Meditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many years sinceMeditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many yeares since

Secondly, we have hereby a great encouragement to serve our God in^g spirit, and in truth, being delivered from all those burdensome accessions which unto the inward worship were added in the legal observances. In spirit in opposition unto the Carnal, in truth, in opposition unto the Typical ceremonies. The services of the Jews were celebrated in the blood, and smoke, of unreasonable creatures, but ours in the Gospel must be a spiritual, a^h reasonable service of him, for as in the Word of God theⁱ letter profiteth nothing, it is the spirit that quickeneth, so in the worship of God likewise, the Knee, the Lip, the Eye, the Hand alone profiteth not at all, it is the spirit that worshippeth. It is not a macerated body, but a contrite soul which he respecteth; if there be paleness in the face, but blood in the heart, if whiteness in the Eye but blackness in the soul, if a drooping countenance but an unbended conscience, if a knee bowing down in the Temple of God, and thoughts rising up against the grace of ⟨p. 164⟩God the head like a Bull-rush, and the heart like an Adamant, in a word if there be but a bodily, and unquickened service, a schism in the same worshipper between his outward, and his inward man, he that is not a God of the dead but of the living, he that accounteth in the levitical Law, carcasses, as unclean things, (as being in the nearest disposition to rottenness, and putrefaction) will never smell any sweet savour in such services.^b What have I to do (saith God with your Sacrifices, and my soul hateth your new Moons, and your appointed feasts. My Sacrifices, and my ^cSabbaths they were by original institution, but your carnal observance of them hath made them^d yours. Even the^e Heathen Idols themselves did require rather the truth of an inward then the pomp of an outward worship, and therefore they forbade all