But to come closer to the Purpose, let's see how indifferently, I had almost said contemptibly, the Fathers speak of the Miracles of _Jesus_, and particularly of his Power of healing all bodily Diseases, which by modern _Writers_ is so much magnified and extoll'd. St. _Irenæus_ says,[9] that if _we consider only the then temporal Use of Jesus's Power of Healing, he did nothing grand and wonderful_; consequently _Irenæus_ could not hold, that _Jesus_'s Miracles then wrought, were a sufficient Proof of his divine Authority, much less of his _Messiahship_. _Origen_ says[10] that _tho' many were brought to believe in Jesus upon the Fame of the Miracles which he did once among the_ Jews, _yet_ (what implies the Insufficiency of them for the Conversion of Men) _he intimates that his greater and mystical Works do prove his Authority_. St. _John_ of _Jerusalem_ says[11] that _Jesus's Cures performed upon the Blind_, &c. _were indeed considerable and great, but unless he do daily as mighty Works in his Church, we ought to forbear our Admiration of him._ St. _Augustin_ not only says[12] that _if we examine into Jesus's Miracles by human Reason, we shall find he did nothing great, considering his Almighty Power, and considering his Goodness, what he did was but little_; but he tells us also, that[13] _such Works as Jesus did, might be imputed to, and effected by Magic Art_. And accordingly _Moses_ and our Saviour himself confess, that false Prophets, and false Christ's, will do Miracles; and _Anti-Christ_ himself, according to St. _Paul_, will do them to the Deception of Mankind. Nay, the Fathers[14] say, what I believe, that _Anti-Christ_ will imitate and equal _Jesus_ in all his Miracles which he wrought of old. How then can we distinguish the true Prophet from the false; the true _Christ_ from the _Anti-Christ_ by Miracles? our _Divines_ will find it hard to do it, if what the Fathers say of _Anti-christ_ be found true. Moreover History affords us Instances of Men, such as of _Apollonius Tyanæus_, _Vespasian_, and of the _Irish Stroaker_, _Greatrex_, who have miraculously cured Diseases to the Admiration of Mankind, as well as our _Jesus_: But if any of them, or any other greater Worker of Miracles than they were, should withall assume to himself the Title of a Prophet, and Author of a new Religion, I humbly conceive, we ought not to give heed to him.