According to the Fathers I am so far from being a Blasphemer, that they say, _Christ_ upon the literal Interpretation of his Miracles is metamorphosed into the False-Christ, call'd _Anti-Christ_. Whether there is any Truth in this their Opinion I can't be positive, till the Experiment is fully made. But if our _Clergy_ will keep their Temper, and grant me a clear Stage of Battle, I'll try it out; and see whether I can't, by the Club of Reason and primitive Authority, give their _Anti-Christ_ a fatal Blow: Who knows but I may give Peace to the Church, and reconcile all Parties by it? However this may be; I am sure, no Man can wish for a greater Advantage over his Enemy, than I have over the _Bishop_ in this Controversy: But he shall find me a generous Adversary, who will make no worse Use of my Advantage over him than now and then to put him in Mind of his _Pastoral Letter_, and of the Prosecution; unless I should be tempted, ere long, to publish my _Moderatorial_ Letter, like his _Pastoral_ one, to the People of _London_ and _Westminster_, with _Ten_ wholesome Rules in it, not only to caution them against false Prophets and false Teachers, without forgetting the _Bishop_ of the _Diocese_, but to direct them to the Ecclesiastical Fountain of the growing Sins, Errors and Infidelity of the Age, which the _Clergy_ know I am of Ability to lay open. When I began the Publication of these _Discourses_, I own, I laid a _Trap_ for some considerable _Clergyman_; but little imagined, the great _Bishop_ of _London_ would be caught in it. But now I have taken hold of him, I'll not release him out of the Controversy, till he has sorely repented of his Ignorance or Malice in calling me a _Writer, in Favour of Infidelity_. So much at present for the Bishop of _London_. I have been the quicker of late in the printing of _this_, because I am given to understand, the _Bishop_ of St. _David_'s stays for it, intending to make but one Work of it, and answer all _six Discourses_ together. I hope my _Rabbi_'s Letter here will be thought by him, a good Payment for his Patience. And now I shall be in Expectation of his Mountainous Production, and where I shall hide myself from the terrible Strokes of his Pen, I have not as yet consider'd. I am not a little pleas'd to see a _Couple_ of Dissenting Preachers, _viz._ Dr. _Harris_ and Mr. _Atkinson_, lifted into the Controversy against me. If they had kept their Necks out of the Collar, they might have dissembled and pretended, that, upon the Conclusion of the Battle, when it would have appear'd, I am a real Contender for Primitive Christianity, they had a better Understanding of the Fathers, and a clearer View of my Design, than to suspect me of Blasphemy and Infidelity: But now they are engag'd with equal Spite, Ignorance and Defamations against me, they must take their Share of the Fate and Shame, with the _Clergy_, upon the Conclusion of the Controversy.