_Lazarus_'s Case seems to be the less exceptionable of the three. He had been buried _four Days_, and supposed to be putrified in the Opinion of his Sister _Mary_, and of modern Christians: And if so, his Resuscitation was a most grand and indisputable Miracle. And I could have wish'd, if I had not loved the _Mystery_ rather than the _Letter_, that no Cavil and Exception could have been made to it. Whether _Lazarus_, who was _Jesus_'s Friend and beloved Disciple, would not come into Measures with his Lord, for the Defence of his Honour, and Propagation of his Fame, _Infidels_, who take Christianity for an Imposture, will not question: And whether he would not consent to be interr'd alive, in a hollow Cave, where there was only a Stone laid at the Mouth of it, as long as a Man could fast, none of them will doubt. Four Days was almost too long for a Man to fast without danger of Health; but if those _four Days_ are number'd according to the Arithmetick of Jesus's _three Days_ in his Grave, they are reducible to two Days and three Nights, which Time, if no Victuals were secretly convey'd with him, a Man might fast in _Lazarus_'s Cave. As to the _stinking_ of _Lazarus_'s Carcass: that, _Infidels_ will say, was but the Assertion of his Sister beforehand, like a Prologue to a Farce. None of the Spectators at his Resurrection say one Word of his stinking. And as to the Weepings and Lamentations of _Jesus_ and of _Lazarus_'s Sisters, they will say that was all Sham and Counterfeit, the better to carry on the Juggle of a feign'd Resurrection. And what's worst of all, they will say, that tho' _Jesus_ did call _Lazarus_ forth with a _loud Voice_, as if he had been as deaf as a dead Man; yet his _Face was bound about with a Napkin_, so that the Spectators could not discern what was of the Essence of the Miracle, the Change of his Countenance from a dead to a live one, which is a plain Sign, that it was all Fraud and Imposture. God forbid, that I should have the same sense with _Infidels_, of this Matter; but to be just to their Suggestions and Imaginations here, I must needs say, there are some other unhappy Circumstances, presently to be consider'd, in this Story, which, if they are not emblematical, make it the most notorious Cheat and Imposture that ever was put upon Mankind. In the mean Time, from what is here argued, it is plain, that _Lazarus_ was not so long dead and buried, as that there is no Room to doubt of the Miracle of his Resurrection.