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28 Oct 1812
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II. Doctrine
Ch. 6. A

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§. Mischiefs of Subscription

1
Mischiefs of subscription

1. Act of insincerity —
viz by every one who
either disbelieves or
doubts any of the articles
The insincerity the
greater according to the
number &c

I. Occasional

2. Habit of insincerity

3 Pain of self reproach

4 Decay of sensibility
to the tutelary sanctions

5. Pain of the moral
sanction — i.e. Shame
produced by the just
reproach of insincerity

6. Intellectual bondage
forasmuch as exemption
from self reproach
depends on a mans keeping
his attention at a
distance from considerations
probative of
the falshood of the opinions
thus espoused.
p 3

7. Ill will towards
men produced by
1. Fear of detection
& consequent contempt.
2. Envy of their liberty
& innocence. p.4

II Habitual 2

5. Belief creating habit.
— 1. Chaining it to the
prov#: 3. turning aside
from the subject: thence from both
2. averting it from the
contras

II Habitual 2

6. For defence from
reproach he becomes
insincere in his conversation
with others
as with himself. p.5.

Habit 2 3
How to prefer falshood
to truth in facts — bad
reasoning to good in
argument — these are
the problems on which
he exercises his mind.
p.5.

# viz. 1. production of
: 2. do of adoptive
credence

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§. Mischiefs of Subscription

3 4
Exercised in these, he
becomes with equal
facility prostitute priest
lawyer, or politician
according to the direction
of the rays of the
sun of preferment.
p.6.

4 5
As an infant under
the hands of the posture
master so at the call
of interest the mind
so trained takes an
infinity of shapes.
At the nod of the
Minister on any side
he gives his vote —
loquacious on the bench
woolsack, silent on the
bench of bishops.
p.6.

5 3
Hence arises a desire
to give strength to
fallacies — hence
worship of antiquity
the notion that wisdom
is in the inverse of
experience & that
the existence of a
practice is a better
proof of its goodness than
the conformity of it
as a means to the
acknowledged end.
p.7

6 7
It becomes his interest
to endeavour to
weaken the intellectuals
& the morals
of man. other men. p.7.

7 6
Required what he
will not say if he
can gain any thing
by it — ? — or do if
seated above punishment?
— Return Nihil.

8 8
The more acute the subscribers
intellect — the
more doubtful his sincerity
— Such a person
accused resorts to protestations
which at least
must silence his antagonist.
p.9.

9 9
Since the existence of
perjury at Oxford & the
indifference to it at
Cambridge has been shown
the force of these protestations
must be equal o.
All Bishops among one
or other of the above classes. p 10

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§ Causes of non-abolition Mischiefs and
B

10 1 14
The aversion they
have to others escaping
the yoke they
himself submitted to, at the
same time that it
depraves the harbourer
hinders the abolition
of it — at the same
time that it depraves
the harbourers mind.
p.1

III B 112 2 IV
Without imputing
imbecillity or insincerity
to those who
have submitted to it
no one can make a
just ground for praying
the removal of
it: & it is not likely
that any man
should plead guilty to
such an accusation.

Habit. B 3 12 3
How just soever these
imputations may seem
to the inward man
it will not cause him
to plead guilty to them.
Yes — if proof of delinquency
were possible:
he would then make
a merit of repentance.
p.1.

Habit. Bors 4 4 13
But by the nature of
the case proof is impossible —

Of the majority the
insincerity may with
abundant reason be
concluded: but unless
in case of spontaneous
confession you can
not say to any one
person "thou art one
"of them.

Habit Bars 5 14 5 III
Thus secure against
external conviction
the stronger his internal
conviction the more
strenuous his denial
of it.

15 III
Peter the first of the
disciples denied his
connection with Jesus,
& if such was the
infirmity of the prime
of Apostles how shall
an Archbishop of
Canterbury or York
be supposed free from
it. p.2

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If men are not to be less
at liberty to believe and
to avow the opinions they
see reason to deduce from
the sacred writings, better
they should not look at
them. Circulators of Bibles
and Testaments are circulators
of snares and
torments.

Mischiefs of the Obligation
to declare credence

§.1. Actual or momentary

1. Pain from fear of
2. Do of reproach

§.2. Habitual — 1. 2. viz

1. Inf or 2. Bondage,
intellect
depraving. . 1. 2. 5?
6? 7? 8. 12. 13. 14
15. 16? 17. 18
3. Malevolence. 10. 11.
12? 13?

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