"But if a false Prophet, for the subversion of an _Hireling Priesthood_, should, in spite to the _Clergy_, counterfeit such a Miracle, and be detected in the Operation; how then would Priests and People, Magistrates and Subjects behave upon it? Why, they would be full of Indignation, and _from that day forth would take Council to put_ the Impostor and his Confederate to Death, of which they would be most deserving; and if they did not abscond and fly for it, like _Jesu_ and his Disciples _to a Wilderness in the Country_ to hide themselves, the Rage of the Populace would hardly wait the Leisure of Justice to dispatch and make terrible Examples of them. Was not this exactly the Case of _Jesus_'s Imposture in the Resurrection of _Lazarus_; and of the Punishment he was threaten'd with, and afterwards most justly underwent for it? "Mankind may be in some Cases very obdurate, and so hard of Belief, as to stand it out against Sense, Reason and Demonstration: But I will not think worse of our Ancestors than of the rest of Mankind; or that they any more than others would have withstood a clear and indisputable Miracle in _Lazarus_'s Resuscitation. Such a manifest Miracle, let it be wrought for what End and Purpose, we can possibly imagine, would strike Men with Awe and Reverence; and none could hate and persecute the Author of the Miracle; least He who could raise the dead, should exert his Power against themselves, and either wound or smite them dead with it. For which Reason, the Resurrection of _Lazarus_, on the certain Knowledge of our Ancestors, was all Fraud, or they would have reverenc'd and adored the Power of him, that did it.