But, without questioning the possibility and easiness of getting the _Paralytick_ and his Couch over the Heads of the Mob, to the sides of the House; thither he is brought, where we now behold him and his Bearers with their Pullies, Ropes, and Ladders (that were not at hand, nor could suddenly be procured) hauling and heaving him to the top of the House. Of what height the House was, is not of much Consequence. Some for the Credit of the Story may say[257], it was a _very low one_; tho' antient and modern _Commentators_ are pretty well agreed, that it was an _upper-Room_, where _Jesus_ was; consequently the House was at least two Stories high: But if it was much higher, I'll allow that Art and Pullies (which they wanted for the present) would raise the Man and his Bed to the top of it: So we will not dispute nor differ upon that matter. On the top of the House then, we are now to behold the _Paralytick_ and his Bearers with their Hatchets and Hammers, _&c._ (which they forgot to bring with them, for they could not think of any use they should have of them) uncovering the Roof of the House; breaking up _Tiles_, _Spars_, and _Rafters_, and making a Hole, capacious enough for the Man and his Bed to be let thro'. An odd, strange, and unaccountable Work _this_, which, if they had not been cunning Fellows, would hardly have enter'd into their Heads to project. But at work they are, when it was well, if Jesus and his Disciples escaped with only a broken Pate, by the falling of Tiles, _&c._, and if the rest were not almost smother'd with the Dust; for it was over their Heads that the breach was made. Where was the good Man of the House all this while? Would he suffer his House to be thus broken up, and not command them to desist from their foolish and needless Attempt, till the Mob was quell'd, and there was a free entrance at the Door of his House, which could not be long first? Is there nothing in all this, of difficulty and obstruction in the way of the belief of this Story?