Julian, Or, a Discourse Concerning the Earthquake and Fiery Eruption Which Defeated That Emperor's Attempt to Rebuild the Temple at Jerusalem; In Which the Reality of a Divine Interposition Is Shewn the Objections to It Are Answered and the Nature of That (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1750. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... "For it seems incredible that so illustrious a miracle mould have made no impression on the Jews, and yet have had so considerable an effect upon the Gentiles. An objection, which seems to be redoubled upon one who hath affirmed y, that a Jew's conviclion of the truth of Christianity must, on his own notions, be necessarily attended with a Converfon: while that Gentile principle of intercommunity, did not imply the necessity of a Pagan's conversion under the fame conviction." 7 " If, fay the Deists, Christianity were accompa"nied by such illustrious and extraordinary marks of "truth as is pretended how happened it that its truth "was not seen by more of the best and wisest of those "times? And if it were seen (as it certainly was by "Ammianus Marcellinus, Mqcrobius, and many others) "how could they continue Pagans? The Answer is -- plain and strong. The truth was generally seen. "But we have shewn, that the conviction of it, in % "new Religion, was, with men over-run with so uni"verfal a prejudice the principle of intercommunity "no reason for their quitting an old one. The case "indeed was different in a Jew, who held none of this "intercommunity. If such a one owned the truth of "Christianity, he must needs embrace it." Div. Leg. B. ii. 6. fee also B. v. 6. To. To this I answer, It is very true, that a Miracle performed before a Pagan, and pot directly addressed to him, made, for the most part, but a small impression on his. religious notions; because that general principle of Paganism hindered him from seeing, that the evident truth of another religion was an argument of the falfhood of his own. It was different with the Jew; who, being a worshipper of the true God, must necessarily regard his attestation, by miracle, not only as an ev...