convince any man that was not blinded by prejudice, and carried away by his own impetuous passionsq. Besides, he might have gone to the fountain head, and inquired of Jesus himself, what grounds there were for believing him to be the Messiah. Above all, he lived when the Gospel was preached in all its purity, and attested from heaven by miracles without number. Why then did he not set himself to inquire more candidly? Why did he not, like the Beræans, search the Scriptures, to see if things were