IF _your_ Lordship, _upon reading this_ Discourse, _should be of the same Mind with me, I beg of you to stroak the_ Clergy _into Temper, Patience and Compliance: Tell them, they have been long orthodox and glorious Victors over_ Infidels, _and that it would be now an Act of Generosity to yield to them in a_ small Point; _upon which such a Pacification would ensue, as nothing hereafter would be able to dissolve_. BUT _I have another Favour_, my Lord, _here to crave of you_, viz. _that you would be pleas'd to persuade my old Friend, the_ Bishop _of_ London, _to stay at Home this_ Lent, _and keep to his_ Prayers _and_ Fasting, _for the casting out a certain_ Kind _of ----, that by Fits he's unhapily troubled with; or upon the Publication of this_ Discourse, _I shall be in Danger of being soon knapp'd for it_. IF _your_ Lordship _will do me that Favour, then I will do you as good a Turn; and praise you for your Doctrine of_ Passive Obedience, _preach'd at the_ Coronation: _Tho' many may laugh at your Revival of that Doctrine, saying the_ Clergy _upon an Occasion, which our most excellent_ Sovereign _will never give them, would again have Recourse to their_ Reserves _and_ Distinctions; _yet I say it was well done of your_ Lordship _to preach it, that the Tongues and the Hands (to say nothing of the Hearts) of the_ Clergy _might go together in Subscriptions to_ Articles _and_ Homilies; _and so avoid that Prevarication and Inconsistency, which some now have no more Wit than to charge them with_. SO _not questioning your_ Lordship's _Approbation of this_ Discourse _and the_ Dedication; _nor doubting but you'll make me as bountiful a Recompence for it, as any of my other Episcopal Patrons have done; I subscribe my self_, [Sidenote: _Feb. 15th 1728-9_] My Lord, The Admirer of your Passive Obedience Sermon, _Thomas Woolston_. [Illustration] A SIXTH DISCOURSE ON THE MIRACLES OF OUR _SAVIOUR_, &c. Here goes my sixth and last _Discourse_ on _Jesus_'s _Miracles_; the Subject whereof is the literal Story of his own Resurrection; which, according to the Proposition in Hand, I am to shew to consist of Absurdities, Improbabilities and Incredibilities. And I hope our _Bishops_ will quietly permit the Publication of this _Discourse_, especially if I assure them that I mean nothing worse by it, than to make way for the understanding what the Fathers write of the mystical Resurrection of _Jesus_ out of the Grave of the Letter of the Law and the Prophets; of which mystical Resurrection of our _spiritual Jesus_, the Evangelical Story of the Resurrection of a _carnal Christ_ is but mere Type and Shadow.