No.135 THE TRIAL OF THE WITNESSES OF THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS: WITH THE SEQUEL OF THE TRIAL. BY THOMAS SHERLOCK, D.D. BISHOP OF LONDON. FIRST PUBLISHED ABOUT THE YEAR 1729. PHILADELPHIA: PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION. 1843. TRIAL OF THE WITNESSES. WE were, not long since, some gentlemen of the Inns of Court together, each to other so well known, that no man's presence was a confinement to any other, from speaking his mind on any subject that happened to arise in conversation. The meeting was without design, and the discourse, as in like cases, various. Among other things we fell on the subject of Woolston's trial and conviction, which had happened some few days before. That led to a debate, How the law stands in such cases? what punishment it inflicts? and, in general, whether the law ought at all to interpose in controversies of this kind? We were not agreed in these points. One, who maintained the favourable side to Woolston, discovered a great liking and approbation of his discourses against the miracles of Christ, and seemed to think his arguments unanswerable. To which another replied, I wonder that one of your abilities, and bred to the profession of the law, which teaches us to consider the nature of evidence, and its proper weight, can be of that opinion: I am sure you would be unwilling to determine a property of five shillings on such evidence, as you now think material enough to overthrow the miracles of Christ. JUN 25 1901 149065 |