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Christ the great example of Gospel ministers. A sermon preached at Portsmouth, at the…Christ the great example of Gospel ministers. A sermon preach'd at Portsmouth, at the…
Christ the great example of Gospel ministers. A sermon preached at Portsmouth, at the ordination of the Reverend Mr. Job Strong, to the pastoral office over the South Church in that place, June 28. 1749, / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Northampton.Christ the great example of Gospel ministers. A sermon preach'd at Portsmouth, at the ordination of the Reverend Mr. Job Strong, to the pastoral office over the South Church in that place, June 28. 1749, / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Northampton.
Boston: printed by T. Fleet, 1750
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
This spiritual washing and cleansing of Believers was the End for which Christ so abased himself and gave himself for them. Tit. ii. 14. Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all Iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar People. Eph. v. 25, 26. Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of Water.—That Christ's washing his Disciple's Feet, signified this spiritual washing of the Soul, is manifest by Christ's own Words in the 8th verse of the Context. Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my Feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me. Christ in being obedient unto Death, even the Death of the Cross, not only did the part of a Servant unto God, but in some Respects also of a Servant unto us. And this is not the only Place where his so abasing himself for our sakes is compared to the doing of the part of a Servant to Guests. We have the like Representation made in Luke xxii. 27. For whether is greater, he that sitteth at Meat, or he that serveth? Is not he that sitteth at Meat? but I am among you as he that serveth. And wherein Christ was among the Disciples as he that did serve, is explained in Matt. xx. 28. namely, in his giving his Life a Ransom for them.
This spiritual washing and cleansing of Believers was the End for which Christ so abased himself and gave himself for them. Tit. ii. 14. Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all Iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar People. Eph. v. 25, 26. Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of Water.—That Christ's washing his Disciple's Feet, signified this spiritual washing of the Soul, is manifest by Christ's own Words in the 8th verse of the Context. Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my Feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me. Christ in being obedient unto Death, even the Death of the Cross, not only did the part of a Servant unto God, but in some Respects also of a Servant unto us. And this is not the only Place where his so abasing himself for our sakes is compared to the doing of the part of a Servant to Guests. We have the like Representation made in