I need not make the Application of this Case and Story, which your _Priests_ know how to do for me. To say here, that there's none would be so desperate to engage in such a Fraud, as is the supposed Case of Dr. _Emms_ above, is a Mistake. Many Thousands for their Diversion would enterprise it; and the Stories of the Apparitions of Ghosts, which are almost all the Frauds of the Crafty to delude the Ignorant, do prove it. I my self would be forward to concert such an Intrigue, if it were but to put the Banter upon the _Clergy_, to ruffle their Tempers, and secretly to laugh at them. Nothing would deter me from it, but Fears of the Civil Magistrate, which was not the Danger of the Disciples of _Jesus_, because _Pilate_, for the Sake of Rule over the _Jews_, was a Countenancer of every Faction amongst them; and particularly[318] _Tiberius_, upon _Pilate_'s Representation of the Matter, soon commanded that the Disciples of _Jesus_ should not be molested, nor call'd into Question: So the Disciples stood to the Fraud, told the Story of _Jesus risen_ so often, till they believed it themselves, and drew Multitudes into the Belief of it: Which Belief must have continued thro' all Generations to come, but for my Argument of Fraud, before urg'd and argued. Here, Sir, before I conclude this Letter, I think it my Duty however to give you my Opinion of the Religion, that _Jesus_ and his Disciples were for introducing into the World. Tho' I believe, what I have proved, his Resurrection, to be a Piece of Fraud, and his other Miracles to have been all Artifice; and tho' our _Chief Priests_ and ancient Nation are justifiable in the Sentence, that was pass'd and executed upon _Jesus_; yet I must do him and his Disciples the Justice, to own, that the Doctrine they taught was, for the most Part of it, good, useful and popular, being no other than the Law and Religion of Nature, which, all Nations being wearied with their own Superstitions, and sick of the Burthen of their Priests, ran apace into. Accordingly one[319] of your ancient Fathers says, that they _who lived according to the Law of Nature, were true Christians_. And I must needs say, that if Christians, in Process of Time, had not sophisticated this primitive Religion of _Jesus_; if they had not built their systematical Divinity upon him, and brought strange Inventions of Men into his Worship; if, lastly, they had not again subjugated and entangled themselves with another and worse Yoke of Bondage, to an intolerable and tyrannical Priesthood of the Church, the World might have enjoy'd great Happiness under _Jesus_'s Religion, even _that Happiness_ which is now only to be expected upon a Disproof of his miraculous Resurrection, that has been the Foundation of a most confused Superstructure of wild Doctrines and Opinions: Or more truely speaking, _That Happiness_ of the State of Nature, Religion and Liberty, which may be look'd for upon the coming of our _Messiah_, the