here, the Miracles may be hence justly question'd, and the Credibility of their Report disputed. But now I am speaking of the Fitness and Unfitness of deceased Persons to have this grand Miracle wrought on them; it comes into my Head to ask, why _Jesus_ rais'd not _John_ the Baptist to Life again? A Person of greater Merits, and more Worthy of the Favour of _Jesus_ and of this Miracle, could not be. If _Jesus_ could raise any from the dead he would surely have raised him; and why did he not? This is a reasonable Question and an Answer should be thought on for it. Was it a Thing out of _Jesus_'s Power? Not so; He was Omnipotent, and could by Force or Persuasion have rescued _John_'s Head out of the Hands of his Enemies; and the tacking it again to his Body, and the infusing new Life into him was no more difficult to _Jesus_, than the Resuscitation of a stinking Carcass. If _Jesus_ had here exerted his Power, and rais'd his dearest Friend and choicest Minister for the Preparation, if not Propagation of the Gospel, none could question his Ability to raise any others, tho' he had rais'd no more. But in as much as _John_ the _Baptist_, one of his singular Merits and Services to _Christ_, was overlook'd and neglected by him; and three useless and insignificant Persons had this Honour done them, the Facts may reasonably be called into question, and, if the Mysteries don't solve the Difficulty, their litteral Stories may hence be accounted foolish, fictitious and fabulous; especially if we consider, 4. That none of these three rais'd Persons had been long enough dead to amputate all Doubt of _Jesus_'s miraculous Power in their Resurrection. As to _Jairus_'s Daughter, she was but newly expired, if at all dead, when _Jesus_ brought her to Life again. _Jesus_ himself says, she was but asleep. And according to _Theophanes Cerameus_[289], and _Theophilact_[290] there is Room to suspect that this _Girl_ was only [Greek: Katochos] _beside herself_. And it is not impossible, but the passionate Skreams of the Feminine By-standers might fright her into Fits, that bore the Appearance of Death; otherwise why did _Jesus_ turn there inordinate Weepers out of the House, before he could bring her to her Senses again? And why did he tell her Parents, that she was only in a sleep, but to Comfort them with the Possibility of his awakening her out of it? Is not this destructive of the Miracle, and making no more of it, than what another Man might do? And is there not some Probability, that here's all of this Story? But supposing she was really dead, yet for the sake of an indisputable Miracle in her Resurrection, it must be granted, that she ought to have been much longer, some Days if not Weeks, dead and buried.