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5 Then cometh he to Simon Peter : And - Peter Gith unto him, Lord *, doeſt thou waſh my feet # ?
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S. JOHN
w I have by thismy aQtion taught y0u to love, and to be ready al- ſo to ſerve one another, and not to think much to ſerve them ever; in the loweſt and meaneſt offices by which you can do them good; for we muſt not think, that theſe words lay a literal obligation upon
_ ill from hence, to prove the primacy of Perey over the re aan. on ways tre feet of others ; wathing the feer is mentioned ag ooſtles ) Pater looks upon it with a modeſt, but ſinful and ſup 2" as Species pro Genere, a ſingle a& of ſervice, put far all other a&s by which we can be ſerviceable unto others; ſo it is alſo uſed, 1 Sam.
Ritious indignation. Samuel of old determined, that O5edzence ro God is better than Sacrifice ; 1 1S then certainly better than a Complement. P:7ey in this caſe ought not to have contradifted his Maſter out of a complement to him, but to have ſuffered him to go on in this a& of Miniſtration. There may be a woſrnrary Humility, and pretended re- verence to Chriſt, which is indeed but ſuperſtition, and can be no other if contrary to any Revelation of the Divine Will.
7 Jeſus anſwered and faid unto him, What I do thou knoweſt not now : but thou ſhalt know hereafter k.
+ Our Lord ſeeing Peter's general deſign good, though ke miſtook is to this particular AQ ; tells him, that at preſent he did not undet- Rand his counſel and deſign in this Adtion, bur it ſhould be more in- |
25. 41. and 17im. 5. 10. Scme of the Ancients ſeem to have judged this waſhing of feet, to have been inſticured as a Sacrament; (tho in an improper ſenſe) and from hence, (tho? Belarm:ine, Maldimate and others, deny it to be a Sacrament as well as wes yer) probably is the prattice in uſe amongſt the Papi, to waſh certain perſons feet eve- Ty Tharſday before Eaſter, (a theatrical Ceremony, rather than any thing of ſolid and profitable uſe.) Our Saviour certainly intends no more by ye ought to waſh one anothers feet, than ye ought to ſerve one
another in all offices of love, and not to think your ſelves too good
or t9O great, to do the meaneſt ſervices to thoſe who are my Diſciples; and this is thar as to which he tells them, he had ſet them an example, that they ſhould do as hz had done, in other aQs of the ſame kind,
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Ir. 6. 7 Peter rafhly replies, Tho ſha: never waſh my feet.
telligible unto him afrerwards, as indeed he made ir by his diſcourſe | tho not as to this ſpecifical a&. :
upon this his at of humiliation, ver. 13, 14, 15, 16. $ Peter faith unto. him, Thou ſhalt never waſh my feet. Jeſus anſwered him *, If I waſh thee not, thou
haſt no part with me /. Here was a
ſeeming Keverence for his Maſter, but (like the Jewiſh Zeal mention- «26. ed by Paul, Rom. 10. 2.) not according to knowledge; Chriſt rells him, 5.5+ that except he waſhed him, he had no part with him ; that is, he 1%. ſhould never be ſaved. But will ſome ſay, Was not this too ſevere for our Saviour to threaten Peter with an exclufion from a Co:xher:- :zuce with him in Heaven, for modeſtly refuſing to ſuffer him ro waſh his feet? 4. Theleaſt diſobedience nor repented of, 1s enough to exclude a Soul from the Kingdom of Heaven. 2. But Chriſt ſeems to take an advantage here, from this ceremony of his waſhing their feer, to diſcourſe to him the neceſſity of his waſhing his Soul with his blood, from the filth of fin and corruption; and of this waſhing, it undoubtedly is that Chriſt here ſpeaketh, the neceſſity of which is very often inculcated in holy Writ.
9 Simon Peter ſaith unto him, Lord not my feet on- ly, but alſo my hands and my head »:.
m Peter now underſtandech what waſhing it is which our Saviour [zft ſpake of, and wholly ſubmitteth to the Will of his Lord and Maſter ; acknowledging himſelf to be wholly defiled, and to ſtand in
_ need of a waſhing all over. Lord, faith he, not my feet only, but my band; and my head alſo, that is, mv whole man.
10 Jeſus faith to him, He that is waſhed, needeth not, fave to waſh h:s feet, but is clean every whit :
' and * ye are clean, but not allo. |
n Look as it is with perſons that have been waſhing themſelves in a Bath, when they are waſhed, yet walking abroad bare-foot, or with thin Sandals, or coverings for their feer, they will be again ſubje@ co pollute and dirty their feet ; ſo as they will have frequent need to waſh them again ; but they need not ſoon again waſh their whole bodies: ſo it 1s as to Souls that are waſhed with my blood, waſhed, and ſan#ified, juftified in the Name of the Lord Jeſus, and by the Spirit of God ( as the Apoſtle ſpeaketh, 1 Cor. 6. 11.) their fate is not to be renewed 3 they need not be juſtified a ſecond time, but they will have need to have their feet waſhed in regard of the re mainder of fin, and luſt that is in them, and will be ſo while they weinthe World, and the temptations which every where lie in the World, as ſnares for their feet ; they will have need of a daily waſh- ing by repentance, and freſh applications of their Souls to my blood, by the repeated exerciſes of faith, according to their renewed and repeated aQts of ſin. o You, who are my Apoſtles, are clean, you are wiſhed, you are juſtified ; I have forgiven your fins, accepted your perſons, but ot a4; the moſt of you are ſo, but not all.
11 For he * knew who ſhould betray him, therefore
ſaid he, Ye are not all clean p.