"The _Bishop_'s sole Aim and Design is to vindicate the _litteral Story_ of our Saviour's Miracles, against my rational and authoritative Objections to it. And to this Purpose he wrangles with me, where he can, about the Sense of this and that Citation out of the Fathers; and after he has forc'd another Sense on it, than the Words do naturally bear, then he insults me for a Misrepresentation. And where he meets with a plain Testimony out of the Fathers, which he can't mangle nor strain to his Purpose, he fluently passes by it; tho' he would have his _Readers_ to believe, he has vindicated the litteral Story against my Authorities, and shewn that the Fathers were all on his Side. "He complains of my Mutilations of the Fathers, and of making too curt Citations out of them; which is true, but more to my own Disadvantage than to his. But, what is Matter of grand Triumph to the _Bishop_, is, that I have quoted _spurious_ Works of the Fathers for _genuine_ ones. And here he takes great Pains, and wastes Time and Paper, to prove that _this_ and _that_ Book does not belong to the Author under whose Name I cite it; and then has a Fling at me for want of Skill in _Criticism_. But can the _Bishop_ be so weak, as to think, I did not know when I quoted a _spurious_ Work? Supposing the _Book_ I quoted do not belong to the reputed Author, but to some other Writer, what's that to the Question between us? The Citation is no less the Testimony of Antiquity, and it's no matter whose Name it bears. If the _Bishop_ had thought a little on this, he might have spared some Sheets of Paper, which he has in vain wasted, to the Loss of his Readers Time and Money. "Again, where my rational Arguments against the _Letter_ seem to the _Bishop_ to be weak and inconclusive; there, to do him Justice, he handsomly turns upon me with his Reasoning, and admonishes me of my Spitefulness against the _Letter_, or I would never use such a slight Argument. But where I pinch and bear hard upon the _Letter_, and the Jest is not to be digested, there, instead of Reasoning against me, he makes a hideous Out-cry of Buffoonery, Blasphemy, and Infidelity; and calls upon the Civil Magistrate for his Help, or their Religion, and their _All_ is in Danger, through the impious Writings of untoward Infidels.