After this Fashion could I go thro' the other Miracles, I have treated on in these _Discourses_; and upon the Comparison set plainly before the Eyes of my _Readers_ the Difference between the _literal_ Miracles of Bishop _Gibson's carnal_ Jesus and the _allegorical_ ones of my _spiritual_ Jesus, as to Stupendousness, Use and Excellency: But what I have here done in the seven Instances above, is enough to induce us to believe, with the Fathers, that _Jesus_'s first Coming in the _Flesh_ was but a Type and Shadow of his second Advent in the _Spirit_; and that _Jesus_ of old, when he appeal'd to his Works then done, as to a Witness of his Authority, did only prophesy, and refer ultimately to his mystical Operations, that are alone the Proof of his Godlike and divine Power. Bishop _Gibson_ says[336] of me, that _pretending to raise the Actions and Miracles of our Saviour to a more exalted and spiritual Meaning, I have labour'd to take away the Reality of them, and by that to destroy one of the principal Evidences of Christianity_. But I presume now, he'll be sensible of the Rashness and Incogitancy of that Accusation. If he be not, I shall say of him, in Case he write any more for _Jesus's literal_ Miracles in Opposition to his _allegorical_ ones that he's like the Dog in the Fable (the Bishop will excuse the Coarseness of the Comparison) that let go the _Substance_ of his Mutton, and catch'd at the Shadow, and so, like a foolish _Cur_ as he was, lost both. And thus have I done with the _Three_ general Heads at first proposed to be handled in these _Discourses_. Now whether I am, upon the whole, an _Infidel_, or _Believer_ of Christianity, the World is to judge. I'll make no more solemn Declarations of my Belief of it, much less at this Juncture of Time, when I am under Prosecution for Infidelity; because it would be a sneaking, tame, and cowardly Act in me, and such an Argument of that Meanness of Spirit, as I abhor and detest. My _Works_ shall speak for me, in which, being conscious of the Innocency of my Intentions, and of the Usefulness of my Design, I mean to proceed; not doubting but some of our _clergy_, upon two or three more _Discourses_ against the Letter of the _New Testament_, will find me out, what I am, and whether I am not a true Professor of the Religion of the spiritual and holy _Jesus_.