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19 Feby. 1813. 8
Church

1o
II. Doctrine
Ch. 6.

§.1. Abstract fitness
Part 7. Mischiefs

1
No such declaration of
persuasion made, but
from hope of gain, or
apprehension of loss.
p.1

2
This applies in the case
of creeds to the lay
parts of congregations.
p.1

3
Such declaration
and every distinguishable
part of it, is either
sincere or insincere.
p.2

I. Insincerity

4
Probability of insincerity
is — (the amplitude
of each being as their
number of propositions,
& where erroneous
as their absurdity
p.2

5
Considering the magnitude
of the good
or evil depending
on declaration or non-
declaration, the more
clear it is supposed
it will appear, that
as to all these propositions
in question,
scarce any one was
ever sincere. p.2.

6
But suppose one
individual insincere,
— Hence arises
p.3

7
1. Insincerity —
moral depravation.
p.3

8
When in the course
of human affairs,
any man is blamed
for insincerity, or
praised for sincerity,
by a reflex sensation
in proportion to the
sensibility of the declarant
will be produced,
2. the pain of self condemnation p.3

II. Sincerity

9
Follow the evils when
the declaration is sincere.
p.4.

10
Suppose the self deceptive
process employed, as above.

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§.1. Abstract fitness
Part 7. Mischiefs

II. Sincerity continued

11
The mischief of such
an operation has
already been seen.
p.4

12
The mischief of such
an operation is not
confined to the occasion
here in question.
In proportion to the
frequency of the operation,
the judgement
is distorted
and weakened.
Right and wrong
will become similar,
and the faculty of
distinguishing them
more and more enfeebled.
p.4

13
Mischief 3. Enfeeblement
of judicial
faculty. p.4

14
By sinister interest
is the mind employed
in this process —
The habit once acquired,
the same effects
will constantly be
produced. Any mischievous
practice
will thus at the
suggestion of sinister
interest, be
pronounced right.

— 2. of the moral
p.5

15
Thus habituated,
a man becomes a
fit instrument
to be employed by
power to perpetrate
any impunity promising
crime.
If he be sincere in
support of error,
so much the better,
as he is thus exempt
from conscious criminality.
p.5

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§.1. Abstract fitness
Part 7. Mischiefs

III. Sincerity & Insincerity.

16
4. Mischief a contribution
to mischief
in all it's shapes.
p.5

17
5. Contribution to
the propagation
of error. p.6

18
6. Support given to
misrule. p.6

19
Obstruction of improvement.
p.6.

20
This self deceit carries
with it no pleasant
sensation,
and will be shrunk
from by many or
most minds. The
unpleasantness is
only to be avoided
by abstracting the
mind from the unpleasant
consequences.
The perjurer
will call it matter
of form, & sign it
without thought.
p.6

21.
By such verbal
fallacy, murder
in detail, or general,
justifiable. p.6.

22
This mischief perhaps
reducible to the 3d (or
(or ) — viz. abstracting
the mind from
consideration of the
subject. p.6.

23.
To all thinking
and generous minds,
a mind in such a
state of slavery,
cannot fail to be an
object of disesteem.
p.7

24
To every such enslaved
mind, this must
be more or less apparent
— And proportioned
to its thoughts
of being an object of
ill will, will be its
ill will towards
others. p.7.

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III. Sincerity and Insincerity

By way of contrast
liberty will be odious
to him. Those who
possess it, he will endeavour
to strip of it,
and those in his own
predicament, to keep
so.

9. Moral depravation
by strength given to
the dissocial affections.
p.7.

I. Case of the pastor

II. Case of the flock — here
the absurdity greatest

7. Pastor self-deception process
will always come first
Every man will want to be
human

N. B. This comes p
before Fixt Terms,
one of the mischiefs of them.

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