But some may say here, where was the Wisdom and Providence of God, all this while, to suffer so many Ages and Nations to labour under such a Delusion? Why, I'll tell you; The Providence of God in it was, "To humble Mankind, in the End, for their vain Ostentation of Wisdom, Learning and _Science falsly so call'd_; "To shame them for their Madness and Wickedness to persecute one another for different Opinions in that Religion, whose very Foundation is false and groundless; "To caution them against a blind and implicit Faith for the future; against believing any thing out of the Sight and Reach of their Understandings; "To admonish them of the Necessity of Liberty to think, speak and write freely about Religion, for the Correction of Errors and Discovery of Truth; and, lastly, "To reduce the World, when it should be ripe for it, to the golden Religion of Nature, which upon the Testimony of our old _Cabalistical_ Doctors, and of your _Jesus_ himself, is the _End of the Law and the Prophets_. And thus have I spoken to the _Answers_, which your _Christian Priesthood_ may be presumed to make, to the foresaid Argument of Fraud in _Jesus_'s Resurrection, drawn from the Design of our _Chief Priests_ in sealing of the Stone of his Sepulchre. I should not have concern'd my self to speak to these their supposed _Answers_, but to save them the Trouble of making them, and the Imagination of there being some Force in them. As to the Stories in your _Evangelists_ of _Jesus_'s several Appearances after his pretended Resurrection, sometimes to the Women, and at other Times to his Disciples, I am not at all obliged to refute them. If these Appearances had been more frequent, better circumstanced, and more solemnly averr'd, they would have wanted no Confutation. There's no Doubt on't, but the Disciples, who, for the Argument above, unquestionably stole _Jesus_'s Body away, in order to pretend a Resurrection, would talk much of his appearing to them, and of the Conversation afterwards, they had with him. And if they had told better and more plausible Tales of their Sight of and Conversation with him, it would be nothing to the Purpose; _better_, I say, _and more plausible Tales_ than those upon Record, which for Absurdity, Nonsense and Incoherence carry their own Confutation along with them.