceptive process is carried
on, freely deceptive
do is carried on at
the same time by
other hands. Spite of
coercion, indigenous
persuasion and adoptive
do following it, breaks
out. And authority
being thus pitted against
authority, the
of insincerity frequently
shuns the coercive deception,
and takes to the free self deceptive
process. p.8

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