How long did he lie in the graue?
Not so long as Ionas lay in the fishes belly, to wit, three natu∣rall daiesa 1.1, for neyther was it necessarie that the truth should in all things answere the type. But we must know that (whereas Christ then hasted vnto the victorie, as it were) the Scripture by a Synecdoche doth giue the appellation of the whole thing to the beginning and end thereof, and putteth the space of three daies for the time which raught unto three daies: For on that verie day that Christ died (which day we call Friday) three whole hours after his death his funerall was prepared, and his corps committed to buriall, this is the first day of Christs buriall.
2 The day following he lay in the Sepulchre all the Sabbath according to the manner of the Iewes who reckon a naturall day consisting of foure and twentie houres from euening to euening. This is the second day.
3 In the beginning of the day following (which was the first of the weeke, and it is called Sunday, before the day grew light) he rested twelue houres or thereabout in the Sepulchre, and rose a∣gaine on the same day, wherupon it is called of vs the Lords day. Therefore from Christs death to his resurrection, passed almost fortie houres. And three daies are reckoned, because (as Augustine saith) the first day is taken according to the last part therof: the se∣cond as it is whole and entire, the third in regard of the first part