And at what Season did _Jesus_ come to this infirm Man? It was at a Feast of the _Jews_. _Irenæus_, _Chrysostom_, _Theophylact_, and _Cyril_ call it the Feast of Penticost. And the grand Feast of Penticost is, as St. _Cyril_[200] says upon the Place at the Perfection of Time, the Time of the Evangelical Sabbath, and of _Jesus_'s spiritual Advent, which will be a Time of feasting on intellectual and divine Mysteries, of seeing Visions and of dreaming Dreams; consequently at that Time, as the ancient _Jews_ and Fathers assert, Mankind will be cured of this Infirmity at the Spirit of Prophecy. And this too is the _certain Season, that the Angel will descend and trouble the Waters_. By Angel is here meant[201] the Spirit of Christ. And by Waters the Fathers understand,[202] the People of all Nations. But how will the Descent of the Spirit of Truth, like an Angel, trouble these Waters, that is, give any Molestations and Disturbance to the People? Is there not a Mistake in the Oracle? If the _Clergy_ will be but greater Lovers of Truth than of their Interests; if they, who should be Teachers of Forbearance of one another in Love, will but keep their Temper, there would be found a mistake in it. But alas! _Lastly_, The _Jews_, as is intimated, seem to have been mov'd with Indignation at the Cure of the infirm Man, saying to him, ver. 10. _it is the Sabbath, it is not lawful for thee to carry thy Bed_; which litterally could not be true. The _Jews_ were not such precise Observers of the Sabbath; nor _so stupid and foolish_, as St. _Cyril_,[203] says, as to think the taking up and carrying a Stool to be a Breach of it. But mystically, it is to be fear'd, this will be most true, and that the _Clergy_, who would be _Jews_ inwardly, and the Circumcision in Spirit, will be bitter Enemies to Man's Exaltation of his Couch of the Letter of the Scriptures on or against the Evangelical Sabbath, and will make it, if possible, an _unlawful_ Work; because it will bring to them Shame, Dishonour and Loss of Interests along with it. After this Manner is every other Circumstance of this Story to be allegorically apply'd out of the Fathers. The Moral or Mystery of the whole, in short, is this, that at the Perfection of Time, signified by the _Sabbath_, the _Pentecost_, the End of _thirty eight Years_, the Spirit of Truth will descend on Mankind, to their Illumination in Prophecy, and to the healing of their _Errors_, call'd _Diseases_; which is admirably represented by the Parable before us, that according to the Letter, has neither Reason nor common Sense in it. And thus have I spoken to _eight_ of the Miracles of _Jesus_; and whether I have not shew'd them, in whole or Part, according to the Proposition before us, to consist of Absurdities, Improbabilities, and Incredibilities; and whether they are not prophetical and parabolical Narratives of what will be mysteriously, and more wonderfully done by _Jesus_, I appeal to my _Readers_.