But supposing this _Hæmorrhage_ proceeded from what Part of the Body our _Divines_ think fit; How will they make a grievous Distemper of it in order to a Miracle? The Woman subsisted too long under her Issue of Blood, and bore it too well, for any to make her Case very grievous. _Beza_[81] will have it, that is was a constant and incessant Effusion of Blood that the Woman labour'd with. But this could not be, nor was it possible, as I suppose _Physicians_ will agree, for Nature to endure it so long, or the Woman to live twelve Days, much less twelve Years under it. No more then, than some slight Indisposition can reasonably and naturally be made of this Woman's Distemper. And it would be well, if Infidels would rest here with their Objections against it. But what if they should say, that this _Hæmorrhage_ was rather of Advantage to the Health of the Patient, than of Danger to her, and that the Woman was more _nice_ than _wise_, or she would never have sought so much for Help and Cure of it? Some _Hæmorrhages_ are better kept open than stop'd and dry'd up; and if _Infidels_ should say, that _this_ was a Preservative of the Life of the Woman, like an _Issue_, at which Nature discharges itself of bad Humours, Who can contradict them? Nay, if they should say that _Jesus_'s Cure of this Woman's _Hæmorrhage_ was a Precipitation of her Death, for she died some time after it, rather than a Prolongation of her Life, for she lived twelve Years under it, and was of good Strength, when she applied to our Saviour for Cure, or she could never have born the press of the People to come at him; Who can gainsay them? It is true she was very sollicitous for a Cure, and uneasy under her Distemper, or she would never have spent all she had on _Physicians_; which is a Sign, some may say, that her Disease was grievous, irksome, and dangerous, as well as incurable by Art. But _Infidels_ will say, not so; for there are some slight cutaneous Distempers, sometimes issuing with a little purulent and bloody Matter, that nice Women will be at a great Expence for Relief, and are always tampering, and often advising about them, though to no Purpose: And if they should say that this was the worth of the Case of this Woman, Who can disprove it?