As then the _Woman_ of the Gospel was, as is supposed, _v._ 16. _bound by Satan, loe, for eighteen Years_: So the foresaid furious Principle in Man, which is a mystical _Satan_, an _Adversary_ to Liberty, has bound the Church, _loe_, to the _eighteenth_ Century of Years: But she is to be entirely released from this spiritual Bondage, and set at[117] _perfect Liberty_ against the acceptable and Evangelical Sabbath. And here it is to be noted out of St. _Augustin_, and most worthy of Observation it is, that at the[118] same time, in which the Church will be loosed from her Bondage; _Satan_ himself will[119] be _bound_ and _chain'd_ for a[120] _thousand Years_, the time of the evangelical Sabbath, that is, says _Ephræm Syrus_[121] for ever. And how will our mystical _Satan_ or the _Dragon_ be bound and chain'd? Not with Chains or Links of Iron or other Metal; but _Vinculis Rationis_, with the Chains of Reasons and Arguments for Christian Liberty, which will restrain the _Adversary_, _Satan_, from any more Impositions and Persecutions of the Church. And I can't here but applaud the great Mr. _Grounds_ and Mr. _Scheme_, for their Work and Labour of Love to Mankind, in making _Chains_ of Argumentations for Liberty, which I hope will prove of sufficient Strength to bind _Satan_ and restrain him (in Dr. _Rogers_, Bishop _G--bs--n_, and others his Angels) from giving any more Molestation to Christian Philosophers in their Enquiries after, and Lucubrations on Divine Truth. All the Honour that I aim at in that Work is, by the Help of the Fathers, to point out that anti-Christian Principle or Temper in the _Clergy_[122] which, for its _Averseness_ to Liberty, is called _Satan_; for its _Calumnies_, is called the _Devil_; for its _Furiousness_, is called the _Dragon_; and for its _Unreasonableness_, is called the _Beast_, to the intellectual Views of Mankind, and to direct them how to apprehend and lay hold on it. Our Saviour, according to _Origen_, had never call'd _Peter_,[123] _Satan_, if _Satan_ had been any Thing else than _Man-averse_ to the Will of God. And thus have I spoken to the Miracle of _Jesus_'s healing the _Woman of her Spirit of Infirmity, whom Satan had bound and bow'd down_, which, according to the Letter, is no Miracle at all; and some Parts of the Story are improbable and incredible; but the mystical Completion of it will be most prodigious, and a Demonstration not only of Christ's Power and Presence in his Church, but of his _Messiahship_, in as much as a vast Number of Prophecies of the _Old Testament_, more than can soon be collated to this Purpose, will thereupon receive their Accomplishment. And so I come to a