WE
were, not long since, some gentlemen of the
inns of court together, each to other so well known,
that no man's presence was a confinement to any
other, from speaking his mind on any subject that
happened to arise in conversation. The meeting
was without design, and the discourse, as in like
cases, various. Among other things, we fell upon
the subject of Woolston's trial and conviction,
which had happened some few days before: That
led to a debate how the law stands in such cases,
what punishment it inflicts; and, in general, wheth-
er the law ought at all to interpose in controversies
of this kind. We were not agreed in those points.
One, who maintained the favourable side to Wool-
ston, discovered a great liking and approbation of
his discourses against the miracles of Christ, and
seemed to think his arguments unanswerable. To
which another replied, I wonder that one of your
abilities, and bred to the profession of the law, which
teaches us to consider the nature of evidence, and