I have often lamented the Loss of such Writings, which our _Ancestors_ unquestionably dispers'd against _Jesus_, because of the clear Sight they would give us, into the Cheat and Imposture of his Religion. But I rejoice and thank God, there is little or no Want of them, to the Point in Hand. For I had not long meditated on the Story of _Jesus_'s Resurrection, as your _Evangelists_ have related it, but I plainly discern'd it to be the most notorious and monstrous Imposture, that ever was put upon Mankind. And if you please to attend to my following Arguments, which require no Depth of Judgment and Capacity to apprehend, I am persuaded that you and every one disinterested, will be of the same Mind too. To overthrow and confute the Story of this monstrous and incredible Miracle, I was thinking once to premise an Argument of the Justice of the Sentence denounc'd against and executed upon _Jesus_, who was so far from being the innocent Person, you Christians would make of him, that, as may easily be proved, he was so grand a _Deceiver_, _Impostor_ and _Malefactor_, as no Punishment could be too great for him. But this Argument (which I reserve against a Day of perfect Liberty, to publish by it self in Defence of the Honour and Justice of our _Ancestors_) would be too long for the Compass of this Letter; and therefore I pass it by, tho' it would give Force to my following Objections; it being hard and even impossible to imagine, that God would vouchsafe the Favour of a miraculous Resurrection to one, who for his Crimes deservedly suffer'd and underwent Death. But waving, I say, that Argument for the present, which of itself would be enough to prejudice a reasonable Man against the Belief of _Jesus_'s Resurrection; I will allow _Jesus_ to have been a much better Man, than I believe him to have been; or as good a one in Morals as your _Divines_ do suppose him; and will only consider the Circumstances of the Evangelical Story of his Resurrection; from which, if I don't prove it to have been the most bare-fac'd Imposture that ever was put upon the World, I deserve for the Vanity of this Attempt, a much worse Punishment, than he for his Frauds endured.