If the _Samaritans_ did not expect the _Messiah_ would be a _Fortune-Teller_; how came the Thought into the Woman's Head, that _Jesus_ was the _Messiah_, because he had told her, her Fortune? What can our _Divines_ say to it? Why, they must either say, that his telling the Woman her Fortune was a real Proof of his _Messiahship_; or that the Woman was foolish and credulous, and drew a false Conclusion; and if she had not been an impudent and graceless Whore, would have gone away blushing, and never have divulg'd, as the Text supposes she did, her Shame to the Men of _Sychar_, who too had but little Wit, or they had never stir'd from their Homes, to see such a Fortune-Teller upon the Report of a poor Whore. But the Men of the City had their Fortunes too told them by _Jesus_, and they concluded him to be the _Messiah_ upon it; or there is no Sense in what they _v._ 42. _said to the Woman, Now we believe not because of thy Saying, for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ_: What could they hear, but their Fortunes, as the Woman had before? And if _Jesus_, whose Ability at all fair Questions in the magic Art I don't question, did tell them their Fortunes; I hope he had more Prudence than to talk to them in common of their Fornications and Adulteries, which might occasion domestick Jarrs, and the Breach of good Neighbourhood amongst them; but if he directed any of them to find their lost Cattle, and help'd them again to their stolen Goods, he did well, and they alone did amiss, to conclude thereupon, _that he was indeed the Christ_. Let our _Divines_ now judge whether I have not made a natural and excellent Comment on this part of the Story, which relates to the Expectation and Opinion, which the _Samaritans_ had of a _Messiah_ to come. But,