216 THE IMPItOVEMENT OF THE MIND. of imposture or enthusiasm; and consequently, that it deserves no credit among men. Volatillis undertook the work, and after he had entered a little way into it, found himself so bewildered, and his arguments toprove the apostles either enthusiasts or impostors so muddled, so perplexed, and so inconclusive, that by a diligent review of this letter to the deist, at last he acknowledged himselffully convinced that the religion of Jesus was divine ; for that Chris- tian author had made it appear, it was impossible, that doctrine should have been propagated in the world by simplicity or folly, by fraudor falsehood ; and accordingly, resigned his soul up to the gospel of the blessed Jesus. I fear there have been multitudes of such unbelievers as Volatillis ; and he himself has confessed to me, that even his most rational friends would be constrained to yield to the evi- dence of the chcistian doctrine, if they would honestly try the same method.
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