A FOURTH DISCOURSE ON THE MIRACLES OF OUR _SAVIOUR_, &c. Now for a _fourth_ Discourse on _Jesus_'s Miracles, which, as before, I begin with a Repetition of the three general Heads, at first proposed to be treated on; and they are, I. To show, that the Miracles of healing all manner of bodily Diseases, which _Jesus_ was famed for, are none of the proper Miracles of the _Messiah_; neither are they so much as a good Proof of his divine Authority to found a Religion. II. To prove that the literal History of many of the Miracles of _Jesus_, as recorded by the _Evangelists_, does imply Absurdities, Improbabilities and Incredibilities; consequently they, either in the whole or in part, were never wrought, as it is commonly believed now-a-days, but are only related as prophetical and parabolical Narratives, of what would be mysteriously, and more wonderfully done by him. III. To consider what _Jesus_ means, when he appeals to his Miracles, as to a Testimony and Witness of his divine Power; and to show that he could not properly and ultimately refer to those he then wrought in the _Flesh_, but to the mystical ones, he would do in the Spirit; of which those wrought in the Flesh are but mere Types and Shadows. I am upon the second of these Heads, and according to it, have, in my _former Discourses_, taken into examination _eight_ of the Miracles of _Jesus_, _viz._ those: 1. Of his driving the Buyers and Sellers out of the Temple. 2. Of his exorcising the _Devils_ out of the Mad-men, and sending them into the Herd of Swine. 3. Of his Transfiguration on the Mount. 4. Of his Healing a Woman, that had an Issue of Blood, twelve Years. 5. Of his curing a Woman, that had a Spirit of Infirmity, eighteen Years. 6. Of his telling the _Samaritan_ Woman, her fortune of having had five Husbands, and being than an Adulteress with another Man. 7. Of his cursing the Fig-tree for not bearing Fruit out of season. And, 8. Of his healing a Man of an Infirmity at the Pool of _Bethesda_. Whether it be not manifest, that the Literal and Evangelical Story of these Miracles, from what I have argu'd and reason'd upon them, does not consist of Absurdities, Improbabilities, and Incredibilities, according to the Proposition before us, let my Readers judge; and so I come to the Consideration of 9. A ninth Miracle of _Jesus_, _viz._ that[205] of his giving sight to a Man who was born blind, by the means of Eve-salve, made of Dirt and Spittle.