And it was through the medium of these people, that Christianity became known to the heathens.
For we find that after the apostles could make nothing of the stubborn Jews "they shook their garments, and told them that from henceforth we go to the Gentiles."-- Accordingly, when the apostles preached in the synagogues, and the Jews contradicted, and blasphemed," and made fun of their mode of proving from the prophets, "that Jesus was the Christ; yet the "proselytes and devout women" listened, and believed.
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If "supposing the accounts to have the two foregoing qualifications, we still may suspect them to be false; if, in the time when, and in the place where, they took their rise, they might be suffered to pass without examination," we have still less reason to believe the gospels.

For one reason why they might be suffered to pass without examination is, where the miracles proposed coincided with the notions and superstitious prejudices of those whom they were reported, and who, on that account, might be prone to receive them unexamined.

Now, we have documents in plenty, which abundantly prove, along with the virtues, the extreme credulity and simplicity of the Primitive Christians, whose maxim was, "believe, but do not examine, and thy faith shall save thee." Another very good reason why they might be suffered to pass without, examination is, that the miracles of the gospels were entirely unknown to, or at least acknowledged by, any heathen or Jew of the age in which they are recorded to have happened.
Nobody seems to have known a syllable about them but the apostles and their converts.

Even the books of the New Testament were not generally known to the heathens until some hundred years after the birth of Jesus; and it seems from the few fragments of their works come down to us, that the only notice they did take of them, was to accuse them of telling lies and old wives fables.