It is well for our literal _Doctors_, that such Accusations were not brought against _Jesus_; or their Heads would have been sadly puzzled to vindicate his Innocence, and to prove the Injustice and Undeservedness of his Death and Sufferings. But for this Reason, if no other, that no such Crimes were laid to his Charge, I believe little or nothing of either of the seemingly miraculous Stories before us, but look upon them both as prophetical and parabolical Narratives of what would mysteriously and more wonderfully, and consistently with the Wisdom and Goodness of _Jesus_, be done by him. And so I pass to a 3. Third Miracle of _Jesus_, and that is _his Transfiguration_[53] _on the Mount_. And this is the darkest and blindest Story of the whole Gospel, which a Man can make neither Head nor Foot of; and I question whether the Conceptions of any two thinking _Doctors_ do agree about it. To say there is nothing in the Letter of this Story, we Believers must not, because St. _Peter_[54] says he was an Eye-witness of _Jesus_'s Majesty, saw his Glory on the Mount, and heard the Voice out of the Cloud. But as Infidels will be prying into the Conduct of _Jesus_'s Life, and forming their Exceptions to the Credibility or Probability of this or that part of it, so we Christians should be ready at an Answer, that might reasonably satisfy them; and not forcibly bear down their Opposition, which will make no sincere Converts of them. And I believe they would easily distress us with Difficulties and Objections to the Letter of this Story. St. _Augustin_ himself[55] owns, that the whole of it might be perform'd by Magic Art; and we know, in these our Days, that some Jugglers are strange Artists at the Imitation of a Voice, and to make it as if it came from a far off, when it is uttered close by us, and can cast themselves too into different Forms and Shapes, without a Miracle, to the Surprise and Admiration of Spectators. But what, I trow, do our _Divines_ mean by _Jesus_'s _Transfiguration_. We read that his Countenance did shine like the Sun, and his Raiment was made as white as Snow, and that's all. And is this enough can we think, to demonstrate that Transaction, a miraculous _Transfiguration_? Philosophers will tell us, that the Reflections of the Light of the Sun will change the Appearance of Colours, and to none more than Whiteness; and _Sceptics_ will say, that its no Wonder if the Countenance of _Jesus_ look'd _Rubicund_, when the Sun might shine on it.