Excerpt from The Trial of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus It may easily be imagined that this opened a door to much dispute, and determined the conversation for the remainder of the evening to this subject. The dispute ran through almost all the particulars mentioned in Woolston's pieces; but the thread of it was broken by several digressions, and the pur suit of things which were brought accidentally into the discourse. At length one of the company said, pleasantly, Gentlemen, you don't argue like law. Yers; if I were judge in this cause, I would hold you better to the point. The company took the him, and cried, they should be glad to have the cause reheard, and him to be the judge. The gentlemen who had. Engaged with mettle and spirit in a dispute which arose accidentally, seemed very unwilling to be drawn into a formal controversy; and especially the gentleman who argued against Woolston, thought the matter grew too serious for him, and excused himself from undertaking a con troversy in religion, of all others the most momen tous: But he was told, that the argument should be confined merely to the nature of the evidence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.