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442 Jesus washing the Feet of his Disciples.
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are stated by this author to be enigmatic ; andjt is asked , " had Peter no part with Jesus , that is , was he incapable of receiving any
benefit from him , unless he had this ceremony of washing performed upoa him , when that ceremony had no further use or meaning than to convey a moral lesson ?" I answer , the declaration " thou
hast no part with me ' ' simply means , that the apostle must be considered as disclaiming to Le a member of the little society of which our Lord was the head , unless he suffered his Master to perform the kind domestic office of washim ? the feet towards him
ns well -iis . ^ Jbis companions ; and the exclamation of Peter , in con-Sequence , is strictly agreeable to this idea . Every man sees how naturally find how well the habit of
humbling ourselves , if it can be so called , to the meanest duties of benevolence , is illustrated and recommended by the example of Christ upon this occasion . But where is the connection between
this ceremony and the supposed fact , that our sins are washed ( washed , I mean , according to the gross and popular notions of the matter , ) in his blood ? An entire and not a partial ablution of the body , would surely have better signified this alledged
correspondence . , • I- ¦ *)¦ I infft then , that the delivery of a grand evangelical lesson was the primary , not to say the only end of Jesus ' in this transaction .
He would shew , not subordinately , but chiefly and direcily , that we were to folio wiJi is example in a readiness to do as he had done . To consider him as designing to teach , enigmatically and mysti-
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callyv -a doctrine stated to be so essential and important as to be a corner stone of Christianity , [ s a glaring abuse of the scriptures , rather than a sober interpretation of them .
It is worthy of observation , that the popular doctrines of religion are , in general , endeavoured to be supported by the epistolary writings of the New Testament , and
not by the historical . The discourses of our Lord , in particular , are too p lain and simple and moral for the purpose of those who claim the distinction of beingievifcngelical believers ; and il is dhfjrin
consequence of their being racked and tortured by such criticism as the late Bishop of Worcester employed in this sermon , that they can be mWJe' to speak the language of modern orthodoxy . This prelate was ' ai ^ elegant classical scholar . To the
character of a good divine he had no fair pretensions- Thus much ap * pears from the attempt which has now been animadverted on : nor
is it the only evidence of the fact . The letter addressed to him by Mr . Evan son , on his sermons at the Warburtonian lecture ? he neither did nor could answer . But it is
curious to remark with what pity , real or affected , he speaks of that accomplished person , in a late posthumous publication . " I know not , " he says , " what is , become of the poor man / ' Much is it to be wished that Bishop
Hurd had not been totally ignorant of the history of Mr . E . from the period of his resignation , lie would then have learned that this Ci poor man / ' after a long course of piety , virtue and usefulness , after the cheerful enjoyment tii \ d bountiful use of a handsome anci
442 Jesus Washing The Feet Of His Disciples.
442 Jesus washing the Feet of his Disciples .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page 442, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/28/
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