allegorical Accomplisher of the Law and the Prophets; whose Advent, upon the Tradition of our _Cabalists_, will be towards the latter End of the _Sixth_ grand Age of the Creation, to remove from our Faces and our Hearts the Veil of the Letter; and in the mean while I adhere to the umbratical Rites, Ceremonies and way of Worship, derived from our Forefathers. Thus, Sir, have I finish'd my _Letter_ on _Jesus_'s Resurrection; and whether I have not said enough to justify our _Jewish_ Disbelief of that Miracle, let your _Chief Priests_ judge. I don't expect my Argument against it will be convincing of any of your Preachers. They have a potent Reason for their Faith, which we _Jews_ can't come at; or I don't know but we might believe with them. I trust you'll meet with no Molestation for the Publication of this _Letter_; neither do I think, it was any thing of mine, inserted in your Discourses, that at any time brought Trouble on you. It was your own Imprudence to rave, as you do, against _Ecclesiasticks_. What need had you to talk of the Mischiefs and Inconveniences of an Hireling Priesthood? What Occasion had you to call them Ecclesiastical Vermin, and to speak of the Happiness of Mankind upon their Extinction? These things are very provoking. And here's the true Source, in my Opinion, of all your Troubles! Tho' I have here shewn, that _Christ is not risen_, yet I have more Wit than to make the Inference of St. _Paul_, that _their Preaching is vain_. Their Oratory is still useful, if it be but to tickle the Ears and amuse the Understandings of the People about Doctrines they underhand not, whether true or false. And such an Order of Men, as are your Priesthood, are, by their Habit of long Robes, an Ornament to Society; and it is an Honour to the Country to have them well fed and clad. Had I Room for it, I could write a curious _Encomium_ in Praise of them, and tell the World of what Use and Advantage they have been, in all Ages. O what Wars and Persecutions might have been rais'd in the World, but for their pacifick Tempers! How would Sin and Immorality have broke in upon Mankind, like a Deluge, but for the Goodness of their Lives, and the Excellency of their Precepts! How has the Increase and Multitude of their warm Sermons been the Ruin of _Satan_'s hot and divided Kingdom of Darkness and Error! It's owing to their Pains and Labours, that every Age, for many past, has been improving in Virtue, till the present, which for Piety and good Morals is that perfection of Time, which is not to be meliorated but by the Restitution of the golden Age.