Section 3: That Christ was put to an Ignominious Death.

Book 1 Section 3 (p. 12):
That Christ was put to an Ignominious Death.

This also is no uncertain Report, but a Truth famously known. The memory whereof was so fresh among the Infidels for many Years after, as that the Queen, Mother to Constantine the Great, hearing of her Sons Conversion to Christianity, sent him her Letter, wherein she laid great Folly upon him, for that he would put Confidence in such a Man, as suffered himself to be Nailed to a Cross of Wood. And the Turks to this Day, as well as the Jews, do frequently upbraid the Christians by their Crucified God: Though as God he never died, nor could die; however the Philosopher did conceive the matter, when he cried out, upon occasion of that dreadful Darkness which covered the Earth at his Crucifiction: The unknown God suffers, by reason of whom the whole World is darkned and shaken.