I will take to task his Miracle[66] _of changing Water into Wine at a Marriage in Cana of Galilee_; which was the beginning of _Jesus_'s Miracles, and should by right have been first spoken to; but I am almost too grave to handle the Letter of this Story as I ought; and if I had treated it as ludicrously as it deserves, I don't know but at setting out, I should have put the _Clergy_ quite out of all Temper. I would not now for the World be so impious and profane, as to believe, with our _Divines_, what is contain'd and imply'd in the Letter of this Story. If _Apollonius Tyanæus_, and not _Jesus_, had been the Author of this Miracle, we should often have reproached his Memory with it. It is said of _Apollonius Tyanæus_, that a Table was all on a sudden, at his Command, miraculously spread with Variety of nice Dishes for the Entertainment of himself and his Guests; which Miracle, our _Divines_ can tell him, makes not at all to his Credit, in as much as it was done for the Service and Pleasure of luxurious Appetites. But if _Apollonius_ had done, as our _Jesus_ did at this Wedding, they would have said much worse of him; and that, modestly speaking, he delighted to make his Friends thoroughly merry, or he would not be at the Pains of a Miracle to turn so much Water into Wine, after they had before _well drank_. If the Fathers then don't help us out at the mystical and true Meaning of this Miracle, such farther Objections may be form'd against the Letter, as may make our _Divines_ asham'd of it.