The other considerable _Treatise_ against me, is that of _The Trial of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus_; which is an ingenious Piece, and I was well pleased with it. Some time after the Publication of this _Treatise_, I made my Jewish _Rabbi_ a Visit, when, drinking a _Dish_ of _Tea_ together, we talk'd it over; and my _Rabbi_ was pleas'd to deliver his Sentiments of it in this fashion: "Whoever was the Author of this Treatise, God knows, but he's certainly a Friend to my Objections against _Jesus_'s Resurrection, which he has fairly stated; but is so far from fully confuting all of them, that he discovers a Consciousness, here and there, that they are unanswerable. It is commonly reported that Bishop _Sherlock_ is the Author of this _Treatise_, but this Report I look upon as an Artifice of the Booksellers, to make it sell well; or rather the Author's contrived _Banter_ upon the _Clergy_, and their weak Christian Brethren, to try how far they may be imposed on, and drawn into the Approbation and Admiration of a Treatise, that really makes against them. There is but very little in this Treatise, to make it reputed a sufficient Answer to my Objections, excepting the Verdict of the _Jury_, who brought in the Witnesses of the Resurrection, _Not Guilty_, of either Fraud or Mistake in it. _Bishop Sherlock_ can't be the Author of this Treatise, if for no other Reason than this, that _that_ Author is visibly against that Ecclesiastical Wealth and Power, which the _Bishop_ is possess'd of, and does think not disagreeable to the Mind of Christ and his poor Apostles. If any _Bishop_ is the concealed Author of this Treatise, he must secretly be of the Opinion of the atheistical Pope, who said, _quantum nobis profuit hæc de Christo Fabula_, what vast Advantage has the Story of Christ been to us Popes and Bishops." I readily gave into the Opinion of my _Rabbi_, and wonder'd, _Bishop Sherlock_ did not so much as by a publick Advertisement clear himself of being the Author of this Treatise, and so put a Stop to the Report. It may be the _Bishop_ is above the Scandal of it; but I was so concern'd for his Reputation, that I drew up a _Vindication_ of him from the Slander of it; which I had publish'd, but for my _Rabbi_'s farther Thoughts about the Resurrection of Jesus inserted in it, that our _Bishops_ might have possibly taken Offence at. So I dropp'd that Design at present, but hope still for an Opportunity to publish the said Vindication of the _Bishop_, by which, I don't doubt, but to merit his Friendship and Favour. But whoever was the real Author of the foresaid Treatise, I humbly and heartily beg of him to publish, what in the Conclusion of it, he has given us some Hopes of, _The Trial of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of_ LAZARUS, because my _Rabbi_'s Objections to it are a Novelty and Curiosity, which, by way of such a Reply to them, I should be glad to see handled.