_Jesus_'s Resurrection? I have been thinking, what they will or can say; and upon the maturest Consideration I don't find they can make any other than one or more of these shuffling Answers to it, _viz._ 1. That it was impossible for the Disciples to steal the Body of _Jesus_ away, because of the Watchfulness of the Guards, and therefore there was a real Resurrection, tho' the _Chief Priests_ and _Sealers_ of the Sepulchre were not present at it. 2. That, tho' the _Chief Priests_ and _Sealers_ of the Stone of the Sepulchre were not present, as I say they ought to have been, to behold the Miracle; yet his Resurrection was afterwards made as manifest to them, as if they had been there present. 3. That if _Jesus_ did not really arise from the dead, the Belief of his Resurrection could never have been so propagated at first, nor would have been retain'd in the World for so many Ages since. I can think of no other Answers, and believe it impossible for your Christian _Priests_ to form any other, to the foresaid Argument of Fraud in _Jesus_'s Resurrection: But how weak, frivolous and insufficient they all and every one are, will appear upon a little Examination into them. 1. Then, against the aforesaid demonstrative Argument of Fraud, it may be pretended, _That it was impossible for the Disciples to steal the Body of_ Jesus _away, because of the Watchfulness of the Guards; and therefore there was a real Resurrection, tho' the_ Chief Priests, _the_ Sealers _of the Sepulchre were not present at it_. To which I reply, and confess, that if it was impossible to evade the Guards of the Sepulchre, then there was a real Resurrection; but if there was but a bare Possibility of evading them, then this Answer is of no Force. And I am of Opinion, that the Thing was not only possible, but easy, feasible, and practicable. Tho' the _Roman_ Soldiers were of as much Fidelity and Integrity as any of their Profession; yet it is well known, that such Creatures are subject to Bribery and Corruption, if the Disciples had any Money to tempt them with: Or if their Faithfulness to their Trust was untainted; yet it is not improbable, but their Officers, at the Direction of _Pilate_, who found his Account in the Distractions of our Nation, might give them the Hint to wink hard at the Commission of such a Fraud. But not to insist on either of these Ways to evade the _Watch_; our Ancestors said, what your _Evangelist_ has recorded, that the Disciples taking the Opportunity of the Sleep of the Guards, carry'd the Body of _Jesus_ off; which was a thing both possible and probable.