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 such a part, as they did, in order to add to the already growing fame of our Saviour? Besides, what will go a great length, if not wholly convince every candid mind, that it was no trick or deception, is, that not even the most inveterate enemies whom or his infant religion had to contend with, once called the authenticity of it in question, which assuredly they would have done, had there been the least grounds, on which whereon to rest such a presumption.

us now leave the happy mother and her friends magnifying the goodness and power of, in restoring her son, who was dead, to life, and improve this narrative by making a few useful reflections upon it.

in the first place, let us contemplate death as an event, the period of which is very uncertain. The Scriptures speak of our condition in this world in the most humiliating language: "Man," say they, "walketh in a vain shadow." Human life is compared to "a vapour, (James iv. 14.) that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." And when they describe