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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.
When our Saviour calls on his Disciples to imitate the Example he had given them in what he had done, we are to understand him, not merely by the Example he gave in the emblematical Action, in washing his Disciple's Feet, in it self considered; but more especially, of that much greater Act of his that was signified by it, in abasing himself so low, and suffering so much, for the spiritual Cleansing and Salvation of his People. This is what is chiefly insisted on as the great Example Christ has given us to follow: So it is once and again afterwards, in the Discourse Christ had with his Disciples, this same Night, v. 34. of the Chap. wherein is the Text; A new Commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. Chap. xv. 12, 13. This is my Commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no Man than this, that a Man lay down his Life for his Friends. And so in 1 John iii. 16. Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his Life for us; and we ought to lay down our Lives for the Brethren.
When our Saviour calls on his Disciples to imitate the Example he had given them in what he had done, we are to understand him, not meerly by the Example he gave in the emblematical Action, in washing his Disciple's Feet, in it self considered; but more especially, of that much greater Act of his that was signified by it, in abasing himself so low, and suffering so much, for the spiritual Cleansing and Salvation of his People. This is what is chiefly insisted on as the great Example Christ has given us to follow: So it is once and again afterwards, in the Discourse Christ had with his Disciples, this same Night, v. 34. of the Chap. wherein is the Text; A new Commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. Chap. xv. 12, 13. This is my Commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no Man than this, that a Man lay down his Life for his Friends. And so in 1 John iii. 16. Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his Life for us; and we ought to lay down our Lives for the Brethren.