the cleansing of the body is only external, but the purification of the spirit is spiritual.

for it is not the Jew in outward appearance, neither is it the external mark of circumcision:

Wherefore, henceforth I have no regard to any man for his external appearance: for tho' I formerly look'd for worldly grandeur in the Messiah, yet now I see things in another light.

for we are the genuine sons of Abraham, who worship God in the spiritual manner, and value no other dependance than that on Jesus Christ, without confiding in any external advantages:

but he that does wrong shall be punish'd for his injustice: for no regard will be shown to the external characters of men.

only in matters relating to meats and drinks, and divers baptisms, meer external rites which were to subsist only till the time of reformation.

For if the blood of goats and of bulls, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkled on the unclean, can cleanse them from external impurities;

let their ornament consist, not in what is external, in curling the hair, in appendages of gold, or finery of dress;

thus baptism, which corresponds to the deluge, does now save us, not as it is a cleansing from external filth, but as it is an engagement to lead a divine life, from the belief of the resurrection of Jesus Christ,