Again, I would gladly know, whose Figtree this was, and whether _Jesus_ had any legal Right to the Fruit, if haply he had found any on it, or any Leave or Authority to smite it with a Curse for its Unfruitfulness? As to the Tree's being _Jesus_'s Property, that could not be. For he was so far from being either Landlord or Tenant, that it's said he had not where to lay his Head. During the Time of his Ministry, he was but a Wanderer, like a Mendicant Fryar, or an itinerant Preacher, and before that Time was no better than a Journeyman Carpenter (of whose Workmanship, I wonder, the Church of _Rome_ has no holy Relicks, not so much as a Three-footed-stool, or a Pair of Nutcrackers;) consequently he had no House nor Land of his own by Law, much less any Figtree, and least of all _this_ which he espy'd at a distance in his Travels. How then had he any Right to the Figs, if he had met with any? I hope he ask'd Leave beforehand of the Proprietor, or _Infidels_ will say of him, that if he had had an Opportunity he would have been a _Rob-Orchard_. And it he had no Right to the Fruit, much less to smite the Tree with a Curse; where was his Honour,[150] _his Justice_, his Goodness, and his Honesty in this Act? The _Evangelists_, if they would have us to think, _Jesus_ did no wrong to any Man, should have left us somewhat upon Record, to Satisfaction, in this Case; or _Infidels_, who have here Scope for it, will think worse of _Jesus_, than possibly he may deserve. Whether _Jesus_, modestly speaking, met with any Blame or Reprimand from the Proprietor, for his Act of Execration, none can affirm or deny. But if any one so spitefully and maliciously should destroy almost any other Tree, whether fruitful or not, of another Man's, in this Country, he would have good Luck, if he escaped the House of Correction for it.