the Turks, who have been long enough in possession of their faith to
plead -----

Mr. B. I beg pardon for interrupting the Gentleman, but it is
to save him trouble. He is going into his favorite common-place, and
has brought us from Persia to Turkey already; and if he goes on, I know
we must follow him around the globe. To save us from this long journey,
I'll waive all advantage from the antiquity of the resurrection, and
the general reception the belief of it has found in the world; and am
content to consider it as a fact which happened but last year, and was
never heard of either by the Gentleman's grandfather, or by mine.

Mr. A. I should not have taken quite so long a journey as the
Gentleman imagines; nor, indeed, need any man go far from home to find
instances to the purpose I was upon. But, since this advantage is
quitted, I am as willing to spare my pains, as the Gentleman is
desirous that I should. And yet I suspect some art even in this
concession, fair and candid as it seems to be. For I am persuaded,
that one reason, perhaps the main reason, why men believe this history
of Jesus, is, that they cannot conceive, that any one should attempt,
much less succeed in such an attempt as this, upon the foundation of
mere human cunning and policy; and 'tis worth to go round the globe, as
the Gentleman expressed himself, so see various instances of the like
kind, in order to remove this prejudice. But I stand corrected, and
will go directly to the point now in judgement.

Mr. B. My Lord, the Gentleman, in justification of his first
argument, has entered upon another of a very different kind. I think
he is sensible of it, and seeming to yield up one of his popular
topicks, is indeed artfully getting rid of another; which has made a