The _Bishop_ of _Litchfield_, who is to be looked on as a Writer in this Controversy, has a large _Chapter_ against the allegorical Way of Interpretation. I shall comprise his Opinion in a few Words out of him. He says,[385] _he is not concerned to vindicate the Antiquity, ascribed by_ Philo, _to the allegoric Way of writing, much less the Abuse it was carry'd to in After-Ages; no, nor to defend, at all, this Manner of writing_. And as to St. _Paul_'s allegorizing the Scriptures, he says,[386] _It seems to be in compliance with the Demand of the Jewish Christians, who were affected with allegoric Interpretations, that St._ Paul (_who appears to have been no Fool_) _above all the other Apostles used that Way, which he was brought into against his own good liking_. And in another Place he says,[387] _The Laws and Facts recorded by_ Moses, _are commonly interpreted to natural, moral, theological and even anagogick Senses, which no one supposed to have been ever in_ Moses_'s Thoughts, or to be other than the Exercise of a subtle Wit, for the Instruction and Entertainment of the Hearers_. Whether this _Bishop_ had his Wits about him, when he said, _No one supposed the anagogick Senses of the Law to have been ever in_ Moses_'s Thoughts_, I can't tell; but if he had rubb'd up his Memory a little, he might have consider'd, what he says in another Place,[388] that the Anagogical was the accustomed Way of the whole Nation of the _Jews_ from _Moses_'s Time; and he might have known what St. _Hilary_, whom I cited before, says, that _Moses_ taught the Children of _Isræl_ the anagogical and allegorical Way; and whatever he may think, _Origen_ says,[389] that _Moses_ by the Acuteness of his Understanding, penetrated into the mystical and anagogical Meaning of his own Law. And tho' this _Bishop_ says above, that he is not concern'd to vindicate the Antiquity of the allegorick Way of writing; yet I am oblig'd to vindicate its Antiquity and Truth, or I can't write a good _Defence of Christianity_, which should now bring me (to what I have undertaken) to make an absolute Demonstration of the Certainty of the allegorical Method of Interpretation, and of _Jesus_'s Messiahship upon it.