_First_, That the Accomplishment of Prophecies that can neither be given forth by human Foresight, nor fulfill'd in a Counterfeit, are good Proofs of _Jesus_'s _Messiahship_: But then, what shall we say if others besides _Jesus_ should do the like Cures and Miracles? It is said of _Anti-christ_, and I believe it, that he will not only do all the Miracles that _Jesus_ did, but will appeal to the like Prophecies too. How then we are to distinguish the _true_ Christ from the _false_ Christ by Miracles and Prophecies in this Case, is the Question, which I leave with our _Divines_ to consider of an Answer to, against the Time that it is proved that _Anti-christ_ does all those Miracles, which _Jesus_ in the Flesh wrought. But _Secondly_, The foresaid Prophecies and others mentioned in _Isaiah_, neither were, nor could be Prophecies of the miraculous Cures of bodily Diseases which _Jesus then_ did. And this may be made appear, not only from the Context of those Prophecies which received then no Accomplishment from _Jesus_, who ought to have fulfill'd one Part of the Prophecy as well as the other, or is not to be taken for the Fulfiller of either; but from the Opinion of both _Jews_ and _Fathers_, who adjourn the Accomplishment of those Prophecies to Christ's spiritual Advent. But _Thirdly_, The Prophet _Isaiah_, in the Place above cited, speaks not of bodily Blindness, _&c._ which the _Messiah_ is to heal, but of the spiritual Distempers of the Soul, metaphorically so called; as may be easily proved, not only from the Prophecies themselves, but from the old _Jews_, who were allegorical Interpreters of those Distempers, and from the antient Fathers,[17] who so understood them. Consequently our _Jesus_'s healing of those bodily Diseases, was no proper Accomplishment of those Prophecies. It is true our Saviour, _Matt._ xi. 4, 5. seems to appeal to those Prophecies, and to make his Cure of corporal Distempers an Accomplishment of them: But he means not in the literal Sense, that our _Divines_ take him in, as I shall show hereafter, when I come to consider what _Jesus_ means, by appealing to his Works and Miracles, as bearing Witness of him. Our _Divines_ then may admire and adore _Jesus_ as much as they please for his Miracles of healing bodily Distempers; but I am for the spiritual _Messiah_ that cures those Distempers of the Soul, that metaphorically pass under the Names of Blindness, Lameness, Deafness, _&c._ And the Cure of these spiritual Diseases, is the proper and miraculous Work of the true _Messiah_; for the sake of which, says[18] St. _Augustin_, _Jesus_ condescended to do those _little_ Miracles of healing bodily Distempers, which were but the Type and Shadow of his more stupendous Miracles of curing spiritual Diseases. The Cure of spiritual Infirmities is a God-like[19] Work, above the Imitation of Man or of _Anti-christ_, infinitely more miraculous than the healing any bodily Distempers can be.