VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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thoughtes. For though they saw him reyse vpp other / yet who shulde reyse hym vpp / when he were deed / they coude not comprehende.

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.

How be yt there was none of them that was fallen in hys hert from chryste. For assone as the wemen brought worde / Peter and Ihon ran vnto the sepulchre and saw and wondred and wold fayne haue beleuen that he was