themselves, and not merely as a report taken from the women.

But for the women what shall I say? Silly as they were, I hope at
least they had eyes and ears, and could tell what they heard and saw.
In this case they tell no more. They report that the body was not in
the sepulchre; but so far from reporting the resurrection; that they
did not believe it, and were very anxious to find to what place the
body was removed. Further they were not employed. For, I think, the
Gentleman in
another part observes rightly, that they were not sent to bear
testimony to any people. But suppose them to be witnesses; suppose
them to be improper ones; yet the evidence of the men surely is not the
worse, because some wonen happened to see the same thing which they
saw. And if men only must be admitted, of them we have enow to
establish this truth.

I will not spend your time in enumerating these witnesses, or in
setting forth the demonstration they had of the truth which they
report. These things are well known. If you question their sincerity,
they lived miserably, and died miserably, for the sake of this truth.
And what greater evidence of sincerity can man give or require? And
what is still more, they were not deceived in their expectation of
being ill treated; for he who employed them, told them beforehand that
the world would hate them, and treat them with contempt and cruelty.

But, leaving these weighty and well known circumstances to your
own reflexion, I beg leave to lay before you another evidence, passed
over in silence by the Gentleman on the other side. He took notice,
that a resurrection was so extraordinary a thing, that no human
evidence could support it. I am not sure that he is not in the right.