And when I resume _this Head_, I will begin where I before left off in my _Discourses_ on _Miracles_; that is, with the Resurrection of _Jesus_, which tho' I believe to have been a miraculous Fact, that happen'd, yet it was by no means timed and circumstanced, so as easily and readily to conciliate the Belief of Posterity. God has given to Man Reason to judge of the Credibility of Events, and the Certainty of Miracles: And if the Reason of every Man does not disapprove of the Management of that Event, (supposing it has no figurative Meaning in it) I am much mistaken, when we come to state a Case, how such a Miracle ought to be wrought and conducted, to get and preserve the Credit of it. Thus having told my Readers, why I postpone my _First Head_, I now enter upon the _Second_, which is II. To shew, that whether there be any Sense, Truth and Fact, or not, in the literal Stories of _Jesus_'s Miracles, yet they are all certainly typical Facts, 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. If the Authority of the Fathers would be admitted of, as decisive on _this Head_, there would soon be an End of all Controversy upon it. Give me Leave to recite some of their Testimonies to this Purpose, which I have heretofore urg'd in my _Discourses_. _Origen_ says[366] That _Jesus_'s Works were _Symbols_ of other Things to be done by his Power. St. _Hilary_[367] says, That _Jesus_'s Actions bore a Resemblance of what he would do hereafter. St. _Augustin_[368] says, That the Facts of _Jesus_ are Signs of somewhat else to be done by him. And _Eusebius Gallicanus_[369] says, That our Saviour manifestly shews, that his Miracles are of a spiritual Signification, or in the Work of them he would not have done somewhat or other, that seems to want Sense and Reason. These few, out of a Multitude of Citations from the Fathers that might be produced, are sufficient to the Proof of the present Proposition, if their Authority might determine our Dispute. And most pertinent Citations they are too, tho' _Bishop Smalbroke_[370] says, _that even the Passages cited by me from the Fathers, that are not falsified, are impertinent_; which is such an extravagant Stretch against the most glaring Truth, that (to use the Bishop's[371] own Words against himself) _it betrays a Mind lost to all Sense of Modesty and Religion_, or he could not have utter'd it.