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The Confession of Faith, and the Larger and Shorter Catechism
The confession of faith ; and, The larger and shorter catechism first agreed upon by the Westminster Assembly of Divines at Westminster, and now approved by the General Assembly of the kirk of Scotland to be a part of uniformity in religion between the kirks of Christ in the three kingdoms.
Edinbourg: printed by George Swinton and Thomas Brown, 1671
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. XXI. Of Religious Worship, and the Sabbath day.
The light of Nature showeth that there is a God, who hath Lordship & sovereignty over all, is good▪ & doth good unto all, & is therefore to be feared, loved, praised, called upon, trusted in and served with all the heart, and with all the soul, and with all the mighta. But, the acceptable way of worshipping the true God, is instituted by himself, and so limited to his own revealed Will▪ that he may not be worshipped according to the imaginations & devices of men, or the suggestions of Satan, under any visible representations, or any other way not prescribed in the holy Scriptureb.
THe light of Nature sheweth that there is a God, who hath Lordship & sovereignty over all, is good▪ & doth good unto all, & is therefore to be feared, loved, praised, called upon, trusted in and served with all the heart, and with all the soul, and with all the mighta. But, the acceptable way of worshiping the true God, is instituted by himself, and so limited to his own revealed Will▪ that he may not be worshipped according to the imaginations & devices of men, or the suggestions of Satan, under any visible representations, or any other way not prescribed in the holy Scriptureb.