Section 4: Understanding Men worship Christ after his Death because of his Miracles, they were so Great and Indubitate.

Book 1 Section 4 (p. 12-13):
Understanding Men worship Christ after his Death because of his Miracles, they were so Great and Indubitate.

As Nicodemus was convinced (as well as many among the Pharisees, John 3.2. John 12.42.) that Jesus was a Teacher sent from God, because no Man could do the Miracles which he did, except God were with him; even so these Living Works which he wrought, had the same powerful Influence upon, not the meanest of the People only, but also upon divers Persons of Eminency for Learning and Judgment. Such were Sergius Paulus, Governour of Cyprus, Acts 13.12. Dionysius, the Arcopagite, Acts 17.34. Policarpus, who died for his Witness to Christianity, An. 169. Justin Martyr, who wrote for the same, An. 142. Irenaus, who was famous in Christian Knowledg, An. 180. Athenagorus, who Flourished, 180. Origin, 208. Tertullian, about the same time. Clemens Alexandrinus, and many more, who being Men of such Excellent Parts, why they should devote themselves to the Worship of a Man, put to a reproachful Death; and hated by his own Nation, even to that Day; especially being almost all bred up in other Religions, which we find to be so powerful a tie upon the Conscience, that it must be some extraordinary Motive that draws off from that. Nor were these Men allured to Christianity by any temptation either of Honour, or Profit; It being that rather a Shame than Credit among Men, and the ready way to Ruine in outwards, to profess that Name. There can in reason no Account be given, but only this: That by diligent Inquisition, such as becomes Prudent Men, in a Business of the greatest Concernment, they had found the same was true, and verified by sufficient Witnesses, which was spread abroad of his Miraculous Works; as of the Sick healed by a word only of his Mouth, and by the touch of his Garment, and only in grievous and inveterate Diseases: Of sight restored to the Man that was born Blind, and the Fig-tree made fruitless for ever, by the word of his Mouth; and by the same, the boistrous Winds and Waves of the Sea to be stilled. Of the Loaves multiplied more than once, to Feed many many thousands, who were Witnesses thereof: Of Water turned into Wine; and the Men raised again to Life; with many more of the same nature, legible throughout the sacred Writings of the New Testament. And this same sprung from so certain and undoubted an Original, that as the Hebrews in their Talmud openly confess, Celsus, that Adversary to Christ, and Julian the Apostate, when they wrote against the Christians, had not the boldness to deny that some Miracles were wrought by the Hand of Christ.