"_Jesus_, it is manifest, rais'd not the dead at all. The only Person, that Christians can reasonably pretend, he did raise, was _Jairus_'s Daughter, whom _Matthew_ writes of; and she, according to the Story was only in a Sleep, or an Extacy, when _Jesus_ revived her. But the _Galileans_, who were after a Time call'd _Christians_, finding their Account in a Resurrection-Miracle; _Luke_, for the former Advantage of the Cause, devised another Story of better Circumstances, in the Widow of _Naim_'s Son: But this not being so great a Miracle, as the Church still wanted; _John_, when no body was alive to contradict and expostulate with him for it, trumps up a long Story of a thumping Miracle, in _Jesus_'s raising of _Lazarus_, who had been not only dead, but buried so long that he stank again. But to prove the Story of this Miracle to be false and fabulous, we need say no more than that it was last recorded. If there had been any Truth in it, the first _Evangelist_ would have remember'd us of it. "We don't suppose, that you Christians, because of your Prejudices, will subscribe to this Account, that we thus give of the Rise of these Miracles: But this is certain, that if these three Miracles had not been reported of _Jesus_, but of _Mahomet_, in the same disorder of Time, by three different Historians, you would presently have scented the Forgery and Imposture: You would justly have affirm'd that the three Stories were apparently three Fables and Falsehoods; and that the three Historians visibly strove to outstretch each other: That the _first_ was sparing and modest in his Romance; and the _second_, being sensible of the Insufficiency of the former's Tale, devises a Miracle of a bigger Size; which still not proving sufficient to the End proposed; the _third_ Writer, rather than his Prophet's Honour should sink for want of a Resurrection-Miracle, forges a Story of a monstrously huge one; against which it is, and always will be Objection enough, that it was not related by the first Historian. So would you Christians argue against these three Miracles in another Impostor's Case; and there is not a judicious _Critic_ in the Universe, that would not approve of the Argument, and applaud the Force of it, tho' you will not endure the Thoughts of it in the Case of your _Jesus_.