Besides, the _Bishop_ knows by my other Writings, that I am certainly a Christian, and a true Believer of the Religion of Christ, though I may have some different Conceptions from other Men about it. It has been my good Luck before, not only to publish more Treatises purposely and professedly in Defence of Christianity, than any _Bishop_ in _England_; but some of them are of such a Nature, as it's impossible for a Man to write without being a Christian, and impossible for him to depart from the Principles of them. This is my good Fortune and Happiness at this Juncture. The _Bishop_ has perused, I see, some of my other Writings, and particularly, my _Old Apology for the Truth of Christianity revived_; and to his Praise, as well as my Comfort be it spoken, he apprehends and rightly relishes it. And as I was well pleased with his Representation of the Design of that Book, from the Principles and allegorical Scheme of which, he says (in Twenty-four Years since) I am not departed; so I would appeal to his Conscience, Whether a Man, who wrote, as I did then, of the Typical and Antitupal Deliverance of the _Jewish_ and _Christian_ Church, can possibly be an Infidel, or ever depart from the Christian Faith? If the _Bishop_ has Ingenuity equal to his Penetration into that Book, he must own and confess to the World, that I was then, and am still a Christian, a Man of fix'd and unalterable Principles from that Day to this. The _Bishop_ would be thought in his _Preface_ to enumerate all my Writings; but there are three others, whether wilfully or negligently omitted by him, I know not, that are direct Defences of the Truth of Christianity; and there is not a learned _Clergy-man_ in _England_ (I humbly presume to say it) who can read them, and not applaud them. If the _Bishop_ will be pleas'd to read one of them, _viz. The Defence of the Miracle of the Thundering Legion_, and say it from his Heart, that I might write that Book, and believe the Ecclesiastical Story of that Miracle, and yet be no Christian, then I will yield to his Accusation against me for Infidelity. But why do I trouble my self thus to assert and vindicate my Belief of Christianity? The _Bishop_ would readily come into the Acknowledgment of my being a sincere Christian, but for his Interests and Prejudices, and other political Considerations, which influence him and the _Clergy_ so to decry and defame me, that, if possible, I must be destroy'd, or at least have my Mouth stopp'd.