The second tome of homilies of such matters as were promised, and entitled in…The second tome of homilees of such matters as were promised, and intituled in…

Yea, if it were not true that Christ is risen again, then were it neither true that he is ascended up to heaven, nor that he sent down from heaven unto us the holy ghost, nor that he sitteth on the right hand of his heavenly father, having the rule of heaven & earth, reigning (as the prophet saith) from sea to sea, nor ¹that he should after this world, be the judge aswell of the living as of the dead, to give reward to the good, and judgement to the evil. That these links therefore of our faith should all hang together in steadfast establishment and confirmation, it pleased our Saviour not straight way to withdraw himself from the bodily presence & sight of his disciples, but he chose out-•l-days, wherein he would declare unto them by manifold & most strong arguments and tokens, that he had conquered death, and that he was also truly risen again to life. He began saith Luke) ²at Moses and all the prophets, and expounded unto them the prophesies that were written in all the scriptures of him, to the intent to confirm the trueth of his resurrection, long before spoken of: which he verified in deed, as it is declared very apparently and manifestly, by his oft appearance to sundry persons at sundry times. First, he sent his angels to the sepulchre, who did show unto certain women the ³empty grave, saving that the burial linen remained therein. And by these signs were these ⟨p. 385⟩women fully instructed, that he was risen again, & so did they testify it openly. After this ⁴Jesus himself appeared to Mary Magdalen, & after that to certain other women, and straight afterward he appeared to Peter, then to the two disciples which were going to Emmaus. He ⁵appeared to the disciples also, as they were gathered together for fear of the Jews, the doors shut. At another time he was seen at the sea of ⁶