discovery. But when they stood the Test of all that the Jews could say or do to them; when in that very City, where he had been so lately Crucify'd, they told the Jews to their face, and before that numerous concourse of People, which was then met together at Jerusalem, that they were Murtherers, that they murther'd their Messias, but that he was risen from the Dead, and that by vertue of his Resurrection they spoke those Languages, and did those Works, which they then saw and heard. This was plain and open dealing, and there could be no de∣ceit in it; if any thing of this could have been disproved they had been for ever silenced, but their worst enemies were so far from being able to disprove what they said, that about three thou∣sand Converts were made on the day of Pentecost.
The innocent and Divine Life of our Sa∣viour, the holiness and excellency of his Doctrine, the simplicity, and meekness, and constancy of his Disciples, the continuance of Miracles for several Ages in the Church, the wonderful Propagation of the Gospel by a few, poor, ignorant, despised, and persecuted Men, every passage, every cir∣cumstance, in the whole dispensation of the Gospel, is full of evidence in proof of it. But thus much in this place shall suffice, all