The works of the late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq . lars relating to our Saviour. II. Not probable that any fuch ftould be mentioned by Pagan writers who livedat the fame time, from the nature of fuch tranfaflions. III. Efpecially when related by the Jews: IV. And heard at a dijlance by thofe who pretended to as great miracles as theirown. V. Be fides that, no Pagan writers of that age lived in Judsa or its Confutes. VI. And becaufe many books of that age are loft. VII. An inftance of one record proved to be authentick. VIII. A fecond record of probable, though not undoubted, authorit
The works of the late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq . lars relating to our Saviour. II. Not probable that any fuch ftould be mentioned by Pagan writers who livedat the fame time, from the nature of fuch tranfaflions. III. Efpecially when related by the Jews: IV. And heard at a dijlance by thofe who pretended to as great miracles as theirown. V. Be fides that, no Pagan writers of that age lived in Judsa or its Confutes. VI. And becaufe many books of that age are loft. VII. An inftance of one record proved to be authentick. VIII. A fecond record of probable, though not undoubted, authority. HAT I may lay before you a full ftate of the fubjedtunder our confideration, and methodize the feveral par-ticulars that I touched upon in difcourfe with you; Ifliall firft take notice of fuch- Pagan Authors, as havegiven their teftimony to the hiftory of our Saviour; re-duce thefe Authors under their respective claffes, andfhew what authority their teftimonies carry with them. Secondly, I fhalLtake notice of fewifts Authors in the fame light. II. There. 5*6 Of the C h r i s r i a k Religion. II. There are many reafons, why you fhould not expect that matters offuch a wonderful natute mould be taken notice of by thofe eminent Paganwriters, who were contemporaries with Jefus Chrijl, or by thofe who livedbefore his Difciples had perfonally appeared among them, and afcertained thereport which had gone abroad concerning a life fo full of miracles. Suppofing fuch things had happened at this day in Switzerland, or amongthe Grijbns, who make a greater figure in Europe than Judaa did in the Ro~man Empire, would they be immediately believed by thofe who live at a greatdiflance from them? or would any certain account of them be tranfmittedinto foreign countries, within fo fhort a fpace of time as that of our Saviourspublick miniftry? Such kinds of news, though never fo true, feldom gaincredit, till fome time after they are tranfadled and expofed to the examinationof the curious, who by
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