After such a Mystical and Allegorical Manner, is every minute Circumstance of this Story of the _Samaritan_ Woman to be apply'd. St. _Augustin_[142] says there are so many great Mysteries contain'd in it, that they require much Time to go through them all. I find it so, and that no less than a Volume might be written of them, out of the Fathers. But what I have briefly here touch'd on, is enough to convince any one of the Absurdities of the Letter of this Miracle, which consisted in the telling a Woman her Fortune, and such a Fortune, as _Jesus_ by Craft might come to the Knowledge of. Therefore, for the Honour of _Jesus_, let us look upon the whole Story as a typical and parabolical Representation of what would be mysteriously and more wonderfully done by him. And thus I have spoken to the three Miracles, proposed to be treated on in this Discourse. Before I enter upon my third general Head, which is, _to consider what Jesus means when he appeals to his Miracles as to a Witness of his Divine Authority_; I must take to Task some more of his pretended Miracles even till I have not left him a good, credible and substantial Miracle, according to the Letter, to appeal to. The Consequence of which will be, that his mysterious Operations are to prove his Authority and Messiahship, or we must give up him and his Religion for a Piece of Fraud and Imposture. What Miracles will be the Subject of my next Discourse, I can't certainly foretell, but there are many Historical as well as miraculous Parts of _Jesus_'s Life, that according to the Letter, are to be call'd into Question; such as