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Reproofs: to Be Given in Love
Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
Preaching on John 13:14: the duty of disciples to wash one another's feet: Mr. Finlayson, of Helmsdale, observed, 'One way in which disciples wash one another's feet is by reproving one another. But the reproof must not be couched in angry words, so as to destroy the effect; nor in tame, so as to fail of effect. Just as in washing a brother's feet, you must not use boiling water to scald, nor frozen water to freeze them.'
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Spurgeon, Charles. Entry for 'Reproofs: to Be Given in Love'. Spurgeon's Illustration Collection. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​fff/​r/reproofs-to-be-given-in-love.html. 1870.