_Jesus_ did but[285] _call a little Child, and set him in the midst_ of his Disciples; and that Act was remember'd in the Piety and Zeal[286] of _Ignatius_, who made a renown'd Bishop. But the Favour and Blessing conferr'd on these three rais'd Persons was exceedingly greater; and one might have expected, that _Lazarus_ and the Widow's Son would have been eminent Ministers of the Gospel. But instead of that, their Lives afterwards were pass'd in Obscurity, or, what's as bad, Ecclesiastical History has neglected a Report of them. What can any one hereupon think less, than that the Favour of the Miracles was lost on undeserving Persons, which I abhor the Thoughts of; or that their Stories are but Parables, which I rather incline to. Ministers of the _Letter_ may here say, "That the Ecclesiastical History of the Apostolical Age is very scanty; and that many Memorials of other Persons and Transactions are lost and buried in Oblivion: Which unhappy Fate has attended the after-Lives and Actions of these rais'd Persons, or undoubtedly we should have had a famous Record of them." This is not impossible; tho' in the Wisdom of Providence it is hardly probable, but that some more Remembrance must have been left of one or other, if not of all the three Persons; in as much as such a Remembrance of them would now-a-days have no less gain'd a Belief of the Miracles, than this Historical Silence tends to the Discredit of them. It's somewhat strange, that we hear no more of the after-Fame and Life of any of the diseased Persons, whom _Jesus_ miraculously cured; excepting of the Woman, heal'd of an Issue of Blood; who, tho' she _spent_ ALL _she had, even_ ALL _her Living_ upon _Physicians_; yet out of the Remains of it erected, says[287] _Eusebius_, at _Cæsarea Philippi_, two most costly Statues of Brass, to the Memory of _Jesus_ and of herself, and of the Miracle wrought by him; which Dr. _Whitby_[288] as if he was tainted with Infidelity, endeavours to make an idle Tale of. But excepting, I say this Story of this Woman, we hear nothing of any other heal'd Person; which is Matter of some Speculation: But that the Persons rais'd from the dead should not at all be mention'd in History for their Labours and Lives afterwards to the Honour of _Jesus_, is absolutely unaccountable. Whether such a profound Silence in History about them be not shocking of the Credit of the Miracles, let our _Divines_ consider. I am of Opinion that if _Jesus_ really rais'd these Persons from the dead; this and no other Reason, in the Providence of God, can be given for the Silence of Ecclesiastical History about them afterwards, than to make _dead-letter'd_ Stories of their Miracles, in order to turn our Heads entirely to the Consideration of their mystical Signification, without which the _Letter_, for the Argument before us, is deserving of no Regard nor Credit. But