Likelyhood

Moꝛeouer, enuy and deſpite against Ieſus had ſo blinded the myndes of the pꝛieſtes and the Phariſeis, that it did not ſuffice their malice to put Ieſus to death, but they fel in deuice alſo howe to make Lazarus away, againſt whom they coulde lay no colour oꝛ likelyhood of any fault.

Of all humaine and ancient opinions concerning religion, I thinke that to have had more likelyhood and excuſe, which acknowledged and confeſſed God to be an incomprehenſible power, chiefe beginning and preſerver of all things; all goodnes, all perfection; accepting in good part the honor and reverence which mortall men did yeeld him, vnder what viſage, name and manner ſoever it was.

If there be who yet doubt, I referr them eſpecially to that Declaration of July 1645. concerning this matter. Againſt which teſtimonies, likelyhoods, evidences, and apparent actions of his own, being ſo abundant, the bare denyall of one man, though with imprecation, cannot in any reaſon countervaile.

But to ſcuffle and combat with them in their own dark Caverns, let the univerſall Matter be a heterogeneall Chaos of Confuſion, variouſly moved and as it happens: I ſay there is no likelyhood that this mad Motion would ever amount to ſo wiſe a Contrivance as is diſcernable even in the generall Delineations of Nature.

But when their eyes fell on R’har, it was plain these warriors were trying to judge his likelyhood of survival, subtly eyeing each other, each weighing his own chances of winning her, should R’har die.