A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation
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E. In supposing that the apostles andprimitive Christians could not believe short of such indubitableevidence. Only suppose the resurrection to have been actuallybelieved, by any evidence, or any circumstance whatever, no matterwhat, for it makes no difference in this argument, and the reportwould naturally be like all other reports of such an extraordinarynature. Both zeal and imagination would be enlisted on the side of itstruth. Extraordinary discourses would be put into the mouths of themar...tyrs, after they were dead, as well as extraordinary deeds intotheir hands; and altho' contradicted ever so many times by theirenemies and persecutors, yet the contradictions would never so out runthe report but that many would still believe. When much strength oftestimony had been thus added, by verbal reports, during twenty orthirty years, let a few men undertake to paint up real histories andletters in the name of the first disciples, and let these be kept inthe hands of those who are strong in the faith, and let them be readfor a long time, only in their own assemblies or churches althoughthey might contain something of which they had not before heard, thisis only what would be natural for them to expect, and as it containedthe main thing which was the object of faith, and those other things, if true, went to establish their faith still more, who would be likelyto call the truth of such writings in question?
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
E. In supposing that the apostles andprimitive Christians could not believe short of such indubitableevidence. Only suppose the resurrection to have been actuallybelieved, by any evidence, or any circumstance whatever, no matterwhat, for it makes no difference in this argument, and the reportwould naturally be like all other reports of such an extraordinarynature. Both zeal and imagination would be enlisted on the side of itstruth. Extraordinary discourses would be put into the mouths of themar...tyrs, after they were dead, as well as extraordinary deeds intotheir hands; and altho' contradicted ever so many times by theirenemies and persecutors, yet the contradictions would never so out runthe report but that many would still believe. When much strength oftestimony had been thus added, by verbal reports, during twenty orthirty years, let a few men undertake to paint up real histories andletters in the name of the first disciples, and let these be kept inthe hands of those who are strong in the faith, and let them be readfor a long time, only in their own assemblies or churches althoughthey might contain something of which they had not before heard, thisis only what would be natural for them to expect, and as it containedthe main thing which was the object of faith, and those other things, if true, went to establish their faith still more, who would be likelyto call the truth of such writings in question?
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