_Grotius_, being aware of the foresaid Objection, has given us such a[282] Solution of it as then occurr'd to his Thoughts. Dr. _Whitby_, not being satisfied with _Grotius_'s Solution, has given us[283] another: But how weak and insufficient both their Solutions are, I will not spare Time to consider, till some _Writer_ shall appear in Defence of the Sufficiency and Strength of one or other of them. And so I pass to a 2. Second Observation, by Way of Objection to the _Letter_ of these Miracles, and that is, by enquiring, what became of these three Persons after their Resurrection? How long did they live afterwards? And of what Use and Advantage were their restored Lives to the Church or to Mankind? The Evangelical and Ecclesiastical History is entirely silent as to these Questions, which is enough to make us suspect their Stories to be merely romantick or parabolical; and that there were no such Persons rais'd from the dead; or we must have heard somewhat of their Station and Conversation in the World afterwards. It's true, that _Ephiphanius_[284] says, what he found among Traditions, that _Lazarus_ lived thirty Years after his Resurrection: But how did he spend his Time all that while? Was it to the Honour of _Jesus_, to the Service of the Church, and Propagation of the Gospel? Of that we know nothing; tho' in Reason and Gratitude to _Jesus_, his Benefactor, it ought to have been so spent; and if it had been so employ'd, History surely would have inform'd us of it. According to the Opinion of _Grotius_, in a Citation above, _Lazarus_ for the rest of his restored Life absconded, and skull'd about the Country for Fear of the _Jews_, who lay in Wait for him; which is a Suggestion, not only dishonourable to _Jesus_, as if the same Power, that rais'd him from the dead, could not protect him against his Enemies; but reproachful to _Lazarus_ himself, who should have chosen to suffer Death again, rather than not bear an open Testimony to _Jesus_, the Author of his Resurrection. However it was, we hear no more of _Lazarus_, than that he lived thirty Years afterwards, which Tradition, without other Memorials of his Life, brings the Miracle more under suspicion of Fable, than if he had dy'd soon after it. And of _Jairus_'s Daughter, and of the Widow of _Naim_'s Son, which is astonishing, we read nothing at all. Does not this Silence in History about them, make their Miracles questionable, and but like _Gulliverian_ Tales of Persons and Things, that out of the Romance, never had any Being.