of plausibleness be suggested, that the prophecies are nothing more
than enthusiastic imaginations.”

For these things you have the attestation of past, and the expe-
rience of present times: and you cannot well, be deceived, if you
will only believe your own eyes and observation. You actually see
the completion of many of the prophecies in the state of men and
things around you, and you have the prophecies themselves re-
corded in books, which books have been. read in public assemblies
these seventeen hundred or two thousand years, have been dispersed
into several countries, have been translated into several languages,
and quoted and commented upon by different authors of different
ages and nations, so that there is no room to suspect so much as a
possibility of forgery or illusion.
