=Lazarus= soule did not only appeare, but he came againe both in bodie & soule, as =Iohn= witnesseth in his 11. chap. he is as it were a sure token, of our true resurrection, which shall be in the last day, as also others, which our Sauiour Christ, the Apostles, and in auncient time, the Prophets haue raised from the dead. You shall neuer read that either =Lazarus=, or any other haue tolde where they were while they were dead, or what kind of being there is in the other world, for these things are not to be learned and knowne of the dead, but out of the word of God. [Sidenote: _Matth.27._ At the resurrectiō of christ many rose againe.] [Sidenote: Augustine.] The like may be said to that which is in the 27. chap. of S. =Matthew=, that when Christ suffered on the Crosse, the graues were opened, & afterwards on the day of his resurrection, many dead bodies did arise, & appeared to many at _Hierusalem_. The soules of the dead did not only appeare, neither did they warne the liuing, or command them to doo this or that for yͤ deads sake, to wit, either to pray for them, or to go on pilgrimage to saints, &c. But yͤ dead with their soules and bodies togither, came into the earth: for héereby God would shewe, that he by his death hath ouercome and destroyed death to the faithfull, and that at the last day their soules and bodies shall be knit togither, and liue with God for euer. Now what these holy men were that rose againe, and whether they remained any time in this present life, or died againe, or went with Christ into heauen, looke the iudgement of =S. Augustine= in his 99. Epist. to =Euodius=, and his 3. booke _De mirabilibus. cap.13._ [Sidenote: Spiridion raised his daughter.] [Sidenote: Ruffinus.] To these we may ioyne that which =Ruffinus= writeth in his ecclesiastical history, 1. booke, 5. chap. and which =Socrates= repeateth in his first booke & 12. chap. touching =Spiridion= Bishop of _Cyprus_. He had a daughter called =Irene=, with whome a certaine friend of hers left gorgious apparrell, she being more wary than néeded, hid it in the ground, and within a while died. Not long after cōmeth this man yͭ owned the apparel, & hearing say yͤ maiden was dead, goeth to her father whom sometimes he accuseth, & sometimes intreateth. The old father supposing this mans losse to be his owne calamitie, cōmeth to his daughters graue, & there calleth vpō god, beseeching him yͭ he wold shew him before yͤ time, the resurrection which is promised. And his hope was not in vaine, for the virgin being reuiued, apeared to her father, & shewed the place wher she had hid the apparel, & so departed again.