If our _Chief Priests_ had trespass'd upon _Jesus_'s Patience, and would not attend at the Sepulchre for the opening of the Seals, on the Day and Time appointed; if they had been for confining him longer in the Grave than was meet, according to Prophecy, then his Resurrection, without their Presence, had been excusable and justifiable. But this his pretended Rising to Life, not only a Day before the _Chief Priests_ could imagine he would, or earlier in the Morning than he should, for the Sake of their requisite Presence, is, together with the Fracture of the Seals against the Law of Security, such a manifest and indisputable Mark and Indication of Fraud, as is not to be equall'd in all or any of the Impostures, that ever were attempted to be put upon the World. In short, by the sealing of the Stone of the Sepulchre, we are to understand nothing less than a Covenant enter'd into between our _Chief Priests_ and the _Apostles_, by which _Jesus_'s Veracity, Power and _Messiahship_ was to be try'd. Tho' we read not of the Apostles giving their Consent to the Covenant, yet it was reasonably presum'd and could not have been refus'd, if ask'd. The Condition of the seal'd Covenant was, that if _Jesus_ arose from the dead in the Presence of our _Chief Priests_, upon their opening the Seals of the Sepulchre, at the Time appointed; then was he to be acknowledg'd to be the _Messiah_: But if he continued in a corrupt and putrified State of Mortality, then was he to be granted to be an _Impostor_: Very wisely and rightly agreed! And if the Apostles had stood to this Covenant, Christianity had been nipt in its Bud, and suppress'd in its Birth. But they had other Views, and another Game to play at all Adventures. The Body was to be removed and a Resurrection pretended, to the Delusion, if possible, of all Mankind, in which they have been more successful than could be imagin'd upon a Project that had so little Sense or Reason, so little Colour of Truth or Artifice in the Contrivance and Execution of it. Our _Chief Priests_ were apprehensive at first of their stealing the Body away, and pretending a Resurrection: But after the _sealing_ of the _Stone_, those Fears vanish'd; because upon the stealing the Body, away against such Security and Precaution, the Fraud would be self-evident, and want no Demonstration and Proof of it. But, for all this Precaution, I say, the Body was in a barefaced Manner taken away, a Resurrection talk'd of, and to the Amazement of every one, who can think freely, has been believed thro' all Ages of the Church since. Upon the whole then, I think, you may as well say, when a seal'd Closet is broken open, and the Treasure gone without the Privity of the Signators, that there's no Wrong done; as that in the Resurrection of _Jesus_, there was no Fraud. The Cases are equal and parallel. What then can your Christian _Priests_ say to this demonstrative Argument of a manifest and bare-faced Cheat in