I. To show the Weakness, Childishness, and Insufficiency of the Arguments of my _Adversaries_, for the _Letter_ of the Stories of _Jesus_'s Miracles; and further to prove both _ludicrously_ and _seriously_ the Absurdities, Incredibilities, and Improbabilities, that their literal Stories labour under. II. To prove, that whether there be any Sense, Truth and Fact, or not, in the Letter of _Jesus_'s Miracles; yet they are Typical Things, and ought to be allegorically interpreted, and will receive a mysterious and more wonderful Accomplishment, after the manner, and to the same Purpose, that the Fathers and I do apply them, being no other (whether actually wrought or not) than Figures, Signs and Emblems of his future and mysterious Operations. III. To show that the mysterious and future Accomplishment of these supposed Works and Miracles of _Jesus_ alone can and will be the Proof of his Messiahship. If I perform well upon these Heads, which are deserving of my _Reader_'s Review, because of their Pertinency to the Cause in Hand, I shall not only vindicate myself from the Charge of Infidelity, but justify the Goodness and Usefulness of my _Discourses_, in order to the Demonstration of _Jesus_'s Messiahship. And in the midst of my handling of them, without going out of my Way, I shall, as Occasion offers itself, take Notice of particular Misrepresentations of the Fathers, and false Citations out of them, that my Adversaries charge me with: And Bishop _Smalbroke_ and others had best to look to it, or their Accusations against me will recoil and return home to them. Then I. I should show the Weakness, Childishness and Insufficiency of the Arguments of my _Adversaries_ for the _Letter_ of _Jesus_'s Miracles; and further argue both _ludicrously_ and _seriously_ the Absurdities, Incredibilities and Improbabilities, that their literal Stories labour under. I should, I say, first treat on this Head, which naturally precedes the two following; but in as much as to handle it to Perfection, I should write as I did before, and shall run in Danger of Prosecution for Blasphemy and Infidelity; I must of Necessity wave and postpone it, unless I could more than dispatch it in the Compass of this _Part_ of my _Defence_.