And thus have I done with the three Resurrection Stories. If the _Convocation_, next Session, would determine by an Orthodox Vote, whether _Jesus_ rais'd any more, than the said three Persons, from the dead or not; I would present them with a new and more entertaining Chain of Thoughts against these Miracles; such a Chain of Thoughts, as, upon the Conclusion, let them hold which Side of the Question, they please, will necessarily induce us to hold the mystical Meaning of these Miracles, or to grant that _Jesus_ rais'd none from the dead at all. My next and last _Discourse_ on _Jesus_'s Miracles shall be against the Letter of the Story of his own Resurrection, in which, if our _Bishops_ will keep their Temper and Patience, till I publish it, I'll cut out such a Piece of Work for our _Boylean Lectures_, as shall hold them tug, so long as the _Ministry_ of the _Letter_ and an _Hireling Priesthood_ shall last. If _Christ be not risen_, then, according to the Inference of St. _Paul_, _is their Preaching vain_; and why should the People be any longer charg'd with the Maintenance of an ignorant and idle Order of Men, to no Use and Purpose? If I had not had Experience of it, I could never have believed that, for all the ludicrous Nature of these _Discourses_, our _dignified Clergy_ could have been so foolish or malicious as to prosecute me for an _Infidel_ and _Blasphemer_ upon them. How a Man may be mistaken in himself! I took my self for a real Advocate for the Truth of Christianity; and was so vain as to imagine these Discourses tended to a Demonstration of _Jesus_'s Messiahship: And tho' the _Bishop_ of _London_ may be of a contrary Opinion, yet I am still so conceited of my Ability to defend our Religion, that I'll stake my Life against his _Bishoprick_, which I'll not be troubled with, if I win it, that he can't form an Objection against Christianity, which I can't solidly confute, and make our Readers merry too, with his Weakness and Impertinence in it. But perhaps it may be unbecoming of his Lordship's Character, and against the Grain, to make an Objection to that Religion, which he finds much _temporal_, as well as some _spiritual_ Comfort in the Profession of; I will therefore descend to another Proposal, _viz._ If he'll but publish an Answer to the _Jewish Rabbi_'s Letter in this Discourse, and vouchsafe me the pleasure of a Reply to him; then (to save the Civil Magistrate's Trouble) I will suffer any Punishment that in his Clemency he shall think fit to inflict on me, for what's past. Oh, what a Hazard do I here run of Life or Liberty!