Vindication of Three of Our Blessed Saviour's Miracles..."

THE ensuing Vindication was drawn up, about nine months since. But it
was done for my own satisfaction, without any view to a publication at
that time. And when the Reverend Dr. Harris's Remarks on the case of
Lazarus came out, I thought, the Public and Mr. W. had received in a
short compass a full answer to all the material objections of the
Discourse, with which these papers are concerned.

Nor did I determine to send them to the Press, till after I had seen a
passage in Mr. W's Defence of his Discourses, p. 61. where he says:
"Whoever was the author of the foresaid treatise, [the trial of the
witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus] he humbly and heartily begs of
him to publish, what in the conclusion of it, he has given us some
hopes of, The Trial of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Lazarus,
because his Rabbi's objections to it are a novelty and curiosity,
which, by way of such a reply to them, he should be glad to see
handled." I also wish, the ingenious author of that performance may be
at leisure to grant Mr. W's request. In the mean time, Mr. W. still
expressing a particular regard for his Rabbi's objections, I thought it
not amiss to send abroad this Vindication, which I had by me.