tho' he permitted them to enter into a Herd of Ecclesiastical Swine, yet will precipitate them into the Sea of Divine Knowledge. I am for the spiritual _Jesus_, who will cure the _Woman_ of the Church, of her _Issue of Blood_, that is shed in Persecution and War; which her Ecclesiastical Physicians, and Quack-Doctors of the _Clergy_, have not been able to do, tho' they have received large Fees and Revenues to that End. I am for a spiritual _Messiah_, who will cure the Woman of the Church of her _Infirmity_, at the Spirit of Prophecy, of whose Infirmity this Age is her _eighteenth_ Year. So could I write of all _Jesus_'s Miracles; for the whole Evangelical History is Figure and Shadow of the spiritual _Jesus_, whom we should _know to be in us of a Truth, unless we be Reprobates_. The _Clergy_, if they are not wilfully blind, may hence see my Christian Faith and Principles; and be assured, that what I do in this Controversy, is with a View to the Honour of God, the Advancement of Truth, the Edification of the Church, and Demonstration of the Messiahship of the Holy _Jesus_, to whom be Glory for ever. _Amen._ ~_FINIS._~ FOOTNOTES: [338] His Sermon before the Societies for Reformation; and his Charge to the Clergy. [339] In his Dedication. [340] Page 35. [341] _Vindication of three Miracles_, p. 76, 77. [342] Cum venerit ergo Elias exponendo Legem _Spiritaliter_, convertit Corda Patrum ad filios. _De Civit. Dei._ Lib. XX. c. 29. [343] Litteram Legis sequentes in Infidelitatem & vanas Superstitiones incurrunt. _In Matt. Tract._ 26. [344] In Dedication of Third _Discourse_. [345] Page 177. [346] _Discourse_ the Fifth, _p._ 69. [347] Inveniatur enim in Christianismo non minor (nequid dicam arrogantius) fide Ratio & Enarratio Propheticorum ænigmatum, parabolarumque evangelicarum, aliarumque innumerarum figurarum, quæ vel in _Gestis_ continentur vel Legibus. _Cont. Celsum. Lib._ I. [348] Quidam corporalia ejus Miracula stupentes, majora intueri non norunt. Quidam vero ea, quæ gesta audiunt in Corporibus, nunc amplius in animis admirantur,----Tales nos esse debemus in Schola Christi. _In Serm._ xcviii. [349] In _Discourse_ the Sixth. [350] _Mystery of Godliness_, B. x. c. 2. [351] 1 Tim. v. 8. [352] _Defence of Christianity_, p. 347. [353] Ibid. p. 353. [354] Est adhuc alia Pugna his omnibus violentior; quod ii, quod Legem secundum Carnem intelligunt, adversantur his, qui secundum spiritum sentiunt, & persequuntur eos. _In Genesiæ Hom._ vii. [355] In Fifth _Discourse_, p. 67. [356] In his Preface, _p._ 17, 18. Mr. _WOOLSTON_'s DEFENCE OF HIS DISCOURSES ON THE MIRACLES of our _Saviour_. Against the BISHOPS of St. _David_'s and _London_, and his other Adversaries.