Should our _Divines_ say, that this Matter was an Act of unsearchable Wisdom and must be left to the Will of our Saviour, and not curiously pry'd into, any more than some other Dispensations of Providence, that are past finding out: This Answer, which I believe to be the best, that can be given, will not do here. The Miracles of _Jesus_ are, as our _Divines_ own, Appeals to our Reason and Senses for his Authority; and by our Reason and Senses they are to be try'd, condemn'd or approved of. If they will not abide the test of Reason and Sense, they are to be rejected, and _Jesus_'s Authority along with them. Therefore a more close, pertinent and serious Answer is to be given to the said Questions; which as I believe to be impossible, consistently with the Letter; so our _Divines_ must of necessity go along with me to the Fathers for a mystical and allegorical Interpretation of the Story of this Eye-Salve; or the Miracle will fall to the Ground, and _Jesus_'s divine Power be in great danger with it. St. _Cyril_, (who is one of _Bishop Smalbroke_'s Greek Commentators, that should strictly adhere to the Letter) signifies, as I before observ'd, that _Jesus_'s Use of this Clay and Spittle would be an Absurdity, if it was not to be accounted for, from the Mystery. _Eusebius Gallicanus_, treating on this Miracle, says[211]; "that our Saviour apparently manifests that his Miracles are of a spiritual and mystical Signification, because in the Work of them, he does somewhat or other, that literally has no Sense nor Reason in it. As for Instance, in the Cure of this blind Man, what occasion was there for _Clay and Spittle_ to anoint his Eyes, if it was not of a mystical meaning, when with a Word of his Mouth, _Jesus_ could have cured him? Let us then set aside the Letter of the Story, and Search for the Mystery, and consider who is meant by this Blind Man, _&c._" _Origen_ too, upon occasion of this Miracle, and its Absurdity according to the Letter, says[212]; "that whatever _Jesus_ did in the Flesh was but a Type and Figure of what he would do in Spirit, as is apparent from the Miracle of his curing a blind Man, which nobody knows why it was so done, if it be not to be understood of a mystical Ointment to open the Eyes of the blind in Understanding." And who then is this blind Man mystically? St. _Augustin_[213], St. _Jerome_[214], _Eusebius Gallicanus_[215], St. _Theophilus_ of _Antioch_[216], _Origen_[217], St. _Cyril_ of _Alexandria_[218], and St. _Theophylact_[219], (Four of them, _Bishop Smalbroke_'s Greek and literal Commentators!) say, this _blind Man_ is a Type of Mankind of all Nations, who in the Perfection of Time signified by the Sabbath[220] in the Story, is to be cured of this Blindness in Understanding.