As it was _eighteen Years_ that the Woman was griev'd with her _Spirit of Infirmity_, for so long had her Distemper been growing on her; so it is almost eighteen (hundred) Years, or the eighteenth Century of Years, that this _Infirmity_ of the Church at the _Spirit_ of Prophecy has been coming on her: And she is now so _bent_ to the Earth of the Letter, that nothing less than the Hand and Power of Jesus, that erected the Woman, can raise her to mystical, divine, and sublime Contemplations on the Law and Prophets. St. _Augustin_[103] will have these _eighteen Years_ of the Woman's _Infirmity_, as she is a Type of the Church, to be synchronical with the[104] _three Years_ of the Fig-Tree's Unfruitfulness. I don't rightly apprehend his mystical Arithmetic. But this is certain, upon the Authority of the Fathers, that those two Numbers, with the _twelve Years_ of the Woman's _Issue of Blood_, are all conterminous and will end together: Consequently at the same time, that the Woman of the Church will be cured of her _Issue of Blood_, she will be heal'd of her _Infirmity_ at the _Spirit_ of Prophecy; _that is_, at the Conclusion of certain grand Periods of Time she will enter upon a blessed State of _Peace_ and _Vision_; which is the concurrent Doctrine of the Fathers, as any one may discern, that has dip'd into them, and is a good Confirmation of our present Exposition, and mystical Application of the miraculous Story before us. St. _Luke_ says, that the Woman could not lift up herself [Greek: eis to panteles], _v._ 11. which, without animadverting on our _English_ Translation, should be rendered, _until all was perfected_, or until the _Perfection of Time_, which, the Apostle[105] and the Fathers agree, is the Time for the Church to be cured of her _Weakness_, and to be endu'd with _Power_ at the Spirit of Prophecy. As the Woman was heal'd by _Jesus_ on the Sabbath-Day; so the Church, upon the ample Authorities of the Fathers, which Men of Reading will excuse me the Production of, is certainly to be heal'd of her _spiritual Infirmity_, at the Understanding of Prophecy against the mystical and[106] grand Sabbath, which, according to the Fathers, commences at the Expiration of her eighteen (hundred) Years _Weakness_.