1. Observe, that the unnatural and preposterous Order of Time, in which these Miracles are related, justly brings them all under suspicion of Fable and Forgery. The greatest of the three is indisputably that of _Lazarus_'s Resurrection; but since this is only mention'd by St. _John_, who wrote his Gospel after the other _Evangelists_, and above sixty Years, according to the best Computation, after our Lord's Ascension; here is too much Room for Cavil and Question, whether this Story be not entirely his Invention. What could be the Reason that _Matthew_, _Mark_, and _Luke_, who all wrote their Gospel's before _John_, and many Years nearer to the Death of our Saviour, should omit to record this remarkable and most illustrious Miracle of _Lazarus_? They could not forget it, nor be ignorant of it, if the Story had been really true; and to assign any other Reason than Ignorance or Forgetfulness, is hard and impossible. To aggrandize the Fame of their Master, for a Worker of Miracles, was the Design of all the _Evangelists_, especially of the three first, who may be presumed to make a Report of the greatest, if not of all, that _Jesus_ wrought: But that there should come after them an _Evangelist_ with an huge and superlatively great Miracle, and meet with Credit for it, is against all Sense and Reason; neither is there any Story, so disorderly told, in all History, that _Critics_ will admit of the Belief of. The first Writer of the Life of an _Hero_, to be sure makes mention of all the grand Occurrences of it, and leaves no Room for _Biographers_ afterwards, but to enlarge and paraphrase upon what he has written, with some other Circumstances and Additions of less Moment. If a third or a fourth _Biographer_ after him shall presume to add a more illustrious Transaction of the _Hero_'s Life, it will be rejected as Fable and Romance, tho' for no other Reason than this, that the first Writer must have been appris'd of it, and would have inserted its Story, if there had been any Truth in it. And whether St. _John_'s Story of _Lazarus_'s Resurrection, that Miracle of Miracles, ought not to be subjected to the like Criticism upon it, _Christians_ may consider, and _Infidels_ will judge.