>The more I sift the pretended Incarnation, I find it the less probable. What! To think that this Great and Incomprehensible Being, the Creator of the Earth, of the Seas, and of this vast Firmament, would be capable of debasing himself so far, as to lye nine Months Prisoner in the Bowels of a Woman, and expose himfelf to the miserable Life of his Fellow Sinners, that Writ the Books of your Gospel; to be Beaten, Whip'd, and Crucify'd like an unhappy Wretch ; this, I say, is what can't enter into my thoughts. Tis written, that he came upon the Earth on purpose to die there, and with the same Breath 'tis said that he was afraid to die. This implies a Contradiction two ways. In the first place, if his design was to be Born, in order to die, he ought not to have dreaded death ; for, what is the ground of the fear of death? The dread of death proceeds from this, that one do's not know what will become of 'em when they depart this Life. But he was not unacquainted with the place he was bound for, so that he had no reason to be afraid. You know very well that we and our Wives Poyson our selves frequently, in order to keep one another Company in the Regions of the dead, when one or t'other is snatch'd away. So you see plainly the loss of Life does not scare us, tho' at the fame time, we are not certain what course our Souls will steer. What answer canst thee give me upon this Head ? In a second place ; Since the Son of the Great Spirit was invested with a Power equal to that of his Father ; he had no occasion to pray his Father to save his Life, in regard that he was able to guard off Death by his own Power ; and that in praying to his Father he pray'd to himfelf.