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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.
[figure] Christ the Example of Ministers.
John XIII. 15, 16. For I have given you an Example, that ye should do as I have done to you. Verily verily, I say unto you, The Servant is not greater than his Lord, neither he that is sent, greater than he that sent him.
WE have in this Context, an Account of one of the many very remarkable Things that passed that Night wherein Christ was betrayed (which was on many Accounts the most remarkable Night that ever was) viz. Christ's washing his Disciple's Feet; which Action, as it was exceeding wonderful in itself, so it manifestly was symbolical, and represented something else far more important and more wonderful, even that greatest and most wonderful of all Things that ever came to pass, which was accomplished the next Day in his last Sufferings. There were three symbolical Representations given of that great Event this Evening; one in the Passover, which Christ now partook of with his Disciples; another in the Lord's Supper, which he instituted at this Time; and another in this remarkable Action of his washing his Disciple's ⟨p. 6⟩Feet. Washing the Feet of Guests was the Office of Servants, and one of their meanest Offices: And therefore was fitly chosen by our Saviour to represent that great Abasement which he was to be the Subject of in the Form of a Servant, in becoming obedient unto Death, even that ignominious and accursed Death of the Cross, that he might cleanse the Souls of his Disciples from their Guilt and spiritual Pollution.