_The sooner your_ Lordship _appears from the_ Press, _the better, in as much as you may possibly prevent my Publication of more_ Discourses _of this Kind. And that it may not be long first, I will accept of a Dissertation from you, on any two or three of the Miracles, I have handled, as sufficient for all. Take your Choice of them: but don't I beseech you, touch the Miracle of_ Jesus_'s driving the_ Buyers _and_ Sellers _out of the Temple, because it is a_ hot _one, and may possibly burn your Fingers. The Miracles, that I have most ludicrously and, of consequence, most offensively handled, are the_ two _of this present Discourse. If you please_, my Lord, _let them be the easy and short Task imposed on you. If you can defend the Letter of the Stories of these_ two _Miracles, I'll quietly give up the Rest to you._ _So heartily thanking your_ Lordship _for the Favour done me, in taking Notice of my_ Discourses on Miracles, _which shall be turn'd to good Use and Advantage, I subscribe myself_, [Sidenote: _Feb. 26. 1728_] _My LORD_, _Your most obliged_ _Humble Servant_, Tho. Woolston. [Illustration] A THIRD DISCOURSE ON THE MIRACLES OF OUR _SAVIOUR_, &c. My two former Discourses having met with a favourable Reception, I am encourag'd to go on and publish another; which, without any more Preface, I enter upon, by a Repetition of three general Heads, at first proposed to be spoken to, and they were, I. To show that the Miracles of healing all Manner of bodily Diseases, which _Jesus_ was justly famed for, are none of the proper Miracles of the _Messiah_, neither are they so much as a good Proof of his divine Authority, to found a Religion. II. To prove, that the literal History of many of the Miracles of _Jesus_, as recorded by the _Evangelists_, does imply Absurdities, Improbabilities, and Incredibilities; consequently they, either in whole or in part, were never wrought, as they are commonly believed now-a-days, but are only related as prophetical and Parabolical Narratives of what would be mysteriously and more wonderfully done by him. III. To consider, what _Jesus_ means, when he appeals to his Miracles, as to a Testimony and a Witness of his divine Authority; and to show that he could not properly and ultimately refer to those he then wrought in the _Flesh_, but to those Mystical ones, that he would do in the _Spirit_, of which those wrought in the Flesh are but mere Types and Shadows. Tho' I have already, spoken what may be thought sufficient, to the first of these Heads; yet I have several Things still, both from Reason and Authority, to add to it; but having not here a convenient Place for that purpose, I defer it to a better Opportunity; and so pass immediately to the Resumption of my