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466 Credibility of the Gospel History.
Aruobins's knowledge of the christian religion and its evidences,
and to his passages just alleged, containing his summary
accounts of the great design of if. I might also refer
to other passages, where'' he insists upon those laws of
Christ, which teach men to bear injuries, and not to return
evil for evil : as likew ise to some other places vvhere> he
puts the heathens in mind of the innocence of Christ himself,
and of his w hole undertaking : which, as he tells them, is
alone sufficient to show how unreasonable their fierce opposition
against him was. And there are in him many other
passages to the same purpose, which will offer themselves
to an attentive reader.
(2.) He insists^ upon the virtues of our Lord's life, and
the perfection and amiableness of his conduct upon all
occasions.
(3,) Another argument is taken from our Lord's miracles.
Several of the passages where Arnobius speaks of them, will
be produced hereafter, in the article of his testimony to the
scriptures. He observes particularly, that^' our Lord's great
works were very numerous, and were performed without the
use of any external means, and were healing and beneficial :
that'^ they were performed without show and ostentation, in
order to convince, if possible, a hard-hearted and unbelieving
race of men, of the truth of the doctrine taught by him. He
likewise observes, thaf Christ discovered a knowledge of
" Nam cum hominum vis tanta magisteriis ejus acceperimiis ac legibus,
malum malo rependi non oportere; injuriam perpeti quam irrogare praestantius.
1. i. p. 6. m.
' quid causae est, quod tam gravibus iosectemini Christum bellis ?
Numqnid regiam sibi vindicans potestatem, lerrarum orbem cunctum legionibus
infestissimis occupavit ? Numquid ardoribus avaritiae flagrans universas
opes illas, quibus se genus humanum studiose contendit impleii, possessionis
su