The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…

whatsoever we have in outward things, we should communicate it to others, according to the quantity of their wants & our abundance. So shall we be members not only of the natural, but also of the mystical body of Christ. There is yet another end, Seeing there is such a nature in the creatures, that the outward things have suffered many injuries, before they became good food, as the corn being cut down in it per•ite age, pressed out of the husks with the flail, loosing all his entrails with the violence of the Mill, and after passing through the parching heat of the Oven, is made¹ good bread: so the flesh of Jesus Christ went under many pains, and the blood of Christ as the grape in it most flourishing estate was pressed out of the veins, and sustained hard passions, and shall nothing of us then suffer with him? Because we cannot wreak our anger on the Jews, as Pontius Pilate, as Caiaphas, and the rest, for that they are dead and gone, and² yet to say the trueth, they were no more the crucifiers of Christ than the nails, the cross or the hammer, but it was our sins which did crucify him, it was our vile thoughts, our corrupt speeches, and our own sins which did set Caiaphas, Pilate and Judas, on work, and they were but our servants and hirelings in the action of his crucifying. Therefore as we would wreak our anger on them, seeing they I say, were but hired, and we have the things in our selves, which did chiefly crucify him, let us do that despite to our sins, let us arraign them, let us crucify them, let us nail them to the cross, let us kill them, & bury them for ever. This is that, whereon we should spend our choler, and let us beware of crucifying of Christ again, which thing though it cannot be indeed, because all the Deputies & high Priests are gone, yet we may be truly said to crucify him again, when we bereaving him of the fruits of his death, put new passions of grief upon him. For though it was no grief to Christ to dye, so he might enjoy the thing he died for; yet to loose the fruits of his torments, this doth in a second degree torment him. This is an active crucifying, now comes in a passive crucifying. And this is a cup not of the Communion (for that needs the son of thunder, the child of Zebedeus) but it is the cup of the cross, whereof he himself did drink:

whatsoeuer we haue in outward things, we should communicate it to others, according to the quantity of their wants & our aboundance. So shall we be members not onely of the naturall, but also of the mysticall bodie of Christ. There is yet another ende, Seeing there is such a nature in the creatures, that the outward things haue suffered many iniuries, before they became good food, as the corne being cut down in it perite age, pressed out of the huskes with the flaile, loosing all his intralles with the violence of the Mill, and after passing through the parching heate of the Ouen, is made