SECT. IV. The cause of which could be no other but those miracles which were done by him.

AND there were always very many amongst the worshippers of Christ who were men of good judgment, and of no small learning; such as (not to mention Jews) Sergius the president 82of Cyprus,¹⁹²¹⁹²   Acts xiii. 12. Dionysius the Areopagite,¹⁹³¹⁹³   Acts xvii. 34. Polycarp,¹⁹⁴¹⁹⁴   Who suffered martyrdom in Asia, in the clxviiith year of Christ, according to Eusebius. Justin,¹⁹⁵¹⁹⁵   Who published writings in defence of the Christians in the cxliid year of Christ. See the same Eusebius. Irenæus,¹⁹⁶¹⁹⁶   He flourished at Lyons, in the clxxxiiid year of Christ. Athenagoras,¹⁹⁷¹⁹⁷   This man was an Athenian. He flourished about the clxxxth year of Christ, as appears from the inscription of his book. Origen,¹⁹⁸¹⁹⁸   He flourished about the ccxxxth year of Christ. Tertullian,¹⁹⁹¹⁹⁹   Who was famous in the ccviiith year of Christ. Clemens Alexandrinus, and others:²⁰⁰²⁰⁰   About the same time. See Eusebius. who being such men, why they should themselves be worshippers of a man that was put to an ignominious death, especially when almost all of them were brought up in other religions, and there was neither honour nor profit to be had by the Christian religion; why, I say, they should do thus, there can be no reason given but this one; that upon a diligent inquiry, such as becomes prudent men to make, in a matter of the highest concern to them, they found, that the report which was spread abroad, concerning the miracles that were done by him, was true, and founded upon sufficient testimony; such as healing sore diseases, and those of a long continuance, only by a word, and this publicly; restoring sight to him that was born blind; increasing bread for the feeding of many thousands, who were all witnesses of it; restoring the dead to life again, and many other such like.