I now will take into Consideration three others of _Jesus_'s Miracles, _viz._ those, Of _his healing a Woman that was afflicted with an Issue of Blood, twelve Years_; Of _his curing the Woman that labour'd under a Spirit of Infirmity, eighteen Years_; and Of _his telling the_ Samaritan _Woman her Fortune of having had five husbands, and living then in Adultery with another Man_: Which are, all three, reputedly most miraculous and admired Stories. The two former, they say, are Arguments of _Jesus_'s mighty Power; and the latter, of his immense Knowledge: But how little of certain Power and Knowledge there is in any of them, according to the Letter, will be seen in the sequel of this Discourse. Infidels, I dare say, if they had not wanted Liberty, would e'er now have facetiously exposed those Stories. If I snatch that Work out of their Hands, our _Clergy_ ought to be glad, because what I do in it, is to the Honour of the Holy _Jesus_, and to turn those pretendedly miraculous Stories into divine Mysteries. In my former Discourse I gave my _Readers_ some Reason to expect, that in _this_ I would treat on some of _Jesus_'s Miracles, which I there mentioned, _viz._ _On his turning Water into Wine at a Marriage in_ Cana _of_ Galilee; and _On his feeding of Thousands with a few Loaves and Fishes in the Wilderness_; and _On his Cure of the Paralytick, for whom the Roof of the House was broken up to let him down into the Room where_ Jesus _was_, &c. And I then really did design to speak to these Miracles, but upon Consideration, finding them most ludicrous Subjects according to the Letter, I forbear it at present, having no Inclination to put the _Clergy_ quite out of all Temper. If any should say, this is Fear and Cowardice in me, I can't help it: But, for all that, now I have the _Clergy_ in a tolerable good Humour for Liberty, I'll endeavour to keep them in it, and not disturb them by an hasty and unnecessary Provocation of them. Who knows not, that the _Clergy_, like an untamed _Colt_, that I have a mind to ride, may be apt to winch and kick, and may give me a Fall before I come at the end of my Journey, to the Disappointment of my Readers? They shall therefore be gently handled and stroak'd, till they are a little more inur'd to the Bit and Saddle: And for their Sakes will I postpone such Miracles as are most obnoxious to Ridicule, and at present chuse the aforesaid _three_, that of almost any in the Gospel may be most inoffensively treated on. I begin then,