But this Head can't be rightly spoken to, till I have more amply discuss'd the former, which, by God's Leave, I promise to do: And if my _courteous Readers_ will be so kind as to trust me till that Time, I assure them to prove, that no Ignorance and Stupidity can be greater, than the Imagination that _Jesus_ really appeal'd to his Miracles, supposed to have been wrought by him in the Flesh, as to a Witness and Testimony of his divine Authority, and _Messiahship_. In the mean Time our _Divines_ may go on in their own Way, if they think fit, and admire _Jesus_ of old, and celebrate his Power and Praises for healing of bodily Diseases, and doing other notable Feats according to the Letter of the evangelical Story; but I am for the spiritual _Jesus_ and _Messiah_, who cures the worse[78] Distempers of the Soul, and does other mysterious and most miraculous Works, of which those recorded in the Evangelists, are but Figure and Parable. This is the primitive and concurrent Opinion about the true _Messiah_, which the Fathers universally adher'd to. Whether our _Jesus_, at this Day, be such a spiritual _Messiah_ to his Church, or whether she does not stand in need of such a one, is the Question that our _Divines_ are to see to. But I will add here, what I believe, and than have another Opportunity to prove, that God on purpose suffer'd or empower'd _false_ as well as _true_ Prophets, _bad_ as well as _good_ Men, such as _Apollonius_, _Vespasian_, and many others to cure Diseases, and to do other mighty Works, equal to what are literally reported of _Jesus_, not only to defeat us of all distinction between true and false Miracles, which are the Object of our bodily Senses, but to raise and keep up our Thoughts to the constant Contemplation of _Jesus_'s spiritual, mysterious, and most miraculous Works, which are the Object of our Understandings, and loudly bespeak the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God; and which are to be the absolute Demonstration of _Jesus_'s divine Authority and _Messiahship_ to the Conversion of _Jews_ and _Infidels_. I have no more to do at present, but, like a _Moderator_, to conclude with a short Address and Exhortation to _Infidels_ and _Apostates_, the two contending Parties in the present Controversy. And _First_, To _Apostates_, I mean the Writers against the _Grounds_ and _Scheme_. Whether you, _grave Sirs_, who account your selves orthodox _Divines_, tho' there is little but Contradiction and Inconsistency amongst you, do like the Name of _Apostates_ which is given you, I much question: But it is the properest, I could think of, for your Desertion of primitive Doctrine about Prophecy and Miracles. I could, not improperly have given you a worse _Title_, but I was willing to compliment you, rather than reproach you with this.