1Sdi '.A Sa!nt Dr a Brute: Part U; .!f2.!!er. I o. is it pojJib!c th>it amonx fo m11ny th~uflmds, that ter– ments, or death, or common ingennity, would not have forced ·fome to have repm ted, and opened the deceits of all the reft? .. ~r. I I. ],; it poffible that fo m#lny Hrretid~J that did fall from-them and/et againft the true A pofllu,Wouldnone of them ha'Zte dijdo(ed the deceit,ifreally the Mirdc/r J had not bun done ? .fJ..!!.er. I 2. ],; it poffib/e that none ofthe {e'WJ, their bitter Ene- . mieJ, norany·a/ the LearnedR,qmPZn!of that .age, would have dif .. covered the fraud, and by writing C9nfuted the matter.; of faR, being puhlik__, 1md if falfe, fo eajily confuted ? Where art: the Books' that ever any one of t:hem wrote to. dif.prove any of thefe Miracles ? If you fay, The Chrij}ia11s burnt them ; give us the leaft proOf of it: if you can. . When did any Jew com– plain of fuch a thing? Nay how could the difperfed perfecuted · Chrif.l:ians defl:roy the writings of their reigning enemies ? The wt.itings of Jews and Romans then written' remain to this clay, and had fuller humane advantages of prefervation, then any that are againA: them. No Jews or Romans complained or to do this da.y complain of fuch a thing; nor t.ell. us of any f(ilch writings of t.heirs, that ever were in the · world. fl.!!.er. I 3. _Nay the lewJ. cenfef[e~ the Miracles themfelv_es: and had no fiuft left for the1r unbehef, but by Blafphemmg the Holy Ghoft, and faying that they were doneby the Power of the devil. !J.!!er. I 4· All the difPerfcd Churchu ~tnd Chrijians , of the world, have univerfally concurred in ddi~ering UJ down tbefe· mat– ter,; of {.t£l, and the Writings that crmtain them; and this as a thing that they grounded all their hope of Salvation on, and for which, they contemned this prefent world : And the Enemies that ' gainfaid their doctrine, did not gainfay .thefe matters of fach Could thi~ be feigned ? fl.Eer. I 5. Have 1not fully 11Janifefted in my Book__ ttgainft ln-r (Uelity ( ~o whic.b I mufi agam ~ifmi[s you) rhat r~ere is a fulL and infall!ble Evidence, that this Scnprure was wntten by tbe, Apofi:les, and Evangelifis, and thefe Miracles done, as ther~ is rhat any of rhe S(atutes of this Land are the curranE Statutes of rhofe Parliaments that are faid to make them ? An~ your Lands and Lives are ueld. by ~h~- credit of eh"fer Sratutes-. · -
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