In my _Third Discourse_ on _Miracles_, I happen'd to speak of _Christ_'s second and spiritual Advent on the Clouds of the Law and Prophets; and to say "that the common Notion of his Coming on ærial Clouds for the Resurrection of dead Bodies, _&c._ is the most senseless and unphilosophical, that ever was taught to Mankind;" which gave Offence to my _Bishop_, who animadverted upon me for it; but if he ever get Sight, which I don't question, of _Christ_'s Coming on the metaphorical Clouds of Prophecy, he'll not only be of my Mind here, but will be sensible with me, that all or most of our systematical Divinity, that is built on the _Letter_ of the Scriptures, is false and groundless; and of that ill Tendency to the Corruption of Mens Morals, that it is not so much a Wonder, that wise, good, and thinking _Gentlemen_ are betaking themselves to Natural Religion, as it is, that there are any Believers of Christianity, upon the _Literal Scheme_, left among us. If it had not been _Force_, more than _Reason_, that has hitherto kept Mankind in their Christian Faith; or if Liberty had been indulg'd them to consider the Absurdities of the _Letter_ of the Scriptures, they would have run ere now, by Shoals, into Infidelity: But the allegorical Interpretation (which the Cabalistical _Jews_[396] say, will convert _Atheists_) will reduce Mankind to the Belief of the inspired Authority of the Scriptures, by shewing them the perfect _Reason_, the divine _Wisdom_, and resplendent _Truth_ of them; otherwise call'd the Messiah, the [Greek: chrisma], the Spirit, or the _Christ_ of them, than _whom_, or than _which_ nothing can be more desired by Philosophers, to come for the spiritual Renovation, Restoration, Resurrection and Illumination of Man; _consequently_ and implicitly for the Work of those mystical Miracles, of which those wrought by _Christ_ in the Flesh are but Types and Figures. Whether the _Bishop_ of _St. David_'s be already apprised of this Consequence, I can't tell; but if he rub his Intellects but a little, he must needs apprehend the Consequence of the foresaid spiritual Advent of _Christ thus_ far "That Ministers of the Letter then are certainly to be turn'd out of the Church: "That the Woman of the Church then will be cured of her Infirmity at the Spirit of Prophesy: "That the Eyes of Mankind, like the blind Man's, will be then open'd to see, what he has hitherto been dark about, the Mystery of the Providence of God in all Ages. And so of the mystical Accomplishment of the other Miracles, with a little Application of Thought, may he discern the Consequence. And when he does so, then he will see too, what sort of a Christian I am, whom our _Ecclesiasticks_ have falsely accused, and unjustly persecuted for Impiety, Profaneness, Blasphemy and Infidelity, only because I have written against the _Letter_ of _Jesus_'s Miracles, in order to turn Mens Heads to the Consideration of their mystical Accomplishment at