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9 Is. lii. 1. Rom. x. 16.—7 Is. vi.9, 10. Mat. xiii. 14.- to wash the disciples' feet, and

Is. vi. 1. ch. vii. 13, & xi 22.-u ch. v. 44- Mark ix.

37; 1 Pet. i. 21.—y ch. xiv. 9.—z v. 35, 26; ch. iii. 19; & viii. 12; & ix. 5, 39.-a ch. v. 45 ; & viii. 15, 26-6 chili. 17.- Luke x 16.- Deut. xviii. 19; Mark xvi. 16-e ch. viii, 38; & xiv. 19.-f Deut. xviii. 19.

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to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.

6 Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet?

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7 Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; A but thou shalt know hereafter.

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8 Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, if I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.

9 Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.

10 Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit and * ye are clean, but not all.

11 For' he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not all clean.

12 So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?

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feet, ye also ought to wash to his laws and appointments in all

one another's feet.

15 For I have given you an example, that ye should do

as I have done to you.

16 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.

things, to have every action and every word under a rule and law, and the

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penalty to be so high, even eternal death. All this, to a carnal or haughty mind is hard; not only every action and word, but even thought too, must be subject, not so much as thought free, "every thought is brought into captivity," 2 Cor. x. 5, as the apostle speaks, and so the licentious man accounts it; not only

17 If ye know these things, the affections and desires, but the happy are ye if ye do them.

a Mat. xxvi. 2.-6 ch. xii, 23; & xvii. 1, 11.-c Luke xxii. 3; ver. 27.-d Mat. xi. 27; & xxviii. 18. ch. iii. 35; & xvii. 2. Acts ii. 36. 1 Cor. xv. 27. Heb. ii. 8.-e ch. viii. 42; & xvi. 28.-f Luke xxii. 27. Phil. ii. 7, 8. ↑ Gr. he.-g See Mat. iii. 14.-h ver. 12.-i ch. iii. 5. 1

Cor. vi. 11. Eph. v. 26. Tit. lii. 5. Heb. x. 22.-k ch. xv.

3.- ch. vi. 64.-m Mat. xxiii. 8, 10. Luke vi. 46. 1 Cor. viii. 6; & xii. 3. Phil. ii. 11.-n Luke xxii. 27.

o Rom. xii. 10. Gal. vi. 1, 2. 1 Pet. v. 5. Mat. xi. 29. Phil. ii. 5. 1 Pet. ii. 21. 1 John . 6.-9 Mat. x.

24. Luke vi. 40. ch. xv. 20.r James i. 25.

READER.-If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, ye ought also to wash one another's feet. The best measure of grace is humility for, the more grace still the greater humility; and, no humility no grace. Solomon observed of old, and St. James took it from him, that, "God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble;" Prov. iii. 34; James iv. 6; so as he, that is not humble, is not so much as capable of grace; and he that is truly humble, is a fit subject for all graces. -HALL.

If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.-This is the power of religion, the new impress of God upon the heart, and obedience and resignation to him, to be given up to him as entirely his, to be moulded and ordered as he will, to be subject

very reasoning and imaginations are brought under this law.

Now, to yield this as reasonable and due to God, to own his sovereignty, and to acknowledge the law to be holy, and just, and good, to approve it, yea to love it, even there where it

most contradicts and controuls our own corrupt will, and the law of sin in our flesh, this is true spiritual obedience; to study and enquire after the will of God in all our ways, what will please him, and having found it, to follow that which is here called "the way of his commandments;" to make this " our way " and our business in the world, and all other things but accessaries and bye-works; even those lawful things that may be taken in, and used as helps in our way. As the disciples passing through the corn plucked the ears, and did eat in passing, as a bye-work, but their business was to follow their Master. And whatsoever would hinder us in this way, must be watched and guarded against. To effect that, we must either remove and thrust it aside, or if we cannot do that, yet we must go over it and trample it under foot,

were it the thing or the person that is dearest to us in the world. Till the heart be brought to this state and purpose, it is either wholly void of, or very low and weak in, the truth of religion.-LEIGHTON.

Oh! where are souls to be found amongst us, that represent their own original, that are possest with pure and sublime apprehensions of God the Father of Spirits, and are often raised to the astonishing contemplation of his eternal and blessed being, and his infinite holiness, and greatness, and goodness, and are accordingly burnt up with ardent love? And where that holy fire is wanting, there can be no sacrifice, whatsoever our invention, or utterance, or gifts may be, and how blameless soever the externals of our life may be, and even our hearts free from gross pollutions; for it is scarce to be suspected that any of us will suffer any of those strange, yea, infernal fires of ambition, or avarice, or malice, or impure lusts and sensualities to burn within us, which would render us priests of idols, of airy nothings, and of dunghill gods, yea of the very "god of this world, the prince of darkness." Let men judge us and revile us as they please, that imports nothing at all; but God forbid any thing should possess our hearts but he that loved us, and gave himself for us; for we know we cannot be vessels of honour meet for the master's

use, "unless we purge ourselves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit," and empty our hearts of all things beside him, and even of ourselves, and our own will, and have no more any desires or delights, but his will alone,

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that he should give something to the poor.

30 He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night.

31 Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.

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32 If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.

33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: "and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.

34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

36 Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but 'thou shalt follow me afterwards.

37 Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake.

38 Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my

sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice.

& Ps. xli. 9. Mat. xxvi. 23. ver. 21.- ch. xiv. 29; & xvi. 4.- Or, From henceforth.-u Mat. x. 40; & xxv. 40. Luke x. 16.- Mat. xxvi. 21. Mark xiv. 18. Luke xxii. 21.-y ch. xii. 27.- Acts i. 17. 1 John ii. 19-a ch. xix. 26; & xx. 2; & xxi. 7, 20, 24.-1 Or, morsel6 Luke xxii. 3. ch. vi. 70.-r ch. xii. 6.- cb. xii 23.e ch. xiv. 13. 1 Pet. iv. 11.-fcb. xvii. 1, 4, 5, 6.-g ch.

5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way ?

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6 Jesus saith unto him, I am

the way, the truth, and the life: h no man cometh unto the

xii. 23.-h ch. vii. 34; & viti. 21.- Lev. xix. 18, ch. Father, but by me.

xv. 12, 17. Eph. v. 2. 1 Thes. iv. 9. Jam. 8. 1 Pet. i. 22. 1 John ii. 7, 8; & iii. 11, 23; & iv. 21.-1 Jobn ii. 5; & iv. 20.-7 ch. xxi, 18. 2 Pet. i. 14.-m Mat. xxvi. 33, 34, 35. Mark xiv. 29, 30, 31. Luke xxii, 33, 34.

7 'If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father

See Matthew XXXI. 14-16, in also: and from henceforth ye § LXXXII.

John XV. 12, in § CCLXV; and John XVII. 1-5, in § CCLXIX.

§ CCLXIII.

CHAP. XIV. 1-14.

Christ comforteth his disciples with the hope of heaven; professeth himself the way, the truth, and the life, and one with the Father: assureth their prayers in his name to be effectual.

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know him, and have seen him.

8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.

9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

10 Believest thou not that 'I am in the Father, and the Father

LET not your heart be trou-in me? the words that I speak bled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

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2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

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unto you" I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: " or else believe me for the very works' sake.

12. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than

4 And whither I go ye know, these shall he do; because I go and the way ye know. unto my Father.

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