Nor is this all.

The Infidel imitates the divine, and adopts the same mode of arguing, namely, by this substantiation of mere general or collective terms.

For instance, Hume's argument (stated, by the by, before he was born, and far more forcibly, by Dr.South, who places it in the mouth of Thomas,) [2]--reduce it to the particular facts in question, and its whole speciousness vanishes.

I am speaking of the particular facts and actions of the Gospel; of those, and those only.

Now that I should be deceived, or the eye-witnesses have been deceived, under all the circumstances of those miracles, with all antecedents, accompaniments, and consequents, is quite as contrary to, that is, unparalleled in my experience, as the return to life of a dead man.
So again in the second paragraph of page 502, [3] the position is true or false according to the definition of a miracle.