But who are meant by the _Physicians_ of the Woman, that have had the mystical _Hæmorrhage_ and Diseases of the Church Under Cure all this while? Who should, but pretended Ministers, of the Gospel? Ministers of the Gospel are not only by the Fathers call'd metaphorically[92] spiritual _Physicians_; but our _Divines_ and Preachers of all Denominations like the Metaphor, and think themselves able _Physicians_ at the Diseases of the Church, which they are forward to prescribe and apply Medicines to, whenever, in their Opinion, she stands in need of them. Whether our _Divines_ like to be accounted the _Physicians_ of the Text before us, I much question; but it is certain that[93] _Eusebius Gallicanus_ expressly says, that our _Divines_ and pretended Philosophers are meant by them; and venerable _Bede_[94] upon the Place is of the same Mind too. The Woman of the Gospel is said[95] to _suffer many Things of many Physicians, and was nothing better'd, but rather grew worse_; that is, she grew worse not in time only, but through the Use of her _Physicians_, who were her[96] Tormentors. So the Diseases of the Church in time have increased, for all the Use she has made of her spiritual Physicians, _the Clergy_. In every Age has the Church been degenerating in Morals and Principles, as any one knows, that is able to make an Estimate of Religion in times past; and all along have her ecclesiastical _Quack Doctors_ contributed to her ill State of Health. As many Physicians with their different Applications tormented the poor Woman; so our many _Empericks_ in Theology with their different _Schemes_ of Church Government and various _Systems_ of Divinity, like so many Prescriptions for Cure, have increased the Divisions, widen'd the Wounds, and inflamed the Sores of the Church. And if the Woman's _Issue of Blood_ be, according to the Fathers, a particular Type of the Blood of the Church, that is shed in Persecution and War; our Theological Pretenders to Physick, have been so far from providing and prescribing a good _Stiptic_ in this Case that they have been the Occasion of the Effusion of much Christian Blood; there having been many a War and Persecution, that these _Incision_ Doctors, who should be all _Balsam_, have been the Cause of.