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76 Jesus, Prophet of Islam

This conduct will make them suspect all to be a cheat

and imposture, because men will naturally cry out when

they are touched in a tender part ... No man will be

angry at a question who is able to answer it '"

Finally Toland asks:

5ince the Nazarenes or Ebionites are by all the Church

historians unanimously acknowledged to have been the

first Christians, or those who believed in Christ among

the [ews with which, his own people, he lived and died,

they having been the witness of his actions, and ofwhom

were all the Apostles, considering this, 1say how was it

possible for them to be the first of all others (for they

were made to be the first heretics), who should form

wrong conceptions of the doctrines and designs of Je­

sus? And how came the Gentiles who believed on him

after his death by the preaching of persons that never

knew him to have truer notions of the se things, or

whence could they have their information but from the

believing Jews? 11

How, or whence, indeed!

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