I wil not deny this thing to be true. For the like historie hath =Augustine= in his 137. epist. A certain yong man which had an euill name accused =Boniface=, =Augustines= priest, yͭ he inticed him to filthinesse. Now whē yͤ matter could neither be proued, nor disproued by sufficient reasons: both of them were bid to go to the graue of one =Felix= a Martyr, that by a miracle the truth might be known. They had not bin sent, vnlesse before this time also some secrete matters had bene knowne by this meanes: it may be wel answered, that they were good, or rather euil angels which did appeare. CHAP. XI. Whether the holy Apostles thought they sawe a mans soule, when Christ sodeinly appeared vnto them after his Resurrection. [Sidenote: _Luke 24._] We reade in the 24. Chapter of Saint =Lukes= Gospell, that two Disciples whiche returned from _Emaus_ to _Hierusalem_, told the Apostles, that they had séene Christ aliue againe, and whiles they yet spake, the Lorde stood in the midst of them, and saide vnto them, Peace be vnto you: but they being amazed & afraid, thought they sawe a spirit. &c. [Sidenote: Christs Disciples supposed they sawe a ghost.] Out of this some go about to proue, that the Apostles beléeued that spirits or soules did walke and appeare vnto men, and that they themselues did thinke they sawe the spirit of Christ (as certaine of the old Writers do expound it) or else some other mans spirit. [Sidenote: Many kindes of spirites.] This argument may be answered two wayes. First if they thought they sawe a soule, they thought a misse. But they were no lesse deceiued with the common sorte now, that when they thought Christ would raise vp an outward and earthly kingdome, in which they should be chiefe. Secondly, it may be, that they supposed they sawe an euill or good Angell, for there are more kindes of spirites than one. There is a spirit that created all things, to wit, God the Father, the Sonne, and the holy Ghost. Againe there be spirits that be created, as good and euil Angels, as also the soules of men, which either are in the bodie, or by death seuered from the bodie, and abide either in euerlasting life, or in eternall damnation. As touching the state of soules in Purgatorie, where they are prepared to the heauenly iourney, and of _Limbus puerorum_, there is nothing extant in holy scripture. It is manifest in scripture, that God appeared vnto the holy Patriarches, to the Prophets, to Kings and others, in diuers visions and formes, and that he shewed himself vnto them and spake with them. =Iacob= sawe a ladder reache from the earth vp to heauen, and God leaning on it. =Isaias= sawe the Lord sitting vpon an high throne. =Daniel= sawe an olde man sitting, and his sonne comming vnto him and receiuing all power of him. =Tertullian= and other holy Fathers do teach, that the son of God, which at the appointed time should take vpon him humaine flesh, did appear vnto the Patriarches in an angelicall shape.