"If there had been an indisputable Miracle wrought in _Lazarus_'s Resurrection; why were the _Chief-Priests_ and _Pharisees_ so incens'd upon it, as _to take Council to put both Jesus_ and _Lazarus_ to _Death for it_? Where was the Provocation? I can conceive none. Tho' the _Jews_ were ever so canker'd with Malice and Hatred to _Jesus_ before; yet such a most stupendous Miracle was enough to stop their Mouths, and turn their Hearts: Or if their Prejudices against _Jesus_ were insuperable, and they hated him but the more for the Number and Greatness of his Miracles; yet why is poor _Lazarus_, inoffensive _Lazarus_, upon whom this good and great Work was wrought, an Object of their Hatred too? Your _Divines_ are to give a credible and probable Account of this Matter, such a one as will comport with Reason and Sense; or we shall conclude, that it was _Fraud_, detected in this pretended Miracle, which justly provok'd the Indignation of our Ancestors. "To say, what is all you can say, that it was downright Inhumanity, Barbarity and Brutality in the _Jews_ to hate _Lazarus_ as well as _Jesus_, will not do here. Tho' this may pass with many Christians, who are ready to swallow, without chewing, any evil Reports of our Nation; yet it can't go down with reasonable and unprejudic'd Men, who must have other Conceptions of human Nature in all Ages and Nations, than to think it possible, that a Man, in _Lazarus_'s Case, can be hated and persecuted for having had such a good and wonderful Work done on him. And why then was he hated and persecuted? I say, for this, and no other Reason, than because he was a Confederate with _Jesus_ in the wicked Imposture, he was putting upon Mankind. "But supposing, what is never to be granted, that the _Jews_ of old were so inhuman, brutish, and barbarous as to hate and persecute _Lazarus_ as well as _Jesus_ for this Miracle; yet why did _Jesus_ and his Disciples, with _Lazarus_, run away and abscond upon it? for they v. 54. _walk'd no more openly among the_ Jews, _but went thence into a Country near to the Wilderness, and there_ Jesus _continued with his Disciples_. Is not here a plain Sign of Guilt and of Fraud? Men, that have God's Cause, Truth and Power on their Side, never want Courage and Resolution to stand to it. And however your Christian _Priests_ may palliate the cowardly and timerous Conduct of _Jesus_ and his Confederates in this Case; yet with me, it's like Demonstration, that there was a discover'd Cheat in the Miracle, or they would undauntedly have faced their Enemies, without Fears And Apprehensions of Danger from them.