What must I do here then, since no Authority, no, not the most primitive, will suffice in this Case? Why, I have nothing left to do, but absolutely to demonstrate, and make the Matter as plain as a _Pike-Staff_, that the Miracles of _Jesus_ will certainly receive such a mysterious Accomplishment, as the Fathers and I have before-hand interpreted them in. Upon such a Demonstration, if the Mouths of my Adversaries are not stopt, yet the Eyes of all impartial _Readers_ will be open'd to behold what a Heap of Impertinence the _Bishop_ of _St. David_'s and others, have hitherto urg'd against me. Now to demonstrate absolutely, that the Stories of _Jesus_'s Miracles will receive such a mysterious Accomplishment, as I, by the Help of the Fathers, have understood them in, I must do these _two_ things. _First_, show, that the Old Testament is to be allegorically interpreted, and is already in Part, and will be entirely fulfilled by _Jesus_, the true _Messiah_, in an allegorical Sense. And thence _Secondly_, Infer by a natural, obvious, and necessary Consequence, that, what we vulgarly call the New Testament is to be allegorically interpreted also, even in the Manner as I have understood some Parts of it. The _Bishop_ of _St. David_'s allows, that there is better Authority, tho' not sufficient, for the Interpretation of the _Old Testament_ allegorically; but supposing it was better than it is, yet there is no Consequence that the _New_ should be also allegorically interpreted. Behold his Words, for fear of a Charge of Misrepresentation[378]. "But besides this ill-founded Imitation of St. _Paul_ (in allegorical Interpretations of the _Old_ Testament) will his mystical Expositions of any Passages of the Old Testament support their Pretensions (meaning the Fathers and mine) to interpret the _New_ in a like mystical manner? No, it will not.----And therefore (_after a little more Reasoning against this Consequence, he concludes, that_) this Practice of _Origen_ and other Fathers, that were mystical Expositors of the _New Testament_, was very precarious, and without Authority." From which Words of the _Bishop_, it is plain, that his Opinion is, that whatever Authority there may be for the allegorical Interpretation of the _Old_ Testament, there is no Consequence to be thence drawn, that the _New_ is to be interpreted in a like mystical manner. But in Answer to the _Bishop_, and in Confutation of his wild and inconsiderate Assertion, I chuse to treat on the two foregoing Particulars; and the _First_ is to show, that the _Old_ Testament is to be allegorically interpreted, and is already in Part, and will be entirely fulfilled by _Jesus_ in an allegorical Sense.