But setting aside the Title of _Apostates_, whether it be, in your Opinion, opprobrious or not; you may plainly perceive, that I am, _Sirs_, on your Side, as to the Truth of Christianity; and if you'll accept of my Assistance for the Proof of _Jesus_'s Messiahship from Prophecy, upon the Terms of the allegorical Scheme proposed in my _Moderator_, you shall find me your hearty Abettor. Upon the allegorical Scheme, I don't doubt but we shall soundly drub and mawl _Infidels_, and beat them out of the Field of Battle. If you, being wedded to the literal Scheme, will not accept of my Assistance, you may go on in your own Way, and see the Event of the Controversy, which in the End will turn to your Dishonour. You, _Sirs_, can't but be sensible, how those two great Generals, Mr. _Grounds_, and Mr. _Scheme_, with their potent Armies of Reasons and Authorities against your literal Prophecies, have grievously distress'd and gall'd you; and if you don't make an honourable Retreat in Time, and seek to _Allegorists_ for Help, will gain a compleat Victory and Triumph over you. Instead of the Help of _Allegorists_, you, I find, under the Disappointment of your literal Scheme, chuse rather to have Recourse to _Jesus_'s Miracles: But what little Dependence there is upon his Miracles, in your Sense, I have in _part_ proved in this Discourse; and this I have done (give me leave repeatedly to declare it) not for the Service of your unbelieving Adversaries, but to reduce you to the good old Way of interpreting Oracles, which, upon the Testimony of the Fathers, will, one Day, be the Conversion of the _Jews_ and _Gentiles_. Whether you, _Sirs_, will be pleas'd with this short Discourse on Christ's Miracles, I much question. But before you put your selves into a Rage against it, I beg of you to read St. _Theophilus_ of _Antioch_, _Origen_, St. _Hilary_, St. _Augustin_, St. _Ambrose_, St. _Jerome_, St. _Chrysostom_, St. _John_ of _Jerusalem_, St. _Theophylact_, and other occasional ancient Pieces on one part or other of the _Evangelists_; and you'll find how they countenance such a Discourse as this on Miracles, and will abundantly assist me in the Prosecution of it. I expect, _Sirs_, that some of you will be ready to rave against me for this Discourse; but this is my Comfort, that if your Passion should arise to another Prosecution of me, you can't possibly separate any of mine from the Opinions of the Fathers to ground a Prosecution on: And what Dishonour in the End will redown to Protestant and pretendedly learned _Divines_ of the Church of _England_, to persecute again the Fathers for primitive Doctrine, I desire you to think on.