There are two Ways, that the Fathers took in the moral and mystical Interpretation of these Miracles: One was from the Number _three_, and their Difference in Magnitude. According to which they said with St. _Augustin_[298] that these three sorts of dead Persons, so rais'd to Life, are Figures of three sorts of Sinners, whom _Jesus_ raiseth from the death of Sin to the Life of Righteousness. They who have conceiv'd Sin in their Hearts, and have not brought it forth into Act; are figured by _Jairus_'s Daughter, who lay dead in the House of her Father, and was not taken forth to her Burial. Others, who after Cogitation and Consent, pass into actual Sin are figured by the Young Man, carried towards his Grave. But those Sinners, who are habituated and long accustom'd to Sin, are like _Lazarus_ bury'd, and in a stinking Condition under the Corruption of it; whom _Jesus_, for all that, with the _loud Voice_ of the Prædication of his Gospel, will call forth out of the Death and Grave of their Sins to a new Life. So does St. _Augustin_ make these three dead Persons and their Resurrections, Emblems of the said three Sorts of Sinners, who are dead in Trespasses and Sins, and by the Power of _Jesus_ quicken'd to a Life of Righteousness. And to this Opinion of St. _Augustin_, do St. _Ambrose_, _Eusebius Gallicanus_, and Venerable _Bede_ agree. And according to this Notion of these Miracles they descend to a particular Explication of the several Parts of their Stories. As to give you two or three Instances. The People who were turn'd out of the House, upon the raising of _Jairus_'s Daughter, which is an _Absurdity_ according to the _Letter_ are, says[299] _Bede_, a Multitude of wordly and wicked Thoughts, which, except they are excluded from the Secrets of the Heart, are a Hindrance of the Resurrection of a Sinner to a new Life. The Bearers of the Young Man[300] to his Burial are Vices, evil Spirits, Hæreticks, and Seducers; and the _Widow_, his Mother, to whom he was restored, is the _Church_, who mourns for the Death of such Sinners, as are typified by that Young Man. _Jesus_'s _weeping_ for dead _Lazarus_, which is an _Absurdity_ according to the _Letter_, is a Sign[301] of the deplorable State, that habitual Sinners are in, enough to excite the Sorrows and Mournings of good Christians, who have the Spirit of _Christ_, for them. And the Stone that lay at the Grave of _Lazarus_, is[302] a figure of the Hardness of the Heart of such a Sinner which must be taken away before _Jesus_ will call him to a new Life. So do the Fathers moralise and allegorise every Minute Circumstance of these three Miracles, as any one, who will consult them, may find, and save me the Trouble of a tedious Recital of their Authorities.