Flourished, 180. Origin, 208. Tertullian, about the same time. Clemens Alexandrinus, and many more, who being Men of such Excel∣lent Parts, why they should devote themselves to the Worship of a Man, put to a reproachful Death, and hated by his own Nation, even to that Day; especially being almost all bred up in other Religions, which we find to be so powerful a tie upon the Conscience, that it must be some extraordi∣nary Motive that draws off from that. Nor were these Men allured to Christianity by any temptation either of Honour, or Profit; It being then rather a Shame than Credit among Men, and the ready way to Ruine in outwards, to profess that Name. There can in reason no Account be gi∣ven, but only this: That by diligent Inquisition, such as becomes Pru∣dent Men, in a Business of the greatest Concernment, they had found the same was true, and verified by sufficient Witnesses, which was spread abroad of his Miraculous Works; as of the Sick healed by a word only of his Mouth, and by the touch of his Garment, and openly in grievous and in∣veterate Diseases: Of sight restored to the Man that was born Blind, and the Fig-tree made fruitless for ever, by the word of his Mouth; and by the same, the boistrous Winds and Waves of the Sea to be stilled. Of the Loaves multiplied more than once, to Feed many thousands, who were Witnesses thereof: Of Water turned into Wine; and the Men raised again to Life; with many more of the same nature, legible throughout the sacred Writings of the New Testament. And this fame sprung from so certain and undoubted an Original, that as the Hebrews in their Talmud openly confess, Celsus, that Adversary to Christ, and Julian the Apostate, when they wrote against the Christians, had not the boldness to deny that some Miracles were wrought by the Hand of Christ.