It has been a constant Objection of us _Jews_, against the Resurrection of _Jesus_, that he appear'd not personally afterwards to our _Chief Priests_, to _Pilate_ and to others his Crucifiers and Insultors, to upbraid them with their Infidelity and ill Treatment of him. Whether _Jesus_ would not have done so, if he really arose from the dead; and whether he ought not in Reason, for the Conviction and Conversion of Unbelievers, to have done so, with me is no Question. _Celsus_ of old[314] in the Name of the _Jews_ made the Objection; and _Olibio_, a late _Rabbi_[315] has repeated it. But in all my Reading and Conversation with Men or Books, I never met with a tolerable Answer to it. _Origen_ and _Limborch_, the Writers against _Celsus_ and _Olibio_, gently slide over the Objection, as if it was too hot or weighty to be touch'd and handled by them. To recite the poor, short and insufficient Answers of those two Great Authors, to the Objection, would be the Exposing of them, and giving such Strength to the Objection, which it don't want. Therefore I will leave the Objection, which _Origen_[316] owns to be a considerable one, to the Meditation of your modern Advocates for Christianity; and when they can prove, that _Jesus_, after his Resurrection did personally appear to his Crucifiers, the _Chief Priests_ and _Sealers_ of the Sepulchre, to their Confutation; or that, according to the Law of Reason, he ought not to have appear'd to them, then I will turn _Christian_, and grant, that in the Argument above, which proves plain Fraud in the Resurrection, there's no Force nor Truth. In the mean time _Jesus_'s Non-Appearance to the _Chief Priests_ is a Confirmation, that he did not arise from the Dead, but that his Body was stolen away, or he would have waited in the Grave, the coming of the Sealers of the Stone, and their regular opening of the Sepulchre, to the Conviction and Conversion of all there present, and Confirmation of the Faith of all Ages and Nations since. But, 3. A third Answer to the foresaid Argument of Fraud in the Resurrection of _Jesus_, drawn from the Nature, Use and Design of sealing the Stone of the Sepulchre, is, _that tho' the_ Sealers _of the Sepulchre were not present, opening the Seals and beholding the Miracle; yet_ Jesus _did certainly arise from the Dead, or the Belief of his Resurrection could never have been at first propagated by the Apostles, nor would for so many Ages of the Church since have stood its Ground_.