Chapter XI: Of the Washing of the Saints’ Feet.46

We also confess a washing of the saints’ feet, as the Lord Christ not only instituted, enjoined and commanded it, but himself, although he was their Lord and Master, washed his apostles’ feet, thereby giving an example that they should likewise wash one another’s feet, and do as he had done unto them; which they accordingly, from this time on, taught believers to observe, as a sign of true humility, and, especially, to remember by this feet-washing the true washing, whereby we are washed through his precious blood, and made pure after the soul. John 13:4–17; 1 Tim. 5:10.

[46] The forefathers before the time of the law had the custom of
washing the feet of those who came to them friendly and peaceably.
Gen. 18:4; 19:2; 24:32; 43:24.