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22 July 1810 1810 July 22 32
<head>Fallacies
Ch. Authority worshippers
§.4. Churchmen's sinister interest
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2. It is their interest that whatsoever course of insincerity they
have been induced by the joint power of reward and
punishment to engage and persevere in should be persevered in
by all persons by when the like reward backed
with the like punishment is or shall can be received.
For if inasmuch as in proportion other persons being free to choose their own
declared opinion were to choose be known to choose profess entertain opinions
different from these, forced compulsory ones, the imputation
either of weakness or insincerity will be apt to
fasten upon the professors of these compulsory ones.
Number of Changing suppose for example — 10,000:
before the supposed changes all having subscribed and thence continuing
to profess to believe a given set of articles. The
obligation of subscribing being taken away, the number
professing to believe in these articles is now reduced
suppose to 5,000: the inference will be that of the
former 10,000 5,000 professed to believe what they
did not believe.
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2. Of the persons that
engaged in a course
of insincerity it is
the interest that by
the same means
perseverance in the
same course should
be universal and
perpetual.
For suppose, the
reward as being
taken away, the
number annually
making the same
declaration is reduced
to half: this would
be evidence antecedent of insincerity
on the part
of half.
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