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Touche me not for I am not yet gon vp to my father.
The vvemen handled hys feete and bent themself dovvne before hym.
A Man may easely agree these two places,* 1.1 if we loke vpon the affectiō of Marye Magdalene and on the manner of the other wemens doyngs. Christ suffereth these to touche hym to the end hys resurrection myghte bee certaynlye knowen. And therefore Saint Mathew addeth that the we∣men, bowed downe before hym which
was an argumente or a sygne of an vndoubted knowledge. Also he suffe∣red hys Dysciples to touche hym and specially Thomas to put hys fyngers within the hollownesse of his wounds. And that he dyd bycause it was nede∣ful, to put them out of al doubt of hys resurrection. But when he sawe that Marye stayed at hys bodily presence and loked for no other happier maner of enioying hym than that he shoulde bee conuersante in earth with them, a man oughte not to maruell if he were willyng to moderate and correct thys vnaduised zeale. Wherefore let vs take thys for a certayntye that Christ forbad not Marye to touch him tyll he sawe that shee Importunely de∣syred to keepe hym styll in the worlde. The reason is added therunto whiche sufficiently sheweth that whiche is ve∣ry worthy to be noted, to wete, that he is not yet gon vp to hys father. Nowe he wil make Marye to vnderstand that shee oughte to suspende her affection til time he were receaued into the hea∣uenly
glorye. Besyde thys he shew∣eth what the end of hys resurrection is: not suche as Marye deuysed it to bee according to her fantasye, to wete, that after hys resurrection he shoulde tryumphe here belowe in y• world, but rather that by going vp into heauenly glorye he myght take possession of the kyngdome that was promysed hym & being set on the ryght hand and in the glorye of hys father, he myghte mayn∣tayne hys Church by the power of hys holy spirite. Mary then dyd ill, for∣asmuche as contentyng her selfe with the halfe of the resurrection of Iesus Christ she desyred to haue hym present in the worlde. And as for vs, if wee will not fayle to fynde Iesus Christ, wee muste lifte vp our spirites a lofte. Moreouer, as many as endeuour to goe to him haue nede to vnwrap thē∣selfe of all earthlye affections of the fleshe.
Math. 28.