(who acknowledge that miracles have nothing to do with the question of the Messiahship, which can be decided by the Old Testament only;)-- all that he has ever met with, evade this question, and slide over to the ground of miracles.

Such conduct in an answerer of this book would be very unfair, and also very absurd.

For the case is precisely resembling the following--A father informs by letter his son in a foreign country, that he is about to send him a Tutor, whom he will know by the following marks; "He is learned in the mathematics, and the physical sciences; acquainted with the learned languages, and an excellent physician; of a dark complexion; six feet high, and with a voice loud, and commanding." By and by, a man comes to the young man, professing to be this tutor sent to him by his father.

On examining the man, and comparing him with the description in his father's letter, he finds him totally unlike the person he had been taught to expect.

Instead of being acquainted with the sciences, therein mentioned, he knows nothing about them; instead of being "six feet high, of a dark complexion, and with a voice loud and commanding," he is a diminutive creature of five feet, of a light complexion, with a voice like a woman's.
The young man, with his father's letter in his hand, tells the pretended tutor, that he certainly cannot be the person he has been told to expect.