So much then to the mystical Interpretation of the Story of the Cure of the _Issue of Blood_ in this Woman. Every minute Circumstance of it is thus to be allegorized, if need was. Whether the _Clergy_ will like this parabolical Explication of it, I neither know nor care. They have their Liberty with _Atheists_ and _Infidels_ to believe as little of it as they think fit; and I hope they'll give me leave with the Fathers of the Church to believe as much of it as I please. But whether they approve of this allegorical Interpretation of this supposed Miracle or not; they must own, that if the Church, after the foresaid _twelve Ages_, should be purified and sanctified; if her Errors and Corruptions, of which the Woman's _Uncleanness_ is a Type, should be heal'd; if War and Persecution, typified by her _Issue of Blood_, should then entirely cease; if all Christians should then be united in Principle, Heart and Affection, and made to walk in a peaceable and quiet State, as the Woman was[97] _bid to go in Peace_; if the Church should then _come behind_ Jesus (which[98] is a Figure of future Time) and rightly touch by Faith, and apprehend his[99] Garments or Words of Prophecy, about which Christians have hitherto been _pressing_ and urgent; and if the Gifts of the Spirit, like _Virtue on the Woman_, should then be poured forth upon the Church to the absolute Cure of her present Diseases, we must, I say, allow the Story of this Woman to be an admirable Emblem and typical Representation; and the Accomplishment of it most miraculous and stupendous; and not only an indisputable Proof of the Power and Presence of Christ with his Church, but a Demonstration of his _Messiahship_, in as much as an almost infinite Number of Prophecies of the Old Testament, will thereupon receive that Accomplishment, which hitherto, by no shadow of Reason, can be pretended to. After such a mystical Healing of the _Hæmorrhage_ of the Church, there's no doubt on't, but the Story of this Woman in the Gospel will be allow'd to be typical and emblematical. In the mean time, without making a Parable of the Story of her, I assert, there is little or nothing of a Miracle to be made of her Cure, unless we were at a greater Certainty about the Nature of her Disease, and the Manner, rationally speaking, of _Jesus_'s healing of it. And so I pass to the Consideration of