I have already spoken, what I then thought sufficient to the first of these Heads; and though I could now much enlarge my Reasons, and multiply Authorities upon it to the same Purpose; yet I shall not do it; but only, by Way of Introduction to my following _Discourse_, say, that if it had been intended by our Saviour, that any rational Argument for his divine Authority and _Messiahship_ should be urged from his miraculous healing Power; the Diseases which he cured, would have been accurately described, and his Manner of Operation so cautiously express'd, as that we might have been sure the Work was supernatural, and out of the Power of Art and Nature to perform: But the _Evangelists_ have taken no such Care in their Narrations of Christ's Miracles. As for Instance, _Jesus_ is supposed often miraculously to cure _Lameness_; but there is no Account of the nature and degree of Lameness he cured; nor are we certain, whether the Skill of a _Surgeon_, or Nature it self, could not have done the Work without his Help. If the _Evangelists_ had told us of Men, that wanted one or both their Legs, (and such miserable Objects of Christ's Power and Compassion, were undoubtedly in those Days as well as in ours) and how _Jesus_ commanded Nature to extend itself to the entire Reparation of such Defects; here would have been stupendous Miracles indeed, which no Scepticism, nor Infidelity itself could have cavill'd at; nor could I, nor the Fathers themselves have told how to allegorize, and make Parables of them. But there is no _such_ Miracle recorded of Christ, nor any thing equal to it; so far from it, that the best and greatest Miracles of _Jesus_, which must confessedly be those related at large, (for no Body can suppose he did greater than those more particularly specify'd) are liable to exception, being so blindly, and lamely, and imperfectly reported, as that, by Reasonings upon the Letter of the Stories of them, they may be dwindled away, and reduced to no Wonders, which brings me to treat again on the II. Second Head of my Discourse, and that is, to shew, that the literal History of the Miracles of _Jesus_, as recorded in the _Evangelists_, does imply Absurdities, Improbabilities and Incredibilities; consequently they, in whole or in part, were never wrought, but are only related as parabolical Narratives of what would be mysteriously, and more wonderfully done by him. To this Purpose I, in my former Discourse, took into Examination _three_ of the Miracles of Jesus, _viz._ those, of _his driving the Buyers and Sellers out of the Temple_; Of _his exorcising the Devils out of the Madmen, and sending them into the Herd of Swine;_ and _Of his Transfiguration on the Mount_. How well I perform'd on these Miracles which have been admired for their literal Story, let others judge and say.