Reade what thou reade canst / and thou shalt fynd no temptacyon
lyke vnto that from the creacyon of the world / or so greate
as
yt by the hundred parte. So that the wonderfull soden
chaunge and the tereble syght of hys passyon and of hys most
cruell and most vile deeth / and the losse of whom they so
greatly loued / that theyr hertes wolde fayne haue died wyth
hym / and the feare of their awne
deeth / and the impossibilite that a man shulde ryse
agayne of his
awne power / so occupyed theyr myndes and so astonyed
them and amased them / that they coude receaue no comforte /
ether of the
scrypture or of the miracles which they had sene
christ doo / nor of
the monicions and warnynge wherewith he had warned
them before / nether of the women that brought them tydynges
that he was
rysen. The swerd of temptacyons wyth feare / sorow /
mornynge & wepynge / had depely perced theyr hertes / and
the cruell syght. had so combred their mindes / that they coude
not beleue / vntyll
chryst hym selfe came / deeth put off and ouercome /
ye and when they first saw him / they were astonied for
wonderinge and ioye to gether that thoughtes a rose in theyr
hertes / alas ys thys he or doeth some spirite mocke vs? he was
faine to lett them feale him and to eate with them / to
strength theyr faythes.
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