Meditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many years sinceMeditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many yeares since

Fourthly, after receiving of these holy mysteries, there were extraordinary oblations and ^dcollections for refreshing Christs poor members, who either for his Name, or under his hand did suffer with patience the calamities of this present life, expecting the glory which should be revealed unto them: those did they make the Treasures of the Church, their bowels the hordes and repositaries of their piety, and such as were orphans, or widows, or aged, or sick, or in bonds condemned to Mine-pits, or to the Islands, or desolate places, or dark Dungeons (the usual punishments in those times) with all these were they not ashamed in this holy work to acknowledge a unity of condition, a fellowship and equality in the spiritual Privileges of the same Head, a mutual relation of fellow-members in the same common Body, unto which if any had greater right than other, they certainly were the men, who were conformed unto their Head in suffering, and did go to their Kingdom through the same path of blood which he had before besprinkled for them.

Fourthly, after receiving of these holy mysteries, there were extraordinary oblations and ^dcollections for refreshing Christs poore members, who either for his Name, or under his hand did suffer with patience the calamities of this present life, expecting the glory which should be revealed unto them: those did they make the Treasures of the Church, their bowels the hordes and repositaries of their piety, and such as were orphanes, or widowes, or aged, or sicke, or in bonds condemned to Mine-pits, or to the Islands, or desolate places, or darke Dungeons (the usuall punishments in those times) with all these were they not ashamed in this holy worke to acknowledge a unity of condition, a fellowship and equality in the spirituall Privileges of the same Head, a mutuall relation of fellow-members in the same common Body, unto which if any had greater right than other, they certainly were the men, who were conformed unto their Head in suffering, and did goe to their Kingdome through the same path of blood which he had before besprinckled for them.

1. d[Greek or Hebrew]. &c. Just. Mart. Ap. 2 Deposita pietatis vi. Ter. Ap. c. 39.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. &c. Iust. Mart. Ap. 2 Deposita pietatis vi. Ter. Ap. c. 39.