If ever there was an useful Controversy started, or revived in this Age of the Church, it is _this_ about the _Messiahship_ of the holy Jesus, which the _Discourse of the Grounds_, &c. has of late rais'd. I believe this Controversy will end in the absolute Demonstration of Jesus's _Messiahship_ from Prophecy, which is the only way to prove him to be the _Messiah_, that great Prophet expected by the _Jews_, and promised under the Old Testament. And tho' this way of Proof from Prophecy seems to labour under many Difficulties at present; and tho' some _Writers_ against the _Grounds_, being distressed with those Difficulties, are for seeking Refuge in the Miracles of our Saviour; yet we must persist in it, till what I have no doubt of, his _Messiahship_ shall be clearly made out by it. And the way in Prophesy that I would take for the Proof of _Jesus_'s _Messiahship_, should be by an allegorical Interpretation, and Application of the Law and the Prophets to him; the very same way, that all the Fathers of the Church have gone in; and the very same way, in which all the ancient _Jews_ say their _Messiah_ was to fulfil the Law and the Prophets: But this way does not please our ecclesiastical _Writers_ in this Controversy, neither will they at present give any Ear to it. The Way in Prophecy that they are for taking, is by a literal Interpretation and Application of some Prophecies of the Old Testament to our _Jesus_, but they are hitherto unsuccessful in this Way. The Authors of the _Grounds_ and of the _Scheme_, grievously perplex them with their Objections against this way of Proof, so far as, being sensible, I say, of almost insuperable Difficulties in it, they are flying apace to the Miracles of our Saviour, as to their sole and grand Refuge. But to show that there's no Sanctuary for them in the Miracles of our Saviour, I write this Discourse: And this I do, not for the Service of Infidelity, which has no Place in my Heart, but for the Honour of the Holy _Jesus_, and to reduce the _Clergy_ to the good old way of interpreting Prophecies, which the Church has unhappily apostatis'd from, and which, upon the Testimony of the Fathers, will, one Day, be the Conversion of _Jews_ and _Gentiles_.