Under the gospel, and the kingdom of the Messiah, which is yet further coming, and is already began in the world, the true worshippers of God shall not worship him, as you Samaritans, who worship you know not what, without any rule or prescript of the word; nor yet as the hypocritical Jews, who rest upon their sacrifices and ritual performances, as if they should purge away their sins, Psa_50:8Isa_1:11 66:3 Mic_6:7; no, nor yet as the more sincere Jews, who indeed do truly and with their hearts worship God; but, while thefirst tabernacle was yet standing, which was a figure for the timethen present, by sacrifices that could not make him that didthe service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience, —by meatsand drinks, and divers ordinances, imposed on them until the timeof reformation, Heb_9:8-10. That time of reformation is now come, when the true worshippers of God shall offer up to him a more spiritual worship, not that carnal worship; and a more true, and real, and solid worship: for God my Father seeketh such to worship him, as shall not worship him with a mere bodily labour and homage, but with their hearts and spirits; nor with those ceremonial performances now in use by God’s prescript at Jerusalem, but without them, I being come, whom all those services did but prefigure and point unto.